ap questions i got wrong

Question 1

3. Which of the following types of scientists were the first to contend that an individual’s ways of thinking are shaped primarily by cultural values and ideas?

A. Structuralists
B. Ethologists
C. Sociobiologists
D. Behaviorists
E. Anthropologists

Answer 1

anthropologists, when you see culture think ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 2

define anthropology

Answer 2

the study of the origin and growth and change of human culture and society/societies

Question 3

define structuralism

Answer 3

think early on stuff with Wundt and introspection, breaking the mind up into elements (the bottom-up to functionalism’s top-down)

Question 4

sympathetic vs parasympathetic nervous system

Answer 4

sympathetic - excitement, fight or flight

parasympathetic - calms down the sympathetic, para = with, “with the sympathetic,” like his lil buddy dude who helps him chill out

Question 5

Question: 16

4. In the Harlow study of emotional attachment, infant monkeys were placed in a cage and given both a “wire” mother and a “cloth” mother. Researchers then moved a bottle of milk from one mother to the other while introducing various stimuli to see if the monkeys would form an attachment to either of the “mothers.” In this experiment, the independent variable is

A. with which “mother” the bottle of milk is placed
B. the “wire” mother versus the “cloth” mother
C. the preference of the infants for the source of milk

D. the preference of the infants for the “wire” mother

E. the preference of the infants for the “cloth”

Answer 5

A, the bottle is what is being changed, not actually the mothers (be careful for wording!)

Question 6

Question: 34

10. Which of the following best summarizes why people tend to stay in a slightly elevated state of arousal after a crisis has occurred?

A. Their neurons remain in a state of graded potentiality even after they have fired.
B. Their neurons continue to keep the body in an alert state.

C. Their adrenal glands continue to secrete epinephrine even after the crisis is over.

D. Their parasympathetic nervous system remains in a state of fight or flight.
E. Their bloodstream continues to contain elevated levels of

Answer 6

E, adrenaline is a hormone and hormones are the “slow lane” of communication between brain and body