Gre Psychology

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The ability of a postsynaptic neuron to respond to the presence of a particular neurotransmitter that is released from a neighboring presynaptic neuron is dependent on which of the following conditions?

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The presence of receptors on the postsynaptic neuron that have an affinity for that particular neurotransmitter

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When persuasive communications follow the peripheral route, they focus on which of the following?

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Emotions

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Consider the sentence "The dishwasher is running." Which of the following is true?

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It can have more than one deep structure

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Children with separation anxiety disorder often experience which of the following symptoms in addition to excessive fear or anxiety over separation from attachment figures?

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Excessive concern about the safety and well-being of attachment figures

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Patients with bilateral damage to the hippocampal formation are tested on motor learning tasks such as the Tower of Hanoi. Studies show that the patients improve their performance with repeated exposures. When asked whether they have ever seen the task, even after numerous test sessions with it, they typically report not having seen it before. Such results have led to which of the following conclusions?

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Although procedural memory may not rely on normal hippocampal functioning, declarative memory does

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Which of the following is chemically similar to opiates, has the ability to reduce pain, and is blocked by the action of naloxone?

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Endorphin

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The bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity, and tremors that characterize Parkinson's disease are a result of the degeneration of dopaminergic cells in the...

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Substantia nigra

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Which of the following best characterizes an infant's object concept at six months of age?

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The infant understands objects to be solid bounded entities that take up space and move on continuous paths

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A 40-item vocabulary test was administered to a group of students. A second, similar test of vocabulary terms was administered to this same group of students approximately one week later. the research reported that the correlation between these two tests was r = .90. What type of reliability is represented in this example?

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Alternate forms

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The preference for a loosely knit social frame-work in which individuals are responsible only for the care of their children and themselves is known as...

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Individualism

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Over many trials a puff of air aimed at JoANne's eyes is paired with a loud noise and a subtle smell. Afterward, it is very likely that JoAnne's conditioned eye blink will be under the control of the loud noise and not he subtle smell. This phenomenon is an example of...

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Overshadowing

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The idea that people cope with stress by moving toward people, away form people, or against people is most consistent with the views of

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Karen Horney

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Which of the following is the best example of the categorical perception of human speech?

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When a sound is presented that is intermediate between the phonemes /b/ and /p/, listeners report that they heard either a distinct /b/ or a distinct /p/

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Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess described three categories of infants: easy, difficult, and slow to warm up. These are categories of...

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temperament

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Which of the following types of cognitive abilities is LEAST likely to show a decline in late life?

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Semantic memory

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Charles Scott Sherrington proposed that rapid stimulation of a specific synapse is likely to produce a cumulative effect in the postsynaptic cell because of...

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temporal summation

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"I runned to the car" is an exmaple of

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overregularization

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The visiual pathway that tells us what we are looking at is called the...

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ventral stream

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Using a pendulum apparatus, a participant attempts to derive the physical laws that determine the rate at which a pendulum swings. The participants' approach to solving this problem is to hold a relevant factor (X) constant and to vary a second relevant factor (Y), and then to reverse this procedure by holding Y constant and varying X. According to Jean Piaget, the participant's level of cognitive function is most likely...

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Formal operational

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A child has just developed the ability to lie with the intention of deceiving another person. This new ability is probably based most directly on a change in the child's

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Knowledge about mental representations

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The standard deviation of a sample of test scores is a measure of the

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variability of individual scores

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Rapid eye movements are most closely associated with which of the following?

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Dreaming

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If a psychological disorder has a genetic basis, one would expect to find the highest concordance rate for the illness between which of the following?

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Identical twins

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Annette is looking for a psychotherapist whose clinical work is rooted in object relations theory. The best match for Annette would be a therapist who emphasizes

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early life relationships

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A client sleeps sixteen hours a day. According the DSM-5, the client most likely has which of the following sleep disorders?

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Hypersomnolence

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Kyle mixes his blue paint with Jamie's yellow paint. THe resulting green color occurs because

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the blue and the yellow absorb all the other wavelengths except green

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Which of the following predictions is reasonable based on Baddeley and Hitch's theory of working memory?

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IF two tasks using the same component are done concurrently, performance will be impaired on one or both

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Which of the following was the first to systematically and empirically study memory by developing an innovative approach based on consonant-vowel-consonant combinations?

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Which of the following learning theorists first demonstrated that a neutral stimulus could acquire the ability to evoke a response originally attributed to another stimulus?

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Ivan Pavlov

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Which memory store is believed to have the largest capacity?

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the long-term store

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The use of polite words such as "please'" and "thank you" in everyday speech is called

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pragmatics

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Edmundo got into an argument with the grocery clerk. When he returned to his car after shopping, he discovered that he received a parking ticket. Edmundo furiously crumpled up the ticket and thew it on the ground. When his friend Terri told him to calm down, he screamed at her to mind her own business. Which of the following theories best accounts for Edmundo's behaivor?

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Excitation transfer

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According tot he theory of cognitive development proposed by Lev Vygotsky, children learn at best by working...

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with adults and advanced peers

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Which of the following predictions is the best example of context-dependent memory?

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Information is better recalled when learning and testing occur in the same room

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Fred was keenly interested in a new science fiction film and therefore was surprised when he arrived at the theater on opening night and found only a few people there. Fred's mistaken judgment of the popularity of the film illustrates...

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the false consensus effect

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Newlyweds Layla and Keith both have normal color vision, but Lyala carries a recessive gene for color deficiency. Which of the following best describes the probability of color deficiency in their children?

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Half of their sons will be color-deficient, but non of their daughters will