devry PSY110 final exam

devry PSY110 final exam

Question # 00009043 Posted By: mac123 Updated on: 02/24/2014 01:00 PM Due on: 02/26/2014
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Question 1. 1.A psychologist is interested in finding out why identical twins have different personalities. This psychologist is most interested in the goal of ____________. (Points : 5)

description
explanation
prediction
control

Question 2. 2._____________ is an experiment in which participants do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group but the experimenters do know which participants are part of which group. (Points : 5)

The double-blind study
Field research
The single-blind study
Correlational research

Question 3. 3.The cortex is divided into two sections referred to as____________. (Points : 5)

cerebral hemispheres
cerebellums
corpus callosum
neurotransmitters

Question 4. 4.John has decided to start to learn how to wrestle. His first day at practice, a seasoned wrestler slams the back of his head to the mat. John was shaken and reported to the trainer that he "saw stars" after he hit his head. As evidenced by "seeing stars," John's ______ was temporarily affected as a result of the slam. (Points : 5)

corpus callosum
occipital lobe
parietal lobes
somatosensory cortex

Question 5. 5.Laverne goes to a movie theater to watch her favorite movie. About halfway through the movie she becomes aware of an overpowering hunger for popcorn. What she does not realize is that throughout the first part of the movie, a message saying "Eat Popcorn!" was repeatedly flashed on the screen at a speed too fast for her to be consciously aware of it. If her desire for popcorn is due to that message, she is responding to ____________. (Points : 5)

selective perception
subliminal perception
cognitive restructuring
stroboscopic perception

Question 6. 6.A person can have between ___________ taste buds in his or her mouth. (Points : 5)

100 to 1,000
20,000 to 50,000
6,000,000 to 120,000,000
500 to 10,000

Question 7. 7.Proprioceptors signal ______________. (Points : 5)

somatic pain
skin sensations
olfactory sensations
the location of our body parts in space

Question 8. 8.After Pavlov's dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the metronome, he experimented by sounding the metronome and then failing to present the dogs with any food right away. Soon, they stopped salivating to the sound of the metronome. This represents the process called ______________. (Points : 5)

acquisition
testing
extinction
spontaneous recovery

Question 9. 9.Professor Rochelle told her students that if her door was closed it meant that she was unavailable to them and would be angry if they knocked on her door. But if her door was open, it meant that she was in a rare good mood and would answer questions at that time. Professor Rochelle's door being open was a ___________ for ____________. (Points : 5)

discriminative stimulus; asking questions
discriminative stimulus; not asking questions
discriminative response; asking questions
discriminative response; not asking questions

Question 10. 10.____________ is retention of memory for some period of time. (Points : 5)

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Evaluation

Question 11. 11.As memories get older, they are most likely _____________. (Points : 5)

to get lost
to become stronger, more accurate, and more vivid
to be regarded as unreliable by the person using them
to become changed or altered in some fashion

Question 12. 12.Mental activities that differ noticeably from normal waking consciousness are known as _________. (Points : 5)

hyperconsciousness
unconscious states
relaxed wakefulness
altered states of consciousness

Question 13. 13.Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking? (Points : 5)

"What is a stapler?"
"How do you spell stapler?"
"How many uses can you think of for a stapler?"
"What does a stapler look like?"

Question 14. 14.The local health department of a small town has hired a research firm to study the development of cancer in residents in the town, due to a suspected cancer-causing agent and environmental pollution. The researcher will compare data on the same participants at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 years in order to see if there are increasing rates of cancer in the town. This type of research study is called a ____________. (Points : 5)

cross-sequential design
longitudinal design
behavior genetics design
cross-sectional design

Question 15. 15.Edmund is a Boy Scout. While on a camping trip, the scout leader tells the boys to stay away from the lake. Some of the scouts ignore the leader and go fishing by the lake anyway. Edmund wants to do what the leader tells him and believes that good behaviors are rewarded while bad behaviors are punished. Which level of moral reasoning is he in? (Points : 5)

preconventional
conventional
postconventional
convenient

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Question 1. 1.Jerry gets a great deal of fulfillment out of visiting the new art exhibits at the museum in town. He usually visits each exhibit several times during a show and finds beauty in a variety of different types of art works. Jerry is likely to visit the new exhibits in an effort to meet a(n) _____________ need. (Points : 5)

freedom
belonging
power
aesthetic

Question 2. 2.Which of the following is classified as a depressant? (Points : 5)

cocaine
alcohol
heroin
marijuana

Question 3. 3.Events that cause a stress reaction are referred to as ____________. (Points : 5)

hassles
catastrophes
eustresses
stressors

Question 4. 4.Which part of the nervous system reacts when the human body is subjected to stress? (Points : 5)

parasympathetic
somatic
sympathetic
central

Question 5. 5.Social psychology differs from psychology in its focus on _________. (Points : 5)

people's susceptibility to clever advertising
the influences of the social world in which we exist
abnormal behavior
conformity

