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A scientist paper included a brim image sowing that memory regions in the prefrontal cortex could hell relive depression. Which technique would be most useful for testing this hypothesis

An fMRI image showing activity in the limbic system

The process of reuptake removes neurotransmitter molecules from

Axon terminals

Axon differ from dendrites in that

Axons transmit information and dendrites receive information

Proteins are described by scientists as the

Building blocks of life

A proponent of functionalism would most likely be found in

Classroom, working to improve teaching methods

The molecule present in the chromosomes that "code" hereditary information

DNA

Which side effect is most likely following the removal of s large tumor from a patient's cerebellum

Difficulty with balance and motor coordination

Psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark found that doll tests

Exposed internalized racism in African-American children, particularly amping children attending segregated schools

Behaviorism examines ______ , whereas cognitive psychology examines _____

External behavior; internal mental processes

The fusion of your fathers sperm and your mother's egg is

Fertilization

Cognitive Psychology

Focuses on how people think, remember, and use information

You feel sick after eating leftovers you found in the back of the refrigerator. Occam's razor would the favor the hypothesis that you have

Food poisoning

What is a mainstream psychologist most likely to think about Sigmund Freud

Freudian theory is untestable and not grounded in science

According to Rene Descartes, the very fact that he is thinking proves that

He exists

Which brain region regulates hunger and thrist

Hyphothalamus

To test the impact of mood on generosity, a researcher has half of his participants watch a depressing movie and half watch a comedy. In this study, mood is the

Independent variable

Which statement about information transmission between neurons is correct

Information between two neurons passes in only one direction at the synapse

The part of the call that contains the chromosomes

Nucleus

The foundation of psychology are most closely related to which of the following discipline

Philosophy

Correlations are most useful for

Predicting behavior

To allow communications, neurons

Send chemical messages across small gaps between neurons

An emphiricist believes that the only source of knowledge about the external world is

Sensory experience

Which pair represents two distinct functional classes of neurons in the human nervous system

Sensory neurons and interneurons

Computed tomography (CT) scans

Show brain structures but not areas of brain activity

A meta-analysis most typically focuses on a multitude of

Studies

Which of the following research method would be most appropriate for investigating the relationship between political orientation and belief in climate change

Survey research

Kobe, a native English speaker, has moved to Germany and is learning to speak German. Which brain region is likely to show the greatest plasticity

Temporal lobe

All the following statements regarding gene-environment is true except

The environment has the same effect on behavior regardless of genes

A psychologist test designed to measure creativity is considered a reliable tool based on whether

The same subjects would score consistently over time

Which of the following is an empirical statement

The temperature right now is higher than it was 24 hours ago

A good scientific hypothesis is

Tied to observable phenomena

Sensory information of the ___ modality must first pass directly into the spinal cord before reaching the brain.

Touch

PET scans

Track radioactive markers in the blood

Temporarily disrupts brain activity

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

A behaviorist is helping a special-needs child complete a number of target behavior. These behaviors may include all of the following except

Understanding the value of coins

Each of our ___ consists of tightly coiled DNA

chromosomes

Gene expressing is the process by which a cell

directs a gene to make its protein

The study of the nervous system is called

neuroscience

A recessive allele affects an individual's phenotype only when it is present on

Both chromosomes

The hallmarks of psychology as a science are

Careful experimentation and the application of critical thinking

The term "plasticity" is used to describe the human brain as

Changeable

After being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Kaela had her thyroid removed. The effects of this are likely to include

Changes in metabolism

Sensory input -> participant processing information -> report, press button, etc

Cognitive psychology

The corpus callosum plays a vital role in the operation of the brain by

Connecting the left and right hemisphere

Giving a person a drug very similar in molecular shape to GABA would most likely result in

Decreased neutral activity

Which term refers to the branchlike extensions of the neurons that receive signals from other neurons

Dendrites

You at trying to overcome your fear of snakes. Inspired by the work of Mary Cover Jones, your therapist first shows you some pictures of snakes. Then she tells you that there is a small snake in an cage in the next room. She asks you to observe the live snake from a distance, and continues this process until your fear is conquered. Your therapist is using a technique called

Desensitization

The key purpose of an Institutional Review Board is to

Determine whether a proposed study is ethical

Which neurotransmitter playa an important role in signaling pleasure

Dopamine

The technique that detects voltage changes in the brains is

Electroencephalography (EEG)

The thyroid and the pituitary gland are part of the

Endocrine system

The scientific study of factors that affect gene expression

Epigenetics

Main purpose of inferential statistics is to

Estimate a characteristic of a population based on a sample

All details about the emails are identical except whether they appear to come from males or females and from whites or nonwhites. This is ____ research, and found ____

Experimental; bias against women and minorities

The movement of the breeze may changes the way your skin cells generate proteins

Gene expression

The belief that genes determine everything about us, including our behavior, is referred to as

