AP Psychology Unit 2 Practice Test: Cognition
Our free AP Psychology Unit 2 practice questions will help you explore how we think, learn, and remember. This unit focuses on cognition, including memory, learning, language, problem-solving, and decision-making. Work through these questions to identify what you understand well and which concepts need more review.
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Question 1 of 40
After suffering a brain injury in a car accident, Russell cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Russell’s memory problem most clearly illustrates:
Question 2 of 40
On the first day of her new job, Jess is introduced to twelve new coworkers. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first two and last two coworkers. Her experience illustrates what memory-based psychological concept?
Question 3 of 40
In attempting to find and purchase high-quality makeup products, Carla believes that the most expensive brands are the best quality. Carla’s belief illustrates the use of:
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Which of the following is an example of a 2-year-old Sophia’s overextension in language?
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What is the process by which we recognize, interpret, and organize our sensations?
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A condition under which a person experiences the Gestalt phenomenon called “closure” would involve perceiving:
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8. Pete is looking at a number of circles on a piece of paper. When he views the circles from one angle, the circles look like craters. When he rotates the page and looks from a different angle, the craters look like bumps. What is the source of this change in his perception of the circles?
Question 8 of 40
Of the following, which is a monocular cue for depth perception?
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Jerry is looking at a two-dimensional picture of a railroad track. It appears as if the track is heading off into the distance with less space between the tracks. What explains this phenomenon?
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In another two-dimensional picture of a railroad track, a small object is perceived by a person as a train. This is an example of which of the following?
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A picture of 2 distinct arrows, <−−> and >−−<, are perceived to be of different lengths even though they are not. What is this illusion called?
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Which one of the following rehearsal strategies would be most effective in remembering the name of someone you just met?
Question 13 of 40
Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as:
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If you studied French in high school, you might have a hard time learning Spanish vocabulary words in college because of:
Question 15 of 40
Retrograde amnesia is a phenomenon in which a person suffers a brain injury from a stroke or an accident and loses the ability to remember:
Question 16 of 40
If you studied French in high school, you might have a hard time learning Spanish vocabulary words in college because of:
Question 17 of 40
Retrograde amnesia is a phenomenon in which a person suffers a brain injury from a stroke or an accident and loses the ability to remember:
Question 18 of 40
The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows:
Question 19 of 40
What is memory loss that occurs only as a result of the passage of time called?
Question 20 of 40
Damage to or removal of what part of the brain is linked to anterograde amnesia?
Question 21 of 40
The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied, and incorporated into memory is known as:
Question 22 of 40
The capacity of working memory, according to Miller’s magic number is quantified as:
Question 23 of 40
“Last night, I ate Chipotle for dinner” is an example of what type of memory?
Question 24 of 40
“French toast, pancakes, and eggs are all common breakfast foods” is an example of what type of memory?
Question 25 of 40
After a difficult chemistry exam, Gwendolyn knowingly exaggerated the complexity of the questions while describing them to her roommate. When she later tried to recall the actual test, her memory of the exam was significantly more distorted and difficult than the test she had actually taken. This phenomenon best illustrates which of the following?
Question 26 of 40
A high school student takes a standardized intelligence test that is normed with a mean score of 100. The student receives a score of 100. What does this score indicate?
Question 27 of 40
Stephanie knows that many people believe that women are not as skilled at math as men. When she takes a math test, this awareness causes her to perform below her actual abilities due to:
Question 28 of 40
Which of the following is an example of prospective memory?
Question 29 of 40
Dora plans to donate a portion of her allowance to either a foundation focused on increasing the accessibility of AIDS medication or an organization focused on malaria prevention. Believing that AIDS is more prevalent she chose AIDS. It turns out that fewer people have AIDS than malaria, but she has heard more about AIDS in her lifetime so she recalls more stories pertaining to that disease. What was Dora using when reasoning about the frequency of these two diseases?
Question 30 of 40
Approximately what percentage of people obtain scores between 85 and 115 on a standard intelligence test?
Question 31 of 40
What are phonemes?
Question 32 of 40
Raymond Cattell defined this type of intelligence as, “The ability to perceive relationships independent of previous specific practice or instruction concerning those relationships.”
Question 33 of 40
A robin is judged to be a better example of a bird than some others, a parrot or flamingo, for example. Therefore, a robin would be considered a(n) _______ of birds.
Question 34 of 40
Mrs. Smith gives a psychology test and finds that the scores form a normal distribution where the mean is 80 and the standard deviation is 12. About what percentage of Mrs. Smith’s students scored at or above a 92%?
Question 35 of 40
If the variance of a set of scores is 16, what is the standard deviation?
Question 36 of 40
Which of the following would not appear on a normal distribution of intelligence scores for children?
Question 37 of 40
In research terms, what qualifies an assessment as “valid?”
Question 38 of 40
If in a bell-shaped symmetrical distribution, the mean, median, and mode are identical, what kind of distribution is present?
Question 39 of 40
In a normal distribution, what is the percentage of scores that lie within one standard deviation of the mean?
Question 40 of 40
Patrick wants to talk to his mother about his weekly allowance. It is currently $1, and he would like it to be increased. He gathers data from several of his friends: $2, $4, $4, $5, $7, $30. To make the best argument to his mother, Patrick would be well-advised to use which measure of central tendency?
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