1) which of the following is not one of kohlbergs stages of moral reasoning?
a.preconventional
b.conventional
c.concrete operations
d.postconventional
2) eva and garnet are identical twins who survived a traumatic accident in which a bus
they were riding in plummeted into a river. during the accident evas amygdala was
severely damaged; garnet experienced no injuries. you would expect that eva _____
develop a conditioned fear to buses and garnet _____ develop a conditioned fear to
buses.
a.would not; would not
b.would; would not
c.would; would
d.would not; would
3) jamal is performing statistical analyses to determine whether the effects of the
treatment in his experiment might actually have reflected chance; kendra is performing
an analysis to combine the results of a number of experiments to yield an overall
conclusion. jamal is performing a _____, kendra, a _____.
a.replication; meta-analysis
b.significance test; replication
c.significance test; meta-analysis
d.meta-analysis; significance test
4) sam is passionately in love with hailey. he cannot stop thinking about her and spends
all his free time with her. his work is suffering, and his friends complain that he is
obsessed with her. sam and his friends might understand this situation better if they
knew that passionate love:
a.allows sensory signals to be responded to without higher cortical processing
b.is behaviorally and cognitively addictive
c.activates the dopamine reward system just like addictive drugs
d.creates a conditioned response that cannot be extinguished
5) if your license getting suspended for driving too fast makes you less likely to speed
when you get it back, the suspension is an example of:
a.positive reinforcement
b.negative reinforcement
c.positive punishment
d.negative punishment
6) which of the following is not a characteristic of the cerebral cortex?
a.it has a wrinkled appearance.
b.it is the largest part of the human brain.
c.the corpus callosum provides connections between the two hemispheres.
d.damage to this area typically results in death.
7) babies begin to prefer to look at a picture of a face, rather than a blank outline of a
head, when they are less than:
a.1 month old
b.1 hour old
c.1 week old
d.1 day old
8) which of the following personality traits exist in most species?
a.extraversion
b.neuroticism
c.agreeableness
d.all of the above
9) most psychologists and physicians today believe that ones sexual orientation:
a.is greatly influenced by ones peers
b.is not a choice
c.is a choice
d.none of the above
10) young children often are unable to:
a.create false stories
b.remember where they learned something
c.confabulate stories
d.remember longer than 24 hours
11) freuds stages of child and adolescent personality development are based on:
a.moral concerns originating in the id
b.the creation of a personal value system that is based in a strong superego
c.seeking pleasure through different erogenous zones
d.the development of unconditional positive regard
12) marianna takes the bus to school every day. one morning, a different bus is used on
her route. marianna does not notice the change, even though her usual bus is blue and
white and the new bus is green and black. marianna is showing:
a.change blindness
b.tip-of-the-tongue
c.blocking
d.transience
13) neuroimaging studies have shown that in the brains of people with schizophrenia:
a.brain activity is centered on the amygdala and the hippocampus
b.there is a decreased quantity of brain tissue in various brain regions
c.increased volume is visible in the frontal lobes
d.regions that affect people with bipolar disorder are also overactive in people with
schizophrenia
14) you memorize your four-digit pin number for your bank card, but you also store this
number on your phone. you keep your bank card and your phone in your backpack, and
a thief steals your backpack. when you get your new bank card, you have to make up a
new pin, but every time you try to withdraw money, you can only remember the old pin.
what best explains this combination of remembering and forgetting?
a.schemas
b.decay
c.amnesia
d.interference