Worksheets203 Final Exam Review Day 1
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 30mins
How are you feeling about the final exam?
I got this!
I'm scared
I can't make myself care.
I'm nervous, but it'll be fine.
Which of the following is an example of an independent variable?
How fast someone can run
Gender Identity
Caffeine consumption
Socioeconomic Status
A scientist is investigating the effects of sleep deprivation on learning. She gives one group of participants the opportunity for a good night’s rest, and the other group of participants stays awake all night playing spades. Then she tests them on mazes and math problems the next morning. The “spades” group did not do as well as the well-rested group. What is the independent variable?
Card Playing Ability
Amount of Sleep
Scores on Learning Measures
Gender Identity of Participants
Which of these correlations is the largest?
0.25
-0.75
0.65
0.01
-.55
Identify the direction of the relationship: the higher the spotify listens, the lower the artist's debt
No relationship
Positive
Negative
Which of the following is an example of the theory data cycle?
A scientist revising their theories as they conduct more research
A scientist refusing to change their opinions, despite new evidence
A politician believing that their theory is right, despite alternative evidence
A study being replicated and finding the exact same effect, so the theory is updated
Dr. Lanz wants to collect data on how many people in Kearney love Taco Bell. In order to answer this question, she asks 10 random people at Walmart how much they love Taco Bell. What is the population of Dr. Lanz's study?
The 10 people at Walmart
Everyone in Kearney
Everyone in Kearney who likes Taco Bell
It's impossible to know based on this information.
Right now, you are extremely worried about the final exam and feel threatened by the content. Which branch of your nervous system is most active right now?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Sympathetic Nervous System
Permabolic Nervous System
Hyposympathetic Nervous System
Your ability to see this question is thanks to your:
frontal lobe
parietal lobe
temporal lobe
occipital lobe
Your ability to tell if our classroom is chilly or sweaty is thanks to your:
frontal lobe
parietal lobe
temporal lobe
occipital lobe
_______ is excellent at detecting WHEN brain activation happened, but ______ is excellent at detecting WHERE brain activation happened.
EEG, fMRI
fMRI, PET
fMRI, EEG
PET, fMRI
What is the difference between sensations and perceptions?
Sensations are the activation of your sensory receptors, perceptions are your brain's interpretation of that information
Sensations are feelings, Perceptions are thoughts
Sensations are delayed, perceptions are immediate
Sensations are testable, perceptions are not
Your brain converting sound waves into electrical signals that your brain can interpret is called:
Transduction
Perceptions
Automaticity
Cognition
Imagine you get kidnapped and dropped in the middle of a random city. You have no idea where you are and you've never seen any of these buildings or people before. What type of processing are you using?
Top-down processing
Bottom-up processing
Spontaneous Processing
Knowledge Driven Processing
You are scared of snakes, and want to make sure you spot one while mowing your lawn. According to Signal Detection Theory, what would a "miss" be?
Seeing a snake when there is one
Not seeing a snake when there is one
Seeing a snake when there isn't one
Not seeing a snake when there isn't one
Pavlov trained a dog to salivate in response to a tone by repeatedly sounding a tuning fork before placing food in the dog's mouth. Salivating to the food is a/an:
Conditioned response
Conditioned stimulus
Unconditioned response
Unconditioned stimulus
Your roommate hates loud TV. You've developed a habit of turning down the TV when your roommate gets home so they doesn't yell at you. Your behavior is an example of:
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Negative Punishment
Losing $1,000 in scholarships for each F on a transcript is an example of:
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Negative Punishment
In ______, organisms learn the association between two stimuli. In _____, organisms learn the association between a behavior and a consequence.
operant conditioning; classical conditioning
classical conditioning; operant conditioning
classical conditioning; observational learning
observational learning; classical conditioning
Trying to remember the answer to an exam question is which step of memory?
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Rehearsal
Trying to keep track of Dr. Moen's words as she says in them in class is an example of ________ memory, whereas trying to remember topics for the exam is an example of _______ memory.
working, long-term
iconic, long-term
long-term, working
iconic, working
Our final exam is on Tuesday at 1pm, if you have a different exam at 1pm on Thursday, you might experience _____________. Where the older information from our exam makes it harder to remember the information for your next exam.
proactive interference
retroactive interference
retrograde interference
anterograde interference
Angela falls off her bike on her way home and hits her head. When she gets home, she realizes she can't remember anything from the last several days. What type of Amnesia does Angela have?
Anterograde
Retrograde
According to Encoding Specificity, which study environment will lead to the best test performance?
Studying in our classroom
Studying in any quiet place
It doesn't matter where you study
Studying with music
What did H.M. teach us about memory?
The hippocampus is responsible for only explicit memories
The hippocampus is responsible for only implicit memories
The hippocampus is responsible for all types of memory
Who's H.M.?!
If you look at an older person and assume they have grandchildren, because they look like grandparents, you're using the _____________ to make that decision.
Representativeness Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Confirmation Bias
_________ believed that intelligence is a combination of Analytical, Creative, and Practical aspects
Sternberg
Gardener
Spearman
Binet
_________ believed that intelligence is best calculated as a ratio between mental age and physical age.
Sternberg
Gardener
Spearman
Binet
Which of the following tests is an example of good Validity?
An algebra test that asks questions from a Algebra textbook
Algebra tests that results in similar scores to a Calculus test
An algebra test that results in similar scores with different groups of students
Online quizzes that claim to test your personality based on your taste in movies
_________ is responsible for allowing us to produce language.
Broca's area
Wernicke's area
The Temporal Lobe
The Hippocampus
