Final - First 50 Questions

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__________ are rules of thumb that help us simplify and solve problems

Heuristics

Eli is a school student. Her teacher's appreciation motivates her to study well

extrinsic rewards

Why we go clubbing and drink alcohol can best be explained by _____

stimulus motives

_________ includes problem-solving skills such as encoding information, combining and comparing bits of information, and generating a solution

Analytical intelligence

_____ are male sex hormones that masculinize the sex organs in the embryonic stage of prenatal development

Androgens

_________ is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems

Creativity

Clark Hull's drive-reduction theory states that:

humans learn to engage in behaviors that reduce a state of arousal

Identify a true statement about the heritability of intelligence

Being reared together is related with similarities in intelligence quotient

Alina thinks that she is overweight. She often indulges in binge eating and later forcibly vomits the food. Which eating disorder is Alina most likely suffering from?

Bulimia nervosa

_____ is defined by the ability to cope with novel situations and generate many possible solutions to problems

Creative intelligence

Identify a criticism about the linguistic-relativity hypothesis

Infants display considerable intelligence before they have learned to speak

__________ is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience

Intelligence

What is true of the evolutionary perspective of motivation

It states that instinctive behaviors are genetically transmitted

What is true of language

Language makes it possible for one person to communicate knowledge to another

In the context of motor development of children, what is true of activities like rolling over, sitting up, crawling, creeping, walking, and running?

Most infants engage in these activities in the same sequence

_____ is the application of regular grammatical rules for forming inflections to irregular verbs and nouns

Overregularization

In the context of hunger, what is true of human beings

Psychological factors play an important role in the human hunger drive

__________ is the turning of an infant's head toward a touch

Rooting

Which of the following is a characteristic of polygraphs, or lie detectors

Tense muscles will reduce their accuracy

The _____ groups test questions into a number of separate subtests where each subtest measures a different intellectual task

Wechsler scale

A(n) _____ is a systematic procedure for solving a problem that works invariably when it is correctly applied

algorithm

A(n)__________ rat is characterized by under eating

aphagic

The __________ is the division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates glands and activities such as heartbeat and respiration

autonomic nervous system

In the context of the theories of intelligence, __________ can solve problems to which there are no preexisting solutions and no proven formulas

creative people

In__________, the problem solver associates freely to the elements of the problem, allowing "leads" to run a nearly limitless course

divergent thinking

A researcher places a baby in a room with many different objects...

fixation time

In the context of factors that affect problem solving, _____ refers to the tendency to view an object in terms of its name or familiar usage

functional fixedness

A(n)__________ is a single word used by children to express complex meanings

holophrase

In Gestalt psychology,__________is a sudden perception of relationships among elements of the mentally represented elements of a problem that permits its solution

insight

Vinvac Inc. was established three years ago...

means-end analysis

Daniel, a six-year-old boy, takes an intelligence test...

mental age

A(n)__________is a state of deprivation

need

The height of sexual excitement involving involuntary muscle contractions and release of sexual tensions is termed__________

orgasm

In the context of problem solving, _____ involves dealing simultaneously with two or more elements of the problems

parallel processing

Cognitive theorists note that:

people represent their worlds mentally

According to Louis Thurstone, __________ are the eight specific factors that make up intelligence

primary mental abilities

The embryo is connected to the placenta by the_________

umbilical cord

The__________is a pea-sized structure in the brain that is involved in many aspects of motivation, including sex, aggression, and hunger

hypothalamus

A(n) _____ is a system of symbols along with rules that are used to manipulate the symbols

language

In psycholinguistic theory, the __________ is a neural "prewiring" that facilitates a child's learning of grammar

language acquisition device

Medical observations and classic research find that humans and nonhumans whose stomachs have been removed:

still regulate food intake

According to the representativeness heuristic, people make judgments about events according to:

the populations of events that they appear to depict

__________ is the quality of language that permits one to communicate information about objects and events in another time and place

Displacement

Identify a true statement about problem solving

Heuristics are often based on strategies that worked in the past

_____ is an example of a psychological need

Power

A pregnant woman visits her doctor for a scheduled ultrasound...

The fetal stage

In the context of the drive-reduction theory, what is true of acquired drives

They are developed through experience

According to Melissa Hines and her colleagues (2015), which of the following is true of human female embryos and fetuses who have been exposed prenatally to higher-than-typical concentrations of male sex hormones

They are more likely to demonstrate possible changes in gender identity

What is true of the hearing capability of newborns

They can hear well when they are born

What is true of communication by nonhumans

Although apes do not speak, they have been taught to use American Sign Language


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