23/24 Psychology Semester Exam

The cells that make up your liver and your skin contain ____.

Unless we rehearse it, how long does material remain in short-term memory?

Giving a test and reading the full instructions to one group and not the other means the test _

Overall, naturalistic observation will provide more accurate findings ____.

Carol is helping a professional athlete to recover from a serious injury. Carol is a ____ psychologist.

According to Ebbinghaus, you are likely to do most of your forgetting of the material you learned for this test ____.

When studying, it is usually best to ____ if your goal is to store information in long-term memory.

Dr. Smith observes teenagers at a mall and predicts that boys will conform to group behavior more than girls. He has _

When he was a child, Bruce saw his brother hit and killed by a car.  Yet, Bruce cannot remember this event due to _

The best example of an operational definition would be defining ____

Scientists, and therefore psychologists, tend to be determinists, that is they believe that ____.

Which research method would be most useful in trying to understand a man setting himself on fire?

The highly specialized communication system of the body is the ____.

The first step in the scientific method is ____.

The basic unit of the nervous system is the ____.

Evolutionary psychologists employ the thinking of ____ in their research and theories.

Why is replication important in the scientific method?

John Watson and B.F. Skinner believed that psychologists should study ____.

Listening to Mozart when studying & the teacher plays Mozart during the exam, your increased performance may be due to _

Which school of psychology attempted to break down the mind into its component elements and discover how they interact?

Dr. Ahmad is a psychologist who devised a test to measure introversion and extraversion.  Most likely, Dr. Ahmad is a _

Motor output travels down the _ and sensory input travels up the _

A truly reliable test ____.

Your memory for knowing how to tie your shoes is part of your ____.

On an exam, to accurately remember the information contained in a chapter of your textbook, you must engage in ____.

Differences between countries in what men prefer to do can be attributed to _

Researchers study a large population and calculate a heritability factor of .60 for depression.  This implies that ____.

Old information getting in the way of new information is called _

The two founders of humanistic psychology in the 1950s were ____.

In an experiment, independent variable is to dependent variable as ____.

Your heart beating fast and your palms sweating are symptoms of your _ at work

Awareness of previous life experiences, knowledge of how to do things, and a rich emotional life are all dependent on _.

Both structuralism and functionalism emphasized study of ____.

Dr. Green writes a book and is considered a "renowned authority" What question should the reader ask?

Passing desirable traits to offspring that help them survive is called _

Psychologists prefer to acquire knowledge through ____.

Rodney recites the rhyme, “Thirty days has September, April, June, and November. . . .”  This rhyme is a _

The nervous system is made up of the ____.

Why did the school administration initially deny Wundt the funding to set up a suitable psychological lab?

Psychology is best defined as the ____.

The notion that our mind consisted of an ever-changing “stream of consciousness” was originated by ____.

Eyewitness testimonies are most likely to be influenced by ____.

Xavier studies a unit of world history until he knows it well.  He then goes over it several more times. He's using _

The sensory registers ____.

If the body were compared to a corporate office, the nervous system would be most similar to the ____.

Another name for our visual sensory memory is ____.

The general finding regarding identical twins reared apart is that they ____.

The parasympathetic system is part of ____.

The nerves of the peripheral nervous system serve as a ____.

Asking participants how things make them feel is using _