Cognitive psychology studies all of the following except: |
C. Telepathy |
2. Your roommate argues that computers can perform several complex tasks better and more |
A. developing new learning goals |
_____ are mental categories used to group objects, events, and characteristics. |
B. Concepts |
According to _____ when people evaluate whether a particular object reflects a certain concept, they compare the most typical item(s) in that category and look for a "family |
A. the prototype model |
In everyday situations, finding and framing problems can be difficult because many real-life problems ____. |
A. are vague and/or ill defined |
Recognizing problems involves _____. |
A.being aware of and open to experiences |
7. You have to cook dinner for 30 people on Saturday. Your apartment is a mess and you have nothing to wear. You decide to do your laundry Thursday night, buy the groceries on Friday, clean the apartment Saturday morning, and cook the dinner Saturday evening. Preparing for the dinner party in this way is an example of _____. |
A. subgoaling |
A(n) _____ is a strategy that guarantees a solution to a problem. |
B. algorithm |
Claudia is trying to cook her mother’s famous lasagna. She carefully follows her mother’s recipe to ensure that the dish turns out correctly. Claudia is using a(n) _____ . |
C. algorithm |
Developing a criterion for determining the effectiveness of the solution occurs during which step of the problem-solving process? |
C. Evaluation of solutions |
Carla is a first-semester freshman at State University. She succeeded in high school by cramming for exams and relying on parental pressure to get homework done. Now, however, she |
A. "think outside the box" in order to succeed in college |
Psychological research involves studying a sample of participants in order to draw conclusions about the population from which the sample is drawn. This is an example of_____. |
A. inductive reasoning |
Carlos believes that all or the people from another part of his town are snobs. Ho believes that |
B. Deductive reasoning |
Maria is extremely active in politics. She has strong conservative beliefs what is correct and what is not. Each day when she reads the newspaper, she pays close attention to the editorial section in particular. According to the confirmation bias, what will she do when she reads them? A. She will read both the editorials that she agrees with and those that she doesn’t to get a |
B. She will read the editorials that she agrees with, but not the ones that she disagrees with. |
Every week during football season, Fred and his friends have fun following the local high school teams. Before the games, Fred never really talks too much about how the games will tum |
B. hindsight bias |
The fact that we bear about airplane crashes on the news more often than we hear about automobile crashes may lead us to believe that we are more likely to die in a plane than a car. |
C. availability heuristic |
Open-mindedness involves_____ . |
B. being receptive to other ways to looking at things |
_____ involves the ability to think about something in novel and unusual ways and to devise unconventional solutions to problems. |
B. Creativity |
_____ produces many solutions to the same problem. |
C. Divergent thinking |
_____ produces the single best solution to a problem |
B. Convergent thinking |
Brain storming is an example of _____. |
… |
ln the U.S., intelligence is defined as _____. |
B. an all-purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks, to solve problems, and to learn from experience |
When the scores on a measure relate to important outcomes, we say the test has high ____. |
B. criterion validity |
If an intelligence test produces the same score over multiple administrations but it doesn’t accurately measure intelligence then the test is ____ but not ____. |
A. reliable; valid |
Standardization ______. |
D. lnvolves developing uniform procedure few administering and scoring a test, as well as creating norms, or performance standards, for the test |
_____ is an individual’s level of mental development relative to that of others. |
B. Mental age |
If a child’s mental age is higher than her chronological age, this means that ____. |
A. the child’s IQ is above average |
A 6-year-old child with a mental age of 6 would have an IQ of ____ |
B. 100 |
Dr. Ambrose is administering an intelligence test, and one question asks, "During what month of the year does the NCAA basketball championship games start?" Students from various groups within the U.S., as well as students from countries outside of the United States may have |
B. culturally biased |
_____ is the proportion of observable differences in a group that can be explained by differences in the genes of the group’s members. |
C. Heritability |
It has commonly been reported that the heritability of intelligence is approximately ____ |
C. 50 |
