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Slot machines are based on this schedule
variable ratio
Fixed Interval
fixed ratio
Variable interval
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Gardner's Multiple Intelligences include Bodily-kinesthetic intelligences. Examples of this behavior would include:
Dancing, playing basketball, performing pantomime.
Conjuring mental images, noticing subtle differences among similar objects.
Playing a musical instrument, composing musical work.
Reading other’s moods, Detecting other’s underlying intentions.
3
People who are easily hypnotizable are likely to score highly on which Big 5 trait
neuroticism
openness
extraversion
conscientiousness
4
A writer is paid for every article completed
Fixed Interval
Variable interval
variable ratio
fixed ratio
5
The fact that our ears are located on opposite sides of our head best helps us with
detecting absolute threshold
hearing high frequencies
sound localization
sensory adaptation
6
Representative Heuristics has been linked to
racial profiling
representative bias
how easily examples come to mind
category membership
7
An example of explicit memory is...
Remembering how to ride a bike
Buttoning a shirt
Remembering the time you were flung off a horse
Speaking your native language
8
When Jake is late to basketball practice his coach makes him run laps. Jake is not late again
positive punishment
modeling
negative reinforcement
positive reinforcement
9
Waiting for an elevator to arrive
Fixed Interval
fixed ratio
Variable interval
variable ratio
10
What is an example of why it is important to have predictive validity/ criterion validity?
to take the ACT/ SAT and do well on it
to get into a good college
to predict who will pass the exam and who will need more assistance
to have good grades
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Pat is laughing because she just won the lottery. Sal thinks she is a fun person. Sal's opinion
is influenced by the fundamental attribution error
is influenced by the just world hypothesis
is influenced by the self-serving bias
is influenced by the norm of reciprocity
12
Stanford-Binet intelligence scale measures
•Ratio of chronological age to mental age
•Ratio of chronological age to mental age and gender
Ratio of chronological age to mental age and weight
•Ratio of chronological age to mental age and height
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In Kohlberg's Preconventional Stage of Moral Development, what guides our behavior
Being Accepted and Being Seen as Obeying Rules
Avoiding Punishment and Obtaining Rewards
Societal Checks and Balance
Making and Keeping Promises
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Erikson's initiative vs. guilt stage is most closely related to Freud's
oral stage
latency period
phallic stage
anal stage
15
Intelligence researchers like Gardner and Sternberg argue that schools focus too much on
meeting the needs of students with disabilities
nonessential subjects like art and music
traditional and analytical subjects and methods
environmental factors that influence intelligence
16
which of the following statistics provides most information about how spread out a data set is
median
range
mean
standard deviation
17
Lana learns how to be goalie as her coach gradually rolls the ball faster at parts the goal
higher-order conditioning
token economy
law of effect
behavior shaping
18
Harlow's rhesus monkey experiment illustrated
that primates can make and use tools
that language is a uniquely human skill
the danger of separating babies from their natural parents
the importance of physical contact to development
19
Trying to complete a telephone call when the line is busy
fixed ratio
Fixed Interval
variable ratio
Variable interval
20
After studying for weeks and taking an AP exam, Conrad gets the flu. What theory explains this
Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory
Yerkes-Dodson law
Selye's general adaptation syndrome
James-Lange theory of emotion
21
For every ten words spelled correctly a child gets a star by their name on a bulletin board
fixed ratio
Fixed Interval
Variable interval
variable ratio
22
Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve shows that forgetting occurs most often
immediately after learning
After one week
One hour after learning
After one month
23
the limbic system plays an important role in
planning for the future
maintaining balance
processing sensory information
regulating emotion
24
Best example of Sternberg's practical intelligence...
