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Worksheets10 Psychology revision
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 41mins
The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
Memory
Intelligence
Cognition
Prancing
The process of getting information into the memory system
Upheaval
Retrieval
Storage
Encoding
The process of retaining encoded information over time
Jaunting
Storage
Encoding
Retrieval
The process of getting information out of the memory storage
Retrieval
Encoding
Storage
Undulating
The immediate, very brief recording of information in the memory system
Suspensory Memory
Long-Term Memory
Amnesia
Sensory Memory
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly (such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing) before the information is stored or forgotten
Sensory Memory
Long-term Memory
Short-term Memory
Active Forgetting
Memory demonstrated by retrieving information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test
Recall
Recognition
Rendition
Registration
A newer understanding of short term memory that stresses conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and if information retrieved from long-term memory
Busy Memory
Happy Memory
Lazy Memory
Working Memory
Typically the number of episodes spent in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep per night is:
One to Two
Two to Four
Four to Five
Seven to Eight
Which of the following is true of REM sleep:
Many shift workers find it difficult to get adequate periods of uninterrupted sleep and often report feeling tired.
A major consequence of their sleep disruption is that shift workers:
Human consciousness is defined as an:
In normal waking consciousness a person is most likely to experience:
divided attention
hallucinations
REM
daydreams
In order to treat a patient with a circadian phase sleep disorder, a procedure designed to reset the person’s natural body rhythm may be achieved by:
According to which theory is sleeping thought to be essential for revitalising and repairing the physiological processes that keep the body and mind healthy and functioning properly?
Evolutionary
Restoration
Recovery
Physiological
Which of the following would NOT be a justified explanation from the restorative theory of sleep?
Cell growth
Repair of damaged cells
Replacement of neurotransmitters depleted through brain function
Conservation of energy
Which of the following is NOT evidence for Restorative Theory for sleep?
Rats become very ill if they are sleep deprived
Human growth hormone secreted during sleep facilitating tissue repair
Sleep deprivation leads to decreased immune function and cognitive dysfunction
Physically inactive people sleep just as long as physically active people
Which one of the following supports the evolutionary theory of sleep?
Cats sleep for long periods to prevent muscle damage
Sleep enhances the alertness of dogs when they are awake
Animals afflicted with viruses are likely to sleep more than usual
Large prey animals sleep for longer periods than small prey animals
According to the restoration theory of sleep, which one of the following best explains the difference between an infant's sleep and an older child's sleep?
Older children need more food to east and therefore they have less time for sleep than infants
Infants undergo more rapid brain development and therefore they experience more REM sleep than older children
Older children exert more physical energy during the day and therefore they experience more REM sleep than infants
Infants have access to safe and stable places to sleep and therefore they experience more sleep overall than older children
Jason was taking part in a study of the sleep patterns of adolescents. From the ages of 11 to 24, he was required to keep a sleep diary for one month each year. In the sleep diary he described how tired he felt during the day. In the same month he also wore an electronic device that recorded the amount of time he spent asleep.
The researcher was collecting
subjective data
only quantitative data
only qualitative data
quantitative and qualitative data
If schizophrenia runs in a person's family, what are the individual's odds of getting the disorder?
1 in 1,000
1 in 100
1 in 10
1 in 5
Which is NOT a type of anxiety disorder?
Obsessives-Compulsive
Panic
Post-traumatic
Somatoform
Which best describes disorganized schizophrenia?
Involves only hallucinations and delusions
symptoms are completely gone
incoherent language, inappropriate emotions & poor motor behavior
motionless for long periods of time
With dissociative identity disorder, the main personality is known as the (a)
A person who has generalized anxiety disorder would have which of the following?
Vague feeling of being in danger
Muscle tension
Poor appetite
Difficulty sleeping
Which disorder is characterized by an inability to establish meaningful relationships, assuming social responsibilities and treating people as objects?
Major Depressive Disorder
SAD
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Which disorder is characterized by an inability to establish meaningful relationships, assuming social responsibilities and treating people as objects?
Major Depressive Disorder
SAD
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Which neurotransmitter is most likely associated with schizophrenia?
(a)
Undifferentiated Schizophrenia has which of the following symptoms?
