PSYCHOLOGY FINAL

Hyperphagic

A ______ rate is characterized by excessive eating.

False

According to Arne Oham and Susan Mineka, humans are not biologically prepared to by evolutionary forces to develop fears of any kind.

It begins to develop during the first year of life.

According to Freud, which of the following is true of the ego>

False

According to Melissa Hines and her colleagues, human female embryos and festuses who have been exposed prenatally to higher-than -typical concentrations of male sex hormones show reduced tendencies to display physically aggressive behavior.

False

According to the law of similarity, we perceive different objects as belonging together.

False

Alcohol enhances cognitive functionality

true

Men produce 7-10 times the testosterone produced by women

True

Self-esteem is connected with patterns of acculturation among immigrant's

False

When a nerve impulse reaches a synapse, it jumps across the synaptic cleft like a spark because of its electrical nature.

True

When children reared by adoptive parents are more similar to their natural parent in a particular trait, strong evidence exists for a genetic role in development of that trait

Aphagic

characterized by under-eating

testosterone

in 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.

False

people share psychological needs because peoples biological makeups are similar

true

the preconscious mind contains ideas that are out of awareness but can be made conscious by focusing on them.

The process by which a neural impulse travels is electrochemical.

which of the following statements is true of a neural impulse?

False

Emotions do not involve behavioral tendencies

False

Biofeedback training (BFT) increases stress, anxiety and tension in people .

False

Discrimination is the tendency for a conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was conditioned.

False

Hallucinogens are known to create physiological dependence.

False.

In the context of Wechsler scales, nontechnically oriented college students often attain higher perform than verbal intelligence quotients (IQs).

True

On average, gay males tend to be somewhat feminine and lesbians to be somewhat masculine

False

Operant conditioning is a simple form of learning in which organisms come to participate or associate events with one another.

False

Positive reinforcers increase the probability that a behavior will occur when the reinforcers are removed .

False

Postconventional reasoning emerges during a person's middle adulthood.

False.

Prospective memory involves recalling information that has been previously learned.

False

Psychological needs are always based on states of deprivation

False

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and deep sleep hinder learning and memory

False

Regularization in problem solving refers to standing back from the problem

False

Research shows that apes are very reliable in their sequencing of signs, suggesting that they comprehend the rules of grammar.

false

Rewards and punishments are known by their effects, where reinforcers are more known by how they feel ..

of the sandwich generation

Shawna is in her mid-50's. Her college-going son lives in a separate apartment in the same city while her parents live with her. She cooks meals for her son regularly and does his laundry. At the same time , she looks after her parents, who are dependent on her. Shawna is facing the difficulties ________.

It stimulates the growth of tissue in the hips

Which of the following is true about estrogen production in females?

Resolution phase

is the final phase of sexual response cycle.

False

An emotion can be a goal in itself.

False

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is dependent of his or her chronological age (CA).

False

Erik Erikson is credited with developing the psychosexual stages of development

False

Every time a neuron fires, it transmits and impulse of varying length

True

Freud believed that children encounter conflict during each stage of psychosexual development

False

Genetic components do not contribute to an individual's sensitivity to basic tastes.

False

Girls can become pregnant immediately after menarche

False.

Immediate reinforcers ae less effective than delayed reinforcers.

True

In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, achievement, prestige, and status are included under esteem needs.

False

Norepinephrine is manufactured exclusively by the adrenal glands.

False

Parents help children develop conditions of worth when they show them unconditional positive regard

True

People are at the height of their cognitive powers during early adulthood.

True

Physical needs give rise to drives like hunger and thirst.

True

Physicians frequently prescribe stimulant in an effort to help hyperactive children control their behavior.

False

Stimulus motives provide an evolutionary disadvantage

False

Studies generally suggest that the heritability is less than 20%

True

The Hering-Helmholtz is a visual illusion.

True

The reliability of a test refers to the stability f one's test results from one testing to another.

False

The rods and cones in the eye respond to light with chemical changes that create neutral impulses that are picked up by the unipolar cells

False

According to Piaget, objective responsibility is the assignment of blame according to motives of the actor rather than the amount of damage done.

