AP Psychology Medium practice

A chess grandmaster can glance at a mid-game board for five seconds and reconstruct piece positions far better than a novice can. This difference is best explained by the grandmaster's superior use of:

The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus plays a KEY role in:

Albert Bandura's Bobo doll experiment provided evidence for observational learning. Which of the following findings from that study best supports the concept of vicarious reinforcement?

Asked to guess whether someone is a librarian or a salesperson based on the description "quiet, organized, enjoys reading," most people choose librarian — even when told salespeople outnumber librarians 75 to 1 in the population. This demonstrates:

During a clinical interview, a patient consistently interprets ambiguous facial expressions as hostile. According to Aaron Beck's cognitive theory, this error in thinking is an example of:

A used-car salesperson lists a vehicle at $25,000,knowingcustomerswillnegotiatedown.Customerswhocounter-offertypicallysettlearound$22,000 — much higher than they would have if no price had been listed. This pattern BEST illustrates:

A client with post-traumatic stress disorder works with a therapist who uses EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). The therapist also helps the client identify distorted thoughts like 'I am permanently ruined.' This cognitive component is most closely associated with which therapy approach?

A psychiatrist prescribes an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) to a patient with depression. At the synaptic level, this medication works by:

During a sleep study, a participant shows high-amplitude, slow delta waves on an EEG recording. This pattern is most characteristic of which sleep stage?

Sometimes when trying to remember a word, you feel as if it's "on the tip of your tongue" — you know related information about it but can't produce the word itself. This phenomenon BEST illustrates:

Muzafer Sherif's Robber's Cave experiment demonstrated that intergroup conflict could be reduced most effectively by:

Baddeley and Hitch proposed that working memory includes a phonological loop, a visuospatial sketchpad, and a central executive. Which component is primarily responsible for coordinating and directing attention between the other components?

A manager attributes her team's poor quarterly performance entirely to her employees' laziness, ignoring the tight deadlines and insufficient resources they faced. This attribution error is called:

A patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Which cluster of symptoms is categorized as 'positive symptoms' in DSM-5?

A researcher lesions the lateral hypothalamus of a rat. Which behavioral change is most likely to result?