Psychology 1000 Exam questions
and answers graded A+
Observable behavior only - ANS✅✅Behaviorists, like John B. Watson believed that psychology
must study _____ in order to be scientific.
Unusually important - ANS✅✅A delusion of grandeur is an unjustified belief that one is...
Negative - ANS✅✅A psychologist observed that as a household income increases, tobacco use
decreases. This reflects a ____ correlation.
Performance on the memory test - ANS✅✅A cognitive psychologist studies the effects of coconut
oil on memory function. Elderly people with an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease are randomly
assigned to eat a) zero teaspoons b) two teaspoons, or c) four teaspoons of coconut oil per day. All
are then asked to take a 20-question memory test. Some participants live alone, and some are
married. Which is the dependent variable?
Support for a political candidate causes people to be intelligent and being intelligent causes people
to have support for a political candidate. - ANS✅✅If the correlation between intelligence and
degree of support for a political candidate is +1.0, then we can say...
tangles - ANS✅✅Alzheimer's disease is characterized by ___, the buildup of tau protein inside
neurons.
autonomic; somatic - ANS✅✅The peripheral nervous system is made up of the ___ nervous
system, which controls the organs, and the ___ nervous system, which controls muscles.
sympathetic - ANS✅✅An athlete has been running on the track at the gym. He notices his heart
rate increases, as does his breathing. This autonomic increase from his normal state is due to the
activity of the ___ system.
frontal lobe - ANS✅✅After damage to the cerebral cortex, Joshua has an impairment in planning
and organizing behavior. Where is the damage probably located?
, dendrites - ANS✅✅What are the branchlike appendages that detect chemical signals from other
neurons?
increases as the action potential travels down an axon. - ANS✅✅The strength of an action
potential... *****
It moves from -70mV to -72 mV - ANS✅✅Which is the best example of a neuron's membrane
becoming hyperpolarized?
Phenotype - ANS✅✅Physical or behavioral characteristics actually expressed.
The signal causes the vesicles to release neurotransmitters - ANS✅✅What happens when the
action potential reaches the terminal button? *****
The positive symptoms of schizophrenia are due to excessive dopamine. - ANS✅✅According to the
dopamine dysregulation hypothesis of schizophrenia....
Muscles are paralyzed, the mind produces dreams, and there is desynchronous neural activity,
especially in the occipital lobe. - ANS✅✅Which best describes REM sleep?
Circadian rhythms - ANS✅✅The biological clocks that control hormone levels, temperature, and
the sleep cycle.
Split-brain - ANS✅✅A condition that occurs when the corpus calossum is surgically cut and the
two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each other.
Sensation; perception - ANS✅✅___ is the body's detection of external or internal sensory stimuli,
whereas ___ is its further processing, organizing, and interpreting those stimuli.
False alarm - ANS✅✅A guy is taking a hearing test. The nurse does not present a tone, but Dillon
says, "I hear it". This is a ___.
Fovea - ANS✅✅The part of the retina that has the best color vision.
and answers graded A+
Observable behavior only - ANS✅✅Behaviorists, like John B. Watson believed that psychology
must study _____ in order to be scientific.
Unusually important - ANS✅✅A delusion of grandeur is an unjustified belief that one is...
Negative - ANS✅✅A psychologist observed that as a household income increases, tobacco use
decreases. This reflects a ____ correlation.
Performance on the memory test - ANS✅✅A cognitive psychologist studies the effects of coconut
oil on memory function. Elderly people with an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease are randomly
assigned to eat a) zero teaspoons b) two teaspoons, or c) four teaspoons of coconut oil per day. All
are then asked to take a 20-question memory test. Some participants live alone, and some are
married. Which is the dependent variable?
Support for a political candidate causes people to be intelligent and being intelligent causes people
to have support for a political candidate. - ANS✅✅If the correlation between intelligence and
degree of support for a political candidate is +1.0, then we can say...
tangles - ANS✅✅Alzheimer's disease is characterized by ___, the buildup of tau protein inside
neurons.
autonomic; somatic - ANS✅✅The peripheral nervous system is made up of the ___ nervous
system, which controls the organs, and the ___ nervous system, which controls muscles.
sympathetic - ANS✅✅An athlete has been running on the track at the gym. He notices his heart
rate increases, as does his breathing. This autonomic increase from his normal state is due to the
activity of the ___ system.
frontal lobe - ANS✅✅After damage to the cerebral cortex, Joshua has an impairment in planning
and organizing behavior. Where is the damage probably located?
, dendrites - ANS✅✅What are the branchlike appendages that detect chemical signals from other
neurons?
increases as the action potential travels down an axon. - ANS✅✅The strength of an action
potential... *****
It moves from -70mV to -72 mV - ANS✅✅Which is the best example of a neuron's membrane
becoming hyperpolarized?
Phenotype - ANS✅✅Physical or behavioral characteristics actually expressed.
The signal causes the vesicles to release neurotransmitters - ANS✅✅What happens when the
action potential reaches the terminal button? *****
The positive symptoms of schizophrenia are due to excessive dopamine. - ANS✅✅According to the
dopamine dysregulation hypothesis of schizophrenia....
Muscles are paralyzed, the mind produces dreams, and there is desynchronous neural activity,
especially in the occipital lobe. - ANS✅✅Which best describes REM sleep?
Circadian rhythms - ANS✅✅The biological clocks that control hormone levels, temperature, and
the sleep cycle.
Split-brain - ANS✅✅A condition that occurs when the corpus calossum is surgically cut and the
two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each other.
Sensation; perception - ANS✅✅___ is the body's detection of external or internal sensory stimuli,
whereas ___ is its further processing, organizing, and interpreting those stimuli.
False alarm - ANS✅✅A guy is taking a hearing test. The nurse does not present a tone, but Dillon
says, "I hear it". This is a ___.
Fovea - ANS✅✅The part of the retina that has the best color vision.
