practice test 2

Question 1

impaired language comprehension following a stroke is diagnosed as what?

Answer 1

wernickes aphasia

Question 2

door-to- door salespeople are paid on commission and maintain high levels of perseverance despite infrequent sales displays an effect of what?

Answer 2

variable ratio schedule

Question 3

what did investigators into the influence of group pressure on perceptual judgements reveal?

Answer 3

the more open to interpretation the stimulus, the more likely it is that the subject will conform to group pressure

Question 4

what is a statement that characterizes cognitive-structuralist orientation in developmental psych?

Answer 4

a child actively constructs their own knowledge

Question 5

who is associated with functional autonomy?

Answer 5

allport

Question 6

what is the most important assumption made by Piaget about intelligence?

Answer 6

assimilation and accommodation are necessary for the development of intelligence

Question 7

what does motion parallax do?

Answer 7

makes objects appear larger when the viewer steps back

Question 8

Bowlby’s major contribution to theories of child development grew out of studies of?

Answer 8

children separated from their families

Question 9

in the auditory system, where does transduction take place?

Answer 9

organ of corti

Question 10

what can calculating standard deviations most directly assess?

Answer 10

whether the price of corn was subject to greater fluctuations during July than the price of wheat

Question 11

what did McClelland & Rumelhart develop the idea of?

Answer 11

parallel distributed processing

Question 12

what is the dominant hemisphere more adept at?

Answer 12

spatial organization

Question 13

what was Galton’s major contribution to psychology?

Answer 13

focus on ind. diffs

Question 14

what does the dual code hypothesis suggest?

Answer 14

concrete information tends to be recalled better than abstract information

Question 15

what is bandura associated with?

Answer 15

social learning theory

Question 16

removal of the hippocampus is most likely to lead to what?

Answer 16

retrograde amnesia

Question 17

who studied the effect of misleading questions on eyewitness testimony?

Answer 17

loftus

Question 18

what is used to treat an acute schizophrenic episode?

Answer 18

chlorpromazine

Question 19

what is confabulation usually a symptom of?

Answer 19

Korsakoff’s syndrome

Question 20

what four researchers made important contributions to psychophysics?

Answer 20

fechner, Stevens, weber and swets

Question 21

what does iconic memory refer to?

Answer 21

short term visual sensory memory

Question 22

what is the custom that a majority vote is sufficient to become law closely associated with?

Answer 22

all or nothing law regarding action potential

Question 23

what is used to measure the time it takes to perform various mental processes?

Answer 23

mental chronometry

Question 24

under dim light, a researcher repeatedly displays several objects to a subject, so that each time, the image falls on a different part of their retina. what is the expected result?

Answer 24

object discrimination will be best in the fovea

Question 25

who clearly demonstrated vicarious learning?

Answer 25

bandura

Question 26

where is aggressive behavior inhibited

Answer 26

septal nuclei

Question 27

what did Schacter and singer find in their experiments concerning cognitive influences on emotions?

Answer 27

uninformed subjects became angry or euphoric depending on the confederate's behavior

Question 28

what finding would weaken a sociobiological explanation for the evolution of dominance hierarchies?

Answer 28

inverse relationship between rank and inclusive fitness

Question 29

sterling discovered that sensory memory could contain how many pieces of information? Milner fund that short term memory can contain how many chunks of information?

Answer 29

9 7

Question 30

what does the dominant hemisphere of the brain control

Answer 30

expression and comprehension of language

Question 31

what is the statistical method used to elicit information concerning the component parts of intelligence known as?

Answer 31

factor analysis

Question 32

what is an inhibitory NT

Answer 32

GABA

Question 33

how is Piaget's approach to investigating the thought process underlying a given verbal response best described?

Answer 33

clinical method

Question 34

what do approaches of Horney and Adler share emphasis on?

Answer 34

significance of social relationships in physical development

Question 35

what is studying to avoid a bad grade an example of?

Answer 35

negative reinforcement

Question 36

what is feature detection an example of?

Answer 36

bottom-up processing

Question 37

what is true of the lymbic system?

Answer 37

lesions of portions of it may result in unpredictable, vicarious behavior

Question 38

who's personality theory is central to regions and boundaries?

Answer 38

Lewin

Question 39

the theory that early attachment behaviors may be traced to innate psychological tendencies centers on the process of what?

Answer 39

imprinting

Question 40

what is true about neurosis?

Answer 40

is is not a category of mental disorders in the DSMv

Question 41

who tried to relate personality to perception?

Answer 41

Witkin

Question 42

what did petty and cacioppo develop?

Answer 42

elaboration likelihood model of persuasion

Question 43

what does the length of the prodromal phase of schizophrenia most directly relate to?

Answer 43

process-reactive distinction

Question 44

who stressed the importance of maturation in development?

Answer 44

gessell

Question 45

if a fetus inherits an X chromosome from mom and a Y chromosome from dad, but doesn't produce androgens, it will what?

Answer 45

have a masc genotype and fem phenotype

Question 46

ablation of the lateral geniculate nucleus would most likely affect which sensory system?

Answer 46

vision

Question 47

what is true if reliability is 0.00

Answer 47

SEM is relatively high

Question 48

according to Kohler, when one of his chimps fastened two sticks together to reach a bunch of bananas, it was showing evidence of what?

Answer 48

insight

Question 49

what is true about the babinsky reflex?

Answer 49

consists of extending the toes when the sole of the foot is stimulated

Question 50

the volley principle can be considered an improvement on what?

Answer 50

frequency theory

Question 51

who is most likely to argue that researchers should investigate the effects vicarious social behaviors have on fitness?

Answer 51

wilson

Question 52

what does Bartletts reconstructive theory predict?

Answer 52

subject's recall is better when the story is from their own culture

Question 53

why is autoshaping important?

Answer 53

shows that behaviors thought to be solely due to operant conditioning may have a classical conditioning component

Question 54

an adult knows that Bit and Pit have two different meanings, but Bit said by a male and female means the same thing is evidence of what?

Answer 54

categorical perception

Question 55

a subject in an experiment wears a set of headphones that allow different messaged to be given to each ear. the subject is asked to repeat one of the messages aloud as she hears it, what is this technique called?

Answer 55

shadowing

Question 56

what is used to implant electrodes into specific brain areas?

Answer 56

stereotaxic instrument

Question 57

what concept is most relevant to signal detection theory?

Answer 57

ROC curve

Question 58

latent learning depends most strongly on which distinction?

Answer 58

learning vs. performance ex: I might know everything for the GRE, but I have not had to perform it yet

Question 59

what is a cross sectional design considered to be an example of?

Answer 59

between-subjects design

Question 60

beliefs can be made resistant to attack by presenting refuted counter-arguments which is a basic premise of what?

Answer 60

inoculation theory

Question 61

damage to the left visual cortex will do what?

Answer 61

impair vision for images of objects falling on the left half of each eye's retina

Question 62

what was the theory of kin selection proposed to explain?

Answer 62

altruism

Question 63

what is the principal function of the parietal lobe?

Answer 63

spatial processing

Question 64

the presence of a large number of people tends to increase the likelihood of wild, impulsive behavior. what is the least likely plausible explanation for this behavior?

Answer 64

functional autonomy

Question 65

what best describes Kelly's basic approach to autonomy?

Answer 65

people have a need to control the environment