Psychology 2
Which of the following statements about algorithms is (are) true?
Both
Sleep stage 5
rem
Punishment
Designed to reduce behavior
Observational learning
Modeling what's around
Hertz is a measure of ________.
Frequency
Semantics
Deriving meaning from words
Spearman believed in what
G for intelligence, measurable
Syntax: How words are organized
GR SM SO
Norming
Giving the test to a large population to reference scores
Hindsight bias
It was predictable
Functional fixedness
Only see it useful one way
Positive punishment
Something is added to decrease behavior
Negative punishment
Something taken away to decrease likelihood of behavior
IQ test name
Stanford-Binet, now Wechsler
Representative bias
Stereotype someone to confirm judgement with no valid basis
Classical conditioning
Stimulus, then behavior. SB. Respondent, passive
Optic Chiasm
X that merges eye information and sends to opposite sides
At the point of the optic chiasm, information from the right visual field (which comes from both eyes) is sent to the ________ side of the brain, and information from the left visual field is sent to the ________ side of the brain.
Left, right
Which term refers to the vocabulary of a language?
Lexicon
9. Which of the following is an example of a synthetic opioid?
Methadone
After Niaz's car breaks down, and he is convinced that it was a predictable event and he knew it would happen even though there was no way of knowing it would happen. This exemplifies
Hindsight bias
1.Which term describes the tendency to maintain a balance, or optimal level, within a biological system?
Homeostasis
Shaping
Rewarding close approximations of behaviors
Crystallized intelligence
Accuired knowledge retrieval
Sternbergs theory of intelligence
Analytical intelligence, practical, and creative
Gesalt psychology
Based on the idea that the whole is different from sum of parts
Operant conditioning
Behavior encouraged by reinforcement. Behavior, then reward/stimulus. BS
Fovea
Contains cones
Reinforcement
Designed to increase behavior
Natural concepts are mental groupings created naturally through our ________.
Experiences
Which of the following describes the difference in stimuli required to detect a difference between the stimuli?
Just noticeable
Which term describes the perception of the body's movement through space?
Kinesthesia
Language acronym
LPM, lexicon, phoneme, morpheme
Anchoring bias
Only focus on one thing in a problem
Confirmation bias
Only pay attention to what confirms your belief
8. 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
Wesley is in a movie theater with no windows—the only light is low illumination from the emergency lights on the floor. Which photoreceptors will be most useful to Wesley as he attempts to leave the theater?
Rods
The analytical intelligence component of the triarchic theory of intelligence is demonstrated by the ability to ________.
analyze, evaluate, judge, compare, and contrast
Most score on iq test
85-110
Learning behvavior model:
ARRM attention retention reproduction motivation
3. Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when ________.
An individual's airway becomes blocked during sleep.
Top down processing
Another deer, jump to conclusion. Using what you know only
Availability heuristic
Make a decision only by what info is available
5. After Omar falls asleep he feels a sense of panic, screams, and attempts to escape from his room. He is 4 years old. This occurs in at about 90 minutes into his sleep. Which parasomnia does Omar have?
Night terrors
Sleep stage 1-4
Nrem
Vicarious reinforcement
Powerful to see others win. Hype wins, brush off losses so it seems like you win more
4. Mohammed is sleeping. His eyelids are quivering because his eyes are darting around. Mohammed is probably experiencing ________ sleep.
REM
Grammar
Rules used to make meaning of lexicon
A(an) ________ is a mental construct (or box) consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
Schema
Fluid intelligence
See complex relationships and solve them
Which term refers to the process by which we derive meaning from morphemes and words?
Semantics
2. Which theorist described dreams as having manifest and latent content?
Sigmund Freud
Which of the following exemplifies olfaction?
Smelling cookies
Which type of processing involves the interpretation of sensations and is influenced by available knowledge, experiences, and thoughts?
Top down processing
Concepts are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.
True
An anchoring bias occurs when you focus on ________.
faulty heuristic in which you fixate on a single aspect of a problem to find a solution
Convergence Insufficiency is an ocular disorder that involves_____
motor coordination of the two eyes on near point tasks
What is a binaural cue?
two-eared cue to localize sound
Cattel believed what
Crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence
Parents of African American students filed a case against the state of California in 1979 because they believed the testing method used to identify students with learning disabilities________.
Culturally unfair
10. Melatonin release is stimulated by ________ and inhibited by ________.
Darkness, light
Interval vs ratio
Delivery time, after either fixed or unpredictable responses
7. Alcohol is considered a ________ because it tends to suppress central nervous system activity.
Depressant
Which concept is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what it was designed for?
Functional Fixedness
Which field of psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, and principle of closure?
Gestalt
Latent learning
Learning that occurs but is not visible until used
Bottom up processing
Perceptions built from sensory input
Which refers to the idea that intelligence consists of a unitary factor?
Gardner's theory
6. Cataplexy is a symptom associated with ________.
Narcolepsy
Mental set
Using the same mentality
"the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment"
Wechsler believed