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WorksheetsPsych midterm review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
In order, the sequence of steps in the SQ3R method is:
survey, review, question, read, reflect
review, question, survey, read, reflect
question, review, survey, read, reflect
survey, question, read, review, reflect
Which perspective emphasizes the learning of observable responses?
behavioral
social-cultural
neuroscience
cognitive
Your roommate announces that her schedule permits her to devote three hours to studying for an upcoming quiz. You advise her to:
spend most of her time reading and rereading the text material
space study time over several short sessions
focus primarily on her lecture notes
cram for three hours just before the quiz
In an experiment to determine the effects of exercise on motivation, exercise is the:
intervening variable
independent variable.
dependent variable
dependent variable
Theories are defined as:
testable propositions
factors that may change in response to manipulation
statistical indexes
principles that help to organize, predict, and explain facts
If shoe size and IQ are negatively correlated, which of the following is true?
People with large feet tend to have high IQs
People with small feet tend to have high IQs
People with small feet tend to have low IQs
IQ is unpredictable based on a person’s shoe size
Damage to _____ will usually cause a person to lose the ability to comprehend language.
the angular gyrus
Broca’s area
Wernicke’s area
frontal lobe association areas
Which of the following is typically controlled by the right hemisphere?
language
learned voluntary movements
arithmetic reasoning
perpetual tasks
Chemical messengers produced by endocrine glands are called:
agonists
neurotransmitters
hormones
enzymes
The receptor of the eye that functions best in dim light is the:
fovea
cone
bipolar cell
rod
Frequency is to pitch as _____ is to _____.
wavelength; loudness
amplitude; loudness
wavelength; intensity
amplitude; intensity
What kind of processing refers to how our knowledge and expectations influence perception?
Top-down
Bottom-up
Parapsychological
Human factors
Circadian rhythms are the:
brain waves that occur during Stage 4 sleep
muscular tremors that occur during opiate withdrawal
regular body cycles that occur on a 24-hour schedule
brain waves that are indicative of Stage 2 sleep
Jill dreams that she trips and falls as she walks up the steps to the stage to receive her college diploma. Her psychoanalyst suggests that the dream might symbolize her fear of moving on to the next stage in her life – a career. The analyst is evidently attempting to interpret the _____ content of Jill’s dream:
manifest
latent
dissociative
overt
A PET scan of a sleeping person’s brain reveals increased activity in the visual and auditory areas. This most likely indicates that the sleeper:
has a neurological disorder
is in REM sleep
suffers from narcolepsy
is not truly asleep
The highest and most consistent rate of response is produced by a _______ schedule.
fixed-ratio
variable-ratio
fixed-interval
variable-interval
After watching coverage of the Olympics on television recently, Lynn and Susan have been staging their own “summer games.” Which of the following best accounts for their behavior?
classical conditioning
latent learning
shaping
observational learning
A cognitive map is a (n):
mental representation of one’s environment.
sequence of thought processes leading from one idea to another
set of instructions detailing the most effective means of teaching a particular concept
biological predisposition to learn a particular skill
Our short-term memory span is approximately _______ items.
22
16
9
7
Syntax refers to the:
sounds in a word
rules for grouping words into sentences
rules by which meaning is derived from sentences
overall rules of language
When he was 8 years old, Frank was questioned by the police about a summer camp counselor suspected of molesting children. Even though he was not, in fact, molested by the counselor, today 19-year-old Frank “remembers” the counselor touching him inappropriately. Frank’s false memory is an example of which “sin” of memory?
blocking
transience
misattribution
suggestibility
