What does the kinesthetic sense involve?

Where arms and legs are in space

What is the extraneous variable in an experiment?

Factors beside the IV that might affect the DV.

What is underextension?

Young children are too restrictive in how they use a word.

What does the neurotransmitter GABA do?

Contributes to the regulation of anxiety.

What is clinical psychology?

Deals with people with psychological disorders

What is random sample?

Members of the group have an equal chance of being chosen

Test measures what it's designed to measure.

What is an advantage of experiments?

Cause-and-effect relationships between variables.

What behavior would be difficult without the vestibular sense?

walking a straight line with our eyes closed.

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1
What is an example of a sedative?
Cocaine
Marijuana
Barbiturates
Mescaline
2
Harlow's experiments with substitute mothers made of wire demonstrated the importance of what?
feeding
responsiveness to needs
imprinting
touch
3
Parental involvement can have dramatic effects on all the following human traits except
motor development.
self-esteem.
intelligence.
reading ability.
4
What does the kinesthetic sense involve?
Cilia in the nose
Semicircular canals
Taste buds
Where arms and legs are in space
5
Which of the following two sleep disorders occur most commonly?
apnea and narcolepsy
night terrors and apnea
insomnia and narcolepsy
apnea and insomnia
6
What is the meaning of a stimulus?
Natural
Reaction
Thing
Needs work
7
The primary visual cortex is located in the
Temporal lobes
Occipital lobes
Frontal lobes.
Parietal lobes
8
What stage is the concrete operational period according to Piaget?
4
2
1
3
9
What kind of psychologist would be most likely to use a projective personality assessment?
psychoanalytic
social cognitive
behaviorist
trait
10
Which is the right term for a mental rule Piaget said we use to interpret our environment?
accommodation
assimilation
schema
syllogism
11
What are ethical guidelines?
Watching without changing
No harm to humans
Telling the subject what is going on
questionaire
12
What is the extraneous variable in an experiment?
Similar subjects who do not receive the treatment.
The participants, or subjects who receive special treatment.
The condition or event manipulated by the experimenter.
Factors beside the IV that might affect the DV.
13
One personality trait that is thought to be highly heritable is
introversion.
diligence.
sense of humor.
generosity.
14
Schizophrenia is most likely to be treated with
Prozac
lithium
Valium
Haldol
15
Someone who has an external locus of control is likely to have
positive self-concept.
belief in luck.
high sense of self-efficacy.
high IQ.
16
Night terrors and somnambulism usually occur during which stage of sleep?
sleep onset
stage 1, close to wakefulness
REM sleep
stage 4
17
What is underextension?
Young children are too restrictive in how they use a word.
Children only use single words to express themselves.
When young children are too broad in the use of a word.
Young children apply rules about grammar to everything.
18
What is an example of telegraphic speech?
"mama walk"
"ba,ba,ba"
"give doll"
"dada"
19
Which of the following is not an anxiety disorder?
post-traumatic stress disorder
panic disorder
zoophobia
conversion disorder
20
Which neurotransmitter is affected by opiates?
serotonin
GABA
endorphins
dopamine
21
What is the resting state of the brain?
Theta
Delta
Beta
Alpha
22
Which of the following psychologists wrote the first psychology textbook?
John Watson
B.F Skinner
William James
Albert Bandura
23
Seyle's general adaption syndrome describes
our reactions to stress.
the sexual response cycle in humans.
how the CNS processes emotions.
the effect of low levels of arousal on emotion.
24
The Yerkes-Dodson law predicts that people would perform an easy task best if they are at a
baseline state.
high level of arousal.
level of self-actualization.
low level of arousal.
25
Which structure is found in the inner ear?
hammer
auditory canal
basilar membrane
pinna
26
Depression is associated with low levels of
acetylcholine.
GABA.
serotonin.
dopamine.
27
Most prenatal influences on humans are genetic of hormonal in origin except for
stress on the mother.
parents' level of education about fetal development.
teratogens.
family history of mental illness.
28
The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by changes in the size of the
Cornea
Retina
Pupil
Lens
29
What is an example of a variable ratio schedule?
Pop quizzes.
Slot Machines.
A reward for every fifth response.
Get paid every other Friday.
30
What does the neurotransmitter GABA do?
Opiate-like chemicals involves in the modulation of pain.
Released by neurons that control skeletal muscles.
