PSYC 333 Final Exam – Psychology course comprehensive exam material
Which person is MOST likely to develop schizophrenia, based on current research findings?
A) Michael, whose sister suffers from the disorder
B) Margaret, whose grandfather suffers from the disorder
C) Stacey, whose first cousin suffers from the disorder
D) Brandon, whose father suffers from the disorder - ✔✔D
Which child in the United States is MOST likely to live below the poverty line?
A) Suan, who is African American and lives in a single-mother household
B) Chris, who is White, non-Hispanic and lives in a single-mother household
C) Tracey, who is Hispanic and whose parents have recently remarried
D) Brice, who is White, non-Hispanic and whose parents are currently divorced - ✔✔A
Which pattern of maternal alcohol consumption is considered acceptable in terms of avoiding
harmful effects?
A) drinking one and only one drink per day
B) drinking large amounts of alcohol on a frequent basis
C) drinking several drinks over a quick period of time, only a few times during pregnancy
D) there is no acceptable use of maternal alcohol consumption - ✔✔D
Which activity is NOT generally performed by fetuses?
,A) scratching itches
B) sucking
C) swallowing
D) moving chest wall in and out - ✔✔A
The influence of the child's _____ on his or her _____ represents the active child theme.
A) genotype; environment
B) environment; phenotype
C) genotype; phenotype
D) phenotype; environment - ✔✔D
Which factor is an example of how children shape their own development?
A) play style
B number of siblings
C) socioeconomic status
D) all of these - ✔✔A
Kim is a 4-year-old who has just been in an accident and has sustained damage to an area of the
brain that is specialized for a particular skill. Her doctor tells her parents that she is lucky to be
so young; she should recover her ability in this domain. Her doctor is counting on Kim's brain to:
A) direct her skeletal and muscular system to work harder at the skill.
B) regenerate brain tissue.
C) create new neurons to replace the damaged ones.
D) become rewired as a different area takes over for the damaged area. - ✔✔D
, Researchers would be LEAST likely to examine the effect of _____ on _____ with experimental
design.
A) poverty; children's beliefs about intelligence
B) social skills training; children's ability to make friends
C) children's TV viewing habits; sibling relationships
D) teachers' testing procedures; children's school achievement - ✔✔A
The term reliability does NOT refer to the:
A) ability to generalize measurements.
B) level of agreement in observations by different observers.
C) consistency of measurements.
D) similarity in results when a variable is measured at two different time points. - ✔✔A
The internal validity of a measure involves the extent to which:
A) the results of a study hold when studies are conducted with different participants and
different methods.
B) the effects of an experiment are truly due to conditions the researcher intended to
manipulate.
C) participant's performance is similar on two or more occasions.
D) different observers of the same behavior agree. - ✔✔B
The process by which the brain's excess synapses are pruned has been dubbed neural:
Which person is MOST likely to develop schizophrenia, based on current research findings?
A) Michael, whose sister suffers from the disorder
B) Margaret, whose grandfather suffers from the disorder
C) Stacey, whose first cousin suffers from the disorder
D) Brandon, whose father suffers from the disorder - ✔✔D
Which child in the United States is MOST likely to live below the poverty line?
A) Suan, who is African American and lives in a single-mother household
B) Chris, who is White, non-Hispanic and lives in a single-mother household
C) Tracey, who is Hispanic and whose parents have recently remarried
D) Brice, who is White, non-Hispanic and whose parents are currently divorced - ✔✔A
Which pattern of maternal alcohol consumption is considered acceptable in terms of avoiding
harmful effects?
A) drinking one and only one drink per day
B) drinking large amounts of alcohol on a frequent basis
C) drinking several drinks over a quick period of time, only a few times during pregnancy
D) there is no acceptable use of maternal alcohol consumption - ✔✔D
Which activity is NOT generally performed by fetuses?
,A) scratching itches
B) sucking
C) swallowing
D) moving chest wall in and out - ✔✔A
The influence of the child's _____ on his or her _____ represents the active child theme.
A) genotype; environment
B) environment; phenotype
C) genotype; phenotype
D) phenotype; environment - ✔✔D
Which factor is an example of how children shape their own development?
A) play style
B number of siblings
C) socioeconomic status
D) all of these - ✔✔A
Kim is a 4-year-old who has just been in an accident and has sustained damage to an area of the
brain that is specialized for a particular skill. Her doctor tells her parents that she is lucky to be
so young; she should recover her ability in this domain. Her doctor is counting on Kim's brain to:
A) direct her skeletal and muscular system to work harder at the skill.
B) regenerate brain tissue.
C) create new neurons to replace the damaged ones.
D) become rewired as a different area takes over for the damaged area. - ✔✔D
, Researchers would be LEAST likely to examine the effect of _____ on _____ with experimental
design.
A) poverty; children's beliefs about intelligence
B) social skills training; children's ability to make friends
C) children's TV viewing habits; sibling relationships
D) teachers' testing procedures; children's school achievement - ✔✔A
The term reliability does NOT refer to the:
A) ability to generalize measurements.
B) level of agreement in observations by different observers.
C) consistency of measurements.
D) similarity in results when a variable is measured at two different time points. - ✔✔A
The internal validity of a measure involves the extent to which:
A) the results of a study hold when studies are conducted with different participants and
different methods.
B) the effects of an experiment are truly due to conditions the researcher intended to
manipulate.
C) participant's performance is similar on two or more occasions.
D) different observers of the same behavior agree. - ✔✔B
The process by which the brain's excess synapses are pruned has been dubbed neural:
