What is bulimia nervosa?

Binging on food then vomiting or other means to compensate.

What is underextension?

Young children are too restrictive in how they use a word.

What does the kinesthetic sense involve?

Where arms and legs are in space

What does the neurotransmitter GABA do?

Contributes to the regulation of anxiety.

A high score on Holmes and Rache's social readjustment rating scale correlates with

incidence of stress-related illness.

The capacity of short term memory is

7 plus or minus 2 chunks of information

What are the terminal buttons?

Knobs at the end of axons that release neurotransmitters.

What is random sample?

Members of the group have an equal chance of being chosen

What is an advantage of experiments?

Cause-and-effect relationships between variables.

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1
Sean takes a test in the army to see if he would make a good pilot. Such a test is a (an)
standardized test.
aptitude test.
achievement test.
intelligence test.
2
A common side effect of ECT is
memory loss.
hallucinations.
tardive dyskinesia.
hysteria.
3
What is bulimia nervosa?
An obsession with eating healthful foods.
An obsession with weight loss and a distorted body image.
Gain large amounts of weight and are at risk of obesity.
Binging on food then vomiting or other means to compensate.
4
Which neurotransmitter system do do antidepressants drugs try to affect?
Acetylcholine
Norepinephrine
Dopamine
Serotonin
5
What is episodic memory?
Experiences
General knowledge
Facts
Dreams
6
Which kind of therapist is most likely to analyze a client's dreams?
psychoanalytic
cognitive
biomedical
humanistic
7
The research methodology Wilhelm Wundt used is called
introspection.
naturalistic observation.
inferential.
structuralism.
8
Which method of therapy is most eclectic?
psychodynamic
aversive conditioning
client-centered
token economy
9
What is the meaning of a stimulus?
Natural
Thing
Reaction
Needs work
10
Depression is associated with low levels of
serotonin.
dopamine.
GABA.
acetylcholine.
11
The balanced state we are driven to attain by satisfying our needs os called
self-actualization.
equilibrium.
primary satisfaction.
homeostasis.
12
Night terrors and somnambulism usually occur during which stage of sleep?
REM sleep
stage 4
sleep onset
stage 1, close to wakefulness
13
What is an example of a sedative?
Marijuana
Mescaline
Barbiturates
Cocaine
14
In what stage of cognitive development do infants learn object permanence?
preoperational
sensorimotor
conventional
autonomy
15
What kind of psychologist would be most likely to use a projective personality assessment?
psychoanalytic
trait
social cognitive
behaviorist
16
The somatic nervous system is part of the
central nervous system
autonomic nervous system.
peripheral nervous system.
autonomic nervous system.
17
According to Freud, which part of the mind acts as a person's conscience?
ego
libido
id
superego
18
What is underextension?
Young children are too restrictive in how they use a word.
When young children are too broad in the use of a word.
Young children apply rules about grammar to everything.
Children only use single words to express themselves.
19
What memory lasts less than one second?
None
Long-term
Sensory
Short-term
20
How much is one standard deviation in a normal curve?
100
15
30
70
21
Which of the following is not one or Gardner's multiple intelligences?
musical.
spatial.
practical.
linguistic.
22
What does the kinesthetic sense involve?
Taste buds
Semicircular canals
Where arms and legs are in space
Cilia in the nose
23
What does the neurotransmitter GABA do?
Opiate-like chemicals involves in the modulation of pain.
Involved in the regulation of sleep and arousal.
Contributes to the regulation of anxiety.
Released by neurons that control skeletal muscles.
24
A high score on Holmes and Rache's social readjustment rating scale correlates with
levels of perceived control.
level of need reduction.
high optimum levels of arousal. q
incidence of stress-related illness.
25
The capacity of short term memory is
No limit
10 chunks of information
1 to 4 chunks of information
7 plus or minus 2 chunks of information
26
Amplitude in the ear involves
Timbre
Pitch
Loudness
Saturation
27
When does Tardive Dyskinesia occur?
Drugs are agonists.
Give too much dopamine.
When you age.
High dopamine.
28
Seyle's general adaption syndrome describes
how the CNS processes emotions.
the effect of low levels of arousal on emotion.
our reactions to stress.
the sexual response cycle in humans.
29
When there is a stimulate on the lateral hypothalamus, you tend to
overeat
eat a little more than usual
stop eating
nothing happens
30
What are the terminal buttons?
Fiber that carries signals away from soma to other cells.
Branching structures that receive signals from other cells.
