Final Exam Practice!

Eve's has the ability to say the right thing at the right time. Her skills may reflect

As described in lecture, the duration of sensory memory is________________.

Research on ____ racism suggests that society is more egalitarian than it has been in the past

Which is not found in the scientific model illustrated by "dataland and theoryland?"

In classical conditioning, which of the following involves learning?

Jose suffers from bipolar disorder. His psychiatrist may prescribe:

Subliminal perception describes _____________________________.

Major changes in sleep patterns, weight, and a loss of interest in activities are symptoms of

The form of memory that sustains sensations long enough for identification is known as

Damage to Broca's area may result in which of the following?

The Linguistic Relativity hypothesis (or Sapir­ Whorf hypothesis) proposes:

Signal detection theory studies how

Which of the following cognitive styles is most associated with depression?

Which of the following situations is NOT needed to reduce racial prejudice?

10-­15% of individuals diagnosed with

When two variables are linked and their individual effects cannot be separated, we call them

Emma is likely to become depressed after a break up if she attributes the break up to.

Which disorder is NOT commonly seen in families with high rates of depression?

Scientists attempt to minimize confirmation bias through ____________________.

Approach to psychology that sought to identify fundamental components of conscious experience

Neurotransmitters are found in the __________________________.

What did Harlow's research demonstrate about infants' attachment to their mothers?

A vivid & detailed emotional memory that retains vividness yet may change details over time

The two-­factor theory of emotion suggests that...

Models of intelligence that include "g" are based on the observation

Even though the cars at the end of the train look miniature, we know they are full­size due to

Which structure is like a locked door that only certain neurotransmitter keys can unlock?

Research on flashbulb memories finds that

One symptom of bipolar disorder is

The Five Factor Model (Big 5; OCEAN) represents what kind of approach to personality?

The brain structure that controls your ability to produce speech is______________

A key thing to remember from lectures on Sensation & Perception is that perception is

What is the correct sequence of events in emotional response according to Cannon-Bard theory?

Ali projects unresolved feelings about her mom onto her therapist. Freud would have called this

Symptoms of a major depressive episode include all the following EXCEPT

Sherif's "Robbers Cave" experiment demonstrated that prejudice can be reduced by

Signals along the WHAT pathway from the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe produces

What drives specialization of language to the left hemisphere of the brain?

Social psych would describe the denial of a job based on being a member of an "outgroup" as:

If you fell and hit your forehead very hard on a concrete sidewalk, you may have problems with

Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement?

As described in lecture, "rehearsal" is ________________.

As described in lecture, the Modal Model of Memory

In scientific research, a theory is ___________________________.

In answering this, and all other questions for this exam, you are making use of..

The fact that human females are pickier than males in choosing a mate is consistent with

The lowest level of stimulus needed for the nervous system to detect it half the time is called

Short­-term memory:

The ability to produce solutions to problems that are novel and successful is called

A fear startle response in rats will be blocked by lesions to which of areas of the brain?

What is known as "aversive racism" is tied to _____________.

Bi­stable figures illustrate the observation that

According to the cognitive model of depression, one's negative beliefs develop as the result of

Ed is skilled at chart, map, and graph reading tasks. Gardner would say Ed's skills reflect

As described in lecture, deductive reasoning is used when you:

As described in lecture, Hebb's rule is supported by the cellular phenomena of

In the Middle Ages it was assumed that signs of mental illness were believed to be caused by

Long ­term potentiation refers to __________________.

Which of the following could never be a correlation?

Classical conditioning responses are _______ and in operant conditioning responses are________

The symptoms of ________ are often mistaken for those of a heart attack.

A feature associated with Autism, but not among the core symptoms required for a diagnosis, is

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is best characterized by:

Which neurotransmitter has NOT been linked to depression?

Random assignment is an important component of an experiment because it

Which of the following would NOT be characteristic of the thinking of someone with depression?

Carl Rogers asserts that an effective psychotherapist will

The absolute threshold is defined as the stimulus intensity that an organism can detect

Eve sees an old man fall, but assumes someone else will help him. She is experiencing

The symptoms of a panic attack often peak in less than ____ minutes.

What category of disorders is characterized by inflexible and maladaptive behavior patterns

The neurotransmitter that is believed to be associated with schizophrenia is

The diathesis­-stress model proposes that people develop mental disorders due to

The insulating material that encases some axons is referred to as the ______________,

Which of the following structures is part of the hindbrain?

Memorizing a list of numbers (133118904518399) is easier if:

Damage to the cerebellum is most likely to result in ___________________.

Stressing that psychology should study the purpose of consciousness rather than structure is

In the neuron, the branchlike extensions for receiving information from other neurons are the

Which of the following is the correct sequence of information flow within the neuron?

In Robber's Cave study, he created inter­ group hostility in two groups of 5th grade boys by

Therapy based on a belief that problems & abnormal behaviors stem from a traumatic childhood is

The portion of the human brain that mediates simple reflexes (salivating, coughing, etc.) is

A person is at greatest risk for developing schizophrenia if they have a/an

Which ethical requirement of research was not present in the Tuskegee experiment?

