Sleep
Trevor is struggling financially and may not be able to pay his bills. With this, he is also likely to be energized, experience sleep difficulties, become a morning person, OR experience increased sense of well being.
What is experience sleep difficulties?
A person's hand jerks away from a candle flame even before information abou the event reaches the brain. This is because only the spinal cord is involved in hand- withdrawal reflex, sensory neurons process the information automatically, only afferent neurons are involved in the processing of the information, OR only interneurons are involved in this reflex.
Only the spinal cord is involved in the hand-withdrawal reflex.
Confusing association with causation.
Case studies, naturalistic observation and surveys are all _______________ research methods.
What are descriptive?
Dr. Branch is studying the relationship between room temperature and college students' test performance. She randomly assigns students to two groups. The first takes the exam in an unusually cold room and the second group takes the exam at standard room temperature. Who or what is the dependent variable?
Exam scores/test performance
Melissa frequently has difficulty falling asleep at night. Which of the following is a natural sleep aid that might help him? Drinking coffee an hour before bed; drink alcohol each evening before bed; set a consistent schedule for bedtime; take a prescribed sleeping pill?
What is set a consistent schedule for bedtime?
Everything psychological is simultaneously ____________________.
What is biological?
Researchers make no effort to manipulate or control factors when they engage in ___________ . (experimentation, double-blind procedure, replication, naturalistic observation)
Naturalistic observation
To live a happy, effective, flourishing life this is NOT recommended: exercise regularly, set long-term goals, embrace a fixed mindset, OR prioritize your relationships.
Embrace a fixed mindset.
About an hour after falling asleep, Chris often gets out of bed and starts to walk around looking terrified. The next morning he remembers nothing. It appears Chris suffers from _________________. (night terrors, narcolepsy, sleep spindles, OR sleep apnea)
What are night terrors?
This disorder is a temporary cessation of breathing during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
The somatosensory cortex has more tissue devoted to the arm, elbow, leg or lips?
What are the lips?
In a national survey a majority agreed that "classroom prayer should not be allowed in public schools." Only 33 percent of respondents in a similar survey agreed that "classroom prayer in public schools should be banned." These different findings best illustrates the importance of this. (representative samples, placebo effects, random assignment, wording effects)
What are wording effects
Janet makes sure that she takes practice quizzes before taking graded class quizzes. She has noticed that she often earns high grades on class quizzes which is the result of the testing effect, the SQ3R method, her confidence, OR her overlearning.
What is testing effect?
This indicates a person is dreaming (increased temperature, eye movements, sleep paralysis, rapid heartbeat)
Eye movements
According to Freud, the personally threatening and censored meaning of a dream is its manifest content, paradoxical content, latent content, OR hallucinatory content?
What is latent content?
Martin gets angry easily and has been involved in much criminal activity. He most likely has: a damaged occipital lobe, a dysfunctional amygdala, an overly sensative motor cortex, OR an underactive somatosensory cortex?
Dysfunctional amgydala
Margret has found that advanced maternal age is related to an increase in autism spectrum disorder. THis is an example of a positive correlation, a negative correlation, an neutral relationship, no relationship)
What is a positive correlation?
Deborah is looking at the relationship between punishment and intelligence. Deborah is careful to define the concepts she is studying. For example, she defines intelligence as the score on the WAIS (IQ test). By defining this precisely, Deborah is giving an operational definition, randomly assigning, using wording effects, OR defining the independent variable?
Giving an operational definition
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
What is dual processing?
Evidence that dreams reflect the brain maturation and style of thinking associated with a dreamer's age and life experience would best support this dream theory. Is it wish-fulfillment, activation-synthesis, memory consolidation or cognitive developmental?
What is cognitive developmental?
Jace got chased by an angry dog. He arrives home and he is now calming down. His heartbeat is slowing, his breathing is slowing and his digestion begins again. What nervous system is responsible for these calming functions?
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process.
What is an experiment?
__________________ refers to our tendency to perceive events as obvious or inevitable after the fact.
Hindsight bias
"_________________ works on what nature provides."
Nurture