Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for addiction?
A.positive drug expectations
B.damage to the insula
C.certain personality traits
D.identification with high-risk groups
Which of the following phenomena would likely be studied by social psychologists?
A.strategies leaders use to influence other people’s behaviors
B.how animals differ in their sensitivities to reward and punishment
C.which category of perceptual images is most likely to be identified quickly
D.which neurons are activated when people look at different shapes
Which of the following would cause the most interference during a typical Stroop test?
A.the word “red” printed in red ink
B.the word “chair” printed in red ink
C.the word “green” printed in red ink
D.meaningless symbols printed in red ink
Based on your knowledge of Signal Detection Theory, which of the following might be
easiest for a participant in an experiment to change?
A.their absolute threshold
B.their difference threshold
C.their accuracy
D.their response bias
If you were awake and alert, and were given an EEG, what type of brain waves would
show up on your EEG?
A.beta waves
B.alpha waves
C.theta waves
D.sleep spindles
Dave walks into his dorm and finds his roommate Pete concentrating and staring at an
apple. When he questions what he is doing, Pete tells Dave he is trying to describe the
apple’s quality and intensity. Pete is using what technique?
A.stream of consciousness
B.functionalism
C.introspection
D.internal review
Fayd is studying for his English literature exam. For each novel he has read for the
course, he tries to spend a lot of time thinking of how the novel relates to his own life.
This activity requires that he really thinks about the themes and characters in the book,
making him recognize more about how different characters in the story relate to each
other. Fayd is using the memory strategy of:
a.maintenance rehearsal.
b.practice.
c.chunking.
d.elaborative rehearsal.
Which of the following is an example of a psychologist who is studying the mind?
A.Dr. Chu, who studies how weather influences children’s actions on the playground
B.Dr. Well, who studies neural activity during sleep cycles of elderly adults
C.Dr. Mann, who studies the accuracy of traumatic memories over time
D.Dr. East, who studies the facial expressions of relationship partners during a fight
Whales and elephants have the ability to distinguish much lower frequency sounds than
humans can. What kind of process might be more developed in a whale or elephant’s
cochlea than it is in a human’s cochlea?
A.temporal coding
B.place coding
C.localizing sound
D.amplitude discrimination
Our body’s neural system is built from billions of nerve cells, also called:
A.neurotransmitters.
B.neurons.
C.axons.
D.genomes.
Imagine you are 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
Leyna conducts research with puppies to determine if punishing them for inappropriate
behavior will be more effective than rewarding them for appropriate behavior. In this
example, Leyna is using a(n) ________ approach in her research.
A.functionalist
B.structuralist
C.behaviorist
D.psychoanalytic
Which of the following drugs is NOT a stimulant?
A.cocaine
B.crack cocaine
C.methamphetamine
D.THC
Which of the following is NOT part of the brain stem?
A.the pons
B.the medulla
C.the midbrain
D.the cerebellum
Another word for a hypothesis is a/an:
A.theory.
B.prediction.
C.outcome.
D.naturalistic observation.