Contributes to the regulation of anxiety.
Involved in the regulation of sleep and arousal.
31
Who invented the first IQ test in France?
Binet
Army Alpha and Beta
Galton
Wechsler
32
Which level of consciousness controls involuntary body processes?
preconscious level
nonconscious level
autonomic level
subconscious level
33
In what stage of cognitive development do infants learn object permanence?
sensorimotor
conventional
autonomy
preoperational
34
What is insomnia?
Sleepwalking
Frequent reflexive gasping for air that disrupt sleep.
Problems in remaining asleep.
Falling asleep during waking hours.
35
According to Erikson's theory, adolescents are most primarily concerned in a search for
affection
identity
autonomy
career
36
What is clinical psychology?
Helps people learn
Work place/business
Deals with people with psychological disorders
Focuses on humans from child development to old age.
37
Which kind of therapist is most likely to analyze a client's dreams?
cognitive
psychoanalytic
humanistic
biomedical
38
Which of the following psychologists was part of the Gestalt group of psychologists?
Max Wertheimer
John Watson
Wilhelm Wundt
Carl Rogers
39
What is random sample?
Similar to the population as a whole.
Small subject of individuals to represent the population.
All members of a group that could be selected.
Members of the group have an equal chance of being chosen
40
What is validity?
Consistant
Same scoring
Same admin
Test measures what it's designed to measure.
41
What is an advantage of experiments?
Cause-and-effect relationships between variables.
Health and mood influence the reaction.
Laboratory situations are often artificial.
Easy to generalize findings to the real world.
42
Amplitude in the ear involves
Timbre
Pitch
Saturation
Loudness
43
What behavior would be difficult without the vestibular sense?
walking a straight line with our eyes closed.
integrating what we see and hear.
repeating a list of digits.
writing our name
44
True or false, Your knowledge that birds fly is contained in your semantic.
True
False
45
How many personalities did Cattell believe existed?
10
3
16
25
46
All schizophrenics suffer from
distorted thinking.
multiple personalities.
depression.
delusions of persecution.
47
Which approach toward personality is the least deterministic?
behaviorist
trait
humanistic
psychoanalytic
48
Nico is 8 years old and, according to the Stanford-Binet, he has a mental age of 10. What IQ?
120
80
150
125
49
The brain receives information about the positions of parts of the body through the
homeostatic sense
kinesthetic sense
kinetic sense
vestibular sense
50
The research methodology Wilhelm Wundt used is called
introspection.
inferential.
naturalistic observation.
structuralism.
51
Which of the following is an example of a generalized reinforcer?
good grades
water
chocolate
money
52
When there is a stimulate on the lateral hypothalamus, you tend to
stop eating
eat a little more than usual
overeat
nothing happens
53
What is retrograde amnesia?
Messing with the old.
Forgetting present memories.
Forgetting old memories.
Messing with the new.
54
Perceived control over a stressful event trend to result in
increased arousal.
less reported stress.
higher heart and respiration rates.
more motivation to solve the stressful problem.
55
Sean takes a test in the army to see if he would make a good pilot. Such a test is a (an)
standardized test.
aptitude test.
achievement test.
intelligence test.
56
What is bulimia nervosa?
Gain large amounts of weight and are at risk of obesity.
An obsession with eating healthful foods.
Binging on food then vomiting or other means to compensate.
An obsession with weight loss and a distorted body image.
57
What are the terminal buttons?
Fiber that carries signals away from soma to other cells.
Insulating material that encases some axons.
Branching structures that receive signals from other cells.
Knobs at the end of axons that release neurotransmitters.
58
According to Freud, which part of the mind acts as a person's conscience?
superego
id
ego
libido
59
Which neurotransmitter system do do antidepressants drugs try to affect?
Acetylcholine
Norepinephrine
Dopamine
Serotonin
60
Which process involves counterconditioning?
somatic therapy
ECT
RET
systematic desensitization
61
What memory lasts less than one second?
Short-term
Sensory
None
Long-term
62
Which of the following psychologists might have described himself as a humanist?
William James
Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
Abraham Maslow
63
Which of the following is not one or Gardner's multiple intelligences?
spatial.
linguistic.
practical.
musical.
64
Where are the rods and cones located in an eye?
Iris
Fovea
Retina
Cornea
65
Behaviorists explain human thought and behavior as a result of
past conditioning.
