Who was a student of William James and the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

Which of the following best describes the view of the mind held by Plato and Socrates?

Which approach is most directly concerned with assessing the relative impact of both nature and nurture on our psychological traits?

Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of (what is the current deifnition of Psychology?)

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

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

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

(Depressant) Initial high followed by relaxation and disinhibition

(Depressant) Rush of euphoria, relief from pain

(Negative Effects) Anxiety, restlessness and insomnia in high doses; uncomfortable withdrawal

(Negative Effects) Cardiovascular stress, suspiciousness, depressive crash

(Negative Effects) Dehydration, overheating, depressed mood, impaired cognitive and immune functioning

(Negative Effects) Impaired learning and memory, increased risk of psychological disorders, lung damage from smoke

(Negative Effects) Irritability, insomnia, hypertension, seizures

Which Sleep stage features Delta waves?

Which Sleep stage features vivid dreaming and muscle paralysis?

In which sleep stage do night terrors occur?

In which sleep stage do nightmares occur?

In which sleep stage does sleep walking occur?

Narcolepsy involves a sudden attack of

Sleep apnea involves a ______________________ of breathing during sleep

A normal sleep cycle through all 4 sleep stages should occur approximately every _________________________

The name for a living things biological processes (such as sleep) that occur roughly every 24 hours is the

The __________________________________ is the structure in the brain that controls the Circadian Rhythm

The spatial junctions where impulses are chemically transmitted from one neuron to another are called

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of REM sleep?

Lisa has been suffering from severe bouts of depression for the past several years. Her doctor prescribes a drug that would inhibit the reuptake of a specific neurotransmitter. Which neurotransmitter would be the most likely target of this medication?

____________ is a sleep disorder in which people suddenly fall asleep during their daily activities.

Which of the following is a form of altered consciousness in which people become highly suggestible to changes in behavior and thought?

Which Sleep stage features Sleep Spindles?

A principle that states, for any change in a stimulus to be detected, a constant proportion of that stimulus must be added or subtracted.

Smell is transmitted to the brain via the.....

5. When a stimulus activates a receptor.

This theory states that we can lessen some pains by shifting our attention away from pain impulses.

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.

The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half of the time.

This system controls the balance of the body.

Which two senses are most likely to determine whether we like a certain food?

The place in the eye where the optic nerve meets is known as the ______.

While waiting in line at Starbucks, Kramer was playing games on his cell phone and subsequently failed to see the customer in front of him rob the cashier. This is an example of...

Although Bill was seated next to his friend, he was able to smell the burning popcorn a full minute earlier than his friend. Bill must have a lower _________ for smell.

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of other's behavior. This best illustrates the impact of:

If you move your watchband up your inch or so, you will feel it only for a few moments. This best illustrates:

Rather than saying a person is "colorblind," it would be more accurate to say that the person:

It is difficult to distinguish between colors at night because ______.

Which of the following is true of cones?

Texting and driving is a major cause of car accidents in the modern day. Which academic term that we discussed defines this inability to focus on texting and driving at simultaneously?

Which brain component routes all sensory information, except olfaction, to its appropriate brain region for processing?

Which color has the longest wavelength? Which has the shortest?

This is the central focal point for the retina, and is around which the retinal cones cluster.

Which theory of color perception suggests we have opposing color receptors in the retina that enable color vision?

The conversion of one form of energy to another is called

What is the name of the fluid-filled mechanism within the inner ear that houses our hair-cell receptors for auditory information?

Which theory of pitch perception suggests the location of the cochlea that is stimulated by incoming sound waves determines the pitch we perceive?

The sense of movement and body position

When a person rubs an elbow after smacking it into a table, that person is

Which of the following is the best explanation for why we see afterimages?

Hearing aids might be effective for treating ________

Subliminal references which of the following?

The cocktail party effect provides an example of:

This type of hearing loss is caused by damage to the hair cells in the cochlea.

During the months when there is a large amount of pollen in the air, your hay fever severely affects your sense of smell. At the same time your food all seems to taste the same. This illustrates the importance of:

When there is a conflict between bits of information received by two or more senses, which sense tends to dominate the others? (i.e., The McGurk Effect)

Which of the following is NOT one of the four primary sensory experiences that make up taste?

Receptors that are responsible for transferring light into neural impulses.

Playing bingo

Speed traps on the highway.

A berry picker receives $1 after filling 3 pint boxes

A teenager receives allowance every Sunday

Playing a slot machine

Sales commission – you have to talk to many customers before you make a sale, and you never know whether the next one will buy.

