1) frank tong and colleagues superimposed a house onto a face and asked participants to
make judgments about what they saw. what were the participants brain responses?
a.the brain activity changed depending on whether participants reported seeing a house
or a face.
b.the brain noticed both equally, meaning that eventually everything becomes
conscious.
c.the unconscious brain became confused and thus the participants were unable to see
either the house or the face.
d.the brain emitted large, slow-wave activity equally for both images.
2) which of the following disorders may be helped by sleep deprivation?
a.chronic insomnia
b.depression
c.hypertension
d.adhd
3) contemporary psychodynamic therapy includes:
a.focusing on the therapist/patient relationship
b.looking for recurring themes
c.exploring distressing thoughts
d.all of the above
4) if a participant always shows fast reaction times on a visual task not because she is
good at the task but because she can hear the experimenter start the presentation and
can get ready for the stimulus, her data will show a high level of:
a.validity
b.reactivity
c.selection bias
d.systematic error
5) one of the _____ treatments of schizophrenia involves _____, a treatment type based
on the behavioral approach.
a.social; teaching social skills training
b.biological; using older and newer antipsychotics
c.psychosocial; social skills training
d.biological; using deep brain stimulation and biofeedback
6) token economies are an example of the ways mental hospitals and other training
centers use:
a.primary punishment
b.primary reinforcement
c.continuous reinforcement
d.secondary reinforcement
7) the tendency to make memories consistent with current beliefs or attitudes is referred
to as:
a.confabulation
b.repressed memories
c.persistence
d.memory bias
8) animation works by presenting still pictures rapidly enough that they merge in iconic
memory. how much time can elapse between each successive picture if animation is to
work?
a.several minutes
b.1/1000th of a second
c.1/3 of a second
d.variable amounts of time
9) the yerkes-dodson law, which characterizes the relation between arousal and
performance, is characterized graphically as a(n):
a.u-shaped function
b.inverted u-shaped function
c.linear function
d.exponential function
10) who founded the school of behaviorism?
a.skinner
b.watson
c.pavlov
d.bandura
11) research has shown that people do not necessarily believe that time heals all wounds
when something bad is about to happen to them. instead, people tend to use _____ and
anticipate the worst.
a.affective forecasting
b.projected regret
c.confirmation biases
d.subjective likelihoods
12) according to the biological theory of personality the _____ is the go system,
whereas the _____ is the stop system.
a.behavioral approach system (bas); behavioral inhibition system (bis)
b.behavioral inhibition system (bis); behavioral approach system (bas)
c.reward; punishment
d.punishment; reward
13) which of the following activities would not be considered a descriptive study?
a.taking notes on the behavior of members in a cult
b.measuring the selection of food items in a cafeteria
c.examining the effects of a new medication in alleviating depression
d.counting the number of mating behaviors in baboons in the natural habitat
14) skylar recently became a clinical psychologist and is interested in working
specifically with people suffering from depression. based on what is known about the
demographics of this disorder, which of the following issues is likely to come up most
frequently in sessions with depressed clients?
a.the difficulties involved in discussing ones sexual orientation
b.how race and ethnicity affect ones self-perception and social interactions
c.the multiple demands of work and family life, and the interaction between these areas
d.the stresses of being poor
15) in a study in which treatment with the drug clomipramine was compared with
exposure and ritual prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it was found that:
a.exposure and response prevention was more effective
b.the drug was the superior treatment
c.neither worked better than a placebo
d.both forms of treatment were equally effective