IDENTIFY THE VARIABLE
Which of the following is a term for a variable that researchers do not control and that can affect the results of a study?
A: Independent variable
B: Dependent variable
C: Control variable
D: Confounding variable
E: Continuous variable
D: Confounding variable
The autonomic nervous system is most directly involved in...
A: driving a car
B: reading a textbook
C: sensing painful stimuli
D: digesting food
E: experiencing pain
D: digesting food
What is a stimulant?
Stimulants are a class of drugs that speed up messages travelling between the brain and body.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Dorothea Dix played a role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill.
Paris tends to view personality as fairly stable and therefore her personality is more stable, whereas Lane tends to view personality as fairly changeable and therefore her personality is more changeable. These differences in attitudes and personality are most consistent with the...
A: psychoanalytic view of personality
B: humanistic view of personality
C: social cognitive view of personality
D: behaviorist view of personality
E: evolutionary view of personality
C: social cognitive view of personality
What is the definition of an independent variable?
What is the endocrine system?
Endocrine glands release hormones into the bloodstream. This lets the hormones travel to cells in other parts of the body.
A drug that has the effect of intensifying or mimicking a particular neurotransmitter can be characterized as...
A: a hallucinogen, because it has the reverse effect of an agonist
B: an agonist, because it intensifies the effects of a particular neurotransmitter
C: an antagonist, because it intensifies the effects of a particular neurotransmitter
D: a reuptake inhibitor, because it increases activity of the central nervous system
E: a stimulant, because it increases activity of the central nervous system
B: an agonist, because it intensifies the effects of a particular neurotransmitter
Ivan Pavlov was most well known for which of the following?
A: Conditioning dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell
B: Studying what factors led to attachment in infant monkeys
C: Studying the different cognitive developmental stages of infants and children
D: Teaching pigeons to peck at specific stimuli
E: Placing cats in puzzle boxes
A: Conditioning dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell
What is The Psychoanalytic theory of personality?
Psychoanalytic theory emphasizes that the human organism is constantly, though slowly, changing through perpetual interactions, and that, therefore, the human personality can be conceived of as a locus of change with fragile and indefinite boundaries.
Marjorie’s little brother tends to bother her when he is bored. Marjorie wants to figure out which toy will keep her brother occupied the longest so he will not bother her. She conducts a study where each day at 6P.M. for a week she gives her brother a different toy and on one of the days she gives him no toys to play with. She measures the amount of time he spends playing with each toy before he comes to bother her. Which of the following is the independent variable in this example?
A: Time of day
B: Amount of time playing
C: Type of toy
D: No toys
E: The little brother
C: Type of toy
What is the parasympathetic system?
A network of nerves that relaxes your body after periods of stress or danger.
What is a hallucinogen?
Hallucinogens are a diverse group of drugs that alter a person's awareness of their surroundings as well as their own thoughts and feelings.
Who is Jean Piaget?
She developed the child cognitive theory and she studied childhood development and stages.
Every time Antonio fails a test he attributes his failure to a lack of sufficient intelligence, even though he rarely studies. According to the sociocultural theory of personality, Antonio is experiencing...
A: an identity crisis
B: egocentrism
C: high self-efficacy
D: an external locus of control
E: an internal locus of control
D: an external locus of control
What is the definition of a dependent variable?
Which of the following biological systems is most likely responsible for an increase in heart rate while experiencing anxiety?
A: The central nervous system
B: The sympathetic nervous system
C: The parasympathetic nervous system
D: The endocrine system
E: The vestibular system
B: The sympathetic nervous system
The drugs that block the reabsorption of neurotransmitters in the synapse during neural transmission are...
A: SSRIs
B: benzodiazepines
C: antipsychotics
D: antihistamines
E: stimulants
A: SSRIs
The person most strongly associated with identifying deficits in the motor speech area and in the ability to produce speech is...
A: Noam Chomsky
B: Wilhelm Wundt
C: Edward Thorndike
D: Carl Wernicke
E: Paul Broca
E: Paul Broca
What is The Humanistic Theory of Personality?
The Humanistic Theory of Personality states that people are intrinsically good, with an innate drive to make themselves better.
Dr. Patel is conducting a study to test a hair-growth shampoo she is developing. She instructs fifty participants to use the hair-growth shampoo once daily for a month and another fifty to use a regular shampoo once a day for a month. Dr. Patel measures the participants’ hair length at the beginning and the end of the thirty days. Which of the following is the dependent variable?
A: The type of shampoo
B: Change in hair length
C: Participants
D: The placebo
E: The thirty days
B: Change in hair length
What is the vestibular system?
The vestibular system provides the sense of balance and the information about body position that allows rapid compensatory movements in response to both self-induced and externally generated forces.
Which of the following is classified as an antagonist?
A: Cocaine, because it floods the brain with dopamine.
B: Mescaline, because it floods the brain with dopamine.
C: An amphetamine, because they lead to increased central nervous system activity.
D: A tricyclic antidepressant, because they block serotonin and norepinephrine transporters.
E: Prozac®, because it blocks the reuptake of serotonin.
D: A tricyclic antidepressant, because they block serotonin and norepinephrine transporters.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
Carl Wernicke discovered the cerebellum (responsible for language/speech)
What is The Evolutionary view of personality?
An evolutionary perspective of personality and individual differences proposes that our personalities and individual differences have evolved, in part, to provide us with some form of adaptive advantage in the context of survival and reproduction.