Unit 1
True or False:
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor specializing in the treatment of psychological disturbances.
TRUE
Gestalt principle that is the tendency to perceive a complete or whole figure:
Closure
______________ is when a conditioned response disappears.
Extinction
What group of people need the longest amount of sleep?
Infants
Who was the first documented serial killer in the United States?
H.H. Holmes
B.F. Skinner is associated with ________
Behaviorism
A person's vestibular sense helps control:
Balance
A Skinner box is most likely to be used in research on
Operant Conditioning
The term used to describe the mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge is
Cognition
Ice Man is an example of what type of serial killer?
Hedonistic (Comfort)
A researcher wished to study the relationship between high school grades and college grades. Of the research methods, which would be most appropriate?
Correlation
What monocular cue is the tendency to see parallel lines as coming together, or converging,as they move away from us?
Linear Perspective
Parker had a stroke and can no longer get words out in a connected fashion. What part of the brain was affected by the stroke?
Broca's area
Jackson can remember quite vividly the first time his dad took him out to learn how to ride a bike, because he didn't use training wheels and took a nasty spill, scraping his knee badly. This would be best described as a(n) _________ memory.
Episodic
Cole is superficially charming and skilled at exploiting people for his own gain. He is also impulsive and irresponsible, and he generally disregards social norms. Cole would most likely be diagnosed with what disorder?
Antisocial Personality Disorder
A subset of cases selected from a larger population is a(n)
Cognitive psychologists are a subgroup of experimental psychologists who are concerned primarily with:
Mental events, which intervene between stimuli and responses.
Which neurotransmitter is most directly associated with Alzheimer's disease?
Acetylcholine
When Matt forgot to pack a pillow for his camping trip, he used his down-jacket as a substitute pillow. In this situation, Matt
Was not constrained by functional fixedness.
Changing the contingencies of reinforcement for the client
To determine if sugar-rich diets affect hyperactivity in kids, a researcher prepared two daily menus that children would receive for a 30-day period. A high-sugar diet was given to the boys, while the girls had a menu that seemed identical but was not a high sugar diet. At the end of the 30 days, the boys and girls were evaluated to determine their levels of hyperactivity. In the study, the high-sugar diet is the ___________
Independent Variable
Josh has to wear a patch on one eye. Which of the cues to depth perception will be unavailable to him now?
Convergence
Ally hit her head and can no longer identify objects. What part of the brain did she damage?
Occipital Lobe
Airline reservation typically decline after a highly publicized airplane crash because people overestimate the incident of such disasters. In such instances, people's decisions are being influenced by:
The Availability Heuristics
In a two-phase study, participants were randomly assigned to either group A or group B. All participants were subjected to a series of irritating air puffs directed at the face. In the first phase of the study, participants in group A pressed a button that stopped the air puffs. Participants in group B pressed a button that had no effect on the air puffs. In the second phase of the study, both groups had buttons that, if pressed, would stop the air puffs. Which of the following disorders is hypothesized to result most frequently from real-world conditions that are similar to those used in the study?
Major Depressive