Question 6. 6.Imagine 100 individuals are asked to take part in a replication of Milgram's famous study on obedience. How are these 100 people likely to respond? (Points : 5)

The majority would administer 450 volts as instructed.
The majority would immediately realize the use of deception and leave.
Most of the women would refuse to obey, whereas almost all of the men would obey.
Most of the participants would work together to force the experimenter to end the experiment.
Correct answer is: a

Question 7. 7.The World-Will-End-on-June-7 group got together on June 7 to pray as the world ended. The next day the world had not ended. The leader of the group said, "Our prayers saved the world." What process was responsible for the attitude change? (Points : 5)

operant conditioning
cognitive dissonance
classical conditioning
positive reinforcement

Question 8. 8.Luther operates a small nightclub that specializes in soul music and features up-and-coming African American singing groups. He actively discourages white couples from coming in and always gives them the worst seats if they insist on being admitted. Luther's behavior is BEST described as an example of _________. (Points : 5)

prejudice
ambiguity
discrimination
oppression

Question 9. 9.One limitation of the trait perspective compared to the other perspectives is there is not much __________. (Points : 5)

description
research
material
explanation

Question 10. 10.Jeremy was just told that his father has cancer. Jeremy's first response is that there must be a mistake and he demands that the doctor repeat his tests. Which defense mechanism is at work here? (Points : 5)

reaction formation
denial
repression
undoing

Question 11. 11.Nicholas is a man whom the local college students all think of as eccentric. Each day he stands on campus, smiling at people as they walk by, and he is known for his ever-present greeting of "Good Luck!" In fact, the students at this campus have come to refer to him as "Good Luck Nick." Nobody knows if he has a home or if he is destitute, but Nicholas never asks for anything. Which of the four criteria of mental illness might Nicholas satisfy? (Points : 5)

inability to function normally
social norm deviance
subjective discomfort
danger to self or others

Question 12. 12.Which of the following statements is true about anxiety? (Points : 5)

It is never considered realistic or normal.
Some anxiety is realistic when its source is understandable.
It always manifests itself as a disorder.
It is unusual for a mentally healthy person to experience anxiety.

Question 13. 13.A person who suffers from bipolar disorder alternates between ________. (Points : 5)

anxiety and mania
depression and manic episodes
mania and schizophrenia
depression and schizophrenia

Question 14. 14.Sylvia, who is undergoing person-centered therapy, has been told that she experiences a mismatch between her ________self and her _______self. (Points : 5)

conscious; unconscious
possible; future
working; current
real; ideal

Question 15. 15.Which of the following is one of the criticisms of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapies? (Points : 5)

They are too expensive.
Therapy typically lasts for several years.
They focus too much on the past.
They treat the symptom not the cause of the problem.

Question 1. 1.How is the way the sense of taste works similar to the way the sense of smell works? Please give examples to illustrate your answer. (Points : 30)

2.Think about our prison systems. Many folks think the role of the prison system is to punish people who break the law, and that we should have more prisons to punish more people. But let us look at what happens to the average burglar. If (s)he is caught, (s)he will probably not go to trial for a year or two and then is likely to get probation or a light sentence. If (s)he does go to prison, (s)he is unlikely to learn any useful skills and will meet other criminals who will probably not be good role models. Additionally, (s)he may not end up serving his/her entire sentence due to overcrowding conditions in prisons. Given what you know about operant learning principles, reinforcement, and punishment, critique the way our current prison system works and suggest some better ideas. Be sure to be specific about the principles that you have learned from our textbook. (Points : 30)

3.Give an example about something you have learnt, using it define and describe the three-stage model of memory is one of the best-known models in all of psychology. Describe also the three stages of memory and their characteristics. Explain how the three-stage model of memory might explain the famous serial position effect. (Points : 30)

4.Based on personal examples, describe Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs which has been described as a pyramid with several different levels. Please discuss each level of the pyramid, and use your examples to explain each need. (Points : 30)

5.Why does Freudian theory garner so much criticism? What are some positive qualities of Freud's theory that might describe behavior in the twenty-first century? Give also your personal point of view about Freud's theory. (Points : 30)

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