PSYC101 - Exam 2 Review

Question 1

BMI is your weight-to-height ratio.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Through evolutionary history, tendencies that predispose species to learn some associations more readily than others are

Accepted Answer

Biological limits

Question 3

Retrieving information out of storage and into your concious awareness is....

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Recall

Question 4

The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.

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Facial feedback effect

Question 5

You&#x27;re really good at a sport-far better than others who have done the sport just as long-demonstrates ____ intelligence

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Bodily-kinesthetic

Question 6

A stimulus that naturally & automatically triggers a UR is called...

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Unconditioned stimulus

Question 7

Implicit memory is retaining learned skills without concious awareness.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Memory aids, especially techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices.

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Mnemonic

Question 9

Explicit memory is retaining facts and personal events you can conciously retrieve.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

When we speak, write, or sign words to communicate meaning, we are using...

Accepted Answer

Language

Question 11

With age, adopted children&#x27;s verbal ability scores become ___ positively correlated with their biological parents&#x27; score

Accepted Answer

More

Question 12

Recalling a password and holding it in working memory would activate what?

Accepted Answer

Left frontal lobe

Question 13

One reason someone might feel hunger is because their blood glucose level has dropped.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Lack of body fluids is to cold water as incentive is to need.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Getting ill 4 hrs after eating bad fries = taste aversion to fries; but not to the restaurant. This supports:

Accepted Answer

Darwin&#x27;s prinicple of natural selection

Question 16

Cognitive processes in conditioning = thoughts/perceptions/expectations weaken association between CS & US

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

It&#x27;s surprisingly difficult for both children & professional interviewers to separate the child&#x27;s true & false memories

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Behavior that operates on the environment, producing a consequence.

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Operant behavior

Question 19

Skinner said: external consequences control people&#x27;s behavior as is, why not administer those toward human betterment?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Only humans can be classically conditioned.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

Intelligence scores tend to form a bell-shaped pattern called the bell curve or ____

Accepted Answer

Normal curve

Question 22

Period of distraction enabling people to process complex info unconciously can improve decision making best illustrates

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Value of intuition

Question 23

When your memory trace has faded and you remember much less about something is memory loss that illustrates...

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Storage decay

Question 24

People find it most difficult to detect sad expressions.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Flashbulb memories may contain errors in part because they are frequently rehearsed.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The tendency to respond similarly to stimuli that resemble the CS is called....

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Generalization

Question 27

The CA predicts that the US is about to occur.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Who believed we have one general intelligence that is at the heart of our smarts?

Accepted Answer

Charles Spearman

Question 29

A 5-year-old with an IQ of 120 on the Stanford-Binet would have a mental age of...

Accepted Answer

6

Question 30

Gardner proposed emotional intelligence as a 9th type of intelligence.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

If you feel very hungry after fasting all day due to religious practice, that hunger is an example of....

Accepted Answer

A drive

Question 32

Nudging people to take a moral mindset can make them generous and donate more.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

The way an issue is posed that can significantly affect decisions and judgments is called...

Accepted Answer

Framing

Question 34

A basic bodily requirement.

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Physiological need

Question 35

So much active processing occurs in the short-term memory stage that we now call it...

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Working memory

Question 36

Which theory involves physiological arousal and the cognitive appraisal we apply to explain the arousal?

Accepted Answer

Schachter-Singer

Question 37

When someone is motivated to do work because they genuinely enjoy it and have a passion for it, this is considered....

Accepted Answer

Intrinsic motivation

Question 38

Which hormone sends the "I&#x27;m not hungry" signal to your brain?

Accepted Answer

PYY

Question 39

Cognitive map = mental representation of the layout of one&#x27;s environment

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

Cognitive appraisal = how we interpret our experiences matters when determining our emotions.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

The desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment.

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Extrinsic motivation

Question 42

Long-term potentiation is an increase in a nerve cell&#x27;s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

With age, adopted children&#x27;s verbal ability becomes __ positively correlated with their adoptive parents&#x27; scores.

Accepted Answer

Less

Question 44

A container that an animal can manipulate a bar or key to obtain a reward is called....

Accepted Answer

Skinner box

Question 45

What is our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list?

Accepted Answer

Serial position effect

Question 46

Operant behavior involves a voluntary action (you have to actually do it yourself).

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

Someone with a substance use disorder would probably be more driven to satisfy hunger than their other needs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 48

What is a neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit (concious) memories for storage?

Accepted Answer

Hippocampus

Question 49

If we observe the actions of a model that is reinforced, we are most likely to imitate their behavior.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

Anterograde amnesia involves remembering stuff from your past but not being able to form new concious memories.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 51

What is called when gamblers recall losing less money than they actually lost?

Accepted Answer

Motivated forgetting

Question 52

Which of the following might be a prototype for the category of "bird"?

Accepted Answer

Robin

Question 53

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus is....

Accepted Answer

Respondent behavior

Question 54

This type of study restudies and retests the same people over a long period of time.

Accepted Answer

Longitudinal

PSYC101 - Exam 2 Review

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PSYC101 - Exam 2 Review

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