psychology final exam

when you see color and hear music you would be

A, have Synesthesia

In the dog study the dish was the

A. Conditioned stimulous

A development psychologist would ______

A. Conduct a study on infant attachment behavior

psychologist who conduct laboratory studies of learning, motivation, emotion, sensation, are called ______ psychologist

A. Experimental

_______ can better explain why we can distinguish between variations of the experiences within a particular sense, such as the sight of pink vs red

A. Functional encoding

to understand a persons actions we must concentrate on environment conditions rather than studying the mind or mental state is what perspective

A. Learning

Albert Bandura is well known for his study of

A. Observational learning

Not a characteristic of scientific research

A. Reliance on common sense

chromosomes are

A. Rob shaped structure found in every cell of the body

The detection of physical energy is called

A. Sensation

J. Muller describes the doctorine of _____, in which he stated that different sensory modalities exists because signals received by the sense organs stimulates

A. Specifies nerve energies

the overall cordinator of the biological rythms

A. Suprachiasmatic Nucleous

NOT a circumstance that contributes to confabulation

A. The image of the event contains few details

defining term in ways that can be observed and measured is known as

A. an operational definition

confusion of what happen to someone else happened to you

A. confabulation

he ability and willingness to assses claims and make objective judgements based on evidence not emotion

A. critical thinking

parasympathetic is activated

A. heartbeat slows

independent variable is

A. manipulated by the researcher

components of the brain that handle survival problems are called

A. mental modules

human traits depend on

A. more than one pair of genes

the central nervous system consists of

A. the brain and spinal cord

what stimulus informs the biological clock

A. visual

the ____ nerve system is divided into parasympathetic nervous system ans sympathetic nervous system

A.Automatic nervous system

Early school of psychology popularized by E.B. Tichener made into most basic elements

A.Structuralism

Which type of Psychologist would be most likely to work with highly disturbed people

A.clinical

In the " Little Albert" study what was the unconditioned stimulus

B. A loud noise

____ refers to signals received by the sense organs that stimulate different neural pathways leading to different brain areas, whereas ___ refers to the pattern of foring of neural impulses, the rate at which they are firinf and which cells are firing

B. Anatomical code, functional code

_____ can not fully explain th experience of individuals with synesthesia becasue it cannot explain what the senses should remain separate

B. Anatomical encoding

Sandra's idea of what will happen is known as

B. Cognitive schema

heredity can be used to estimate the

B. IQ differences among Harvard grads

One of the 1st psychologist to recognize the real life implications of classical conditioning was _______ who founded American Behaviorism

B. John B. watson

A study of Huntington disease through out a family

B. Linkage study

insight and intuition probably involve which 2 stages of mental processing

B. Nonconscious processing and conscious awareness of a solution

The ___ model represent the contents memory as connections among a hug number of interacting processing units

B. Parallel distributed processing

the way you can hear the C major cord is becasue of

B. Perception

why do we interpurt the world in 3D

B. Perception

The main difference between Psycologist knowledge abd popular opinion

B. Psychological knowledge is based on research, popular opinion is not

What is the difference between punishment and negative reinforcement?

B. Punishment involves presentation of an aversion consequences, but negative reinforcement involves removal of a positive consequence

peripheral consist of _____ nervous system which goes from skin to brain, ______ carry messages from the brain the muscles and such

B. Sensory nerve, motor nerves

The ____ consists of nerves that are connected to sensory receptors an to the skeletal muscles that permits voluntary action

B. Somatic nervous system

Casey touches a hot iron and pulls her hand away why

B. Spinal reflexes are automatic, requiring no conscious effort

mitch finally learns how to drive a car

B. Subconscious process are involved

Circadian rythms are controlled by a biological clock =, a tear drop shaped cluster o celles called

B. Suprachiasmatic nucleous

Signal detection theory assumes there is no single ____ because at any given moments, sensitivity depends on a decision

B. Threshold

in the dog study the food was the

B. Unconditioned stimulus

Evolutionary psychology and sociology

B. both focus on evolutionary influence on behaviors

Deductive reasoning involves _____

B. drawing conclusions from a set of observation or premises

sympathetic nervous system is activated

B. heartbeat accelerates

In what structure of the brain is the suprachiasmatic nucleus located

B. hypothalamus

The process by with the brain organizes and interprets sensory info is called

B. perception

In the 3 box model of memory ____ hold info temporarily for up to 30 secs.

