PSY 2012 UPDATED EXAMS TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Peter wants to study how individuals with depression differ in their content
awareness compared to individuals without depression. To achieve this, what should
Peter ask his participants to focus on? - ✔✔Instruct the participants to identify things
they can see and hear in their immediate environment.
✔✔Your friend Jim tells you that he has been experiencing poor sleep and his wife tells
him he stops breathing during the night. However, Jim does not snore and he is not
overweight. Therefore, the most likely treatment for Jim is - ✔✔breathing machine
✔✔When dreaming, EEG recordings show that - ✔✔Dreams have distinct brain waves
compared to wakefulness.
✔✔Hypnosis has been shown to be helpful for smoking cessation and pain relief. What
else may hypnosis impact? - ✔✔weight loss
✔✔Jim is designing a study to measure the different levels of wakefulness using EEG
recordings. He is particularly interested in evaluating participants' attention to pictures
that are presented on a computer screen. How will Jim know that participants are
, adequately attending to the photos? - ✔✔If he sees gamma waves, then he knows
participants are processing the photos.
✔✔When we are most alert, an EEG reading will produce - ✔✔beta waves.
✔✔Positive changes to the brain, such as cortical thickness and increased gray matter,
have been linked to which method of altering consciousness? - ✔✔meditation
✔✔Corey is addicted to heroin. He has consistently chosen to continue to get high
using heroin over other options, such as going back to college to get a degree. Which of
the following choices is Corey also most likely to make? - ✔✔Purchasing an expensive
flat-screen television rather than putting the money in a savings account after receiving
a bonus
✔✔Cataplexy occurs in which of the following sleep disorders? - ✔✔narcolepsy
✔✔Jet lag is managed better when - ✔✔traveling West.
✔✔Allen used to smoke 10 cigarettes per day, but now he smokes 20 per day to get the
same effect. This is an example of - ✔✔tolerance
✔✔Given what you know about the sleep cycle, in what sleep stage would you expect a
person with sleep deprivation to spend the majority of his or her time? - ✔✔N-REM
stage 4
✔✔Miriam has been having uncontrollable sleepiness attacks. For example, she had an
experience where she was awake in class and then a wave of sleepiness overcame
her, and she entered REM sleep. Based on your knowledge, Miriam is suffering from -
✔✔narcolepsy.
✔✔The process of changing the meaning of an event to change the associated emotion
is known as - ✔✔cognitive reappraisal
✔✔How is amygdala damage likely to impact someone's chance of survival? - ✔✔They
will get into dangerous situations because they do not feel afraid
✔✔Michael, a prisoner diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, stood trial for his
crimes. During the trial, his victims and their families provided emotional testimony
about the effect his actions had on their lives. Given Michael's diagnosis, how is he
likely to respond to hearing this outpouring of emotion? - ✔✔He will show little to no
emotional response.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Peter wants to study how individuals with depression differ in their content
awareness compared to individuals without depression. To achieve this, what should
Peter ask his participants to focus on? - ✔✔Instruct the participants to identify things
they can see and hear in their immediate environment.
✔✔Your friend Jim tells you that he has been experiencing poor sleep and his wife tells
him he stops breathing during the night. However, Jim does not snore and he is not
overweight. Therefore, the most likely treatment for Jim is - ✔✔breathing machine
✔✔When dreaming, EEG recordings show that - ✔✔Dreams have distinct brain waves
compared to wakefulness.
✔✔Hypnosis has been shown to be helpful for smoking cessation and pain relief. What
else may hypnosis impact? - ✔✔weight loss
✔✔Jim is designing a study to measure the different levels of wakefulness using EEG
recordings. He is particularly interested in evaluating participants' attention to pictures
that are presented on a computer screen. How will Jim know that participants are
, adequately attending to the photos? - ✔✔If he sees gamma waves, then he knows
participants are processing the photos.
✔✔When we are most alert, an EEG reading will produce - ✔✔beta waves.
✔✔Positive changes to the brain, such as cortical thickness and increased gray matter,
have been linked to which method of altering consciousness? - ✔✔meditation
✔✔Corey is addicted to heroin. He has consistently chosen to continue to get high
using heroin over other options, such as going back to college to get a degree. Which of
the following choices is Corey also most likely to make? - ✔✔Purchasing an expensive
flat-screen television rather than putting the money in a savings account after receiving
a bonus
✔✔Cataplexy occurs in which of the following sleep disorders? - ✔✔narcolepsy
✔✔Jet lag is managed better when - ✔✔traveling West.
✔✔Allen used to smoke 10 cigarettes per day, but now he smokes 20 per day to get the
same effect. This is an example of - ✔✔tolerance
✔✔Given what you know about the sleep cycle, in what sleep stage would you expect a
person with sleep deprivation to spend the majority of his or her time? - ✔✔N-REM
stage 4
✔✔Miriam has been having uncontrollable sleepiness attacks. For example, she had an
experience where she was awake in class and then a wave of sleepiness overcame
her, and she entered REM sleep. Based on your knowledge, Miriam is suffering from -
✔✔narcolepsy.
✔✔The process of changing the meaning of an event to change the associated emotion
is known as - ✔✔cognitive reappraisal
✔✔How is amygdala damage likely to impact someone's chance of survival? - ✔✔They
will get into dangerous situations because they do not feel afraid
✔✔Michael, a prisoner diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, stood trial for his
crimes. During the trial, his victims and their families provided emotional testimony
about the effect his actions had on their lives. Given Michael's diagnosis, how is he
likely to respond to hearing this outpouring of emotion? - ✔✔He will show little to no
emotional response.
