Introduction to Psychology
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He/She is referred to as the father of American personality psychology.
- Gordon Allport Correct
Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death, concentrating on biological and environmental factors
- False Correct
his coordinates information between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
- corpus callosum Correct
Identify what is defined through its function. It serves as a relay station for information coming from our senses to the brain
- thalamus Correct
If mental age is the same as chrono;ogical age, the individual’s IQ is 100 or _________.
- Average Correct
In an experiment on attitudes, participants are given either positive or negative information about a speaker and then asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the speaker. In this experiment, which is the independent variable?
- The type of information the participant is given Correct
In Erik Erikson's Stages of Personality Development, at what age do we acquire our sense of own identity and grow confused about our role in life?
- 11-18 years Correct
is a form of therapy in which a trained professional uses methods based on psychological theories to help a person with psychological problems.
- Psychotherapy Correct
It consists of layer of cells containing fat, encases and insulates most axons. .
- Myelin Sheath Correct
It consists of unconscious drives and is the individual’s reservoir of sexual energy. It works for the pleasure principle.
- Id Correct
It contains a nucleus
- Cell body Correct
It is a branch of psychology that studies individuals as they interact with others.
- Social Psychology Correct
It is a broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain observations.
- Theory Correct
It is a conscious recollection of information, such as specific facts and events and at least in humans, information that can be verbally communicated.
- Explicit memory Correct
It is a long tail-like structure growing out of the other end of the cell which carries signals away from the cell body.
- Axon Correct
It is a preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people organize and interpret information.
- Schema Correct
It is a testable prediction that derives logically from a theory.
- Hypothesis Correct
It is like a fence that surrounds the entire neuron, giving it shape and keeping the cell’s internal fluid inside; it is said to be semi-permeable.
- Cell membrane Correct
It is the most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism. It pushes unacceptable id impulses back into the unconscious mind.
- Repression Correct
It is the tendency for perceptions of objects to remain relatively unchanged in spite of changes in raw sensations.
- Perceptual constancy Correct
It maintains homeostasis in the body or a state of internal equilibrium across a variety of bodily systems.
- hypothalamus Correct
It occurs when a single sperm cell from the male merges with the female’s ovum (egg) to produce a zygote – a single cell with 23 chromosomes from the mother and 23 from the father.
- Conception Correct
It provides an objective description of how a variable is going to be measured and observed in a particular study.
- Operational Definition Correct
It refers to a memory loss for a segment of the past but not for new events.
- Retrograde Amnesia Correct
It refers to any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about through experience.
- learning Correct
It refers to any stimulus that decreases the frequency of behavior.
- Punishment Correct
It refers to the effect in which working in a group improves one’s performance on individual projects.
- Social Facilitation Correct
It refers to the pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout the course of life, involving both growth and decline.
- Development Correct
It refers to the phenomenon in psychoanalysis in which the patient comes to feel and act toward the therapist in ways that resemble how he or she feels and acts toward other significant adults.
- Interpretation of transference Correct
It refers to the process of observing and imitating behaviors performed by others.
- Modeling Correct
It refers to the retention of information about the where, when, and what of life’s happenings – that is how individuals remember life’s episodes.
- Episodic memory Correct
It serves as a relay station for information coming from our senses to the brain.
- Thalamus Correct
Light waves are transduced into neural messages by two types of receptor cells, named rods and cones, in the ____________of the eye.
- retina Correct
means different from the norm or different from what most people do.
- Deviant Correct
Missing sensory information is automatically "filled in" in the process of perception to create complete and whole perceptions.
- Closure Correct
Most individuals have progressed to full adult cognition, including the ability to reason using abstract concepts
- Formal Operationa Correct
Objects cast smaller images on the retina when they are more distant. As a result, parallel lines, such as railroad tracks, appear to grow closer together the farther they are from us.
- Linear Perspective Correct
Paul believes that physical attractive people are selfish. He conducts a study to see if he is right. He goes up to five people he thinks are good looking and asks them for spare change. They all turn him down. Paul concludes “Aha! I knew it all along.” The operational definition of selfish in Paul’s study is _______________.