B. short term

Different threshold is defined as the _____

B. smallest different in stimulation that can be reliability

inability to distinquish from what you experiences and what you hear

B. source misattribuation

psychology is defined as

B. the discipline concerned with behaviors and mental process and how they are affected by an organisms states

dr,jones is a neuropsychologist

B. the phsycho sexual development of children

Sensory receptors convert physical energy in the environment or the body to

C Electrical energy

signal detection therapy assumes that _____

C. A person's response depends on the stimulus on a decision about it

which would be the most effective when removing a phobia

C. Counter- conditioning

A psychometric psychologist

C. Designs and evaluates test of mental abilities, aptitudes, personalities

receptors that account for our sense of balance are found in the

C. Ears

early school of psychology how and why an organisms behavior helps it adapt

C. Functionalism

the full set of genes contained in each cell is known as the

C. Genome

Keller was able to tech a pig to drop a coin in a box because of

C. Instinctive drift

Friend going overseas warn him to stay away from

C. Melatoin

What hormone by the pineal gland is involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms

C. Melatoin

In the peripheral nervous system ___ nerves cause glands in the body to contract

C. Motor

Scored change in time sleeping, food intake might mean

C. Operational definition of depression

_____ is a rare condition in which the stimulation of one sence also evokes a sensation in another

C. Synesthesia

_____ prepares the body to expand energy _____ allow s The body to conserve and restore energy

C. Sypatric, parasympathetic

which of the following is NOT a guideline for behavior modification

C. Use intermittent reinforcement right from the beginning

___ is definded as conscious, intentional recollection of an event or an item of info

C. explicit memory

Naturalistic observations involve

C. observing subject in their natural enviorments

Occurs outside of conscious awareness but is/ are accessible to consciousness when necessary

C. subconscious process

helps eliminated unwanted habits

C.Learning

organized system of assumptions and principles to explain a specified set of phenomena is called ______

C.Theory

the ____ nervous system receives processes, interprets, and stores incoming sensory info and send out messages to the muscles

C.central

Molly smells cookies remind of grandma

D Central nervous system

refers to a vivid detailed recollection of an emotional event

D. Flashbulb

the field of ______ is based on the idea that human being have free will

D. Humanistic psychology

to acquire knowledge of a task without awareness or intention is referred to as _____

D. Implicit learning

Bunny accidentally calls her brother why

D. MIndlessness

outside of consciousness and is not available to conscious awareness

D. Nonconscious process

A unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single idea is called a

D. Proposition

Which is NOT true

D. Skinner denied the existence of human consciousness

when the dog reacts to the wrong notes _____ has occured

D. Stimulus generalization

NOT a type of LT memory

D. Working memory

Descriptive research methods

D. allow the researcher to describe and predict behaviors

Not a way of critical thinking

D. always reducing issues to a simple concept

Freud based his theory of studying a small number of particular individuals in great detail

D. case study

For ethnical purposes, researcher must show they have considered alternative producers and that they plan to debrief subjects in order to use

D. deception

_______ memory refers to recollection of a personally experienced event and the context in which it occurred

D. episodic

not a symptom of mania

D. excess rumination

One reason new traits keep arising is because the genes ability to

D. mutate

as a subdivision if the _____ nervous system, the ______ nervous system connects sensory receptors to the skeletal muscles

D. peripheral , Somatic

Specialized cells that covert physical energy from the environment to electrical energy to be interpreted by the brain are called

D. sensory receptors

Keith and the candy bar delima

D. the greater the weight of an object, the greater the changer must be before one can detect a difference

proponents of the ____ perspective believe that to understand the mind you must study the nervous system

D.Biological

The smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliable effected but eh observer is called the

D.absolute threshold

what does not contribute to intelliegence

D.sports

Genes are the

basic of heredity