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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| Louise came home one night to find a burglar in her house. Her heart began to race and she began to perspire. These physical reactions were triggered by Louise’s: _______________. |
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| Task of passing a message from one neuron to another neuron is carried by: __________. |
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| The main binocular cue for perceiving depth is: _________. |
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| A capacity for self-awareness and personal growth is associated most closely with ____________. |
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| “teachers” were deceived and frequently subjected to severe stress. |
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| The Milgram obedience experiments were not ethical because __________. |
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| there is an error in the computations of the correlation |
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| A researcher finds a correlation of -2.86 between cigarette smoking and aggressiveness. This means: ____________. |
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| Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selections most influenced: _________. |
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| Tyler was an epileptic who had parts of his hippocampus removed to control his seizures. This surgery will affect Tyler’s ability to __________. |
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| Production at the factory was poor, so management had a team of observers film the workers on the job. The films showed everyone working at top speed and production was at its highest in a year. A likely explanation for the change in the workers’ behavior is: _______. |
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| what the participants hear while they study (relaxing music or quiet). |
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| Peter believes listening to relaxing music will improve memory. He conducts a study where 15 people are put in a room to study while listening to relaxing music for 30min and 15 people are put in a quiet room to study for 30min. He then measures how much of the material the participants from each group remembered. In this example, the independent variable is: ___________. |
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| The fact that most people perceive individual elements that are moving in the same direction as being part of a single group is consistent with the Gestalt law of: _______. |
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| The bridge of nerve fibers that connects large areas of the cerebral cortex on each side of the brain and supports communication of information across the hemispheres is called the: ________. |
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| insulate the axon and speed neural transmission. |
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| In neurons, the function of the myelin sheath is to: ________________. |
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| The Stroop effect involves the naming of: _______. |
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| When this lobe of the brain is electrically stimulated, people report physical sensations as if they had been touched, for example, on the arm. |
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| When the results of an experiment can be confidentially attributed to the independent variable, the experiment is said to be high in: _________. |
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| Shot in the head, the victim died instantly because the bullet entered the portion of the brain that regulates breathing: ________. |
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| No, this is a correlation study, something other than encyclopedias might help grades. |
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| It has been found that children who have encyclopedias in their homes do better in school than those without. Can you conclude that using an encyclopedia causes children to do better in school? |
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| just at her absolute threshold for taste. |
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| Mary Beth was eating some cookies and she thought she could detect a hint of cinnamon in them. She took another bite and could not taste the cinnamon. On a third bite she could just make out the taste of cinnamon again. The amount of cinnamon in the cookies was likely to be: ______. |
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| Miranda is listening to music and recording all her feeling and impressions as she experiences them. Miranda is using a technique known as: _______. |
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| he will probably also have a low score in extroversion |
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| Imagine that the personality traits of openness and extroversion have a strong positive correlation. If Mike has a score in openness that is extremely low: _________. |
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| Jane has a tumor in one of her lobes which has caused her to be unable to move her right leg. Her _____ lobe on the ____ side of the brain is the one most likely affected. |
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| A brain-injured patient is unable to control his eating behavior and is no longer interested in sex. What area of the patient’s brain is most likely damaged? |
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| Alzheimer’s disease, acetylcholine |
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| ________, which involves severe impairment of memory, is closely associated with deterioration of _______ producing neurons. |
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Which of the following correlations represents the strongest correlation between two variables?
a. R= -0.54
b. R= 0.61
c. R= 0.23
d. R= -0.11 |
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Which of the following terms does not fit with the others?
a. Clever Hans the horse
b. Rosenthal Effect
c. Laboratory observation
d. Experimenter bias |
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| Walter has been working at his computer for the past 2 hours and the hum that he found annoying when he first started to work no longer bothers him. The change in Walter’s sensitivity to the noise demonstrates: ___________. |
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| perceiving spatial relationships |
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| Left hemisphere is to language as right hemisphere is to _____________. |
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| Researchers studying the effects of caffeine tested the reaction time of women who either had a beverage with caffeine or a decaffeinated version of the same drink. The reaction time of each participant would be: ____________. |
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| Which neurotransmitters has been implicated in Parkinson’s disease? |
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| the chance of getting the observed difference by accident is less than 5%. |
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| A particular research study compares an experimental group with a control group. An analysis of the results reveals that “p < .05.” Therefore, ___________. |
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| The process that allows our sensory system to convert stimulus energies into neural impulses is: ________. |
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| the rear of both hemispheres |
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| The visual area of the cortex is found in ___________. |
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| The hearing centers in the brain are primarily located in the ________. |
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| Balancing on a tight rope |
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Which behavior would be most affected by injury to the cerebellum?
a. Doing mental arithmetic
b. Maintaining wakeful alertness
c. Balancing on a tight rope
d. Feeling hungry at the right times |
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| a relay system for sensory information. |
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| The thalamus can be characterized as: _________. |
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| Gall proposed that an individual’s mental characteristics could be estimated from the size of the bumps on his/her skull. This theory was called: ______. |
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| autonomic nervous system; somatic nervous system |
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| The 2 parts of the peripheral nervous system are the ________ and the _________. |
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| A researcher who goes to a playground and observes the amount of time children spend playing at each activity is engaged in: ________. |
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| She didn’t randomly assign participants to the experimental and control groups. |
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| Diana wants to see if heat causes happiness. She asks 100 participants to come to the laboratory, and as they walk in, she asks each person to choose a warm booth or a cold booth. On the basis of their choices, participants spend 20 min. in one or the other booth before rating their levels of general happiness. What’s wrong with Diana’s experiment? |
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Which of the following concepts does not fit with the others?
a. Experiment
b. Independent variable
c. Naturalistic observation
d. placebo |
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| The ethical principle of _______ means research participants are given enough info about a study to make a reasonable decision about whether or not to participate. |
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| the 2 variables are unrelated |
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| A correlation of .00 means: __________. |
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| a double-blind research study |
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| Dr. Brown designs an experiment to test the effects of a new memory drug. Half the participants will receive a placebo and half will receive the memory drug, but neither the participants nor the researches administrating the drug will be informed which is the placebo. Dr. Brown has designed: ________. |
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| ________ carry signals from the spinal cord to the muscles to produce movement. |
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| capable of the most precise and skilled movements. |
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| The body parts that have the largest representation on the motor cortex are those body parts that are __________. |
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| Certain aspects of intelligence are innate |
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With respect to intelligence, Dr. Hill has a nativist view. This means Dr. Hill is most likely to believe that:
a. Experience determine the degree and form of intelligence an individual will eventually display
b. Researches should be less concerned with the structure of intelligence and more concerned with the function it serves
c. To understand intelligence fully, researched must understand each of its component parts
d. Certain aspects of intelligence are innate |
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| Sympathetic division is to parasympathetic division as: ________. |
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| observable behavior, but psychoanalysis stresses unconscious urges. |
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| A major difference between behaviorism and psychoanalysis is that behaviorism stresses: _______ while psychoanalysis stresses _________. |
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| a random sampling is used |
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| Survey results will be more likely to accurately represent the opinions of the entire population if: ________. |
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