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Question 1 What is the component of working memory that is used to solve problems? Phonological Loop Sensory Input Visuospatial Sketchpad Central Executive 1 point 2. Question 2 What memory system is most closely related to our conscious experience of the world? Procedural Memory Episodic Memory Semantic Memory Working Memory 1 point 3. Question 3 Existing memories can be used as ___________ cues to help you remember new information. encoding episodic retrieval semantic 1 point 4. Question 4 “In terms of memory, what is primary the problem with using eye-witness testimony as evidence in legal cases?” It can lead to a “he said, she said” situation The witness could easily lie about the event Memories are affected by the way questions are asked There are no problems with eye-witness testimony 1 point 5. Question 5 What is the relation between a person’s confidence in a memory and the accuracy of that memory? More confidence entails greater memory accuracy More confidence entails lesser memory accuracy Less confidence entails greater memory accuracy Confidence level does not predict memory accuracy 1 point 6. Question 6 Some psychologists have argued that the feeling of Deja Vu in a certain situation is the result of _______________. precognition past life experience familiarity without recollection a failure of semantic memory 1 point 7. Question 7 What cognitive capacity is most directly related to the feeling of Deja Vu for what a person says during a conversation? Condintioning Predictive Intuition Mental Rotation Theory of Mind 1 point 8. Question 8 What cognitive process do politicians try to leverage by repeating the same “talking points” over and over again with the hopes that eventually you will agree with them? Frequency Familiarity Retrieval Cues Induction 1 point 9. Question 9 What type of memories are impaired by anterograde amnesia? Old Procedural Memories Old Episodic Memories New Procedural Memories New episodic memories 1 point 10. Question 10 Learning a new skill, such as tying a shoe lace, is an example of what type of memory? Semantic Perceptual Episodic Procedural 1 point 11. Question 11 What is the term for a person who pretends to be a participant in an experiment, but is actually working with the experimenters?” Imitator Confabulator Confederate Dupe 1 point 12. Question 12 “What did the Milgram experiment, in which participants were asked to inflict electrical shocks on other participants, tell us about the influence authority can have on the average person?” Most people will conform to authority even when asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors Most people reject authority and refused to even participate in the experiment Every person will conform to authority even when asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors Most people will conform to authority unless asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors 1 point 13. Question 13 A person who claims that a negative personal event is the result of their situation or other people’s behavior is demonstrating a(n) __________ locus of control. internal external ulterior deferred 1 point 14. Question 14 What hypothesis asserts that good things happens to good people and bad things happen to bad people? Just World Karmic Law Natural Balance New Testament 1 point 15. Question 15 Diffusion of responsibility predicts that the _____________ you are to another person the less likely you are to feel responsible for helping them. less related more related closer more distant 1 point 16. Question 16 What effect demonstrates that the more people that are present when something bad happens, the less likely it is that any one person will take responsibility for the situation? Social Loafing Group Think Bystander Effect Group Effect 1 point 17. Question 17 While the practice of ascribing the characteristics of a few people to a larger group of people is called generalization, what is the term for the practice of identifying the unique characteristics of a person that separates them from the larger group? Stereotyping Individuation Identification Discrimination 1 point 18. Question 18 What cognitive process does the behavior of role models influence? Induction Selection Bias Negative Priming Stereotyping 1 point 19. Question 19 In stage three of the “Robber’s Cave” experiment, how were the researchers able to reduce the prejudices between groups that they had created in stages one and two? They punished prejudicial behaviors They told the children to stop hating each other They provided a common enemy They were unable to reduce the prejudices 1 point 20. Question 20 On average, a man will perceive women as more attractive when theirs waists are _______ tenths the size of their hips. seven six nine eight 1 point 21. Question 21 On average, a person will find another person more attractive if the other person has _________ pupils. lighter smaller darker larger 1 point 22. Question 22 A major recent conceptual shift between the DSM-IV and the DSM-V is that the diagnosis of mental disorders is now regarded