1 - Tester/examiner not the key towards the process.
Psychological Testing
2 - Testing a hypothesis often involves a(n):
experiment
3 - Tests According to Administration:
Only (A) & (B)
4 - Tests According to Purposes of Measurement:
All of the above
5 - Tests should be which of the following?
reliable, valid, and standardized
6 - Tests that are standardized have which of the following two requirements?
test takers are given the same questions and it is graded in a standard way
7 - Tests that employ real life problems that the examinee is likely to face on the job are called ___________?
Situational tests
8 - Texting or checking you social media is a ..... schedule.
Variable-interval
9 - That driver is an idiot for speeding, but when I speed it's because I'm in a hurry and I'm being very careful. What's this an example of?
Actor-Observer Bias
10 - That eerie sense that you have experienced something before.
deja vu
11 - That its finding cannot be checked by other researchers is a criticism frequently leveled at proponents of_____________?
introspectionsim
12 - That the upper part of the body develops earlier than the lower part is termed ________________?
cephalocaudal
13 - The " Nurture" aspect of behavior focuses on
How our environment after birth influences behavior
14 - The "Black Box" model suggests what about the human mind? (choose two that fit best)
Only (A) & (B)
15 - The "degradation process" that Zimbardo organised for his participants at the beginning of the experiment.....
.....included stripping, blindfolding and delousing the participants who were to be "prisoners".
16 - The "fight-or-flight" response to a stressful event is activated by the
sympathetic nervous system
17 - The "fundamental attribution error" phenomenon can best be seen in which of the following examples
Bill doesn't hire John bc he believes that John's lateness is a result of John's laziness & lack of respect for the job. In reality, John was late bc he got a flat tire on the way to the interview
18 - The "goals of psychology" include all of the following except:
Monitor behavior
19 - The "hierarchy of needs" was developed by
Abraham Maslow
20 - The "Id" is defined as which part of the subconscious?
Basic instincts.
21 - The "Id" is defined as which part of your human personality?
Meeting basic needs
22 - The "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon.
hindsight bias
23 - The "just noticeable" change in a stimulus depends on the strength of original stimulus. This is known as
Weber's Law
24 - The "Law of effect" was coined by _________.
Thorndike
25 - The "learner" in the Milgram study:
was an actor that followed a script
26 - The "Little Albert Experiment" was a controversial study done by which of these people:
John Watson
27 - The "local" stimulus theory of hunger is associated with the name of ___________?
Cannon
28 - The "lock and key" theory of neurotransmitter action at the synapse holds that
the neurotransmitter acts as a key by binding to and opening specific receptor sites causing changes in the cell.
29 - The "nature" argument suggests that people socialize and behave in certain ways because of
the way they are born
30 - The "Saving method" developed by Ebbinghaus to measure memory performance was an early form of measuring ________________?
implicit memory
31 - The (APA) stands for .....
the American Psychological Association.
32 - The ..... (confederate) was in on the Milgram experiment while the ..... (participant) was not.
Learner, Teacher
33 - The ..... ..... refers to the participants' behavior being influenced by their expectations of how they should behave, caused by the belief that they have received some treatment.
placebo effect
34 - The ..... assist us to see in conditions of dim light; whereas the ..... assist us to see fine detail, in colour and in bright light.
rods; cones
35 - The ..... began studying human behavior in the fifth & sixth centuries B.C. and decided that humans were rational beings.
Greeks
36 - The ..... carry impulses between neurons in the body.
interneurons
37 - The ..... culture is regarded as embedded in relationships, and harmony with one's group is prized above individual goals and wishes.
collectivist
38 - The ..... design exposes participants to each condition making up the independent variable.
repeated measures
39 - The ..... detect fine detail and give rise to color sensation.
cones
40 - The ..... goals of research were the same as the goals of Psychology.
4
41 - The ..... helps decide what memories transfer from the short to long term memory.
Hippocampus
42 - The ..... is a change in a participant's illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect rather than from the actual treatment itself.
placebo effect
43 - The ..... is a measure of distractibility by using lists of words which are first the same then different colors than the word being read.
Stroop Effect
44 - The ..... is a measure of the degree of variation among a set of scores from each other.
standard deviation
45 - The ..... is a relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of your memory system.
Long-term memory
46 - The ..... is applicable to children from 3 to 10 years old
CAT-A
47 - The ..... is composed of the brain and spinal cord
Central Nervous System
48 - The ..... is controlled by the experimenter, while the ..... represents the information collected and statistically analyzed by the experimenter.
independent variable; dependent variable
49 - The ..... is the development of an image of oneself, which is based on what people are told by others, and how the sense of self is reflected in the words and actions of important people in one's life, such as parents, siblings, friends, etc.
Self-Concept
50 - The ..... is the largest part of the brain
Cerebrum
51 - The ..... is the most frequently occuring score(s) in a distribution.
mode
52 - The ..... is the one manipulated by the researcher.
IV
53 - The ..... layer of consciousness contains all the drives, urges, or instincts that are outside awareness but nonetheless motivate most of one's speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions.
unconscious
54 - The ..... located at the rear base of the skull, involved in the basic processes of life
hindbrain
55 - The ..... may alter our memories based on our past experiences, moods, and interpretations of past memories.
Reconstructive Process
56 - The ..... method of research is where the researcher carefully and systematically observes and records behavior without interfering.
Observational
57 - The ..... method refers to a process for conducting an objective inquiry through data collection/research and analysis.
scientific
58 - The ..... nervous system controls unconscious activities.
autonomic
59 - The ..... of personality development emphasizes how behavior is learned and maintained through the interaction between individuals and their environment.
social cognitive learning theory
60 - The ..... perspective argures that people can learn by experience and by observing others.
learning
61 - The ..... perspective emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with thoughts, feelings, and actions.
biological
62 - The ..... perspective of psychology deals with how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures.
socio-cultural
63 - The ..... perspective, meaning whole, explains how you are able to make out a dog in the image above
Gestalt
64 - The ..... places less emphasis on research and more emphasis on application of therapeutic skills.
PsyD
65 - The ..... regulates body temperature, concentration of fluid, storage of nutrients, motivation, and emotion.
Hypothalamus
66 - The ..... self emerges in relation with others and emphasizes such aspects of life as cooperation, support, caring etc.
Social
67 - The ..... send and receive messages from the brain.
Nerves
68 - The ..... were told to give the incorrect answer in the conformity experiment.
Confederates
69 - The .....can excite a neuron or stop it from transmitting.
neurotransmitter
70 - The .....is expected to change as the IV changes.
DV
71 - The .....is the part of the brain that holds the hemispheres together.
corpus callosum
72 - The .....nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord.
central
73 - The .....theory of dreaming says that our brains are meant to be active, even while our bodies are resting.
continual activation
74 - The _________ law of psychology deals with least noticeable difference in different stimuli?
Weber-Fechner Law
75 - The ___________ gland is an endocrine gland controlling growth and stimulating other endocrine glands?
pituitary
76 - The ___________ is responsible for the transmission of an impulse between neurons?
acetylcholine
77 - The ____________ act as a relay station for information coming from the mid and hindbrains and going to the cortex?
thalamus
78 - The ____________ gland is frequently referred as ‘master gland’ since it regulates the activity of many other glands?
pituitary
79 - The ____________ is associated with the non-dominant hemisphere?
recognition of faces
80 - The ____________ is not a neurotransmitter?
opioid peptides
81 - The ______________ mobilizes the body by secreting epinephrine in stressful situation?
adrenal medulla
82 - The 1956 New York study mentioned in class and in your textbook was a ..... study.
longitudinal
83 - The 3 components of attitude are:
cognitive, affective and behavioural
84 - The 3 key terms in the Psychology definition are:
Scientific, Mental Processes, Behaviour
85 - The 3 Stages of Memory are.....
Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
86 - The 3 stages of the memory process are:
Encoding, storage, retrieval
87 - The 3 steps involved in Encoding are.....
1) select a stimulus 2) identify distinct features3) label it
88 - The 3 types of long term memory are:
Episodic, semantic, procedural
89 - The 5 basic taste modalities:
All of the above
90 - The 7 steps in psychological research, they are?
Identify the research problem, form a hypothesis, design a method, collect the data, analyse the data, interpret the data, report the research findings.
91 - The ‘fight for fight’ response to a perceived threat is associated with increased activity of ____________?
sympathetic nervous system
92 - The ‘white matter’ of the central nervous system is actually ____________?
nerve fiber pathways
93 - The ability for mechanically repeating an experience even without understanding is called as .....
Rote memory
94 - the ability of a person to help another achieve his or her goals
utility value
95 - the ability of a person to interest you in or to expose you to new ideas and experiences
stimulation value
96 - the ability of a person to provide another person with sympathy, encouragement and approval
ego-support value
97 - The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
Validity
98 - The ability of brain tissue to take on new functions, usually occurs after parts of the brain have been damaged
Brain Plasticity
99 - The ability of our brain to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience is know as
plasticity
100 - The ability of young children to use two-word sentences is referred to as __________________?
telegraphic speech
101 - The ability to accurately estimate the distance of objects and therefore perceive the world in three dimensions
Depth Perception
102 - the ability to apply what we find in a small group to a larger population
generalizability
103 - The ability to attend to one voice among many
Cocktail party effect
104 - The ability to be optimistic and view the past, present, and future in an uplifting perspective refers to which of the 5 drives of happiness? (according to Seligman's model)
Positive emotion
105 - The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term goals is most clearly a characteristic of
emotional intelligence.
106 - The ability to deal with new problems and encounters is technically called as___________?
Fluid intelligence
107 - The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?
discrimination
108 - The ability to exercise precise control over a variable is what distinguishes the _____________ method from other methods of scientific observation?
experimental
109 - The ability to focus on a task, topic or subject is the definition of which concept;
attention
110 - The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?
selective attention
111 - The ability to interact with others in socially acceptable ways is called?
social development
112 - The ability to invent new solutions to problems
Creativity
113 - The ability to locate and recover information from memory is called.....
Retrieval
114 - The ability to move objects with mental concentration is an example of ___________?
psychokinesis
115 - the ability to perceive 3 dimensional space and to judge distances
depth perception
116 - the ability to perceive an object as being the same size despite the fact that the size of its retinal image changes depending on its distance from the observer.
Size Constancy
117 - the ability to perceive an object as the same color regardless of the environment
color constancy
118 - The ability to perceive the world in three dimensions.
depth perception
119 - The ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions.