Malcolm has an IQ of 140. He has skipped three grades and is a straight A student with superior verbal and mathematical talent. Psychologists would consider Malcolm to be ____ |
A. gifted |
Mental retardation is a condition of limited mental ability in which an individual has an IQ of |
D. below 70 |
Sophia is in the fifth grade and lives in one of the most impoverished areas in the state. She has a history of academic failure, although she is very sensitive to teacher expectations. Her |
B. cultural-familial retardation |
The ability to analyze, judge, evaluate, compare, and contrast are characteristics of ____ intelligence. |
B. analytical |
According to Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence, ____ intelligence involves the ability to design, invent, originate, and imagine. |
C. creative |
_____ is a language’s sound system. |
A. Phonology |
____ refers to a language’s rules for combining words to form acceptable phrases and sentences. |
D. Syntax |
The textbook describes a case study of a young girl named Genie who was isolated and severely abused. Because her parents never communicated with her in words, Genie lacked exposure to language during her early childhood years. Although she was able to make some language advances while in extensive rehabilitation, as an adult Genie still speaks in short mangled two- or three-word sentences. This case study suggests that language development A. can occur rapidly in adulthood, despite childhood deficiencies |
C. is influenced by the environment |
______ is a systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience |
B. Maturation |
______is a theory of learning that focuses solely on observable behaviors, discounting the |
B. Behaviorism |
Learning that occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events is called____ |
C. associative learning |
Lightning is associated with thunder and regularly precedes it. Thus, when we see lightning, we often anticipate that we will hear thunder soon afterwards. This is an example of __ |
A. classical conditioning |
Organisms learn about the consequences of behavior through __ |
B. operant conditioning |
Classical and operant conditioning involve learning through __ , whereas observational learning involves learning through __ |
C. association / observation and imitation |
Miranda is learning how to play tennis, for her first lesson, her instructor models serving and backhand returns while Miranda patiently watches. Miranda then tries to imitate the sequence of swings and motions made by her instructor. Which of the following concepts best describes how Miranda is learning to play tennis? A. Operant conditioning |
C. Observational learning |
Pavlov’s dog automatically salivated to food because food is a(n) __ |
A. Unconditional Stimulus |
Dr. Meyer is known for bis difficult pop quizzes. Immediately before he springs a pop quiz on |
B. CS |
In classical conditioning situations, the ____ connection is unlearned, but the ____ connection is learned. |
B. US-UR I CS-CR |
______in classical conditioning is the tendency of a new stimulus that is similar to the original |
A. Generalization |
_____in classical conditioning is the process of learning to respond to certain stimuli and not |
B. Discriminati |
_____ in classical conditioning is the weakening of the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is absent. |
C. Extinction |
The process in classical conditioning by which a conditioned response can recur after a time |
C. Spontaneous recovery |
In the experiment with little Albert conducted by Watson and Rayner, ____ was used as an |
B. a loud noise |
In John Watson’s experiment on classical conditioning, a white rat was used as a(n) ______to |
A. conditioned stimulus |
______ is a classical conditioning procedure for changing the relationship between a conditioned stimulus and its conditioned response. |
D. Counter conditioning |
Robert drank too much tequila last night. He spent much of this morning vomiting and nauseated. According to the principles of classical conditioning, how will Robert likely react today when he tastes or smells the tequila bottle that he drank out of last night? |
C. He will find the scent and taste of tequila aversive |
Classical conditioning helps to explain ___, which refers to the decreased responsiveness to |
B. habituation |
In operant conditioning, ____ |
A. the consequences of behavior produce change in the probability of the occurrence of the behavior |
Some bears kept in the zoo allow veterinarians to routinely give them total body checkups. These bears open their mouths for teeth cleaning and present their paws for nail clipping. Your friend wonders how anyone could ever get these dangerous animals to be so cooperative without |
D. operant conditioning |
The process by which a stimulus or event following a particular behavior increases the |
C. reinforcement |
The presentation of a stimulus following a given behavior in order to increase the frequency |
B. positive reinforcement |
