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Question 1

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Psychologists use critical thinking and scientific investigation to achieve the goals of describing, explaining, ____________________, and ____________________ human behavior.
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  • manipulating; preserving
  • diagnosing; prescribing
  • perfecting; curing
  • predicting; controlling

Question 2

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When current knowledge about an individual and his or her environment can be used to accurately forecast behavior at another time or in another setting, the scientific goal of _______________ has been achieved.
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  • understanding
  • control
  • prediction
  • description

Question 3

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Which question below relates most directly to the goal of controlling behavior?
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  • Does depth perception occur when an individual has only one eye?
  • Why does a blow to the head cause memory loss?
  • Do men and women differ in intellectual abilities?
  • How can test anxiety be prevented?

Question 4

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Of the following, who used introspection as a scientific technique for investigating consciousness?
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  • B.F. Skinner
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • John Watson
  • Wilhelm Wundt

Question 5

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The idea that threatening thoughts are sometimes repressed would be of most interest to a
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  • Psychoanalyst
  • Structuralist
  • Gestaltist
  • Humanist

Question 6

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You see a psychologist and tell her that you are feeling depressed. She talks to you about the goals you have for yourself, about your image of yourself, and about the choices that you can make in your life so that you can realize your potential. This psychologist would probably belong to the _____________ school of psychology.
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  • Behavioristic
  • Gestalt
  • Psychodynamic
  • Humanistic

Question 7

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In an experiment to find out if taking vitamins increases IQ scores, the IQ scores would be
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  • The independent variable
  • An extraneous variable
  • The dependent variable
  • A control variable

Question 8

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Which of the following groups serves as a point of reference for a comparison of results in an experiment?
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  • Experimental group
  • Control group
  • Dependent Group
  • Independent Group

Question 9

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One disadvantage of naturalistic observation is that
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  • It can only be done properly in the laboratory
  • It does not meet the goal of accurately describing behavior in research
  • Observer effects and observer bias can be problems
  • It provides little information for the effort involved

Question 10

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You want to find out what relationship exists between high school grades and college grades. You should use the __________ research method.
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  • Correlational
  • Survey
  • Clinical
  • Experimental

Question 11

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Acts as a bridge between the medulla an other structures and influences sleep and arousal
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  • Pons
  • Frontal Lobe
  • Thalamus
  • Hypothalamus

Question 12

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This is the area of the brain that stores the lasting verbal memories and helps us navigate through space.
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  • Thalamus
  • Hippocampus
  • Pons
  • Medulla

Question 13

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The reflex control centers for vital life functions like heart rate and breathing are found here.
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  • Hypothalamus
  • Amygdala
  • Thalamus
  • Medulla

Question 14

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This area of the brain is associated with fear response , therefore may also be activated during the fight or flight response and can also be associated with anger or disgust.
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  • Amygdala
  • Cerebellum
  • Parietal lobe
  • Frontal lobe

Question 15

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Associated with higher mental abilities and plays a role in your sense of self.
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  • Frontal lobe
  • Thalamus
  • Hippocampus
  • Pons

Question 16

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This brain structure is part of the forebrain and acts as a relay to sort and send sensory information to the cerebral cortex.
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  • Frontal lobe
  • Thalamus
  • Pons
  • Hippocampus

Question 17

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The last place where many behaviors are organized or "decided on" before messages leave the brain and affects behaviors as diverse as sex, rage, emotion, and hunger
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  • Hypothalamus
  • Medulla
  • Amygdala
  • Cerebellum

Question 18

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Muscle tone, body balance, and muscular coordinate are regulated by this area of the brain.
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  • Cerebellum
  • Temporal lobe
  • Amygdala
  • Broca's Area

Question 19

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Associated with sensations included touch, temperature, and pressure.
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  • Parietal lobe
  • Occipital Lobe
  • Temporal Lobe
  • Amygdala

Question 20

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Areas of the cortex that include the sites where hearing registers in the brain.
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  • Temporal lobe.
  • Occipital Lobe
  • Parietal lobe
  • Amygdala

Question 21

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Portion of the cerebral cortex where vision is registered.
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  • Occipital Lobe
  • Temporal Lobe
  • Parietal lobe
  • Cerebellum

Question 22

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An area of the brain that is related to grammar and punctuation.
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  • Broca's Area
  • Occipital Lobe
  • Temporal Lobe
  • Amygdala

Question 23

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The chemicals that are released at an axon terminal and can either excite or inhibit other neurons are called.
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  • nuerotransmitters
  • synapses
  • synaptic vesicles
  • neurilemmas

Question 24

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After rushing to catch the bus, when you find a seat and begin to relax, the return to your normal heart rate is under the influence of the
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  • somatic nervous system
  • sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system
  • parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system
  • central nervous system

Question 25

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In response to experience, new synapses form between neurons, and other connections grow stronger. These changes in the brain due to experience illustrate the brain's
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  • resiliency.
  • neuroplasticity.
  • saltatory conduction.
  • neurogensis.

