AP Psychology Preparedness baseline Exam knowledge
Questions with Expertly written solution 2025/2026
Normative social influence - correct answer influence resulting from a
person's desire to gain approval/avoid disapproval
Informational social influence - correct answer influence resulting from
one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality
Titchener - correct answer structuralism, introspection
Plato - correct answer nature, ideas are inborn
Aristotle - correct answer stresses biology (nature)
Descartes - correct answer believed that some ideas are innate
Locke - correct answer blank slate
Hindsight bias - correct answer the tendency to believe, after learning an
outcome, that one would have foreseen it
Cerebellum - correct answer helps coordinate muscles, movement, and
balance, and implicit memories
Cerebral cortex - correct answer the body's ultimate control and processing
center
Psychoactive drug - correct answer a drug that alters perception and mood
, Habituation - correct answer decreasing responsiveness with repeated
stimulation
Fluid intelligence - correct answer our ability to reason speedily and
abstractly; tends to decrease with age
Subliminal - correct answer below one's absolute threshold for conscious
awareness
Fovea - correct answer visual acuity
Nociceptors - correct answer sensory receptors whose signals are
interpreted by the brain as pain
Hippocampus - correct answer explicit memories
Antipsychotic drugs - correct answer Thorazine
Antianxiety drugs - correct answer Xanax, Valium, Ativan
Antidepressants - correct answer Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft
Mood stabilizers - correct answer lithium, depakote
Theory X - correct answer extrinsic
Olfactory - correct answer of or relating to smell
Questions with Expertly written solution 2025/2026
Normative social influence - correct answer influence resulting from a
person's desire to gain approval/avoid disapproval
Informational social influence - correct answer influence resulting from
one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality
Titchener - correct answer structuralism, introspection
Plato - correct answer nature, ideas are inborn
Aristotle - correct answer stresses biology (nature)
Descartes - correct answer believed that some ideas are innate
Locke - correct answer blank slate
Hindsight bias - correct answer the tendency to believe, after learning an
outcome, that one would have foreseen it
Cerebellum - correct answer helps coordinate muscles, movement, and
balance, and implicit memories
Cerebral cortex - correct answer the body's ultimate control and processing
center
Psychoactive drug - correct answer a drug that alters perception and mood
, Habituation - correct answer decreasing responsiveness with repeated
stimulation
Fluid intelligence - correct answer our ability to reason speedily and
abstractly; tends to decrease with age
Subliminal - correct answer below one's absolute threshold for conscious
awareness
Fovea - correct answer visual acuity
Nociceptors - correct answer sensory receptors whose signals are
interpreted by the brain as pain
Hippocampus - correct answer explicit memories
Antipsychotic drugs - correct answer Thorazine
Antianxiety drugs - correct answer Xanax, Valium, Ativan
Antidepressants - correct answer Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft
Mood stabilizers - correct answer lithium, depakote
Theory X - correct answer extrinsic
Olfactory - correct answer of or relating to smell
