Psychology Final Pt 2

Michael complains that threatening voices are constantly telling him he is evil so he should kill himself. Michael is experiencing a(n):

Hallucination

Which parenting style is correctly matched with its label?

High warmth, low control--permissive

Which animal below most likely has the largest proportion of their brain take up by their Cerebellum?

Humming Bird

With of the ideas concerning hypnosis is FALSE?

Hypnotized people can be made to act against their will.

The desire to undertake a new task "just because you can" is called.

Initative

Erikson's Theory was based on case studies. This means that the theory was based on:

Intensive studies of individuals or small groups of people.

Which statement is correctly matched with its consequence?

Janie continues her drug use because it reduces her feelings of withdrawal--- negative reinforcement

Skip would like his partner to stop leaving shaving cream and stubble in the sink after he shaves in the morning. At first, Skip complains to his partner about the mess. Then he changes tactics: he thanks his partner on the occasional mornings when he rinses out the sink. Skip has changed from using ______ to using ______.

Negative reinforcement; positive reinforcement

To stop baby Rudy from repeatedly reaching for a sharp knife on the kitchen table, Rudy's mother put it in a cabinet and closed the door. "Out of sight, out of mind," she thought, and it worked. Rudy's mother capitalized and his lack of:

Object permanence

Alberts Bandura's Bobo doll experiments were intended to demonstrate:

Observational learning

____ refers to the unique set of core characteristics that influence the way an individual feels, thinks, and acts.

Personality

Maturation refers to ________ development.

Physical

After Kai's serious motorcycle accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebellum. Kai is most likely to have difficulty:

Playing his guitar

After catching up on all her class readings and assignments. Leah treats herself by going to a movie with a friend. This outing is an example of ______ reinforcement.

Positive

"Cat food, cola, toothpaste." Ned's roommate recites items over the phone as he throws his books in the backseat and gets into his car. Ned is supposed to stop at the store on the way home. The roommate continues to list a few more items. Finally, he wraps up, "Coffee creamer, spaghetti sauce, dish soap, and iced tea mix." Ned forgets a a couple of things, but he does get the cat food, cola, and toothpaste. His memory for these items reflects the _____ effect.

Primacy

Reinforcers that satisfy a biological need are called _______ reinforcers.

Primary

Dreams are most often reported when sleepers wake from _______ sleep.

REM

The Anagram and Mneumonic Device that Processor Pannell gave the class for defining Memory was ________.

ROAR

If you were to lightly touch an infants cheek, they would turn and try to suckle. This reflex is called ______.

Rooting

The best-known projective test of personality is the:

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Inkblots comprise the _____, while pictures comprise the _____.

Rorschach test, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Which sequence accurately reflects the order of Piagel's stages of cognitive development, from birth through adolescence?

Sensorimotor> peroperational> concrete operational> formal operational

Tommy is repeating a series of digits in the order in which he heard an experimenter read them. The experimenter is testing the capacity of Tommy's____ memory. Tommy should be able to repeat about ____ digits correctly.

Short-term; seven

The psychologist _______ taught pigeons to bowl through _____.

Skinner; shaping

Baby Rebecca is easygoing and curious. She also adapts quickly to changes. These characteristics are part of Rebecca's _______. They will ultimately contribute to part of her adult ______.

Temperament; personality

Which is Barmrind's parenting styles tends to produce the most independent, competent, and socially responsible children?

The authoritative parenting style.

If you were to cut one hot-dog into 4 small pieces and another into 3 bigger pieces, in front of two children who have not developed a sense of conservation, which child would believe they got more?

The child with 4 smaller pieces

Which component of the personality uses defense mechanisms and why?

The ego uses defense mechanisms to prevent excessive anxiety.

What best describes the Principle of Motor Primacy?

The fact that the ability to perform physical acts at certain ages is dependent upon the development of our muscles, bones, and nervous system.