False

The hippocampus is an area of the brain where memories are stored.

False

The hypothalamus is involved in the formation of verbal memories

True

The state of consciousness called the hypnotic trance can be induced by asking people to narrow their attention to a small light.

False

The term preconscious is descriptive of bodily processes of which we cannot become conscious.

Accommodation

A 2 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 the Piaget, which cognitive process will most likely modify the child's understanding?

False

A feature of crystalized impairment is that it does not increase throughout the life span.

False

Acetylcholine is excitatory at the heart but inhibitory at the synapses between nerves and muscles that involve voluntary movement.

true

Active touching mean continuously moving your hand along the surface of an object so that you continue to receive sensory input from the object.

False

Alfred Adler believed that people are motivated by the collective unconscious

False

Alia was just about to fall asleep when she heard something crash in the kitchen. The nose jolted her awake. This was due to secretion f oxytocin.

False

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

True

Carl Rogers believed that we will all have unique frames of reference.

True

Cochlear implants contain microphones that sense sound and electronic equipment that transmits sound past damaged hair cells to stimulate the auditory nerve.

False.

Cognitive psychologists explain the outcome of classical conditioning in terms of the publicly observable conditions of learning.

True

Direct artificial stimulation of the occipital lobe produces sensations

False

Glen is an accomplished guitarist. He can play the guitar with his eyes closed. When he does this, he is quite aware of which frets his fingers are on. He does this with the aid of his vestibular sense.

False

Hypnosis impairs the functioning of the immune system.

False

IN language development, over inclusion of instances in a category is labeled overregularization.

True

In Pavolv's experiment on classical conditioning, salivation of the dog in response to meat powder is an unlearned or unconditioned response.

False

In counter conditioning, an organism learns to respond to a stimulus in a way that is completely compatible with a response that was conditioned earlier.

False

In male adolescents, ejaculatory ability is the evidence of reproductive capacity.

False

In retrograde amnesia, there are memory lapses for the period following the trauma such as a blow to the head, and electrical shock, or an operation.

False

In sensory memory, the memory traces of visual stimuli last many times longer than the traces of auditory stimuli.

False

In the context of classical conditioning, extinguished conditioned responses cannot be recovered

False

In the context of hypnosis, a positive response to each suggestion of the hypnotist sets the stage in which the subject is less likely to follow suggestion .

False

In the context of processes of memory, storage modifies information so that it can be placed in memory.

True

In the context of withdrawal symptoms associated with substance use, cravings are typically accompanied by signs of anxiety such as shakiness, rapid pulse and sweating.

False

Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which the air passages are obstructed.

True

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

True

Left-brained people are primarily logical and intellectual.

False

Nicotine increases the appetite and reduces the metabolic rate of a person

True

Odors trigger firing of receptor neuros in the olfactory membrane high in each nostril

pupils

On a bright and sunny day. Manny leaves a dimly-lit movie theatre and goes out in to the street. The _____ in his eyes adjust to the sudden increase of light.

True

Selective optimization with compensation is the reshaping of a person's life to concentrate on what he or she finds to be important and meaningful in the face of physical decline and possible cognitive impairment.

False

Shot term memory is also known as semantic memory

False .

Sleep terrors, bedwetting, and sleepwalking all occur during light sleep.

False

The James-Lange Theory suggests that emotions cause out behavioral responses to events

False

The communication systems of the birds and the bees have a high semanticity

False

The embryonic stage of pregnancy lasts from the beginning of the third month until the birth of the baby.

False

When we sleep, our brain waves become identical to those emitted when we are conscious.

True

When you are given a new phone number and write it down or immediately dial, you are retaining the number in your short-term memory.

The id

Which of the following Freudian psychic structures is present in a person at birth?

It is involved in general arousal, learning and memory, and eating

Which of the following is a function of norepinephrine?

False

With age, there are very similar declines in memory function, and these changes can never be reversed

True

sensory receptors embedded in the skin fire when the surface of the skin is touched.

False

women who smoke show increased bone density