semester final

typically in classical conditioning, can associate is made between two stimuli that occur very close together."An important exception to this rule is

Shaping

in a recent car accident, Tony sustained damage to his right cerebral hemisphere. This injury is most likely to reduce his ability to

facially express emotions

when Sarah's children ask to have extra screen time, she will often say"no" until after they have asked somewhere between three and centimes. At that point, she says yes and they get to play, while she gets some time in a quiet home. In this scenario, Sarah is being reinforced on what schedule?

fixed ratio schedule

fifteen year old Julie was asked "what would happen if everyone in the world suddenly went blind?'she responded,"those who had previously been blind would become leader" Julie answer indicates she is in Piaget's ____stage of development

formal operational

as a summer job, you organize demonstrations for camp grounds at the zoo. When counting to see how many group have arrived, you assumed that children wearing the same color t shirts are in the same group. This reflects the ______principle of _______

gestalt; similarity

unconscious information processing is more likely than conscious information processing to

occur simultaneously among many parallel tracks

which of the following is most likely correlation coefficient to describe relationship between hours of studying and GPA

.6

importance of inherited traits was most emphasized by

Charles Darwin

victor struggles in his algebra classes because he is unable to think abstractly or engage in symbolic logic. He can, however see that division is an opposite form of multiplication and add or subtract fractions in a visual way. Victor is most like in which stage of cognitive development?

Concrete operational

Sara is 10 years old and her grandparents, Lisa is 70 years old. What is likely true of their sleep patterns

Lisa sleeps fewer hours per day

When Jane viewed a dead bumble bee closely her brain could see it in three dimensions because her two eyes say slightly different impressions that her brain integrated. She utilized the _______ depth cue _______.

binocular; retinal disparity

as the soccer game continues into the night, Gerry noticed that he was having difficulty distinguishing the colors of the players' uniforms. This is because the ______, which enable color vision, have a ______absolute threshold for brightness that the available light intensity

cones;higher (cones have higher threshold, rods have lower threshold)

a person born blind but with recovered sight will have trouble with which of the following tasks

determining the distance of cars perceived as small

Drawing a random sample of people from a town for an interview study of social attitudes ensures that

each person has same probability of being chosen for the study

Innovation and creativity are most likely to be appreciated in a culture characterized by:

individualism

a split brain patient sees a cat in her right visual field and a mouse in her left visual file. She will be able to use her

left hand to indicate she saw a mouse

experimental research differs from correlation research in that experimental research

may reveal a cause relation

a neuron typically cannot fire again immediately after it has fired because

neurotransmitters take time to travel across synaptic gap to the dendrites of the receiving neuron

two different principles in conditioning that use successive approximations are

shaping and systematic desensitization

during adulthood, there is a general decline In the proportion of

slow wave sleep

a test with normally distributed results was returned to a class of 100 students. Later the teacher realized an error was made and added 10 points to each student's score. Which must have changed as a result of an increase in scores

the mode

which of the following is not an advantage of a cross sectional study over longitudinal study

there are fewer cohort effects-changes due to unique circumstances of one group or another

forty year old fred insists that he never dreams. Research would suggest fred

would report a vivid dream if woken during rem