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1
Maslow's most basic or lowest level of need includes..
Self esteem
Food and drink
Love and friendship
Satisfaction
2
The most ambiguous nonverbal clue to our specific emotional state is provided by our...
Crossed arms
Breathing
Body posture
Facial Muscles
3
Relative success in recalling various items one day after hearing them listed in order is ...
Implicit Memory
Primary Effect
Iconic Memory
Recency
4
Anorexia Nervosa includes symptoms of...
Restricting food
Binge eating food
Being average weight and height
Purging food
5
Pick the best example of a concept is...
A category of people
A category of ideas
A category of events
A category of objects, events, or people
6
Skinner's behavioral techniques included a procedure known as....
Intrinsic Motivation
Modeling
Latent Learning
Shaping
7
A Mental Set is a ....
Mental grouping of similiar objects, events, or people
Methodical step by step procedure for solving problems
Tendency to approach a problem in a way that's had success
Group of conclusions derived from certain assumptions
8
John Watson was able to teach Little Albert to...
Like dogs
Fear Noises
Fear Rats
Like fur coats
9
Which researcher used nonsense syllables in human memory & discovered the forgetting curve?
Pavlov
Loftus
James
Ebbinghaus
10
Tests that are given randomly throughout the semester would be considered on a ? schedule
Variable-Interval
Fixed-Interval
Variable-Ratio
Fixed-Ratio
11
During the TV news, you glance at it every 5 minutes to check for a local story, you're on a...
Variable-Interval
Fixed-Ratio
Variable-Ratio
Fixed-Interval
12
The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to...
Involve greater reliance on language skills
Yield more accurate solutions to problems
Minimize the overconfidence phenomenon
Save time
13
Saying something over and over again to keep it in your mind is called....
Encoding
Mnemonics
Rehearsal
Consolidation
14
If you tell others to do what we say but not as we do, people will learn that....
Practice but not preach the virtues
Preach the virtues but not to practice them
Practice and preach the virtues
Neither practice nor preach the virtues
15
The process of getting information into memory is called...
Priming
Registering
Chunking
Encoding
16
An event that decreases the behavior that precedes it is a....
Reinforcement
Conditioned Stimulus
Punishment
Delayed Reinforcer
17
With a variable-ratio, you can't be sure when your behavior will be rewarded.
False
True
18
Zygote, Embryo, and Fetus is the correct order of the stages of prenatal development.
False
True
19
Semantic Encoding refers to the processing of...
Smells
Visual Images
Meanings
Sounds
20
When you can't solve a problem because you can't think of new ways to use familiar objects....
You're having a Mental Image Shift
You're having Functional Fixedness
You're having Confirmation Bias
You're having Divergant Thinking
21
A strong emotional bond that one person feels towards another special person is called..
Attachment
Passion
Temperment
Sex Drive
22
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to perceive, manage, understand, & use emotions
False
True
23
One's ability to reason quickly&abstractly, which tends to decrease during late adulthood is...
Intelligence Quotient
Fluid Intelligence
Neutral Processing Speed
Crystallized Intelligence
24
Your relatively permanent & limitless storehouse of memory system is called...
Sensory Memory
State-Dependent Memory
Long Term Memory
Flashbulb Memory
25
When asked to remember a list of words, the tendency to remember the words at the END of list..
Recency Effect
Primacy Effect
Retrograde Effect
Anterograde Effect
26
Which is an unconditional response?
Running through a maze to get food
Sweating from hot weather
Playing jump rope
Clapping around an exciting concert
27
The ? in Pavlov's experiment was the dog's salivation
Unconditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Conditioned Response
28
Which theory states emotions results from the cognitive labeling of our physiological arousal?
Cannon-Bard
Two-Factor Theory
Adaptation-Level
Relative Deprivaion
29
Tying your shoes is NOT an example of Implicit Memory
False
True
30
If a small child watches violent movies on TV, this will most likely leads to her....
