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GRE Psychology Subject Test Questionsand Answers (Latest Update 2024)
A surgically induced brain lesion. - Correct Answer
✅Ablation
The period that follows the onset of an action potential.
During this period, a nerve impulse cannot be initiated -
Correct Answer ✅Absolute refractory period
The minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate a
sensory system. - Correct Answer ✅Absolute threshold
A principle of Piaget's theory of cognitive development. It
occurs when cognitive structures are modified because new
information or new experiences do not fit into existing
cognitive structures. - Correct Answer ✅Accommodation
A neurotransmitter found in both central and peripheral
nervous systems linked to Alzheimer's disease and used to
transmit nerve impulses to the muscles, respectively. -
Correct Answer ✅Acetylcholine
,GRE Psychology Subject Test Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
A specific phobia that is an irrational fear of heights. -
Correct Answer ✅Acrophobia
A model that describes memory in terms of procedural and
declarative memory. - Correct Answer ✅ACT model
(Adaptive Control of Thought)
The tendency of actors to see observer behavior as due to
external factors (situational factors) and the tendency of
observers to attribute actors' behaviors to internal
characteristics (dispositional characteristics). - Correct
Answer ✅Actor-observer effect
A hormone that increases energy available for "fight or flight"
reactions (also known as epinephrine). - Correct Answer
✅Adrenaline
A visual sensation that appears after prolonged or intense
exposure to a stimulus. - Correct Answer ✅Afterimages
,GRE Psychology Subject Test Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Impairments in perceptual recognition. - Correct Answer
✅Agnosia
An irrational fear of being in places or situations where
escape might be difficult. - Correct Answer ✅Agoraphobia
A law about nerve impulses stating that when depolarization
reaches the critical threshold (-50 millivolts) the neuron is
going to fire, each time, every time. - Correct Answer ✅All-
or-none law
In psychometrics, it is the method of using two or more
different forms of a test to determine the reliability of a
particular test. - Correct Answer ✅Alternate-form method
A form of helping behavior where the person's intent is to
benefit someone else at some cost to him- or herself. -
Correct Answer ✅Altruism
, GRE Psychology Subject Test Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
A dissociative disorder where individuals are unable to recall
past experience, but this inability is not due to a neurological
disorder. - Correct Answer ✅Amnesia
McGuire's analogy that people can be psychologically
inoculated against the "attack" of persuasive communications
by first exposing them to a weakened attack. - Correct
Answer ✅Analogy of inoculation
A statistical method to compare the means of more than two
groups by comparing the between-group variance to the
within-group variance. - Correct Answer ✅Analyses of
Variance (anovas)
A cognitive term (a heuristic) that refers to the tendency of
people to make decisions based on reference points, or
standards used to make judgements. - Correct Answer
✅Anchoring
An archetype from Jung's theory referring to the feminine
behaviors in males, and the masculine behaviors in females. -
Correct Answer ✅Anima (animus)
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