Midterm Pysch 101 Review

If someone stepped on your toes, resulting in pain in the movement of your foot, which of the following describes this process?

Affrent neurons transmit the sensation of pain to the spinal cord into the brain followed by efferent neurons sending the message to your foot to move.

The normal human ear can hear sounds varying in frequency from ____ to ____ cycles per second (hz)

20-20,000

A neuron can fire up to a limit of about ____ times per second.

400

What's best illustrates operant conditioning according to Skinner

A dolphin is given a fish every time it jumps through a hoop.

What conclusion may be drawn about problem-solving from Maier's studies with Bismarck

A rat has demonstrated insight under laboratory conditions

Benson found that medication leads to

A relaxation response

Messages travel within neurons by means of ___________ and from neuron to neuron by means of ___________.

Electricity, neurotransmitters

Which of the following colors is longest in wave length?

Red

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of

behavior and mental processes

Because an odor can mask another, people use

All of the above: air freshener, perfume, incense burners

While attempting to identify neural receptors that trigger salivary gland's, Pavlov inadvertently found that responses can be learned through

Association

When Charlotte hear something embarrassing she blushes. Being a student of psychology, she knows that this condition is controlled by the

Autonomic nervous system

Allegra is said to have hypnotic suggestibility. She is likely to

Be prone to fantasy

Which of the following are children most likely to outgrow?

Bed wetting

Johnny was tormented in the schoolyard every day by a moly with bright red frizzy hair. One day Johnny's father brought his boss, Mr. Dale, home. The boss had bright, red frizzy hair, and Johnny rand was room, crying. Mr. Dale's hair function as a ____, and Johnny's fear was a ____

CS; CR

Breaking THUNSTOFAM into three syllables THUN-STO-FAM and then repeating the many times in an effort to remember the letters is an example of using the technique of

Chunking and maintenance rehearsal.

Jamie's mother was concerned that her four-year-old daughter over regular as pearls and tenses. She took Jamie to Dr. Action, I know the learning theorist, who advised her to

Correct her grammar through imitation and repetition

The ability to do things that are unique and beneficial into generate now combinations out of existing elements describes

Creativity

dizygotic twins

Develop when two ova are fertilized

The notion that animals that are most at risk from predators sleep less is taken from which of the following perspectives?

Evolutionary

Spider zebras learn to stop going to a particular waterhole after approaching it several times and finding that it is dry. However, after a month or two passes, they may return to the waterhole. Learning to stop going to the water hole because it is dry, but then returning to it after time passes, is an example of _____ followed by _____.

Extinction, spontaneous recovery

______ are the most basic building blocks of hereditary.

Genes

What distinguished William Wundt's contribution from other contributions to psychology

He established psychology as a laboratory science

Algorithms are usually time-consuming, where as____provide a more rapid solution when they work

Heuristics

Eight-year-old Stephanie understands that her dog poodles as a dog and that all dogs are animals. Stephanie's concept of animal is best characterized as

Hierarchical

When Clay joined AA in order to stop drinking, he received a pamphlet that described the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. These included

High blood pressure and rapid pulse, restlessness and tremors, anxiety and weakness: (all of the above)

Which of the following statements is correct concerning brain waves and sleep cycle?

High frequency brain waves are associated with being awake

School psychologists employed by districts to

Identify and assist students who have problems that interfere with their learning

Wernicke's aphasia causes

Impairment of one's ability to comprehend speech and to think of the proper words to express their own thoughts.

Tracy took tennis lessons when she was very young but had no experience playing tennis for years when she decided to enroll in a tennis class at college. After your moment she picked up her racket, she realized the spread is that she had shifted it to the correct forehand grip without even thinking. Tracys___memory made this possible.

Implicit

A diadvantage of survey research is ______. For example, people tend to over eat behaviors like church attendance and proper hygiene.

Inaccurate self-report

Wanna behavior is followed by negative reinforcement, the behavior is likely to

Increase

Johnny watches television violence for an hour or two a day, but he is not violent outside of the home. Then one day Billy attacked him on the way home from school, and Johnny imitates the behavior he saw from television to fight Billy off and teach Billy never to attack him again. Although Johnny had not shown violent behavior until he was attacked, we can assume that when watching television, he was engaging in

Latent learning

According to behaviorallists, _____ is a relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior that occurs because of experience.