Deterioration of basic functioning
Hallucinations
Inappropriate emotions
Can require hospitalization
Delusions
What is a psychological disorder?
a harmful dysfunction in which behaviors are maladaptive, unjustifiable, disturbing and atypical
chemical imbalances in the brain that cause people to act in harmful ways
malformations of important brain segments
a dysfunction that is not harmful but may consist of behaviors that are maladaptive, unjustifiable, disturbing and atypical
A maladaptive behavior is one that:
is destructive to yourself or others and inhibits a person to adjust to particular situations
occurs without a rational basis
is troublesome to other people
is so different it violates a norm
The bio-psycho-social model:
believes that people have genetic predispositions to disorders
believes that a person thoughts and patterns play a role in the disorder
believes that social and cultural aspects shape how a person sees their circumstance
believes that nature is more important than nurture
What do we use to diagnosis and classify disorders?
Trained professionals (psychologist and counselors) do it
The DSM-5
Research Papers
Intuition
Why does misrepresenting disorders in the media matter?
It doesn't matter
it creates negative stereotypes
It messes up research
It makes disorders look cool
Which lobe of the brain is the main decision maker of the brain and controls voluntary movement?
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
Which lobe of the brain primarily processes auditory information?
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
Which lobe of the brain processes somatosensory information such as touch, pain, temperature, and limb location?
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
Which lobe of the brain is primarily responsible for visual information?
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
In which lobe of the brain is Broca's area located?
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
In which lobe of the brain is Wernicke's area located?
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
Which of the following is not a component of the brain stem?
Midbrain
Pons
Medulla oblongata
Thalamus
Which part of the brain stem contains visual and auditory reflex centers?
Midbrain
Pons
Medulla oblongata
Thalamus
Which major part of the brain controls balance and equilibrium?
Cerebrum
Cerebellum
Diencephalon
Brain Stem
Which part of the brain is known as the language comprehension center?
Broca's
Wernicke's
Which part of the brain controls the physical ability to speak?
Broca's
Wernicke's
What is the definition of intelligence?
The "... capacity to be smart"
The "... ability to do well in school"
The “… capacity to act purposely, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with the environment”
The “… capacity to deal effectively with the environment”
According to Gardner, what is interpersonal intelligence?
verbal or linguistic skills such as listening, speaking, and writing
Understanding the self
Understanding other people
Environment awareness of the natural world.
If Katie's intelligence quotient is 100, we know that she has a
perfect score on a set of age-related tests.
test performance superior to 90% of other children the same age who took the test.
mental age typical of children who have the same chronological age.
mental age below those of children with the same chronological age
Which of the following is one of Gardner’s types of Intelligences?
Executive Skills
Ethics
Creativity
Musical
The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originally created for?
adults trying to figure out their Intelligence
career aptitude tests
children in France
David Wechsler
Howard Gardner has theorized all of the following types of intelligence EXCEPT?
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic
Visual-Spatial
Practical
Operant learning theory is the work of which psychologist?
Eysenck
Skinner
Bandura
Watson
____________ argues the cause of someone's behaviour lies in reinforcements and punishments
Behaviourism
Humanism
Psychoticism
Cognitivism
Behaviourism can be used to explain criminal behaviour
True
False
Bandura's theory is called ________________
Cognitive theory
Differential association theory
Social Learning Theory
Differential enforcement theory
Bandura's experiments became known as the __________________
Baby Doll experiments
Copy Cat experiments
Bobo Doll experiments
Childhood experiments
Which group were most likely to imitate the model? (Group 1 - saw the model rewarded for aggression), (Group 2 - saw the model punished), (Group 3 - model was neither rewarded nor punished)
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
What does it mean by positive reinforcement ?
Reward
Punishment
Dessert
Reward and punishment
Teacher Nurin praises her students with encouraging words such as "Good job!" and gives her students stickers as rewards. What kind of reinforcement has been applied in her classroom?
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Who is the behaviorist that introduce classical conditioning?
Jean Piaget
F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Erik Erikson
Fill in the blanks with the correct answer. “Throughout the course of three distinct phases, the associated stimulus is known as __ and learned behaviour is known as __.”
conditioned response, conditioned stimulus
conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
stimulus conditioning, response conditioning
response conditioning, stimulus conditioning
A child does not listen to his parents, so they take his favorite toy away.. This is an example of:
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Punishment
Positive Punishment
What is the definition of Behaviorism learning theory?
Process through which experience causes permanent change in knowledge or behavior
focuses on the inner mental activities – opening the “black box” of the human mind is valuable and necessary for understanding how people learn
Explanations of learning that focuses on external events as the cause changes in behavior, either positive or negative stimuli
Pavlov dog experiment refers to which learning theories?
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Behaviorism
Connectivism
