Study Psych

You are learning about the structure of the cortex in your psychology class. You have learned that your ___ are located at the back of your head.

• occipital lobe
• temporal lobe
• frontal lobe
• parietal lobe

Your instructor has asked you to come up with a study to examine the behavior of coyotes. in a nearby preserve. if you are only interested in observing and recording behavior and you do not care about detecting naturally occurring relationships or exploring cause-effect relationships, which of the following methods would you choose?

• survey method
• naturalistic observation
• experimental method
• correlational method

Jack is a graduate student in sociology who cannot understand why people who took his survey responded poorly to his questions on welfare reform. His advisor tells him he may want to rephrase his questions because the way he worked them most likely

• reflected accurately the opinions respondents expressed
• was biased
• was unrepresentative
• affected the opinions respondents expressed

Students in Dr. Hunt's introductory psychology class come with their own preconceived notions of psychology as well as different majors. Many are taking this course as part of their social science requirement, however, 10 of them are psychology majors, and all believe they will become psychologists. It will be interesting to follow up with these 10 students a year from now to see how many of them have changed their majors. This tendency to make predictions about one's life so self-assuredly is called:

• academic predictiveness
• overconfidence
• the "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon
• hindsight bias

Dr. Kent is an expert in his field and provides anonymous evaluations of other scientists’ research in terms of theory, originality, and accuracy. He is called a(n):

• authority figure
• peer reviewer
• author
• investigator

Professor Stephens is combining the results of multiple studies that have examined the influence of violence in media on aggressive behavior among adolescents. She is conducting a(n):

• meta-analysis
• case study
• longitudinal study
• experimental design

Janelle has five brothers who are 4, 6, 6, 9, and 15 years of age. What is the mean age of Janelle’s brothers?

• 6
• 9
• 7
• 8

While shopping at the local supermarket, you notice the “reduced for quick sale” table, which has discontinued items as well as dented cans. You buy some of the discontinued items but avoid the dented cans because you know that improperly canned food can form:

• norepinephrine
• dopamine
• botulin
• ACh

Your boss has just told you some news that disturbs you, but a phone call from your spouse distracts you. After you get off the phone, you have a lingering feeling that something is not quite right, but you cannot pinpoint what it is. Likely you are reacting to the continued effect of

• stress hormones
• action potentials
• serotonin
• neurotransmitters

When Professor Thomas checked his faculty mailbox, he found a note that read, “Thank you for a great semester and experience in your class. It was a wonderful experience!” It is likely that his:

• brain reward center became extremely active when he read the note
• limbic system became activated when he read the note
• hypothalamus became underachieve when he read the note
• frontal lobe was activated when he read the note