Which of the following is NOT considered a form of meditation?
A.Zen
B.yoga
C.mindfulness meditation
D.hypnosis
Your father has not ridden a bicycle since he was in college, about 20 years ago. Your
father’s remembering how to ride the bike without falling will call upon _____ memory.
a.episodic
b.semantic
c.procedural
d.declarative
What type of learning occurs when one’s behavior is modified simply through exposure
to others performing a behavior?
A.associative
B.observational
C.operant
D.classical
Dr. Meyers is investigating the relationship between stress and obesity. In his latest
study, he found that stress often leads to obesity because it causes overeating and has
slowing effects on metabolism. Which of the four primary goals of science is he
addressing with his most recent work?
A.description
B.control
C.prediction
D.explanation
Your friend gets in a traumatic car accident and the doctors are worried that she may
develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, your friend seems to be coping
well and is not showing any PTSD symptoms. How would a strict nature-only theorist
explain this situation?
A.Your friend inherited a genetic resilience against stressors that can lead to PTSD.
B.Your friend must have a good support network that prevented her from developing
PTSD.
C.Your friend inherited a genetic predisposition to PTSD.
D.Your friend needs a better support network if she wants to avoid developing PTSD.
You want your dog to stop barking unnecessarily so you take him to a dog trainer. The
trainer tells you that the key to good training is figuring out how to increase the desired
behavior. According to the trainer, which of the following is the best approach?
A.positive reinforcement when the dog is barking
B.negative reinforcement when the dog is barking
C.positive punishment when the dog is quiet
D.negative reinforcement when the dog is quiet
Clinical psychologists work with individuals:
A.with severe mental illness.
B.with daily stressors.
C.with marital and family concerns.
D.needing career advice.
Chemical substances that carry messages directly from one neuron to the next are
called:
A.agonists.
B.neurotransmitters.
C.enzymes.
D.hormones.
Which of the following is true about REM and dreams?
A.Dreams only occur during REM sleep.
B.Dreams do not occur during REM sleep.
C.Dreams during REM sleep are likely to be mundane.
D.Dreams during REM sleep are likely to be bizarre.
A new, complex organism discovered by scientists can be severely injured by any
exposure to hydrogen peroxide. What type of haptic receptor is this organism likely to
have evolved that responds to hydrogen peroxide?
A.fast-acting pain receptor
B.slow-acting pain receptor
C.gate controlled receptors
D.kinesthetic receptors
You want to test if some of your dreams are mundane. To check this, you should ask a
friend to wake you during:
A.REM sleep.
B.non-REM sleep.
C.stage 1 sleep.
D.paradoxical sleep.
A neuron without dendrites is most similar to:
A.a computer without a mouse.
B.a telephone that cannot receive incoming calls.
C.a light with no “off” switch.
D.a car that cannot go above 60 mph.
Which of the following is NOT part of the temporal lobe?
A.primary auditory cortex
B.fusiform face area
C.specialized visual areas
D.nucleus accumbens
Kim spent years studying children in a remote village. To understand how their
behavior and mental processes change over time, she would like to study them over the
course of their lifetimes. Kim is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist.
A.personality
B.school
C.cognitive
D.developmental
If a researcher finds that a participant produces different scores on a task each time the
participant engages in that task, a researcher can conclude that:
A.the measurements are valid and reliable.
B.the measurements are not reliable.
C.the data will show no central tendency.
D.there will be a need to use inferential statistics.
Temporal coding encodes ________ sounds, while place coding encodes ________
sounds.
A.low amplitude; high amplitude
B.high amplitude; low amplitude
C.low frequency; high frequency
D.high frequency; low frequency
Which of the following is an example of the ‘seeing relationships that do not exist” bias
in thinking described in your text?
A.Abby thinks she is an above-average dancer, an above-average singer, and an
above-average student, even though everyone else thinks she is just average.
B.Tony underestimates the likelihood of bicycle accidents because he cannot easily
recall one that happened recently.
C.Tim thinks that he must eat pizza right before class if he wants to do well on his
exam.
D.Ziva believes that she is more likely to make her next shot, because she has made the
last three in a row.
Topics such as perception, thinking, and learning are studied by ________
psychologists.
A.organizational
B.developmental
C.personality
D.cognitive
Culture’s influence on taste preferences is most like:
A.the influence of light waves on photoreceptors.
B.the influence of distraction on pain.
C.our ability to distinguish hot from cold.
D.our ability to discriminate sound frequencies.