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A research design involves two randomely assigned groups of participants. One group recieves a one time treatment. The other group does not. Later, the two groups are compared to see whether the treatment had an effect. Psychologists call this kind of research:

An experiment

According to Freudian theory, the component of the personality that is "blind, impulsive, and irrational" is the:

Id

Rafael had a sleep disorder for which he takes medically prescribed amphetamines. Which sleep disorder does Rafael have to be treated for?

Narcolepsy

A stubborn individual who accuses peers of being uncooperative is exhibiting which of the following defense mechanisms?

Projection

Which of the following is the correct sequence of the neural chain of events set in motion by an environmental stimulus?

Receptors, afferent neurons, interneurons, efferent neurons, effectors

The rationale underlying the use of projective personality tests, such as the Rorschach test and the thematic apperception test, is that they

Reveal the subjects personalities by eliciting responses to vague, ambiguous stimuli

When a newborn infant is touched on the cheek, the infant will turn its head toward the source of stimulation. This behavior is know as:

Rooting

On individual intelligence tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Weschsler scales, an IQ of 100 indicates that the test taker:

Scored at the average level for test takers at the same age.

Which of the following most accurately describes a dependent variable?

Some aspect of a participant's response that is measured in an experiment.

For extinction to occur, which of the following must be true of the conditioned response, the conditioned stimulus, and the unconditioned stimulus?

The conditioned response is repeatedly presented in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus, and the ocnditioned response loses strength

Extinction

The diminishing of a conditioned response

Harry Harlow's experiments with rhesus monkeys suggest ehich of the following is most important for infants when establishing an attachment to their mothers?

The tactile charicteristics of the mother

An instructor conducted an experiment to determine the effects of two different methods of study on the amount students learned in introductory psychics. The results showed that the average amount learned by the group using the other. However, the difference was not statistically significant. Which of the following is the most appropriate conclusion to be drawn?

There is a possibility that the difference between the two groups occurred by chance.

The correlation between scores obtained on two halves of a single test yields information about the test's:

Validity

Which of the following is a partial reinforcement schedule that is most resistant to extinction?

Variable ratio

CT

a series of XRAY photos from varying angles to show a slice of ones brain structure

nicotine

a stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug.

An individual who drinks alcohol daily finds it necessary to drink increasing amounts to achieve the state of well being attained in the past. This individual is showing:

alcohol tolerance

EEG

an amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity sweeping across the brain's surface

A technique that enables a person to control physiological responses that are normally involuntary, such as level of blood pressure, is known as:

biofeedback

brocas area

bro-can-you speak? language expression

The minnesota multiphasic personality inventory is used primarily to provide information about which of the following?

clinical disorders

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured." This belief is best explained by:

cognitive dissonance theory

Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer view emotion as resulting from:

cognitive labels of psychological changes

Robert Rescorla's contingency model of classical conditioning states that:

conditioning occurs only when one event reliably predicts another.

All of the following are reasons for requiring standardized tests, EXCEPT to:

decrease the amount of time needed to administer the test

Community psychologists intervene at the primary level when they:

design prevention programs for potential problems before the problems actually occur

Carol Gilligans critique of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development focuses primarily on:

differences between males and females in the course of moral development.

PET

display of radioactive form of glucose

Barbiturates

drugs that depress central nervous system activity

amphetamines

drugs that stimulate neural activity; causing sped up body functions and associated energy and mood changes

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the need to have respect for ourselves and to be valued by others is classified within the category of:

esteem needs

stimulants

excite the bodies nervous system

FPOT

frontal;parietal;occipital;temporal

Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that help solve problems and reduce mental effort are called:

heuristics

aphasia

impairment of language

Humanistic psychologists believe that the drive toward self actualization is:

innate

super ego

internalized ideals

In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks group B to focus on the meaning of each word for the later memory quiz. During a recall test patricipats in group B recall significantly more than those in group A. Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in:

levels of processing

EGO

makes peace between Id and superego

David Hubel and Torsten Weisel's research on responses of the brain to visual stimuli showed that:

many cortical cells respond most strongly to specific visual information

opiates

opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; temporarily depress neural activity

Freud's psychosexual stages

oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

To score high on a test of creativity, a person's answers should be

original and valuable

MMPI (minnesota multiphasic personality inventory)

originally developed to identify emotional disorders

Which of the following provides information regarding brain function by the monitoring the brain at work through metabolism of glucose?

positron emisson tomography (PET)

Alfred Binet's efforts to measure intelligence were directed at:

predicting childrens success in school

In studying the behavior of five year olds in free play situations, a cognitive psychologist would be most interested in the childrens:

problem-solving strategies

Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as:

procedural

fMRI

reveals blood flow and brain activity

A student's test score of 86 is at the 42nd percentile. This means that this student has:

scored the same as or higher than 58 percent of her fellow students

Which part of the nervous system is most immediately activated by sudden fear?

self-determination

MRI

shows brain anatomy; and images of soft tissue

developmental research on the formation of attachment indicates that a childs secure attachment to its mother during infancy is predictive of which of the following during its toddler years?

social competence

Training in the construction of an anxiety hierarchy and in relaxation techniques is likely to be a part of the treatment for which of the following?

specific phobia

ID

unconscious mind

Rational-emotive behavior therapy assumes that abnormal functioning results from which of the following?

unreasonable beliefs or assumptions

Wernickes area

what in the wernickes were you talking about? language comprehension

Which of the following would an industrial-organizational psychologists be LEAST likely to study?

Corporate profitability

photoreceptors relay visual information to the brain through which of the following cells?

Bipolar and Ganglion

Brain damage that leaves a person capable of understanding speech but with an impaired ability to produce speech most likely indicates injure to which of the following?

Broca's area