The removal of a stimulus following a given behavior in order to increase the frequency of |
A. negative reinforcement |
Experience with unavoidable negative stimuli can lead to a particular deficit in a avoidance learning called____, in which organism, exposed to uncontrollable aversive stimuli, learns that it has no control over negative outcomes. |
C. learned helplessness |
which of the following is the best example of a primary reinforcer? |
C. food |
Bubba, a very smart German shepherd, has learned that if he barks at the neighbors while |
D. discriminate |
Fred’s parents are very inconsistent with their childrearing rules. Most of the time Fred can |
C. partial-reinforcement schedule |
A hitchhiker most likely gets rides on a ____. schedule of reinforcement. |
B. variable-ratio |
Spanking is a form of____; time out is a form of ____. |
C. positive punishment / negative punishment |
Larry is grounded each time he hits his little brother. After a few times of being grounded, Larry’s misbehavior toward his little brother decreases. Grounding Larry is an example of __ |
C. negative reinforcement |
Your psychology professor wants to help students learn how to write a high-quality research paper, so she posts an example of a research paper on the course website. You use this example as a model when writing your own paper. Which of the following concepts best describes how you learned to write your research paper? |
C. Observational learning |
According to Bandura’s model of observational learning, what are the four primary processes A. Attention, retention, motor reproduction, and reinforcement |
A. Attention, retention, motor reproduction, and reinforcement |
Which of the following is true with regard to insight learning? A. Psychologists have confirmed that insight learning is essentially similar to learning through |
C. Insight learning requires thinking "outside the box," setting aside previous expectations and assumptions. |
Ally, an athlete believes she does not have the ability to improve her running time, despite her |
D. Fixed mindset |
______refers to the process of transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory. |
D. Encoding |
Your roommate Chuck is having difficulty in his chemistry class. He asks you for advice on how to A. Elaboration |
A. Elaboration |
Which of the following memory systems has a time frame of up to 30 seconds? |
B. Short-term memory |
Information can last up to a lifetime in ____. |
C. long-term memory |
Sensory memory _______. |
A. holds information acquired through our senses for a brief amount of time |
When you are asked to recall your first day of kindergarten, you rely on ____ whereas when you are A. sensory memory/ long-term memory |
B. long-term memory/ short-term or working memory |
______ refers to auditory sensory memory, whereas______ refers to visual sensory memory. |
C. Echoic memory / iconic memory |
George Miller’s classic research showed that the average capacity of short-term or working memory is________ between units of information. |
B. 5 and 9 |
When asked to memorize the 15 letters, C I A C B S A B C F B I I R S, Mary reorganizes them into CIA, CBS, ABC, FBI, and IRS. Mary used the tactic of |
C. chunking |
_______ includes the systems involved in procedural memory, classical conditioning, and priming. |
B. Implicit memory |
Based on the famous case study of H.M., a patient who had severe epilepsy, H.M. underwent surgery A. H.M. developed an inability to form new memories that outlive working memory. |
A. H.M. developed an inability to form new memories that outlive working memory. |
Which of the following involves being able to consciously recall information from the past and recite it? |
C. Declarative memory |
Recollections of John’s first family vacation to Disneyland are part of John’s ____ |
C. episodic memory |
In which subsystem of Iong-term memory is your knowledge of how to drive a car and how to ride a bike stored? |
C. Non-declarative (implicit) memory |
People very quickly adapt to the procedures and behaviors appropriate at a birthday party. General knowledge of what to expect and how to behave at a birthday is called a(n) ________. |
A. script |
The hippocampus, the temporal lobes in the cerebral cortex, and other areas of the limbic system play a very important role in _______memory. |
C. explicit |
Retrieval is the process of ____. A. transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory |
B. bringing information to mind whenever needed |
Having a better memory for items at the beginning of a list demonstrates the _____, whereas having a better memory for items at the end of a list demonstrates the _____. |
B. primacy effect / recency effect |
Multiple choice exams involve testing a student’s ____ abilities, whereas essay exams involve testing abilities. |
D. recognition / recall |
The memory of emotionally significant events that people often recall with more accuracy and vivid imagery than everyday events is known as _____. |