"Seek and ye shall find" is a short and simple way to sum up...

Whose non-directive therapy centers on the patient's goals and ways of solving problems

A researcher will choose to use the correlational method when

An I/O psychologist is hired to improve productivity. They are LEAST likely to address

What percentage of people diagnosed with major depressive disorder will die from suicide?

Adults who form avoidant relationships with partners are likely to have which working model:

Which of the following indicates the strongest relationship between two variables?

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of view is known as

Learning to talk appears to have a biological foundation. One piece of evidence for this claim:

After classically conditioning some response, how might one produce extinction of the response?

As described in lecture, a fear-­potentiated startle response in animals...

The ability to detect & identify visual stimuli when the stimuli are not consciously perceived:

A system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations is called

The quickness with which someone can think of the characteristics associated with stereotypes:

Bipolar disorder is ______________________.

Your maroon sweater looks black when you go into a shadow. You keep seeing it as maroon due to

As described Biological Psychology, damage to the pre-­frontal cortex can result in deficits to

The idiographic approach to studying personality is mostly used in this kind of research method

Feeling insects crawling on your skin would be examples of what symptom of schizophrenia?

As mentioned in lecture, life insurance rates are higher for teen­aged drivers because...?

Observing that intelligence tests with different content all correlated, Spearman hypothesized

Which of the following behaviors can be best explained in terms of classical conditioning?

One sign of abnormality is when a person engages in behavior that creates a lot of emotional

The cellular phenomena of long­ term potentiation (LTP) is most consistent with

Psychologists and psychiatrists most likely to use _____________________ to classify autism.

Which two different terms best describe Schachter and Singer's theory of emotion?

Which of the following is an advantage of the nomothetic approach over the idiographicapproach?

The fluid­ filled space btwn the axon terminal of one cell and the dendrites of the next cell

Our ability to see action in movies, rather than a series of static pictures, is the result of

Jess is doing a presentation on suicide. Which following point are you are likely to hear?

Which of the following best summarizes the current conceptualization of autism?

Components that are considered when diagnosing abnormal behavior exclude which of the following

Allport was a personality researcher who subscribed to the:

Ed's diagnosed with schizophrenia and believes his power can save the world. He is experiencing

Parental investment theory suggests that men place more emphasis on the __ of a mate than women

Scientists attempt to minimize confirmation bias through ____________________.

According to Albert Ellis, many psychological problems result from:

The modal model of memory, the most widely accepted model, proposes that memory:

The purpose of the control group is to ___________________.

Neurotransmitters are secreted from synaptic vesicles stored in the _____________.

Which of the following is NOT a level of organization in Allport's approach to personality

Damage to Wernicke's area is likely to affect which of the following?

Autism is now understood in all of the following ways EXCEPT as

Placebos are used in research to control for ____________________.

Recent research on the relationship between language and thought has

What research method would Allport use when he used the idiographic approach to personality?

Approximately what percentage of the general population will experience schizophrenia?

Attention to WHERE one is in space is processed in which area of the brain?

One advantage to the scientific method is that it __________________________.

Which area of the brain seems to be able to operate without conscious awareness

The diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder includes all of the following EXCEPT

According to Gardner there are as many as ________ types of intelligence.

The _____ is the illusory perception of movement produced by the successive flashing of images.

The main advantage associated with the experimental method is

The lobe of the brain with primary responsibility for processing bodily sensations is the

Harlow conducted his research on children's attachments to their mothers using

The goal of psychoanalysis is:

DCS (di­-cycloserine) is a drug which is used to treat phobias because it:

As described in lecture, if the amygdala is lesioned, the fear­potentiated startle will

Ed has an intense, irrational fear of clowns. He would be most diagnosed as suffering from

A person's corpus callosum is split, which separates the two hemispheres completely, to:

The largest and most complex part of the human brain is the ____________.

William James is considered a founding father of psychology because he...

A feature that is associated with autism is that ____________________________?

A key aspect of an experiment that is missing in other research designs is

The brain structure responsible for the coordination of motor movements & sense of equilibrium

Piaget overestimated the degree to which

Ed has difficulty understanding the meaning of a speech after a stroke, you suspect damage to

Parental investment theory suggests that women place more emphasis than men on the___of a mate.

As discussed in lecture, neurons are similar to other cells in which one of the following ways?

Ed is diagnosed with clinical depression. Compared to her friends who are not depressed he may

Ed hit his head and saw "stars". The"stars" were most likely a result of activity in

People trained to perform assessments & conduct research on people with mental disorders are:

The memory system which maintains information in a relatively pure, unanalyzed form iscalled

According to the lecture, what is the capacity of sensory memory?

Having friends w/the same hobbies can be explained by the___principle of relationship formation

Benoit's internal working model ­­"I cannot depend on others"­­

According to our lecturer, perception is ___________.