A club president devises a way to publicize important events
A child becomes an accomplished dancer
A student composes a new song
A student gets high scores on the SATs
25
An EEG of Cyrus after he has been asleep for about an hour would show primarily
delta waves
alpha waves
beta waves
sleep spindles
26
Lara is attracted to Craig but can't stand his friends and family. Her conflict is classified
avoidance-avoidance
she does not have a conflict
approach-avoidance
approach-approach
27
Dan is a toddler who avoids eye contact and resists to changes to routine. He shows symptoms of
mental retardation
Down syndrome
autism spectrum disorder
fetal alcohol syndrome
28
What theory of emotion are cognitive psychologists likely to support
social facilitation theory
Schachter two-factor theory
James-Lange theory
opponent process theory
29
Checking your mailbox for mail which comes daily at 3 PM
Variable interval
fixed ratio
variable ratio
Fixed Interval
30
What area of psychology focuses on subjective well-being, optimism, self-esteem, and happiness
social psychology
health psychology
psychometrics
positive psychology
31
learned helplessness is most likely to be directly related to
an external locus of control
unconditional positive regard
the Oedipus complex
the self-serving bias
32
Selling cookies door to door
variable ratio
fixed ratio
Fixed Interval
Variable interval
33
10 YO Genna underwent a right hemispherectomy. What action best shows her neuroplasticity
solving a logic problem
moving her left hand
understanding what was said to her
speaking aloud
34
A dolphin is given a fish after it jumps through a hoop six times
fixed ratio
variable ratio
Variable interval
Fixed Interval
35
A rat is rewarded for the first correct response after every 30 seconds
fixed ratio
variable ratio
Variable interval
Fixed Interval
36
What percent of people score between 70 and 130 on the WISC (M: 100, SD:15)
95
68
84
50
37
A child is rewarded if they are sitting correctly after every two minutes goes by
Fixed Interval
fixed ratio
variable ratio
Variable interval
38
A musician who signs a recording contract stops playing for fun. This is best explained by
latent learning
social learning theory
the overjustification effect
the law of effect
39
_ A fisherman turning over rocks looking for worms
variable ratio
fixed ratio
Variable interval
Fixed Interval
40
Runners in a park increase their speed when another runner comes into view. This illustrates
disinhibition
social roles
social facilitation
conformity
41
Ani believes she is capable of succeeding in nursing school. Her mindset is associated with
an extraverted personality
high self-efficacy
low self-esteem
a strong superego
42
When running for class president, Edy puts pictures of herself everywhere. Why might this help
foot-in-the-door phenomenon
central route persuasion
deindividuation
mere-exposure effect
43
en route
to the visual cortex, information from the eyes' retinas crosses at the
feature detectors
optic chiasm
optic nerve
fovea
44
According to Kohlberg, in order to reason at the postconventional level, people must
have been exposed to good, moral role models
resolve the integrity vs. despair conflict
be able to take another person's perspective
believe in God
45
Which of the following has been linked to a deficit of dopamine
Parkinson's disease
autism
Alzheimer's disease
major depressive disorder
46
An example of Face Validity is
Test will predicts participants future success
Vocabulary tests uses vocabulary words
Measuring vocabulary through reading comprehension
Measure math by writing essay
47
Restarting your printer over and over but failing to notice it is out of paper demonstrates
low experiential intelligence
a mental set
belief perseverance
divergent thinking
48
4YO Kate sits right in front of all the other kids to watch a magician. According to Piaget,
Kate lacks object permanence
Kate is demonstrating egocentrism
Kate cannot reason hypothetically
Kate has a lack of conservation
49
What number will tell Matt whether his research is statistically significant
a mean that is the same as the median
a correlation coefficient close to .75
a standard deviation of 4 or more
a probability of chance less than 5%
50
Waiting for an important email
Variable interval
Fixed Interval
fixed ratio
variable ratio
51
After a natural disaster Faye says, "Serves them right for not having better warning systems."
false consensus effect
Barnum effect
just world bias
self-serving bias
52
Waiting for clothes to come out of washing machine that takes 32 minutes
fixed ratio
Fixed Interval
variable ratio
Variable interval
53
Vance's psychiatrist diagnoses him with bipolar disorder. Which medication would he prescribe
SSRIs
benzodiazepines
L-Dopa
lithium
54
Which of the following models of personality is the least deterministic
biological
humanistic
psychodynamic
evolutionary
55
An American's prototype of a chair is most likely to include
pens, pencils, and a computer
four legs and a seat
an armchair, chairlift, and wheelchair
a desk and/or table
56
Which of the following is found in Jung's model of the collective unconscious
archetypes
inferiority complexes
repressed memories
functional fixedness
57
Which part of the brain is "newest" in an evolutionary sense
pons
cerebral cortex
hypothalamus
cerebellum
58
Lewis Terman equated giftedness with __________?
