PSYCH TEST EXAM 2026 STUDY GUIDE
QUESTION SET MENTAL HEALTH INSIGHT
MATERIAL
◉ selective attention
Answer: your conscious awareness focuses like a flashlight on a very
limited aspect of your experience
◉ cocktail party effect
Answer: your ability to attend to only one voice among many
◉ inattentional blindness
Answer: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed
elsewhere (gorilla experiment)
◉ change blindness
Answer: failing to notice changes in the environment
◉ circadian rhythm
Answer: the biological clock: regular bodily rhythms that occur on a
24 hour cycle
,◉ REM sleep
Answer: rapid eye movement: where vivid dreams often occur
◉ insomnia
Answer: recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
◉ narcolepsy
Answer: sufferers experience periodic overwhelming sleepiness
◉ sleep apnea
Answer: a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of
breathing during sleep and repeated awakenings
◉ manifest content
Answer: according to freud the remembered story line of a dream
◉ latent content
Answer: according to freud the underlying meaning of a dream
◉ depressants
Answer: drugs such as alcohol and opiates that calm neural activity
and slow body functions
, ◉ stimulants
Answer: temporarily excite neural activity and arouse body
functions
◉ social learning theory
Answer: assumes that children learn gender-linked behaviors by
observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
◉ Continuity vs stages
Answer: Is development in a gradual continuous process or does it
proceed through a sequence of separate stages
◉ Stability vs change
Answer: do our early personality traits persist through life or do we
become different persons as we age?
◉ rooting reflex
Answer: when something touches their cheek babies turn toward
that touch open then mouth and root for a nipple.
◉ Schemas
Answer: concepts or molds into which we pour our experiences
QUESTION SET MENTAL HEALTH INSIGHT
MATERIAL
◉ selective attention
Answer: your conscious awareness focuses like a flashlight on a very
limited aspect of your experience
◉ cocktail party effect
Answer: your ability to attend to only one voice among many
◉ inattentional blindness
Answer: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed
elsewhere (gorilla experiment)
◉ change blindness
Answer: failing to notice changes in the environment
◉ circadian rhythm
Answer: the biological clock: regular bodily rhythms that occur on a
24 hour cycle
,◉ REM sleep
Answer: rapid eye movement: where vivid dreams often occur
◉ insomnia
Answer: recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
◉ narcolepsy
Answer: sufferers experience periodic overwhelming sleepiness
◉ sleep apnea
Answer: a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of
breathing during sleep and repeated awakenings
◉ manifest content
Answer: according to freud the remembered story line of a dream
◉ latent content
Answer: according to freud the underlying meaning of a dream
◉ depressants
Answer: drugs such as alcohol and opiates that calm neural activity
and slow body functions
, ◉ stimulants
Answer: temporarily excite neural activity and arouse body
functions
◉ social learning theory
Answer: assumes that children learn gender-linked behaviors by
observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
◉ Continuity vs stages
Answer: Is development in a gradual continuous process or does it
proceed through a sequence of separate stages
◉ Stability vs change
Answer: do our early personality traits persist through life or do we
become different persons as we age?
◉ rooting reflex
Answer: when something touches their cheek babies turn toward
that touch open then mouth and root for a nipple.
◉ Schemas
Answer: concepts or molds into which we pour our experiences
