Precious was woken up in the middle of a dream about dragons shopping for umbrellas
while dancing a polka. Precious was most likely experiencing ________ when she was
woken up.
A.psychedelic hallucinations
B.non-REM sleep
C.REM sleep
D.unresolved conflicts
Which of the following statements best captures the relationship between cultural
evolution and biological evolution?
A.Cultural evolution sets the stage for biological evolution.
B.Cultural evolution has taken over biological evolution.
C.Cultural evolution has occurred more rapidly than biological evolution.
D.Cultural evolution works against biological evolution.
According to the work of Shepard Siegel, an addict’s usual large dose is most likely to
produce an overdose in which setting?
A.in a novel setting
B.in a familiar setting
C.in an isolated setting
D.The setting is not important.
When not active, neurons have a negative electrical charge. This is referred to as:
A.action potential.
B.resting membrane potential.
C.all-or-none principle.
D.electron principle.
You are asked to participate in an experiment to see if people can detect very subtle
emotional expressions on other people’s faces. However, sometimes the image the
experimenter shows you is blurry, and it is hard to distinguish whether or not you see an
emotional expression. You decide that you will respond by indicating you have detected
an emotion in a person’s face, even when you are unsure. According to Signal Detection
Theory, which of the following two outcomes are you most likely to have?
A.hits and misses
B.misses and correct rejections
C.hits and false alarms
D.false alarms and correct rejections
Jafar conducted an experiment with student participants enrolled in his PSY 101 class.
He investigated their reactions to advertisements that used humor. When analyzing his
results, he should take into account that:
A.there are likely to be many confounds in his methodology, so his results may not be
reliable.
B.by using random assignment of participants to groups, it is likely that he avoided
selection bias.
C.he has a convenience sample and may not be able to generalize his findings to the
larger population of adults.
D.self-report methods are not an accurate way to get authentic reactions to the
advertisements.
Which of the following people is most likely to experience insomnia?
A.a younger woman
B.an older woman
C.a younger man
D.an older man
A medication that blocks the reuptake of serotonin would lead to:
A.more serotonin in the synapse.
B.less serotonin in the synapse.
C.more serotonin in the axon.
D.less serotonin in the axon.
Which of the following is an example of a psychologist who is studying the brain?
A.Dr. Fields, who studies the purchasing habits of impulsive individuals
B.Dr. Joe, who studies how neural activity changes as newborn babies develop
C.Dr. Perez, who studies how our feelings can influence our thought processes
D.Dr. Ladd, who studies the training activities of professional athletes
Certain perfume companies advertise that their perfumes can help people attract a mate.
If these perfumes work as advertised, we can take that as evidence of:
A.connectivity between vision and olfaction.
B.pheromone perception in humans.
C.olfactory input to the thalamus.
D.top-down processing of smell.
Aida eats green vegetables throughout her pregnancy and while she is nursing her baby
because she wants her baby to have a preference for these healthy foods. Aida knows
that:
A.culture influences taste preferences.
B.babies’ taste buds adapt to tastes in utero.
C.babies’ sense of taste is much more sensitive than adults’.
D.babies’ sweet receptors can adapt to sense bitter vegetables as sweet.
In the technique known as shadowing, a research participant repeats back:
A.text they are reading.
B.words heard in one ear.
C.their internal monologue.
D.their current conversation.
A little boy is running around a grocery store, screaming, yelling, and throwing cans.
His parents cannot control him. A strict nurture-only theorist might say:
A.”His parents must have been really active when they were children.”
B.”He cannot help that he was born wild.”
C.”Even if he was born wild, his parents should be able to control him.”
D.”Boys evolved to act this way when they are young.”
What type of information CANNOT be learned through observation?
A.societal expectations, such as how to act at the dinner table
B.complex motor tasks, such as how to operate a lawnmower
C.reinforcement schedules, such as when a behavior is rewarded and how
D.stimulus-response chains, such as reacting to a loud sound
Prolonged exposure to loud noises affects the hair cells that are closest to the oval
window first. What types of sounds might a person with noise-induced hearing loss
have the most trouble detecting?
A.low frequency
B.high frequency
C.high amplitude
D.temporally coded
General Mills wants to design new cereal packaging that is easy for parents to open but
hard for infants to open. To make sure it understands the capabilities and limitations of
both age groups, it should hire a(n) ________ psychologist.
A.biological
B.cognitive
C.developmental
D.industrial/organizational
Which of the following is NOT an adaptive function of sleep?
A.restoration
B.facilitation of learning
C.synchronizing eye movements
D.following of circadian rhythms