AP PSYCHOLOGY Problem Solving Exam Questions and
certified for accuracy solutions; updated 2025/2026
Gate Control Theory - correct answer Some pain messages have higher
priority than others. When you feel one pain over another. Can be affected by
released endorphins (pain killing neurotransmitter)
Taste - correct answer A Chemical Sense that is triggered by chemicals
absorbed by taste bus on our tongue (Papillae). Humans have four tastes:
sweet, sour, salty, bitter
Olfactory Bulb - correct answer Gathers messages from the smell neurons
and transmits them to the brain
Vestibular Sense - correct answer Tells us about how our body is oriented
in space, three canals in inner ear transmit to brain
Kinesthetic Sense - correct answer Gives our brain information about space
orientation of individual body parts
Perception - correct answer Process of understanding/interpretting
sensations
Absolute Threshold - correct answer Smallest amount of a stimulus we can
detect (50% of the time)
Subliminal - correct answer Stimuli below Absolute Threshold
Weber's Law - correct answer The change needed for a stimulus to be
noticed is proportional to the original stimulus
,Just Noticeable Difference - correct answer The smallest amount of change
for us to notice - defined by Weber's Law
Signal Detection Theory - correct answer Investigates the effects of the
distractions/interference we experience in perception
False Positive - correct answer When we think we perceive a stimulus that
isn't there
False Negative - correct answer When we don't perceive a stimulus that is
there
Top Down Processing - correct answer Perceive things by filling in gaps in
what we sense
H_Y, _OW A_E Y_U?
Botton Up Processing - correct answer Using features of an object itself to
build a complete perception of it
Perceptual Set - correct answer Predisposition on perceiving something a
certain way (part of top-down processing
Figure Ground Relationship - correct answer What part of an image is the
focus and what part is the background
Eleanor Gibson - correct answer Visual Cliff experiment in order to test for
depth perception
, Monocular Cues - correct answer Cues using one eyes that utilize the linear
perspective for distance
Binocular cues - correct answer Cues picked up with both eyes
Dualism - correct answer The thought that humans consist of two materials
- thought and matter
Monoism - correct answer Thought and matter are one substance that
create the universe
Mere Exposure Effect - correct answer We prefer familiar stimuli over new
stimuli
Priming - correct answer Being able to preform better after initial exposure
to something even without consciously remembering it
Conscious Level - correct answer Information about yourself and your
environment that you are currently aware of
Nonconscious Level - correct answer Body process not controlled by
conscious though - heart beat, respiration, etc
Preconscious Level - correct answer Information that you don't know, but
could know - favorite child toy, things that come back into memory
Subconsciou Level - correct answer Information we are not consciously
aware of but know must exist due to our behavior
certified for accuracy solutions; updated 2025/2026
Gate Control Theory - correct answer Some pain messages have higher
priority than others. When you feel one pain over another. Can be affected by
released endorphins (pain killing neurotransmitter)
Taste - correct answer A Chemical Sense that is triggered by chemicals
absorbed by taste bus on our tongue (Papillae). Humans have four tastes:
sweet, sour, salty, bitter
Olfactory Bulb - correct answer Gathers messages from the smell neurons
and transmits them to the brain
Vestibular Sense - correct answer Tells us about how our body is oriented
in space, three canals in inner ear transmit to brain
Kinesthetic Sense - correct answer Gives our brain information about space
orientation of individual body parts
Perception - correct answer Process of understanding/interpretting
sensations
Absolute Threshold - correct answer Smallest amount of a stimulus we can
detect (50% of the time)
Subliminal - correct answer Stimuli below Absolute Threshold
Weber's Law - correct answer The change needed for a stimulus to be
noticed is proportional to the original stimulus
,Just Noticeable Difference - correct answer The smallest amount of change
for us to notice - defined by Weber's Law
Signal Detection Theory - correct answer Investigates the effects of the
distractions/interference we experience in perception
False Positive - correct answer When we think we perceive a stimulus that
isn't there
False Negative - correct answer When we don't perceive a stimulus that is
there
Top Down Processing - correct answer Perceive things by filling in gaps in
what we sense
H_Y, _OW A_E Y_U?
Botton Up Processing - correct answer Using features of an object itself to
build a complete perception of it
Perceptual Set - correct answer Predisposition on perceiving something a
certain way (part of top-down processing
Figure Ground Relationship - correct answer What part of an image is the
focus and what part is the background
Eleanor Gibson - correct answer Visual Cliff experiment in order to test for
depth perception
, Monocular Cues - correct answer Cues using one eyes that utilize the linear
perspective for distance
Binocular cues - correct answer Cues picked up with both eyes
Dualism - correct answer The thought that humans consist of two materials
- thought and matter
Monoism - correct answer Thought and matter are one substance that
create the universe
Mere Exposure Effect - correct answer We prefer familiar stimuli over new
stimuli
Priming - correct answer Being able to preform better after initial exposure
to something even without consciously remembering it
Conscious Level - correct answer Information about yourself and your
environment that you are currently aware of
Nonconscious Level - correct answer Body process not controlled by
conscious though - heart beat, respiration, etc
Preconscious Level - correct answer Information that you don't know, but
could know - favorite child toy, things that come back into memory
Subconsciou Level - correct answer Information we are not consciously
aware of but know must exist due to our behavior
