Exam 1 Review Session #3
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Exam 1 Review Session #3
In the earliest days, psychology was defined as
Science of mental life
Study of conscious and unconscious activity
Science of observable behavior
Science of behavior and mental processes
Today, psychology is defined as
Science of mental phenomena
Study of conscious and unconscious activity
Science of behavior
Science of behavior and mental processes
Which of the following is NOT one of the basic tastes?
Sweet
Salty
Umani
Bland
To determine the effects of a new drug on memory, one group of people is given a pill that contains the drug. A second group is given a sugar pill that does not contain the drug. This second group is constitutes the
Random sample
Experimental group
Control group
Test group
As we move, viewed objects cast changing shapes on our retinas, although we do not perceive the objects as changing. This is part of the phenomenon of
Perceptual constancy
Relative motion
Linear perspective
Continuity
Of the four distinct skin senses , the only one that has definable receptors is
Warmth
Cold
Pressure
Pain
The brain research technique that involves monitoring the brain’s usage of glucose is called (in abbreviation form) the
PET scan
fMRI
EEG
MRI
Who wrote the early textbook Principles of Psychology ?
Wilhelm Wundt
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
William James
Moruzzi and Magoun caused a cat to lapse into a coma by severing neural connections between the cortex and the
Reticular formation
Hypothalamus
Thalamus
Cerebellum
The brain breaks vision into separate dimensions such as color, depth, movement, and form, and works on each aspect simultaneously. This is called
Feature detection
Parallel processing
Accommodation
Opponent processing
Which of the following exemplifies the issue of the relative importance of nature and nurture to our behavior?
The issue of the relative influence of biology and experience on behavior
The issue of the relative influence of rewards and punishments on behavior
The debate as to the relative importance of heredity and instinct in determining behavior
The debate as to whether mental processes are a legitimate area of scientific study
The principle that one sense may influence another is
Transduction
Gate-control theory
Kinesthesis
Sensory interaction
Psychologists who study, assess, and treat troubled people are called
Basic researchers
Applied psychologists
Clinical psychologists
Psychiatrists
Which of the following BEST describes the hindsight bias?
Events seems more predictable before they have occurred
Events seem more predictable after they have occurred
A person’s intuition is usually correct
A person’s intuition is usually not correct
Heartbeat, digestion, and other self-regulating bodily functions are governed by the
Voluntary nervous system
Autonomic nervous system
Sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
Somatic nervous system
Dr. Hernandez is studying neurotransmitter abnormalities in depressed patients. She would most likely be working from a _______________ perspective.
Personality
Phrenology
Psychoanalysis
Biological
The Young-Helmholtz theory proposes that
There are three different types of color-sensitive cones
Retinal cells are excited by one color and inhibited by its complementary color
There are four different types of cones
Rod, not cone, vision accounts for our ability to detect fine visual detail
The myelin sheath that is on some neurons
Increases the speed of neural transmission
Slows neural transmission
Regulates the releases of neurotransmitters
Prevents positive ions from passing through the membrane
According to Freud , dreams are
A symbolic fulfillment of erotic wishes
The result of random neural activity in the brainstem
The brain’s mechanism for self-stimulation
The disguised expressions of inner conflicts
Which of the following is typically controlled by the left hemisphere?
Making inferences
Word recognition
The left side of the body
Perceptual skills
The gland that regulates body growth is the
Adrenal
Thyroid
Hypothalamus
Pituitary
The sleep cycle is approximately ______ minutes
30
50
75
90
Given a normal sensory ability, a person standing atop a mountain on a dark, clear night can see a candle flame atop a mountain 30 miles away. This is a description of a vision’s
Difference threshold
JND
Absolute threshold
Feature detection
According to the opponent-process theory
There are three types of color - sensitive cones
The process of color vision begins in the cortex
Neurons involved in color vision are stimulated by one color’s wavelength and inhibited by another’s
All of these statements are true
The seventeenth-century philosopher who believed that the mind is blank at birth and that most knowledge comes through sensory experiences is
Plato
Aristotle
René Descartes
John Locke
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