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PSY 101
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reuptake refers to the | (D) Reabsorption of excess neurotransmitters molecules by a sending neuron. |
| During the course of successful prenatal development, a human organism begins as an | (C) Zygote and finally develops into a fetus |
| Gender identity refers to | (B) the sense of being male or female |
| The biggest danger of relying on case study evidence is that it | (B) may be unrepregsentative of what is generally true |
| Rentinal disparity refers to the | (C) somewhat different images our two eyes receive of the same object |
| The median of a distribution of scores is the | (D)middle score in a distribution of scores |
| At 1:00 pm Luis gets out of bed/ sleepwalks an EEG. | (D) Delta waves |
| Positive reinforcerers ________ the rate of operant responding and negative reinforcers ________ the rate of operant responding. | increase; increase |
| Negative reinforces ____ the rate of operant responding, and punishments _____ the rate of operant responing. | (A)increase; decrease |
| nightmares are to _____ as might terrors are to _______ | Rem sleep; stage 4 sleep |
| Shaping is a _______ procedure | (B) operant conditioning |
| Several weeks after a political election voters often exaggerate their ability to have predicted the election outcome | (D) Hindsight Bias |
| Stress hormones promote stronger memories | (B) Increasing the availability of glucose |
| A mnemonic device is a | (D) memory aid |
| 3 key attitudes of scientific inquiry | (D) Curiosity, skepticism, humility |
| Our sense of teh position and movement of individual body parts | Kines thesis |
| Sense of smell is known as | (D) olfaction |
| The retention of encoded information over time refers to | (D) storage |
| Using the mnemonic Roy G. Biv to remember the colors of the rainbow in the order of wavelength illustrates the use of | (B) an acnnym |
| Positive punishment is the introduction of a _____ stimulus following a behavior and negative punishment is the withdrawl of _______ stimulus following a behavior | (D) aversive; pleasant |
| While flying a plane the pilot seen islands and they appeared to float. This is called | (C) Ground |
| A psychophysicist would be most directly concerned with | (D) the relationship between the wavelength of light and the experince of color |
| According to Piaget during the formal operational stage people begin to | (A) reason abstractly |
| Neural networks refers to | (B) interrelated clusters of neurons in the central nervous syst. |
| The standard deviation is the square root of the average squared deviation of scores from the | (C) mean |
| The most frequently occurring score in a distribution of scores is the | (A) mode |
| Neurotransmitters are released from vesicles located on knob like terminals at the end of the | (C) axon |
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