ETS PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
expressed negative emotion - Answer -associated with increased immune function
inhibited negative emotion - Answer -associated with decreased immune functioning
medial amygdala - Answer -brain structure that inhibits parental behavior in rodents
sociotechnical principle - Answer -approach to complex organizational work design that
recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also
refers to the interaction between society's complex infrastructures and human
behaviour.
high self-monitor - Answer -People who closely monitor themselves and often behave
in a manner that is highly responsive to social cues and their situational context.
low self-monitor - Answer -people who tend to exhibit expressive controls congruent
with their own internal states; i.e. beliefs, attitudes, anddispositions regardless of social
circumstance; often less observant of social context and consider expressing a self-
presentation dissimilar from their internal states as a falsehood and undesirable.[2]
Kathryn Bock - Answer -did research that shows that specific syntactic constructions
can prime later constructions; demonstrated by people using the same sentence
structures in later sentences that they heard in earlier sentences
semantics - Answer -tells about the meaning in a language, code, or other form of
representation; all about the meaning.
pragmatics - Answer -concerned with bridging the explanatory gap between sentence
meaning and speaker's meaning; all about use.
syntax - Answer -the study of the rules, or "patterned relations", that govern the way
words combine to form phrases and phrases combine to form sentences; all about form.
positively accelerated function - Answer -learning increases more dramatically as time
goes on than it did at the beginning (or continues to increase exponentially)
negatively accelerated function - Answer -learning curve is steeper at the beginning,
then levels off (learning occurs more at the beginning)
activational hormones - Answer -gonadal hormones that can act upon the brains of
adult animals to alter the frequency or intensity (but not the form) of their sexual
behavior
expressed negative emotion - Answer -associated with increased immune function
inhibited negative emotion - Answer -associated with decreased immune functioning
medial amygdala - Answer -brain structure that inhibits parental behavior in rodents
sociotechnical principle - Answer -approach to complex organizational work design that
recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also
refers to the interaction between society's complex infrastructures and human
behaviour.
high self-monitor - Answer -People who closely monitor themselves and often behave
in a manner that is highly responsive to social cues and their situational context.
low self-monitor - Answer -people who tend to exhibit expressive controls congruent
with their own internal states; i.e. beliefs, attitudes, anddispositions regardless of social
circumstance; often less observant of social context and consider expressing a self-
presentation dissimilar from their internal states as a falsehood and undesirable.[2]
Kathryn Bock - Answer -did research that shows that specific syntactic constructions
can prime later constructions; demonstrated by people using the same sentence
structures in later sentences that they heard in earlier sentences
semantics - Answer -tells about the meaning in a language, code, or other form of
representation; all about the meaning.
pragmatics - Answer -concerned with bridging the explanatory gap between sentence
meaning and speaker's meaning; all about use.
syntax - Answer -the study of the rules, or "patterned relations", that govern the way
words combine to form phrases and phrases combine to form sentences; all about form.
positively accelerated function - Answer -learning increases more dramatically as time
goes on than it did at the beginning (or continues to increase exponentially)
negatively accelerated function - Answer -learning curve is steeper at the beginning,
then levels off (learning occurs more at the beginning)
activational hormones - Answer -gonadal hormones that can act upon the brains of
adult animals to alter the frequency or intensity (but not the form) of their sexual
behavior