Emotional Intelligence
120 - The ability to perceive, understand, and manage, and use emotions.
emotional intelligence "EQ"/Social Intelligence
121 - The ability to perceive, use, understand, and manage emotions is called?
Emotional Intelligence
122 - the ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short-term exposure
eidetic memory
123 - the ability to respond differently to similar but distinct stimuli
discrimination
124 - The ability to see in three dimensions
Depth perception
125 - The ability to see objects and movement outside of the direct line of vision is called
peripheral vision
126 - The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
perception
127 - The ability to simultaneously process the pitch, loudness, melody, and meaning of a song best illustrates
parallel processing.
128 - The ability to stick with something.
persistence
129 - The ability to think abstractly and to learn. readily from experience is
Intelligence
130 - The ability to think of words rapidly in response to a cue.
word fluency
131 - The ability to understand conservation of matter is characteristic of the end of which stage of development?
Pre Operational stage
132 - The ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:
Formal Operational Stage
133 - The ability to use information in such a way that the result is somehow new, original, and meaningful is:
creativity
134 - the ability to use logic, solve problems and think abstractly emerges during
formal operational stage
135 - The ability to view the world in 3 dimensions and perceive distance is ___________?
Depth perception
136 - The above definition of health is compatible with definition by
World Health Organization (1948)
137 - The absolute threshold is the ..... that a person can detect half of the time.
weakest amount of a stimulus
138 - The academic related psychological problems are dealt by_________?
Academic Psychologist
139 - The accuracy of memories can be influenced by
all of the above
140 - The acronym CEO means.....
Chief Execuive Officer
141 - The acronym EDDCWIV stands for?
Ethics, Deception, Debriefing, Confidentiality, Withdrawal Rights, Informed Consent, Voluntary Participation.
142 - The ACT and SAT as well as AP exams should have ..... validity for college.
predictive
143 - The act of attempting to achieve a particular outcome through concentrating and mediating upon that outcome.
Visualization
144 - The act of filling in memory gaps
Confabulation
145 - the act of filling in memory with statements that make sense but that may be untrue
confabulation
146 - The act of of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar to each other.
Discrimination
147 - The act of responding in the same ways to stimuli that seem to be similar
Generalization
148 - the act or process of causing something (e.g., a disease) to pass from one place or person to another.
Transmission
149 - The action potential ‘jumps’ along an axon. The gaps in a myelinated axon that the action potential ‘jumps’ to are called the ____________?
Nodes of Ranvier
150 - The activation of associations in our memory that helps us recall information much quicker is known as .....
priming
151 - the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response.
priming
152 - The active reconstruction of information is called
recall
153 - The actor who plays Harry Potter.
Daniel Radcliffe
154 - The actual person or self who must balance the struggles of the sub conscious.
Ego
155 - The addition of ..... helped psychology become recognized as a science in 1879.
the scientific method
156 - The adjustable opening in the center of the eye which light enters.
Pupil
157 - The adjustment of one's schemas to include newly observed events and experiences
Accommodation
158 - The Adrenal glands are located
on top of the kidneys
159 - The advantage of ..... is that the behavior observed in the subject(s) natural environment to be more natural, spontaneous, and varied than that observed in a laboratory.
natural observation
160 - The advantage of ..... is that they create an immense amount of data that can be gathered quickly and inexpensively.
Surveys
161 - The advantage of a repeated measures design is:
controlling the subject variability
162 - The advantage of a(n) ..... is that it yields a great deal of detailed descriptive information.
Case Study
163 - The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that it creates an immense amount of data to be gathered quickly and inexpensively.
Survey
164 - The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that it yields a great deal of detailed descriptive information and they are very useful in forming a hypothesis
Case Study
165 - The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that the strict control of variables offers researchers the opportunity to draw conclusions about cause and effect relationships.
Experiments
166 - The advantage of this method of research is that it can help predict behavior by identifying relationships between variables.
Correlational
167 - The advantage of this method of research is that it can help to clarify relationships between variable that cannot be explained by other research methods, in other words- predictions.
Correlational
168 - The advantage of this method of research is that the behavior observed in the subject(s) natural environment to be more natural, spontaneous, and varied than that observed in a laboratory.
Naturalistic
169 - The advantage(s) of random sampling include (select all the answers which apply):
Only (A) & (B)
170 - The advantages of interview method
All of the above
171 - The age level at which the child cannot pass any of the items of particular subtest is called
Ceiling age
172 - The age range of Concrete Operational stage
44723
173 - The age range of Formal Operational stage
11 and beyond
174 - The age range of Preoperational stage
44598
175 - The age range of Sensorimotor stage
0-2
176 - The Agentic state involves a move from autonomous to agentic state. What is this move called?
Agentic Shift
177 - The aim of an experiment is to?
States the purpose and explains what the experimenter wants to achieve or investigate.
178 - The aim of the first experiment was to.....
To see if retention of items was affected by interference during recall intervals.
179 - The alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed
Hawthorne Effect
180 - The alternative uses test (Ex. How many uses for a sock can you think of?) is a measure of
creative intelligence.
181 - The American behavioral psychologist who is famous for his experiments using Operant Conditioning his famous "box".
F. Skinner
182 - The American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism.
John Broadus Watson
183 - The Ames room illusion demonstrates that:
if two things appear to be the same distance away but have retinal images indicating that they are different sizes, then perceived size is determined by the size of the retinal images.
184 - The 'Ames' Room illusion illustrates:
Misinterpreted depth cues
185 - The amount of ..... ..... often determines the level of trust and trustworthiness
eye contact
186 - The amount of information that can be held in a memory store is referred to as:
Capacity
187 - The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by changes in the size of the
pupil
188 - The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by the
iris
189 - The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by the _______________?
iris
190 - The amplitude of sound is measured in units called ________________?
decibels
191 - The Amygdala is located in the
temporal lobe
192 - The analysis of the smaller features to build up to a complete perception.
bottom-up processing
193 - The ancient Greeks explained the internal workings of the mind as?
the soul within us
194 - The Ancient Greeks were the forefathers of philosophy, but which of these philosophers never wrote a thing down?
Socrates
195 - The answers of Free Description Tasks are examined by
two or more individuals
196 - The AP Psychology exam is an example of a(n).....
achievement test
197 - The AP Psychology test in May will be a(n)
achievement test
198 - the aperture through which light passes on entering the eye.
Pupil
199 - The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces.
Industrial Organizational
200 - The application of psychological theories, methods and techniques to solve practical human problems describes an area of psychology known as ____________?
Applied psychology
201 - the application of the principals of biology to the study of psychological genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans
biological psychology
202 - The applied field of psychology that seeks to assess, understand and treat psychological conditions in clinical practice is called .....
Clinical Psychology
203 - The approach that suggest behavior is influenced by unconscious is ___________?
psychoanalysis
204 - The approach-approach conflict involves ____________?
An oscillation of (A. and (B.
205 - The area between the eardrum and the oval window is occupied by the _______________?
ossicles
206 - The area of space in which a sensory receptor can respond to a stimulus or the specific area of sensitivity of a receptor cell where a stimulus will affect its activity
Receptive field
207 - The area of the brain stem that is important in controlling breathing is the
Medulla
208 - the area of the brain that is important for memory storage is the
hippocampus
209 - The area of the brain that receives information from the nose is directly connected to the limbic system, rather than relayed first through the thalamus. This connection may explain why smells are often involved in.....
vivid memories
210 - The area of the brain that regulates hunger, thirst and other drives.
hypothalamus
211 - The area of the brain where short-term memories are transferred to long-term memory is the _________________?
hippocampus
212 - The area of the brain where the sense of smell is processed is the _____________?
olfactory bulbs
213 - the area of the monocular visual field in which stimulation cannot be perceived because the image falls on the site of the optic disk in the eye.
Blind spot
214 - the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale
range
215 - The areas of the brain involved in processing language are:
Broca's area, Wernicke's area and Geschwind's territory.
216 - The areas of the brain that are associated with memory and are most likely to be affected by Alzheimer's disease are the
hippocampus followed by the cerebral cortex
217 - The arithmetic average of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores.
Mean
218 - The Asch Effect refers to
how an individual agrees with the majority, even if the majority is wrong
219 - The assessment on each paper contains what?
All the above
220 - The assessment tools upon which clinicians depends gather information about their clients belong in which of the following categories ?
All of these choices
221 - The association cortex makes up what percent of the cerebral cortex
0.75
222 - The attitude behaviour link : Study was conducted by
Lapiere
223 - the attraction that often develops between opposite types of people because of the ability of one to supply what the other lacks
complementarity
224 - The attribution of achievements to disposition, and failures to situation is known as .....
self serving bias
225 - The augmentation principle in minority influence refers to:
How members of the minority make personal sacrifices
226 - The automatic nervous system regulates the actions of the .....
Involuntary muscles and organs
227 - The automobile accident study conducted by Loftus and Palmer (1974) illustrated that
new information can be integrated into memory and transform those memories.
228 - The autonomic nervous system is comprised of the sympathetic nervous system and the:
parasympathetic nervous system
229 - The autonomic nervous system is divided into what branches?
Sympathetic and parasympathetic branches
230 - The average is also known as.....
mean
231 - The average person can hold in short-term memory a list of
7 items
232 - The axon of a neuron carries neural messages ..... the cell body, the dendritescarry neural messages ..... the cell body.
away from; towards
233 - The back layer of the retina contains photoreceptors (rods and cones) which detect light waves and convert them to electrochemical energy. The rods are best at detecting:
black and white
234 - The band of muscles behind the cornea that gives the eye its color and controls the size of the pupil is known as the ..... .
iris
235 - The base for Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid is
Physiological
236 - The basic assumption of humanistic theories include ___________?
Humans are basically good and worthy
237 - The basic cognitive processes refer to .
Sensation, perception and consciousness
238 - the basic memory process involves
Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
239 - The basic necessities of life.
fundamental needs
240 - The basic premise is that everything must be considered as part of a whole, not just the sum of its parts
Gestalt
241 - The basic premise is that human behaviour and cognition are largely determined by instinctual drives that are rooted in the unconscious
Psychoanalysis
242 - The basic premise is that human nature and behavior should not be viewed as pessimistic as behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
Humanism
243 - The basic premise is that overt and observable behavior should be the subject of study
Behaviorism
244 - The basic unit of the nervous system is the.....
neuron
245 - The basilar membrane is located in the
cochlea.