Question 26

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When you see an attractive person sit down next to you on the bus, the mad pounding of your hear is under the influence of the
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  • autonomic nervous system.
  • diathesis nervous system.
  • central nervous system.
  • somatic nervous system.

Question 27

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Anna is reading her psychology text. The activation of receptors in her retina is called _____. Her interpretation of the stimuli as particular words is called _____.
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  • sensation; sensation
  • perception; perception
  • sensation; perception
  • perception; sensation

Question 28

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Which sentence expresses data-based processing?
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  • People see what is in front of them.
  • None of these express data-based processing.
  • People see what they want to see.
  • People see what they expect to see.

Question 29

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It's so noisy! How can you stand it?" remarks Caitlyn as highway traffic screams past her friend Dave's ground-floor apartment. "I don't even notice it anymore," Dave replies. This exchange BEST exemplifies the psychophysical concept of:
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  • accommodation.
  • adjustment.
  • attenuation.
  • adaptation.

Question 30

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According to the textbook, the average person can see _____ colors.
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  • over 2,000,000
  • just over 200,000
  • about 10,000
  • nearly 1,000

Question 31

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Rod is to cone as _____ is to _____.
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  • more numerous; less numerous
  • bright light; dim light
  • fovea; outside the fovea
  • color; black-and-white

Question 32

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Visual feature detectors are found in the _____ lobe.
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  • temporal
  • frontal
  • occipital
  • parietal

Question 33

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Trichromatic theory is to opponent-process theory as _____ is to _____.
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  • Hering; von Helmholtz
  • thalamus; retina
  • red, blue, green, yellow; red, blue, green
  • color deficiency; afterimages

Question 34

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Making an analogy between hearing and vision, the auditory hair cells in the ______ are similar to the ______ in the ______.
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  • cochlea; rods and cones; retina
  • cochlea; ganglion cells; retina
  • eardrum; rods and cones; retina
  • eardrum; ganglion cells; retina

Question 35

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Examining his doctor's handwriting on the prescription slip, Ben completes the gaps in some of the lower-case letters to perceive an a and an o rather than two u's. This example illustrates the Gestalt principle of:
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  • continuity.
  • similarity.
  • closure.
  • proximity.

Question 36

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Which Gestalt principle is correctly defined?
Answer
  • similarity – Small gaps in objects are filled in.
  • closure – Stimuli moving in the same direction are perceived as group.
  • proximity – Stimuli near to one another tend to be grouped together.
  • continuity – Stimuli resembling one another tend to be grouped together.

Question 37

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The term "consciousness" refers to:
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  • the ability to respond to the environment.
  • one's awareness of oneself and the environment.
  • higher-level reasoning and problem solving.
  • the state of being awake.

Question 38

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Long-distance running, listening to music, sleep, and daydreaming are just some of the everyday ways that produce
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  • preconsciousness.
  • stimulated information processing.
  • altered states of consciousness.
  • sensory enhancement.

Question 39

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While reading a friend's status update on a social networking site, Cory ignores the scrolling newsfeed and the changing advertisements on the right-hand side of the screen. Cory is demonstrating:
Answer
  • the cocktail-party effect.
  • sensory adaptation.
  • inattentional blindness.
  • selective attention.

Question 40

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Most symptoms of sleep deprivation
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  • can be prevented by consuming caffeine.
  • are reversed by a single night's rest.
  • are irreversible.
  • require a long period of bed rest for recovery.

Question 41

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The ordering and duration of daily sleep and waking periods are known as
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  • meridian rhythms.
  • sleep patterns.
  • REM cycles.
  • sleep stages.

Question 42

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Establishing a regular sleep schedule, eliminating caffeine, and treating depression (if present) is designed to combat _____________ insomnia.
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  • drug-dependency
  • temporary
  • chronic
  • somatic

Question 43

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Warren's eyes are moving rapidly behind the lids. His legs and arms are paralyzed. Warren is showing signs of:
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  • sleep terrors.
  • cataplexy.
  • sleep spindles.
  • REM sleep.

Question 44

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Sigmund Freud is associated with the _____ theory of dreams.
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  • wish fulfillment
  • activation-synthesis
  • neurocognitive
  • consolidation

Question 45

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Drug use can be fueled by dependence. ________________ dependence means the body no longer functions normally with the drug, and one sign of this type of dependence is ________________, as indicated by the symptoms that occur when the drug is withheld.
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  • Physiological; substance abuse
  • Physiological; withdrawal
  • Psychological; tolerance
  • Psychological; withdrawal

Question 46

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__________________ such as caffeine, alcohol, and hallucinogens can cause changes in psychological activities, for example, sensation, perception, attention, and judgement.
Answer
  • Psychoactive drugs
  • Depressants
  • Stimulants
  • Tranquilizers
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