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Barrons Psychology 1
practice test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| learned taste aversions generally result from | classical conditioning |
| what factor helps most to explain the increasing rate of obesity in the US over the last 100 years | the sedentary nature of modern jobs |
| the space between the dendrites of one neuron and the terminal buttons of another is the | synapse |
| tamil wants to see whether listening to mozart will improve students' performance on geometry exams. It is most important that her experimental group consists of | students randomly assigned to listen to mozart |
| which theory best explains why people skydive and bungee jump | arousal theory |
| dissociative identity disorder | having multiple personalities |
| who would say that a patient's anxiety is due to unresolved issues with his mother from his youth | psychoanalyst |
| what is the greatest number approached method used in the US | electric |
| if 3 people all take an intelligence test and scored poorly, the test may not be | valid |
| the easiest method to gather information about people's personality is | self-report inventories |
| daniel can tell that 5 pennies spread out are the same as 5 pennies in a pile. how old is he | 8 years |
| what part of the nervous system is most active in the exhaustion stage of Seyles GAS | parasympathetic |
| knowledge of how to tie a shoe and ride a bike is part of which part of the brain | cerebellum |
| Zach, wanting to teach his parents how to use a VCR, should use what type of enforcement | continuous |
| what is an example of an opiate | heroin |
| what structure is found in the middle of the ear | stirrup |
| which brain scan uses X Ray to examine the structure of the brain | CAT |
| prior to collecting data, researchers must seek approval from | an institutional review board |
| example of basic reaserch | a developmental pscyhologist explores how children's use of language changes as they age |
| an extra chromosome on the 21st pair is associated with | tay sachs disease |
| men grew larger and she walked closer to them is explained by | size consistancy |
| example of overgeneralization | dani goed to thé store |
| what theory suggests that using the term girls to refer to women might affect the way those people think about women | linguistic relativity hypotheseis |
| which early psychologists used introspection to study consciousness | Wilhelm Wundt |
| which type personality theorist would most likely be criticized for underestimating the impact of the environment | trait |
| before seeing a question on a test, it is pretested on a group of college students. they are the | standardization saple |
| which of the following is a somatoform disorder | hypochondriasis |
| Someone believes that poverty lies at the root of the most inner city clients' mental illness. This perspective is | social-cultural |
| during a nights sleep, an adult spends most of its time in stage | 2 |
| partial reinforcement effect | behaviors will be more resistant to extinction if they were reinforced intermittently |
| gay heterosexual men differ in | brain structure size |
| drawback of cross sectional reserach | differences betwee groups can be due to age or to cohort effects |
| ECT is just to treat | depression |
| what is true about memory | there is no one place in the brain where memories are stored |
| according to the contingency theory of classical conditioning | the strength of conditioning depends on the extent to which the CS reliably predicts the US |
| in Tolman's experience, latent learning was shown by | rats whose progress improved remarkably once a reward was introduced |
| red and yellow are opposites of | green and blue |
| bottom up processing helps us recognize | things we've never seen before |
| what part of the brain is most important in regulating an animal's sex drive | hypothalamus |
| a boy raises hand to answer a question. what part of the nervous system allowed him to do that | somatic |
| Which part of the brain is most important in regulating an animal's sex drive | hypothalamus |
| 5 year old olivia has never been outside of her neighborhood in NYC. walking home, she sees a cow standing in the middle of the field. to recognize the cow, olivia most likely had to rely on | bottom up processing |
| after staring at a paining of a red and yellow parrot in a birdcage for a full minute, saju looks at a white wall and will see what colors | green and blue |
| in tolman's experiment on latent learning, latent learning is shown by | rats whose progress improved markedly once a reward was introduced |
| according to the contingency theory of classical conditioning | the strength of conditioning depends on the extent to which the CS reliable predicts the US |
| true or false, there is one place in the brain where memory is stored | false |
| kelsey is an attractive 20 year old with many friends trying to make a name in Hollywood. She gets by with enough to support herself with small roles and commercials. she is striving to meet her | esteem |
| when a newborn baby is sleeping, which reflex will be elicited by a suede noise or touch | moro |
| kate, a newborn baby, probably most likes to look at | her own face |
| roscoe works for a nasty and abusive boss but tells everyone what a wonderful woman she is. Psychoanalysts would say that roscoe is using which defense mechanism | reaction formation |
| in a normal distribution, approximately what percentage of people's scores fall between the z scores of -2 and +2 | 95 |
| the typical age of onset for schizophrenia | young adulthood |
| research suggests that genetic and other biological factors play the greatest role in causing | bipolar disorder |
| Armand is the president of the local Nation Rile Association. He incorrectly believes that only a tiny, fringe element of Americans favor stronger gun control laws. his mistake is explained by | false consensus effect |
| a doctor helps her depressed patients where clients must engage in happy activities. what therapy is he using | rational emotive behavior therapy |
| milgram's obedience studies showed that | most people would obey an authority figure's order to harm a stranger |
| if artie always seems to act competitively, even in situations where others do not, people are likely to make what kind of attribution about the cause of Artie's competitiveness | person-stable |
| what is a main advantage of group therapy | financial burden |
| if Tom is a type a seeking for short term focused psychotherapy to make his lifestyle healthier, what kind of therapist would make him happiest | behaviorist |
| tutti hits her younger brother because she's angry at her mom is an example of what type of aggression | hostil aggression |
| Naturalist is a type of intelligence according to | Gardner |
| if someone rejects the big five model of personality because they believe that people are too different to describe them with a common set of traits, what kind of trait theory would he favor | idiographic |
| drinking alcohol will increase chances that the child will be | mental retarded |
| supporters of attachment argue that babies like to be held all the time is supporting | harlow |
| isabella fondly remembers the first time she went skydiving. This information is an example of | declarative memory |
| according to the james-lang theory of emotion | a specific psychological reaction to an event triggers the recognition of a specific emotion |
| a kitten learns to chase birds by copying its mother is an example of what kind of learning | observtional |
| melissa has learned to dig for earthworms only after it rains is an example of | discrimination |
| in a normal distribution | the mean, median, and mode are all equla |
| when a neuron initially depolarizes | sodium ions flow into the cell |
| the part of the brain most responsible for making decisions is the | prefrontal cortex |
| which of the following cognitive tendencies is most closely related to the probe of experimenter bias | confirmtion bias |
| as mobu walked to homeroom, he passed dozens of his classmates in the hallway. what they were wearing that day was briefly in Mobu's | iconic memory |
| tiger lilies appear orange because they | reflect orange light |
| your knowledge of who the first president of the US is is usually found in which level of your consciousness | preconscious |
| one possible explanation for group polarization is | diffusion of responsibility |
| which is typical of a positively skewed distribution | the mean is higher than the median |
| broca's area is usually located in which part of the cortex | left frontal lobe |
| hallucinations is a postivie symptom of | schizophrenia |
| Banu scored 130 on the WISC. what is his z score and approximately what percentile is he in | 2, 98 |
| karl is so consumer by his fears of sexaul inadequacy that he has not been on a date in over two years. to which of the following would a psychoanalyst be most likely to attribute to karl's problem | a phallic fixation |
| dr. soo is a psychiatrist who wants to prescribe a drug for one of her patients who is suffering from GAD. what is she most likely to prescribe | valium |
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