D. flashbulb memory |
Janel was sexually abused by her uncle when she was 5 years old. This experience was so devastating and traumatic that she removed the memory from her conscious awareness. This is an example of a(n) _______. |
C. repressed memory |
Which of the following occurs when material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material leaned later? |
B. Proactive interference |
_______ is a situation in which material that was learned later disrupts the retrieval of information that |
A. Retroactive interference |
The process through which the senses detect environmental stimuli and transmit them to the |
C. sensation |
______is the process by which the brain actively organizes and interprets sensory information. |
B. perception |
Melanie is learning how to read Spanish by sounding out each word one letter at a time. Melanie is engaging in_____ |
B. bottom-up processing |
_____means that a person can detect information from the world without receiving concrete |
D. Extrasensory perception |
You are studying in your dorm room, but your neighbor is blasting the television in the |
A. absolute threshold |
The _____marks the point where we can just barely perceive a stimulus. |
C. absolute threshold |
Linda is studying while listening to her iPod. She notices that when she raises the volume 5 |
B. Weber’s law |
You arrive at your friend’s apartment for a big party at the end of the semester. When you first |
C. sensory adaptation |
predisposition or readiness to perceive something in a particular way is known as ________. |
B. a perceptual set |
Rods and cones are located in the______ |
A. retina |
Jane is having trouble sleeping. As she sits in bed looking around the darkened room, she |
A. depends on the rods |
The __ is made up of axons of the cells. which carries visual information to the brain for further processing. |
B. optic nerve |
the ____ is the area near the center of the retina where there are no rods and no cones. |
B. blind spot |
The purpose of parallel processing is to _____ |
A. allow sensory information to travel rapidly through the brain |
Which of the following statements about research on color blindness is true? |
C. The nature of color blindness depends on which of the three kinds of cones (green,red, and blue) is inoperative. |
Gestalt psychologists emphasize that ____. |
C. the whole is more than the sum of its parts |
Depth perception involves ____. |
A. perceiving three dimensions |
in order to get a good idea of an object’s depth, we rely on a number of binocular and monocular cues. Which of the following would be an example of a binocular cue? |
B. Convergence |
The perception that a stationary object is moving is known as |
B. apparent movement |
the tendency for perceptions of objects to remain relatively unchanged in spite of changes in size, shape, and/or color is called____. |
B. perceptual constancy |
The pitch of a sound is a function of the sound wave’s whereas the loudness of a |
A. frequency / amplitude |
Place theory states that ____? |
D. in hearing, each frequency produces vibrations at a particular spot on the basilar membrane |
Which of the following statements about cochlear implants is false? |
C. cochlear implants, like hearing aids, work by amplifying sound |
Which of the following is true of auditory processing in the brain? |
C. Most of the auditory information from the left ear goes to the right side of the brain, but some also goes to the left side of the brain. |
Which of the following is true of pain? |
D. pain receptors react mainly to physical stimuli that distort them or to chemical stimuli that irritate them into action. |
Endorphin’s are ____ |
A. neurotransmitters that function as natural opiates in producing pleasure and pain |
The _____ senses provide information about movement, and orientation, whereas the _____ senses provide information about balance and movement. |
A. kinesthetic; vestibular |
Which of the following components are essential to the definition of consciousness? |
B. Awareness and arousal |
Awareness and arousal are associated with different parts of the brain. Awareness involves |
B. hippocampus /corpus callosum |
The concept of"theory of mind" is best described as____. |
B. Individuals’ understanding that they and others think, feel, perceive, and have private experiences |
States of consciousness that require little attention and do not interfere with other mental activities are called____. |
B. automatic processes |
Sleeping would be considered an example of which of the following levels of awareness? |
C. Subconscious awareness |
The term circadian rhythm refers to_____. |
B. daily behavioral or physiological cycles |
Psychological research on sleep and memory has found that staying up all night to study for |
B. decrease memory performance |
When you go to check on your sleeping child, you observe that his eyes are moving back and forth rapidly under his eyelids. its likely that he is ____. |