Buying lottery tickets

A professional baseball player gets a hit approximately every third time at bat

Someone watches and sees shooting stars on a dark night

A charitable organization gets a donation for about every ten phone calls it makes.

Every 6 months I have to go to the dentist to get a check up

Teenager get $20 each time he mows the neighbor’s lawn

You are fly fishing in a great trout stream. Sometimes you catch a fish after only 4 or 5 casts; sometimes it takes 10 or 20 casts

Your paycheck arrives on the 1st and the 15th of every month

Watching a football game, waiting for a touchdown

Although farmers put out about the same amount of labor each year, sometimes they sell their grain at harvest time, sometimes in January, and sometimes in late March.

You are still fishing from a dock. You sit with your line in the water and wait for the fish to strike. Sometimes it takes only 20 minutes, and sometimes it takes an hour or more.

Garment worker gets paid per each 100 dresses sewn

Stephan and Cody were two boys who seldom smiled at other people. Dr. Hopkins used a procedure in which he would take them for walks, and if they smiled at passers by, he would give them some pieces of M&M candy. This procedure caused Stephan and Cody to smile much more often than they had

before.

Your little sister is 4 years old. She is a fantastic artist. Unfortunately she just drew her best Picasso-style picture on your parents freshly painted bedroom wall. As a result, your parents take away her prized Crayola crayons

You crazy teenage drivers go speeding down I-5 freeway in your grandpa’s Buick. You are going 90 miles per hour blasting the new Justin Bieber album singing with your friends. An officer sees you and pulls you over. After scolding you for a few minutes he writes you a ticket for $650

Students in Professor Ohno’s class were given a weekly quiz. The students' grades on the first quiz were low, so Professor Ohno began praising the performance of those students who answered the quiz questions correctly. As a result of this procedure, the students' quiz performance improved on the rest of the quizzes

A rat is placed in a cage and immediately receives a mild electrical shock on its feet. The shock is unpleasant for the rat. The rat presses a bar and the shock stops. The rat receives another shock, presses the bar again, and again the shock stops. The rat’s behavior of pressing the bar is strengthened by the consequence of the stopping of the shock.

Your room is a huge mess. Your Mom keeps nagging you to clean your room. You continue to refuse to do it, saying you like how things are “organized.” The nagging continues. Eventually you give in and clean your room so your Mom will leave you alone

You get a new puppy for your birthday. Unfortunately it pees on your Dad’s new shoes. The dog then gets swatted with a newspaper for peeing

Martha was a five-year- old girl who attended preschool. She seldom played with the other children. Workers at the preschool began praising and admiring Martha when she engaged in cooperative play with other children. As a result of this procedure Martha’s level of cooperative play with the other children increased.

You take your new little puppy to the dog park. You tell him he has to behave if he wants to stay there very long. Right at the beginning he breaks free from the collar and runs wild. You stand and scream at him, but he keeps running around. Eventually you get a hold of him. You tell him, “you didn’t listen, now we have to go back home. You put the leash back on him and march him home

This summer you get a great job at Seaworld. After working there a few months, you get promoted from Shamoo’s personal assistant to dolphin feeder. Your job is to feed Flipper and all his friends. One day Flipper gets aggressive and won’t let other dolphins eat. You, being the authoritarian that you are, take the fishy treats and walk away. Flipper cried a little, but you still walked away

Research indicates that many animals are more likely to associate sickness with a taste they experienced in conjunction with the illness than with a tone or light. This finding supports which of the following claims?

A particular group of brain cells seems to provide a basis for observational learning. Researchers call these specialized cells...

After seeing her parents give her brother a dollar for cleaning his room, Sarah begins cleaning her own room. What would a social-learning theorist say is occurring?

BF Skinner's claim that the environment determines an individual's behavior was criticized for...

In a classic study, a group of rats learned to run through a maze to obtain food, and another group of rats explored the maze without receiving good. Some time later, the researcher compared the two groups of rats to determine if both groups would find the food at the end of the maze. According to the researcher, the untrained rats found the food at the end of the maze as quickly as the trained rats as a result of

Edward Thorndike argued that responses that lead to satisfying outcomes are more likely to be repeated, and that responses followed by unpleasant outcomes are less likely to be repeated. This became known as the Law of...

Which of the following statements best describes the role of biological processes in classical conditioning?

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?

For people who believe that others or outside forces (like luck or horoscopes) control their destiny is called?

The sudden realization of a problem's solution is known as

A particular group of brain cells seems to provide a basis for observational learning. Researchers call these specialized cells...