Creativity
High IQ
Work completion
higher order thinking
59
In a class of 25 students, all but 2 score between 82 and 94. The 2 scores of 47 and 55 are
variances
modes
outliers
normally distributed
60
At what age is the onset of schizophrenia most typical
puberty
early 20s
mid 30s
late 40s
61
in the nature vs. nurture debate, nature is most closely associated with
family
environment
temperament
culture
62
Kohlberg’s theory of moral development was criticized by Gilligan as being
ethnocentric
deterministic
simplistic
gender biased
63
if the College Board left out questions about neuroscience on the AP exam, the test would lack
predictive validity
split-half reliability
content validity
test-retest reliability
64
example of retroactive interference
not remembering your roomates old number, b/c new one is interfering
not remembering your roomates new number, b/c old one is interferring
remembering your roomates new number but not their old one
not remembering anything.
65
Delusions and hallucinations are most characteristic of
dissociative identity disorder
schizophrenia
antisocial personality disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder
66
An owl hunting for mice in a forest
Fixed Interval
Variable interval
fixed ratio
variable ratio
67
Reading a job description written with masculine pronouns, people think of the employee as male
linguistic relativity hypothesis
gender schema theory
the social role hypothesis
principle of continuity
68
What is an example of belief perseverance?
Shoplifting even though you know it is wrong
Believing in ghosts even though given proof they are not real
Doing your homework even though you don't want to
Changing your music taste to agree with the group
69
Bandura's Bobo doll experiment evidenced the importance of __________ in social learning
latent learning
modeling
sublimation
mirror neurons
70
Which theory would assert that a key motivation for people is spreading their genetic material
psychodynamic
cognitive
humanistic
evolutionary
71
A sales clerk at a bakery waiting for the next customer to arrive
variable ratio
Fixed Interval
Variable interval
fixed ratio
72
Which statement best represents the relationship between performance and arousal
performance is best at low and high levels of arousal
performance continually decreases as arousal increases
too little or too much arousal is harmful to performance
performance steadily increases as arousal increases
73
A librarian gives a prize for every five books students read. Her schedule of reinforcement is
continuous
fixed variable
fixed ratio
variable interval
74
What kind of personality theorist would be most interested in the results of the MMPI
trait
humanistic
psychoanalytic
biological
75
An example of functional fixedness is what?
making pancakes for dinner
using a quarter as a screw driver
not being able to solve a math problem
making a prom dress out of duct tape
76
Elizabeth Loftus' research on wording and misinformation effects on memory best demonstrate
the role of the hippocampus in memory
the rate at which people forget information
the reconstructive nature of memory
the serial position effect
77
Which best summarizes the results of Tolman's latent learning experiment
reinforcement had little impact on the rats' performance
rats that received punishment ran the maze faster
rats who explored the maze first ran faster when reinforced
rats that were continually reinforced ran the maze faster
78
which structure is part of the inner ear
malleus (hammer)
auditory canal
tympanic membrane
basilar membrane
79
Which one of the following is an example of Charles Spearman's general intelligence?
Marley has a perfect driving record, therefore he is a good race car driver
Terry is a professional baker, therefore she great barista as well.
Sara is good at playing sports, therefore she does not play soccer well.
Ben is a fast computer typist, therefore he plays the piano well.
80
Priming (example)
Typing a telephone number you were just given
Remembering your name
Every time you hear "sorry for the interruption," you stand and say a praye
Reading the word "pitcher," after you just read the word "curveball"
81
Frequent flyer program in which one gets a free flight after a specific number of miles are flown
fixed ratio
Variable interval
Fixed Interval
variable ratio
82
When Susie went to prom with Dan, Max channeled his feelings of frustration into artwork
reaction formation
projection
displacement
sublimation
83
One group receives an ad for 99% fat free milk; the other for 1% fat milk. What being tested
framing effects
confirmation bias
representativeness heuristic
inattentional blindness
84
An example of an illusory correlation
Breaking a mirror gives you 7 years of bad luck
Ice cream consumption increasing in hot weather
Increase in studying increases overall grades
Couple conceiving after adoption
85
which disorder would respond best to cognitive behavioral therapy
schizophrenia
dissociative identity disorder
major depressive disorder
bipolar disorder
86
patients who are described as "split brain" have had what structure removed
hippocampus
medulla oblongata
corpus callosum
prefrontal cortex