After a brain injury, a patient is considered to be in a persistent vegetative state if she
does not regain consciousness after one:
A.day.
B.week.
C.month.
D.year.
According to your text, variables, by definition, can:
A.have no operational definition.
C.involve random assignment.
B.be changed or evaluated.
D.be constants.
Food tastes better when you are hungry than when you are not because ________
dopamine is released by your ________.
A.more; amygdala
B.less; amygdala
C.more; nucleus accumbens
D.less; nucleus accumbens
Methamphetamine increases the concentration of dopamine in synapses. In this way, it
is similar to:
A.marijuana.
B.opiates.
C.cocaine.
D.marijuana.
In Freud’s book, The Interpretation of Dreams, the symbolic meaning of a dream is
referred to as:
A.latent content.
B.manifest content.
C.Freudian content.
D.ideological content.
Mindy is a psychologist who was just hired to try to improve the morale and motivation
of the workers in her company. Mindy is probably a(n) ________ psychologist.
A.personality
B.social
C.clinical/counseling
D.industrial/organizational
Barry and Candace are disagreeing. Barry states that psychology is the study of the
mind. Candace believes that psychology is the science of behavior. Given your
knowledge of psychology, how would you resolve this argument?
A.Barry is correct. Psychology only studies the mind.
B.Candace is correct. Psychology only studies behavior.
C.Both are correct. Psychology studies both the mind and behavior.
D.Both are incorrect. Psychology only studies emotions.
How are a theory and a hypothesis different?
A.A hypothesis is more specific than a theory.
B.A hypothesis and a theory are the same thing.
C.A theory can only be used for one study while a hypothesis can be used for several.
D.A theory is unchanging while a hypothesis can be altered.
James experienced a brain injury and now he can only say “tan.” James’s injury most
likely occurred in:
A.medulla oblongata.
B.motor cortex.
C.the brainstem.
D.Broca’s area.
Yves has been drinking. He has difficulty walking a straight line when asked to do so by
a police officer. Apparently, alcohol had affected Yves’s ________.
A.cerebellum
B.thalamus
C.reticular formation
D.hippocampus
Jim is driving down the highway one night when he notices a flashing sign that is
directing traffic toward the right. He notices that the sign appears to consist of a steady
stream of arrows moving toward the right. The next day, he sees the sign in the daylight
and realizes that it has no moving parts. What was responsible for Jim’s perception of
arrows moving toward the right when he saw the sign the night before?
A.motion aftereffects
B.stroboscopic movement
C.shape constancy
D.linear perspective
Dr. Rodriguez is talking with a colleague about the students and staff that are granted
access to data collected in his experiment. With which ethical issue is he concerned?
A.deception
B.informed consent
C.anonymity
D.confidentiality
In correlational studies, we cannot interpret which variable may be the cause and which
variable may be the effect. This phenomenon is known as:
A.observer bias.
B.experimenter expectancy effects.
C.the directionality problem.
D.the third variable problem.
What are the branchlike appendages that detect chemical signals from other neurons?
A.axons
B.synapses
C.cell bodies
D.dendrites
Jane has a phobia of public speaking. To help her overcome her phobia, she decided to
consult a ________ psychologist.
A.personality
B.clinical
C.counseling
D.social
Sleep deprivation does NOT lead to:
A.immune system suppression.
B.problems in mood.
C.problems in cognitive performance.
D.impoverished vision.
You are developing a new test to better detect toxins in the bloodstream. You want to
create a test that can detect toxins every time they are present, but you do not want the
test to come back positive if toxins are not actually present. If you succeed, your test
will be superior to others because you have improved the:
A.response bias.
B.difference threshold.
C.absolute threshold.
D.stimulus signal.
Dr. Smith reads about a research study investigating whether a reading intervention has
a positive effect on children’s performances in school. She decides to repeat the same
study to see if she obtains similar results. She is engaging in:
A.meta-analysis.
B.experience sampling.
C.replication.
D.correlational research.