Tom rarely acts nervous in strange situations and pays little attention to whether his mother is present or absent. Tom would most likely be classified as having a(n) _____ attachment pattern.

Ambivalent

If you were told to remember that the answer to this question is B, what is the answer?

B

B.F. Skinner's work reflected the psychological school of:

Behaviorism

Professor Pannell gave the class a list of words to remember when covering chapter 6 on Memory. Which of these words was NOT on that list.

Belligerent

Dualism holds that our behavior is controlled by both ____ and ____.

Body; Mind

Time loves dill pickles, and the sight of a jar on the supermarket shelf makes his mouth water. In the terminology of classical conditioning, the sight of the jar is a(n):

CS

Rosa becomes anxious when she enters the examination room at the clinic before a blood test. She also squirms when she views the injections on television. This paragraph illustrates:

Classical conditioning and stimulus generalization

Which statement accurately represents the main distinction between classical and operant conditioning?

Classical conditioning applies to involuntary behavior, whereas operant conditioning applies to voluntary behavior.

Western legal systems that suggest that children who are 7 or 8 years old have attained the ability to reason are consistent with Piagel's theory because basic reasoning skills appear during the ______ period.

Concrete operational

Don just turned 65, and he feels as if he made no real contributions through his career. He is starting to believe that his life has been meaningless and that it has had no purpose. Based on Erikson's theory, it is likely that Don will:

Develop a sense of despair.

What defense mechanism is correctly matched with its definition?

Displacement--- an unacceptable feeling is redirected from a threatening individual to a less threatening one.

Young girls experience the _____ complex during the ______ stage of psychosexual development

Electra; phallic

The first psychology laboratory was established in ______ by ______.

Germany; Wilhelm Wundt

Identical twins are more similar in intelligence than are fraternal twins. This fact would be of most direct relevance to the _______ perspective.

behavior genetics

Boris is a prolific painter. He is prone to periods of hopelessness and depression, which are followed by periods of great creativity. It is likely that Boris is suffering from ______ disorder.

bipolar

The anxiety disorders identified in the DSM-5 do NOT include:

bipolar disorder

Circadian rhythms are regulated by:

both the suprachiasmatic nucleus and patterns of light and dark

The central nervous system consists of:

brain and spinal cord

Psychologists first learned about the hippocampus's involvement in memory through the detailed study of a single individual with brain damage, namely Henry Molaison (H.M.). The in-depth study of H.M. exemplifies the ____ research method in psychology.

case study

The "little brain" attached to the rear of the brainstem is called the.

cerebellum

Biological processes occurring on a cycle of approximately 24 hours are called:

circadian rhythms

Psychologists who study, assess, and treat troubled people are called:

clinical psychologists

According to Mary Ainsworth, a child with resistant attachment will:

continue to show signs of distress when the mother returns after a brief absence.

Marco is training his dog to sit. Initially, he gives the dog a biscuit each time the dog sits on command. Later, he gives the doga biscuit every fourth time the dog sits on command. Marco has replaced a(n) _______ schedule of reinforcement with a(n) ________ schedule.

continuous; fixed-ratio

Schizophrenia is associated with a(n):

decrease in total brain volume

Negative punishment ______ a given behavior. Negative reinforcement ______ a given behavior.

decreases, increases

In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal within a single neuron travels from the:

dendrites, cell body, axon

The primary purpose of the DSM-5 is to provide:

descriptions of disorders

Rhonda is currently attending preschool. According to Piaget, Rhonda is in the _ stage of cognitive development

preoperational

The egocentrism characteristic of Piagel's ______ stage of cognitive development reemerges in a new cognitive development.

preoperational

Psychologists use the term ______ to refer to the patterns of physical, cognitive, and socioemotional change occurring throughout life.

development

According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of intimacy versus isolation occurs:

during the early adult years.