246 - The basis of Sheldon's classification of personality is.....
body build
247 - The behavior or mental process that is measured in an experiment (the effect)
dependent variable
248 - The behavior that would be most difficult to extinguish would be the one that was:
Reinforced intermittently
249 - The behavior which develops through experience and helps animals gain new skills for survival is called as
Learned behaviour
250 - The BEHAVIORAL approach deals with:
how we learn to behave as we do, how we respond to environmental stimulus
251 - The behaviour that animals carry out without learning is called .....
Innate behaviour
252 - The belief that a desired behaviour can be performed is the definition of.....
Confidence
253 - The belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation.
Empiricism
254 - The belief that all human beings have an innate predisposition toward submitting to Allah and acting morally.
Fitrah
255 - The belief that decisions are best handled at the organizational or societal level closest to the issues or persons affected.
Subsidiarity
256 - The belief that human beings are composed of a single substance.
Mind/Body Monism
257 - The belief that human beings are composed of immaterial minds and material bodies.
Mind/Body Dualism
258 - The belief that human beings are social constructions without any singular identifiable essence, nature, or soul.
Decentered self
259 - The belief that prior knowledge helps learners as a stepping stone to learning more complex information.
scaffolding
260 - the belief that psychological disturbance is due to a unique human need to reach potential is held by
humanists
261 - The belief that those who suffer deserve their fate is expressed in the.....
just-world phenomenon
262 - The bell in the image (C) represents the
CS
263 - The benefit of naturalistic observation studies is .....
the honesty of the data that is collected in a realistic setting
264 - The benefit of this descriptive research is that it allows researchers to view naturally occurring behaviors without controlling the situation.
Natural observation
265 - The best definition of a random sample is:
a group of participants selected from the population in such a way that each member of the population has an equal chance of selection
266 - The best definition of Cognitive Psychology would be
The study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think.
267 - The best definition of Educational Psychology is a study of teaching and learning" has been given by
Charles E. Skinner
268 - The best definition of psychotherapy includes ______________?
A sufferer, a healer and a systematic interaction between the two
269 - The best description for 5 is:
Regulates internal organs
270 - the best description of the aim of the Pepperberg was to see:
if an avian can comprehend concepts of same and different
271 - The best place to start learning about ethical consideration of research is the ..... created by the World Medical Association.
Declaration of Helsinki
272 - The best strategy a personal trainer could use with precontemplators is to:
educate them and suggest where they might get information to become more active.
273 - The best studied perceptual constancies include ________________?
color, texture, content
274 - The best synonym for conditioning is.....
learning
275 - The best type of leadership.
situational
276 - The best way to assure that there is no bias in a study is to have a.....
Double-blind procedure
277 - The better people are at thinking of multiple solutions.....
the more hopeful they will be of achieving their goal.
278 - The Big 5 Framework includes openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness & .....
Neuroticism
279 - The Big Five personality traits are:
emotional stability, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness
280 - The biggest danger of relying on case-study evidence is that it
may be unrepresentative of what is generally true.
281 - The Binet scale for Intelligence which was pub-lished in 1905 was revised in the years
1908 and again in 1911
282 - The Binet-Simon scale was adapted for American use by ___________?
Terman
283 - the Binocular depth Cue; Convergence shows us something is closer when.....
our eye muscles have to work harder
284 - The biological and behavioral perspectives are most likely to differ with respect to the issue of ____________?
nature versus nature
285 - The BIOLOGICAL approach involves:
genes, hormones, processes of the brain
286 - The biopsychosocial approach emphasizes the importance of
different levels of analysis in exploring behavior and mental processes.
287 - The bio-psycho-social model:
All of the above
288 - The blind spot is
where the optic nerve connects to the retina
289 - The board of directors has the ultimate decision-making authority and, in general, is empowered to.....
All of the above
290 - The Bobo the Doll Experiment was based on these 2 types of learning:
Only (A) & (B)
291 - The body's response to real or imagined dangers or other life events.
stress
292 - The body's speedy communication network, which consist of the brain and spinal cord:
Central Nervous System
293 - the body's way of responding to stress
fight or flight
294 - The body's way of responding to threats is:
Fight or Flight
295 - The box in which he tested animals' responses to rewards on varying schedules has come to symbolize operant conditioning.
Skinner
296 - The brain and spinal chord are apart of the
Central nervous system
297 - The brain and spinal cord are the only two parts of the ..... nervous system
Central
298 - The brain and spinal cord comprise the
Central NS
299 - The brain area central to language production is __________?
Broca’s area
300 - The brain breaks vision into separate dimensions such as color, depth, movement and form, and works on each aspect simultaneously. This is known as:
Parallel processing
301 - The brain changes through interaction with the environment in a process called
Neuroplasticity
302 - The brain gets information about the world through through senses. Which of the following is an example of senses?
all of these
303 - The brain is divided into what three main regions?
All of the above
304 - The brain is divided up into all of the following regions, except:
Backbrain
305 - The brain receives messages and stimuli from our ..... to search for a response.
senses
306 - The brain stem
controls our autonomic functions and is the most highly developed part of the brain at birth
307 - The brain structure located in the center of the brain which has role in emotions is
Limbic system
308 - The brain structure that plays a critical role in ‘motivated’ behaviors such as eating and sexual activity is the ___________?
hypothalamus
309 - The brain versus heart debate began during ancient times. Which of the following is NOT true?
Plato considered the heart as the centre of intelligence and personality.
310 - The brain waves your teacher hopes you have during class fully awake brain.
Awake and alert (Beta)
311 - The brain's "sensory switchboard": directs sensory messages to proper area of the brain
thalamus
312 - The brain's supporting cells are called:
glial cells
313 - The brain's tendency to fill in gaps to create whole, complete objects is known as
Closure
314 - The brain's tendency to group nearby figures together is known as
Proximity
315 - The brain's tendency to group together figures that are similar to each other is known as
similarity
316 - The branch of mathematics that allows researchers to organize and evaluate data
statistics
317 - the branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
psychiatry
318 - The branch of psychology concerned with the study of animal behavior.
comparative psychology
319 - The branch of psychology that designs tests to assess IQ, aptitude and other measures of human potential is __________________?
psychometrics
320 - The branch of psychology that emphasizes that perception is more than the sum of its parts is
Gestalt psychology
321 - The branch of psychology that emphasizes the study of healthy productive emotions is called?
Humanistic Approach
322 - The branch of psychology that looks at the physical and biological bases of behavior.
Biological
323 - The branch of psychology that only deals with behavior that can be observed and measured.
Behavioral
324 - The branch of psychology that only deals with what can be observed and measured.
Behavioral
325 - The branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole
social psychology
326 - The branch of psychology which is related with diagnosis and treatment of mental disease
Clinical psychology
327 - The bundle of nerve fibers that connect the two hemispheres.
corpus callosum
328 - The burning of indigenous ancient manuscripts by colonizers is a form of :
Destruction and desecration
329 - The bystander effect increases with
the size of the crowd.
330 - The Bystander Effect says that we are more likely to ASK FOR HELP if .....
we are the only witness to an event than if others are also witnesses
331 - The cake has a sweet smell is a ..... assessment.
Qualitative
332 - The Cannon-Bard theory of emotions emphasis the role of the ___________?
Thalamus and hypothalamus
333 - The capacity of short-term memory can be increased through ________________?
chunking
334 - The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?
plasticity
335 - The capacity to learn from experience, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with the envirnoment
Inteligence
336 - The capacity to learn new ways of solving problems and performing activities is called?
Fluid Intelligence
337 - The cardinal rule of naturalistic observation is to
Avoid disturbing the participants.
338 - The case of HM supports the multi-store model because he:
Had a good immediate memory span but could not remember whom he had spoken to just one hour earlier.
339 - The case study of KF supports the WMM because he had:
Poor STM for verbal material but near-normal STM for visual information
340 - The case study of Phineas Gage demonstrates the effects of brain injury to the cortex in the ..... lobe
frontal
341 - The case study of Phineas Gage was so astonishing because.....
An iron rod was driven through his frontal lobe yet he survived and maintained ability to speak and think
342 - The cell body
soma
343 - The cell phone listed as third best on an online electronics review website.
Ordinal
344 - The cells that response to changes in their environment and signal these changes into nervous system are called ___________?
receptor
345 - The cells that serve as the building blocks of the body’s information processing system are called ____________?
neurons
346 - The central concept in Gestalt therapy is_____________?
Awareness
347 - The central focal point in the retina where cones are heavily concentrated is known as the
fovea
348 - The central nervous consists of what?
Brain and Spinal cord
349 - The central nervous system comprises which two major features?
the brain and spinal cord
350 - The Central Nervous System consists of which two parts?
Only (A) & (B)
351 - The central nervous system is composed of
the brain and the spinal cord
352 - The central nervous system is made up of what parts?
Brain and spinal cord
353 - The CENTRAL nervous system is made up of which two organs?
Brain and Spinal Cord
354 - The central principle of SIT is that group members of an .....-group will seek to find negative aspects of the .....-group in order to enhance their own self-image.
In, Out
355 - The cerebellum and cerebrum are ____________?
Functionally independent
356 - The cerebellum functions prominently in ___________?
muscle movement coordination
357 - The Cerebellum is located.....
in the back of your brain.
358 - The cerebellum, also called the "little brain, " is responsible mainly for.....
voluntary movement and balance
359 - The cerebral cortex of the human brain is a much-folded layer covering the cerebrum. What is the advantage of this folding?
All the answers are correct.
360 - The cerebral cortex receives information from the ___________?
all of the above
361 - The Cerebral Cortex:
Stores explicit memories
362 - The cerebral hemisphere is connected by a band of fibers called the .....
corpus callosum
363 - The cerebrum controls
All of the above
364 - The Cerebrum helps.....
Control how you think and speak.
365 - The change in neural connections within the brain that occurs as a result of maturation is referred to as
developmental plasticity
366 - The changes in behavioral tendencies that result from experience.
learning
367 - The Chapter 9 test we just took over developmental psychology is an example of a(n)
achievement test
368 - The characteristics of savant syndrome have been used to support
Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences.
369 - The chemical messengers that travel across the synapse of neurons are known as
neurotransmitters
370 - The chemicals that bridge the synaptic gap are referred to as:
neurotransmitters
371 - The Chief Method of free association and dream analysis are in the major schools of
Psychoanalysis
372 - The child becomes socialized
gradually
373 - The child who says "milk gone" is engaging in ..... This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of .....
