PSY 110 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
a healthy lifestyle may include a fair amount of "good stress" which is referred to as - Answers eustress
what part of the brain is most effective at breaking information into parts and processing this information in order, one item after the nex...
a healthy lifestyle may include a fair amount of "good stress" which is referred to as - Answers eustress
what part of the brain is most effective at breaking information into parts and processing this
information in order, one item after the next - Answers left hemisphere
when the speech therapist shows Jess a a spoon, he calls it a cup. the stroke most likely damaged which
part of jess' brain? - Answers wernickes area
when robert realized his company was on the verge of folding, he began sending out his resume to
various companies in an attempt to remain gainfully employed. this example illustrates __ coping -
Answers problem focused coping
teaching primates to communicate in sign language in order to develop better methods for teaching
language to aphasic children would be an example of - Answers animal model
amy holds a doctorate in psychology. she has recently been hired by a prominent teaching hospital to
conduct research into finding the best therapeutic techniques for patients suffering from acute
psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. amy is most likely a - Answers clinical psychologist
bobby hits his little brother every time he is punished by his parents. bobbys little brother is serving as -
Answers scapegoat
each evening before going to bed, rachel tightens all the muscles in her feet, then voluntarily relaxes
them. then she tightens all the muscles in her legs, then voluntarily relaxes them. she does this all the
way to her head. rachel is practicing the technique of - Answers progressive relaxation
if the correlations between ones self concept and academic performance are positive, we could say that
- Answers a self concept and academic performance are related but no casual relationship has been
established
one thing that can be done to help combat depression is to - Answers (NOT) reduce cognitive dissonance
psychiatrists differ from psychologists because pyschiatrists - Answers are physicians with a
specialization in abnormal behavior and psychotherapy
sydney has wanted to be a teacher all of her life. for the first five years of teaching, she spent every
summer, holiday, and weekend trying to come up with new activities for her students. however, she
now feels that all of her efforts were in vain and that students do not want to learn and do not
appreciate anything she tries to do to help them learn. sydney feels used up, apathetic, and detached
from her students. sydney is experiencing - Answers burnout
the SRRS was designed to measure - Answers life changes and susceptibility to illness or accident
which of the following changes would you expect to occur in someone whose parietal lobes were
damaged in an accident - Answers inability to sense hot and cold
, which of the following usually has a doctorate and is highly trained in the methods, factual knowledge,
and theories of psychology - Answers psychologist
a child who gets rewarded with candy on the average of every third time she asks her grandmother for a
treat is being rewarded on which schedule of reinforcement - Answers variable ratio
a driver consistently drives well beyond the interstate speed limit until a highway patrolman stops her
and gives her a speeding ticket. from that time on, this driver never exceeds the speed limit on the
interstate. in this example, the highway patrolman has successfully stopped this driver from speeding by
using - Answers punishment
associative learning occurs whenever a person or an animal forms a simple connection among various -
Answers stimuli and responses
deja vu experiences feel familiar by yet strange because - Answers a past memory was retrieved but was
too weak to yield adequate details
dr searman compares the scores on a new intelligence test to the students grades in school in order to
establish the tests - Answers NOT content-construct validity
Helena is taking a test to determine her capacity for learning musical abilities. Helena is most likely
taking a __ test - Answers aptitude
ideally, children should want to behave well because - Answers they want your praise
if retrieval stimuli are missing when you are trying to remember an event, you will most likely
experience - Answers cue-dependent forgetting
in a classic experiment, little albert, a very young boy, was conditioned to be afraid of a white rat. he
also became fearful of white furry rabbits and bearded men. this is an example of - Answers stimulus
generalization
in higher order conditioning, a well learned CS serves as which type of stimulus in a new pairing situation
- Answers unconditioned stimulus
it is important to use retrieval practice right before the exam in order to cut down on the time during
which you must remember details that may be important for the test. this retrieval practice is called -
Answers NOT priming
juan likes to play video games but he also needs to increase his exercise time. so he decides to only play
a video game after he has exercised for 30 minutes. using video game playing as a reward for exercising
illustrates the use of - Answers the premack principle
people with intellectual disabilities - Answers are characterized by all of these
regarding how your study schedule, sleeping, and eating affect memory, which of the following
statements is false - Answers eating before a test tends to lower ones performance on memory tests
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