WorksheetsPSY102 Quiz 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
What is the systematic, objective study of our mental activity and behavior?
research
psychology
scientific method
physiology
Who was the first psychologist to teach a psychology class?
Sigmund Freud
Albert Bandura
William James
Karen Horney
Who was the first to separate psychology from philosophy? He is also known as the “Father of Psychology”.
Sigmund Freud
William James
Wilhelm Wundt
George Miller
Who is famous for his psychosocial stages of development? He never graduated from college.
William James
Albert Bandura
B.F. Skinner
Erik Erikson
What research-related subfield of psychology studies attention, memory, perception, and language?
personality
social
developmental
cognitive
What research-related subfield of psychology studies how enduring characteristics affect people?
personality
social
developmental
cognitive
What type of research method relies on naturally occurring relationships and
does not show causation?
observation
correlation
descriptive
As more employees are laid off, satisfaction among remaining employees decreases. Is this a negative or positive correlation?
negative
positive
The ________________ is a network of billions of cells in the brain and the body responsible for all aspects of what we feel, think, and do.
brain
spinal cord
nervous system
stomach
After a surgery goes terribly wrong, Paige is not able to form new memories. Paige most likely has damage to a structure in her forebrain called the ____________________.
basal ganglia
thalamus
cerebellum
hippocampus
Professor Sliwa loves to move around as she lectures. She is able to walk around the front of the room due to the function of her ___________________ nervous system.
somatic
autonomic
parasympathetic
sympathetic
While standing in line at the bank, Misty sees a masked man walk in with a gun. The sympathetic branch of her autonomic nervous system activates. The most likely result is that she
remains calm and tries to conserve her body's energy.
begins to sweat and her heartbeat quickens.
stops receiving information from her sensory systems.
behaves instinctively so her spinal cord takes control of running away.
____________________ refers to our moment-by-moment subjective experiences.
life
reality
sleep
consciousness
Given that processing in the brain underlies consciousness, each of us will experience consciousness personally that is, __________________, based on how our own brains process the external world and our internal mental activity.
honestly
quickly
objectively
subjectively
There is a no limit to how many things the mind can be consciously aware of at the same time.
true
false
Brain activity and other physiological processes are regulated into daily patterns
known as circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms are influenced by the cycles of _________________________.
the moon.
summer and winter.
spring and fall.
light and dark.
After about ______ minutes of sleep, the sleep cycle reverses, returning to stage 1. At this point, the EEG suddenly shows a flurry of beta wave activity that usually represents an awake, alert mind. This stage is called _________________.
60, slow-wave sleep
30, REM sleep
90, REM sleep
90, slow-wave sleep
An altered state of consciousness does not refer to the _____________ of consciousness. Instead, it refers to the _____________ of consciousness.
strength, validity
amount, quality
reality, subjective experience
During ____________ meditation, you focus your attention on one thing, such as your breathing pattern, a mental image, or a specific phrase. During ___________ meditation, you let your thoughts flow freely, paying attention to them but not examining their meaning or reacting to them in any way.
concentrative, mindfulness
mindfulness, concentrative
_______________ is a process by which sensory receptors change physical stimuli into signals that are eventually sent to the brain.
Perception
Transduction
Sensation
Organization
Cara likes listening to music before going to sleep, but she gets in trouble if she plays her music after 10 pm. Cara knows that if her parents can’t hear the music, she will not get into trouble. But, even though the music is playing very softly, her parents can detect the music 75 percent of the time. The point at which Cara has the volume set is ______.
above her parents’ absolute threshold
revealing her parents’ difference threshold
showing her parents’ sensory adaptation
allowing her parents to show correct rejection
Charlie moved to New York City and had a very difficult time sleeping with all the noise coming from the street below. After three months in his new city apartment, Charlie no longer “heard” the noise and slept like a baby. His decrease in sensitivity to the constant level of stimulation is called ___________________.
sensation
perception
transduction
sensory adaptation
You are watching Dancing with the Stars. Two contestants—one tall, thin male and one short, heavy female—are holding each other close and waltzing together. Which of the following grouping principles is likely to help you perceptually group the two dancers together?
illusory contours
similarity
proximity
continuity
Read the following paragraph.
“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.”
The fact that you could read this paragraph is most likely due to ______________________.
top-down processes
bottom-up processes
continuity
occlusion
After suffering a large bruise during a somewhat wild game of Twister, Rachel feels a throbbing pain in her leg. This dull pain was most likely carried by _____________________.
fast fibers
warm receptors
slow fibers
cold receptors
