Psych Test 1

Aristotle suggested that a meal makes us sleepy by causing heat to collect around the

Looking inward and reporting your immediate sensations, images, and feelings is called

William James was a prominent American

The view that psychology should be an objective Cuenca that studies observable human activity without reference to mental processes is known as

Innate ability is to learned skill as ______ is to ______.

Different accounts of the same behavior that together give us a more complete understanding represent different

Professor Brody attempts to measure the relative contributions of inborn traits and social influences on sexual preferences and behavior patterns. Her research efforts best illustrate the interests of the _________ perspective

Mrs alferi believes that her husbands angry outbursts against her result from his unconscious hatred of his own mother. Mrs alferi is looking at her husbands behavior from a ________ perspective

Which perspective most clearly focuses on how we learn observable responses

Which perspective in psychology is most likely to focus on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?

Dr Wilson attributes the delinquent behaviors of many teens to the pressures associated with being members of street gangs. Her account best illustrates a ________ perspective

Which psychologists are most likely to be involved in basic research?

Dr mills conducts research on why individuals conform to the behaviors and opinions of others. Which specialty area does his research best represent?

Rather than seeking to change people to fit their environments, _____ work to create social and physical environments that are healthy for all

Discerning the unstated assumptions and values that underlie conclusions best illustrates _______, which is an important learning tool

After a detailed study of a gunshot wound victim, a psychologist concludes that the brain region destroyed is likely to be important for memory function. What type of research did the psychologist use to deduce this?

In an experiment to determine the effects of exercise on motivation, exercise is the

To determine the effects of a new drug on memory, one group of people is given a pill that contains the drug. A second is given a sugar pill w/o the drug. The second group is

Theories are defined as

A psychologist studies the play behavior of young children by watching groups during recess at school. Which type of research is this?

To ensure that other researchers can repeat their work, psychologists use

The scientific attitude of skepticism is based on the belief that

Which of the following is NOT a basic research technique used by psychologists?
A. Correlation, B. Description, C. Replication, D. Experimentation

Psychologists personal values

If shoes size and IQ are negatively correlated, what is tru?

What would be best to determine whether alcohol impairs memory?

Well done surveys measure attitudes in a representative subset, or ______, of an entire group, or _______.

What is mode

What is important when generalizing from a sample to the population?

When a difference between two groups is statistically significant, this means that

A lopsided set of scores that includes a number of extreme or unusual values is said to be

Juwan eagerly opened an online trading account, believing that his market savvy would allow him to pick stocks that would make him a rich day trader. The belief best illustrates

What is the measure of central tendency that would be most affected by a few extreme scores?

What is typically controlled by the left hemisphere?

Which of the following are governed by the simplest neural pathways?

In the brain, I outnumber neurons. I also provide nutrients to the neurons and help remove excess neurotransmitters. I am a

I am a relatively fast acting chemical messenger that affects mood hunger sleep and arousal. What am I?

The neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) is most likely to be found

Jessica experienced difficulty keeping her balance after receiving a blow to the back of her head. It is likely that she injured her

Moruzzi and ma goin caused a cat to lapse into a coma by severing neural connections between the vortex and the

The effect of a drug that is an agonist is to

Beginning at the front of the brain and moving toward the back of the head, then down the skull and back around to the from, which of the filling is the correct order of the cortical regions?

Following a nail gun wound to his head, jack became more uninhibited Irritable dishonest and profane. It is likely that his personality change was the result of injury to his

Though there is no single "control center" for emotions, their regulation is primarily attributed to the brain religion known as the

Which is the correct sequence in the transmission of a simple reflex?

In a resting state, the axon is

Which of the following is typically controlled by the right hemisphere?

The increasing complexity of animals behavior is accompanied by an

Voluntary movements such as writing with a pencil are directed by the

What is the correct sequence in the transmission of a neural impulse?