Become more hesistent about starting fights
Experience less distress at the sight of kids fighting later
Learn karate and getting a purple belt
Underestimate the actual frequency of violent crimes
31
Development psychologists are most directly concerned with the study of...
Expressions
Thinking
Understanding the human lifespan
Understanding how babies are made
32
(Blank) refers to our ability to encode, store, and retrieve information.
Encoding
Memory
Recall
Schema
33
Luke remembers his old girlfriend's phone number but struggles with his new girlfriend's number
Example of Retroactive Interference
Example of Source Amnesia
Example of Priming
Example of Proactive Interference
34
According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the special task of the adolescent.
True
False
35
(Blank) memory is another term for our current, active short-term memory.
Working
Procedural
Primary
Schematic
36
The process of Retrieval refers to...
Conscious repetition of information to be remembered
Getting information out of memory storage
Organization of information into manageable units
Persistence of learning over time
37
Bell-shaped pattern represents frequency of occurrence of test scores in general population...
Normal Curve
Factor Analysis
Standardization Score
Reliability Coefficient
38
You always use a leash to walk the dog,So
whenever
the dog sees the leash it gets excited b/c..
Generalization
Extinction
39
Chunking refers to...
Unconscious encoding of incidental info
Organization of info into meaningful units
Getting info into memory through the use of visual imagery
Tendency to recall best the first item in a list
40
A type of motivated forgetting which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious..
Repression
The Spacing Effect
Retroactive Interference
Proactive Interference
41
Hunger controls are located within the brain's...
Hypothalamus
Medulla
Temporal Lobe
Amygdala
42
Homeostasis refers to...
Tendency to seek external incentives
Setting of the body's "weight thermostat"
Theory of the development of sexual orientation
The tendency to maintain a steady internal state
43
Original version of the Stanford-Binet IQ was defined as...
Mental age divided by chronological age
Mental age multiplied by 100
Mental age divided by chronological age & multiplied by 100
Chronological age subtracted from mental age
44
If you were punched in the arm every time you used a swear word, being punched would be a....
Reinforcement
Unconditioned Response
Conditioned Stimulus
Consequence
45
Your instinct is a complex, unlearned, and fixed pattern of behaviors common to all.
False
True
46
(Blank) used nonsense syllables in studying human memory and discovered the forgetting curve.
Ebbinghaus
Loftus
James
Pavlov
47
Cannon-Bard Theory suggests...
An understanding on how we learn
Simultaneous experience of body response & emotional feeling
Feelings that are only positive
No connection between the body and feelings
48
Learning involves... (choose the best answer)
A reduction in extrinsic motivation
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
The ability to think abstractly
The development of prosocial behavior
49
Your short term memory has limited capacity
False
True
50
Skinner is to shaping as Bandura is to....
Punishing
Discriminating
Learning
Modeling
51
A Teratogen is a(n)...
Substance that can cross the placental barrier
Fertilized egg that undergoes rapid cell division
Chromosomal Abnormality
Unborn child w/ one or more physical defects
52
Learning that certain events occur together is called..
Latent Learning
Observational Learning
Associative Learning
Shaping
53
The Misinformation Effect refers to the...
Disruptive effect of prior learning on your recall
Recalling experiences that are consistent with one's mood
Thinking "I've been here before"
Incorporation of misleading information into your memory
54
The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was..
Ivan Pavlov
Ansel Adams
B.F. Skinner
Rachel Meier
55
The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to save time
True
False
56
Cognitive psychologist are most directly concerned with the study of...
Emotions
Links with DNA
Thinking
GeneticsDN
57
Every time you get an answer correct, you are awarded a point, points are ? reinforces.
Negative
Positive
58
One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, which tend to increase w/ age, is called..
Neutral Processing Speed
Fluid Intelligence
Crystallized Intelligence
Intelligence Quotient
59
A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in the ? memory.
Iconic
Echoic
Implicit
Long term
60
Underlying principle of operant conditioning is the idea that behaviors are influenced by...
Consequences that follow them
Thoughts people have about them
Association with other behaviors
Unconditioned stimuli that precede them