Insulating material that encases some axons.
Knobs at the end of axons that release neurotransmitters.
31
Which structure is found in the inner ear?
auditory canal
basilar membrane
hammer
pinna
32
T/F, positive correlations identify a relationship between 2 variables that don't go together.
True
False
33
When the crisis is absent and there is commitment present, the identity of the adolescence is:
Identity DIffusion
Identity Foreclosure
Moratorium
Identity Achievement
34
Most prenatal influences on humans are genetic of hormonal in origin except for
teratogens.
family history of mental illness.
parents' level of education about fetal development.
stress on the mother.
35
What is the resting state of the brain?
Alpha
Beta
Theta
Delta
36
What is random sample?
Small subject of individuals to represent the population.
Similar to the population as a whole.
All members of a group that could be selected.
Members of the group have an equal chance of being chosen
37
Which is the right term for a mental rule Piaget said we use to interpret our environment?
assimilation
syllogism
accommodation
schema
38
Getting information into memory is
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Elaboration
39
Where are the rods and cones located in an eye?
Retina
Cornea
Fovea
Iris
40
People eat when what biological factor is low?
Ghrelin
Leptin
Insulin
Orexin
41
According to Erikson's theory, adolescents are most primarily concerned in a search for
affection
identity
career
autonomy
42
Which approach toward personality is the least deterministic?
behaviorist
humanistic
trait
psychoanalytic
43
What approach do Naser and Beck have?
Evolution
Humanistic
Cognitive
Biological
44
Weber's law determines
just-noticeable difference.
amplitude of sound waves.
absolute threshold.
level of subliminal messages.
45
What is an advantage of experiments?
Easy to generalize findings to the real world.
Laboratory situations are often artificial.
Health and mood influence the reaction.
Cause-and-effect relationships between variables.
46
Which level of consciousness controls involuntary body processes?
autonomic level
preconscious level
subconscious level
nonconscious level
47
Who invented the first IQ test in France?
Army Alpha and Beta
Binet
Galton
Wechsler
48
The primary visual cortex is located in the
Occipital lobes
Frontal lobes.
Parietal lobes
Temporal lobes
49
What is an example of telegraphic speech?
"mama walk"
"give doll"
"ba,ba,ba"
"dada"
50
An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events is called a
Problem solving
Algorithm
Functional Fixedness
Schema
51
when the observer does not see the signal and the signal is present, it's a
Hit
Correct rejection
Miss
False alarm
52
Schizophrenia is most likely to be treated with
Haldol
Valium
lithium
Prozac
53
Sofia hears voices that tell her to kill people. Sofia is experiencing
anxiety.
hallucinations.
compulsions.
delusions.
54
Someone who has an external locus of control is likely to have
belief in luck.
positive self-concept.
high IQ.
high sense of self-efficacy.
55
Which neurotransmitter is affected by opiates?
serotonin
dopamine
endorphins
GABA
56
The brain receives information about the positions of parts of the body through the
kinetic sense
kinesthetic sense
homeostatic sense
vestibular sense
57
What is the extraneous variable in an experiment?
The participants, or subjects who receive special treatment.
Factors beside the IV that might affect the DV.
The condition or event manipulated by the experimenter.
Similar subjects who do not receive the treatment.
58
What is clinical psychology?
Helps people learn
Deals with people with psychological disorders
Work place/business
Focuses on humans from child development to old age.
59
What behavior would be difficult without the vestibular sense?
writing our name
repeating a list of digits.
walking a straight line with our eyes closed.
integrating what we see and hear.
60
what is the operational definition?
The way you measure a variable
The entire group
The number in the middle
An equal chance to be in the experimental group
61
Behaviorists explain human thought and behavior as a result of
biological processes.
past conditioning.
unconscious behavioral impulses.
individual choice.
62
Marijuana falls under what category of psychoactive drug?
hallucinogen
depressant
mood depressant
mood elevator
63
True or false, Your knowledge that birds fly is contained in your semantic.
True
False
64
All schizophrenics suffer from
distorted thinking.
delusions of persecution.
depression.
multiple personalities.
65
What is insomnia?
Falling asleep during waking hours.
Problems in remaining asleep.
Sleepwalking
Frequent reflexive gasping for air that disrupt sleep.
66
If decay theory is correct:
Some memories get combined with other memories.