B. dreaming |
REM sleep is initiated by a rise in ____, which activates the cerebral cortex while the rest of the brain remains relatively inactive. |
C. acetylcholine |
Insomnia is a disorder involving_____. |
D. difficulty falling asleep, waking up during the night, or waking up too early |
Sleepwalking occurs during __ of the sleep cycle. |
C. stage 3 and stage 4 |
Night terrors typically occur |
B. during non-REM sleep |
Nolan and his wife were standing in the middle of the kitchen discussing vacation plans when he suddenly crashed to the floor in deep rem sleep. Nolan may suffer from ____? |
C. narcolepsy |
_____is a sleep disorder in which individuals stop breathing because the windpipe fails to |
A. sleep apnea |
According to Sigmund Freud, dreams symbolize ______ |
B. unconscious wishes and hidden desires |
What theory of dreaming proposes that dreaming involves information processing, memory, |
C. Cognitive theory of dreaming |
which of the following statements about research on psychoactive drug use is false? |
B. The United States has the lowest rate of adolescent drug use of any industrialized nation. |
The need to take increasing amounts of a drug to get the same effect that a lower dose used to |
C. tolerance |
Your mother must always have an early morning cup of coffee. She usually has several more cups throughout the day. If she misses her daily doses of coffee, she gets a headache. The fact that your mother experiences headaches when she discontinues the use of caffeine is an example of ____ |
A. physical dependence |
Drug addiction occurs when____ |
C. physical and/or psychological dependence develops |
Why do psychoactive drugs make people feel good? |
A. Psychoactive drugs increase epinephrine in the brain’s reward pathways. |
psychoactive drugs that slow down mental and physical activity are called? |
D. depressants |
Gloria can’t get through the day without several cups of coffee and energy drinks. She says |
A. Stimulant |
Which category of drugs alters perception and mood and can cause feelings of unreal |
C. hallucinogens |
______is an altered state of consciousness or psychological state of altered attention in which |
A. Hypnosis |
which of the following is an example of behavior? |
B. two people holding hands |
according to the text, which of the following attitudes are central to scientific approach to psychology? A. critical thinking, curiosity, skepticism, and objectivity |
A. Critical thinking, curiosity, skepticism, and objectivity |
which of the following statements about critical thinking is false? A. Critical thinking is the process of thinking deeply and actively, asking questions, and evaluating the evidence. |
C. critical thinking increases the likelihood that conclusions will be based on unreliable personal beliefs, opinion, and emotions. |
the empirical method best fulfills which of the following goals of science? |
B. Objectivity |
psychology began as a science in the discipline of____? |
A. philosophy |
which of the following theorists used the structuralism approach to study human behavior? A.William James |
B. Wilhelm Wundt |
which school of psychology is Wilhelm wundt associated ? |
B. structuralism |
______ involves using introspection to investigate the components of the mind, whereas____ probed the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior in the individual’s adaptations to environment. A. Structuralism / functionalism |
A. structuralism/ functionalism |
psychologist who adapt a ____ approach examine behavior and mental process through focusing on the body, especially the brain and nervous system. |
C. biological |
Dr. Zimand is studying the association between the functioning of specific brain structures and depression. its likely that Dr. Zimand specialized in the _____ approach to psychology? |
D. biological |
the ____ approach emphasizes the scientific study of observable behavior responses and their environmental determinants A. Humanistic |
D. behavioral |
J.B Watson and B.F. Skinner believed that ____ A. Consciousness should always be investigated through the process of individual introspection |
B. psychology should focus on organisms visible interactions with environment that – that is behaviors |
in his practice doctor Wagner stresses the role of unconscious process and unresolved childhood process. with which physical approach does this align ? |
C. psychodynamic |
the ___ approach to psychology views the mind as an active and aware problem-solving system. this view contrast with ___ approach to psychology which focus on an organisms physical interactions with the environment. |
B. cognitive /behavioral |
according to the ___, people have the ability to control there lives and not controlled by the environment. |
A. humanistic Approach |
according to ____ psychologist, your brain houses a "mind" who’s mental processes allow you to remember, make decisions, plan, set goals, and be creative. |
B. Cognitive |
