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PSY102 Quiz 1

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the systematic, objective study of our mental activity and behavior?

a)

research

b)

psychology

c)

scientific method

d)

physiology

2.

Who was the first psychologist to teach a psychology class?

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

William James

d)

Karen Horney

3.

Who was the first to separate psychology from philosophy? He is also known as the “Father of Psychology”.

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

William James

c)

Wilhelm Wundt

d)

George Miller

4.

Who is famous for his psychosocial stages of development? He never graduated from college.

a)

William James

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

Erik Erikson

5.

What research-related subfield of psychology studies attention, memory, perception, and language?

a)

personality

b)

social

c)

developmental

d)

cognitive

6.

What research-related subfield of psychology studies how enduring characteristics affect people?

a)

personality

b)

social

c)

developmental

d)

cognitive

7.

What type of research method relies on naturally occurring relationships and

does not show causation?

a)

observation

b)

correlation

c)

descriptive

8.

As more employees are laid off, satisfaction among remaining employees decreases. Is this a negative or positive correlation?

a)

negative

b)

positive

9.

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. 

a)

brain

b)

spinal cord

c)

nervous system

d)

stomach

10.

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 ____________________.

a)

basal ganglia

b)

thalamus

c)

cerebellum

d)

hippocampus

11.

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.

a)

somatic

b)

autonomic

c)

parasympathetic

d)

sympathetic

12.

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

a)

remains calm and tries to conserve her body's energy.

b)

begins to sweat and her heartbeat quickens.

c)

stops receiving information from her sensory systems.

d)

behaves instinctively so her spinal cord takes control of running away.

13.

____________________ refers to our moment-by-moment subjective experiences.

a)

life

b)

reality

c)

sleep

d)

consciousness

14.

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.

a)

honestly

b)

quickly

c)

objectively

d)

subjectively

15.

There is a no limit to how many things the mind can be consciously aware of at the same time.

a)

true

b)

false

16.

Brain activity and other physiological processes are regulated into daily patterns 

known as circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms are influenced by the cycles of _________________________.

a)

the moon.

b)

summer and winter.

c)

spring and fall.

d)

light and dark.

17.

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 _________________.

a)

60, slow-wave sleep

b)

30, REM sleep

c)

90, REM sleep

d)

90, slow-wave sleep

18.

An altered state of consciousness does not refer to the _____________ of consciousness. Instead, it refers to the _____________ of consciousness.

a)

strength, validity

b)

amount, quality

c)

reality, subjective experience

19.

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.

a)

concentrative, mindfulness

b)

mindfulness, concentrative

20.

_______________ is a process by which sensory receptors change physical stimuli into signals that are eventually sent to the brain.

a)

Perception

b)

Transduction

c)

Sensation

d)

Organization

21.

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 ______.

a)

above her parents’ absolute threshold

b)

revealing her parents’ difference threshold

c)

showing her parents’ sensory adaptation

d)

allowing her parents to show correct rejection

22.

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 ___________________.

a)

sensation

b)

perception

c)

transduction

d)

sensory adaptation

23.

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? 

a)

illusory contours

b)

similarity

c)

proximity

d)

continuity

24.

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 ______________________.

a)

top-down processes

b)

bottom-up processes

c)

continuity

d)

occlusion

25.

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 _____________________.

a)

fast fibers

b)

warm receptors

c)

slow fibers

d)

cold receptors