stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Psychology CLEP 2 Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Psychology CLEP 2
Psychology CLEP 2
30 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
41 plays
Prep questions for psychology exam.
Flashcards
30 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
30
Answers
1
A teacher tells a kid to sit down in class, but over time, stands up more frequently. The teacher's reprimands are
serving as a conditioned stimulus
serving as approval
serving as a punishment
serving as a reinforcer
2
Which of the following presents a pair of needs from Maslow's hierarchical need structure, in order from lower to higher
belongingness, safety
physiological needs, safety
esteem, belongingness
self-actualization, physiological needs
3
As blind children learn to read braille, the amount of sensory cortex devoted to their finger tip increases. Why?
place theory
plasticity
laeralization
synesthesia
4
Which of the following kinds of therapy attempts to correct irrational beliefs that lead to psychological distress?
cognitive
behavioral
existential
gestalt
5
Research shows students perform better if tested in the same room they learned in. This illustrates what in our memory?
invariance
insight
preparedness
context
6
A young child breaks her cookie into lots of pieces and asserts that "now there is more to eat" Jean Piaget says...
this is evidence of preoperational thought
this is evidence of concrete operations
this is evidence of conservation
this is evidence of formal operations
7
The science of psychology is typically dated from the establishment of the late 19th century Leipzig laboratory of
Willam James
Hermann von Helmholtz
Wilhelm Wundt
Hermann Ebbinghaus
8
In problem solving, which of the following approaches almost always guarantees a correct solution?
heuristic
insight
critical thinking
algorithm
9
The use of projective tests is associated with which of the following psychological approaches?
Behaviorism
cognitive behaviorism
psychoanalysis
humanism
10
Shortly after learning the word "dog", young children will frequently misidentify a cow or horse as a dog. Phenomenon?
overextension
imprinting
negative transfer
differentiation
11
Down Syndrome is cause by
a nutritional deficiency
a viral infection in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy
an imbalance of neurotransmitters
an extra chromosome
12
Which of the following is true of recall performance on a typical forgetting curve?
it remains steady for about the 1st week, then it begins a gradual decline
it decreases rapidly at first and then it levels off
it decreases at a steady rate until it reaches a near-zero level
it decreases slowly at first and then it drops off quite sharply
13
Personality disorders are characterized by which of the following?
an increased level of serotonin in the brain
problem social relationships & inflexible & maladaptive response to stress
a fear of public places, frequently accompanied by panic attacks
a successful response to neuroleptic drugs
14
The requirement that prospective participants know the general nature of a study so they can decide to participate or no
confidentiality
informed consent
reciprocal determinism
duty to inform
15
The following strategies undermine the effectiveness of punishment.
explaining the punishment
using punishment just severe enough to be effective
delaying punishment
making punishment consistent
16
Making the amount of time a kid can play a video game contingent on the amount piano practice time illustrates what?
classical conditioning
operant conditioning
law of association
frequency theoory
17
The word "negative" in negative reinforcement refers to the fact that
a response is decreased
the reinforcement is aversive
a stimulus is removed
extinction has taken place
18
Proactive interference describes a process by which
prior learning interferes with subsequent learning
people remember digits better than words
people remember images better than words
people remember elements in pairs
19
According to the activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming, dreams serve which of the following purposes?
to make sense of random neural activity during sleep
to protect the ego from the unconscious struggles of the mind
to priovide a window into the unconscious, revealing true wishes & desires
to provide unfiltered prolem solving of encounters that occurred while awak
20
This picture of a road receding into the distance represents the depth perception cue known as
linear perspective
accommodation
texture gradient
retinal disparity
21
Developmental psychologists are mostly prefer longitudinal research designs to cross-sectional because
longitudinal designs are more valid
longitudinal designs utilize participants as their own experimental control
longitudinal designs offer the advantage of between-subject comparisons
longitudinal designs usually yield results much more quickly
22
Technique used to study infant perception & cognition. Measures decreased response to stimuli due to previous exposure
expectancy violation
conditional head turning
the preferential-looking diagram
habituation
23
Which of the following personality disorders is characterized by excessive emotionality and attention seeking
borderline
dependent
Histrionic
obsessive-compulsive
24
The opponent-process theory in vision best explains which of the following?
illusory movement
superior visual acuity in the fovea
size constancy
color afterimages
25
Which of the following illustrates drive reduction?
a dog burned by a hot stove avoids the stove thereafter
a person wins five dollars in the lottery
a child who likes music turns up the volume on the radio
a woman who is cold puts on a coat
26
4yr old Annie thinks her older brother is playing a trick on her by hiding her toy, even though he denies it. Annie has
acquired theory of mind
acquired accommodation
acquired conservation
acquired egocentrism
27
"The focus of psychological science is the attempt to relate overt responses to observable environmental stimuli."
humanisitc
behavioral
cognitive
biological
28
Which of the following types of research design is most appropriate for establishing cause and effect relationships?
naturalistic observation
participant observation
correlational
experimental
29
When asked to remember every day of a school class, you will most likely recall the first and last meeting days, why?
retroactive interference
the serial position effect
positive transfer
proactive interference
30
If the null hypothesis is rejected a researcher can conclude that
theory must be modified, a new hypothesis formed, and procedure revised
treatment effect as significant
theory does not need modification, but the hypothesis and procedure do
hypothesis is false