1) the matter of who has access to data collected in an experiment is associated with
which ethical issue?
a.deception
b.informed consent
c.anonymity
d.confidentiality
2) ouch! a paper cut! the sharp sting travels along _____ pain fibers, which are _____.
a.slow; unmyelinated
b.slow; myelinated
c.fast; unmyelinated
d.fast; myelinated
3) chomsky has argued that children:
a.must learn the grammatical rules of any language through a trial-and-error process
b.quickly grasp the surface structure of a language, but have great difficulty with what
he termed the deep structure of language
c.have a built-in preparedness to acquire grammar
d.have an innate tendency to name objects
4) which of the following factors is not a drawback of electroconvulsive therapy for
depression?
a.resulting memory impairments
b.the need for repeated treatments
c.a long delay before the remission of depression
d.the mechanism by which electroconvulsive therapy works is unknown.
5) which of the following is a psychological factor that could possibly influence the
development of a psychological disorder?
a.malnutrition
b.thoughts
c.maternal illness
d.neurological dysfunction
6) the statistic that involves the basic arithmetic average of a set of scores is known as
the:
a.mode
b.range
c.mean
d.median
7) someone who needs reading glasses to see at a close distance has problems _____
her lens. someone who needs glasses to see objects at a distance has problems _____
his lens.
a.thickening; flattening
b.flattening; flattening
c.thickening; thickening
d.flattening; thickening
8) on his way to get an afternoon snack, jed walks by a billboard advertising
hamburgers. he had intended to order an ice cream cone, but instead orders french fries.
according to the spreading activation model, the hamburger made jed want french fries
because:
a.hamburgers and french fries are part of the prospective memory
b.hamburgers activated the nodes for french fries
c.hamburgers were encoded with french fries
d.hamburgers and french fries are part of the same procedural memory
9) sean, who is 18 years old, complains that he never dreams. he asks if this could be
possible. based on what you know about dream behavior, you are likely to:
a.agree with him because you do not dream either
b.disagree with him because he is 18 and everyone can dream after the age of 12
c.disagree with him because we all have dreams unless we have a specific brain injury
or are on a certain kind of medication
d.agree with him because not everyone has dreams in rem sleep
10) piagets conclusion that young children have no inherent sense of mathematical
principles:
a.was contradicted by the results of his own marble test
b.has been called into question by research showing that children under 3 understand
concepts such as more than and less than
c.has largely been supported, though such principles are acquired earlier than he
postulated
d.has been supported in a manner highly consistent with his initial proposal
11) the symptoms most commonly associated with schizophrenia are:
a.showing evidence of one or more distinct personalities and fluctuating moods
b.delusions and hallucinations
c.rapidly alternating periods of anxiety and depression
d.extreme impulsiveness and sensation seeking
12) if you close one eye, you will still be able to use _____ as a depth cue, but you will
not be able to use _____ as a depth cue.
a.linear perspective; occlusion
b.texture gradients; disparity
c.convergence; motion parallax
d.disparity; linear perspective
13) a major criticism of the james-lange theory is that:
a.emotions occur faster than interpretations can be made
b.the emotion has to exist to produce the physiological reaction
c.physiological reactions to emotions are not specific enough
d.both b and c
14) broadly speaking, your textbook divides personality assessment procedures into
_____ measures.
a.self-report and physiological
b.descriptive and projective
c.projective and objective
d.psychodynamic and humanistic