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Semester 1 Final Psychology

Total questions: 104

Worksheet time: 1hrs 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Mental processes are covert, meaning internal.

a)

sociology

b)

physiology

c)

psychology

d)

Brain Study

2.

What best describe strong correlations and weak correlations when reporting data?

a)

Correlations closer to 0 are strong, correlations closer to positive or negative 1 are weak.

b)

All correlations are strong.

c)

Correlations either positive or negative that closer to positive or negative 1 are strong, those farther away from positive or negative 1 are weak.

d)

Correlations closer to positive 1 are strong, those closer to negative 1 are weak.

3.

In an experiment or research study, neither the participants nor the experimenters know what group the participants are in.

a)

single blind

b)

double blind

c)

triple blind

d)

completely blind

4.

What are the goals of psychology?

a)

observe, explain, predict, and report

b)

describe, report, reexamine, and describe again

c)

observe, describe, report, and solve

d)

describe, explain, predict, and control behavior

5.

This is a voluntary system that carries sensory information and controls movements of the skeletal muscles.

a)

Somatic Nervous System

b)

Autonomic Nervous System

c)

Spinal Cord

d)

Brain

6.

This is RARE, it involves those patients that have the corpus collosum severed, to help with extreme seizures. The essentially have two brains and the hemispheres do not communicate as normal.

a)

Two Brain Surgery

b)

Split Brain Surgery

c)

Neuron Deadening Surgery

d)

Seizure Reduction Surgery

7.

Part of the limbic system, it is a curved structure in each hemisphere responsible for long-term declarative memories.

a)

hypothalamus

b)

amygdala

c)

thalamus

d)

hippocampus

8.

Part of the limbic system in each hemisphere that is responsible for fear responses and memory of fear.

a)

Hypothalamus

b)

Amygdala

c)

Thalamus

d)

Hippocampus

9.

What is neuroplasticity?

a)

The ability of the spinal cord to reproduce more nerve cells.

b)

The ability of the spinal cord to feel senses,

c)

The ability of the neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization,

d)

The ability of the neural networks in the brain to recognize touch.

10.

The gap between neurons that transmit signals in the nervous system.

a)

myelin

b)

axon

c)

dendrite

d)

synapse

11.

What scan uses a radioactive sugar/glucose to watch brain activity?

a)

fMRI

b)

PET Scan

c)

EEG

d)

All scans

12.

Damage to the left temporal lobe, the patient has a hard time understanding and using the right words. Speech is fluent, but they may say something like. It's a sunny day outside, I need my juice.

a)

Wernicke's Aphasia

b)

Broca's aphasia

c)

Split Brain

d)

Limbic Damage

13.

A researcher is interested in the relationship between age and height in children from infancy to 18 years old. What type of correlation would you predict would be found between these variables?

a)

Negative

b)

Perfect

c)

Positive

d)

Illusory

e)

Significant

14.

When a neuron depolarizes, what does it produce that travels down the length of the axon?

a)

Refractory period

b)

Action potential

c)

Agonist

d)

Inhibitory impulse

e)

Reflex

15.

Which of the following includes the primary visual cortex?

a)

Frontal lobe

b)

Temporal lobe

c)

Optic chiasm

d)

Occipital lobe

e)

Parietal lobe

16.

Where are stored memories integrated with the information that is currently being processed?

a)

Iconic memory

b)

Explicit memory

c)

Working memory

d)

Echoic memory

e)

Broca's area

17.

Which region of the brain is primarily responsible for the formation of a new memory?

a)

Hippocampus

b)

Amygdala

c)

Cerebellum

d)

Frontal lobe

e)

Hypothalamus

18.

Inability to feel pleasure, lack of motivation and a decrease in personal hygiene are symptoms of schizophrenia that are referred to as______symptoms.

a)

Troublesome

b)

Delusional

c)

Negative

d)

Arsenal

19.
This research method is the cheapest and easiest way to study a large population. 
a)
Correlation 
b)
Case Study 
c)
Survey 
d)
Naturalistic Observation
20.
Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information
a)
Forebrain
b)
Cerebral Cortex
c)
Corpus Callosum
d)
Cerebellum
21.
Possesses the Motor Cortex
a)
Temporal Lobe
b)
Parietal Lobe
c)
Occipital Lobe
d)
Frontal Lobe
22.
A  person has difficulty speaking possibly due to a stroke.
a)
Broca's Aphasia
b)
Wernicke's Aphasia
c)
Visual Agnosia
d)
Neglect Syndrome
23.
The occipital lobe controls __________.
a)
Vision
b)
Problem Solving
c)
Memory 
d)
Arithmetic & Spelling
24.
Lobe that plays an integral role in the following functions: Hearing; Organization/Comprehension of language (speech)
a)
Frontal
b)
Parietal
c)
Occipital
d)
Temporal
25.
Lobe that plays a major role in the following functions/actions -Senses and integrates sensation(s) -Touch, pressure, temperature and pain; Spatial awareness and perception
a)
Frontal
b)
Parietal
c)
Temporal 
d)
Occipital
26.