- whether people gave Paul a spare change Correct
psychology is the field of psychology that uses psychological principles to encourage healthy lifestyles and to minimize the impact of stress
- Health Correct
reactions occurs when the body reacts to stress with an alarmed reaction, a phase of resistance to the stress, and a stage of exhaustion if coping is not successful.
- Physiological Correct
reasoning starts from a general case that we know to be true to a specific instance.
- Deductive Correct
refer to the private thoughts, emotions, feelings and motives that other people cannot directly observe.
- Mental Processes Correct
refers to a method in which faulty cognitions, maladaptive beliefs, expectations and ways of thinking are changed by pointing out their irrationality.
- Cognitive restructuring Correct
refers to all of a person’s overt actions that others directly observe.
- Behavior Correct
refers to anything people do to deal with or manage stress or emotions
- Coping Correct
Russian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for his work on the role of saliva in digestion.
- Ivan Pavlov Correct
s the mental ability of transforming information to reach conclusions.
- Reasoning Correct
Sensory receptors located in the muscles, joints, and skin provide the brain with messages about movement, posture, and orientation of the body. These are called______________receptors.
- Kinesthetic Correct
Shirley, a sales representative, uses MapQuest to get driving directions to her client’s office. She is using a(n)_______________to reach her destinations.
- Algorithm Correct
Sigmund Freud established the first psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig, in Germany.
- False Correct
Someone who has difficulty exploring more than one possible solution to a problem is demonstrating_____.
- Functional fixedness Correct
Stress is reduced by explaining away the source of stress in ways that sound logical.
- Rationalization Correct
t maintains homeostasis in the body or a state of internal equilibrium across a variety of bodily systems
- Hypothalamus Correct
t refers to any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about through experience.
- Learning Correct
The ____________ is the smallest magnitude of a stimulus that can be detected half of the time.
- Absolute Threshold Correct
The ______________ schedule is where reinforcement always follows the first response after a set amount of time, producing a response pattern in which the rate of response immediately following reinforcement is low.
- Fixed interval Correct
The ____________theory of color vision proposes that there are three kinds of cones in the retina that respond primarily to light in either the red, green, or blue range of wavelengths.
- Trichromatic Correct
The activation of information that people already have in storage to help them remember new information better and faster.
- Priming Correct
The ancient Greek philosopher who wrote about psyche and first broadly defined the subject matter was
- Aristotle Correct
The body functions best at a specific level of arousal, which varies from one individual to another .
- Optimum Level Theories Correct
The circadian rhythm of sleep is a natural rhythm of sleep and waking programmed by a group of brain cells in the hypothalamus called_________________.
- Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Correct
The common criterion for determining mental retardation is ________.
- an IQ below 70 Correct
The emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times by reducing it to cold logic
- Intellectualization Correct
The following except for one are the changes during the adolescence period.
- Increase in crystallized intelligence or individual’s accumulated information and verbal skills Correct
The following statements except for one are true.
- Obedience is more likely to occur when we are in the presence of other disobedient individual. Correct
The Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality.
- Ego Correct
The Freudian structure personality that is known as the harsh internal judge of our behavior. It is reflected in what we often call conscience and evaluates the morality of our behavior.
- Superego Correct
The likeliness over others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude, show strong sense of meaning in life and be more forgiving.
- Extraversion Correct
The model of motivation implies that all organisms are motivated to maintain physiological equilibrium around an optimal set point.
- Drive Reduction Mode Correct
The more hours that students work, the less successful they are academically. This is an example of what type of correlation?
- Negative Correct
The needs for affiliation with friends, supportive family, group identification and intimate relationship.
- Belongingness & Love Needs Correct
The needs for attention and recognition from others, & feelings of achievement, competence, & mastery.
- Esteem Needs Correct
The nucleus of neuron contains____________ the chemical that contains the genetic blueprint that directs the development of the neuron.
- DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) Correct
The perceived states of tension that occur when our bodies are deficient in some need and creating an urge to relieve the tension.
- Drives Correct
The person expresses an unconscious wish in a socially valued way, such as a boxer who channeled his aggressive drive in the ring.
- Sublimation Correct
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