Randall does not immediately sense pain when he stays out too long in the snow, but he
feels a painful sensation in his frostbitten toes for days afterward. Randall’s inability to
sense pain immediately is most likely due to damage to his:
A.somatosensory cortex.
B.slow fibers.
C.fast fibers.
D.thalamus.
You wake up feeling disoriented after a long sleep. When you open your eyes, a scene
emerges before you. You cannot tell if you are looking at a scene of toy cars driving
around a miniature city or if you are on top of a building looking down at real cars
driving around an actual city. This illusion occurs because of a lack of what?
A.shape constancy
B.color constancy
C.size constancy
D.lightness constancy
Drugs that treat ________ make serotonin more available by blocking reuptake.
A.motor disturbances
B.memory disturbances and hallucinations
C.obsessive-compulsive disorders and depression
D.pain and somatic sensitivity
Which of the following structures is NOT considered a part of the cerebral cortex?
A.occipital lobes
B.parietal lobes
C.temporal lobes
D.hippocampal lobes
After a period of sleep deprivation, you would expect a person to exhibit:
A.microsleeps
B.macrosleeps
C.microwakes
D.macrowakes
Which of the following is an example of research done at the social level of analysis?
A.testing whether people perform a new skill better alone or in front of a group
B.examining how brain chemicals change when recalling a happy memory
C.testing how one’s culture influences how one explains personal failure and success
D.examining how sadness can influence how we process persuasive arguments
Trichromatic theory best explains ________ , while opponent-process theory best
explains ________.
A.hue; saturation
B.saturation; hue
C.afterimages; color blindness
D.color blindness; afterimages
Why is the range often the LEAST useful measure of central tendency?
A.It only provides information on two scores.
B.It is not always able to be calculated.
C.It is dependent on the mean.
D.It is a type of inferential statistic.
An odor is most likely encoded by a(n):
A.single olfactory receptor specialized for that odor.
B.activation pattern across several olfactory receptor types.
C.single olfactory and a single gustatory receptor.
D.activation pattern across several olfactory and gustatory receptor types.
The shapes in an advertisement subtly spell-out a positive word. Most people do not
notice the word. The advertisers are using:
A.change blindness.
B.the Stroop effect.
C.Freudian slips.
D.subliminal perception.
Latent content is to ________ as manifest content is to ________.
A.remembering a tower in a dream; the psychological meaning of the tower
B.the psychological meaning of a tower; remembering a tower in a dream
C.the ability to identify a ladder in a dream; the ability to physically climb the ladder
D.the ability to physically climb a ladder; the ability to identify a ladder in a dream
Rachel was in an auto accident and now has a form of object agnosia. She has perfectly
accurate 20/20 vision, but she cannot recognize the differences between animals when
she sees them. For example, she cannot tell the difference between a giraffe and a zebra.
Joel has a degenerative illness that has affected his retinae but is otherwise normal in all
of his mental functioning. Which of the following statements is most accurate?
A.Rachel has impaired sensation, while Joel has impaired perception.
B.Rachel has impaired perception, while Joel has impaired sensation.
C.Rachel has an impaired absolute threshold, but Joel has an impaired difference
threshold.
D.Rachel has an impaired difference threshold, but Joel has an impaired absolute
threshold.
The term genetics is used to describe how:
A.physical characteristics are passed on through inheritance.
B.behavioral and personality characteristics are passed on through inheritance.
C.physical, behavioral, and personality characteristics are passed on through
inheritance.
D.physical and behavioral characteristics are passed on through inheritance.
Byron drinks five or more cups of coffee each day during the week. On Saturday and
Sunday mornings, when he sleeps in late, he often has a headache when he gets up, and
it only goes away after he drinks some coffee. It is likely that Byron is experiencing:
A.tolerance symptoms.
B.psychological dependency.
C.withdrawal symptoms.
D.contextual cravings.
On his way to the basketball game, Tom says he cannot predict who will win. After his
team wins the game, Tom says he knew they were going to win because their defense
always plays well together. This is an example of:
A.taking mental shortcuts.
B.the hindsight bias.
C.the self-serving bias.
D.the confirmation bias.
While a man is asking you for directions, a large framed picture is moved between the
two of you. You are LEAST likely to notice that he has now been swapped with a
different man if he is:
A.in a different group as you.
B.in the same group as you.
C.holding a bag.
D.empty-handed.
The processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness is
referred to as:
A.the smart unconscious.
B.subliminal perception.
C.split brain.
D.drifting off.
In a memory experiment, participants in Group A are asked to just listen to a list of
words. Group B is asked to count the number of words that begin with the letter e.
Group C is asked to repeat each word as they hear it. Group D is asked to use each
word in a sentence. According to the ________ model of memory, ________ would
later remember the most words from the list.
a.level of processing; Group A
b.spreading activation; Group B
c.spreading activation; Group C
d.level of processing; Group D
One of the four main goals of science is description. The main goal of scientists
addressing this goal is to describe:
A.what laws are needed to reduce dangerous behaviors.
B.what measures to use to assess a phenomenon.
C.which types of research studies would best address the phenomenon.
D.what a phenomenon is.
According to the most recent estimate from the Human Genome Project, humans have
approximately how many genes?
A.1,000 -5,000
B.20,000 -30,000
C.over 100,000
D.three times as many as most animals