The DSM V is a book used to do what?

a)

classifies mental disorders and describes the symptoms of each

b)

is useful for determining sanity and insanity but nothing more

c)

was once useful but no longer applies today

d)

was once useful but no longer applies today

27.

Which of the following would be considered a compulsion?

a)

feeling anxious while taking a final exam

b)

checking twenty times to see if the oven is turned off

c)

going to every basketball game of the season

d)

thinking about a song over and over

28.

Constantly wondering if you locked the door is an example of ____________

and checking if you have is an example of _______________.

a)

PTSD / agoraphobia

b)

agoraphobia / PTSD

c)

obsession / compulsion

d)

compulsion / obsession

29.

Described as a minute-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations:

a)

MDD Major Depressive Disorder

b)

Bipolar I

c)

Panic Disorder

d)

Phobia Disorder

30.

When a person is continually tense, and apprehensive worried about various bad things might happen, and plagued by muscular tension, agitation, and sleeplessness they have:

a)

PTSD

b)

Panic Disorder

c)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

d)

Phobias

31.
A core feature of all abnormal behavior is that it is
a)
Maladaptive 
b)
Crazy
c)
Uncategorized 
d)
Learned 
32.
This is a method of research where an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).
a)
Experiments
b)
Case Study
c)
Survey
d)
Observational
e)
Correlational
33.

Which of the following is the strongest correlation?

a)

-.93

b)

-.17

c)

.23

d)

.84

34.

Which of the following methods best limits the influence of unknown variables in an experiment?

a)

Random assignment

b)

Debriefing

c)

Stratified Sampling

d)

Subject matching

e)

Correlational study

35.

Students from a journalism class ask only their friends to participate in a school newspaper survey and neglect to ask the rest of the student body. The journalism students' data may not be generalizable due to...

a)

A lack of debriefing

b)

Sampling bias

c)

Participant bias

d)

Social desirability bias

e)

Placebo effects

36.
The medulla is to the control of ________ as the cerebellum is to the control of ________
a)
eating; sleeping
b)
memory; attention
c)
breathing; walking
d)
emotion; motivation
37.
emotional center of brain that also plays roles in smell, motivation, memory
a)
endocrine system
b)
nervous system
c)
limbic system
d)
gland system
38.
Regulates your hunger, thirst, body temperature
a)
hypothalamus
b)
Cerebrum
c)
Amygdala
d)
reticular formation
39.

This controls sleep, breathing, and hearing. It is part of the brain stem

a)

corpus callosum

b)

thalamus

c)

pons

d)

limbic system

40.
After a stressful or scary situation, your body starts to calm back down.  What subsystem controls this shift back to regular functioning? 
a)
Sympathetic
b)
Parasympathetic
c)
Somatic
d)
Peripheral
41.

Alexa is presenting a project in front of her class. She starts sweating and her heart rate increases. This is an example of the autonomic nervous system, sympathetic division.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

Which region of your brainstem plays a role in arousing you to a state of alertness when someone nearby mentions your name?

a)

reticular formation

b)

cerebellum

c)

hypothalamus

d)

amygdala

e)

medulla

43.

The inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep.

a)

Insomnia

b)

Sleep Apnea

c)

Narcolepsy

d)

Microsleep

44.

A type of snoring in which the person stops breathing for 10 seconds or more.

a)

Sleep Apnea

b)

Narcolepsy

c)

Microsleep

d)

Insomnia

45.

Drugs that increase the functioning of the nervous system. Amphetamines, Cocaine, Nicotine, Caffeine.

a)

Stimulants

b)

Depressants

c)

Hallucinogenics

46.
Smith is an 18-year-old male who reportedly has trouble sitting in class. He complains of not being able to get to sleep at night.  Every day Smith reports taking a drug to help him stay alert in class.  What drug is Smith taking? 
a)
alcohol
b)
heroin
c)
marijuana 
d)
caffeine 
47.

In which stage do vivid dreams occur?

a)

REM

b)

NREM-1

c)

NREM-2

d)

NREM-3

48.

Which disorder is characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks, in which a sufferer may slip directly into REM sleep

a)

Insomnia

b)

Narcolepsy

c)

Sleep Apnea

d)

Night Terrors

49.

Your teacher asked you what you did this weekend. You state "I went to the Yankees game and a Broadway play." This is an example of ________ memory.

a)

semantic

b)

episodic

c)

procedural

d)

personal

50.