individual choice.
biological processes.
unconscious behavioral impulses.
66
What is episodic memory?
Facts
Dreams
Experiences
General knowledge
67
The somatic nervous system is part of the
autonomic nervous system.
peripheral nervous system.
central nervous system
autonomic nervous system.
68
If decay theory is correct:
Failure to store memory.
A physical damage to the brain.
Some memories get combined with other memories.
The main reason for forgetting should be because of old age.
69
The capacity of short term memory is
No limit
10 chunks of information
1 to 4 chunks of information
7 plus or minus 2 chunks of information
70
T/F, positive correlations identify a relationship between 2 variables that don't go together.
False
True
71
What hemisphere is language in?
Left hemisphere
Right hemisphere
72
Lateral antagonism occurs when the neural activity in a cell
activates cones and inactivates cells.
activates rods and inactivates cones.
opposes activity in surrounding cells.
increases activity in surrounding cells.
73
Which method of therapy is most eclectic?
aversive conditioning
psychodynamic
token economy
client-centered
74
Amnesia which people loose memories for events that happened before an injury is due to:
Prospective
Retrograde
Anterograde
Retrospective
75
How much is one standard deviation in a normal curve?
100
30
70
15
76
An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events is called a
Functional Fixedness
Algorithm
Schema
Problem solving
77
A high score on Holmes and Rache's social readjustment rating scale correlates with
incidence of stress-related illness.
high optimum levels of arousal. q
levels of perceived control.
level of need reduction.
78
Which is NOT one of the big five personality traits?
extraversion
honesty
openness
agreeableness
79
when the observer does not see the signal and the signal is present, it's a
False alarm
Miss
Correct rejection
Hit
80
According to research, what parenting style is the best?
Neglectful
Permissive
Authoritarian
Authoritative
81
Weber's law determines
just-noticeable difference.
level of subliminal messages.
amplitude of sound waves.
absolute threshold.
82
When does Tardive Dyskinesia occur?
High dopamine.
Drugs are agonists.
When you age.
Give too much dopamine.
83
what is the operational definition?
The entire group
The way you measure a variable
An equal chance to be in the experimental group
The number in the middle
84
People eat when what biological factor is low?
Ghrelin
Leptin
Insulin
Orexin
85
What approach do Naser and Beck have?
Cognitive
Humanistic
Biological
Evolution
86
The wavelength of light mainly affects our perception of
Hue
Brightness
Light purity
Saturation
87
B.F. Skinner introduced the ides of _________ to the paradigm of behaviorism.
unconscious thinking.
reinforcement.
defense mechanism.
conditioning.
88
What does Sternberg identify as the 3 sets of mental abilities?
Word fluency, perceptual speed, and reasoning ability.
Spatial orientation, inductive reasoning and number facility
Verbal comprehension, associative memory, and visual memory.
Practical, Creative intelligence, and analytical.
89
The balanced state we are driven to attain by satisfying our needs os called
primary satisfaction.
equilibrium.
homeostasis.
self-actualization.
90
True or false, a psychiatrist requires a M.D.
false
true
91
A common side effect of ECT is
tardive dyskinesia.
memory loss.
hysteria.
hallucinations.
92
Getting information into memory is
Storage
Elaboration
Encoding
Retrieval
93
If a test is reliable, it means that it
is also valid.
test what it is supposed to test.
is given in the same way every time.
yields consistent results.
94
What is on the top of the hierarchy of needs pyramid?
Esteem
Safety and Security
Self-actualization
Aesthetic
95
Which part of the brain is the newest in an evolutionary sense?
cerebral cortex
hypothalamus
pons
forebrain
96
Marijuana falls under what category of psychoactive drug?
hallucinogen
mood depressant
mood elevator
depressant
97
Chomsky proposed that children learn language swiftly:
Because they process an innate language acquisition device.
Because they are young and can copy easily.
Because it's biological.
Because it's what they are being told.
98
When the crisis is absent and there is commitment present, the identity of the adolescence is:
Moratorium
Identity Foreclosure
Identity DIffusion
Identity Achievement
99
The lens in the eye
bends entering light rays and focuses them onto the retina.
converts light energy into neural energy.
is the part of the eye that gives it its color.
controls the amount of light entering the eye.
100
Sofia hears voices that tell her to kill people. Sofia is experiencing
anxiety.
hallucinations.
delusions.
compulsions.

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