Sensation and Perception
Transduction for olfaction occurs where?
the olfactory bulbs in the temporal lobe
If you were examining the impact of covid on students and examined performance of the same group of students, testing them yearly from middle school throughout high school, you would be deploying which research technique?
a Longitudinal study
This type of psychotropic medication can help treat OCD and Phobias.
SSRI antidepressants
This approach toward personality focuses on encouraging people to develop a growth orientation.
Humanistic
The release of these help reduce pain.
Endorphins
Where does auditory transduction occur?
The basilar membrane
You are concerned that exposure to led based paint could impact cognitive functioning. You begin with young children who were already exposed to led paint, run PET scans of their cognitive functioning, and then compare these results with young children who were not exposed to led based paint. This is an example of which experimental design technique?
Quasi- experiment
Bipolar Disorder can effectively be treated with which medications?
Lithium or Depakote plus an antidepressant
The feeling that chance and luck will play a major role in your performance on the AP Psychology exam, would indicate that you have which cognitive outlook?
External Locus of Control
Which type of neurons carry messages away from the brain to various parts of the body?
Motor Efferent
What is the first step in any sensory process?
the stimulus must pass a threshold
When you are conducting an experiment on the effectiveness of a new drug, some subjects received the new drug while some received a placebo. If the experimenters working directly with the subjects don't know who is getting the real drug, this would be an example of which experimental design?
Double Blind
The only FDA approved use of ECT is for the treatment of which disorder?
Major Depression
Which personality theory would test personality by having people take the Big Five test?
Trait Theory
When this substance reaches the brain, a person experiences pain.
Substance P
When you were unable to notice the dancing gorilla because you were closely watching a ball toss, you were probably experiencing which phenomenon?
Inattentional Blindness
When conducting a test of bystander phenomenon and who would be more likely to get help when a confederate has fallen in the hallway, the fact that students could simply walk past the fallen confederate, demonstrates which ethical guideline?
Implied Consent
Light therapy has been found to be an effective treatment for which disorder?
Seasonal Affective Disorder
According the the Biological Personality theory, the likelihood that you get your sense of humor from your biological parents is known as...
Heritability,
Which system works with our visual system to help maintain our sense of balance?
the Vestibular System
When you can notice your ringtone in a noisy, crowded hallway, most likely this is an example of what phenomenon?
Cocktail Phenomenon or Selective Attention
Comparing the sexual habits of teens (15-18 years of age) in America, England and Japan; would be which type of experimental study?
Cross Cultural
A side effect of taking antipsychotic medications could be the development of which condition, which is incurable?
Tardive dyskinesia
Mischel used the marshmallow test to examine which social learning concept?
Delay of gratification
When our foot has been still too long and "goes to sleep" which sense has been disturbed?
Kinesthetic Sense