Psychology 20 True/False Questions

Brushing your teeth after lunch is an abnormal behavior

False?

Interactionists believe that both genetics and the enviornment interact in the development of people, both after birth and in the womb

True

Jungian theory is party based on spirituality

True

Maslow believed very few people attain self-actualization

True

Punishment is the main influence on a child's social developemnt

False

Children taking the WISC-III may be asked to solve math problems orally

True

Color Blindness is Genetic

True

Developmental psychology is concerned with how humans evolved from the apes

False

Each stage in Erickson's theory is based off on problems created by a person's parents

False

Extraneous factors add scientific merit to an experiment

False

Humans attend to sound only in one ear

False

The time between the brain sending a signal to a muscles and that muscle contracting is instantaneous

False

To be Hypnotized a person must have a disorder such as an addiction or chronic pain.

False

The misuse of intelligence testing can lead to labelling/stereotyping

True

A recessive gene can mask the effects of a dominant gene

False

According to Erickson "initiative vs. guilt" occurs in the late childhood stage of development

False

Bias has been eliminated from IQ tests

False

In a healthy newborn the last sense to fully mature is taste

False

Jung believed that a therapist was needed to find meaning in dreams

False

Lobotomies are still often used to control behaviour problems in mental patients

False

Male offspring get more genetic material from their fathers than their mothers

False

Maturation is the process of mental growth and development of an organism over time

False

Motor development proceeds in a toe-to-head fashion

False

Normative studies judge a child as being either normal or abnormal with respect to an average child

False

Prehension relates to a baby's grasping reflex

False

Prenatal refers to thee first year of life after birth

False

Social inferences are the sets of steps a child must follow when performing a given behavior

False

Taste buds are only located on the edges of the tongue but taste buds respond all the tastes to varying degrees

False

The Canadian Council on Animal Care monitors all animal research that occurs in Canada

False

The Flynn Effect refers to IQ decreasing with age

False

The hormone estrogen is especially important in regulating nest building instincts in some animals

False

Your cousin, father's mother, and your sister's husband are genetically related to you

False

All animals have color vision because color is used to attract mates

False, Dogs for example, are colorblind

When you add black to a color you get a tint

False, You get a shade

The number of years you have been alive is your mental age

False, years alive is your chronological age.

A child cannot learn how to walk until their leg muscles have matured enough to support his/her body mass

True

A severe injury to the occipital lobe may result in blindness

True

A tertiary color is a combination of a primary color and a secondary color

True

According to Gordon Allport, traits may include intelligence, aggression, shyness and deception

True

An MRI scan can show whether cells have enough oxygen and water

True

At first babies recognize their parents by their voices and smell, not by sight

True

Cattell attempted to develop a scientific way of determining personality

True

Chromosomes are composed of genes

True

Cognitive language theorists believe that children learn the meaning of words through classification and categorization

True

Correlations are relationships that exist between two factors/variables

True

Data collected in an experiement is called empirical evidence

True

Determining intelligence strictly on IQ scores has become widely critized

True

Except for the reproductive cells, all cells in an individual share identical chromosomes

True

Freud believed that all adult problems stemmed from childhood

True

High fevers can bring on epileptic attacks

True

Modelling is a way parents encourage a child's proper use of words

True

People with brain injuries that result in a loss of smell may then also experience a loss of taste

True

People with hearing loss may not realize their hearing has deteriorated

True

Positron Emission Tomography scan or PET scans use a radioactive solution that binds to glucose in the blood stream

True

Regarding Maslow's hierarchy, physiological needs must be met before any other needs can be considered

True

Social psychology involes the influences people have on each other

True

Some parts of our skin have more sensory touch receptors than other parts of our skin.

True

Special brain cells called neurons do not directly touch each other

True

Stages in Erickson's theory span the entire life of an individual

True

The Canadian Council on Animal Care can influence the research funding a university receives from the government

True

The Endocrine system consists of glands that release hormones that control body temperature, gender of a fetus, and the moods of both men and women

True

The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body

True

The unqualified use of hypnosis may disguise serious problems and delay proper treatment

True

To be genetically related, two individuals must have some chromosomes in common

True

Water droplets can act like prisms and separate light into many colors

True

You can study for an intelligence test

True

You cannot easily observe covert behavior

True