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Psych 202 Exam 1 SP 21
Psych 202 Exam 1 SP 21
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What is plasticity?
The brain's ability to change
The brain's ability to perceive the outside world
The brain's ability to remember
The brain's ability to aquire information
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Name Design: Ask people to answer a series of questions about political views.
case study
naturalistic observation
survey
experimental
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What are the behavioral effects of serotonin?
Increased arousal, suppressed appetite
Increased pleasure, suppressed appetite
Increased learning, enhanced memory
Modulated mood, suppressed appetite
4
Neurogenesis is the formation of
new neurotransmitters
new neurons
new glial cells
new memory
5
Operational definition: College success measured by the number of friends you made during college
Good
Bad
6
If my parents created an environment that fosters psychology, this interacts with my biology. Example of what?
nature
nature and nurture interaction
nurture
phenotypes and genes
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What is an agonist ?
drugs that block neurotransmitters in the brain
drugs that mimic neurottransmitters in the brain
drugs that release endogenous endorphins
neurotransmitters in the brain
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Which of these is NOT TRUE of case study methodology?
Case studies can be easily generalized to the wider population
Case studies allow for a rich data set because single individual is studied
Case studies usually involve studying individuals who are rare/unusual
Case studies allow new theories to be formulated
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Developmental psychology is the study of:
language,personality,& emotions of children and adolescents.
the role of maturation in the unfolding of human potential
the stages of life and the important tasks of each.
changes in behavior & abilities from conception to death.
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What scan type would be best for detecting tumors?
CT
fMRI
EEG
PET
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Finish this phrase: Correlation ...
never lies about the facts
helps us understand the world
does not equal causation
shows differences in data
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What are the behavioral effects of serotonin?
Modulated mood, suppressed appetite
Increased pleasure, suppressed appetite
Increased arousal, suppressed appetite
Increased learning, enhanced memory
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Positive or Negative Correlation: As the number of missed classes increases, total points decreases.
Negative
Positive
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GABA does what in the central nervous system?
inhibits
excites
memory
rewards
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If 2 variables are correlated, what is the third variable problem?
correlating 3 variables instead of 2
a way to establish causation or causal relationships
another variable can explain the relationship
the manipulation (IV) comes after the outcome (DV)
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Sigmund Freud was responsible for
Revolutionizing psychology with his psychoanalytic theory
Establishing behaviorism
Being a gestalt psychologist
Experimenting with introspection
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What is repolarization?
Membrane potential decreases becoming negative
Membrane potential sharply increases becoming positive
Membrane potential does not change
Membrane is at resting potential
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Fact or Opinion: Autism is caused by vaccines.
Opinion
Fact
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Validity
making sense of problems and persevering in solving them.
the soundness of your interpretations and uses of results.
a clear statement about what students are to learn.
reliability and objectivity
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What brain structure is absolutely critical for staying alive? Hint: it controls breathing and heart rate
thalamus
reticular formation
brain stem
cerebellum
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All the following are ethical concerns for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study EXCEPT:
no informed consent
more damage was done than the benefit in knowledge
the national press drew attention to the study
vaccines were withheld
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What is Internal Validity?
Ability to rule out alternate explanations
Measures in a valid study are compared to the study
When the research looks like it is doing what it claims to
The need to generalize beyond the context it was carried out
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Fact or Opinion: William James wrote the first psychology textbook, Principles of Psychology.
Opinion
Fact
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Are the soccer teams in one state a population sample?
sample
population
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What is External Validity?
Ability to get the same measurement each time instrument is used
Ability to rule out alternate explanations
The ability to generalize results beyond the context it was carried out
The extent to which something does what it claims to do
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Leftover neurotransmitters are cleared by all mechanisms EXCEPT
Diffusion
Repolarization
Degradation
Reuptake
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________ are released into the _______ to send a signal from one neuron to another.
messages; axon
dendrites; myelin sheath
synaptic vesicles; terminal button
neurotransmitters; synapse
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A researcher examines drug dosage (0 mg, 50 mg, 100 mg) for treating depression. What is the control group?
depression
100 mg
0 mg
50 mg
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A researcher examines drug dosage (0 mg, 50 mg, 100 mg) for treating depression. What is the dependent variable?
depression
drug dose
100 mg
0 mg
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Which is not a characteristic of a hypothesis?
