Psychology Exam test questions and
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When you see a person with their hood up in a dark alley and you decide to subtly walk past a bit
faster - ANS✅✅availability heuristic
most common excitatory neurotransmitter in central nervous system - ANS✅✅glutamate
Dr. Smith hypothesizes that girls are more aggressive on the playground than boys. With the parents'
permission, he spends 3 weeks unobtrusively coding the playground behaviors of a group of
preschool students. Smith is using what type of research study? - ANS✅✅naturalistic observation
In this type of study, the sample might consist of just one person - ANS✅✅case study
In this type of study, a researcher measures two variables and tests whether there is an association
between them - ANS✅✅correlational study
Dr. Wamsley is interested in how sleep affects memory. She randomly assigns some participants to
sleep after completing a learning task, and other participants to remain awake, using this type of
study design... - ANS✅✅experiment
A researcher who studies how humans remember past experience would most likely be this type of
psychologist... - ANS✅✅cognitive psychologist
When neurotransmitter is released from an axon terminal, it must cross this space before binding to
postsynaptic receptors... - ANS✅✅synaptic gap
"Does God exists?" is not a scientific question, because the hypothesis lacks what feature? -
ANS✅✅testable ability
This type of psychologist would be interested in how a patient's early childhood experiences led to
unconscious conflicts that affect their life today... - ANS✅✅psychodynamic/ psychoanalytic
answers graded A+
When you see a person with their hood up in a dark alley and you decide to subtly walk past a bit
faster - ANS✅✅availability heuristic
most common excitatory neurotransmitter in central nervous system - ANS✅✅glutamate
Dr. Smith hypothesizes that girls are more aggressive on the playground than boys. With the parents'
permission, he spends 3 weeks unobtrusively coding the playground behaviors of a group of
preschool students. Smith is using what type of research study? - ANS✅✅naturalistic observation
In this type of study, the sample might consist of just one person - ANS✅✅case study
In this type of study, a researcher measures two variables and tests whether there is an association
between them - ANS✅✅correlational study
Dr. Wamsley is interested in how sleep affects memory. She randomly assigns some participants to
sleep after completing a learning task, and other participants to remain awake, using this type of
study design... - ANS✅✅experiment
A researcher who studies how humans remember past experience would most likely be this type of
psychologist... - ANS✅✅cognitive psychologist
When neurotransmitter is released from an axon terminal, it must cross this space before binding to
postsynaptic receptors... - ANS✅✅synaptic gap
"Does God exists?" is not a scientific question, because the hypothesis lacks what feature? -
ANS✅✅testable ability
This type of psychologist would be interested in how a patient's early childhood experiences led to
unconscious conflicts that affect their life today... - ANS✅✅psychodynamic/ psychoanalytic
