PSY 101 Final Exam Questions and
answers Graded A
Behaviorism - ANSWER the view that psychology should be objective science that
studies behavior without reference to mental processes is knows as
Freudian Psychology - ANSWER Which major force in psychology emphasized
unconsc...
Behaviorism - ANSWER the view that psychology should be objective science that
studies behavior without reference to mental processes is knows as
Freudian Psychology - ANSWER Which major force in psychology emphasized
unconscious thought processes?
mental processes - ANSWER In the 1960s, the cognitive revolution in psychology
involved a renewal of interest in the scientific study of
behavior and mental processes - ANSWER Contemporary psychology is best defined
as the science of
genes and experience - ANSWER The nature-nurture issue refers to the debate over
the relative contributions that ________ make to the development of psychological
traits.
culture - ANSWER the enduring traditions, attitudes, ideas, and behaviors shared by a
large group of people constitute their
positive psychology - ANSWER discovering and promoting human strengths and
virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive is the major focus of
complement one another - ANSWER The biopsychosocial approach incorporates
different levels of analysis, which
potential for growth - ANSWER humanistic psychologist focused attention on the
importance of people's
basic research - ANSWER studies conducted for the sake of building psychology's
base of knowledge are most clearly examples of
industrial/organizational psychologist - ANSWER Which psychologists are MOST likely
to be involved in applied research?
providing therapy to troubled people - ANSWER Clinical psychologists specialize in
psychiatrist - ANSWER The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a
, organizes; predicts - ANSWER A theory is an explanation using an integrated set of
principles that ______ observations and ______ behaviors or events.
testable prediction that gives direction to research - ANSWER A hypothesis is a(n)
replication - ANSWER repeating the essence of a previous research study to verify
whether its findings extend to a new group of research participants and to different
circumstances is
a single individual or group is studied in great depth - ANSWER The case study is a
research method in which
naturalistic observation - ANSWER a descriptive technique of observing and recording
behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to change or control the situation
is called
random sampling - ANSWER when every individual in a large population has a small
but equal chance of being included in a survey, researchers are using a procedure
known as
vary together - ANSWER Correlation is a measure of the extent to which two factors
the experiment - ANSWER Which of the following methods is most helpful for clarifying
cause-effect relationships?
experimental - ANSWER The group exposed to a newly created drug that is being
tested in an experiment is called the ________ group.
The experimental treatment is absent - ANSWER Which of the following is true for
those assigned to a control group?
double-blind procedure - ANSWER Both the researchers and the participants in a
memory study are ignorant about which participants have actually received a potentially
memory-enhancing drug and which have received a placebo. This investigation involves
the use of
placebo - ANSWER An inert substance that may be administered instead of a drug to
see if it produces any of the same effects as the drug is called a
the placebo effect - ANSWER The relief of pain following the taking of an inactive
substance that is perceived to have medicinal benefits illustrates
independent - ANSWER In a psychological experiment, the experimental factor that is
manipulated by the investigator is called the _____ variable
, dependent - ANSWER In a psychological experiment, the factor that may be influenced
by the manipulated experimental treatment is called the ____ variable
informed consent - ANSWER Potential research participants are told enough about an
upcoming study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate. This
illustrates the practice of seeking
debriefing - ANSWER after an experiment, research participants are told its purpose
and about any deception they may have experienced. This is called
neurons - ANSWER dendrites are branching extensions of
the extension of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body - ANSWER
an axon is
neurotransmitters - ANSWER the chemical messengers released into the spatial
junctions between neurons are called
threshold - ANSWER the minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural
impulse is called the
junction between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron - ANSWER a synapse is
a(n)
axon - ANSWER neurotransmitters are released from knob-like terminals at the end of
the
Neurotransmitters - ANSWER endorphins are
peripheral - ANSWER the two major divisions of the nervous system are the central
and the ____ nervous systems
interneurons - ANSWER central nervous system neurons that process information
between sensory inputs and motor outputs are calles
seeing; hearing - ANSWER the occipital lobes are to___ as the temporal lobes are
to____
somatosensory cortex - ANSWER Which part of your brain is essential for receiving
information that you are moving your legs?
transmits information between the cerebral hemispheres - ANSWER the corpus
callosum is a wide band of axon fibers that
epileptic seizures - ANSWER Neurosurgeons have severed the corpus callosum in
human patients in order to reduce
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