Psych Final #2

Front 1

Chemical substances that can block or reduce a cell's response to the action of other chemicals or neurotransmitters are called

A) agonists.
B) antagonists.
C) digoxins.
D) endorphins.

Back 1

Antagonists

Front 2

The nerves carrying messages from the CNS to the voluntary muscles comprise the

A) sensory pathway.
B) motor pathway.
C) autonomic nervous system.
D) parasympathetic division.

Back 2

Motor pathway

Front 3

Melissa is walking around barefoot and suddenly steps on a sharp nail. She feels the pain and immediately pulls her foot off the ground away from the nail. Which neurons were involved in her response?

A) interneurons only
B) interneurons and motor neurons only
C) sensory and motor neurons only

D) sensory, motor, and interneurons

Back 3

Sensory, motor and interneurons

Front 4

Kim's doctor got a detailed image of her brain by using radio waves and powerful magnetic fields. Kim received a(n)

A) EEG.

B) CT scan.
C) MRI scan.
D) PET scan.

Back 4

MRI scan

Front 5

The _______ is to involuntary muscles as the _______ is to voluntary muscles.

A) somatic nervous system; autonomic nervous system
B) autonomic nervous system; somatic nervous system

C) central nervous system; peripheral nervous system
D) peripheral nervous system; central nervous system

Back 5

Autonomic, somatic

Front 6

The central nervous system are what parts of the body?

Back 6

Spine & brain

Front 7

Somatic

Back 7

Voluntary

Front 8

Automatic Nervous System controls ______ movements

Back 8

involuntary

Front 9

The _____ division of the autonomic nervous system is also called the fight-or-flight system.

A) sympathetic
B) parasympathetic
C) synaptic
D) endorphin

Back 9

Sympathetic

Front 10

The neurotransmitter ______ does not go through the reuptake process.

A) dopamine
B) GABA
C) serotonin
D) acetylcholine

Back 10

Acetylcholine

Front 11

The right hemisphere of the brain specializes in nonverbal processing, processing of the whole, and

A) the written language.
B) the spoken language.
C) mathematical calculations.
D) music and artistic processing.

Back 11

Music and artistic processing

Front 12

The parasympathetic division could be called the

A) stress division.
B) all-or-nothing system.
C) fight-or-flight system.
D) eat-drink-and-rest system.

Back 12

Eat/drink/rest

Front 13

Neurons have _____which receive input, _____ which are cell bodies, and _____ which carry the neural message to other cells.

A) dendrites; somas; axons

B) axons; dendrites; somas
C) axons; somas; dendrites
D) somas; axons; dendrites

Back 13

Dendrites

somas

axons

Front 14

The _____ is a group of several brain structures located under the cortex that are involved in learning, emotion, memory, and motivation.

Back 14

Limbic System

Front 15

The _____ part of the spinal cord transmits messages to and from the brain. The ____ part controls lifesaving reflexes

A) upper; lower
B) lower; upper
C) outer; inner
D) inner; outer

Back 15

Outer;inner

Front 16

The ________ controls the size of the pupil.

Back 16

iris

Front 17

If you are experiencing habituation,

A) your receptor cells are no longer sending signals to your brain.
B) the lower centers of the brain are sending signals from sensory receptors to the cortex.
C) you are detecting the difference between two stimuli.
D) sensory receptors are still responding to stimuli.

Back 17

Sensory receptors are still responding to stimuli

Front 18

________ is the way the brain deals with unchanging information from the environment.

Back 18

Habituation

Front 19

The linear perspective is an example of

Back 19

A monocular cue

Front 20

What is transduction?

Back 20

The process of converting outside stimuli to neural activity

Front 21

Which pictorial depth cue causes distant objects, such as mountains, to appear hazier than nearby objects?

A) linear perspective
B) relative size
C) motion parallax
D) aerial perspective

Back 21

Aerial perspective

Front 22

One's tendency to perceive things in a certain way because of previous experience or expectation is called

A) perceptual set.
B) an illusion.
C) a binocular clue.
D) a monocular clue.

Back 22

perceptual set

Front 23

Many people believe that some stimuli act upon the unconscious mind and influence behavior, a process called

A) habituation.
B) sensory adaptation.
C) subliminal perception.
D) supraliminal perception.

Back 23

subliminal perception

Front 24

The image projected on the retina is

A) upside down but on the same side as the visual field.

B) exactly the same image that is registered by the brain.
C) right side up and reversed from left to right.
D) upside down and reversed from left to right.

Back 24

upside down and reversed from left to right

Front 25

Which of the following is TRUE about rods?

A) They are sensitive to changes in wavelengths.
B) They are located in the center of the retina.
C) They are the first stop for light within the eye.
D) They are responsible for peripheral vision.

Back 25

They are responsible for peripheral vision

Front 26

Depth perception seems to develop

A) in middle childhood.
B) in early infancy.
C) during the toddler years.
D) in adolescence.

Back 26

Early infancy

Front 27

Procedural memories

A) are not easily retrieved into conscious awareness.
B) are part of STM.
C) are stored in the amygdala.
D) are formed by maintenance rehearsal.

Back 27

Are not easily retrieved into conscious awareness

Front 28

It is extremely difficult to bring ______ into consciousness.

A) semantic memories
B) implicit memories
C) sensory memories
D) episodic memories

Back 28

implicit

Front 29

The information-processing model of memory suggests that

Back 29

the process of memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory in a series of three stages.

Front 30

The storage time of a memory depends upon

A) one's age.
B) how well the memory is rehearsed.
C) the system of memory being used.
D) the right retrieval cues.

Back 30

The system of memory being used

Front 31

Piaget suggested that children become able to deal effectively with abstract concepts during the ________ stage.

A) preoperational
B) formal operations
C) concrete operations
D) sensorimotor

Back 31

formal operations

Front 32

When adolescents move into Piaget's final stage of formal operations, what becomes possible?

A) introspection

B) emotional maturity
C) abstract thinking
D) conventional thinking

Back 32

abstract thinking

Front 33

Anything that can have an influence on development that does not come from within the person is known as

A) nature.
B) genetics.
C) nurture.
D) heredity.

Back 33

nurture

Front 34

The ABC Model of Attitudes includes

A) Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognition
B) Affect, Beliefs, and Cognition.
C) Affect, Behavior, and Compliance
D) Affect, Behavior, and Cognition.

Back 34

Affect, Behavior and cognition

Front 35

Which of the following emotions about being stereotyped creates a self-fulfilling prophecy?

A) anxiety about supporting the stereotype
B) indifference about one's performance

C) anger about being stereotyped
D) eagerness to prove the stereotype holder correct

Back 35

Anxiety about supporting the stereotype

Front 36

Which of the following memory phenomena has been supported in impression formation?

A) primacy effect
B) recency effect
C) latency effect
D) serial position effect

Back 36

primacy effect

Front 37

In his experiment on conformity, Asch found that

A) participants were as likely to conform with two confederates as with four.
B) conformity increased with each new confederate, up to four.
C) people stuck to their own answer about 90 percent of the time.
D) conformity was probably a sign of the times.

Back 37

Conformity increased with each new confederate, up to 4

Front 38

The three components of attitude are _____, thoughts, and actions.

Back 38

feelings