Queen's PSYC 100 - Exam 1 Introduction to Psychological
Science Test
Elements of consciousness; purpose of consciousness - answers✔✔Structuralism is to
__________ as functionalism is to __________.
Biology - answers✔✔Is Psychology most closely related to:
psychophysics - answers✔✔Through their research on human responses to physical stimuli,
both Helmholtz and Fechner contributed to the beginning of:
Functions - answers✔✔The concept of natural selection is most important for psychologists
interested in the _____________________ of behaviour.
Science and philosophy - answers✔✔Psychology arose in the nineteenth century from
developments in a number of areas, primarily:
Experiments - answers✔✔Only __________ involve the manipulation of independent variables
formulate a hypothesis - answers✔✔The first step of the scientific method specifies that a
researcher
whether or not the participants have been taught the memory aid - answers✔✔A researcher
has two groups of subjects- one that has been taught a memory aid and one that has not. Both
groups are asked to learn a list of 20 nouns in two minutes, and both are then given a recall test.
What is the independent variable?
,central tendency; variability - answers✔✔Mean is to __________ as standard deviation is to
__________.
concluding that the results obtained from a sample can also be applied to the larger population
- answers✔✔In psychological research, the term generalization refers to
due to chance - answers✔✔Inferential statistics are useful in telling researchers whether the
results of their experiments are
leads to genetic diversity, which is adaptive - answers✔✔Natural selection has favoured species
that reproduce sexually because sexual reproduction:
On average, about 50% of the variance in intelligence in a group of Caucasian-Canadians can be
explained by genetic inheritance. - answers✔✔Intelligence has a heritability estimate of .50 in a
North-American Caucasian population. This means that:
the influence of environmental influences and experiences - answers✔✔An organism's
phenotype is the result of:
Reciprocal altruism - answers✔✔Altruistic behaviour toward non-relatives can be explained by
multiple genes and the environment - answers✔✔Most traits and disorders are caused by:
Fixed-ratio, every response reinforced - answers✔✔Extinction would happen most rapidly
following which reinforcement schedule?
habituation - answers✔✔People who live in cities often do not respond to night sounds while
asleep. This is an example of:
, The number of times the US has elicited the CR - answers✔✔To what is the tendency of the CS
to elicit a CR related?
Classical Conditioning - answers✔✔______ is a learning procedure that utilizes reinforcement
to guide a response in closer and closer approximations to a desired behavior:
variable ratio - answers✔✔Which schedule of reinforcement is most similar to that used in
gambling?
After childhood, the functional organization of the human brain is unchangeable -
answers✔✔Which of the following is FALSE about brain plasticity?
a)
Early-life stress can produce physical changes in the brain
b)
After childhood, the functional organization of the human brain is unchangeable
c)
All learning and memory requires a physical change in the brain
Science Test
Elements of consciousness; purpose of consciousness - answers✔✔Structuralism is to
__________ as functionalism is to __________.
Biology - answers✔✔Is Psychology most closely related to:
psychophysics - answers✔✔Through their research on human responses to physical stimuli,
both Helmholtz and Fechner contributed to the beginning of:
Functions - answers✔✔The concept of natural selection is most important for psychologists
interested in the _____________________ of behaviour.
Science and philosophy - answers✔✔Psychology arose in the nineteenth century from
developments in a number of areas, primarily:
Experiments - answers✔✔Only __________ involve the manipulation of independent variables
formulate a hypothesis - answers✔✔The first step of the scientific method specifies that a
researcher
whether or not the participants have been taught the memory aid - answers✔✔A researcher
has two groups of subjects- one that has been taught a memory aid and one that has not. Both
groups are asked to learn a list of 20 nouns in two minutes, and both are then given a recall test.
What is the independent variable?
,central tendency; variability - answers✔✔Mean is to __________ as standard deviation is to
__________.
concluding that the results obtained from a sample can also be applied to the larger population
- answers✔✔In psychological research, the term generalization refers to
due to chance - answers✔✔Inferential statistics are useful in telling researchers whether the
results of their experiments are
leads to genetic diversity, which is adaptive - answers✔✔Natural selection has favoured species
that reproduce sexually because sexual reproduction:
On average, about 50% of the variance in intelligence in a group of Caucasian-Canadians can be
explained by genetic inheritance. - answers✔✔Intelligence has a heritability estimate of .50 in a
North-American Caucasian population. This means that:
the influence of environmental influences and experiences - answers✔✔An organism's
phenotype is the result of:
Reciprocal altruism - answers✔✔Altruistic behaviour toward non-relatives can be explained by
multiple genes and the environment - answers✔✔Most traits and disorders are caused by:
Fixed-ratio, every response reinforced - answers✔✔Extinction would happen most rapidly
following which reinforcement schedule?
habituation - answers✔✔People who live in cities often do not respond to night sounds while
asleep. This is an example of:
, The number of times the US has elicited the CR - answers✔✔To what is the tendency of the CS
to elicit a CR related?
Classical Conditioning - answers✔✔______ is a learning procedure that utilizes reinforcement
to guide a response in closer and closer approximations to a desired behavior:
variable ratio - answers✔✔Which schedule of reinforcement is most similar to that used in
gambling?
After childhood, the functional organization of the human brain is unchangeable -
answers✔✔Which of the following is FALSE about brain plasticity?
a)
Early-life stress can produce physical changes in the brain
b)
After childhood, the functional organization of the human brain is unchangeable
c)
All learning and memory requires a physical change in the brain
