Psychology

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A basic experiment involves a minimum of ____ participant groups

2

What two neurotransmitters have roles in appetite suppression

dopamine and norepinephrine

Which of the following is a scientific way of determining facts

empirical studies

Diabetes is a ________ disorder because insulin is a ______

endocrine; hormone

Which of the following is not part of obtaining informed consent

explaining the hypothesis to the participants

Psychotropic medications are drugs that treat psychiatric symptoms by restoring ______ balance

neurotransmitter

A negative correlation means

one variable decreases as the other increases

Which of the following does not influence perception

Gestalt

What was the primary conclusion of Stanley Milgram's obediance research?

Average people will harm others if told to do so by an authoritive figure

Condition that disables you from feeling pain but you can still feel temperature and changes in pressure

Congenital analgesia

What area of psychology focuses on the emotional, social, vocational, and health-related ouctomes of individuals who are considered psychologically healthy?

Counseling psychology

What kind of psychological area does the work of Jean Piaget exemplify?

Developmental psychology

A series of dots arranged in the shape of a face will be percieved as a face, not a series of dots. A pyschologist studying this is applying the principles of

Gestalt psychology

What has research shown about processing subliminal messages

In labratory settings, people can process and respond to information outside of their awareness

Which of the following psychologists was a behaviorist

John Watson

_____ is the difference between hemispheres in the area underlying language functions

Lateralization

______ research studies the same groups of participants over time.

Longitudinal

The _______ is the deep groove that separates the brain into two halves

Longitudinal fissure

Which of the following is a feminist criticism of the science of psychology

Male bias exists in science

What were the names of the types of lines that Gestalt psychology asked people to name

Maluma and Takete

Who started the feminist revolution in psychology

Naomi Weisstein

If you show an adult a toy, and then hide it behind a curtain, the adult knows that the toy still exists. However, infants act as if a hidden object no longer exists. What does this exemplify?

Object Permanence

What kind of scan uses a tracer?

PET Scan

Edmund wants to identify relatively consistent patterns of thought and behavior, measure these traits, and determine how these traits interact in particular context to determine how a person will behave in any given situation. Edmund wants to conduct research in the field of _______

Personality

In developmental psychology, there is an increasing interest in researching cognitive changes that occur later in life. Why?

Populations of developed nations are living longer

_______ asserts that our genes set the boundaries within which we can operate, and our environment interacts with our genes to determine where within those boundaries we will fall

Range of reaction

Which of the following is false about sensation

Sensation refers to the way sensory information is organized, interperted, and conciously experimemt.

Which theorist published research related to the psychology of personality

Sigmund Freud

Which of the following is a reason that Gestalt psychology did not become more popular in the United States?

The rise of behaviorism overshadowed Gestalt psychology

Select the correctly ordered list of psychological theorists with the earliest theorist listed first

Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud, Noam Chomsky

In a study of mate preference differences between men and woman that spanned 37 cultures, Buss (1989) found that men value youthful appearance more than women. Why?

Youthful looks provide fertility clues

On a graph of a correlation coeffcient, points falling near to a straight sloped line indicate

a strong correlation

_____ is the electrical signal that typically moves from the cell body down the axon to the axon terminals

action potential

Which type of chemical messenger do the male gonads secrete

androgens

This disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye recieves

binocular

A major advantage of case studies is

detailed information

The scientific process is _______ involving both inductive and deductive reasoning

circular

Which photo receptor helps us to see color and brightness

cones

A _______ is a variable that affects both variables of interest and may falsely give the impression of a cause and effect relationship

confounding variable

The ______ varaible measures effects of the indpendent variable

dependent

Introspection refers to a process by which someone examines ________as objectively as possible

her own conscious experience

What is described by the concept of perception

how sensory information is interpreted and conciously expierenced.

What was the focus of the Swets signal detection theory

improving the sensitivity of air traffic controllers to plane blips

According to the biopsychosocial model, what determines health?

interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors

Hyperpolarization means that the _____

membrane potential becomes slightly more negative than the resting potential.

The ____ nervous system is responsible for stimulating digestion and causing the bladder to contract

parasympathetic

The concept of _____ refers to the way that sensory information interpreted and consciously experienced, ______ refers to what happens when sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor

perception; sensation

___ is a chemical message sent by an individual

pheromone

The ____ gland is often referred to as the "master gland"

pituitary

What is the master gland?

pituitary gland

Simply expecting something to happen can make it happen. This describes _______

placebo effect

The ___ connects the brain and the spinal cord

pons

Trephination

procedure where a large hole is created in the forehead so that evil spirits can escape

What is Abraham Maslow best known for

proposing a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior

What allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and hit a baseball without focusing on the bat

proprioception

Dr. Bogdarian applies the principles of ________ and hypothesizes the student misspeaks because he is unconsciously associating her with his mother.

psychoanalytic theory

Behaviorists focus on

psychological responses that result in action

Everything ______ is simultaneously _____

psychological; biological

Research describing a link between childhood vaccinations and autism has been

retracted due to a financial conflict of interest by the author

A _____ is a graphical view of the strength and direction of a correlation

scatterplot

What is a limitation that affects the generalizability of research results

small sample size

Behaviorism focuses on making psychology an objective science by __________

studying overt behavior and deemphasizing the importance of unobservable behavior

What is one task that a peer reviewer is not likely to participate in

suggesting magazines that may be interested in publishing the research

The somatosensory cortex is responsible for processing _____

temperature, touch, and pain

The auditory cortex is located in which lobe of the brain

temporal

The _____ of a neuron contain _____ that house neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers of the nervous system

terminal buttons; synaptic vesicles

Scientific knowledge is advanced through a process known as

the scientific method

_____ is a midbrain structure critical to movement

the ventral tegmental area

Cognitive psychology focuses on studying

thoughts and their relationship to our expierences and our actions

Many studies that cannot ethically be conducted as experiments with typical human participants are possible

to test with animal studies

Which of the following is an example of research someone might conduct in the area of health psychology

whether people working at a desk are more likely to be obese

The D.A.R.E program is an example of

why empirical research is needed


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