1) one of the best ways to remember factual information is to relate it to something
personal. in this way, you are taking advantage of your _____ memory to aid retrieval
from your _____ memory.
a.implicit; explicit
b.semantic; episodic
c.episodic; semantic
d.explicit; implicit
2) temperament in infancy consists of:
a.activity level
b.emotionality
c.sociability
d.all of the above
3) imagine you are at the end part of the chain of activity on a production line. your
boss, who in his previous career was a neuroscientist, calls you an antagonist. what
would he be implying?
a.that you interfere with production
b.that you speed up production
c.that you take stuff out of the process that is defective
d.that you sleep on the job, doing nothing
4) gordon allports conception of personality:
a.emphasized that it is largely a collection of socially created traits
b.stressed that it was a dynamic system arising from biological processes
c.considers it largely a social construction
d.is the outcome of how people think and behave rather than the cause of thinking and
behaving
5) which of the following sequences correctly orders the units of genetics, from the
smallest and most specific to the largest and most inclusive?
a.dna → gene → chromosome
b.dna → chromosome → gene
c.gene → dna → chromosome
d.gene → chromosome → dna
6) how are taste buds distributed throughout the tongue and mouth?
a.different regions of the tongue and mouth are more sensitive to certain tastes.
b.the taste buds are distributed fairly uniformly throughout the tongue and mouth.
c.most of the taste buds are localized to particular regions of the tongue and mouth.
d.depending on the taste quality, the taste buds can be either localized or spread
uniformly.
7) memory for items presented at the beginning of a list and at the end of the list is
referred to as:
a.serial position effect
b.association network
c.chunking
d.all of the above
8) the more negative emotions someone experiences, the greater the chance of
developing:
a.antibodies
b.eustress
c.heart disease
d.glandular cancer
9) imagine you are recruiting people to volunteer to do part-time tutoring of elementary
school kids. dissonance theory would suggest that a successful strategy to enhance the
commitment of the volunteers would be to pay them:
a.only a token amount of money for volunteering
b.fairly little to begin with but increased wages over time
c.a large bonus if things go well after three months
d.a large training salary but a fairly low tutoring salary
10) anticipatory coping will be most effective when the:
a.stress is predictable
b.stress ultimately has a positive outcome
c.person is dealing with multiple sources of stress at once
d.stress is seen as meaningful in some way
11) controversies have arisen about policies needed to handle illegal immigration. the
claim has been made that many people who say they have no objection to immigration
from mexico so long as it is legal are really showing a bias against mexican americans.
the best way to test this claim would be to have people who hold the belief that they
object to illegal immigration but are not prejudiced against mexican americans take:
a.a lie detector test
b.a long attitude questionnaire
c.the implicit association test
d.the thematic apperception test
12) an infant is presented with two stimuli, one of which it has seen before and one of
which it has not. he or she will:
a.look at the familiar stimulus longer than the unfamiliar
b.look at the unfamiliar stimulus longer
c.shift its gaze between the two, allocating roughly equal amounts of attention to both
d.look at the one with subtle compared to bold patterns
13) unintended differences between the groups in an experiment may introduce
confounds; these differences reflect a condition known as _____ bias.
a.selection
b.assignment
c.directionality
d.sampling
14) in which of the following studies would the concept of reactivity be most relevant?
a.a blind study
b.a case study
c.an observational study
d.an electrophysiological study
15) fazal wants to buy a car. he is going to take a loan so that he can buy a new car
because he believes that new cars have fewer problems than used cars. claire tells him
that used cars with guarantees also have very few problems. fazal decides that he needs
to find out if claire is right before buying a new car. fazal has been using which form of
thinking about his car purchase?
a.reasoning
b.problem solving
c.decision making
d.heuristic
16) an important change in the health of people over the last 100 years involves:
a.an increasing number of mortalities associated with lifestyle choices
b.the increased use of successful coping strategies
c.obesity becoming less prevalent
d.more people dying of infectious diseases
17) antipsychotic medications would not be effective if they did not:
a.block serotonin
b.block dopamine
c.enhance dopamine
d.enhance serotonin