Psych 101 final study guide Quiz 1-2
Which of the following psychologists might treat psychology ill offenders, consult with attorneys on matters such as picking a jury and analyze offender's behavior and mental processes
*Forensic psychologist
Willhelm Wundt used ——— to try to discover the basic element of experience.
*Introspection
——— Is the founder of behavioralism.
*John B. Watson
The ——— Is the part of the nervous system that is involved with sensory and motor neurons
*Peripheral nervous system
During the embryonic stage of prenatal development, the ———.
*The sex organs start to form.
The ——— Lies below the Hypothalamus and is dubbed the "master gland "
*pituitary Glad
The most dramatic gains in height and weight occur during ———.
*prenatal development
True or False According to the ethical guidelines of American psychology Association, animals cannot be harmed under any circumstances while conducting research.
False
True or False At the postconventional level of adolescence, moral judgments are derived from authority figures
False
True or False Correlations allow us to determine casuality
False
True or False Gestalt psychologists claimed That one cannot explain human perceptions, emotions, or thought processes in terms of basic units
False
True or False Girls can become pregnant immediately after menarche.
False
True or False In a study conducted to test the effect of medicine, one group of participants is given The medicine while another group is not that later would be consisted an experimental group.
False
True or False Prior to six months of age, infants realize that objects removed from site still exist and try and find them. They show object permanence, Which makes it possible to play peekaboo.
False
True or False The thyroid gland secretes melatonin
False
True or False You would not show any instinctive behaviors if you were born and raise separately from others in your family and/or Species.
False
True or False Structuralists emphasize the tendency to organize perceptions into holes and to integrate separate stimuli and meaningful patterns
False
True or False Structuralists tend to ask, "How do behavior and mental processes help people adapt to their requirements of their lives? "
False
True or false John B. Watson developed the social cognitive perspective, arguing for the influence of social factors over cognition
False
True or false A sample consists of multiple populations.
False
True or false Sociocultural psychologists study those things we refer to as the mind
False
True or false According to structuralists, Maladaptive behavior patterns tend to drop out, and only the fittest behavior pattern.
False
Which of the following is true of functionalism?
It looks at how habits help one cope with common situations.
True or False By the end of the first trimester a fetal development during pregnancy blank formation of all major organ systems is complete.
True
True or False It is normal for adolescents to see themselves as the center of attention and assume that Other people are also preoccupied with their appearance and behavior. This is termed an imaginary audience.
True
True or False People are at the height of their cognitive powers during early adulthood.
True
True or False The beginning of menstruation, or menarche, usually occurs between 11 and 12.
True
True or False The left hemisphere of the brain is relatively more involved in tasks that require logic and problem-solving than the right hemisphere
True
True or False When children reared by adoptive parents are more similar to their natural parents in a particular trait, strong evidence exists for a genetic role in the development of that trait
True
True or false As opposed to a dependent variable, and independent variable is manipulated by the Experimenters so that it affects may be determined
True
True or false Psychology seeks to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior and mental processes
True
True or false Psycho analyst is the name of the theory of personality developed by Sigmund Freud
True
——— Intensifies most emotions and is central to the experience of fear and anxiety
* Epinephrine
Which of the following is the correct order of prenatal development
* Germinal stage, embryonic stage, fetal stage
Rallo is one of the best football players in newborn warriors. However, his Stamina has been reducing and he has been unable to sustain an entire game due to his habit of smoking cigarettes. In order to improve his performance Ralo is most likely to consult ———?
* Health psychologist
Which of the following techniques rely on subtle shift and blood flow to create a brain scan
* Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI)
——— Is produced largely by neurons in the brain stem and ask both as a neurotransmitter and as a hormone.
* Norepinephrine
Which of the following statements is true of the experimental method of research?
* The experimental method allows psychologists to control the experiences of participants and draw conclusions about cause-and-effect. .
Which of the following statements is true of a neural impulse
* The process by which a neural impulse travels is electrochemical.
Which of the following is a similarity between adolescence and emerging adult hood?
* both are ages of feeling in between .
A(n) ——— Expresses the strength and direction ( positive or negative) of the relationship between two variables.
* correlation coefficient
The ——— perspective is grounded in the work of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
* humanistic - existential
Which of the following statements is true of Psycho analysis?
* it aims to help patients fine socially acceptable ways of expressing wishes and gratifying needs. .
When a patient insists on having a medical cure but a physician Does not believe that medicine is necessary, the physician may prescribe sugar pills. Such fake pills are called
* placebos
Since 15% of a university is comprised of Asian- American students, a sample for a study was chosen in such a way that it, too, consisted of 15% Asian Americans. This kind of sample would be an example of a ———?
* stratified sample
And boys, pituitary hormones stimulate the testes to increase the output of ———, which in turn causes enlargement of the penis and testes and the appearance of body hair.
* testosterone
B. F. Skinner Proposed
* that organisms learn to behave in certain ways because their behavior has a positive outcome.
Newborns use the ——— to avoid painful stimuli
* withdraw reflex
A two-year-old child's family has a pet rabbit. When the family visits the zoo, the child sees a hamster for the first time and calls it a rabbit because of the physical features that are common to a rabbit and a hamster. According to Piaget, which cognitive process will most likely modify the child's understanding?
*Accommodation
Piaget Described human thought, or intelligence, in terms of concepts of ——— and accommodation.
*Assimilation