In class we watched a film dealing with a sleep disorder. The disorder was about sleep _______.

eating

In Feud's model of the mind, the _____ acts as a mediator or negotiator.

ego

Because she drank too much alcohol, Deanna barely remembers her 21st birthday. That is, her _______memory of that evening is sketchy.

episodic

Positive punishment is:

exemplified by a spanking

______ occurs when a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency when the CS is presented in the absence of the US.

extinction

In Hans Eysenck's theory, an outgoing, active, sociable person is MOST likely high in:

extraversion

A laboratory cat could be made to twitch its whiskers by direct stimulation of the______ lobes of its cerebral cortex.

frontal

People's moral judgments are most likely to seem unrestrained by normal emotions if they have suffered damage to their:

frontal lobes

One positive symptom of schizophrenia is:

hallucinations

People with schizophrenia often have disturbed perceptions called ______, which are sensory experiences without sensory stimulation from the environment.

hallucinations

Nature is to nurture as ______ is to ______.

heredity and environment

A true "drama queen" may well have _______ personality disorder.

histrionic

People use the defense mechanism of _______ when they model their actions or feelings on those of individuals they admire.

identification

In Erikson's view, adolescent development is largely defined by the search for:

identity

According to Erikson, adolescents must resolve the psychosocial task of:

identity versus role confusion

In a psychological experiment, the actor that is manipulated by the investigator is called the _______ variable.

independent

When a parent attempts to reduce a child's unwanted behaviors by removing desired privileges, the parent is using:

negative punishment

In a Skinner box, a rat escapes a painful electric shock by pressing a lever. The rat's bar-pressing behavior is maintained by:

negative reinforcement

For Edward Thorndike's cats, fish was a _______ reinforcer.

primary

The conscious repetition of information to ensure its survival in short-term memory is termed _______ rehearsal.

primary

Knowing how to serve a badminton birdie is an example of a(n) ______ memory.

procedural

The notion that behavior is motivated by unconscious inner forces and conflicts is at the core of the _____ approach to personality.

psychoanalytic

Major depressive disorder is a set of distressing, disabling cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms. Major depressive disorder is a ______ disorder.

psychological

The function of dendrites is to:

receive incoming signals from other neurons

If Lola begins to list all the classes she's ever taken in college, she will most likely recall her last few classes particularly well. What is this phenomenon called?

recency effect

Which attachment style describes an infant who is disturbed at his mother's departure in the strange situation, but who is easily soothed on her return?

secure

Humanistic psychologists suggest that people are consciously motivated to reach their maximum potential; that is, people have a fundamental drive toward:

self-actualization

According to Carl Rogers, one's ______ contains the set of beliefs an individual holds about what she is like as a person.

self-concept

A brain tumor caused extensive damage to Mr. Thorndike's hypothalamus. It is most likely that he may suffer a loss of:

sexual motivation

Although Zebulon realizes his behavior is unreasonable, he is so distraught by high bridges that he avoids them, causing him to take an unnecessarily lengthy route to and from work each day. Zebulon appears to suffer from:

specific phobia

The sensory cortex is most critical for our sense of:

touch

According to Erikson, the first stage of a child's psychosocial development is the ______ stage.

trust versus mistrust

The distinctive feature of the psychodyamic perspective is its emphasis on:

unconscious conflicts

With negative reinforcement a(n):

unpleasant stimulus is removed following a behavior.

Playing a slot machine is reinforced on a ______ schedule.

variable ratio

One reason Carlos continues to work at his job is the check he receives every two weeks. Carlos's paycheck is a(n) ______ reinforcer.

secondary

The surgical removal of a large tumor from Dane's occipital lobe resulted in extensive loss of brain tissue. Dane is most likely to suffer some loss of :

visual perception

contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of:

behavior and mental processes

The duration of short-term memory is about:

1 to 10 seconds

In round numbers, the DSM-5 lists approximately _____ disorders.

150

Which of the following correctly matches an age to the result of successfully accomplishing the corresponding identity crisis?

24 years old: intimacy; 4 years old: generativity; 73 years old: dignity.

