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