the ___ approach relies on concepts such as adaptation, reproduction, and natural selection when explaining human behavior |
C. evolutionary |
the ___ approach focuses on comparisons of behaviors across country’s as well as on the behavior of individuals from different ethic and cultural groups within a country |
B. socialcultural |
which is the first step in conducting a scientific inquiry? |
B. observing some phenomenon |
which is the second step in the scientific method |
D. formulating hypothesis and predictions |
a correlation coefficient indicates the _____ A. strength and direction of association between two variables |
A. strength and direction of association between two variables |
Professor Julian has suggested to his students that as study time increases grades increased the professor is describing a ____. |
B. positive correlation |
Professor jenny is interested in the association between sleet and cognitive performance he served made his students about the number of hours they slept the night before the exam and then correlated B sources with their tennis greats he found a class 0.81 correlation between these two variables what does this result mean? |
C.There is a high positive correlation between sleep and exam performance. |
Longitudinal research involves______ |
A. observing and measuring the same variable periodically over time |
Dr. Steinguard wants to demonstrate a cause and effect relationship between stress and memory. |
D.Experimental method |
_____refers to researchers ‘allocation of participants to groups by chance, "to reduce the likelihood that an experiment’s results will be due to preexisting differences between groups. A.Selection bias |
D. random selection |
Which of the following research methods allow(s) researchers-to determine causality |
C. Experimental studies |
The _____ is a manipulated experimental factor and __ is the outcome |
B. independent variable/ dependent variable |
in an experiment, the group that is NOT subjected to a treatment condition is known as the_____ |
A. Control |
Dr, grant is conduction research on stress management. group A received progressive relaxation training prior to test taking, while group B received no training. group A is the ____, while group B is the _____. |
B. experimental group / control group |
The placebo effect is an example of a(n) A. experimenter bias |
B. Participant bias |
Choosing a group of 50 students from a roster of all students in a nearby school .and inviting them to participate in a study would be an example of one way to ____ A. execute a pilot study |
B. obtain a random sample |
The _____ establishes ethical guidelines for its members. The _____ evaluates the ethical nature of research conducted at their colleges and universities |
B. American Psychologist association (APA) / Institution review board (IRB) |
Deception in research is ethically allowed_____. |
D.if the anticipated benefits outweigh the anticipated cost and participants are debriefed |
The _____system is the body’s electro-chemical communication circuitry. |
B. nervous |
The term plasticity refers to the _____. |
D. brain ‘s special capacity for modification and change |
Information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles is sent through ____ thus enabling the |
B. efferent nerves |
The brain and spinal cord make up the_______ |
B. central nervous system |
The somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system are components of the_____ |
D. peripheral nervous system |
The function of the____ is to take messages to and from the body’s internal organs, monitoring such A. central nervous system |
B. autonomic nervous system |
The sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system are components of the____ A. central nervous system |
D. autonomic nervous system |
You are walking to school when you encounter a strange barking dog. You start sweating and A. somatic |
B. Sympathetic |
After finishing a Psychology test, you try to relax by engaging in some meditation techniques. Doing these exercises should increase the response of the______ nervous system, which results in a slower heart and respiration rate and less muscular tension. A. somatic |
C. parasympathetic |
The part of the neuron that contains the nucleus, which directs the manufacture of substances that the neuron needs for growth and maintenance, is called the_______. |
C. cell body |
dendrites are_____? A. the part of the neuron that is responsible for sending information away from the cell body toward other cells |
B. the branch-like part of the neuron that is responsible for receiving Information from other neurons |
Samantha had a stroke. Doctors told her she sustained substantial damage to the occipital lobes. What type of deficiencies is Samantha likely to experience BS a result of this brain damage? A. she may be blind or unable to see clearly. |
A. she may be blind or unable to see clearly |
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