Telegraphic speech; syntax
374 - The children’s game of ‘peak-a-boo’ centers around which of the following developmental concepts?
object permanence
375 - the child's attachment relationship with their primary caregiver leads to the development of an internal working model, according to which theorist
Bowlby
376 - The chimpanzee Sultan used a short stick to pull a longer stick into his cage. He then used the longer stick to reach a piece of fruit. Researchers hypothesized that Sultan's discovery of the solution to his problem was the result of:
Insight
377 - the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
mental age
378 - The circled structure in this image is called.....
Taste pore
379 - The classic gate-control theory suggests that pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the.....
spinal cord
380 - The classic studies of Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Experiment) and Milgram (obedience to authority) both breached the currently prescribed ethical requirement for
protection from physical and/or psychological harm.
381 - The classification of cognitive domain was presented by
Benjamin S. Bloom
382 - The classification system most widely used across the world due to its language accessibility and cost is the .....
ICD
383 - The clinical interview typically includes _______________?
the initial diagnosis of a client’s psychological functioning
384 - The cloth mother and the wire mother were what?
Independent variable
385 - The cochlea is a
fluid-filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses.
386 - The cochlea is responsible for:
Transforming vibrations into neural signals
387 - The cocktail party effect provides an example of:
selective attention
388 - The COGNITIIVE approach deals with:
how mental processes and thoughts affect our behavior
389 - The cognitive approach suggests that
Our behaviour is motivated by the way we think
390 - The cognitive field theory was developed by _________________?
Tolman
391 - The cognitive perspective focuses on ..... processes to explain human behvaior.
mental
392 - The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how
people encode, process, store and retrieve information.
393 - THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION HAS LED TO US BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES AND TO.....
TREAT DISORDERS
394 - The coiled, fluid filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called.....
cochlea
395 - The collection of information reported by people about a particular topic.
Survey Research
396 - The color ..... is great for bringing comfort in tough times, and creating a sense of fun or freedom in your visuals.
orange
397 - The color black has a feeling of what?
Strength
398 - The color blue is associated with:
Calmness
399 - The color red best reflects which word?
Hunger
400 - The color, smell and feeling of the flowers are relayed through what part of brain_______?
Thalamus
401 - The colored portion of the eye is called the ______________?
iris
402 - The combination of responses or ideals in novel way is called ___________?
Creativity
403 - The common application of analysis of variance is known as
ANNOVA
404 - The comparison group, the subgroup of the sample that is similar to the experimental group in every way except for the presence of the independent variable.
control group
405 - The complete set of rules for a language that determines how to make sounds into words and words into sentences is called
grammar.
406 - the computational system (biological or artificial) designed to make inferences about properties of a physical environment based on senses.
Perceptual System
407 - The concept "reward" defined as
Something given in exchange for a useful idea, good behavior, excellent work, etc.
408 - The concept of " a personality nucleus " was given by
Shirley
409 - The concept of "unconscious determinants of behavior" is associated with
Freud
410 - The concept of ..... refers to the tendency to work less hard when sharing the workload with others.
Social Loafing
411 - The concept of building block of consciousness was laid by __________?
Wundt
412 - The concept of intelligence is closely related to _____________?
Cognition
413 - The concept of introversion and extroversion was advanced by ___________?
Jung
414 - The concept of parallel lines seemly converging on each other to show distance is known as
linear perspective
415 - The concept of psychology come into teaching and the first psychology course offered by _________?
William James
416 - The concept of Rationalism is developed by __________?
Plato
417 - the concept of right or good conduct
morality
418 - The concept of tabula rasa or blank slate is credited to
John Locke
419 - The concepts like "Introspection" and "Conscious Experience" are associated with _________?
Structuralism
420 - The concepts of conditioning, rewards and punishments is most closely associated with..... perspective.
behavorism
421 - the conclusion is true if the premise is true
deductive reasoning
422 - The concrete operational stage occurs in what age bracket?
7 - 11 years
423 - The condition or fact of producing the results you want without wasting time or resources.
efficiency
424 - The condition that exists when the probability that the findings are not due to chance
statistical significance
425 - The conditioned response (CR) is the usually the same as the
UCR
426 - The conditioned stimulus (CS)
Is originally the neutral stimulus that gains the power to cause the Conditioned response
427 - The conditioning in which a person's behavior prevents an unpleasant situation from occurring.
avoidance conditioning
428 - The conditions a person must meet in order to regard himself or herself positively:
Conditions of Worth
429 - The cones are specialized types of
Photoreceptor cells
430 - The cones of the eye help us see
color
431 - The conjunction fallacy is a tendency to:
Believe that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone
432 - The conscious repetition of information in order to maintain it in memory is called ___________________?
rehearsal
433 - The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage, is known as what?
Rehearsal
434 - the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
rehearsal
435 - The consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person are known as .....
personality.
436 - The consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person:
Personality
437 - The contemporary psychoanalytic perspective stresses the influence of
conscious choice and self-direction
438 - The content of educational psychology includes
Wide ranging items concerning human motivation and learning.
439 - The contingency between a behaviour and its consequences without explicit training can be learned by organisms through which of the following methods:
Autoshaping
440 - The contingency model of learning
Wagner and Rescorla
441 - The convergence of parallel lines provides the distance cue known as
linear perspective.
442 - The corpus callosum is responsible for
moving info from one hemisphere of the brain to the other.
443 - The correct label for 1 is:
Peripheral Nervous System
444 - The correct order for the steps of the scientific method are:
1.Identify the area of research and form an aim2.Collect information3.Identify the research question and formulate a hypothesis4.Design a research method to test hypothesis5.Collect and analyse the data6.Draw a conclusion - accept or reject hypothesis7.Re
445 - The correct order of Maslow's Needs is:
Physiological, Safety, Social, Self-Esteem, Self-Actualisation
446 - The correct sequence of Piaget's stages of cognitive development are
sensorimotor, preoperational concrete operational, formal operational
447 - The correct sequence of processes in sensation and perception is:
reception; transduction; transmission; selection; organisation; interpretation
448 - The correct sequence of the pathway of light through the eye and eventually to the brain in another form is
cornea, pupil, lens, retina, optic nerve, visual cortex.
449 - The correlation between brain size and intelligence is:
very small.....about +.33
450 - The correlation coefficient indicates the weakest relationship when .....
it is closest to 0
451 - The course guide can be located
On Moodle
452 - The criteria achieved by a test that allows it to be administered consistently.
standardization
453 - The cue of accommodation is especially effective for ________________?
long distances
454 - The current DSM is in which edition as of now?
V
455 - The current view on the nature nurture debate is expressed by epigenetic theory
TRUE
456 - The custodian has 50 keys on his key ring. He systematically tries each one until he can open the door. This best illustrates problem solving by means of
algorithm
457 - The data collected by Introspection is highly
Subjective
458 - The debate about the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as what?
The nature-nurture issue
459 - The debate over whether development occurs gradually, without discernible shifts, or through a series of distinct stages is termed
continuity vs. discontinuity
460 - The decay of fading of memory with time is considered to be a failure in ________________?
storage
461 - The deep affection that is felt in long-lasting relationships is called ..... love; this feeling is fostered in relationships in which .....
companionate; there is equity between the partners
462 - the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined
companionate love
463 - The deepest sleep is:
NREM 4
464 - The deepest stage of sleep is:
Stage 4
465 - The defense mechanism that best describes denial is.....
Refusal to acknowledge a painful or threatening reality
466 - The defense mechanism that best describes repression is.....
Excluding uncomfortable thoughts from consciousness
467 - The definition of Nervous System
The body's electrochemical communication circuitry
468 - The degree of concentration or dilution of a color is known as its _______________?
brightness
469 - The degree of concentration or dilution of color is known as its ___________?
Saturation
470 - the degree to which a test measures what it claims, or purports to be measuring
construct validity
471 - The degree to which the effects observed in an experiment are due to the IV and not to confounds
Internal validity
472 - The degree to which the findings of a study can be generalized to other people, settings, and situation
External validity
473 - The dependant variable (DV) is the?
This is the result as it depends on the IV (how it is measured).
474 - The dependent variable (what was measured) in Murdock's study of the serial position effect was:
Total number of words correctly called
475 - The dependent variable in Murdock's study was:
Total number of words correctly called
476 - The dependent variable in the Pepperberg study was
Whether avian was able to answer "What's same? & "What's different"
477 - The depth cue that occurs when we watch stable objects at different distances as we are moving is __________________?
relative motion
478 - The design in Canli et al's study may disadvantage the research by producing .....
fatigue effect
479 - The detection and encoding of stimulus energies by the nervous system is called
sensation
480 - The development of neural pathways in response to new experiences is known as:
Developmental plasticity, which occurs only in early childhood.
481 - The development of personality, self-esteem, and emotional health is called?
emotional development
482 - The deviation IQ is a type of
Standard score
483 - The diagnosis of mental illness is generally carried out by which of the following?
psychiatric
484 - The difference between a sleep disturbance and a sleep disorder is
whether it causes significant impairment to every day life in normal waking hours
485 - The difference between divided attention and selective attention is that divided attention.....
requires more automatic processing than selective attention does
486 - The difference between the highest and lowest numbers in a distribution.
range
487 - The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.
Range
488 - The difference between the images of each eye is known as
Retinal Disparity
489 - The difference between what a child can achieve independently and what a child can achieve with guidance and encouragement from a more knowledgeable other is referred to as
The Zone of Proximal Development
490 - The differences in sounds made by piano, flute, and a guitar can be attributed to
Timbre
491 - The difficulty with type theories of personality is that they are ___________?
Too simple
492 - The digestion of last night's dinner is most directly controlled by the ..... system.
autonomic nervous
493 - The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US), does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced.
extinction
494 - The disadvantage of this descriptive research method is that single cases can be very misleading.
Case study
495 - The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is questions must be asked "just right" to get reliable answers and a considerable amount of honesty and trust is given in the answers.
Survey
496 - The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is that it does not permit researchers to draw conclusions regarding cause-and-effect relationships
Correlational
497 - The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is that some variables are too challenging to manipulate in an experiment (emotions, other cognitive behavior). Results may not be reflective of the general population.
Experiments
498 - The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is that the data is limited to only answering the question(s) asked. These limitations lead to biases, ambiguous conclusions, and low participation rates among research populations.
Survey
499 - The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is that the research may not be a representative sample of the general population and doesn't yield reliable conclusions about behavior.
Case Study
500 - The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is the artificiality of the lab doesn't lend itself to real unexpected results.
Experiments
501 - The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is the behaviors could be only one-time occurrences.