In Elizabeth Loftus’ study of memory reconstruction in which students viewed films of an automobile accident, the major influence on recall was the....

a)

number of pictures the students were shown of the accident

b)

location of the accident

c)

wording of questions the students were asked about the accident

d)

sex and age of student

51.

Learning how to swim would be an example of which type of memory?

a)

procedural

b)

short-term

c)

semantic

d)

sensory

52.
reoccurring problems in a falling or saying asleep
a)
insomnia
b)
withdrawl
c)
narcolepsy
d)
sleep apnea
53.
organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. 
a)
relearning 
b)
chunking 
c)
encoding
d)
priming
54.
John was in a car accident and can no longer make new memories. He suffers from 
a)
retrograde amnesia
b)
anterograde amnesia
c)
serial position effect
d)
self-reference effect 
55.
Brain area most associated with spatial abilities and recognizing others faces
a)
Left Hemisphere
b)
Right Hemisphere
c)
hippocampus
d)
reticular formation
56.
This connects our two brain hemispheres
a)
corpus callosum
b)
cerebellum
c)
medulla
d)
thalamus
57.
A disorder where mood changes between extended depression and a state of euphoria (at least a week) where the person has great self-esteem, rapid thoughts, and does things they enjoy.
a)
Somatic Sypmtom Disorder
b)
Bipolar 
c)
Major Depression
d)
Mass hysteria
58.
Violates the laws of society and rights of others without feeling remorse
a)
Histrionic PD
b)
Antisocial PD
c)
Borderline PD
d)
Narcissistic PD
59.
Which of the following is a neurotransmitter?
a)
estrogen
b)
dopamine
c)
adrenaline
d)
caffeine
60.
Receives sensory information and relays it to the proper part of brain for further processing
a)
Hypothalamus
b)
Reticular Formation
c)
Cerebellum
d)
Thalamus
61.
Researchers have linked a decrease in acetylcholine to which disease?
a)
Parkinson's
b)
schizophrenia
c)
depression
d)
Alzheimer's
62.
Excessive dopamine is to ____________ as too little dopamine is to _____________.
a)
Parkinson's disease; schizophrenia
b)
Schizophrenia; Parkinson's disease
c)
Antisocial personality disorder; schizoid personality disorder
d)
Schizophrenia; depression
63.
Which of the following is an example of a positive symptom of schizophrenia?
a)
Hallucinations
b)
Flat affect
c)
Catatonia
d)
Social withdrawal
64.
The condition that exists when the probability that the findings are not due to chance
a)
statistical significance
b)
experimenter bias
c)
confounding variables
65.
Descriptive research where one person or group is studied in depth; baby albert
a)
naturalistic observation
b)
experiment
c)
correlational study
d)
case study
66.
"Monday Morning Quarterback" rarely act surprised about the outcome of the weekend football games.  This tendency to believe they knew how the game would turn out is best explained by which psychological principle?
a)
Overconfidence
b)
Hindsight Bias
c)
Intuition
d)
Illusory Correlation
67.
A testable prediction is called (a/an):
a)
operational definition
b)
theory
c)
replication
d)
hypothesis
68.
Mary watches several different species of birds to discover how they feed their young in their habitat, without being intrusive. This would be an example of what type of study?
a)
Case study
b)
Naturalistic observation
c)
Survey
d)
Experiment
69.
The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that it creates an immense amount of data to be gathered quickly and inexpensively.
a)
Survey
b)
Observational
c)
Correlational
d)
Experiments
e)
Case Study
70.

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?

a)

Confounding

b)

Dependent

c)

Independent

d)

Extraneous

e)

Control

71.

It is important for researchers to use precise operational definitions when...

a)

They want to ensure that conditions are assigned randomly

b)

They want to be able to replicate the experiment

c)

They want to organize the hypothesis appropriately

d)

They are conducting experimental research but not correlational research

e)

They are conducting an experiment with no independent and dependent variables

72.
Factors that cause differences between the experimental group and control group other than the independent variable. 
a)
control group
b)
population
c)
confounding variables
73.
The factor the researcher manipulates in a controlled experiment
a)
dependent variable
b)
independent variable
c)
confounding variable
74.
A psychological or physical treatment given to the control group that resembles the treatment given to the experimental group, but that contains no active ingredient. 
a)
independent variable
b)
placebo
c)
dependent variable
75.
The behavior or mental process that is measured in an experiment (the effect)
a)
dependent variable
b)
independent variable
c)
random sample
76.

The neuron's life support that contains the nucleus is:

a)

Soma

b)

Dendrites

c)

Myelin Sheaths

d)

Axon

77.

The protective fatty tissue that speeds up the transmission of messages is:

a)

Myelin Sheaths

b)

Axon

c)

Dendrites

d)

Soma

78.

The extension that transmit electrical impulses from the som to other parts is:

a)

Myelin Sheaths

b)

Soma

c)

Dendrites

d)

Axon

79.

