Psychology
A basic experiment involves a minimum of ____ participant groups
2
What two neurotransmitters have roles in appetite suppression
dopamine and norepinephrine
Which of the following is a scientific way of determining facts
empirical studies
Diabetes is a ________ disorder because insulin is a ______
endocrine; hormone
Which of the following is not part of obtaining informed consent
explaining the hypothesis to the participants
Psychotropic medications are drugs that treat psychiatric symptoms by restoring ______ balance
neurotransmitter
A negative correlation means
one variable decreases as the other increases
Which of the following does not influence perception
Gestalt
What was the primary conclusion of Stanley Milgram's obediance research?
Average people will harm others if told to do so by an authoritive figure
Condition that disables you from feeling pain but you can still feel temperature and changes in pressure
Congenital analgesia
What area of psychology focuses on the emotional, social, vocational, and health-related ouctomes of individuals who are considered psychologically healthy?
Counseling psychology
What kind of psychological area does the work of Jean Piaget exemplify?
Developmental psychology
A series of dots arranged in the shape of a face will be percieved as a face, not a series of dots. A pyschologist studying this is applying the principles of
Gestalt psychology
What has research shown about processing subliminal messages
In labratory settings, people can process and respond to information outside of their awareness
Which of the following psychologists was a behaviorist
John Watson
_____ is the difference between hemispheres in the area underlying language functions
Lateralization
______ research studies the same groups of participants over time.
Longitudinal
The _______ is the deep groove that separates the brain into two halves
Longitudinal fissure
Which of the following is a feminist criticism of the science of psychology
Male bias exists in science
What were the names of the types of lines that Gestalt psychology asked people to name
Maluma and Takete
Who started the feminist revolution in psychology
Naomi Weisstein
If you show an adult a toy, and then hide it behind a curtain, the adult knows that the toy still exists. However, infants act as if a hidden object no longer exists. What does this exemplify?
Object Permanence
What kind of scan uses a tracer?
PET Scan
Edmund wants to identify relatively consistent patterns of thought and behavior, measure these traits, and determine how these traits interact in particular context to determine how a person will behave in any given situation. Edmund wants to conduct research in the field of _______
Personality
In developmental psychology, there is an increasing interest in researching cognitive changes that occur later in life. Why?
Populations of developed nations are living longer
_______ asserts that our genes set the boundaries within which we can operate, and our environment interacts with our genes to determine where within those boundaries we will fall
Range of reaction
Which of the following is false about sensation
Sensation refers to the way sensory information is organized, interperted, and conciously experimemt.
Which theorist published research related to the psychology of personality
Sigmund Freud
Which of the following is a reason that Gestalt psychology did not become more popular in the United States?
The rise of behaviorism overshadowed Gestalt psychology
Select the correctly ordered list of psychological theorists with the earliest theorist listed first
Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud, Noam Chomsky
In a study of mate preference differences between men and woman that spanned 37 cultures, Buss (1989) found that men value youthful appearance more than women. Why?
Youthful looks provide fertility clues
On a graph of a correlation coeffcient, points falling near to a straight sloped line indicate
a strong correlation
_____ 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
This disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye recieves
binocular
A major advantage of case studies is
detailed information
The scientific process is _______ involving both inductive and deductive reasoning
circular
Which photo receptor helps us to see color and brightness
cones
A _______ is a variable that affects both variables of interest and may falsely give the impression of a cause and effect relationship
confounding variable
The ______ varaible measures effects of the indpendent variable
dependent
Introspection refers to a process by which someone examines ________as objectively as possible
her own conscious experience
What is described by the concept of perception
how sensory information is interpreted and conciously expierenced.
What was the focus of the Swets signal detection theory
improving the sensitivity of air traffic controllers to plane blips
According to the biopsychosocial model, what determines health?
interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors
Hyperpolarization means that the _____
membrane potential becomes slightly more negative than the resting potential.
The ____ nervous system is responsible for stimulating digestion and causing the bladder to contract
parasympathetic
The concept of _____ refers to the way that sensory information interpreted and consciously experienced, ______ refers to what happens when sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor
perception; sensation
___ is a chemical message sent by an individual
pheromone
The ____ gland is often referred to as the "master gland"
pituitary
What is the master gland?
pituitary gland
Simply expecting something to happen can make it happen. This describes _______
placebo effect
The ___ connects the brain and the spinal cord
pons
Trephination
procedure where a large hole is created in the forehead so that evil spirits can escape
What is Abraham Maslow best known for
proposing a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior
What allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and hit a baseball without focusing on the bat
proprioception
Dr. Bogdarian applies the principles of ________ and hypothesizes the student misspeaks because he is unconsciously associating her with his mother.
psychoanalytic theory
Behaviorists focus on
psychological responses that result in action
Everything ______ is simultaneously _____
psychological; biological
Research describing a link between childhood vaccinations and autism has been
retracted due to a financial conflict of interest by the author
A _____ is a graphical view of the strength and direction of a correlation
scatterplot
What is a limitation that affects the generalizability of research results
small sample size
Behaviorism focuses on making psychology an objective science by __________
studying overt behavior and deemphasizing the importance of unobservable behavior
What is one task that a peer reviewer is not likely to participate in
suggesting magazines that may be interested in publishing the research
The somatosensory cortex is responsible for processing _____
temperature, touch, and pain
The auditory cortex is located in which lobe of the brain
temporal
The _____ of a neuron contain _____ that house neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers of the nervous system
terminal buttons; synaptic vesicles
Scientific knowledge is advanced through a process known as
the scientific method
_____ is a midbrain structure critical to movement
the ventral tegmental area
Cognitive psychology focuses on studying
thoughts and their relationship to our expierences and our actions
Many studies that cannot ethically be conducted as experiments with typical human participants are possible
to test with animal studies
Which of the following is an example of research someone might conduct in the area of health psychology
whether people working at a desk are more likely to be obese
The D.A.R.E program is an example of
why empirical research is needed