Chemical messengers produced by endocrine glands are called

An experimenter flashes the word FLYTRAP onto a screen facing a split-brain patient so that FLY projects to her right hemisphere and TRAP to her left. When asked what she saw the patient will

Critical areas that are NOT primarily concerned with sensory motor or language functions are

The simultaneous processing of information at both conscious and unconscious levels is called

A condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it is known as

A visual perception track enables most people to recognize objects at nearly the same time that a visual action track enables them to avoid bumping into the objects. This best illustrates

A bank teller was so distracted by the sight of a bank robbers weapon that she failed to perceive important features of the criminals physical appearance. This best illustrates

If asked to watch a video and press a key each time a black shirted player passes a basketball, most research participants remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman strolling across the screen. This illustrated

The pop-out phenomenon illustrates that some stimuli almost inevitably trigger

The rhythmic bursts of brain activity that occur during NREM-2 sleep are called

Forty year old lance insists that he never dreams. Research suggests that he probably

The circadian rhythm is influenced by light sensitive retinal proteins that trigger signals to the

Neural activity that teen acts and promotes recall of prior novel experiences is most closely associated with

The best time for athletes to engage in heavy exercise workouts is

People who regularly sleep less than normal experience a(n) ______ risk of depression and a(n) _______ risk of obesity.

Sleep deprivation increases levels of the hunger-arousing hormone ______ and decreases levels of the hunger-suppressing hormone _______.

Sleep deprivation has been shown to

Brain regions that are active as people learn to preform a visual-discrimination task are especially likely to be active again later as they experience

Research indicates that total time spent in REM sleep is especially high in

Prior to age 9, children's dreams seem more like a slide show and less like an active story in which the dreamer is an actor. This best illustrates that the content of the dreams reflects children's

Suppose that hypnotized adults who are encouraged to behave like children are no more genuinely childlike than unhypnotized adults who are encouraged to act in a childlike behavior. This fact most clearly supports

The divided consciousness theory of hypnosis receives support from evidence that

Muhammad can't sleep, is constantly anxious, has muscle aches, and craves his daily dose of cocaine. Muhammad is experiencing symptoms of

Depressants are drugs such as

Women who have been drinking alcohol become _____disposed to causal sex, and men who have been drinking become ______ disposed to casual sex

Alcohol consumption disrupts the processing of recent experiences into long term memory by

Morphine and heroin are

Repeated use of an opiate

Dr Ross believes that principles of natural selection help explain why infants come to fear strangers about the time they become mobile. Dr Ross is most likely a(n)

A pair of adopted children or identical twins reared in the same home are most likely to have similar

Collectivist cultures

If a fraternal twin develops schizophrenia, the likelihood of the other twin developing serious mental illness is much lower than with identical twins. This suggests that

The best way to separate the effects of genes and environment in research is to study

Through natural selection, the traits that are most likely to be passed on to succeeding generations are those that contribute to

What is NOT true regarding gender and sexuality?

Evolutionary psychologists attribute gender differences in sexuality to the fact that women have

Unlike _____ twins, who develop from a single fertilized egg, ______ twins develop from separate fertilized eggs.

Temperament refers to a persons characteristic

The traditions of a culture are passed from one generation to the next by mean of

The hormone testosterone...

Each cell of the human body has a total of

Genes direct our physical development by synthesizing

Most human traits are

Mutations are random errors in _______ replication.

Several studies of long deprecated identical twins have found that these twins

Chromosomes are composed of a coiled chain of

When the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another (such as heredity), we say there is a(n) ______ between the two factors

The selection effect in peer influence refers to the tendency of children and youth to

What is NOT true regarding cultural diversity?

Women and men are most likely to e attracted to strongly gender-types mates in cultures characterized by

An evolutionary psychologist would be most interested in studying
A. Genetic differences, B. hereditary influences, C. common diseases among age groups, D. why most parents are passionately devoted to their kids

Genetically male children who underwent sex-reassignment surgery and were raised as girls later