Learning

Which of the following accommodates to an image by changing thickness and focusing light onto the retina?

Lens

The first female president of the American psychological Association was

Mary Whiton Calkins

What is not involved in explaining the perception of pitch?

Opponent-process theory

Hamilton told himself to remember to get three things at the corner deli. On the way to the store, he ran into Jason and chatted for a few minutes. Afterword, he could only remember two of the items. Chatting with Jason had apparently interferedwith Hamiltons

Prospective memory

The Gesalt rule describing the perceptual tendency to see objects that are near each other as belonging to a set is termed _____; While the tendency to see like objects as belonging together is termed _____.

Proximity and similarity

The school of psychology that place is unconscious impulses and desires at the center of human behavior is

Psycho analysis

Which of the following is most likely to be prescribed to use with hyperactive children?

Ritalin

The following are considered to be basic taste, with the exception of

Savory

You recall what you ate for breakfast this morning, but you know who wrote Hamlet. Your knowledge that Shakespeare wrote hamlet is an example

Semantic memory

True language is distinguish from the communication systems of lower animals by all of the following except

Semanticity

When reading the sentences, " The chicken is ready for dinner," and "the lion is ready for dinner," if you understand which is ready to eat and which is ready to be eaten, you are using the phrase is ready to eat with different___in each case

Semanticity

When we say that we are Conscience of seeing some thing or hearing a sound, we are referring to a consciousness as

Sensory awareness

An axon's length can range from a few millimeters to

Several feet

Professor Fournier gives a quiz every Monday. His students would then tend to ____ because they are on a ____ schedule of reinforcement.

Study on Sunday nights; fixed interval

Elise is a college student who has developed a tolerance to heroin and experiences W/D symptoms whenever she doesn't have a fix at least every eight hours. She feels that she has lost control and Hass to organize her life around her have it. She would be classified as having

Substance dependence

An editor gets so upset that she is late in working on a manuscript that she throws up her lunch. This probably occurred because of activity in the

Sympathetic division of her autonomic nervous system

The sensory receptors for kinesthesis are located in the

Tendons, muscles, and joints

Dr. Liu was in testing the facts of violent television on six Dash year - all children. She showed one group and particularly violent episode of Power Rangers in another group watched a short nonviolent episode of an old Sesame Street. She then observe the groups in the playground and measured their behaviors. What is the dependent variable in the study?

The behavior on the playground

You design a test of intelligence. On the theory that intelligence is related to academic performance, you use______ to test the relationship between performance on your new test and grades in school.

The correlation method

Most psychologist do not believe in extra sensory perception because

There is no evidence to support the existence of extrasensory perception.

According to the text, Janet Hyde and her colleagues studied the performance of some 7 million children in second through eleventh grades in mathematics and found that

There were no overall gender differences in scores

Ellen loses weight and becomes somewhat agitated. Her doctor is most likely to theorize that she is suffering from a deficiency of

Thyroxin

Ever met Leslie at a party three weeks ago. He bumped center her on the way to class. He feels as though he knows her name but just can't retrieve the information. This experience is referred to as

Tip of the tongue phenomenon

Slot machines to keep gamblers playing by using a_____ schedule of reinforcement.

Variable ratio

If you learn how to do something once, then you forget it, what is most likely to happen if you would attempt to relearn it?

You will relearn it more quickly than you originally learned it

The most popular drug on college campuses is

alcohol

According to Robert Sternberg, the three types of intelligence are

analytical, creative, practical

Roberto kept seeing signs on the highway advertising Pizza Hut. He started to salivate at the possibility of having a pizza. The signs were

conditioned stimuli

From the clinical evidence on brain injury, it appears that storage bins for long-term memories are located in...

different brain areas

One plausible explanation of the incubation effect is

distancing problem solvers from persistent but unproductive mental sets

The process of modifying information so that we can place it in memory is called

encoding

Remembering what you had for dinner is an example of ____ memory

episodic

A(n) _____ is a specific statement about behavior or mental processes that is tested through research.

hypothesis

Mentally repeating a list or saying it to yourself refers to

maintenance rehearsal

In a ______, each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected to participate.

random sample

_____ is to mechanical stimulation as perception is to mental representation.

sensation