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
