Psych Final Review

According to Eric Erikson, individuals in early adulthood often seek a life partner with whom they will share their most closely held secrets. Erikson calls this psychosocial stage of development _______

Intimacy VS Isolation

George sat next to Kiki in biology class every day. They often worked together on assignments. By the end of the semester, George became quite fond of Kiki. What social psychological term best explains George's attraction to Kiki?

Mere-Exposure Effect

During the night, Alicia stops breathing repeatedly, frequently gasps for air, and snores loudly at regular intervals. Alicia is most likely suffering from which of the following conditions?

Sleep Apnea

An animal will gain weight when what is damaged?

Ventromedial Hypothalamus

If I'm very sensitive to hot peppers, I could probably be a ______

Super-Taster

A task has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. So which of the following scores is within 1 standard deviation of the mean?

77

A 4-year-old understands that birds build nests in trees. In his front yard he notices an unusually large nest, he's scared to go near it fearing some large bird will attack him. His dad explains to him that squirrels also build nests and the nest in the front yard was done by squirrels.. The boy changes his thinkings and now includes the fact that squirrels build nests. John Piaget would say that the boys new way of think about nests is an example of ______

Accomadation

A certain drug reduces the activity of the central nervous system, including the hippocampus and cerebellum. It affects several neurotransmitters, most notably GABA. Which of the following is most like the drug in question?

Alcohol

When Corey is given a logic problem to solve, he systematically tries every possible solution until finds the correct solution.

Algorithm

A person with damage to Broca's area most likely demonstrates what symptom?

Difficulty with Speech Production

Chuck asked Jane out on a date and he offered her 2 possible options; to see a movie or to go ice skating. Jane felt stressed while conflicted because she liked BOTH activities. Which of the following conflicts was Jane experiencing?

Approach-Approach

According to Diana Baumrind, what parenting style among children raised in the United States, was closely associated with development of self reliance and confidence?

Authoritative

You're in a political debate. Candidate A expresses detailed facts on important issue. Candidate B responds with an emotional appeal on the same issue. Which method of persuasion are the two candidates using?

Candidate A- Central-Route Persuasion Candidate B- Peripheral-Route Persuasion

People who are colorblind most likely have deficiencies in _______

Cones

Genie was a girl who endured abusive and neglectful conditions and was deprived of language exposure until she was rescued at age 13. Despite remediation, Genie was unable to learn to speak fluently. Historically, this case study was used to demonstrate the effects of ________

Critical Period

Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk used a visual cliff with a glass covered drop off to examine behavior in crawling infants. Even when coaxed by their mothers to crawl out onto the glass covering, most infants refused to do so, indicating they had developed __________

Depth Perception

Amanda experienced discomfort in class. She put on a sweater when she realized her discomfort was caused by the cold. Her behavior was motivated by ________

Drive

During his class, Caleb is worried about unfinished history project he needs to turn in later in the day. While the english teacher has students discuss a short story the class just read, Caleb's attention is focused on how to finish the history project. The next day, he is unable to recall the short story details presented in english class. The recall problem is probably due to _______

Encoding Failure

What research approach would be best for testing the hypothesis of the presence of certain odors causes people to gamble more?

Experimental Approach

A student believed he did well on his exam because he was lucky. What psychological concept applies to Chris's explanation?

External Locus of Control

While attending a concert, Anthony finds that he can clearly recognize the melody coming from the lead violin, from all the other instruments playing in the orchestra, even though the other instruments may be louder. Gestalt psychologist would explain this using the principle of ______

Figure-Ground

Chuck is walking down the street and someone asks him to sign a petition to put clean-air legislation on the next ballot. He decides to sign the petition. Then the person asks whether he would like to give a donation to the associated environmental group. This technique is known as ________

Foot-in-the-Door

Denny does not have wrapping paper to use to wrap a birthday present, and so he decides to use colorful newspaper comics instead. Denny's solution demonstrates that he has overcome _________

Functional Fixedness

Ahmet is allergic to dogs, while in the store he sees a stuff toy dog and has an allergic reaction. Ahmet's reaction to the toy best demonstrates the process of _______

Generalization

In the dark, an object is more clearly seen when viewed in peripheral vision than when viewed directly. This phenomenon occurs because the rods are located ________

In the retina and are more sensitive in the dark than cones and are not found in the fovea

A 4-year-old child frequently pulled on a dogs tail to gain attention. To reduce this undesirable behavior, the parent took away 1 hour of television viewing every time the child pulled the dogs tail. Within 1 week, the undesirable behavior was significantly reduced. The above scenario illustrates ________

Negative Punishment

Even though Eli prefers romantic comedy movies, he often goes to action-adventure movies to fit in with his friends. Eli's behavior can best be explained by ________

Normative Social Influence

When a 10 month old throws her toy out of sight, she looks to see where it falls. Developmental psychologist could say her behaviors indicates that she has developed _______ _______

Object Permanence

A 2-year-old tells her grandmother she swept the floor yesterday, what is she doing?

Overgeneralization

Barney is a somewhat distractible second-grade student who finds schoolwork a bit boring. After a couple of minutes of working silently, Barney often starts to misbehave until his teacher, calls his name and scolds him. However, he enjoys this attention from her and continues to misbehave. With respect to Barney's misbehavior, Ms. Skinner's attention serves as a _________

Positive Reinforcement

In the experiments of Solomon Asch, the tendency of group members to conform was reduced most by which factor?

Presence of Single Dissenter

A girl's lost, she quickly scans the crowd, decides to ask a elderly women for directions because she believes the woman will be kind. What problem solving method did the girl use?

Representative Heuristic

For most of his life Mike has been overweight, not long after going on a diet and losing over 30-pounds, Mike gained back all the weight. What concept explains Mike's experience?

Set Point

In Elizabeth Loftus' study of memory reconstruction in which students viewed films of an automobile accident, the major influence on recall was the _______

Wording of questions students were asked about the accident

Mary Ainsworth's research indicates that a toddler with a secure attachment style is most likely to do which of the following when left with a caregiver, such as a babysitter for the first time?

Would go to the mother for comfort when a stranger entered the room, the child would cry when the mother left, but was happy when the mother returned.