PSYC 1001 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
The psychologist B. F. Skinner was most famous for his work in which of these
approaches to psychology? - Answer -Behaviorism
What type of psychologists are trained to perform assessments and conduct research
on people with mental disorders? - Answer -clinical psychologists
William James is considered a founding father of psychology because....? - Answer -
To discover whether residents of a city are in favor of building a new sports stadium, the
team's owner randomly selected and interviewed 500 of the city's 500,000 residents. In
this instance, the 500 people that the owner interviewed would be
____________________. - Answer -a representative sample
Which ethical requirement of research was not present in the Tuskegee experiment,
where nearly 400 African American men were exposed to syphilis and denied treatment
for its symptoms? - Answer -
What is the main difference between an experiment and a correlational study? -
Answer -
A police department uses lie-detector tests in criminal investigation. While scores on the
lie-detector test are fairly consistent over time, judges and lawyers in court question
whether the scores provided by the police department can be used to determine guilt in
criminal cases. In this case, the judges and lawyers are questioning whether lie-detector
results are _________________. - Answer -valid
Which of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency? - Answer -correlation
As he drove home from work, a route he had taken many times before, Adebayo drove
almost effortlessly. But when he came to unexpected road construction, he had to figure
out a detour. Suddenly he was engaged in slow, reflective, effortful thinking as he tried
to think through the best route to reach home. According to Daniel Kahneman,
Adebayo's careful rethinking of his route illustrates ________________ - Answer -
Scotty comes running in the door and yells to his mother, "Today is my lucky day! I
found a four-leaf clover!" Many superstitions, like this one, likely began as which of the
following? - Answer -
Individuals suffering from a particular disorder suffer a loss of attention, arousal and
memory because they have too little of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. A researcher
, discovers a drug that acts as an agonist for acetylcholine. Based on what the lecturer
explained about how drugs work at the synapse, this new drug may prove to be useful
to individuals experiencing this disorder because _____________ - Answer -it mimics
the effects of acetylcholine
Dr. Carvallo is dissecting the brain of a rat in order to compare the brain of a rat to that
of a human. He will find that rats _________________ - Answer -have similar brain
structures in approximately the same position as humans
Damage to Broca's area may result in which of the following? - Answer -inability to
produce speech
The ____ nervous system mobilizes the body when one needs to exert tremendous
energy such as running away from a wild animal. - Answer -sympathetic
After a stroke, Dorothy fails to pay attention to objects in her left visual field. When she
draws a daisy, for example, she neglects to draw its left side. Neglect syndrome, the
name for this condition, can result from damage to the ____________________ -
Answer -front lobe
Any difference between experimental and control groups other than the independent
variable is a ________ variable. - Answer -
Executives at Target want to use a personality inventory to screen job applicants for
customer service positions. They want to select the inventory that best predicts
behaviors such as honesty, friendliness, and dependability. Which of the following four
inventories will be best for them? - Answer -
An independent variable in an experiment refers to... - Answer -
A researcher has observed many four-year old girls preferring to dress in pink, wear
ballerina tutus, and dancing on tip-toe. She defines these behaviors as a psychological
construct, "gender-role play", and theorizes that this behavior will be seen cross-
culturally and that one will also find "gender-role play" in four-year old boys. She
develops an inventory to measure "gender-role play" and uses it to test her hypothesis.
In this case, her inventory is an example of a/an _________________ - Answer -
operational definition
The voltage of -60 or -70) millivolts is known as the neuron's _________________ -
Answer -
When an excitatory signal reaches the dendrites, ____________________. - Answer -
the likelihood of a neural impulse is increased
After suffering a brain injury by falling from a ladder, Zack's wife continues to tell the
doctor that his personality has changed. He used to be fun loving and care-free, but he
ANSWERS
The psychologist B. F. Skinner was most famous for his work in which of these
approaches to psychology? - Answer -Behaviorism
What type of psychologists are trained to perform assessments and conduct research
on people with mental disorders? - Answer -clinical psychologists
William James is considered a founding father of psychology because....? - Answer -
To discover whether residents of a city are in favor of building a new sports stadium, the
team's owner randomly selected and interviewed 500 of the city's 500,000 residents. In
this instance, the 500 people that the owner interviewed would be
____________________. - Answer -a representative sample
Which ethical requirement of research was not present in the Tuskegee experiment,
where nearly 400 African American men were exposed to syphilis and denied treatment
for its symptoms? - Answer -
What is the main difference between an experiment and a correlational study? -
Answer -
A police department uses lie-detector tests in criminal investigation. While scores on the
lie-detector test are fairly consistent over time, judges and lawyers in court question
whether the scores provided by the police department can be used to determine guilt in
criminal cases. In this case, the judges and lawyers are questioning whether lie-detector
results are _________________. - Answer -valid
Which of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency? - Answer -correlation
As he drove home from work, a route he had taken many times before, Adebayo drove
almost effortlessly. But when he came to unexpected road construction, he had to figure
out a detour. Suddenly he was engaged in slow, reflective, effortful thinking as he tried
to think through the best route to reach home. According to Daniel Kahneman,
Adebayo's careful rethinking of his route illustrates ________________ - Answer -
Scotty comes running in the door and yells to his mother, "Today is my lucky day! I
found a four-leaf clover!" Many superstitions, like this one, likely began as which of the
following? - Answer -
Individuals suffering from a particular disorder suffer a loss of attention, arousal and
memory because they have too little of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. A researcher
, discovers a drug that acts as an agonist for acetylcholine. Based on what the lecturer
explained about how drugs work at the synapse, this new drug may prove to be useful
to individuals experiencing this disorder because _____________ - Answer -it mimics
the effects of acetylcholine
Dr. Carvallo is dissecting the brain of a rat in order to compare the brain of a rat to that
of a human. He will find that rats _________________ - Answer -have similar brain
structures in approximately the same position as humans
Damage to Broca's area may result in which of the following? - Answer -inability to
produce speech
The ____ nervous system mobilizes the body when one needs to exert tremendous
energy such as running away from a wild animal. - Answer -sympathetic
After a stroke, Dorothy fails to pay attention to objects in her left visual field. When she
draws a daisy, for example, she neglects to draw its left side. Neglect syndrome, the
name for this condition, can result from damage to the ____________________ -
Answer -front lobe
Any difference between experimental and control groups other than the independent
variable is a ________ variable. - Answer -
Executives at Target want to use a personality inventory to screen job applicants for
customer service positions. They want to select the inventory that best predicts
behaviors such as honesty, friendliness, and dependability. Which of the following four
inventories will be best for them? - Answer -
An independent variable in an experiment refers to... - Answer -
A researcher has observed many four-year old girls preferring to dress in pink, wear
ballerina tutus, and dancing on tip-toe. She defines these behaviors as a psychological
construct, "gender-role play", and theorizes that this behavior will be seen cross-
culturally and that one will also find "gender-role play" in four-year old boys. She
develops an inventory to measure "gender-role play" and uses it to test her hypothesis.
In this case, her inventory is an example of a/an _________________ - Answer -
operational definition
The voltage of -60 or -70) millivolts is known as the neuron's _________________ -
Answer -
When an excitatory signal reaches the dendrites, ____________________. - Answer -
the likelihood of a neural impulse is increased
After suffering a brain injury by falling from a ladder, Zack's wife continues to tell the
doctor that his personality has changed. He used to be fun loving and care-free, but he
