Final Exam Practice!

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

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

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

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

According to our lecturer, perception is ___________.

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

Jose suffers from bipolar disorder. His psychiatrist may prescribe:

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

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

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

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

Random assignment is an important component of an experiment because it

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

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

Placebos are used in research to control for ____________________.

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

In classical conditioning, which of the following involves learning?

Recent research on the relationship between language and thought has

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

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

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

Neurotransmitters are found in the __________________________.

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

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

Classical conditioning responses are _______ and in operant conditioning responses are________

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

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

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

The neurotransmitter that is believed to be associated with schizophrenia is

Allport was a personality researcher who subscribed to the:

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

Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement?

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

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

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

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

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

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

According to Albert Ellis, many psychological problems result from:

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

Short­-term memory:

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

A feature that is associated with autism is that ____________________________?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One advantage to the scientific method is that it __________________________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The brain structure that controls your ability to produce speech is______________

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

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

10-­15% of individuals diagnosed with

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

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

Subliminal perception describes _____________________________.

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

The main advantage associated with the experimental method is

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

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

Long ­term potentiation refers to __________________.

Bipolar disorder is ______________________.

Approximately what percentage of the general population will experience schizophrenia?

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

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

Scientists attempt to minimize confirmation bias through ____________________.

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

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

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

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

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

Symptoms of a major depressive episode include all the following EXCEPT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neurotransmitters are secreted from synaptic vesicles stored in the _____________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The purpose of the control group is to ___________________.

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following structures is part of the hindbrain?

Which neurotransmitter has NOT been linked to depression?

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

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

Signal detection theory studies how

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

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

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

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

Research on flashbulb memories finds that

Piaget overestimated the degree to which

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

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

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

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is best characterized by:

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

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

As described in lecture, the Modal Model of Memory

The goal of psychoanalysis is:

Which of the following could never be a correlation?

Scientists attempt to minimize confirmation bias through ____________________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carl Rogers asserts that an effective psychotherapist will

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

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

As described in lecture, "rehearsal" is ________________.

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

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

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

Bi­stable figures illustrate the observation that

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

A researcher will choose to use the correlational method when

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

One symptom of bipolar disorder is

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

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

In scientific research, a theory is ___________________________.

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

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

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

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