1) this principle states that rather than perceiving a car as a group of distinct entities,
such as metal, tires, glass, door handles, hubcaps, and fenders, we perceive the car as a
whole unit.
a.bottom-up processing
b.bottom-down processing
c.gestalt
d.ponzo illusion
2) which of the following phenomena would be best researched using a longitudinal
study?
a.the change in childrens concepts of sharing from infancy through adolescence
b.the difference between children and adults in their responses to a natural disaster
c.the frequency with which people think about sources of stress in their lives over the
course of a single day
d.the rates of hospitalization of psychiatric patients over the course of the last century
3) in research on signal detection theory, incorrectly detecting a stimulus that was not
presented in a trial is called a:
a.correct rejection
b.false alarm
c.response bias
d.transduction
4) psychologists who study social development are primarily concerned with:
a.how we learn to interact with other members of our species
b.cognitive functioning in children
c.how personality traits affect behavior
d.how drug use effects thought processes
5) barry states that psychology is the study of the mind. candace remarks that
psychology is the science of behavior. how might you evaluate these two statements?
a.barrys definition is correct; candaces definition is incorrect.
b.both statements are too broad.
c.both statements are partially correct.
d.barrys definition is too broad; candaces definition is correct.
6) jasmine wants to get uchennas attention in the library. she whispers to avoid
disturbing other students. however, she speaks so softly that uchenna cannot hear her
and keeps reading. jasmines voice is:
a.below uchennas absolute threshold
b.below uchennas difference threshold
c.above uchennas absolute threshold but below uchennas difference threshold
d.below uchennas absolute threshold but above uchennas difference threshold
7) because psychologists regularly use college students as research participants, the
research does not involve:
a.random sampling
b.convenience sampling
c.selection bias
d.populations
8) self-esteem and objective life outcomes are:
a.weakly related
b.moderately related
c.strongly related
d.randomly related
9) which drug(s) is/are involved in more than half of fatal car accidents, one-third of
homicides, and often risky sexual behavior?
a.marijuana
b.cocaine and methamphetamine
c.opiates
d.alcohol
10) if a researcher publicly discussed a participants responses and named the
participant, that researcher would be guilty of violating what specific ethical principle?
a.confidentiality
b.anonymity
c.privacy
d.deception
11) in this form of treatment, electrical stimulation is delivered through electrodes
implanted in the brain:
a.electroconvulsive therapy
b.deep brain stimulation
c.transcranial magnetic stimulation
d.none of the above
12) in the mythical country of xacandra, people experience an emotion they call
revzola. revzola is associated with particular states of arousal, and the people who
experience it strongly do better in xacandran society. when xacandran psychologists
explored nearby countries, they discovered that every culture had an emotion like
revzola, though they called it by different names. in terms of the circumplex model of
emotions, revzola is a _____ emotion.
a.universal
b.primary
c.secondary
d.cross-culturally congruent
13) the ability to quickly calculate a 10 percent discount on an item would be an
example of:
a.crystallized intelligence
b.fluid intelligence
c.generative intelligence
d.applying intelligence
14) the mutation that became the recessive characteristic for sickle-cell anemia is
adaptive in:
a.malaria-prevalent environments
b.non-african americans only
c.african americans
d.no known environments and, as a recessive characteristic, is likely to die out
15) according to associative network theories, concepts in memory are localized in:
a.nodes
b.associations
c.feature lists
d.feature hierarchies
16) a person diagnosed with panic disorder is most likely to develop which of the
following additional disorders?
a.attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
b.agoraphobia
c.obsessive-compulsive disorder
d.bipolar disorder
17) a mother is tying her own shoes in front of her toddler. she is using exaggerated,
slow movements to tie her shoes. she is:
a.imitating
b.mirroring
c.demonstrating
d.reinforcing