Which fact sheds light on such real life events as the atrocities committed by the Nazis

Participants must have believed they weren't causing harm

A signal that reliably precedes food becomes a conditioned stimulus for:

A set of responses that help prepare the body for food

Which statement about descriptive statistics is false?

They determine whether results are due to chance

Cognitive theory predicts children will __ when the reward is gone, which is consistent with __

Have come to view the games as work

Certain specialties within psychology don't fit to the different levels of analysis because:

Might use any or all of psychology's levels of analysis

Was initially believed to house the soul

Findings from cross-cultural studies indicate that indulgent parent is related to:

Children exploring more and seeking their mothers less

Which statement accurately describes evidence that imprinting is due to learning

Learns to follow the first thing, but will follow a female

What may help explain the universal human drives for art, literature, and music?

Extensions of play as well as satisfying other drives

A strategy that would NOT decrease the likelihood of responding from the "teacher" is:

Telling the "teacher" that other "teachers" have completed

The change from alow self-directional job to a high one will do what to Shonda's parenting

More concerned with her children's ability to make decisions

Which findings on the brain's reward system best explains addiction to drugs?

Addictive because they strongly activate dopamine neurons

How can learning theory help explain drug addicts and overdose?

Conditioned counteractive effect doesn't occur in new place

Why can the counteractive responses to morphine become conditioned, but not the direct effect?

The direct morphine is not a reflex

Gender differences observed in young infants are BEST reflected by the fact that:

Newborn girls are more responsive

When meeting a person with temporal lobe amnesia, one would expect the person to show:

Normal implicit memory capabilities

Research on selective listening shows participants hearing two messages and shadowing one will:

Notice only physical characteristics of unattended message

Humans can distinguish a more intense sound from a less intense one shows humans are able to:

Code quantitative information about stimuli

No matter which case history they received, the psychologists tended to diagnose:

Female patients as histrionic, males as antisocial

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1
Which fact sheds light on such real life events as the atrocities committed by the Nazis
No effort was made to identify the political views
The learner wasn't really being shocked
Participants must have believed they weren't causing harm
These studies were not experimental studies
2
A signal that reliably precedes food becomes a conditioned stimulus for:
A set of responses that help prepare the body for food
The salivation effect
The appetizer effect
Food-seeking behavior
3
Which statement about descriptive statistics is false?
They determine the mean, median, and standard deviation
They summarize sets of data
They determine whether results are due to chance
They are used to calculate inferential statistics
4
Cognitive theory predicts children will __ when the reward is gone, which is consistent with __
Continue to do what pleases them
Continue to play make-believe games
Have come to view the games as work
Continue to play the games in the same place
5
Certain specialties within psychology don't fit to the different levels of analysis because:
Might use any or all of psychology's levels of analysis
Are such small and highly specialized areas of study
Were important areas of study when psychology first emerged
More appropriately named under the spectrum of disciplines
6
The puppy's attraction to the bottle is known as:
Latent Learning
Goal Enhancement
Imitation
Stimulus Enhancement
7
The pineal body:
Is located in the right hemisphere of the brain
Was initially believed to house the soul
Is located in the left hemisphere of the brain
Was said to control human behavior within the brain
8
Darwin's idea of natural selection is important for interests in the ____ of behavior.
Functions
Structures
Variations
Limitations
9
Findings from cross-cultural studies indicate that indulgent parent is related to:
Developing into uncooperative or incompetent adults
Children in traditional cultures become more independent
Emergence of overly demanding and dependent children
Children exploring more and seeking their mothers less
10
According to the dopamine theory of schizophrenia, the disorder arises from?
Overactivity at brain synapses
Underactivity at brain synapses
Fluctuations in activity
Presence of dopamine where it should be absent
11
Jane's preference for sugar is an example of a:
Functional explanation
Distal explanation
Proximate explanation
Vestigial characteristic
12
Sensory neurons enter the __ and synapse on second-order pain neurons. (Gate control theory)
Thalamus and basal ganglia
Limbic system and cerebellum
Spinal cord and brainstem
Hypothalamus and corpus callosum
13
Which statement accurately describes evidence that imprinting is due to learning
Will imprint equally readily on any moving stimulus
Hatchlings show initial fear, but follow a day or two after
Learns to follow the first thing, but will follow a female
Hatchlings can distinguish their mothers but will switch
14
What may help explain the universal human drives for art, literature, and music?
Pursuits are natural extensions for play and exploration
Have evolved specific aesthetic drives that are separate
Vicarious means of satisfying other drives like sex
Extensions of play as well as satisfying other drives
15
Neuropeptide Y is a __ neurotransmitter which suits it to its function of ___ hunger
Fast; Decreasing
Fast; Increasing
Slow; Decreasing
Slow; Increasing
16
The electrical preservation of both the quantity and quality of the stimulus is referred to as:
Psychophysics
Sensory Coding
Transduction
Adaptation
17
Which correlation coefficient would best support his hypothesis?
+0.20
-0.35
+0.90
-0.80
18
Priming does NOT:
Initiate the retrieval of information from long-term memory
Activate conscious thoughts
Become activated by sensory input
Alter a person's perception or chain of though
19
Which symptom does not belong with the others?
Delusions
Catatonic stupor
Panic attacks
Disorganized speech
20
A strategy that would NOT decrease the likelihood of responding from the "teacher" is:
Having the experimenter leave the room
Moving the "learner" away from the "teacher"
Showing another "teacher" refusing to continue
Telling the "teacher" that other "teachers" have completed
21
The mechanism responsible for shutting off this gene is:
Genetic Drift
DNA Methylation
Artificial Selection
Mutation
22
The change from alow self-directional job to a high one will do what to Shonda's parenting
Style won't change unless job is seen as more prestigious
More concerned with her children's ability to make decisions
Parenting style will not change unless has a higher salary
Will become more authoritarian
23
Which findings on the brain's reward system best explains addiction to drugs?
These drugs activate only when a reward is unexpected
These drugs have been shown to be addictive in rats
Addictive because they strongly activate dopamine neurons
These drugs increase addict's wanting and liking
24
How can learning theory help explain drug addicts and overdose?
Addicts never developed a conditioned drug reaction
Conditioned counteractive effect occur in novel surrounding
Emotional conditioning magnifies the effects of the drug
Conditioned counteractive effect doesn't occur in new place
25
Why can the counteractive responses to morphine become conditioned, but not the direct effect?
The direct effect of morphine always precedes
The direct effect of morphine cannot reliably predict
The direct effect of morphine is adaptive
The direct morphine is not a reflex
26
Gender differences observed in young infants are BEST reflected by the fact that:
Newborn girls are more responsive
Boys show more facial expressions
Girls are more irritable than boys at birth
Girls are less likely to comply
27
When meeting a person with temporal lobe amnesia, one would expect the person to show:
Inability to use procedural memory
No evidence of change
Inability to acquire new classically conditioned responses
Normal implicit memory capabilities
28
The similarity between the relaxed open-mouth display (primates) and the human happy smile is:
A homology
A vestigial
A functionalism
An analogy
29
The psychologist is conducting a(n):
Descriptive study
Correlational study
Experiment
Self-Report study
30
Research on selective listening shows participants hearing two messages and shadowing one will:
Report physical characteristics and partial meaning
Not notice anything about the unattended message
Notice only physical characteristics of unattended message
Report unattended message as accurately as shadowed message
31
Humans can distinguish a more intense sound from a less intense one shows humans are able to:
Code qualitative information about stimuli
Adapt to a range of sensory stimuli
Use different receptors
Code quantitative information about stimuli
32
No matter which case history they received, the psychologists tended to diagnose:
Males but not females as either antisocial or histrionic
Female patients as histrionic, males as antisocial
Female patients as antisocial, males as histrionic
Females but not males as either antisocial or histrionic
33
Bay of Pigs, Watergate cover-up, and escalating the Vietnam War are examples of
Group Polarization
Groupthink
Impression Management
Normative Interference

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