Genetic determinism

Your ____ never changes

Genotype

How is natural selection related to psychology

Ham and behave as they do in part because that behavior promotes survival

In the homunculus fang corresponds to the mapping of the somatosensory cortex, which body part occupies the largest area

Hand

Psychologists now believe that subliminal advertising

Has a weak effect on consumers, if any at all

Which of the following samples would produce a nearly normal distribution

Heights of all adults men in America

Which of the following is a myth of psychology

Heritable traits, such as IQ, cannot be altered by experience

The endocrine system controls

Hormone production and release

Scientific investigation of Clever Hans revealed that

Horses respond to unintended cues from their owners

Which type of neurons is most common in the brain

Interneuron

Research participants in early psychology studies might have been given a stimulus such as sticking metronome and would reflect on the experience, reporting that the stimulus made them think and feel. These individuals would have been using a process called

Introspection

Strong interference

Involves designing research with the potential to disprove a hypothesis

When administered to subjects in an excitement, a placebo is a treatment that

Is believed to be free of medical effects

Which of the following factors would most severely reduce the usefulness of a placebo in a controlled experiment

It is relatively easy for subjects to distinguish the placebo from a potentially effective treatment

If a doctor stimulates your occipital lobe, which would you be most likely to experience

Lights and colors

A college professor testing two different study skills interventions tosses a coin to decode which type of training each student will get, the professor does this to

Make it less likely that there will be pre-existing differences between the groups

Which of the following is a measure of central tendency

Median

The hippocampus plays a significant role in

Memory

A mutation is defined as involving the

Miscopying of a gene

A punch is painful, while a hug is not, because a punch produces ___ action potentials from each sensory neuron

More frequent

How do gene mutations contribute to evolution

Natural selection favors beneficial mutations, so they survive and pass on to future generation

A manager at a science museum wants to identify the most popular exhibits. This is an example of

Naturalistic observation

A researcher hoping to identify autism's early warning signs collects home videos of autistic teens. This is an example of

Naturalistic observation

complex behavior in controlled by

Neural networks

Otto Loewi electrically stimulates a nerve in a frog heart. He then applied fluid surrounding that heart to a second heart. In this experiment, he found evidence that

Neurons communicate chemically

Scientific investigation has revealed that the "Mozart Effect" is

Not substantiated through research

After her stroke, Mei had difficulty with her vision. She most likely experience damages to her

Occipital lobe

Which statement distinguished a genotype from a phenotype

Only a genotype is determine at the moment of fertilization

When psychologists use the term "nature" to refer to causes of behaviors, they mean

Our genes are strictly biological influences

An overwhelming amount of scientific evidence indicates that

People are born with specific sexual orientation

Although very few people would admit to a belief immediately, even though the medication typically takes weeks to work. This is an example of

Placebo effect

To learn more about the gaming habits of teenage boys, a professor randomly selected fifty boys from various high schools for a video game study. In this study, all teenage boys make up the

Population

Reliability refers to whether your measurement tool ___ and validity to whether it ___

Produces repeatable results; measures what it is supposed to measure

In plato's cave allegory, a prisoner was temporarily unchained and allowed to see the fire at the mouth of the cave. When he returned to the chains, the other prisoners

Refused to believe him

As the number of pirates in the world has decreased, the mean global temperature has increased. This is an example of

Spurious relationship

A cross country runner wants to know how consistent her race time have been this season. Most useful measure

Standard deviation

To decide whether first-year students given study skills have a better GPA at the end of the year than the students without training, researchers will need to determine the

Statistical significance of GPA

Which of the following is true about the strength of a correlation

The closer a correlation is to 0.00, the weaker the relationship

As you and your roommate watch a news report about a big find that broke out at a local club, he turns to you and says, "I'm not surprised. It's a full moon after all." Your response should be

When you look at police records, the actual data do not really support that idea

A research team is investigating the impact of stereotypes on performance. Researchers time the test and score the number of items women answered correctly. Which of the following is the independent variable

Which article the women read

The Tuskegee syphilis study raised serious concerns about ethical research because the researchers

Withheld information from test subjects about their condition

Most involved in allowing you to fell an annoying pebble in your shoe

Your brain's frontal lobe

Which of the following would be evidence against the social brain hypothesis

Your sister is clearly able to engage in meaningful social interactions with all of her 500 friends on Tumblr

Myelinated axons are useful because they

allow action potentials to travel more quickly

Debi just ran a marathon in less than four hours and felt no pain during the run. Her lack of pain was most likely due to

endorphins

Students of introductory psychology may be sulfide to learn that

many of their beliefs about the causes of thoughts and behaviors are incorrect

Psychology is best defined as the study of

mind and behavior

White matter refers to

parts of the brain filled with myelinated axons