Psychology One- questions from textbook

The facts you pick up during your academic studies are the most important aspect of your education.

People use only 10 percent of their brain capacity.

What are the two receiving areas of a neuron where information from other neurons are accepted?

Selective attention and cognitive reappraisal are 2 strategies that can be used to improve self regulation skills.

3 types of variables must be considered in an experiment, they are?

Popular media reports usually stress objective accuracy.

Planning in advance what you would do in an ethically challenging situation will help you to be true to your values.

The simplest neural network is an ?

Action potentials are carried down what and end at what?

The parietal lobes are the visual area

The development of separation anxiety in an infant corresponds to the formation of an emotional attachment to parents.

Spaced study sessions are usually superior to massed practice.

Brain cells that divide the world into important features are known as feature...

Which of the following is not one of the 6 basic emotions infants express by 6 months of age?

2 major problems in naturalistic observation are the effects of the observer and observer bias.

The orderly sequence observed in the unfolding of many basic responses can be attributed to ?

Hyperopia is far sightedness, difficult to focus on nearby objects.

The frontal lobes are for the motor cortex and abstract thinking.

In brighter light colour and fine detail are produced by the rods

A psychotherapist is working with a person from a different ethnic group. 2 things she should be aware affect behaviour?

Psychology is the ______ study of ______ and ______ processes.

Over time, nerve endings in the skin under your clothes send fewer signals to the brain, reducing sensation, it’s called

How are the reflective SQ4R and the LISAN methods related?

Setting learning goals and monitoring your progress are important parts of what kind of learning?

Case studies are frequently used by clinical psychologists.

When using the LISAN method, students try write down as much of the lecture as possible so that the notes are complete.

What is it called when there are defects in the cornea, lens or eye that causes some areas of vision to be out of focus.

The parasympathetic nervous system is most active during times of high emotion.

What links brain structures to brain functions?

Research areas of Forensic Psychology covers what topics?

In the reaction the Kubler-Ross describes as bargaining the dying individual asks, why me?

If a psychology student uses a sleep learning device to pass a mid term exam, it proves that the device works.

Neuroplasticity refers to the capacity of the nervous system to?

Psychologists interested in moral behaviour initially focused on ideas about power and loyalty.

A psychologist who specialises in treating human emotional difficulties is called a ?

The finding that people can walk on hot coals after a firewalking course, shows that the course is necessary to learn.

Research on Personality covers what topics?

What is the term for nearsightedness, having difficulty focusing on distant objects, having an elongated eye

The right hemisphere is connected to language, speech and writing.

The association cortex is for sensory and motor function.

In dim light vision depends mainly on cones.

Which of the following stimuli are more effective at getting attention?

Aphasias is connected to speech disturbances

Horoscopes provided by astrology are stated in positive terms & have a “ring of truth”. This fact is the basis of

Attributing mischievous motives to a car that is not working properly is a thinking error like anthropomorphising.

A psychologist does a study to see whether exercising increases a sense of well-being. In the study, she will testing a?

Executive functions are important to self-regulation because they help us to set goals and work toward them successfully

The left hemisphere is connected to spatial skills, visualisation and pattern recognition.

What are three major divisions of the brain?

An individual’s perception of his or her own personality constitutes that person’s self concept.

The corpus callosum are fivers connecting the cerebral hemispheres.

The body’s ability to resist stress is related to the action of what glands?

Fathers are more likely to act as playmates for their children rather than caregivers.

For the survey method to be valid, a representative sample of people must be polled.

Which of the following research techniques has the most in common with case studies of the effects of brain injuries?

To understand cause and effect, psychological experiments is based on creating 2 groups.

The greatest visual acuity is associated with what?

To use the technique known as overlearning, you should continue to study after you feel you have mastered a topic.

Sensory transduction in the eye takes place first in the cornea, then in the lens and then in the retina.

Are sensory receptors biological transducers?

Blaming the lunar cycle for variations in the amount of crime is an example of mistaking correlation for causation.

The temporal lobes are for hearing

The 4 Rs in reflective SQ4R stand for read, recite, reflect and review.

__________ process can be operationally defined in terms of ________.

Research of Developmental psychology covers what topics?

Most inherited characteristics can be described as polygenic?

Procrastination is related to seeking perfection and equating self-worth with grades.

CT scans cannot determine which part of your brain plays a role in speech because they....?

Agnosia is the inability to identify seen objects.

After 65 a large proportion of older people show significant signs of mental disability and most require special care.

The conscious ability to influence what sensations we will receive is called?

During Middle adulthood, the crisis is generativity versus what?

Does structuralism meet the standard of modern sciences built on intersubjective observations, verified by 2 + observers

Newborns display a social smile as early as 10 days after birth.

In the previous experiment, the independent variable is which of the following?

A portion of the reticular formation serves as what system in the brain?

Superstitions like astrology & graphology are harmless.

Research on Biopsychology covers what topics?

The halo effect can be a serious problem in accurate personality assessment that is based on....

All sciences are interested in controlling the phenomena that they study?

Presbyopia is farsightedness due to ageing

A procedure used to control both research participants bias and researcher bias in psychological experiments is the?

According to research, you should almost always stick with your first answer on multiple choice tests.

Environmental factors begin to influence a child’s development beginning at...

Research on Social Psychology covers what topics?

The ability to self regulate in childhood is not related to the ability to self regulate in adulthood.

The somatic and autonomic systems are what part of the nervous system?

Correlation typically demonstrates causation.

A problem with the survey method is that answers to questions may not always be accurate or truthful.

What fallacy involves attributing human feelings and motives to animals?

The cognitive unconscious is

Research on learning covers what topics?

What is the final relay or switching station for sensory information on its way to the cortex?

Prelanguage turn taking and social interactions are of special interest to a psycholinguist.

Enablers are conditions that help one behave in ways that are in keeping with one’s values.

Contact comfort refers to the young infants preference for access to food.

Moral intuitions develop before moral reasoning.

Reflex centres for heartbeat and respiration are found where?