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Period 3 Semester 1 Exam Review
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identity moratorium
Actively attempting to develop their identity and not committed yet
Don't know, don't care
A person has a sense of identity but has not experienced an identity crisis
commitment to values, beliefs, and goals following a period of exploration
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Identity Diffusion
an individual's prior knowledge
what is right is defined by society
when your identity and another's become meshed
inability of an adolescent to develop a clear sense of self
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Sunk-cost fallacy
The part of your brain that helps you pay attention and remember things
Making a guess about something based on how much it seems like a typical ex
Continuing to do something because you've already spent time or money on it
When your brain automatically remembers things,
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Which of the following drug will reduce activity of the nervous system, hippocampus and cerebellum
Cocaine
Alcohol
Caffeine
MDMA
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Semantic memory is ____
Facts and general knowledge
Events experienced by a person
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seeing someone at the grocery store and remembering their name is an example of
retroactive memory
tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
episodic memory
recall
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What part of the brain is responsible for vision?
Occipital Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Parietal Lobe
Frontal Lobe
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Proactive interference occurs when...
Memories fade over time.
We don't have the right information to trigger our memory.
Newer memories cause forgetting of older ones.
Older memories cause forgetting of newer ones.
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if the College Board left out questions about neuroscience on the AP exam, the test would lack
test-retest reliability
predictive validity
content validity
split-half reliability
10
a musicians ability to discern between 2 similar pitches depends on which concept
signal detection theory
bottom up processing
absolute threshold
difference threshold
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Knowledge of different categories of trees is an example of what type of long-term memory
episodic memory
semantic memory
procedural memory
eidetic memory
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negative reinforcers __________ a stimulus in order to ___________ a behavior
remove : punish
add : decrease
remove : decrease
remove : increase
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What technique helps us generalize our findings and takes place before we random assign?
random assignment
assignment to conditions
representative assignment
random sampling
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What are Morphemes?
The basic units of sound in a language
The largest component of speech that carries meaning
A component of Speech
The smallest component of speech that carries meaning (prefix/suffix)
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One group receives an ad for 99% fat free milk; the other for 1% fat milk. What being tested
confirmation bias
representativeness heuristic
framing effects
inattentional blindness
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What is the function of the thalamus?
sensory relay
balance
breathing
vision
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Conduction hearing loss
Idk
I can't use process of elimination
Caused by damage to outer/middle ear
Caused by damage to receptor cells or auditory nerves
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When the school board approves a new role, what part of your system is this?
Exosystem
Mesosystem
Microsystem
Macrosystem
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In a positive skewed graph, what is true?
Mean is greater than median
Mean is lower than median
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What is Reticular Formation?
involved in fear and discrimination of objects
Diffuse collection of neurons involved in arousal (walking)
governs sleep and arousal
rounded structure involved in motor coordination
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What is true about experiments that is not of other research methods
they take place in more realistic, real-life settings
they can gather data from a large number of people quickly
they involve more research participants than other studies
they determine cause & effect between variables
22
Ghrelin vs Leptin
G= hunger stopper / L= hunger cue
g= not hungry when you wake up
g= hunger cue / L= hunger stopper
L= midnight snacks bruuuhh
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What is Hypothalamus?
Lobes are temporal, parietal, occipital and frontal
Responsible for balance (with ear) and muscle tone
Responsible for speech, motor/sensory, memory, learning etc
Temperature control, regulation of food & water, homeostasis
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Which of the following has been linked to a deficit of dopamine
Parkinson's disease
Alzheimer's disease
major depressive disorder
autism
25
Which of the following helps keeps participants identities anonymous to the public?
Confidentiality
Protection from Harm
Debriefing
Informed consent
26
What is accommodation in terms of psychology?
Interpreting new experience in terms of existing schemas through past info.
Modifying ones current schemas to interpret new information
27
Elizabeth Loftus' research on wording and misinformation effects on memory best demonstrate
the rate at which people forget information
the role of the hippocampus in memory
the reconstructive nature of memory
the serial position effect
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What research method could study the
relationship
between owning a hybrid car and being vegan
experiment
correlation study
case study
naturalistic observation
29
Opponent process theory _______________
states we have 3 color receptors: blue, red, green
states that sensory receptors come in pairs.
Says we cannot see black and white
cannot explain afterimages.
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Predictive validity
How adequately a test score can be used to infer on individuals stands
A test score predicts some criterion measure for the future
31
The cochlea is responsible for...
Protecting the surface of the eye.
Transmitting vibrations to the hammer, anvil, and stirrup.
Transforming vibrations into neural signals.
Sending messages to the brain about the body's orientation.
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When Wade is late to basketball practice his coach makes him run laps.
negative reinforcement
modeling
positive reinforcement
positive punishment
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The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse is called the...
Difference threshold
gate-control theory
Just noticeable difference
Absolute threshold
34
If Pavlov's dogs began to salivate when they heard a sound similar to a bell they would show
stimulus generalization
spontaneous recovery
stimulus discrimination
unconditioned response
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Which neurotransmitter is responsible for transmitting pain signals and is blocked by endorphins:
Dopamine
ACh
Seratonin
Substance P
36
What stage do we dream in?
NREM-2
NREM-1
NREM-3
REM
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patients who are described as "split brain" have had what structure removed
medulla oblongata
corpus callosum
hippocampus
prefrontal cortex
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"Brain plasticity" refers to...
Our adaptability to different problems.
New connections forming to take over for damaged sections.
The surface texture of the cerebral cortex.
The brain's ability to regrow damaged neurons.
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The availablity heuristic involves judging the event by the...
How easily the answer comes to mind,
What it looks most like?
Is this a duck?
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Stereotype lift is?
Positive stereotypes put too much pressure and can negatively impact them
Positive stereotypes can negatively impact us by providing false info
Positive stereotypes make us question our skills/groups
Positive stereotypes can help us perform better
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A test that identifies people with the potential to be great lawyers is an example of a(n)
IQ test
achievement test
EQ test
aptitude test
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which is an example of an implicit memory
describing the taste of a birthday cake
remembering how to tie your shoelace
recalling the name of your JH math teacher
recognizing a celebrity