The extensions that obtain the messages from other cells are:

a)

Myelin Sheats

b)

Axon

c)

Dendrites

d)

Soma

80.
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that helps regulate:
a)
learning and memory
b)
pain and pleasure
c)
muscle movements
d)
sleep, moods/emotions
81.
The release of this neurotransmitter is 100x more potent than any opiate (painkilling drug):
a)
Norepinephrine
b)
Serotonin
c)
GABA
d)
Endorphin
82.
Prozac works to combat depression by keeping this neurotransmitter in the synapse longer:
a)
Serotonin
b)
Acetylcholine
c)
GABA
d)
Endorphins
83.
This neurotransmitter is most often associated with pleasure/reward sensations:
a)
Acetylcholine
b)
GABA
c)
Dopamine
d)
Serotonin
84.

a hormone released by the pineal gland that increase feelings of relaxation and tiredness

a)

stimulant

b)

melatonin

c)

neuron

d)

tryptophan

85.

During this stage of sleep, you drift in and out of sleep and can be easily awakened.

a)

Stage 1

b)

Stage 2

c)

Stage 3

d)

REM

86.

During this stage of sleep, muscle activity and eye movements completely stop, and you become difficult to awaken.

a)

Stage 1

b)

Stage 2

c)

Stage 3

d)

REM

87.

Naturally occurring cycle the body follows in the 24 hour cycle of the sun

a)

Sunrise/Sunset

b)

Moon rise

c)

Circadian rhythm

d)

Alarm Clock

88.

When a person's body has become used to the effects of the a drug or medicine and needs a greater amount to be effective.

a)

Stimulant

b)

Side Effect

c)

Tolerance

d)

Addcition

e)

Craving

89.

A drug that distorts the senses. Can change the way the brain perceives time, reality, and the environment.

a)

Stimulants

b)

Depressants

c)

Hallucinogens

d)

Inhalants

e)

Narcotics

90.

A drug made from he hemp plant; effective compound is THC.

a)

Marijauna

b)

Cocaine

c)

LSD

d)

Ecstacy

e)

Heroin

91.

A compelling need to continue a behavior as in abusing drugs.

a)

Addiction

b)

Overdose

c)

Withdrawal

d)

Tolerance

92.

symptoms that occur after chronic use of a drug is reduced or stopped

a)

Withdrawal symptoms

b)

Tolerance

c)

Side effects

d)

Stimulants

93.

Bob has never met Beyonce but he is convinced that she is deeply in love with him. Bob is suffering from

a)

Schizophrenia

b)

Depression

c)

Grandiose delusions

d)

eromatic depression

94.

Conversion disorder and illness anxiety disorder are classified as

a)

Personality disorders

b)

Depressive disorders

c)

obsessive compulsive disorders

d)

Somatic symptom and related disorders

95.
A person who has an extreme lack of self-confidence and who allows others to run his or her life is said to have a(n) ______ personality
a)
dependent
b)
narcissistic
c)
paranoid
d)
antisocial
96.

A person who experiences prolonged episodes of severe unhappiness and loss of interest in life would most likely be diagnosed with

a)

agoraphobia

b)

generalized anxiety

c)

major depressive disorder

d)

hypochondriasis

97.
A man who experiences sudden blindness on witnessing the death of his wife is probably suffering from
a)
psychosis
b)
multiple personality
c)
panic disorder
d)
conversion disorder
98.
Aaron gets upset when people don't praise him enough.  He thinks he is the best at what he does and gets upset when others don't agree.
a)
narcissistic
b)
histrionic
c)
schizoid
d)
antisocial
99.

Which personality disorder contains these actions?

Erratic unstable relationships, emotions and self-image

Self-destructive tendencies

Chronic feelings of emptiness

Self-mutilation or suicidal attempts

Easily angered-- show temper

a)

Borderline

b)

Paranoid

c)

Anxiety

d)

Depression

100.
Seeing one-eyed monsters would be a(n) ________. Believing that you are Christopher Columbus would be a ________.
a)
delusion; compulsion
b)
obsession; delusion
c)
hallucination; compulsion
d)
hallucination; delusion
101.

A disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states.

a)

schizophrenia

b)

dissociative identity disorder

c)

anxiety

d)

somatoform

102.

illness anxiety disorder is characterized by

a)

a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.

b)

disruptions in conscious awareness and sense of identity.

c)

offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person.

d)

the misinterpretation of normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease.

103.

Disorder that involves faking illness for attention or monetary gain.

a)

Conversion Disorder

b)

Factitious Disorder

c)

Illness Anxiety Disorder

104.
Constant fear that s irrational and caused be a specific object or situation.
a)
Specific phobia
b)
Dysthymic disorder
c)
Mass hysteria
d)
Conduct disorder

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