Observational
502 - The disadvantage(s) of convenience sampling include:
Only (A) & (B)
503 - The disadvantage(s) of random sampling include (select all the answers which apply):
Only (A) & (B)
504 - The disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus or the removal of a reinforcer.
Extinction
505 - The discomfort caused by our behaviour not matching our attitude toward something is called:
Cognitive Dissonance
506 - The discussion ..... on three main issues.
focused
507 - The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information is defined as
retroactive interference
508 - the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
retroactive interference
509 - The dissolved chemical moelcules in the mouth that can be tasted
Tastants
510 - the distance of one person to another person
physical proximity
511 - The distinctive feature of the psychodynamic perspective is its emphasis on
unconscious conflicts.
512 - The distribution of IQ scores on a graph looks like
a bell curve
513 - The distribution of participants to experimental and control groups is done
Randomly
514 - The distributive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called ____________________?
proactive interference
515 - The divisions of the peripheral nervous system are the ____________?
somatic and autonomic
516 - The DNA containing an individual’s genetic information is organized into structure called ________________?
chromosomes
517 - The dominant approach in psychology today is ____________?
cognitive psychology
518 - The dominant hemisphere of the brain ___________?
controls the expression and comprehension of language
519 - The door is a door, no matter what angle it is opened. This is an example of:
Perceptual constancy
520 - The DSM V is a book used to do what?
classifies mental disorders and describes the symptoms of each
521 - The DSM-5 is designed to help with which of the following?
classifying psychological disorders
522 - The dual interference task has been used to investigate the structure of what?
Working memory
523 - The earliest emotion evident in the newborn is ______________?
excitement
524 - The earliest history of psychology can be traced back to the time of the early .....
Greeks
525 - The earliest history of psychology can be traced back to the time of the early ..... (Aristotle and Socrates)
Greeks
526 - The earliest stage of speech development is called the ..... stage.
babbling
527 - The earliest stage of speech development is called the _________________ stage?
babbling
528 - The earliest studies of verbal learning and rote memory were conducted by __________________?
Ebbinghaus
529 - The easiest way to gather information from many people is to conduct a ..... Unfortunately, this type of study isn't always reliable because people are not always truthful.
survey
530 - The Edith Experiment was to prove the key to intelligence was:
Nurture
531 - The EEG monitors
electrical activity in the brain
532 - The EEG monitors what?
Electrical activity in the brain
533 - The EEG, EOG and EMG detect, amplify and record electrical activity in the ....., ....., and ..... respectively.
brain, muscles that control the eyes, muscles
534 - The effects caused by the exposure to the IV:
Dependent variable
535 - The effects of social support (when resisting social influence) were shown in Asch's studies when:
A dissenter gave the correct answers all the time
536 - The effects of social support were shown in Asch's studies when:
A dissenter gave the correct answers all of the time
537 - The efficiency of memory can be increased if we organize information so that the amount of information in each unit increases while the number of separate units decreases. This process is called _________________?
chunking
538 - The electrical charge that travel down the axon is called .....
action potential
539 - The electrical current sent when neurons are communicating
action potential
540 - The electro-oculargraph is used to determine a person's state of consciousness by recording the
electrical activity of the muscles that control the eyes
541 - The elementary units of the nervous system that carry out the functions of the system are called _____________?
neurons
542 - The elf toy building program at the North Pole gives an exam where most of the elves receive failing grades and only a few elves receive high scores. When the exam scores are plotted, the distribution will be
positively skewed
543 - The emotional bond that forms between an infant and a primary care giver is called .....
Attachment
544 - The emotional component of the tri component model of attitudes is called?
Affective
545 - The empirical method depends on ..... and ..... rather than argument
experiment and observation
546 - The encoding of procedural memories involves which brain parts?
Only (A) & (B)
547 - The end result of an experiment was what encouraged the behavior of a test subject- in a concept known as:
Operant behavior
548 - The endorphins serotonin and dopamine are all chemical messengers called
Neurotransmitters
549 - The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
culture
550 - The enhanced cognitive interview uses the four techniques of the CI. It also
Gets the witness to speak slowly
551 - the enhancement of a group's prevailing attitudes through discussion within the group
group polarization
552 - The enhancement of a group's prevailing tendencies occurs when people within a group discuss an idea that most of them either favor or oppose. This tendency is called:
group polarization.
553 - The essential feature of client-centered therapy is ___________?
It’s emphasis upon searching for deep unconscious aspects of the problem
554 - The ethical guideline for research in which participants must agree to be a part of the study is known as
Informed consent
555 - The ethical issue that deals with researchers considering who will view the data they collect
Access to data
556 - The ethical theme of advocacy refers to
acting on behalf of children and requires knowledge about best practices
557 - The ethical theme of beneficence refers to.....
responsible caring
558 - The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage
selective breeding of highly intelligent people.
559 - The European Federation of Sports Psychology makes which of the following recommendations?
Resource allocation in sports should show evidence of gender equality
560 - The event in which an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight.
inattentional blindness.
561 - the event/action that has occurred because the iv has changed
dependent variable
562 - The eventual continuation of desirable behavior even after the discontinuation of reinforcement is known as:
Maintenance
563 - The EVOLUTIONARY approach deals with
adaptation over time, affecting behaviors or mental processes to help humans or animals survive and thrive
564 - The examination of and practices associated with helping people optimize their relationships, their work, and their general activities and engagement with the social and physical world is often called:
positive psychology
565 - The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes is known as
Introspection
566 - The excellent key failure leads to success means
Learn from mistakes
567 - The experiment that is done in highly controlled environment especially prepared for the study is:
lab experiment
568 - The experiment that supported the idea that phobias are learned through conditioning:
Little Albert
569 - The experiment to test if children could delay gratification was:
The Marshmallow Experiment
570 - The experimental factor that is manipulated:
Independent variable
571 - The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.
independent variable
572 - The experimental method manipulates a variable.
TRUE
573 - The experimenter effect might occur when participants in an experiment
alter their behaviour because of conscious or unconscious cues given to them by the researcher.
574 - The experimenter is watching two groups of students to see if certain teaching styles results in better participation. Neither the experimenter or the subjects know what group they are in, this is an example of a .....Study.
Double-Blind
575 - The experiments were criticised for being highly what?
subjective
576 - The exponent of conditioning theory of learning is
Ivan PAVLOV
577 - The expression of ideas through symbols and sounds that are arranged according to rules.
Language
578 - The extent in which variables measure what they are supposed to measure is called .....
Construct validity
579 - The extent to which a measure could be expected to produce the same result with the same conditions on other occasions.
Reliability
580 - The extent to which a test actually measures what it claims to measure is its
Validity
581 - The extent to which a test measure the behavior.content it is interested in.
validity
582 - the extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to
validity
583 - The extent to which a test or experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to
validity
584 - The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest is called .....
content validity.
585 - The extent to which a test yields consistent results
reliability
586 - The extent to which an instrument measures what it is supposed to measure
Validity
587 - the extent to which an operationalization of a construct, such as a test, relates to, or predicts, a theoretical representation of the construct- the criterion
criterion validity
588 - The extent to which differences in intelligence among a group of people are attributable to genetic factors is known as the ..... of intelligence
heritability
589 - The extent to which the findings of a research study are able to be generalized to real-life settings
ecological validity
590 - The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people
external validity
591 - The extent to which the test items "look like" what the test claims to measure
Face validity
592 - The extent to which there is agreement between two or more observers involved in observations of behaviour
Inter-observer reliability
593 - The extent to which you generalise a research effect beyond the particular time period of the study
Temporal validity
594 - The eye's "blind spot" is related to:
an area without receptor cells where the optic nerve leaves the eye.
595 - The fact of someone being paid to work for a company or organization.
employment
596 - The fact that a pinpoint down the railroad track is perceived by a person as a diesel engine is an example of ________________?
size constancy
597 - The fact that hues at the short-wave end of the color spectrum appear bright at nightfall is a function of ______________?
Purkinje effect
598 - The fact that identical twins' IQ scores are so close together (highly correlated) even when they are raised apart suggests
intelligence is strongly genetic
599 - The fact that IQ scores of adopted children have shown to be similar to those of the biological parents illustrates which of the following?
genetic influences on intelligence
600 - The fact that Karly still knows how to ride a bicycle even though she has not ridden one in thirty years best exemplifies which of the following types of memory?
Procedural
601 - The fact that perceptions involve more than the sum of our sensations best illustrates the importance of:
top-down processing
602 - The fact that there is approximately 70% average for the Multiple Choice of the exam and less than 50% for the Short Answer section is evidence that
Recognition is a more sensitive measure of retention that recall
603 - The fact that two people may see two different events in a similar fashion is explained by Kelly's ..... corollary.
commonality
604 - The fact that we are least efficient and alert at night is evidence for which sleep theory?
Evolutionary theory
605 - The fact that we can think without language is best illustrated in research on ___________________?
mental imagery
606 - The fact that we don't read the two "the's" in this image demonstrates how our expectations can override our sensory input. What is this process called?
Top-Down Processing
607 - The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates
perceptual constancy
608 - The fact that, during neural transmission, an impulse is sent to the end of the axon without fading or weakening is known as ___________?
nondecremental property
609 - the factor being changed in an experiment
independent variable (iv)
610 - The factor in an experiment that changes is known as what?
variable
611 - The factor of ..... is NOT one of the "Big Five" dimensions underlying personality.
politeness
612 - The factor than can make interference the strongest is:
Items being similar to each other
613 - The factor that is manipulated
independent variable
614 - The factor that researchers manipulate to determine effect in an experiment is the .....variable.
Independent
615 - The factor the researcher manipulates in a controlled experiment
independent variable
616 - The factor the researcher manipulates in a controlled experiment is the .....
independent variable
617 - The factors in an experiment that can be changed.
variables
618 - The famous book ‘Principles of Psychology’ was authored by_________?
William James
619 - The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve indicates that how well we remember information depends on
how long ago we learned that information.
620 - the famous room designed to play tricks on your visual depth cues is
the Ames room
621 - The Father of American Psychology
William James
622 - The father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
623 - The 'father' of psychology and founder of the first psychological laboratory was
Wilhelm Wundt
624 - The Father of Psychology is:
James
625 - The father of Psychology was the first to study the mind in a laboratory setting. His name was
Wilhelm Wundt
626 - The fatty material protecting the axon in some neurons is called a/an _____________?
myelin sheath
627 - The feeling of fear that we experience that something might go wrong either in the present or the future.....
