Psychology Exam 1

Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when ________.

An individual's airway becomes blocked during sleep.

Which of the following is an example of wakefulness?

Jemma, competing in a marathon

What should be changed to make the following sentence true? Humanism focuses on the potential of all people for evil.

The word "evil" should be changed to the word "good."

Which of the following is not a potential problem associated with relying on college students as participants in psychological research?

They have higher attrition rates than other populations.

________ is the electrical signal that typically moves from the cell body down the axon to the axon terminals.

action potential

Which type of chemical messenger do the male gonads secrete?

androgens

Regular feelings of hunger are an example of a(n) ________ rhythm.

biological

A ________ scan involves taking a number of x-rays of a particular section of a person's body or brain.

computerized tomography (CT) scan

Which of the following does influence perception?

cultural background previous experiences where we focus our attention

A major advantage of case studies is ________.

detailed information

Diabetes is a(n) ________ disorder because insulin is a ________.

endocrine; hormone

Spurling et al. investigated the effects of two vocabulary learning strategies on word retention two weeks later. In this example, learning strategy is the ________ variable and word retention is the ________ variable.

independent; dependent

Oona wants to conduct research on personnel management, workplace environment, and what type of environment results in high levels of employee productivity and efficiency. Oona should conduct research in the area of ________ psychology.

industrial-organizational

A sample that ________ is most likely to yield generalizable results.

is large and randomly selected

What is the number one occupation employing graduates with a BA in psychology?

mid- and top-level management

Tariq depends on cigarettes to relieve his stress, though he smokes so infrequently that he experiences no significant, noticeable physical symptoms when he is not smoking. What does this exemplify?

psychological dependence

Drs. Goran and Lieberman are interested in assessing differences in pain threshold between men and women. They recruit male and female participants to a study that assesses tolerance for thermal pain. This is an example of a(n) ________ study.

quasi-experimental

Behaviorism focuses on making psychology an objective science by ________.

studying overt behavior and deemphasizing the importance of unobservable mental processes

Victoria has accumulated a large sleep debt. This means that she ________.

suffers from chronic sleep deprivation

The ________ nervous system is responsible for responses such as pupil dilation, increased heart rate, and increased respiration.

sympathetic