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Which of the following is one of the questions that a researcher should ask herself before conducting a research study ____________________. Select one: a. "How can I avoid using statistics to analyze my results?" b. "What research strategies should I use to test my idea?" c. "Will I be able to prove my hypothesis?" d. "How can I guarantee that I obtain subjective results?" - ANSWER B The part of the brain dedicated to emotion is the ___________________. Select one: a. endocrine system. b. limbic system. c. reticular activating system. d. lymphatic system. - ANSWER B (holds the hippocampus and amygdala) Damage to the cerebellum is likely to disrupt which of the following? Select one: a. Sleeping b. Thinking c. Playing basketball d. Homeostasis - ANSWER C The monocular cue of ________ is being used when an artist places trees in front of riders to create a sense of depth when the picture is viewed. Select one: a. interposition light and shadow c. linear perspective d. relative size - ANSWER A Fifteen minutes after Zigfried left the brightly lit hallway and entered the dark passageway, dark adaptation was Select one: a. complete in his cones, but still taking place in his rods b. complete in his rods, but still taking place in his cones c. complete in both his rods and cones d. still taking place in both this rods and his cones - ANSWER A How many stages of sleep are there in human beings? Select one: a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6 - ANSWER C Extinction occurs when the ________ no longer produces the ________. Select one: a. CS; UCS b. CS; CR c. UCS; CR d. UCS; UCR - ANSWER A Many people drew faulty conclusions about the relative safety of air travel compared to automobile travel in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Such poor reasoning was the result of Select one: a. thin slicing. b. hindsight bias. c. mental sets. d. the availability heuristic. - ANSWER D During which of Piaget's stages does a child demonstrate the ability to reason about abstract ideas and novel information? Select one: a. Sensorimotor b. Preoperational Concrete operational d. Formal operational - ANSWER D Kohlberg's belief that the development of moral judgment is intricately related to the development of cognitive skills built on the work of ________. Select one: a. Gilligan b. Erikson c. Piaget d. Freud - ANSWER C Which of the following parenting styles is associated with the most favorable outcomes for children? Select one: a. Uninvolved b. Permissive c. Authoritarian d. Authoritative - ANSWER D According to drive reduction theory, who is likely to be the most motivated? Select one: a. Joanna, who is hungry b. Tony, who wants to kiss Joanna c. Arnold, who is thirsty d. Hillary, who needs an "A" in psychology to graduate - ANSWER B In which of the following situations is the person MORE likely to be helped? Select one: a. A young woman is being mugged while people are watching from their bedroom windows. b. An old woman with a cane trips and falls while crossing an isolated street. c. An angry mob watches while an old man is attacked by a dog. d. A woman collapses on the sidewalk of a crowded street. - ANSWER B Which of the following is a common factor across the many forms of effective treatments? Select one: a. Critical thinking b. Challenging irrational thought patterns c. Instilling hope Therapist directives for change - ANSWER C Stressing that psychology should study the purpose of consciousness rather than its structure is associated with the approach to psychology known as _________. Select one: a. culturalism b. functionalism c. structuralism d. Darwinism - ANSWER B Which of the following is one of the two types of statistics that researchers use to analyze the data that they collect? Select one: a. Referential statistics b. Inferential statistics c. Binomial statistics d. Cyclical statistics - ANSWER B LaKeisha stepped on a piece of glass and quickly pulled her foot away from that sharp object. Which of the following carries the message from her spine to the muscles in LaKeisha's foot, resulting in her pulling her foot away from the piece of glass? Select one: a. Motor nerves b. Sensory nerves c. Interneurons d. Reflex nerves - ANSWER C In which of the lobes of the cerebrum is the somatosensory cortex located? Select one: a. occipital b. temporal c. frontal d. parietal - ANSWER D Melvin and Leigh are interviewing students at their campus to determine if the students agree or disagree with a proposed policy change. Melvin believes the proposed policy change is a good idea, but Leigh believes the change will be bad for students. Nearly all the students interviewed by Melvin supported the policy change, but nearly all the students interviewed by Leigh disapproved of the change. The differences in the results illustrate the potential impact of ________________. Select one: a. confounded dependent variables b. the placebo effect c. experimenter bias d. double-blind research studies - ANSWER C The movement of voluntary skeletal muscles involved in doing calisthenics is under the control of the ____________. Select one: a. sympathetic nervous system b. autonomic nervous system c. parasympathetic nervous system d. somatic nervous system - ANSWER D Researcher Eric Kandel discovered that when he tapped a certain body spot Aplysia, a sea slug, one time, the slug would retract its gills in a defensive maneuver. However, when Kandel touched the same spot repeatedly, the slug would eventually ignore the stimulus. This change in response demonstrates _____. Select one: a. extinction b. habituation c. sensitization d. acquisition - ANSWER B A man was being treated for drug addiction. He was exposed repeatedly to drug paraphernalia, the people, money--all of things that he had learned to associate with the drug use and resulting drug high--without actually using the drug. This process, called desensitization, makes use of ___________ to treat addiction. Select one: a. extinction b. discriminative stimulus c. acquisition d. stimulus generalization - ANSWER A ________ is any change in an organism's behavior or thinking brought about by experience or practice. Select one: a. Learning b. Adaptation c. Memory enhancement d. Accommodation - ANSWER A When asked to recall single-digit numbers presented in various digit span sizes, the typical adult starts to encounter difficulty once they get past approximately ________ digits. Select one: a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 7 - ANSWER C As shown in a video during lecture, younger children think that a quantity of water in a tall, narrow beaker is greater than the quantity of liquid in the wide, flat beaker because they concentrate on a single dimension of the situation (the height of the container.) Older children understand that the quantity of liquid remains the same despite changes in appearance. This demonstration is the classic test of : Select one: a. egocentrism b. object permanence c. assimilation d. conservation - ANSWER D Among the primary functions of attachment is that the attachment figure serves as a "safe haven." To what does this term refer? Select one: a. The child does not wander away from his attachment figure. b. The attachment figure provides comfort. c. The attachment figure provides shelter and food. d. The attachment figure allows the child to explore his or her environment more confidently. - ANSWER B As discussed in lectures and discussion sections, models of intelligence that include "g" are based on the observation that: Select one: a. scores on various tests of mental ability tend to correlate positively. b. people can excel at one thing and be quite average on another. c. some children are at high risk of failing in school. d. some people have more and better schooling than others. - ANSWER A Spearman, an early intelligence researcher, observed that scores on many different kinds of intelligence tests were correlated. He determined that one general concept, "g," could account for these correlations by using the statistical approach known as ________________. Select one: a. central tendency b. scatterplot analysis c. factor analysis d. inferential analysis - ANSWER C