Anxiety
628 - The field measuring electrical responses of the nervous system, making it possible to listen to the activity of single neurons.
Electrophysiology
629 - The field of organizational Behaviour is primarily concerned with.....
Both a and c.
630 - The field of Psychology that studies the differences and similarities of animal and human behavior is called?
Comparative
631 - The fight, flight or freeze response is activated by:
the autonomic nervous system
632 - The fight-flight-freeze response to a stressor is triggered by the release of which two chemicals?
noradrenalin and adrenaline
633 - The film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was set in a real mental hospital and some of the staff played roles in the film. Which actor won an academy award for his role as the lead character, Randle McMurphy?
Jack Nicholson
634 - The final prod given to participants in Milgram's study was:
'You have no other choice , you must continue.'
635 - The final prod given to the participants was:
'You have no other choice , you must continue'
636 - The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve _________________?
interference
637 - The finding that the more we experience we have to a stimulus, the more apt we are to like it. i.e. finally liking a food after the 5th time trying it.
Mere Exposure Effect
638 - The findings from naturalistic observations is limited too or allow us to
describe behavior.
639 - The first 5-6 days of the two week Robber's Cave Experiment was designed to promote.....
In-group formation
640 - The first area of psychology to be studied as a science is known as
Psychophysics
641 - The first case study of HM dealt with
removal of his hippocampus and struggles with long term memory.
642 - The first experimental lab was established in Leipzig by .....
Wilhelm Wundt
643 - The first experimental laboratory was established in Leipzig, Germany by Wilhelm Wundt in the year.....
1879
644 - The first experimental psychology lab was established by
William Wundt
645 - The first intelligence test was developed by
Alfred Binet
646 - THE FIRST LAB OF PSYCHOLOGY
1879
647 - The first laboratory ofscientific psychology at the .....
University of Leipzig, Germany
648 - The first modern psychologist was
Wilhelm Wundt
649 - The first modern psychologist who was interested in the uncounsious minds was
Sigmund Freud
650 - The first part of the ear that vibrates in response to incoming sound waves is the _______________?
eardrum
651 - The first part of the eye that light hits.
cornea
652 - The first process in visual sensation involves detecting .....energy by ..... cells in the .....
electromagnetic; sensory receptor; eye
653 - the first process of memory - the translation of information into a form in which it can be used
encoding
654 - The first psychological lab was started in ..... by .....
Germany; Wilhelm Wundt
655 - The first psychological laboratory was established by
Wilhelm Wundt
656 - The first psychological laboratory was established in India at __________?
Calcutta University
657 - The first psychological laboratory was founded by ..... in 1879.
Wilhelm Wundt
658 - The first psychology laboratory is enaugurated by.....
Wilhelm Wundt
659 - The first recorded study of Psychology took place in.....
Egypt
660 - The first scholarly journal devoted to sports psychology, the International Journal of Sport Psychology was established in .....
1970
661 - The first Scholastic Aptitude Test is published by the College Entrance Examination Board.
1926
662 - The first school of psychology is ___________?
structuralism
663 - The first stage of development is the ..... stage.
sensorimotor
664 - The first stage of information storage, which consist of immediate, initial recording of data that enter through our senses.
Sensory Memory
665 - the first stage of memory storage, consists of the immediate, initial recording of data that enters our senses
sensory memory
666 - The first stage of memory that involves information bombarding us every second.
sensory memory
667 - The first stage of Systematic Desensitisation involves
developing a hierarchy
668 - the first stage of the memory process, in which iconic and echoic memory are processed.....
Sensory memory
669 - The first step in any research project is generating a ____________?
hypothesis
670 - The first step in placing information into memory storage is
sensory memory.
671 - The first step in the experimental method involves
Stating the problem
672 - The first step in the pq4r method involves ..... the subject matter in a textbook.
Previewing
673 - The first step in the scientific method involves:
Identifying questions of interest
674 - The first step of the scientific method is to.....
observe a behavior in society
675 - The first step of the scientific method; a researcher notices a phenomenon and wonders why it occurs
observation/form a question
676 - THE FIRST STEP ON MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS IS?
PHYSIOLOGICAL
677 - The first systematic study of operant conditioning was performed in 1938 by _______________?
B. F. Skinner
678 - The first task in psychology is to carefully observe and to objectively describe ___________?
behavior
679 - The first test of a person's courage, according to Jung, is to -
realize the shadow
680 - The first thing Karen did when she discovered that she had misplaced her keys was to re-create in her mind the day's events. That she had little difficulty in doing so illustrates
automatic processing.
681 - The first time Joe had to put together a bicycle, it took a long time. Now that he has built several bicycles, he can put together a bicycle quickly and easily because he knows what the final product should look like. Joe's improved speed and skill can be
top-down processing
682 - The first time Kelly went to the mall, she had problems finding her way around, but after several visits, she finds it very easy to get where she is going. Kelly has:
Developed a cognitive map of the mall.
683 - The first time you eat sushi, you get terrible food poisoning, the next day you saw your brother eat sushi and that make you feel sick to your stomach.What are the US, UR, NS, CS and CR?
US : poisoning , UR : sick stomach , NS : sushi , CS : sushi , CR : sick stomach
684 - The first two years after birth are critical _________________?
to self-concept formation
685 - The first version of Binest and Simon's test was published in
1905
686 - The first woman Ph.D. in psychology. The second woman President of the APA
Margret Floy Washburn
687 - The first woman tohold a Ph.D. inpsychology (conferredin 1894).
Margaret Washburn
688 - The five key perspectives in psychology are.....
Psychodynamic, Behavioural, Humanistic, Psychobiological, Cognitive
689 - The five-factory theory of personality (The Big Five) does NOT include which of the following characteristics?
intelligence
690 - The Flynn effect is the finding that
intelligence seems to increase with every generation.
691 - The focus of a psychologist is to ..... and provide therapy treatment to clients.
research the brain and behavior
692 - The focus of this perspective is the study of the hormones, brain structure, brain chemistry and diseases.
biopsychological
693 - The focusing of conscious awareness particular stimulus or group of stimuli
Selective Attention
694 - The folds in the brain that store memories are called the.....
convolutions
695 - The following are 2 steps of the 7 step process
Report Findings & Design a research method
696 - The following are examples of esteem needs except:
joining the company golf league
697 - The following are the example of the implication of Gestalt Theory, Law of Continuity in Education except
Closely related topic can be taught together
698 - THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF PERSONAL DISTRESS EXCEPT:
All of the above
699 - The following conditions are identified as necessary and sufficient for therapeutic process except one:
Love
700 - The following correlational chart exhibits
An optimal amount of anxiety for peak performance.
701 - The following is a type of binocular cue:
Retinal disparity
702 - The following is not an element of humanistic psychology
Rewards
703 - The following is not an example of a fixed interval schedule of reinforcement, in which the reinforcement is received after a fixed interval of time.
dialing a busy number
704 - The following is not one of the four goals of psychology
Define
705 - The following method was used to investigate the relation between breakfast consumption and various domains of cognitive functioning.:Each subject was randomly assigned to complete 3 different breakfast conditions.The 3 breakfast conditions were no breakf
repeated measures design
706 - The following statements are true of malingering, EXCEPT;
Medical treatment is available.
707 - The following traits belong to which researchers?openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
McCrae & Costa
708 - The following would be examples of explicit memory
All of the above
709 - The following would be examples of procedural memory (implicit memory)
All of the above
710 - The food in Pavlov's experiment caused an unconditioned response. The food was the
Unconditioned stimulus
711 - The forebrain contains what specific parts of the brain?
All of the above
712 - The form of learning that keeps knowledge hidden until it is needed is called.
Latent learning
713 - The form of sugar that circulates in the blood andprovides the major source of energy for body tissues
glucose
714 - The formal and informal rules regarding what kinds of behavior are acceptable and appropriate within a culture.
Norms
715 - The Formal Operations stage occurs during what ages?
adolescence - adulthood
716 - The format in which information is stored in the various memory stores is known as.....?
Coding
717 - The formula for calculating IQ is
MA/CA$ imes$100
718 - the formula for comparing an individual's mental abilities with those of the rest of the population
intelligence quotient
719 - The formula for Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was introduced by.....
William Stern
720 - The formula for IQ is
mental age / actual age x 100
721 - The founder of behaviorism
John B Watson
722 - the founder of behaviourism as a school of thought and research in psychology
Watson
723 - The founder of psychoanalysis
Freud
724 - The Founder of Psychoanalysis?
Sigmund freud
725 - The founder of structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt
726 - The four basic principles used to judge the ethics of research are:
Informed consent, protect from harm, confidential, debrief
727 - The four lobes of the brain make up the:
Cerebrum
728 - The four main goals of psychological research are ____________?
description, experimentation, prediction and control
729 - The four neutral colors are:
white, black, gray, brown
730 - The Four of the Big Five are:
All of the above
731 - The four regions of the cerebral cortex are referred to as:
lobes
732 - The four stages of Piaget's cognitive development (in order) are:
Sensory-motor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational.
733 - The four touch sensation are pressure, warmth, cold and .....
Pain
734 - The four trends that have affected the way that these satisfactions are experienced by classroom teachers are: (Check all 4)
All of the above
735 - The four trends that have affected the way that these satisfactions are experienced by classroomteachers are
All of the above
736 - The fourth step of the scientific method; the researcher tries to make connections after conducting an experiment
analyze the results
737 - The fourth year psychology students are currently conducting a research that aims to find out the relationship between the two variables. What type of research they have to engage with?
Correlational Research
738 - The fourth year psychology students will be conducting an experimental research about the effects of eating peanuts to the test performance of first year college students of Lemery Colleges. The dependent variable is
test performance results
739 - The fovea and the blind spot are both features of the ________________?
retina
740 - The frameworks for explaining various events or process in science is known as __________?
Theories
741 - The French government commissioned Binet to develop an intelligence test that would
reduce the need to rely on teachers' subjectively biased judgments of students' learning potential.
742 - The French philosopher Descartes proposed that
The mind and body are linked
743 - The French psychologist Alfred Binet pub-lished the first intelligence test in 1905 in col-laboration with
Theodore Simon
744 - The Frequency Theory of hearing is better than Place Theory at explaining the sensation of:
The lowest pitches
745 - The frontal lobes are involved with which types of memory?