more as a ______________ and less of a ______________. classification; continuum continuum; classification science; art art; science 1 point 23. Question 23 When talking about mental disorders, what is the primary caution that Steve has repeatedly made? Mental disorders are extremely rare All persons with mental disorders are dangerous Learning about mental disorders makes you see them everywhere We all have one or more mental disorders, even if undiagnosed 1 point 24. Question 24 What is multiple personality disorder now called? Double Dissociation Dissociative Amnesia Dissociative Fugue Dissociative Identity Disorder 1 point 25. Question 25 A person with a mental disorder that causes them to constantly think that there shoe lace is coming untied, and therefore continually bends down to check their shoe laces likely has what disorder? Impulse Control Disorder Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Recurring Thought Disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 1 point 26. Question 26 What has a person experienced if he or she can’t remember anything about their life and, thus, starts an entirely new life — only to have the original memories return several years later? Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative Fugue Dissociative Amnesia Double Dissociation 1 point 27. Question 27 What class of mental disorders are pregnant women particularly susceptible to? Personality Anxiety Dissociative Emotional 1 point 28. Question 28 What mental disorder is characterized by extreme emotional highs followed by extreme emotional lows? Bipolar Disorder Major Depressive Disorder Hypomanic Disorder Emotional Instability Disorder 1 point 29. Question 29 What type of schizophrenia causes the person to become rigid and unable to move? Disorganized Residual Paranoid Catatonic 1 point 30. Question 30 In schizophrenia, what is the term for the symptoms, such as auditory hallucinations, that cause the addition of non-existent information to a person’s perception of the world? Positive Negative Inductive Illusory 1 point 31. Question 31 What is the common term for the most extreme version of a person with anti-social personality disorder? Sociopathy Psychopathy Maladjustment Disorder Reclusivity 1 point 32. Question 32 Freud’s practice of psychoanalysis is an example of what type of therapy? Cognitive-Behavioral Insight Client-Centered Hypnosis 1 point 33. Question 33 What type of psychological therapy does not direct the patient, but instead provides help and support to the patient, with the goal of letting the patient help themselves?” Hypnosis Cognitive-Behavioral Psychoanalysis Humanistic 1 point 34. Question 34 What type of therapy would most likely be used for a person trying to overcome a fear of heights? Systematic Desensitization Humanistic Psychoanalysis Hypnosis 1 point 35. Question 35 What is the most, and sometimes only, effective form of treatment for mental disorders that are caused by biological conditions?” Psychoanalysis Systematic Desensitization Pharmacological Cognitive-Behavioral 1 point 36. Question 36 The anti-psychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia are most effective at alleviating the _________ symptoms. active passive negative positive 1 point 37. Question 37 What component of memory does sleep facilitate? Retrieval Association Encoding Consolidation 1 point 38. Question 38 What hypothesis proposes that dreams are the result of our brains trying to make sense of random patterns of activation during sleep? Activation-Synthesis Psychoanalysis Narrative-Imagery Consolidation 1 point 39. Question 39 What cognitive ability allows a child to know that a tall glass does not necessarily contain more water than a short glass? Formal Operations Preoperationalism Conservation Object Permanence 1 point 40. Question 40 “What attachment style will an inconsistent parenting style, wherein the parent will sometimes meet the child’s demands and other times being absent or not providing the support the child requires, most likely create?” Avoidant Secure Ambivalent Resistant 1 point 41. Question 41 What type of reinforcement schedule would a person be experiencing by receiving a paycheck on the 1st day of each month? Consistent Ratio Variable Ratio Fixed Ratio Formal Ratio 1 point 42. Question 42 What behaviourist test, or standard, must a behaviour meet to show that it requires consciousness and is not just a product of classical or operant conditioning?” Extinction Not Conditioning Resistance Reinstatement 1 point 43. Question 43 What term would a behaviorist use to explain examples of animal language, such as a chimp using sign language to indicate that it wants to eat an apple? Coincidence Self-Awareness Conditioning Habituation 1 point 44. Question 44 Albert Banduras’ research on observational learning in children showed that when a child sees another child hit a Bobo doll, he or she was more likely to _________ the doll. hit fix ignore comfort 1 point 45. Question 45 Through observational learning children will often ________ the negative behaviors they see around them. avoid ignore report mimic |
