Unit 4-7 MC exam

People often mistake Ben as a basketball player at college because he is 6'7" - illustrating

Children's ability to have a half of the brain removed and develop somewhat normally shows:

The ovaries in females and the testes in malesare part of the:

You head hurts in the AM.  During your job interview it does not hurt. It comes back after.

John B. Watson considered himself to be a(n):

The smallest speech units that carry meaning arecalled:

introduction of pleasant stimulus is to_____ as the withdrawal ofa pleasant stimulus is to ___.

The tendency to search for information consistent with our preconceptions is called:

Tendency to see complete letters on a neon sign even though some lights are out, illustrates:

A child says "Wada" when she needs water.  She is likely in the ______ stage of language.

 Best way to detect fluid-filledbrain regions in patients who have schizophrenia is to use:

Word meaning is to word order as ________ is to________.

Because her friend lost his job, Mary grossly overestimated the National unemployment rate.

Eva could not recognize a sea horse is a fish because it did not closely resemble her fish:

If you wear the goggles that shift vision long enough, you would be able to perform normally

The tendency to think of objects only in termsof their normal uses is called:

The slowdown of neural communication in multiplesclerosis involves a degeneration of the:

Ground beef advertised as 80% lean sells better than 20% fat because of this concept:

male prejudice against women is detected more easily than female prejudice against men.....

This type of research minimizes differences between experimental and control conditions.

Damage to the occipital lobe would likely cause loss of:

Failure to look at all options of arranging six match sticks to make a triangles is due to:

Positive and negative ________________ discourages a behavior

Thinking you answered 60 items correctly on your AP Psych exam, when you actually scored 45?

Books frequently cast a trapezoid image on the retina, but students perceive them as rectangles

Memory by visualizing items in certain locations in your house illustrates:

Experimenters use ______ as a baseline to compare the effects of a specific treatment.

Despite publicized articles detailing corruption by Senator Jones, Melissa still supports him:

The idea that people like other people simply because of similarities is an example of:

Your ability to immediately recognize your moms voice over the phone, illustrates the value of

Logical, methodical step-by-step procedures forsolving problems are called:

Giving meaning to words or information that relate to your life helps memory illustrate:

This helps to ensure that participants in a survey are representative of a larger population?

If our capacity to form concepts depends on ourverbal memory, this would best illustrate:

Poor plate food appearance can make a meal taste bad illustrates:

Restudying course material at the end of a semester, helps long term retention: demonstrating

Prototypes are especially important in theprocess of:

A foreigner says: Can you please a ride to airport me give. He has not mastered ________.

Use of the word “automobile” to refer to acategory of vehicles, we are using this word as a(n):

The ability to distinguish between two similar stimuli in Classical Conditioning

Telegraphic speech is most closely associatedwith the ________ stage of language development.

Our preexisting opinions distort our sense that  a specific conclusion is logical and valid:

Simple thinking strategies that help us solve problems and make judgments efficiently are:

Predicting 80% chance of sun with no rain, rather than 20% chance of rain.

You can close you eyes and still touch you ears and nose shows the importance of:

Using rewards to bribe people to engage in activity they already enjoy will likely  inhibit:

A computer system that plays chess can calculate all possible moves and solves problems with:

 refers to all the mental activity associated w/ thinking, knowing, memory, and communicating?

Giving up trying to solve a complex math problem at night; you wake up with the sudden solution

The mechanical vibrations triggered by soundwaves are transduced into neural impulses by:

Endocrine glands secrete hormones directly into:

holding 2 fingers in front of the eyes - you see a floating finger hot dog - illustrating

looking down rows of corn, or a RR track - they appear to converge with this distance cue:

Giving up trying to solve a complex math problem at night; you wake up with the sudden solution

repeating  an earlier research study with different participants and in differentcircumstances?

Presenting a CS long enough with out a UCS will cause a CR to stop.  This is known as: