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Psych exam final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which parenting style is most likely to have strict guidelines about right & wrong & expect the child to adhere to those guidelines? | Authoritarian parents |
| According to Erikson, when an individual reaches the late adult years with many past regrets and fear that time is running out they are likely to experience | despair |
| An adolescent's need to be seen with the right hairdo and clothing is indicative of the cognitive development called | invisible audience |
| Psychology is defined as the scientific study of | behavior and mental processes |
| A teacher suspects that her students are unusually quiet during Monday classes because they stay up late on Sunday. Her hunch is called a | hypothesis |
| Which of the following is NOT true of psychological theories? | theories are always discarded as new observations are made |
| Marriage problems, angry step kid. Who you gonna call? | a counseling psychologist |
| Diagnosing the severity of mental illness and behavior problems is usually the job of a ____ psychologist | clinical |
| ___ psychologists study the relationship between genetic and environmental factors on growth of the individual through the life span | developmental |
| The study of human traits and characteristics is of interest to ____ psychologists | clinical |
| Industrial psychologists and organizational psychologists study the behavior of people in | workplaces |
| An experimental psychologist is most likely to study | basic processes such as sensation and memory |
| The first person to use scientific methods to investigate psychological phenomenon was | Wilhelm Wundt |
| The functionalists expanded the study of psychology to include behavior as well as consciousness and asked how mental processes and behavior | were broken down into sensations, feelings, and thoughts |
| Cognitive psychologists are specifically interested in studying | human thinking and memory |
| The ____ method uses interviews and questionnaires to collect info from large numbers of people | survey |
| You design a test of intelligence. Based on the theory that intelligence is related to academic performance, you use ____ to test the relationship between performance on your new test and grades in school | the correlational method |
| Which represents the strongest correlation? | -.99 |
| If you were to conduct an experiment on the effects of temperature on aggressive behavior, temperature would be the ____ variable | independent |
| ____ remove dead neurons and waste products from the nervous system, nourish and insulate neurons and direct their growth | glial cells |
| The part of the neuron that receives messages from a neighboring neuron is the | dendrite |
| The axon of a neuron ends in small bulb-like structures called | terminal buttons |
| The ____ minimizes leakage of electrical current traveling along the axon | myelin sheath |
| Sensory neuron is to motor neuron as | afferent neuron is to efferent neuron |
| In a resting state, fluid on the inside of the neuron is ____ charged relative to the outside | negatively |
| The fact that a neuron fires an impulse of the same strength whenever its action potential is triggered is called | the all-or-none principle |
| Which of the following is NOT true regarding a synapse? | a synapse is bordered by an axon terminal from the transmitting neuron |
| Minutes after eating a few bites of food, Mary was unable to breathe and began to experience muscular paralysis. She has ingested food contaminated w/botulism, which blocked the action of | acetylcholine |
| Parkinson's disease, your brain is not producing enough | serotonin |
| Jack just finished a 26-mile marathon. In spite of the physical strain he feels euphoric and elated due to the release of | endorphins |
| The brain and spinal cord make up the | central nervous system |
| The two main divisions of the peripheral nervous system are the | autonomic nervous system and the somatic nervous system |
| The structure in the hindbrain that regulates heart rate, BP and breathing is the | medulla |
| Injury to the ___ can result in a lack of motor coordination, such as stumbling an loss of muscle tone | cerebellum |
| After a gunshot wound to the head, a patient is unable to form new memories but can recall old ones. Damage to the : | hippocampus |
| The amygdala is implicated in ____ behavior in monkeys, cats, and other animals. | aggressive |
| Rick was goofing around with a friend when he fell and hit his head. Soon after, he was having difficulty with his vision. It is possible that he sustained injury to the ____ lobe. | occipital |
| When a patient undergoes a split-brain operation, which of the following is likely to happen? | If their eyes are closed, they can verbally describe an object such as a small toy when they hold it in one hand, but not when they hold it in the other. |
| The zygote journeys to the uterus, where implantation occurs. Which stage is this? | the germinal stage |
| Piaget identified four major stages of cognitive development. In order, they are | sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational |
| A four month old infant is playing with keys. You place a magazine on top of the keys. The infant does not search for them. This demonstrates a lack of | object permanence |