The main reason for forgetting should be because of old age.
Failure to store memory.
A physical damage to the brain.
67
What is on the top of the hierarchy of needs pyramid?
Safety and Security
Self-actualization
Esteem
Aesthetic
68
The Yerkes-Dodson law predicts that people would perform an easy task best if they are at a
low level of arousal.
level of self-actualization.
baseline state.
high level of arousal.
69
Lateral antagonism occurs when the neural activity in a cell
increases activity in surrounding cells.
activates cones and inactivates cells.
activates rods and inactivates cones.
opposes activity in surrounding cells.
70
Harlow's experiments with substitute mothers made of wire demonstrated the importance of what?
touch
feeding
imprinting
responsiveness to needs
71
Which process involves counterconditioning?
ECT
systematic desensitization
RET
somatic therapy
72
What does Sternberg identify as the 3 sets of mental abilities?
Practical, Creative intelligence, and analytical.
Spatial orientation, inductive reasoning and number facility
Word fluency, perceptual speed, and reasoning ability.
Verbal comprehension, associative memory, and visual memory.
73
True or false, a psychiatrist requires a M.D.
false
true
74
What is an example of a variable ratio schedule?
Pop quizzes.
A reward for every fifth response.
Slot Machines.
Get paid every other Friday.
75
Amnesia which people loose memories for events that happened before an injury is due to:
Prospective
Retrograde
Anterograde
Retrospective
76
If a test is reliable, it means that it
is given in the same way every time.
yields consistent results.
test what it is supposed to test.
is also valid.
77
Which part of the brain is the newest in an evolutionary sense?
cerebral cortex
hypothalamus
forebrain
pons
78
What is validity?
Consistant
Same scoring
Test measures what it's designed to measure.
Same admin
79
Chomsky proposed that children learn language swiftly:
Because it's biological.
Because it's what they are being told.
Because they are young and can copy easily.
Because they process an innate language acquisition device.
80
What are ethical guidelines?
No harm to humans
Watching without changing
Telling the subject what is going on
questionaire
81
Parental involvement can have dramatic effects on all the following human traits except
intelligence.
reading ability.
self-esteem.
motor development.
82
Which of the following psychologists was part of the Gestalt group of psychologists?
John Watson
Max Wertheimer
Wilhelm Wundt
Carl Rogers
83
One personality trait that is thought to be highly heritable is
introversion.
diligence.
sense of humor.
generosity.
84
Which of the following is an example of a generalized reinforcer?
water
good grades
chocolate
money
85
Perceived control over a stressful event trend to result in
increased arousal.
more motivation to solve the stressful problem.
less reported stress.
higher heart and respiration rates.
86
The wavelength of light mainly affects our perception of
Brightness
Light purity
Saturation
Hue
87
What stage is the concrete operational period according to Piaget?
1
4
3
2
88
What is retrograde amnesia?
Forgetting old memories.
Messing with the new.
Messing with the old.
Forgetting present memories.
89
Which of the following psychologists wrote the first psychology textbook?
John Watson
B.F Skinner
Albert Bandura
William James
90
The lens in the eye
controls the amount of light entering the eye.
bends entering light rays and focuses them onto the retina.
converts light energy into neural energy.
is the part of the eye that gives it its color.
91
The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by changes in the size of the
Lens
Pupil
Retina
Cornea
92
How many personalities did Cattell believe existed?
10
25
16
3
93
B.F. Skinner introduced the ides of _________ to the paradigm of behaviorism.
unconscious thinking.
defense mechanism.
reinforcement.
conditioning.
94
What hemisphere is language in?
Left hemisphere
Right hemisphere
95
Which of the following two sleep disorders occur most commonly?
apnea and narcolepsy
apnea and insomnia
insomnia and narcolepsy
night terrors and apnea
96
Nico is 8 years old and, according to the Stanford-Binet, he has a mental age of 10. What IQ?
125
120
150
80
97
Which of the following is not an anxiety disorder?
post-traumatic stress disorder
zoophobia
panic disorder
conversion disorder
98
Which is NOT one of the big five personality traits?
openness
honesty
extraversion
agreeableness
99
Which of the following psychologists might have described himself as a humanist?
William James
B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Abraham Maslow
100
According to research, what parenting style is the best?
Neglectful
Authoritative
Authoritarian
Permissive

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