Psychology 101 Test Q&a

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Wilhelm Wundt's labratory work involved experimental studies of:

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Reactions to sensory stimulation

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Behaviorists dismissed the value of:

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Introspection

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this psychological perspective is most likely to be concerned with identifying the powers snd the limts of human reasoning?

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Cognitive

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The specialists who will have a medical degree is a:

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Psychiatrist

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Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an opposite result is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of:

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the hindsight bias

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Two basic characteristics of the scientific attitude are:

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Skepticism and humility

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The explanatory power pf a scientific theory is most closely linked to it's capacity to generate testable:

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predictions

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The biggest danger of relying on case-study evidence is that it:

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may br unrepresentative of what is generally true

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in order to assess reactions to a proposed tuition hike at her college, Ariana sent a questionaire to every fifteenth person in the colleges registrar's alphabetical listing of all currently enrolled students. Ariana employed the technique of:

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Random sampling

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th epreception that seemingly infertile couples who adopt a chile are subsequently more likely to conceive a child themselves best illustrates:

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an illusionary correlation

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Which of the following methods is most helpful for revealing cause-effect relationships?

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The experiment

Front 12

In a study of the effects of alcohol consumption, some partcipants drank a non-alcoholic that actually smelled and tasted like alcohol. This non-alcoholic drink was a:

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Placebo

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To assess the effect of televised violence on agression, researchers plan to expose one group of children to violent movie scenes and the other groupd to non-violent movies scenes. In order to reduce the chance that the children in one group have more aggressive personalities than those in the other group, the researchers should make use of:

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Random assignment

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The funtion of dendrites is to:

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Recieve incoming signals from other neurons

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Increasing excitatory signals above the threshold for neural activation will not affect the intensity of an action potential. This indicates that a neuron's reaction is:

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an all-or-none response

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Jose has just played a long, bruising footbal game but feels little fatigue or discomfort. His lack of pain is most likely caused by the release of:

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Endorphins

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Curare is a paralyzing poison that funtions as:

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ACh Antagonist

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After discovering that the shadows outside his window were only the trees in the yard, Ralph's blood pressure decreased and his heartbeat slowed. these physical reactions were most directly regulated by his:

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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the sequence of brain regions from the evolutionarily oldest to newest is:

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Brain stem; limbic system; cerebral cortex

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people typically recognize
(words/letters/numbers) more rapidly and accurately when they are flashed to the left hemisphere; they typically recognize (numbers/letters/pictures) more rapidly and accurately when they are flashed to the right hemisphere.

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Word and pictures

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the part of the cerebral cortex that directs the muscle movements involves in speech is known as:

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Broca's area

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What body part is associated with the greatest amount of brain tissue in the motor cortex:

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Face

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the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior and personality traits is known as:

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behavior genetics