Portage Learning Psych 101
1. Why should a researcher use random assignment in groups?: to minimize experimenter bias
2. Printing or publishing research results is one of the steps to the scientific method: true
3. What is the main problem that occurs when random Selection is not used?: bias 4. to have a true random
sample, the researcher must be able to contact every person within the population.: True
5. In some cases, there are research situations with human subjects in which random selection would be unethical?:
true
6. A substance that has no true medicinal effect but is administered as a control in an experiment is known as __.:
placebo.
7. Every university has a governing human subject research.: IRB
8. ____ examine the association between variables: correlation studies.
9. Amy is a graduate student who has received permission from a school to come in during a 5th-grade math class to
observe how often girls participate in class.: naturalistic observations
10. The ____ examines cultural and social contexts: sociocultural perspective
11. ____ psychology studies human thought, while ____ psychology focuses on mental health and mental illness.:
cognitive, clinical
12. Ivan Pavlov and BF Skinner belonged to which branch of psych?: behaviorism 13. According to research teh
"autism epidemic" is most likely due to: changed criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
14. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with most addictive behaviors.-
: true
15. Neurotransmitters only bind to complementary receptor sites on the post-synaptic neuron.: true.
16. the ____ principle is used to describe the fact that neurons either fire or they do not; there is no "partial" firing.:
all-or-nothing
17. ___ neurons carry information to the brain, while ___ efferent neurons carry information away from the brain.:
afferent, efferent.
18. What substance triggers vesicles in a neuron to open and release neurotransmitters?: calcium
19 everyone in maxs family is showing the ____ of dark hair.
Someone who is ____ for a trait has two different alleles.
Someone who is ___ for a trait has two copies of teh same allele.
Dark hair is the only trait being expressed, dark hair is ____ trait. Genes responsible for height have various
____.: Trait
Heterozygous Homozygous
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, .
dominant
alleles
20. most psychological problems can be attributed to one or two faulty genes.-
: false
21. ____ is the physical expression of the genotype.: phenotype
22. A ____ is the actual genetic make-up of an individual, while ____ refers to the physical expression of the genes.:
genotype phenotype
23. the ____ gland regulated metabolism and growth.: thyroid.
24. Describe the role of the temporal lobe.: lobe is associated with auditory information and memory specifically for
language.
25. Once a brain region specializes in a particular function, that region will never change its function.: false.
26. in the brain, the _____ regulates breathing and heart rate, while the ____ regulates the bodys basic processes
such as temperature.: medulla hypothalamus
27. the _____ contains the brain and spinal cord.: central nervous system.
28. describe the overall process for how the nervous system utilized neurotramsitters to communicate information.:
create action potentials. Na channels close, causing K to rush
into the cell causing a concentration gradient and action potential. when potential reaches the axon of cell, it will release
neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. correspond with a specific region of the postsynaptic neuron.
29. The ____ is where teh optic nerve exits the eye.: blind spot
30. after light is converted to an electrical impulse it is sent to the _____.: occipital lobe.
31 describe binocular and monocular vision.: -Binocular vision uses two eyes. depth information being communicated
-monocular uses one eye, focus on light, shadow and perception where darker is farther.
32. bottom up or top down?
Mia never been stung but is afraid of insects.: top down
33. difference between first and second level of loudness: just noticeable difference threshold.
34. Chronic pain tends to be less intense than acute pain.: false
35. loudness and common sounds: loudness has to do with variable wave lengths and strengths. difference threshold-
36. ___ is the complex quality of a sound wave. Affects perception of sounda nd enables to tell the difference
between types of sound: timbre
37. ____ is the psychological property corresponding to amplitude of sound wave: loudness
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1. Why should a researcher use random assignment in groups?: to minimize experimenter bias
2. Printing or publishing research results is one of the steps to the scientific method: true
3. What is the main problem that occurs when random Selection is not used?: bias 4. to have a true random
sample, the researcher must be able to contact every person within the population.: True
5. In some cases, there are research situations with human subjects in which random selection would be unethical?:
true
6. A substance that has no true medicinal effect but is administered as a control in an experiment is known as __.:
placebo.
7. Every university has a governing human subject research.: IRB
8. ____ examine the association between variables: correlation studies.
9. Amy is a graduate student who has received permission from a school to come in during a 5th-grade math class to
observe how often girls participate in class.: naturalistic observations
10. The ____ examines cultural and social contexts: sociocultural perspective
11. ____ psychology studies human thought, while ____ psychology focuses on mental health and mental illness.:
cognitive, clinical
12. Ivan Pavlov and BF Skinner belonged to which branch of psych?: behaviorism 13. According to research teh
"autism epidemic" is most likely due to: changed criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
14. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with most addictive behaviors.-
: true
15. Neurotransmitters only bind to complementary receptor sites on the post-synaptic neuron.: true.
16. the ____ principle is used to describe the fact that neurons either fire or they do not; there is no "partial" firing.:
all-or-nothing
17. ___ neurons carry information to the brain, while ___ efferent neurons carry information away from the brain.:
afferent, efferent.
18. What substance triggers vesicles in a neuron to open and release neurotransmitters?: calcium
19 everyone in maxs family is showing the ____ of dark hair.
Someone who is ____ for a trait has two different alleles.
Someone who is ___ for a trait has two copies of teh same allele.
Dark hair is the only trait being expressed, dark hair is ____ trait. Genes responsible for height have various
____.: Trait
Heterozygous Homozygous
1/7
, .
dominant
alleles
20. most psychological problems can be attributed to one or two faulty genes.-
: false
21. ____ is the physical expression of the genotype.: phenotype
22. A ____ is the actual genetic make-up of an individual, while ____ refers to the physical expression of the genes.:
genotype phenotype
23. the ____ gland regulated metabolism and growth.: thyroid.
24. Describe the role of the temporal lobe.: lobe is associated with auditory information and memory specifically for
language.
25. Once a brain region specializes in a particular function, that region will never change its function.: false.
26. in the brain, the _____ regulates breathing and heart rate, while the ____ regulates the bodys basic processes
such as temperature.: medulla hypothalamus
27. the _____ contains the brain and spinal cord.: central nervous system.
28. describe the overall process for how the nervous system utilized neurotramsitters to communicate information.:
create action potentials. Na channels close, causing K to rush
into the cell causing a concentration gradient and action potential. when potential reaches the axon of cell, it will release
neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. correspond with a specific region of the postsynaptic neuron.
29. The ____ is where teh optic nerve exits the eye.: blind spot
30. after light is converted to an electrical impulse it is sent to the _____.: occipital lobe.
31 describe binocular and monocular vision.: -Binocular vision uses two eyes. depth information being communicated
-monocular uses one eye, focus on light, shadow and perception where darker is farther.
32. bottom up or top down?
Mia never been stung but is afraid of insects.: top down
33. difference between first and second level of loudness: just noticeable difference threshold.
34. Chronic pain tends to be less intense than acute pain.: false
35. loudness and common sounds: loudness has to do with variable wave lengths and strengths. difference threshold-
36. ___ is the complex quality of a sound wave. Affects perception of sounda nd enables to tell the difference
between types of sound: timbre
37. ____ is the psychological property corresponding to amplitude of sound wave: loudness
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