Psychology - General Psychology

1

A detailed, well-researched biography of a famous historical person is technically an example of the __________ method of research.

2

The word correlation is often used as a synonym for ________

3

The pain message is relayed from the spinal cord to the__________and then projected to the cerebral cortex, making us aware of the location and intensity of the damage

4

In an experiment, participants were shown ambiguous pictures and then given a label for them. Later they were asked to draw the pictures they had been shown, and their drawings tended to more closely resemble the labels given by the experimenter than the original pictures. This is an example of __________ altering memory.

5

A(n) ________ reinforcer acquires its positive value through an organism's experience.

6

Gabriel's speech tends to be so garbled and chaotic that it sometimes sounds like a "word salad,"

7

A sleep disturbance in which one awakens several times during the night and has difficulty returning to sleep is

8

Flashbulb memories, unlike other memories, are accurate records of the past

9

In higher-order conditioning, we pair a neutral stimulus with a(n) ______

10

It is easier to remember information if you are in the same emotional state as when you originally encoded that information.

11

Which of the following is NOT one of the goals of psychotherapy?

12

Optical illusions are visual experiences that are consistent with reality

13

Ahmed's personality is researched through 3 factors: extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism. This personality trait model is called:

14

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________

15

Elizabeth just caught sight of a red hummingbird. The neural impulses from her eye will eventually travel to her occipital lobe, but first they must pass through

16

When we start with pre-existing knowledge in order to organize features into a meaningful whole, we are exhibiting

17

According to the theory of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg, ________ level is the least developed level of moral reasoning.

18

Which of the following is true of the Rorschach inkblot test?

19

Specific patterns of behavior that are consistent with how society dictates males and females should are known as ____________________

20

_____ is a phenomenon in which researchers' hypotheses lead them to unintentionally bias the outcome of a study

21

A participant's agreement to take part in a study after being told what to expect is known as _____.

22

The main question behind the study of depth and motion perception is ____.

23

The CT scans of the brains of young individuals suffering from schizophrenia show their brains to have

24

________ is a severe eating disorder in which people may refuse to eat while denying that their behavior and appearance-which can become skeleton like-are unusual.

25

The poison of the black widow spider works by stimulating the release of excessive amounts of

26

Erika is playing with a puzzle, and she is having difficulty figuring out where the last few pieces should go. She struggles more and more, and eventually starts getting very angry

27

Sigmund Freud believed that not everything in a dream is symbolic

28

Leslie is a prosecutor who wants to enhance the likelihood that the jury finds a defendant guilty. According to the Linkages section regarding memory and perception in the courtroom, Leslie should encourage prosecution witnesses to do all of the following except

29

Eugene has total recall of all of the parts and functions of an airplane engine, but he is unable to relate to his coworkers at the manufacturing plant, and is deeply uncomfortable in unfamiliar social situations. According to Goleman's theory of intelligence, Eugene has ___________ intelligence.

30

Schemas likely add details to our memory to

31

The range of four to 12 feet in which impersonal business and casual social gatherings take place is known as one's

32

Jane has an eye that is too long. Therefore, she is __________ and wears __________

33

Nicole feels she will not forget the emotions she felt upon

34

Giving in to indirect pressure to change your behavior and thoughts is called:

35

John, who is jealous of his older brother, states that his older brother hates him and is jealous of him. This scenario best illustrates the defense mechanism called

36

Systematic desensitization, flooding, and aversion therapy are forms of psychodynamic therapies developed by successors of Sigmund Freud

37

Vestigial wings (very small wings) are a recessive trait of the fruit fly. For a fruit fly to have a vestigial phenotype, it must inherit the gene(s) for vestigial wings from ____

38

How does cognitive neuroscience differ from cognitive psychology?

39

Which law explains how much louder a tone would need to get before you would notice a difference?

40

The ________ areas are considered to be the site of higher mental processes such as thinking, language, memory, and speech.

41

A psychologist using the method of naturalistic observation would

42

What do compulsive gambling and video game playing have in common with most addictive drugs? a. They are associated with decreased heart rate

43

To be generous and helpful was a ________ trait of Mother Teresa

44

Patricia is taken a midterm exam that has fill-in-the-blank items, several define the term, and five questions that ask her to list specific items. Patricia is taking a(n) __________ test

45

According to humanistic psychologists, when your self-image is consistent with what you really think, feel, do, and experience, you

46

__________ is sensitivity to the sound patterns of a language and how they are represented as letters

47

Kuhn (1970) defines a paradigm as ____.

48

The sum of all the scores divided by the total number of scores is called the ______. (NOT "average.". Give the more precise term.)

49

When your toddler picks up his sippy cup, you clap loudly. You applaud when he moves the cup toward his mouth. As he begins to drink his juice from the sippy cup, you hug him tightly, saying, “Good boy! Good boy!” This illustrates __________

50

The first large scale study of the human sexual response carried out in a laboratory was conducted by __________

51

A superordinate concept is to a subordinate concept as __________ is to __________

52

Henry is impulsive and emotional. His behavior is illogical and he feels little guilt for what he does. Freud would say Henry's ________ is the dominant part of his personality

53

Reporting of errors is as important to the scientific process as the collection of data and reporting of results.

54

Dr. Fuller needs a really creative student to assist with the design of a new research project. She's asked to see the IQ scores of a number of students so she can use the scores to choose her new research assistant. What does Dr. Fuller need to know before making her decision?

55

Percy's coworker frustrates her immensely

56

The apparent motion created by a rapid series of images of stationary objects is called the autokinetic illusion

57

Each cell type in the human body has ____

58

A commonly seen linguistic error is the ________ slip, where something sort of "pops" out of one's mouth that they did not consciously mean to say

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