| You show a child two tall and thin glasses filled with equal amounts of water. You pour the water from one glass into a short, wide glass and tell the child to take the glass w/the most water. This shows child's ability to | conserve |
| A child who cleans up their room to avoid losing a privilege is operating at the ____ level of Kohlberg's theory | preconventional |
| According to Erikson, the infant-parent relationship can affect issues associated with ____ during the first year of life. | trust |
| Attachment is defined as | an enduring emotional tie |
| Children with ____ attachment show significant emotional distress when a parent leaves and alternate between clinging and shunning the parent when they return | anxious- ambivalent |
| According to behaviorists, learning is a process by which experience results in | relatively permanent behavior change or potential behavior changes |
| A simple form of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to evoke the response usually evoked by another stimulus by being paired repeatedly with the other stimulus is called | classical conditioning |
| By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, salivation to the bell was the | conditioned response |
| Rachel has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cats come running to the kitchen. Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the US is the ___ and the CS is the ____ | cat food; cupboard door opening |
| Many children learn to fear lightning because it is often paired with loud thunder. In this case, lightning is the ___ and thunder is the ____ and fear is the ____ | CS; US; UR |
| A kind of therapy closely related to classical conditioning that is designed to gradually reduce anxiety about a particular object or situation when relaxed is known as ___ therapy | systematic desenitization |
| An example of classical conditioning | cleaning up your room to get your parent's approval |
| Positive reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the behavior preceding it will happen again while negative reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the preceding behavior will happen again. | increases; increases |
| Dogs being shocked will not try to escape | learned helplessness |
| A child who calls all four legged animals "doggies" is exhibiting | response generalization |
| You are absolutely terrified of dogs. Your behavior therapist is taking you to a kennel where you will be surrounded by 10 dogs. This therapeutic approach is known as | flooding |
| William's dad was a gardener. William often played in the yard where his dad worked. He now has his own home and prides himself for having the best garden on the block. Most likely ___ learning occurred during his childhood. | observational |
| Everyday you walk across campus, passing many buildings you never enter. When you are directed to an unfamiliar office, you know exactly where it is. | latent learning |
| Each of the following is a category of daydreams EXCEPT (negative, positive, primary, purposeful) | Primary |
| Amphetamines are | stimulants |
| In a dark theater to the bright outdoors | dark adaptation |
| Daydreaming, meditation, intoxication, sleep and hypnosis are all types of | altered states of consciousness |
| Alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates all have ____ effects | depressant |
| Light first enters the eye through the | cornea |
| Receptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision are | cones |
| Millie falls asleep after a long day. About an hour after she falls asleep, her eyes begin to move rapidly and her brain activity begins to resemble that of a waking adult. She is most likely entering what stage? | REM |
| The amount of time you spend in stage 4 sleep | lessens with age |
| Light moves through the eye in the following sequence | cornea, pupil, lens, retina |
| A student is asleep for 25 and cannot be woken up. He is in stage | 4 |
| The theory that we have three pairs of color receptors and that the members of each pair oppose each other is known as the ___ theory | opponent-process |
| What cells in the retina are primarily responsible for night vision as opposed to day vision? | rods |
| Night terrors usually occur in ____ sleep | non-REM |
| When we say that we are "conscious of" seeing something or hearing a sound, we are referring to consciousness as | sensory awareness |
| Tim can remember what he had for lunch yesterday. This is an example of | episodic memory |
| Explicit memory, also called ___ memory, can be clearly stated or explained. | declarative |
| General knowledge of history, algebra, and literature refers to ____ memory | semantic |
| Tracy plays tennis | implicit |
| The stages of info processing in memory are | encoding, storage, retrieval |
| this means maintaining info over time | storage |
| In the Atkinson and Skiffrin stages of memory, the progress of information through these stages | determines whether and how long information is retained |
| the stage of memory that first encounters stimuli is called | sensory |
| Memory traces of sounds | decay more slowly than those of visual stimuli |
| Freud | conscious, preconscious, subconscious |
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