How long is a typical sleep cycle, in which a sleeper progresses through some or all of the sleep stages?

90 minutes

Bonnie is 3 months old and her parents are inconsistent with attending to her needs. Sometimes they are very attentive, feeding her promptly when she cries and comforting her when she seems upset. Other times, Bonnie cries for a long time before her parents attend to her. Based on Erikson's Theory, it is likely that Bonnie will develop:

A general sense of mistrust

A 4-year-old child is shown a row of seven red checkers. He is asked to place a black checker immediately above each red one. By doing so the child agrees that there are as many red as black checkers. The experimenter then spreads out the black checkers so that the line they form is longer than the one formed by the red checkers. The experimenter asks whether there are more red checkers or more black checkers in order to determine whether the child understands:

Conservation

Neurotransmitters are found in _____ which are found in the terminal buttons.

Vessicles

A sleeper's first dream usually begins:

about 90 minutes after falling asleep

A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the:

action potential

Davina is a "neat freak". She can't stand to be late for anything. Other people have to do things "just right" for her to be happy. A psychoanalytic theorist might suggest that Davia is fixated at the _____ stage of development.

anal

Kyle is extremely manipulative. He can look anyone in the eye and lie convincingly. His deceit often endangers the safety and well-being of those around him, but he is indifferent to their suffering as a result of his actions. His behavior BEST illustrates:

antisocial personality disorder

Neurotransmitters are released from vesicles located in knoblike terminals on the:

axon

A synapse is a(n):

junction between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron

The Big Five refers to the five:

key personality factors.

On his computer desktop, Rodney can see several different files, each immediately accessible. Because he is actively working on them and can open them whenever he wants, these files are in fact very similar to the kind of information held in ____ memory.

long-term

Feelings of worthlessness, difficulty concentrating, and changes in appetite are symptoms of:

major depressive disorder

To overcome the serial position effect, you could ______.

make items in the middle very odd, or unique.

If Mike is struggling to achieve generativity rather than stagnation, Mike is probably:

middle-aged

Sudden "sleep attacks" are characteristic of a sleep disorder called:

narcolepsy

Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzees in the jungle are using a research method known as:

naturalistic observation

Which psychological perspective emphasizes the interaction of the brain and body in behavior?

neuroscience perspective

The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons are called:

neurotransmitters

______ personality tests use a standard set of questions and are scored in a standardized way.

objective

Imitation is associated with ______ while consequences are associated with _______.

observational learning; operant conditioning

People who suffer from ______ disorder are so preoccupied by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions that they are unable to function in their daily lives.

obsessive-compulsive

Sally is focused on cleaning her home, which she does for four hours per day. In particular, the fringe on her rugs must be straight on both sides in all five rooms. This takes considerable time, and she often repeats this 10 to 12 times per day. Her experience is most symptomatic of ______ disorder.

obsessive-compulsive

When people suffer from ______, they often feel intense fear that something horrible is about to happen. These feelings last several minutes and include heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and dizziness.

panic disorder

Sensory neurons are in important part of the:

peripheral nervous system

According to Freud, during which stage of psychosexual development must the developing child negoiate the Oedipal conflict?

phallic

Which sequence BEST expresses the order in which the needs in Maslow's pyramid must be fulfilled, from the first to the last?

physiological and safety needs > love and belongingness > esteem > self-actualization and self-transcendence

Denise is in her mid-40s; she has never married and is childless. Her job is routine and she feels as if she hasn't really done much to contribute to society's future. In Erikson's terms, Denise is experiencing:

stagnation

What one calls one's "conscience" in everyday life corresponds to the ______ in Freud's model of the mind.

superego

A 4-year-old looks at a picture of a dragon while on the telephone with her grandfather. If Piagel's claims of egocentrism are correct, the child is likely to:

tell her grandfather to look at the dragon

Auditory stimulation is first processed in the ______ lobes.

temporal

Which brain structure receives information from all the senses except smell?

thalamus

Which brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex?

thalamus