Mr. Scully tends to exaggerate his ability to have foreseen the outcome of past events. What is he demonstrating?

Which perspective of Psychology focuses on observation?

Which of the following brain structures is most associated with the emotion of fear?

Which of the following have been shown to have a positive correlation?

What is the brain's ability to adapt after sustaining damage known as?

If Broca's area is damaged, one would have trouble _____________ language. If Wernicke's area is damaged, one would have trouble _____________ language.

Which area of the brain is associated with emotion?

Which of the following is the median score of the data set? 8, 6, 5, 10, 5, 7, 1, 5, 10

Which brain imaging technique would likely be used during a sleep study?

The most well-adjusted and socially competent children tend to come from homes where parents employ which of the following parental styles

A fifteen year old individual is predicted to experience which psychosocial crisis?

Raul took his mother's care without asking and rear ended a car at a stoplight causing serious damage. His parents bought him a new car of his own. This is an example of which parenting style?

Bane drives the speed limit because it is the state law. His reasoning best demonstrates which level of Kohlberg's moral reasoning?

Sheila worked really hard in her AP US History class, but ended the semester with a D. Even though it was a difficult class, her parents told her that she brought shame to their family and that maybe she wasn't as intelligent as they thought she was. This is an example of which style of parenting?

A fourth grade teacher finds that her students are very eager to help with classroom activities. Almost all students show an interest in being productive and involved in the class and the school overall. The students described above best reflect which stage of psychosocial development?

Infant monkeys raised with a nourishing wire mother and a non-nourishing cloth mother

When Billy's mother hides his favorite toy under a blanket, he acts as though it no longer exists and makes no attempt to retrieve it. Billy is clearly near the beginning of which of Piaget's stages?

Three year old Bert lives in the Alaskan wilderness and has learned the schema for moose as he often sees them near his house. When his family took him to visit his cousin Ernie, who lived on a horse farm, Bert modified his schema for large four legged animals to include horses. This process is known as

Jane, a two year old, insists on dressing herself each morning for school, even though she generally selects mismatching outfits, misses buttons, and wears her shoes on the wrong feet. When her mother tries to dress Jane or fix her outfit, Jane brushes her mother off and insists on doing it herself. What stage of psychosocial development best describes Jane’s behavior?

Kohlberg believed...

Three stages of Kohlberg's moral development include (in order):

Which of the following is an example of a primary sex characteristic?

Jean Piaget defined egocentrism as

According to Jean Piaget, what abilities in learning do individuals acquire during the formal operational stage?

Authoritative parents can best be defined as

The sensorimotor stage focuses primarily on

Jane, a preschooler, insists on dressing herself each morning for school, even though she generally selects mismatching outfits, misses buttons, and wears her shoes on the wrong feet. When her mother tries to dress Jane or fix her outfit, Jane brushes her mother off and insists on doing it herself. What stage of psychosocial development best describes Jane’s behavior?

Eight-year old Steven has a difficult time making friends at school. He has trouble completing his schoolwork accurately and on time, and as a result, receives little positive feedback from his teacher and parents. According to Erikson’s theory, failure at this stage of development results in

Brody is contemplating whether to cheat on his AP psychology test. He knows that he needs to get an A on the test. However, he also recognizes that if he gets caught cheating, he will have to accept any punishment that he receives. Brody then decides that getting an A on the test outweighs the risk of getting caught. According to Kohlberg, Brody is currently at what level of morality?

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what stage of moral development is exhibited when actions are judged “right” because they flow from basic ethical principles?

Which level of moral reasoning includes a focus on upholding laws in order to gain social approval?

What is the purpose of the corpus callosum?

What does Broca's area do?

A positron emission tomography (PET scan) allows a researcher to

An MRI allows a researcher to

This is a marriage between a PET scan and a MRI machine.

As Allison reaches for a box in her garage, out jumps a big spider. Her heart immediately begins to race as she withdraws her hand, but soon she realizes that the spider is harmless, and she begins to calm down. Which part of her nervous system is responsible for brining her back to a normal state of arousal?

A visit to a phrenologist would have resulted in an analysis of the person’s:

An undersupply of serotonin is most closely linked to

Scientific Study of behavior and mental processes.

Credited as the father of psychology because he was the first to establish psychology as an experimental science.

Founded by John B. Watson and focused on the study of overt or observable behavior; emphasizing the process of learning through rewards, consequences, and observation learning.

Associate the following with the correct perspective: Thinking skills, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky.

Associate the following with the correct perspective: brain, neurons, nervous system, how the brain communicates with the body (vice versa).

Associate the following with the correct perspective: Unconscious conflicts/motivations, Sigmund Freud

Which scatterplot shows the strongest negative relationship between the variables?

Which perspective would say that anxiety is the result of repressed traumatic childhood experiences?

Research particpants are randomly assigned to one of three groups. One group listens to a list of words, another group reads a list of words, and the third group hears and reads the words. The researcher then tests the participants' memories to see how many words the members of each group can recall. The way the words are presented is which type of variable?

Research finds that, in general, the higher an incoming college student scores on a given test, the higher the student's college GPA. Which of the following best describes this relationship?

•According to the serial position effect, you will remember more:

•When you hear familiar words in your native language, it is virtually impossible not to register the meanings of the words. This best illustrates the importance of:

Priming refers to:

The reason most North Americans cannot accurately describe the head of a penny is due to:

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:

During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:

Critical Thinking Questions:

Which of the following would be predicted by Ebbinghaus’ famous forgetting curve? Several years after learning the dates of important historical events for a college class, students:

•You are used to driving a car with a standard shift (stick shift). Today you are driving a friend’s car that has an automatic transmission. As you drive, you keep trying to shift gears, but there is no shift. This tendency is most likely due to:

We have all had the experience of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. We are asked to remember someone’s name. We are certain that we know the name and feel as if we are just about to remember it, yet it remains elusive. What type of forgetting might be at work here?

•You are asked to recall the names of the Seven Dwarfs in the Snow White fairy tale. You are familiar with the story, and may have even seen a movie of the story, yet you cannot remember all seven names accurately. What type of memory problem might account for this?