Psychology Midterm

Front 1

To be conscious means…

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That one is aware

Front 2

It has been found that what you eat can affect how easily you go to sleep. For example, eating starchy foods increases the amount of ______ reaching the brain.

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Tryptophan

Front 3

Which stage os leep typically has sleep spindles?

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Stage 2

Front 4

Observing a subject who is in REM sleep, a researcher can conclude that the subject will exhibit all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

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Delta Waves

Front 5

Which of the following has NOT been found helpful in eliminating nightmares?

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Decreasing your amount of sleep time

Front 6

Most symptoms of sleep deprivation:

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Are reversed by a single night's sleep

Front 7

Which statement about REM sleep is False:

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You usually dream as soon as you enter Stage 1 sleep

Front 8

The three most widely used psychoactive drugs are:

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Caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine

Front 9

Sleepwalking occurs during what stages of sleep?

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Stages 3 & 4

Front 10

According to Freud, _____ are mental filters that disguise the meanings of dreams.

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Dream Processes

Front 11

Which of the following statements regarding marijuana is FALSE?

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Experts agree that it has little effect on driving performance.

Front 12

Mescaline and psilocybin are classified as:

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Hallucinogens

Front 13

Activity levels in the _____ are lower than normal in marijuana absuers, which may explain why chronic users tend to show some loss of coordination.

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Cerebellum

Front 14

An advertisement promising to "unlock your hidden potential in just two hours!" should be suspect because:

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It is an over-simplification

Front 15

A friend states that since he has been taking vitamin C, he has not had a single cold. His observation has little value in assesing the effects of Vitamin C because:

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There was no control group for comparison

Front 16

One of the limitations of the survey method is

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That replies may reflect social desirability

Front 17

Who said, "Give me a dozen healthy infants…and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select…"?

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John Watson

Front 18

Biopsychologists and others who study the brain and nervous system, such as biologists and biochemsits, form the broader field of:

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Neuroscience

Front 19

Any false and unscientific system of beliefs and practices that is offered as an explanation of behavior is called:

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Pseudo-psychology

Front 20

An industrial psychologists work directly expresses which goal of psychology?

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Prediction

Front 21

A scientific explanation that remains tentative until it has been adequately tested is called a:

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Hypothesis

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Most clinical psychologists hold a PH.D. degree and follow a scientist-practitioner model, which means they:

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Are trained to do either scientific research or therapy

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Psycholog is:

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Front 24

The two cerebral hemispheres are connected by a band of fibers called

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The corpus callosum

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The football-shaped organ that process vision, hearing, taste, and touch.

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Thalamus

Front 26

When your immune system attacks and destroys the myelin, causing numbness, weakness, and partial paralysis.

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Multiple Sclerosis

Front 27

The brain consists of approximately 100 billion nerve cells called

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Neurons

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Organ, when damaged, does not affect speech but causes difficulty in comprehending langugage

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Wernicke's area

Front 29

Lacking what neurotransmitter causes loss of use of msucles to walk or inability to move fingers to play musical intruments

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Acetylcholine

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Part of the limbic system that causes irrational phobias

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Amygdala

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The central nervous system consists of

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The brain and spinal cord

Front 32

Speech, language, calculation, and analysis are special skills of the:

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Left Cerebral Hemisphere

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Machine that uses electrodes attached to the scalp to measure brain waves.

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Electroencephalograph (EEG)

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In Freudian theory, the force that energizes the personality and underlies our efforts to survive, our sexual desires, and our pleasure-seeking is known as the:

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Libido

Front 35

Psychologists would argue that personality is:

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A combination of genetics and environment

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Paul is so disorganized that his room likes like a tornado went through it. When he gets angry, he often breaks objects and can be very:

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Anal Expulsive

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________ are usually the first step in evaluating personality and an essential prelude to therapy, but must be supplemented by other measures.

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Interviews

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Sigmund Freud's theory would be classified as a ______ theory.

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Psychodynamic

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To reduce sexual tension, the ego may be forced to ______ sexual energies into other activities such as sports, music, or dances.

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Sublimate

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In Freudian theory, ______ refers to a boy's attraction to his mother and feelings of rivalry with his father.

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The Oedipus complex

Front 41

In Freudian theory, which part of the personality acts as a judge or censor for one's thoughts:

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Superego

Front 42

According to Masters and Johnson, primary erectile disorders may occur for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

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Guilt because of an extramarital affair

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The release of pent up anger and frustration is called:

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Gunnysacking

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The most objective laboratory research on human sexual response was done by?

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Masters and Johnson

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The most popular theory of the cause of homosexuality holds that:

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Genes affect hormone levels in the developing fetus.

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Refers to biological aspects of identity

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Sex

Front 47

Refers to psychological and social identity

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Gender

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STD that causes fever and pain in a females lower back/abdomen:

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Pelvic Inflammatory disease

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Persons having both masculine and feminine traits are

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Androgynous

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Men who carry out forcible rape

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Are acting on a need to debase women

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Jim has had no interest in sex and is trouble by this, he has

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Hypoactive Sexual Desire

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Overt Behavior

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Gesturing to somone to come over to the group

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An ________ is a formal trial undertaken to confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis about the causes of behavior.

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Experiment

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Which pair of states allows psychologists to prescribe drugs?

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New Mexico and Louisiana

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A type of psychologist that seeks to understand a person's ability to think, speak and perceive, and learn over their lifespan.

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Developmental Psychologist

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Rules that define acceptable and expected behavior for members of various groups are called

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Social Norms

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The control group and experimental group are treated the same Except:

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Independent Variable

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What type of research: Juanita wants to find which light and sound sensitivity levels are best in calming drug-addicted newborns:

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Applied Research

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Critical Thinking

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The ability to evaluate, compare, analyze, critique, synthesize, and reflect on information

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Way to equalize intelligence in experimental and control groups

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Random Assignment

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Experiment where subjects do now know who is in what group, but the experimenter does:

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Single-Blind Experiment

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The proces of fully developing personal potentials is referred to as

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Self-Actualization

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Rogers refers to internal standards of evaluation based on the approval or rejection of others as

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Conditions of worth

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People who base theories on scientific research and have ben accused of approaching personality as if people are robots

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Behaviorists

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The unconscious contains

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Repressed memories and emotions

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An overly strict or harsh superego will cause:

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Inhibition, rigidity, or intolerable guilt

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Humanism involves the view that:

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Humans are creative beings capable of free choice

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The populatirity of politicians who are physically attractive may be a consequence of the:

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Halo effect

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Albert Bandura concept, that the most important expectancies is our capacity for producing a desired result:

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Self-Efficacy

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Freud's view of the female sexual response was:

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That the "clitoral orgasm" was an immature form of female response

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Gland at the base of the bladder that supplies fluid that makes up semen

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Prostate

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Most child molesters are:

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Rigid, passive, puritanical, or religious

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Concerning Genetic Sex, females have ____, while males have ____.

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XX; XY