The central nervous system consists of _____ and _____.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
100
A spelling test is an example of a(n) _____ test of intelligence.
What is an achievement test?
100
If you tend to persist in using the same problem-solving strategy time after time, you are evidencing _____.
What is a mental set?
100
The three basic parts of a neuron are ____, ____, and ____.
What are soma (cell body), axon, and dendrite.
100
In bright sunlight, the pupil of the eye is _____.
What is constricted?
200
Karlette took some new medication for her hay fever. The medication made her heart start to race, and she became agitated and jittery. It is likely that the medication is increasing the activity in Karlette's _____ nervous system.
What is sympathetic?
200
If a test yields nearly identical scores when it is retaken after a 2 month interval, the test is said to be _____.
What is reliable?
200
You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can't shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates _____ on your part.
What is functional fixedness?
200
The portion of the neuron that can be equated to the "highway of the nervous system."
What is axon?
200
Our perception of brightness of a color is affected mainly by the _____ of light waves.
What is amplitude or height?
300
Which brain structure, when damaged, would lead your heartbeat and respiration to stop instantly?
What is medulla?
300
If a child of age 10 made a mental age score of 8 on the Stanford-Binet test, his IQ would be _____.
What is 80?
300
Salvador hates to work through the problems of his calculus assignments step-by-step, and he often tries shortcuts that might save him some time. It appears that Salvador prefers to use _____ rather than _____ in solving calculus problems.
What is heuristics rather than algorithms?
300
Faster neural impulses occur in _____.
What is insulated or myelinated axons?
300
Night and peripheral vision depend mainly on _____, while daylight and acute vision depend mainly on _____.
What are rods; cones?
400
A patient's fear outbursts are found to be caused by pressure applied to the brain by a tumor. Where is the tumor most likely to be found?
What is amygdala?
400
According to Robert Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence, someone who is able to cope well with new or novel tasks, should score high on the _____ component of intelligence.
What is creativity?
400
You cannot think of a single instance when Cathy helped you out, and so you decide that Cathy must be an ungenerous person. Your judgment is based on the _____ heuristic.
What is availability?
400
The neuron's in Michael's arm just sent a neural impulse. It will be 1-2 milliseconds before another neural impulse can be generated. This brief time period, when another neural impulse cannot occur, is called the _____.
What is (absolute) refractory period.
400
If you mix red, green, and blue paint, you will get _____.
What is black?
500
Gilbert suffered a stroke, and even though he has recovered many functions, he finds he is till relatively insensitive to pain signals from his leg. In this case, it is likely Gilbert's stroke affected his _____ lobe.
What is parietal?
500
Counselor Troi is from planet Beta-Z. Betazoids are empaths who have the ability to easily infer other people's moods, temperaments, emotions, and intentions. According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Counselor Troi should score high on _____ intelligence.
What is interpersonal?
500
Fred needs major heart surgery, and he has consulted with two doctors about the operation. Dr. Marx tells Fred he has a 90% change of surviving the surgery; Dr. Scalli tells Fred that there is a 10% chance that he won't survive the surgery. This example illustrates the ______.
What is framing effect?
500
Leonard's mother became dehydrated during a recent illness, and the levels of sodium in her body were significantly reduced. If enough sodium was lost, you might expect that _____.
What is fewer action potentials would occur in her nervous system?
500
Having your picture taken with a yellow flash, you momentarily see blue spots floating before your eyes. This phenomenon is best explained by the _____ theory of color vision.