Midterm

The zygote attaches to the uterine wall of the pregnant mother __________ after conception

5 days

Brenda wants to improve her biology grades. This means she needs to improve her memory of the material covered in class. Which of the following is not something she can do to improve her memory?

Maximize

Fantastic images resembling hallucinations occur with the onset of

NREM-1 sleep

The person most likely to suggest the shape of a persons skull indicated the extent to which that individual is argumentative and aggressive would be a

Phrenologist

Dr. Salvia is studying how happiness in late adulthood relates to a persons social network and social connectedness. Her approach is called

Positive Psychology

Magnetic resonance imitating uses magnetic fields and ______ to produce computer-generated images of soft tissue

Radio Waves

The last three steps of SQ3R are

Read Retrieve Review

Some researchers believe that reward deficiency syndrome contributes to

Substance Use Disorders

meta-analysis is

a statistical technique that averages the results of two or more studies to see if the effect of an independent variable is reliable

Severing a cat's reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to

lapse into a coma

As Inge recalled her dream, she was dancing with a tall, dark gentleman when suddenly the music shifted to loud rock and the man disappeared. According to Freud, Inge's account represents the ________ content of her dream.

manifest

Stereotypes are mental conceptions that can strongly influence the way we interpret the behaviors of individuals belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups. A stereotype is most similar to a:

perceptual set

Normal visual sensation in the absence of complete visual perception is best illustrated by

prosopagnosia

Which of the following is most useful for helping survey researchers avoid false generalizations?

random sampling

As the retinal image of a horse galloping toward you becomes larger, it is unlikely that the horse will appear to grow larger. This best illustrates the importance of

size constancy

Two divisions of the peripheral nervous system

somatic and autonomic

Which part of your brain is essential for receiving information that you are moving your legs

somatosensory cortex

After his last drinking spree, Fakim hid a half-empty liquor bottle. He couldn't remember where he hid it until he started drinking again. Fakim's pattern of recall best illustrates

state-dependent memory

Under certain conditions, people affected by stimuli so weak they fail to consciously notice them. This is best illustrates by experiments involving

subliminal priming

Pat is normally very restless and fidgety, whereas Shelley is usually quiet and easygoing. The two children most clearly differ in

temperament

After he was slammed on several occasions for spilling his milk at a restaurants, Colin became afraid to go to the restaurant. In this case spanking was a(n)

US

Children who have survived severe or prolonged physical abuse or wartime atrocities, for example, are at an increased risk for

all of the abobe

As men advance through middle adulthood they experience a gradual decline in

all of these things

in classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus signals the impending occurrence of

an unconditioned stimulus

People fail to learn a conditioned eyeblink response when the function of different pathways in their ________ is surgically disrupted.

cerebellum

Dawn is visiting an art museum and is admiring all of the beautiful paintings on the wall. Which of the following helps give rise to the color sensations that Dawn sees in the paintings?

cones

Citing a recent report stating that "Eighty percent of prisoners in the United States were spanked as children" to support the idea that corporal punishments during childhood leads to criminal behavior is adulthood is problematic because

correlation does not prove causation

The fetus is the

developing organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

A large amount of our mental activity occurs outside our awareness thanks to our capacity for

dual processing

Brenda is 29 years old. She recently graduated from college and now has a full time job and lives independently. She is in the _______ years.

early adulthood

Mallory a single 23-year-old, has moved back into his parents house after graduating from college so that he can afforded to pursue a full time graduate school program in business administration. His situation best illustrates a life phase called

emerging adulthood

The motor cortex is located in the _______ lobes

frontal

Young teens are not fully equipped for curbing risky behavior or making long-term plans because of the incomplete maturation of their

frontal lobes

The risk of being color deficient is greater for men than for women. This best illustrates an important

gender difference

which of the following poses the greatest threat to the credibility of children's recollection of sexual abuse

misinformation effect

Neuron-produced chemicals that carry messages to other neurons or to muscles and glands are called

neurotransmitter

Erikson suggested that adolescents who simply take their parents values or conform to their parents expectations have failed to work on

refining their sense of identity

After being asked to remember three consonants, participants in a study by Peterson and Peterson counted aloud backward by threes to prevent

rehearsal

A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as

repression

In 2009, two Northwest Airline pilots overflow their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles because they were focused on their laptops and in conversation. They also ignored air traffic controllers' attempt to reach them. What may have explained this potentially dangerous error?

selective attention

Inattentional blindness is best described as. a by-product of

selective attention

The principles of continuity and closure best illustrates that

sensations are organized into meaningful patterns.

Alex learned how to make 3-point basketball shots by successfully making very short shots before shooting from increasingly longer distances from the hoop. This learning strategy best illustrates the process of

shaping

The experience of emotionally stressful events is especially likely to promote

tunnel vision memory

Which of the following is true regarding memory?

young adults