Consistent with well established facts
Falsifiable
You think you are right
Capable of being tested
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Which of the following would a psychologist study?
The way that the human mind influences behavior
The genetic link between prenatal smoking and ADHD
The impact of one social group on another social group
The evolution of human beings
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How does the charge inside the neuron change when it fires?
negative to positive
positive to more positive
negative to more negative
positive to negative
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Dopamine
All of the above
Characteristics of addictive behavior arises from the brain’s reward center
Is released when we enjoy something
Drugs release dopamine which tricks the brain into thinking the substance
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What would be the behavioral effects of damage to Wernicke's and Broca's areas?
hearing problems
speech problem
vision problems
motor movement problems
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The hippocampus' primary function is what?
emotion
memory
homeostasis
vision
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what does the parietal lobe do?
it controls hearing
it controls touch
it controls movement
it controls vision
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What scan type is best for detecting real time electrical firing of neurons?
CT
PET
fMRI
EEG
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All of the following are the criteria for causation EXCEPT
Two variables must be correlated
One variable must precede the other
No reasonable alternative explanations
A large, representative sample
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Operational definition: College success measured by employment in the field one year after graduation
Bad
Good
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What does the 'correlation co-efficient' tell us?
Gives the margin of error of a test
It gives us qualitative data
Tells how accurate a test is
Tells the strength of the relationship between 2 variables
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You have brown eyes. The expression of this trait is due to
none of the above
your genotype
your phenotype
natural selection
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Construct validity is important because
it tells you how important and impactful your results are
it measures if the tool will produce the same measurement
it measures how well variables were operationalized and manipulated
it tells you whether the results generalize to other populations
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what does the temporal lobe do?
it controls movement
it controls hearing
it controls vision
it controls touch
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Who would study thoughts and their relationship to our experiences and our actions
cognitive psychologists
developmental psychologists
personality psychologists
evolutionary psychologists
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Fact or Opinion: Dendrite is a Greek word that means "tree".
Fact
Opinion
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What is a scientific Theory?
a testable prediction about how the world will behave
well-developed set of ideas that propose explanation for observed phenomena
description of a specific relation of real world conditions
measurements and data in support of a scientific explanation
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Function of the Occipital Lobe
auditory processing, memory, & speech
Movement, orientation, recognition & perception of stimuli
visual processing
reasoning, problem solving, speech, & movement
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Are the soccer teams in one school district a population sample?
population
sample
49
If stimulating someone's temporal lobe causes them to hear sounds, this means that
the person is delusional
certain brain regions process specific information
the corpus callosum has been severed
the person has cancer
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Which branch of psychology focuses on how we interact with and relate to others?
social
health
clinical
industrial and organizational
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Empiricism is the belief that:
direct observation is the best source of knowledge
truth, as such, as such does not exist
all truth exists in the mind
the experience of the mind can only be known by introspection
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Myelin is
The organelles that compose the neuron
A layer of electrical insulation that surrounds the axon
The structure that releases neurotransmitters
The structure that receives neurotransmitters
53
Which value indicates the strongest correlation?
-.97
.43
-.25
.88
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Positive or Negative Correlation: As shoe size increases, math ability increases
Negative
Positive
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Name Design: Examine drug dosage (0 mg, 50 mg, 100 mg) for treating depression.
Experimental
Archival
Cross-sectional
Case study
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Industrial and Organization Psychology can be defined as
the study of human behavior in the workplace
the study of worker efficiency
the study of the way that people and machines interact
the study of safety at work
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What does the frontal lobe do?
visual cortext
motor cortex
auditory cortex
somatosensory cortex
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If the axon of a neuron does not work, what happens to the neuron.
it will not insulate the dendrites and can cause cell death
it can send messages but cannot release neurotransmitters
it cannot receive messages but it can send messages
it can receive messages but it cannot send messages
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Random assignment is
The group that receives the treatment
Assigning participants 2 different conditions without bias
The group that does not receive treatment
Grouping a sample into two groups
