AP Psychology Exam Prep - Question List

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11. Sheila spends hours learning how to sew from her mother. This method of guided participation in the development of childhood skills was pioneered by the following psychologist:
  1. Abraham Maslow
  2. Anna Freud
  3. Lev Vygotsky
  4. Jean Piaget
12. Jamie’s therapist shows him a picture with dark ink splattered in the middle of the page. Much to the horror of his therapist, Jamie insists that the picture is that of an old, naked person. This type of test where a person tries to identify an ambiguous image is considered a __________ test.
  1. projective
  2. intelligence
  3. deviance
  4. objective
13. In Lucinda’s culture, group cohesion and interests take precedence over individual wants. Lucinda most likely describes her ‘self’ in terms of ___________.
  1. contributions to her retirement funds
  2. her relationships with others
  3. her educational goals and attainment
  4. her personality traits
14. In the trait theory of personality, ___________ and _________ are considered to be different views on whether all traits exist in all people.
  1. ego: superego
  2. introversion; extraversion
  3. psychodynamic; sociocultural
  4. idiographic; nomothetic
15.
The American Psychologist who pioneered the idiographic and nomothetic views of studying human personality is __________.
  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Meyer Friedman
  3. Gordon Allport
  4. Alfred Adler

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