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GRE psychology practice Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Acetycholine - Correct Answer ✅neurotransmitter
associated with voluntary movement, sleep and wakefulness.
Too little is associated with Alzheimer's
Analysis of Variance/ANOVA - Correct Answer ✅inferential
statistical procedure used to compare 2 or more means to
see if the difference is not chance (need p<.05 for statistical
significance)
Aphasia - Correct Answer ✅impairment of ability to
communicate either through oral or written discourse as a
result of brain damage. Ex. Wernicke's ________ or Broca's
__________
Optimum Arousal Theory - Correct Answer ✅Theory stating
that we are motivated by our innate desire to maintain an
personally preferred level of arousal.
Broca's Aphasia - Correct Answer ✅Loss of function
associated with damage to a specific area of the left frontal
lobe, demonstrated by impairment in producing
understandable speech.
,GRE psychology practice Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Egocentric - Correct Answer ✅young child's inability to
understand another person's perspective - typical of Piaget's
preoperational stage
Concrete Operational Stage - Correct Answer ✅According
to Piaget - stage of cognitive development where child
between ages of 7 and 12 begins thinking more globally and
outside of the self but are still deficient in abstract thought.
Construct Validity - Correct Answer ✅Validity answers the
question of whether or not the measuring device actually
measures the theoretical idea under question.
Convergence - Correct Answer ✅Binocular cue to distance
referring to fact that the closer an object is, the more inward
our eyes need to turn in order to focus
Dopamine Hypothesis - Correct Answer ✅Theory that
schizophrenia is caused by an excess amount of dopamine in
brain. Research has found that medication to reduce
,GRE psychology practice Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
dopamine can reduce the positive symptoms of
schizophrenia.
Endorphins - Correct Answer ✅neurotransmitter involved in
pain relief, and feelings of pleasure and contentedness.
Epinephrine - Correct Answer ✅neurotransmitter involved
in energy and glucose metabolism.
External Validity - Correct Answer ✅The extent to which
data collected from a sample can be generalized to the entire
population.
Factor Analysis - Correct Answer ✅A statistical technique
used combine data into similar groups
Frequency Effect - Correct Answer ✅The phenomenon in
memory which states that we tend to remember information
better if it is repeated.
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and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Formal Operational Stage - Correct Answer ✅Piaget's
fourth and final stage of cognitive development where
thinking becomes more abstract. 12+ years
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis - Correct Answer
✅Theory arguing that aggression is the natural reaction to
frustration.
g factor - Correct Answer ✅Basic intelligence of
Spearman's theory. Typically compared to s which represents
specific intelligences.
Gender Identity - Correct Answer ✅Internal sense of being
either male or female. Usually congruent with biological
gender, but not always.
Hawthorne Effect - Correct Answer ✅Phenomenon that
subject behavior changes by mere fact that they are being
observed.
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