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• If a personality test measures what it
sets out to measure, it would have…
• Validity
• Dr. Lewis decided to study the
television viewing habits of her
students & demanded that they
complete and return a survey regarding
their viewing habits. Which ethical
principle does this violate?
• The right to refuse participation in the
study
• At which sleep stages would you
experience vivid dreams?
• REM (rapid eye movement)
• Raeane sometimes experiences periods
of major depression. Other times, she
is extremely talkative and active,
appears to be in a euphoric mood, goes
days without sleeping, and reports her
thoughts are racing. What is the most
likely diagnosis?
• Bipolar Disorder
• What facilitates color & detailed vision
and black and white vision,
respectively?
• Color/details=cones
• Rods=black and white
• A moviegoer who cannot identify the
name of a film star remembers the
name when a friend reviews a list of
stars. This incident illustrates what 2
concepts in human memory?
• Recall
• Recognition
• Dan always returns after leaving home
to see if he locked the door. He
always locks the door, but he thinks
about whether or not he locked the
door until he has checked. Dan’s
behavior is an example of what
disorder?
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• According to Lawrence Kohlberg,
children at the first level of moral
reasoning make judgments about right
and wrong on the basis of what?
• The likelihood of punishment or
receiving rewards
• After constant exposure to a stimulus,
our nerve cells fire less frequently.
This can be explained by what?
• Sensory adaptation
• The reappearance, after a rest
period, of an extinguished conditioned
response is called…
• Spontaneous recovery
• Tension from an inconsistency between
an individual’s attitudes & behavior is
called…
• Cognitive dissonance
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2 groups of participants in a study are
presented a list of 20 words. The first
group is told to count the # of capital
letters in the words. The second group is
told to think of the definition of each
word. When both groups are asked to
recall the list of words, what will likely
occur?
The second group will recall more words
• The section of the brain most vital to
the initiation of feeding behaviors…
• Hypothalamus
• Raquel is afraid of rattlesnakes but
not garden snakes. She is exhibiting…
• Discrimination
• What measure of central tendency is
most influence by an extreme score
(outlier)?
• Mean
• The acquisition of the roles associated
with distinctions between male and
female is called?
• Gender typing
• The common tendency to assume that
the beliefs, values, attitudes, or
actions of one’s own group are superior
to those of other groups is called…
• ethnocentrism
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A researcher shows a picture to a
volunteer. The picture features a woman
in the foreground and an older man
looking over her shoulder. The volunteer
is asked to tell a story about the picture.
The researcher assumes the volunteer will
project his own unconscious feelings into
the story he tells. This is what type of
test?
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) it’s a
type of projective test
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Keisha recently lost sight in her left eye.
Which of the following would she have
most difficulty with:
• Looking down a railroad track
• Throwing a ball to a friend
• Watching a crowd of children play in a
school yard
 Throwing a ball to a friend requires 2 eyes
 RETINAL DISPARITY IS A BINOCULAR
CUE FOR PERCEIVING DEPTH!
 The brain computes distance by comparing
images from the retina of each eye
• Aversion therapy to eliminate
undesirable behaviors is most likely
used by what type of therapist?
• Behavioral
• The bundle of nerve fibers that
interconnects the 2 brain
hemispheres...
• Corpus collosum
• Which gland of the endocrine system
controls the other glands?
• Pituitary
• Your heartbeat and breathing
accelerate & you are prepared for
fight or flight. What part of your
nervous system is responsible?
• Sympathetic
•
What theory is described by experiencing
emotion in the order of:
• 1. Stimulus (see a bear)
• 2. Arousal (breathing increases, muscles tense)
• 3. Emotion (I feel afraid)
James-Lange
Know Cannon-Bard !!!
(stimulusarousal + emotion at same time)
• Know Shachter-Singer Two factor!!!
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include your cognitive appraisal
• You will remember your high school
graduation because it will be an
important event in your life. What
type of memory?
• Episodic
• You can barely detect a candle flame
from a distance of 30 miles on a clear,
dark night. This is an example of…
• Absolute threshold
• When members of a group who tend to
agree on a issue become more extreme
in their opinion after the issue is
discussed, what took place?
• Group polarization
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If a therapist wanted to help little albert
overcome his white rabbit phobia, he
would begin treatment by having the child
list white fuzzy objects, then imagine a
room of white rabbits, then show him a
picture of a white rabbit, etc. This is an
example of what therapy?
•
Systematic desensitization
• Sam leaves her home, moves to a new
location, takes on a new identity, and
has no memory of her former life.
What disorder?
• Dissociative fugue
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A research conducts an experiment to
test the claim that a new drug Y is more
effective than standard drug X. The
researcher randomly assigns participants
to receive drug Y or drug X and measures
arousal. Participants receiving drug Y are
the
and drug Y is the
.
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Experimental group, independent variable
• A therapist tries to help a client
replace irrational thoughts with
alternative patterns of thinking. What
type of therapist?
• Cognitive
• A child has learned that her
grandparents ignore rather than
reward her tantrums. What operant
conditioning principle is this an example
of?
• Extinction
• If the grandparents gave her candy to
get her to stop tantrum?
• If they took away her favorite toy?
• If they spanked her?
• A group of students perceived a
stationary object of light in a dark
room as a moving object. When asked
later how far the light had moved,
their responses increased similarity as
they heard others’ estimates. What is
this a demonstration of?
• Conformity
• In the treatment of patients, which
psychologist made no attempt to offer
diagnosis, advice, or interpretation of
patients’ unconscious motives?
• Carl Rogers
• Aaron Beck
• Sigmund Freud
• Carl Jung
• Carl Rogers!!!