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Psychology Semester Exam Review
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When testing a new computer program, teens learn the program faster than senior adults
statistical significance
cohort effects
confounding variable
frequency distribution
2
Which of these is an example of perceptual set?
able to understand a song after being given the lyrics
a group of images
geometric shapes that look pretty
listening to auditory instructions
3
What mimics neurotransmitters, or blocks their reuptake?
dopamine
antagonist
agonist
serotonin
4
You take the SAT multiple times, and receive the same score each time.
variance
reliability
validity
skewed distribution
5
Santa gives you money for Christmas.
partial reinforcer
Premack's principle
secondary reinforcer
primary reinforcer
6
Two or more reinforcement schedules are operating simultaneously and independently
continuous schedules
intermittent schedules
variable schedules
concurrent schedules
7
Which is a monocular depth cue?
convergence
retinal disparity
accomodation
intensity
8
Christmas comes one time each year.
fixed interval
variable ratio
fixed ratio
variable interval
9
Our tendency to blame others' behavior to internal dispositions but our own to external ones is
Self-Serving Bias
Fundamental Attribution Error
Defensive Attribution
Actor-Observer Bias
10
Which of the following is an experiment?
collecting data on amount of money spent on Christmas gifts
giving children different gifts, and observing reaction
shadowing Santa and observing his Christmas flight
observing and comparing elves' age with toy-making skills
11
Behaviorist model of classical conditioning (stimuli are simply paired in time)
signal-relations
contiguity
preparedness
contingency
12
Representative sample is
sample that is similar to the chosen population
a person representing a control group
random
assigning people to experimental & control groups
13
Pavlov rings the bell, then waits two minutes, then rings the bell again.
short-delay conditioning
trace conditioning
simultaneous conditioning
temporal conditioning
14
_____ is sensory; while _____ is motor.
interneurons; enterneurons
efferent; afferent
receptor cells; effectors
afferent; efferent
15
You do an in-depth study of three north Texas family's holiday traditions.
survey
cross-sectional
experiment
case study
16
Low levels of serotonin are linked to -
schizophrenia
anxiety
depression
Parkinson's
17
These help the reindeer stay balanced as they fly.
gyrus cinfuli
ossicles
kinesthetic system
semicurcular canals
18
You are put on the 'naughty list', and don't receive any presents.
omission training
positive punishment
negative reinforcement
primary reinforcer
19
"Peanut butter has no effect on the development of cancer"
hypothesis
nutella hypothesis
null hypothesis
negative hypothesis
20
Which of these is the correct pathway of sound?
auditory nerve, cochlea, ossicles, stimulus, pinna
stimulus, pinna, ossicles, cochlea, auditory nerve
in one ear and right out the other
stimulus, ossicles, pinna, auditory nerve, cochlea
21
GABA...
is an inhibitory neurotransmitter
controls voluntary movements
modulates mood
regulates sleep
22
In a race, one runner tripped and fell twice. The data of the times of runners will be
positively skewed
negatively skewed
statistically significant
a normal distribution
23
In which one of these stages does sleep walking usually occur?
stage 1
stage 4
stage 2
REM
24
Which one of these stages has theta waves?
Stage 4
REM
Stage 2
Stage 3
25
In an experiment to show the effects of the presence of music on test scores, type of music is
response variable
independent variable
extraneous variable
control variable
26
You compare the different Christmas presents given to different age groups.
naturalistic observation
longitudinal
experiment
cross-sectional
27
Which colors are the basis of the trichromatic theory?
blue, yellow, red
blue, green, orange
green, yellow, blue
blue, red, green
28
Vicarious reinforcement is...
getting in trouble for sneaking out, then not doing it again
realizing that if you sneak out, you'll probably get caught
watching your brother dance, and dancing like him
watching brother get in trouble & then not doing same thing
29
This theory explains afterimages.
opponent process
trichromatic
place
dichromatic
30
Sleepwalking is also known as...
somnambulism
night terrors
hypnosis
free-running rhythm
31
We simplify our perception of the world.
Rogerian theory
Law of Pragnanz
Trichromatic theory
Volley theory
32
A _____ is usually 24 hours.
night terror
dream
free-running rhythm
circadian rhythm
33
Which of these is a binocular cue to depth?
perceptual constancies
retinal disparity
accomodation
motion parallax
34
Which of these answers does NOT measure the same concept as the others?
correlation coefficient
standard deviation
variance
range
35
Which of these is not part of Sternberg's Triangular theory?
Passion
Altruism
Commitment
Intimacy
36
If you are studying the effects of eating peanut butter, eating jelly may be a...
confounding variable
cohort effect
experimental variable
condiment
37
Percentage of the population that scores 2 standard deviations above the mean in a bell curve?
14%
16%
2%
4%
38
Species specific predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways and not others
shaping
learned helplessness
escape learning
preparedness
39
Which of these is an example of Cognitive Dissonance?
When your brain vibrates in a way it doesn't like.
Adjusting your behavior based on a request.
Acting more and more like those you hang out with.
knowing cheating on a test is wrong but doing it anyway.
40
Which structure relays sensory messages?
pituitary gland
hypothalamus
limbic system
thalamus
41
Which of these procedures is the most invasive?
CAT
EEG
MRI
PET
42
When your arm 'falls asleep', you lose your _____ sense.
kinesthetic
vestibular
proximal
limbic
43
A scientist gives a memory test, while recording his subject's brain waves. He is using a(n)
magnetic resonance imaging
electomyograph
electrical stimulation
electroencephalography
44
What is the function of the Broca's area?
connects hemispheres
language comprehension
produce speech
register and process body sensations
45
Lesioning which of the following would likely cause you to eat MORE Christmas cookies?
coukimonstar thalamus
lower thalamus
lateral hypothalamus
ventromedial hypothalamus
46
You are put on the 'naughty list', and receive coal.
positive punishment
secondary reinforcer
negative punishment
negative reinforcement
47
What processes are used in the feature detection theory?
figure-ground processing
reversible figures
bottom-up processing
top-down processing
48
What field of psychology would measure how to increase elves' productivity at the North Pole?
industrial-organizational
cognitive
humanist
clinical
49
Laziness is an _______ attribution, and not being smart enough is an ________ attribution.
Internal, Internal
External, Internal
Internal, External
External, External
50
A group of scientists want to test selective attention. They would use:
visual agnosia
place theory
visual cliff
dichotic listening
