Psych 6

Daniella thinks that she is extremely overweight despite having a normal body weight. She avoids eating food and recently has lost a lot of weight. Even after this, she continues to think that she is overweight. Which eating disorder is Daniella most likely suffers from?

Anorexia nervosa

How do pigments gain their color

By absorbing light from certain segments of the spectrum and reflecting the rest.

A (n) expresses the strength and direction ( positive or negative) of the relationship between two variables

Correlation coefficient

At the postconventional level of adolescence, moral judgements are derived from authority figures.

False

Dream are more likely to be coherent in plot than emotionally gripping

False

Dream are most likely to be vivid during non-rapid eye movements (NREM) sleep, whereas images are vaguer and more fleeting during rapid eye moment sleep (REM)sleep

False

Erick Erickson focus more on unconscious processes and less on conscious choice and self-direction

False

In divergent thinking, thought is limited to present facts; the problem solver narrows his or her thinking to find the best solution, whereas, in convergent thinking, the problem solver associates freely to the elements of the problem, allowing "leads" to run a nearly limitless course.

False

In their continuing research, psychologist have come to define consciousness is only one way, as the continuing self in the world

False

Insomnia is a sleep in which the air passage are obstructed

False

Jalen wondered how many blueberries are necessary for the perfect - tasting pancake. In this example, changing the number of blueberries would be considered the dependent variable

False

Neurons carry messages from the axon terminals through the axon to the dendrites.

False

PCP, or phencyclidine, is an opioid whose name is an acronym for its chemical structure.

False

Prior to six months of age, infants realize that objects removed from sight still exist and try to find them. They show object permanence, which makes it possible to play peekabooAinsworth and her colleagues identified three major types of attachment: secure attachment, avoidant attachment, and ambiguous/resistant attachment.

False

The Weschler intelligence scale yielded the mental age score.

False

When we think of the eye as the camera to the world the photosensitive surface is called the lens, which contains photoreceptors called rods and cones

False

Women seem affected by alcohol than men because they have more of an enzyme call aldehyde, dehydrogenase, which metabolizes alcohol in the stomach

False

A feature of crystallized intelligence is that it does not increase throughout the life span.

Fasle

Girls can become pregnant immediately after menarche.

Fasle

The ___ is a pea-sized structure in the brain that is involved in many aspects of motivation , including sex, aggression, and hunger.

Hypothalamus

When you first wake up in the morning and turn your lights on the _____ changes shape to keep out some of the light so it does not damage the eye

Iris

which of the following statement is true about psychoanalysis?

It aims to help patients find socially acceptable ways of expressing wishes and gratifying needs.

Which of the following statement of the absolute threshold

It is determined by exposing individuals to progressively stronger stimuli until the minimum stimuli the person can detect is found.

Which of the following statements is true of psychoanalysis

It primarily breaks conscious experience down into objective sensation and subjective feeling

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, what must be developed immediately prior to esteem needs

Love and Belongingness

In the context of pain, which of the following statement is true?

Pain is usually sharpest where nerve ending are densely packed

The audience was impressed by the singer ability to hit high and low notes. This mostly refer to

Pitch

Which of the following is true of psychological needs?

Psychological needs differ markedly from one person to another.

People with _____stop breathing periodically, up to several hundred times per night

Sleep apnea

Blank is the process by which test scores from various population group are obtained and organized so that the test results can be compared to those with similar demographic profiles?

Standardization

A hypothesis is a

Statement about behavior or mental processes that is testable through research

According to the American Lung Association, the hydrocarbon, or tart, in cigarette and cigar smoke lead to lung cancer

True

Although hippocrates' theory of personality traits was a speculative, many of this terms such as choleric, sanguine, melancholic are still used in descriptions of personality today

True

Freud stirred controversy by arguing that sexual impulses are a central factor in personality development—that we all experience psychosexual development, the process by which libidinal energy is expressed through different erogenous zones during the stages of development.

True

Jenna has not eaten in eight hours. She experiences hunger. According to the drive-reduction theory, Jenna is experiencing a primary drive.

True

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is defined as the ordering of need from most basic (physiological needs such as hunger and thirst) to most elaborate and sophisticated (self-actualization)

True

Sleep terrors, bedwetting, and sleepwalking are all deep sleep disorders that occur during deep (stage 3 or 4) sleep.

True

The humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers focused on the self- concept and self-regard.

True

Your friends had to tell what the painting meant because all you could see was a bunch of random dot on the canvas. You are mostly like using button-up processing

True

biofeedback training is a system that provides information about the bodily function so that organism can gain control of that function

True

in research setting when people exhibited pain through facial expressions they rated electric shocks as more painful. This is an example of the facial-feedback hypothesis

True

physical needs give rise to drive like hunger and thirst

True

Vomiting, binge eating, fasting, the use of laxatives, and engaging in prolonged exercise regimens are potentially characteristics of _________.

bulimia nervosa

Consider a child who is burned by touching a hot stove. The sight of the stove may evoke fear, and because hearing the word stove may evoke a mental image of the stove, just hearing the word may evoke fear. The child shows discrimination towards the hot stove.

false

Jane is working overtime to exceed her sales targets so that she gets a higher income. The higher income, in this scenario, is an intrinsic reward.

false

Masters and Johnson use the term sexual arousal cycle to describe the changes that occur in the body as men and women become sexually aroused.

false

The psychology of motivation concerns the whys and hows of behavior.

false

When we think of the eye as the camera to the world, the photosensitive surface is called the lens, which contains photoreceptors called rods and cones.

false

Raoul 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, Raoul is most likely to consult a __________.

health psychologist

When Kendall picked up her puppy, she did not realize that he'd gained a pound since the last time she picked him up. This small increase in weight is not big enough to be a

just noticeable difference

Ophelia is in high school. She enjoys studying and does well in school. Her parents encourage her to think and act independently. Whenever she does well in an exam, she feels a sense of self-satisfaction. In this scenario, Ophelia's achievement motivation stems from a(n) _________.

learning goal

Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?

money

When Darren first started working in the poultry plant, he found the smell from the chickens to be overwhelming. However, he gradually became accustomed to the smell, and now it no longer bothers him. This scenario illustrates an instance of _____.

negative adaptation

cognitive theorists note that

people represent their worlds mentally.

BF Skinner proposed

that organisms learn to behave in certain ways because their behavior has a positive outcome.

Research show that eating disorders are more common when the family environment is negative, with possible history of child abuse or neglect, or exposure to high parental expectation

true