Psychology Final Exam Review

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• Working for Money
• Raising your hand to ask a question.
• Jerking your hand off a very hot stove.
• Walking into a restaurant to eat.

A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the

• synapse.
• agonist.
• action potential.
• myelin sheath.

Our experiences, assumptions and expectations may give us a preceptual set that influences what we perceive.  This is an example of

• bottom-up processing.
• accommodation.
• sensory adaptation.
• top-down processing.

Morphine and heroin are

• amphetamines.
• opiates.
• hallucinogens.
• barbiturates.

Closing your bedroom door so that you won't hear the TV that is interfering with your studying is an example of

• positivie reinforcement.
• negative reinforcement.
• conditioned reinforcers.
• partial reinforcers.

Long-term memory of general factual information is called ____ memory.

• semantic
• proactive
• procedural
• episodic

Several weeks after being fired from a job he had held for more tha 20 years, Landon awoke one morning in a state of bewildered confusion.  He had little sense of who he was and even failed to recognize his wife.  Landon's experience is most indicative of

• panic disorder.
• phobia.
• generalized anxiety disorder.
• dissociative disorder.

The level of the brain first developed when modern mammals appeared:

• limbic.
• reptilian.
• neo-cortex.
• cerebral cortex.

Which of the following defines ethical principles that should guide human experimentation?

• control group, random sampling, random assignment.
• case study, naturalistic observation, survey.
• informed consent, protection from harm, confidentiality.
• volunteer participant, incentives for participation, deception.

Humanistic therapists are most likely to

• encourage clients to carefully observe the consequences of their maladaptive behaviors.
• focus special attention on clients' positive and negative feelings toward their therapists.
• emphasize the importance of self-awareness for psychological adjustment.
• use a wide variety of psychological theories and therapeutic methods.