His/Apps, Personality, Memory
What do humanistic psychologists focus on the importance of?
Healthy growth potential
If you want to accurately and sufficiently describe the behavior of animals in their native habitats, which research method should you use?
Naturalistic observation
The concentration of glucose in active regions of the brain reveals the usefulness of which imaging technique?
PET Scan
Your heart may race when confronted by a baby lion but not when approached by a house cat. This best illustrates the adaptive value of which learning phenomenon?
Stimulus discrimination
If research suggested that a pregnant mother's use of an artificial sweetener caused harm to the fetus, the artificial sweetener would be considered a(n) _____________
Teratogen
Four year old Steven is extremely competitive with his father in trying to gain more attention from his mother. Freud would suggest that Steven is going through the _________ stage of development.
Phallic
Glenda believed she had outperformed her classmates on the most recent exam. However, Glenda was surprised to receive just an average grade. What does her experience best illustrate?
Overconfidence
What will most likely occur if a person experiences damage to their reticular formation?
Lapse into a coma/issues with alertness and arousal
A. Positive reinforcers decrease the rate of responding; negative reinforcers increase the rate of responding
B. Positive reinforcers increase the rate of responding; negative reinforcers decrease the rate of responding
C. Positive punishment and positive reinforcement increase the rate of responding; Negative punishment and negative reinforcement decrease the rate of responding
D. Positive reinforcers increase the rate of responding; negative reinforcers increase the rate of responding
D. Positive reinforcers increase the rate of responding; negative reinforcers increase the rate of responding
What is the order of successful prenatal development?
Zygote, Embryo, Fetus
Susan releases unexpressed anger toward her parents by kicking the family dog. Which defense mechanism is Susan using?
Displacement
When Ms. Jurka was calculating her student's test scores, she noticed that two students had extremely low scores. Which measure of central tendency is most affected by the scores of these two students?
The mean
Drugs that treat disorders by preventing the release of a neurotransmitter and blocking the neurotransmitter from binding to receptor sites are called ___________.
Antagonists
Robert was late for school, so he parked in a space reserved for teachers. When he went to his car after lunch, there was a yellow parking ticket under the windshield wiper. The parking ticket is considered what type of operant conditioning consequence?
Positive punishment
For Calvin to think it is wrong for stealing simply because he might get punished for doing so is demonstrating which stage of Kohlberg's morality?
Preconventional
Although Hannah has looked at her watch thousands of times, she is unable to recall whether the watch features Arabic or Roman numerals. This is mostly likely due to a failure in __________.
Encoding
Evelyn wants to know how consistent her bowling scores have been during the past season. Which of the following measures would be most relevant to this specific concern?
A. Mean
B. Standard deviation
C. Scatterplot
D. Range
E. Median
F. Mode
G. Correlation coefficient
B. Standard deviation
The medulla is to the control of ___________ as the cerebellum is to the control of ___________.
Breathing/heartbeat; walking/movement
Richard is a factory worker who gets paid for each car part he inspects rather than an hourly wage. Which schedule of reinforcement does he work for?
Fixed-ratio
During adolescence, maturation of the ________ lags behind maturation of the __________.
A. brainstem; pituitary
B. frontal lobe; limbic system
C. limbic system; frontal lobe
D. medulla; cerebellum
E. hippocampus; frontal lobe
B. frontal lobe; limbic system
After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of ______________.
Retroactive interference
To study the effects of noise on worker productivity, researchers have one group of subjects work in a noisy room and a second group work in a quiet room. To ensure that any differences in the productivity of the two groups actually result from the different noise levels to which the groups are exposed, the researchers should use ____________.
Random assignment
Which of the following answer choices are correct based on the scenario: A picture of a cat is briefly flashed in the left visual field and a picture of a mouse is briefly flashed in the right visual field of a split-brain patient. The individual will be able to use her:
A. right hand to indicate she saw a cat
B. left hand to indicate she saw a mouse
C. right hand to indicate she saw a mouse
D. left or right hand to indicate she saw a cat
E. left or right hand to indicate she saw a mouse
C. right hand to indicate she saw a mouse
Compare and contrast the following: Operant and Classical Conditioning
Operant: learned association between response/stimulus;voluntary
Classical: learned association between two stimuli;involuntary
Fill in the blanks with the following three options: declining, increasing, or stable.
"Cross sectional research indicated that during early and middle adulthood, aging is associated with ___________ levels of intelligence. Longitudinal research indicated that during this period of life, aging is associated with _________ levels of intelligence."
Declining; Stable