Psych GRE UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
When persuasive communications follow the peripheral route, they focus on which of the
following? - CORRECT ANSWER - Emotions
Consider the sentence "The dishwasher is running." Which of the following is true? - CORRECT
ANSWER - It can have more than one deep structure
Which of the following is chemically similar to opiates, has the ability to reduce pain, and is
blocked by the action of naloxone? - CORRECT ANSWER - Endorphin
The bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity, and tremors that characterize Parkinson's disease are a
result of the degeneration of dopaminergic cells in the - CORRECT ANSWER - Substantia
nigra
Which of the following best characterizes an infant's object concept at six months of age? -
CORRECT ANSWER - The infant understands objects to be solid bounded entities that
take up space and move on continuous paths
A 40-item vocabulary test was administered to a group of students. A second, similar test of
vocabulary terms was administered to the same group off students approximately one week later.
The researcher reported that the correlation between these two tests was r=.90. What type of
reliability is represented in this example? - CORRECT ANSWER - Alternative forms
Over many trials a puff of air aimed t JoAnne's eyes is paired with a loud noise and a subtle
smell. Afterward, it is very likely that JoAnne's conditioned eye blink will be under the control of
the loud noise and not the subtle smell. This phenomenon is an example of - CORRECT
ANSWER - Overshadowing
Which of the following is the best example of the categorical perception of human speech? -
CORRECT ANSWER - When a sound is presented that is intermediate between the
phonemes /b/ and /p/, listeners report that they heard either a distinct /b/ or a distinct /p/.
, Which of the following types of cognitive abilities is LEAST likely to show a decline in late life?
- CORRECT ANSWER - Semantic memory
Charles Scott Sherrington proposed that rapid stimulation of a specific synapse is likely to
produce a cumulative effect in the postsynaptic cell because of - CORRECT ANSWER -
temporal summation
Which of the following is an atypical developmental pattern characterized by stereotyped motor
responses and poor communication skills? - CORRECT ANSWER - autism spectrum
disorder
Research on children's social behavior shows that relative to young adolescent boys, young
adolescent girls exhibit more of which type of aggression? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Relational
The visual pathway that tells us what we are looking at is called the - CORRECT
ANSWER - ventral stream
Using a pendulum apparatus, a participant attempts to derive the physical laws that determine the
rate at which a pendulum swings. The participant's approach to solving this problem is to hold a
relevant factor (X) constant and to vary a second relevant factor (Y), and then to reverse this
procedure by holding Y constant and varying X. According to Jean Piaget, the participant's level
of cognitive functioning is most likely - CORRECT ANSWER - Formal operational
A child has just developed the ability to lie with the intention of deceiving another person. This
new ability is probably based most directly on a change in the child's - CORRECT
ANSWER - knowledge about mental representations
The standard deviation of a sample of test scores is a measure of the - CORRECT
ANSWER - variability of individual scores
and CORRECT Answers
When persuasive communications follow the peripheral route, they focus on which of the
following? - CORRECT ANSWER - Emotions
Consider the sentence "The dishwasher is running." Which of the following is true? - CORRECT
ANSWER - It can have more than one deep structure
Which of the following is chemically similar to opiates, has the ability to reduce pain, and is
blocked by the action of naloxone? - CORRECT ANSWER - Endorphin
The bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity, and tremors that characterize Parkinson's disease are a
result of the degeneration of dopaminergic cells in the - CORRECT ANSWER - Substantia
nigra
Which of the following best characterizes an infant's object concept at six months of age? -
CORRECT ANSWER - The infant understands objects to be solid bounded entities that
take up space and move on continuous paths
A 40-item vocabulary test was administered to a group of students. A second, similar test of
vocabulary terms was administered to the same group off students approximately one week later.
The researcher reported that the correlation between these two tests was r=.90. What type of
reliability is represented in this example? - CORRECT ANSWER - Alternative forms
Over many trials a puff of air aimed t JoAnne's eyes is paired with a loud noise and a subtle
smell. Afterward, it is very likely that JoAnne's conditioned eye blink will be under the control of
the loud noise and not the subtle smell. This phenomenon is an example of - CORRECT
ANSWER - Overshadowing
Which of the following is the best example of the categorical perception of human speech? -
CORRECT ANSWER - When a sound is presented that is intermediate between the
phonemes /b/ and /p/, listeners report that they heard either a distinct /b/ or a distinct /p/.
, Which of the following types of cognitive abilities is LEAST likely to show a decline in late life?
- CORRECT ANSWER - Semantic memory
Charles Scott Sherrington proposed that rapid stimulation of a specific synapse is likely to
produce a cumulative effect in the postsynaptic cell because of - CORRECT ANSWER -
temporal summation
Which of the following is an atypical developmental pattern characterized by stereotyped motor
responses and poor communication skills? - CORRECT ANSWER - autism spectrum
disorder
Research on children's social behavior shows that relative to young adolescent boys, young
adolescent girls exhibit more of which type of aggression? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Relational
The visual pathway that tells us what we are looking at is called the - CORRECT
ANSWER - ventral stream
Using a pendulum apparatus, a participant attempts to derive the physical laws that determine the
rate at which a pendulum swings. The participant's approach to solving this problem is to hold a
relevant factor (X) constant and to vary a second relevant factor (Y), and then to reverse this
procedure by holding Y constant and varying X. According to Jean Piaget, the participant's level
of cognitive functioning is most likely - CORRECT ANSWER - Formal operational
A child has just developed the ability to lie with the intention of deceiving another person. This
new ability is probably based most directly on a change in the child's - CORRECT
ANSWER - knowledge about mental representations
The standard deviation of a sample of test scores is a measure of the - CORRECT
ANSWER - variability of individual scores