Only (A) & (B)
746 - The frontal lobes are most likely to be highly active during ____________?
abstract problem solving
747 - The full form of the K-ABC Intelligence test for children is
Kaufman-Assessment battery for children
748 - The function of a theory is to ___________?
explain and relate observed facts
749 - The function of dendrites is to ______________?
receive incoming signals
750 - The function of the parietal lobe of the brain is to:
perceive touch, non-verbal thought and spatial orientation.
751 - The function of the sensory neuron is to ________________?
carry information to central nervous system
752 - The functionalist strongly influenced by _________?
Charles Darwin
753 - The fundamental attribution error is best described as our tendency to
overestimate the importance of personal factors and underestimate the importance of situational factors in judging someone else's beahviour
754 - The Fundamental Attribution Error refers to our tendency to overestimate..... and underestimate .....
personal dispositions; situational influences
755 - The gap between neurons that transmit signals in the nervous system.
synapse
756 - the gaps are filled in by the perceiver
low of closure
757 - The gate control theory of pain perception presumes that pain signals are blocked by ____________?
efferent neurons
758 - The gate-control theory of pain proposes that pain actually occurs _________________?
in the brain
759 - The gateway to memory.
hippocampus
760 - The general curiosity about "what makes people tick":
has always probably been with us.
761 - The general Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is an example of a/an ____________________?
aptitude test
762 - The German psychologists who founded the Gestalt School were most interested in what two things?
Context and patterns
763 - The German word "Gestalt" means ____________?
whole form
764 - The gestalt experience of perceiving an array of equally spaced dots as rows and columns is attributed to ________________?
proximity
765 - The girl who was not invited to the school dance told her friends that she would not have attended if asked. She said that her teachers had assigned more homework than usual and that she was simply too busy for any unimportant social functions.
rationalization
766 - The gland of the body serve as ___________?
effectors
767 - The goal of classical conditioning is for a conditioned stimulus to elicit
a conditioned response.
768 - The goal of physiological psychology is to understand the function of the brain and it's relation to
Behavior
769 - The goal of psychology is to.....
All of the above.
770 - The goal of the well-being theory is to improve flourishing by increasing five elements:
Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment
771 - The goal of this is to teach the individual how to cope with their fears as hey are gradually exposed to the stimulus.
Systematic Desensitization
772 - The goals of ethical standards are to.....
all of the above
773 - The goals of Psychology are
Describe, explain, predict and control human behavior/mental processing.
774 - The goals of psychology are to
Describe, Explain, Predict and sometimes control
775 - The goals of the scientific study of behavior are
description, prediction, control, and explanation.
776 - The governing body of psychology that oversees the types of experiments that can and cannot be done is the:
American Psychological Association
777 - The grading category that is weighted most heavily in the gradebook is
academic achievement (e.g. tests)
778 - The gradual development of an individual's concept of right or wrong - conscious, religious values, social attitudes, and certain behavior.
Moral Development
779 - The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus
Extinction
780 - The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response.
Extinction
781 - The graph below shows the number of sunny days and rainy days in a city during four months.Based on the graph, how many more sunny days than rainy days did this city have during the months of April, May, and June?
21
782 - The graph in this image is a representation of which of these variable relationships?
No correlation
783 - The greatest interference occurs when old and new material are __________________?
similar to each other
784 - The greatest single cause of failure in beginning teachers lies in the area of
Inter-personal relations.
785 - The Greek philosopher ..... wrote Peri Psyches, one of the first books about psychology.
Aristotle
786 - The Greek philosopher who believed that intelligence was inherited was
Plato.
787 - the group in an experiment or study that does not receive treatment by the researchers and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.
control group
788 - The group in an experiment that does not have the independent variable is known as what?
Control group
789 - The group in an experiment that does not receive treatment
Control Group
790 - The group in an experiment that receives no treatment is called the ..... group
Contol group
791 - The group in an experiment which receives no treatment is called ____________?
Control group
792 - The group of people about which we wish to draw conclusions
Population
793 - The group of people selected to represent the population in a study.
Sample
794 - The group of people that researchers want to describe or understand is called
target population
795 - The group on which the critical part of the experiment is performed is known as what?
experimental group
796 - The group that does not participate in the critical part of the experiment is known as what?
control group
797 - The group that does not receive the treatment (IV) is the:
Control group
798 - The group that is treated the same way as the experimental group except that the experimental treatment is not applied
Control Group
799 - The group who is subjected to the therapy being tested is called the:
experimental group
800 - The groupthink process is not characterized by ____________________?
critical thinking
801 - The growth of facial hair in an adolescent male is an example of a ________________?
secondary sex characteristic
802 - The growth of the human body and body parts is called?
physical development
803 - The gustatory receptors are responsible for
receiving the chemical molecules in food
804 - The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are all part of our ..... ear.
middle
805 - The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are found in the:
middle ear
806 - The head injured patient lost the ability to breath. Autopsy revealed neural damage in the ____________?
medulla
807 - The height of a soundwave determines the sounds
Pitch
808 - The heritability of intelligence refers to
the percentage of variation in intelligence within a group that is attributable to genetic factors.
809 - The highest and most consistent rate of response is produced by a ________________ schedule?
variable-ratio
810 - The highest rates of obedience were observed in Milgram's study when.....
the so-called "teachers" observed others obeying.
811 - The Hindbrain contains: (Choose all that apply).
All of the above
812 - The Hippocampus
Turns short term memories into long term memories
813 - The hippocampus is required for the consolidation of
long-term explicit memories.
814 - The historical movement associated with the statement "the whole may exceed the sum of its parts" is:
Gestalt psychology
815 - The home environment and styles of parenting
influence the development of a child's intelligence.
816 - The hopelessness and passive resignation animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
learned helplessness
817 - The hormone associated with sleepiness is known as
Melatonin
818 - The human capacity for storing long-term memories is
essentially unlimited
819 - The human Life Cycle are the different stages in a human life. Select all the answers which show a stage in the human life cycle:
All of the above
820 - The human nervous system is made up of the:
central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
821 - The human sleep cycle repeats itself about every
90 minutes.
822 - The humanist term for realizing one's unique potential:
Self Actualization
823 - The HUMANISTIC approach deals with:
a holistic view of the individual, how his/her unique personality affects an individual's behavior
824 - The humanists believe all people are striving towards the realization of their unique potential in the world. This is called
Self-Actualization
825 - The hypothalamus helps our bodies to properly respond to changes in what?
the temperature
826 - The Hypothalmus is a part of the .....
Endocrine
827 - the hypothesis that there is no significant difference between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling to error
null hypothesis
828 - The id, ego and superego can be seen as part of which hierarchy of needs?
Maslow's
829 - The IDEA category for Sensory Disabilities includes the following except
Sensory Integration Disorder
830 - The idea that "the whole can be greater than the sum of each part" is associated with
Gestalt psychology
831 - The idea that children are born with no knowledge or "content" whatsoever and are "filled" by life experiences is called
tabula rasa.
832 - The idea that intelligence is more than logical thinking but also includes important skills such as verbal abilities and musical talent causes critics to think which of the following.....
Critics suggest these "intelligence" are really just talent and skills
833 - The idea that knowledge comes from experience, and that observation and experimentation enable scientific knowledge
empiricism
834 - The idea that more intense colours make us expect more intense flavours is called
colour intensity
835 - The idea that our mental life emerges from our physical brain.
MATERIALISM
836 - The idea that pain can only be experienced if pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their way to the brain.
gate control theory
837 - The idea that psychology should be based only on observable, measurable behaviors is central to
behaviorism
838 - The idea that psychology should focus on the objective and scientific study of behavior
Behavioral theory
839 - The idea that short-term memory can only absorb small bits of information is known as:
chunking
840 - The idea that we can learn to see things in a positive light i.e. learn to be happier, refers to which psychological phenomenon?
Learned optimism
841 - The idea that we remember the first and last items in a list the best.
serial-position effect
842 - The image is an example of
Perceptual Illusion
843 - The image is an example of what specific perceptual organisation technique?
Similarity
844 - The image that persists for about one-half second after being seen represents which type of memory?
Iconic
845 - the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system.
sensory memory
846 - The immediate, very brief, recording of what we hear and see is stored where?
In the sensory store
847 - The impact of over-learning on retention best illustrates the value of _________________?
rehearsal
848 - The impermanence of long-term memories-based on the idea that memories gradually fade in strength over time-also known as "decay theory". Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve.
Transience
849 - The importance of ..... theory of evolution for our purposes is that it inspired scientists to study animals in attempt to understand humans better.
Darwin's
850 - The importance of an individual's position or standing in a group, as viewed by members of the group, is best described as
status
851 - The inability of young children to see the world through someone else's view is termed:
Egocentrism
852 - The inability to create new memories
Anterograde Amnesia
853 - The inability to form new memories is defined as
anterograde amnesia
854 - The inability to form new memories is known as.....
Anterograde Amnesia
855 - The inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep.
Insomnia
856 - The inability to imagine new functions for familiar objects is called
functional fixedness
857 - The inability to recall a word, while knowing that it is in memory.
TOT: Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon
858 - The inability to recall past events.
Retrograde Amnesia
859 - The inability to retrieve memories or events AFTER an injury or trauma.
anterograde amnesia
860 - The inability to retrieve memories or events before an injury or trauma occurred.
retrograde amnesia
861 - The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as
long-term potentiation.
862 - The independent measures design is also known as..... .
independent sample
863 - The independent variable is
the variable that is manipulated by the experimenter
864 - The independent variable is the ONE thing you ..... to test your hypothesis.
change
865 - The infamous court case known as Plessy v. Ferguson influenced education by
deciding schools should be segregated but "equal".
866 - The influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus. Chewing a particular flavor of gum while studying and then chewing that same flavor during the test can increase the retrieval of information.
context effect
867 - the influence of self-efficacy on motivation suggests that
learners are more likely to avoid things they are less good at
868 - the information in the retinal image that gives us information about depth and distance but can be inferred from just a single retina (or eye).
Monocular Depth Cues
869 - The information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and non-conscious tracks
Dual Processing
870 - The information obtained through Free Description Task vary considerably in terms of
depth, quality, sincerity, appropriateness
871 - The information you were not consciously aware that you had remembered until you used it are what type of memories?
Implicit memories
872 - The information-processing model assumes that the length of time a memory will be remembered depends on:
the stage of memory in which it is stored.
873 - The inheritance of behavioral characteristics was emphasized by
Charles Darwin.
874 - The initials of the main organization for modern psychological kinesiology are:
AASP
875 - The inner ear contains receptors for:
Audition and the vestibular sense
876 - the input, storage, and retrieval of what has been learned or experienced
memory
877 - The inputs/ causes. Or are tested to see if they are.
Independent variables
878 - The intellectual skills are reflected by
Cognitive domain
879 - The Intelligence test that includes items de-signed to be unaffected by specific cultural knowledge or experience is
Culture-fair test
880 - The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)
cognitive neuroscience
881 - The internally programmed growth of a child
Maturation
882 - The internally programmed growth of a child is called:
maturation
883 - The International Mate Selection Project
Buss, Abbott, Angleitner, Asherian, Biaggio et al. 1990
884 - The intrinsic dignity, autonomy and human rights of the participants in a study must be protected and upheld. This overarching ethical principle is called.....
respect for persons.
885 - The intuitive-experiential thought process differs from the analytical-rational thought process because it .....
is faster and based on emotion.
886 - The is the part of the brain that sends signals to tell you to eat
lateral hypothalamus
887 - The is the part of the brain that sends signals to tell you when you have had enough food
ventromedial hypothalamus
888 - The issue of racial profiling has been a controversial topic in the United States for many years, and it was particularly widespread after the events of September 11, 2001. When an individual engages in profiling and assumes that one person must possess c
stereotyping
889 - The junction where the axon of a sending neuron communicates with a receiving neuron is called the ______________?
synapse
890 - The junction where the axon of a sending neuron communicates with a receiving neuron is called the___________?
Synapse
891 - The junior Marines from an infantry unit often finds themselves in misery while learning new tasks and drills during pre-deployment training. Although equally miserable while deployed, they are able to remember these same tasks and perform them flawlessly
Mood Congruence
892 - The K to 12 curriculum allows the teacher to assess the students through performance. Performance Task is an assessment where students usually collaborate and decide the role they want to assume i. e. in a Business Reporting Performance Task, students can
Gardner's Multiple Intelligence
893 - The key characteristic of the sensorimotor stage is:
Object permanence
894 - The key feature of the 'pre-operational stage' is:
Being egocentric
895 - The key functional units in hereditary transmission?
Genes & DNA
896 - The key idea in the behavioristic view is that
behavior is shaped and controlled by one's environment
897 - The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior is called .....
operant conditioning
898 - The kind of therapy developed by Freud is called
Psychoanalysis
899 - The kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is usually clear
Telegraphic speech
900 - The knowledge and skills gained from expierence
Intelligence Quotient
901 - The knowledge that John Aloisi kicked the winning goal in the penalty shootout against Uruguay in 2005 in Sydney to get Australia into the world cup (football) for the first time since 1974 is what kind of memory?
Semantic
902 - The knowledge you gained from studying for a test could be considered a result of .....
eustress.
903 - The landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case was important because it
overturned the "separate but equal" law for minority students and helped pave the way to improving the rights of students with disabilities
904 - The language Acquisition Device was proposed by ______________?
Chomsky
905 - The large wrinkled part of the brain is known as the .....
Cerebral Cortex
906 - The larger the number of people who witness an emergency situation, the less likely anyone will be to intervene
bystander effect (diffusion of responsibility)
907 - The largest and most complex region of the brain?
Fore brain
908 - The largest organization of professional psychologists is the .....
American Psychological Association
909 - The largest organization of psychologists in the U.S. is
American Psychological Association
910 - The largest sense organ of the body is/are the _______________?
skin
911 - The last brain area to reach maturity tends to be the
prefrontal cortex
912 - The last stage in Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development where in a person reflects on their life is ______________?
integrity vs despair
913 - The law of effect first formulated by ________________?
Edward Thorndike
914 - The Law of Effect is best credited by which scientist?
Edward Thorndike
915 - The Law of Effect is concerned with the effects of _____________________?
rewards and punishment on behavior
916 - The Law of Effect is concerned with the effects of ______________________?
rewards and punishment on behavior
917 - The law of Effect suggests that _________________________?
in addition to practice there must be reinforcement
918 - The leader who allows complete freedom in decision making is
laissez-faire
919 - The leading cause of mind retardation is believed to be ___________?
Inherited traits
920 - The leaf is 5mm wide.
Quantitative
921 - The learned ability to distinguish between a CS and other stimuli that does not signal a CR is called
Discrimination
922 - The learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus
Conditioned response
923 - The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.
Operant Conditioning
924 - the learning of voluntary behavior through the efforts of pleasent and unpleasent consequesnces to responses
operant condititoning
925 - The leaves in this stem-and-leaf plot represent which place value?
ones
926 - The left and right sides of the brain are known as the
hemispheres
927 - The left brain controls
the right side of the body
928 - The left column in this stem-and-leaf plot represents which place value?
tens
929 - The left hemisphere does not specialise in which functions?
Only (A) & (B)
930 - The left hemisphere of the brain is specialised in viewing thing as:
Small parts, logical sequences
931 - The left hemisphere of the brain specializes in which of the following?
language
932 - The length of time information can be held in memory is.....?
Duration
933 - The less soda I drink, the more energy I have. What kind of correlation is this?
Negative
934 - The less time I spend marketing my business, the fewer new customers I will have.
Positive
935 - The level of worry or nervousness a participant expericences is the definition of.....
Anxiety
936 - The Light Blue Arrow represents?
Sensory Input
937 - The light switch in Eloise's bedroom is faulty so that every time she touches the switch she receives an electric shock. After this has happened a few times, Eloise associates the light switches with a startle response. In this scenario, the unconditioned
The electric current
938 - The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the rods and cones, is the ______________?
retina
939 - The Likert Scale is one common form of rating scale used by researchers
TRUE
940 - The limbic system includes the .....
Hippocampus, Amygdala, Hypothalamus
941 - The Lime Green Arrow represents?
Integration
942 - The linguistic determinism hypothesis is challenged by the finding that:
People with no word for a certain color can still perceive that color accurately
943 - The link between what the teacher wants students to learn and students' actual learning is called
Instruction
944 - The liquid in the test tube is 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Quantitative Observation
945 - The liquids that bridge the gap across the synapse are the.....
nuerotransmitters
946 - The literal meaning of the term 'Psyche' is:
Soul
947 - The Little Albert experiment demonstrated -
Aversive Conditioning
948 - The 'little brain' structure located at the back of the brain. Its function is to coordinate voluntary muscle movements and to maintain posture, balance and equilibrium.
cerebellum
949 - The little bumps visible on our tongue are _______________?
taste buds
950 - The lobe of the brain that interprets what we see is the.....lobe.
occipital
951 - The lobe responsible for vision
Occipital Lobe
952 - The lobe that process visual image is .....
Occipital Lobe
953 - The lobes of the brain located in the back of the head are ____________?
occipital lobes
954 - The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of
transduction.
955 - the location at the base of the brain at which the optic nerves from the two eyes meet.
Optic chiasm
956 - The long, fiber like part of a neuron which the cell sends information to receiving neurons
axon
957 - The longest part of neuron is ____________?
axon
958 - The longitudinal method compares the performance or observations across ages by taking repeated measurements from .....
the same people across time
959 - The longitudinal method is concerned with observing
the ways in which people change over time.
960 - The longitudinal method is concerned with observing how participants
change over time
961 - The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
nature-nurture
962 - The long-term memory theory that suggests that we make associations among information..... we create links among thousands of nodes (files), which make up a gigantic interconnected network.
Connectionist Theory
963 - The loss of memories for events that occurredprior to the onset of amnesia is called
Anterograde amnesia
964 - The loss of memory for past events.....
Retrograde Amnesia
965 - the loss of memory.
amnesia
966 - The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in highly emotional group situations in which people feel anonymous.
deindividuation
967 - The loudness of sounds is determined by the ..... of sound waves.
amplitude
968 - The lowest stimuli intensity required for detection is the ..... and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the .....
absolute threshold; just noticeable difference
969 - The lowest/bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy
Physiological Needs
970 - The magical number seven, plus or minus two" refers to the storage capacity of ..... memory
short-term
971 - The main function of the occipital lobe is.....
vision.
972 - The main function of the peripheral nervous system is to
transmit information from the central nervous system to other parts of the body
973 - The main goal of Positive Psychology is the help people .....
Flourish
974 - The main goals of psychology are to
observe, describe, explain, predict, and control behavior
975 - The main goals of psychology are to describe, explain, predict, and .....
Influence
976 - The main problem with William Wundt's introspection method was?
it relied too much on a patient's subjective interpretation
977 - The main process of socialization are
4
978 - The main purpose of ethical guidelines for research in Psychology is to
protect the welfare and rights of the participants.
979 - The main role of Nerissa's autonomic nervous system when she saw the needle was to
modify the activity of internal muscles, organs and glands
980 - The main role of the autonomic nervous system is to:
regulate bodily functions
981 - The major cell within the nervous system, which carries information to and from all parts of the body:
Neuron
982 - The major contribution educational psychology might be expected to make towards modern education lies in area of
A refinement of the research techniques through which educational problems might be solved
983 - The major focus is how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment
Functionalism
984 - The major laws of perceptual organization were developed by the __________________?
Gestaltists
985 - The major limitation of case studies is .....
the inability to generalize the findings from this approach to the larger population
986 - The major problem with ..... research is that you have no control of variables and the behavior may be a fluke occurrence.
descriptive
987 - The major sensory organ involved in vision is
Eye
988 - The majority of psychologists are
Clinical Psychologist
989 - The majority of psychologists work in .....
four-year colleges and universities
990 - The male warrior hypothesis appeared in
2010
991 - The male warrior hypothesis suggests that
Men are predisposed to agression
992 - The man who set up the first psychology laboratory was:
Wilhelm Wundt
993 - The man whose brain injury sparked new interest in brain research was:.....
Phineas Gage
994 - The manipulated variable is called the ..... variable
independent
995 - The marketing agent for a professional sports franchise conducts a survey asking people how much they support the construction of a new sports stadium. Almost everyone who takes part in the survey indicates they are strongly in favor of a new stadium; the
negatively skewed
996 - The marketing agent for Starbucks conducts a survey asking people how much they like this year's new holiday beverage flavor on a scale from 1 to 10. Almost everyone who takes part in the survey indicates they like it a lot; there are just a few responden
negatively skewed
997 - the Marshmallow test has been used to investigate
Self-regulation
998 - The massacre of unarmed civilians at My Lai by US soldiers can be explained by:
Both the agentic state and the legitimacy of authority
999 - The massacre of unarmed civillians at My Lai by American soldiers can be explained by:
Both the agentic state and legitimacy of authority
1000 - The material of which chromosomes are composed is called ______________?
deoxyribonucleic acid
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