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Phineas Gage was involved in a serious railway construction accident in 1848. A steel rod went through
his left cheek and exited through the top of his head. After he recovered, people who knew him noticed
that his personality and behavior were different. Eventually, descriptions of Gage before and after the
accident provided evidence that the frontal lobe is involved in executive functioning.


Which research method does the study of Gage represent? - ✔✔-Case study


Which statement about correlational research is true? - ✔✔-Such research involves the measurement of
two variables.


How can psychological researchers reduce the impact of their own biases? - ✔✔-By collecting all the
data from experiments before running the statistics


What is an example of maturation? - ✔✔-An infant standing before walking


According to Erikson, which developmental level is associated with the identity vs. role confusion
conflict? - ✔✔-Adolescence


A 50-year-old woman concludes that she is experiencing menopause.


Which symptoms likely led her to this conclusion? - ✔✔-Night sweats and absence of menses


Which cognitive ability can remain strong as people age if it is triggered by something in the
environment? - ✔✔-Prospective memory


Which age group generally has less intense anger, stress, and worry? - ✔✔-Older adults


What is the basic difference between attribution and cognitive dissonance? - ✔✔-Unlike attribution,
cognitive dissonance involves the reduction of tension.

, A company's research department is under strong pressure to solve an urgent problem with one of the
company's products. In their urgency, the department's executives decide to focus on one possible
solution and refuse to consider alternatives.


Which group dynamic does this scenario best illustrate? - ✔✔-Groupthink


During a college's spirit week, students are arbitrarily assigned to two teams for a series of competitive
activities. Two friends are placed on separate teams and find their friendship strains during the
competition.


Which phenomenon accounts for this strain? - ✔✔-Outgroup bias


Which term arose from research seeking to understand why a group of strangers are unlikely to help
another person in a moment of need? - ✔✔-Bystander effect


In Pavlov's original demonstration of classical conditioning, what did the dog's salivation to the ringing of
the bell represent? - ✔✔-Conditioned response


A person experiences extreme nausea following a first session of chemotherapy. The nausea continues
for approximately three days. The chemotherapy sessions are scheduled at 7 a.m. each Monday for
eight consecutive weeks. By session three, the person becomes nauseated on the Sunday night before
the therapy session.


Which statement about the nausea on Sunday night is true? - ✔✔-It is a reflex behavior, which is
classically conditioned.


Children in a second-grade class are expected to raise their hands and wait for the teacher to call on
them. One child disregards this rule and shouts out answers before other children can respond. In order
to shape the offending child's behavior, the teacher ignores the child who calls out an answer but
responds immediately whenever that child's hand is raised prior to answering.


Which schedule of reinforcement is the teacher using to establish hand raising in the child who
previously failed to do so? - ✔✔-Fixed ratio


Which statement explains the relationship between working memory and short-term memory? - ✔✔-
Constraints on working memory reduce the effectiveness of short-term memory.

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