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AP PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE TEST I (WITH EXPLANATIONS) EXAM 2023 Which of the following is an example of habituation? (A) The first time Ilene wear high-heeled shoes, she finds them extremely uncomfortable. (B) Ilene can only tolerate wearing high-heeled shoes for a few hours because they hurt. (C) Ilene wore high-heeled shoes for the first time two weeks ago; now she wears them every day. (D) High-heeled shoes always hurt Ilene's fee, but she forces herself to wear them because they ...

counseling Exam NCE And CPCE Ch. 3 - Human Growth & Development (100) 1. Freud’s stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson’s stages are a. Psychometric. b. Psychodiagnostic. c. Psychopharmacological. d. psychosocial. 2. In Freud’s psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego psychologists a. emphasize id processes. b. refute the concept of the superego. c. believe in man’s powers of reasoning to control behavior. d. are sometimes kno...

CSULB PSY 100 Test 2 Study Guide Zygote vs a fetus - ANS fertilized egg cell vs 8 weeks after conception fetal alcohol syndrome - ANS malformations of the face, heart, and ears, and nervous system damage. spectrum disorder - barely noticeable to severe. Why? alcohol decreases neuronal arousal, causes many neurons to "self-destruct" vision, hearing, & learning/memory in infancy - ANS idk how to sum up, look at notes habituation vs dishabituation - ANS dec...

absolute threshold - ANSWER the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time accommodation - ANSWER (1) the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina. (2) adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information achievement motivation - ANSWER a desire for significant accomplishment; for mastery of things, people, or ideas; for rapidly attaining a high standard achievement tests - ANSWER tests...

Ivan Pavlov - ANSWER a Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning, by training dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell, simplest form of classical conditioning is reminiscent of what Aristotle would have called the law of contiguity law of contiguity - ANSWER A law of association holding that events that occur in close proximity to each other in time or space are readily associated with each oth...

CFPT Questions And Answers CFPT Practice Questions The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that promote a particular problem definition, interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation is known in the media as: a) agenda setting b) cultivation c) framing d) priming - ANS c) framing Which of the following is a daily newspaper published in the UK? a) The Independent b) Time Out c) The Daily Herald d) The Observer - ANS ...

GRE Psychology Subject Test 432 Questions with Verified Answers Ablation - CORRECT ANSWER A surgically induced brain lesion. Absolute refractory period - CORRECT ANSWER The period that follows the onset of an action potential. During this period, a nerve impulse cannot be initiated Absolute threshold - CORRECT ANSWER The minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate a sensory system. Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER A principle of Piaget's theory of cognitive development. It occurs wh...

endocrine system - ANSWER the slow messenger system of the body; produces hormones that affect many bodily functions endorphins - ANSWER neurotransmitters that give one a feeling of well-being, euphoria or eliminate pain episodic - ANSWER describes a type of memory that includes specific events that one has personally experienced evolutionary - ANSWER perspective that stresses the value of behavior in Darwinian terms experiment - ANSWER form of scientific investigation in which one v...

receptor cells - ANSWER rods and cones: take in energy and put them in the form of neural impulses that your brain can understand rods - ANSWER retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cones don't respond cones - ANSWER retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well-lit conditions, detect fine detail and give rise to color sensations optic nerve - ANSWER ...

ALL PSYCHOLOGY NOTES (CH 1-9, 12, 14, 15), All You need for easy revision. Rated A Document Content and Description Below ALL PSYCHOLOGY NOTES (CH 1-9, 12, 14, 15), All You need for easy revision. Rated A CHAPTER GUIDE: CH 1: 77 terms - CARDS 3-79 CH 2: 78 terms - CARDS 80-158 CH 3: 92 terms - CARDS 159-251 CH 4 : 105 terms - CARDS 252-357 CH 5: 103 terms - CARDS 358-461 CH 6: 114 terms - CARDS 462-576 CH 7: 102 terms - CARDS 577-679 CH 8: 110 terms - CARDS 680-790 CH 9: 70 terms - CARDS 791-8...