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Question 1

Turn that tv down!!!! yells your mom. Chances are, she has a lower ______ than you!

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difference threshold

Question 2

Getting a marble in the jar for good behavior results in more recess when the jar is full shows

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token economy

Question 3

The "angel on your shoulder" is your

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superego

Question 4

When extrinsic rewards decrease the intrinsic motivation to do something.

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overjustification

Question 5

If results are statistically significant it means

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they are unlikely to have happened by chance

Question 6

Which reduces effects of confounding variables in an experiment?

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random assignment

Question 7

Performing better because you're part of a group is

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social facilitation

Question 8

Getting the same score over and over again is an indicator of

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reliability

Question 9

Physical arousal (shaking/sweating) comes before psychological interpretation (I'm scared) says

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the James-Lange Theory

Question 10

This brain structure helps regulates breathing and heart beat

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medulla

Question 11

When you get used to a sound or smell or brightness, it's known as

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sensory adaptation

Question 12

The hypothalamus has been implicated in:

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obesity

Question 13

"Looking inside yourself and telling what's there" is

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introspection

Question 14

If a correlation is negative

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the variables move in opposite directions

Question 15

We are most likely to help if this many other people are around

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0

Question 16

Snoring and gasping for air are symptoms of:

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apnea

Question 17

Stanley Milgram's "shocking" (lol) study on obedience tells us

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we usually obey authority we perceive as legitimate

Question 18

When a baby does not look for an object they dropped, we can say they haven't developed

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object permanence

Question 19

Visual transduction occurs in the:

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retina

Question 20

I'm having trouble with movement in my right arm. Where may the damage be?

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my left frontal lobe

Question 21

Deception is allowed in psychological experimentation if followed by

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debriefing

Question 22

You can't remember how to tie a tie. Which type of memory is this?

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procedural

Question 23

Drew can't form new memories. The damage is likely in the

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hippocampus

Question 24

The closer parallel lines get in the distance, the longer we perceive that distance to be.

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This demonstrates linear perspective.

Question 25

The process where learning takes place, but it's not shown until a reward is present:

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latent learning

Question 26

Sounds just below our hearing range are thought to be below our

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absolute threshold

Question 27

These psychologists focus on studying perception:

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Gestalt

Question 28

Experiencing physical symptoms with no medical cause categorizes ______________ disorders

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somatoform

Question 29

We are most likely attracted to those who

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are in close proximity and similar to us

Question 30

A projective test may ask a person

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to describe an ambiguous figure or picture

Question 31

Piaget believed discontinuity theory, which states children develop

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in distinct developmental stages

Question 32

Which is required for psychological experiments?

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precise operational definitions

Question 33

Color vision is in the:

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cones

Question 34

If we think others expect us to perform poorly, we may perform poorly due to

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the self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 35

Retinal disparity is responsible for:

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binocular cues

Question 36

SSRIs block

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reuptake of serotonin, increasing serotonin levels in brain

Question 37

Frequent news reports about shark attacks cause you to refuse to swim in the ocean bc of:

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availability heuristics

Question 38

Obsessive compulsive disorder causes

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persistent anxiety provoking thoughts

Question 39

Heuristics are helpful because

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they help us save time when problem solving

Question 40

When we perceive a blocked item as being farther away from us than the item blocking it

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this demonstrates interposition

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