PSYC 100 - Midterm Review

Psychology arose in the nineteenth century from developments in a number of areas, primarily:

Altruistic behaviour toward non-relatives can be explained by:

Minor deception may be permitted in research providing there is __________ and __________.

Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding human sexual behaviour?

Natural selection is most important for psychologists interested in the ________ of behaviour.

Inferential stats are useful in telling researchers whether the results of their tests are:

Which of the of the following is NOT true:

Liz got hit in the leg. Which type of neuron carried the pain info from her leg to her CNS

An organism's phenotype is the result of:

Most traits and disorders are caused by:

Which is most accurate:

Structuralism is to __________ as functionalism is to __________.

The first step of the scientific method specifies that a researcher:

Extinction would happen most rapidly following which reinforcement schedule?

__ is a learning procedure that utilizes support to guide a response to a desired behaviour:

Neurons communicate:

Neurons are made up of:

Which of the following is the best example of operant conditioning?

In psychological research, the term generalization refers to:

Rationalism is to _____________as empiricism is to ______.

Why are the data in psychology always drawn from behaviour?

A recessive allele will influence the expression of a trait only when it:

The reproductive success of those individuals who share the same genes is called

The central nervous system consists of the __________ and the _________.

Concordance is the degree to which two people:

Which schedule of reinforcement is most similar to that used in gambling?

Both Helmholtz and Fechner contributed to the beginning of:

The spinal reflex arc is:

The CNS is made up of two general classes of cells:

Only __________ involve the manipulation of independent variables

Natural selection has favoured species that reproduce sexually because sexual reproduction:

Dendrites on neurons do ________; they do not _________:

Mean is to __________ as standard deviation is to __________.

Which of the following will usually result in experimental extinction?

To what is the tendency of the CS to elicit a CR related?

Correlation b/w the time students spend on FB and their grades was found. What can be concluded

Is Psychology most closely related to:

People who live in cities often do not respond to night sounds while asleep. This is an e.g. of

If a drug increases the rate of reuptake this will: