devry psyc110 week 4 Midterm latest 2016 june

devry psyc110 week 4 Midterm latest 2016 june

1. Question : (TCOs 1, 2) Sandi is a single mother living in a project in a poor section of the city. She has addiction issues and just lost custody of her three children. What type of mental health professional is most likely to get involved in Sandi’s situation?

Educational psychologist

Psychiatrist

Psychiatric social worker

Counselor

Question 2. Question : (TCO 4) The administration of Midwest State University wants to know if the arrangement of chairs affects student participation in classrooms. What would be a good operational definition of the dependent variable in an experiment designed to measure this relationship?

Class size: under 50 or over 50

Number of students enrolled in each class

Chair arrangement: theater style or circular

Frequency with which students ask questions

Question 3. Question : (TCOs 2, 3) As Joe walks to his car late at night, he hears footsteps behind him. Feeling afraid, Joe grips his keys and quickens his pace. It is likely that Joe’s _____ has been activated.

hypothalamus

hippocampus

amygdala

cerebellum

Question 4. Question : (TCOs 2, 3) What do we call the state of a neuron when it is not firing a neural impulse?

Action potential

Resting potential

Myelination signal

Transmission impulse

Question 5. Question : (TCOs 2, 3) _____ are holes in the surface of the dendrites, or certain cells of the muscles and glands that are shaped to fit only certain neurotransmitters.

Neurotransmitters

Axons

Synaptic vesicles

Receptor sites

Question 6. Question : (TCO 4) Jamie, a toddler, is making distinctions about various aspects of color in terms of whether it looks red, blue, and so forth. In doing so, she is referring to its

amplitude.

lightness.

hue.

reflection.

Question 7. Question : ( TCO 4) What are the five primary tastes?

Hot, sour, spicy, sweet, origami

Salty, sour, spicy, sweet, tart

Bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami

Peppery, salty, sour, sweet, acidic

Question 8. Question : (TCO 4) Perception is the

process by which people take all the sensations they experience at any given moment and interpret them in some meaningful fashion.

action of physical stimuli on receptors leading to sensations.

interpretation of memory based on selective attention.

act of selective attention from sensory storage.

Question 9. Question : (TCO 5) Judith is startled when her 6-year-old daughter, Laura, sleepwalks into the family room. It is most likely that Laura is experiencing the _____ stage of the sleep cycle.

REM

first

second

fourth

Question 10. Question : (TCO 5) You are telling a joke to your friend, who is laughing uproariously and then suddenly collapses to the floor. You are not surprised to later learn that he has a sleep disorder known as ¬¬¬

enuresis.

narcolepsy.

sleep terror.

daytime insomnia.

Question 11. Question : (TCO 5) How does the activation-synthesis hypothesis explain dreaming?

the surfacing of repressed sexual urges

biological attempts to make recent memories more permanent

the cortex making sense of signals from the brain stem

the use of elaborate symbolism to disguise “unthinkable” topics

Question 12. Question : (TCOs 7, 8) Sue noticed that whenever she opened the door to the pantry, her dog would come into the kitchen and act hungry by drooling and whining. She thought that because the dog food was stored in the pantry, the sound of the door had become a(n)

unconditioned stimulus.

conditioned stimulus.

unconditioned response.

conditioned response.

Question 13. Question : (TCOs 7, 8) John has been working on a math problem late at night without success; he falls asleep. Upon awakening, John suddenly realizes how to answer the problem. This best illustrates which of the following?

Observational learning

Latent learning

Insight learning

Cognitive learning

1. Question : (TCOs 7, 8) For observational learning to occur, each of the following must happen EXCEPT

paying attention to what the model does.

remembering what the model did.

doing what the model did.

being reinforced for imitating the model.

Question 2. Question : (TCO 7) Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War. Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Janie is walking down the stairs, all of a sudden, she remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Janie had a problem with

encoding.

storage.

retrieval.

evaluation.

Question 3. Question : (TCO 7) Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the

elaboration effect.

recency effect.

primacy effect.

maintenance effect.

Question 4. Question : (TCO 7) Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of the

encoding specificity effect.

serial position effect.

TOT effect.

reintegrative effect.

Question 5. Question : (TCO 8) Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and 30 percent are men. One student is described as ambitious, athletic, and assertive. Why are most people likely to think this description refers to a male student?

They are using the availability heuristic.

They are using the representativeness heuristic.

People seek only confirming information.

People tend to make relative comparisons.

Question 6. Question : (TCO 8) You are learning Russian in preparation for a trip next summer. Although you are doing a good job recognizing the written signs you need to know, you are having trouble with the sounds of the Russian language. Which of the following aspects of language is giving you trouble?

Syntax

Phonemes

Morphemes

Audiograms

Question 7. Question : (TCO 9) Monica put all her time and energy into getting into the acting club because her main goal in life “was to be a famous star!” Monica’s drive to be famous was a(n) _____ drive.

primary

reflexive

acquired

tertiary

Question 8. Question : (TCO 9) Glenn believes he can learn from his mistakes and that study and perseverance will help him improve his intelligence. According to Dweck, what locus of control does Glenn have?

Internal locus of control

Decremental

Incidental

External locus of control

Question 9. Question : (TCO 9) You are walking in the forest and see a bear. According to the Cannon-Bard theory, what happens next?

You experience physiological changes followed by fear.

You feel fear followed by physiological changes.

You experience physiological changes and a feeling of fear simultaneously.

You experience physiological changes and context appraisal followed by fear.

Question 10. Question : (TCO 11) Donita is angry with her boss, so she leaves work a little early in order to run an extra mile before it gets dark. Which defense mechanism is Donita employing?

Repression

Reaction formation

Rationalization

Sublimation

Question 11. Question : (TCO 11) Ruth-Ann just graduated from high school; she is trying out for the soccer team at the college that she will attend in the fall. She knows that it will be more competitive than her high school team, but she believes in her ability to succeed and plans to practice all summer. Bandura would say that Ruth might have an edge over some competitors simply because she has

high self-efficacy.

self-actualization.

set aside the time to practice.

an external locus of control.

Question 12. Question : (TCO 11) Which theories are less concerned with the explanation of personality development and changing personality than they are with describing personality and predicting behavior based on that description?

Trait theories

Psychodynamic theories

Archetype theories

Behaviorist theories

1. Question : (TCOs 2, 3, 4) What are the primary functions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic components of the peripheral nervous system? Describe a situation or experience in which activation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions has occurred.

Question 2. Question : (TCOs 5, 7) Describe Pavlov’s classical conditioning studies in terms of the UCS, UCR, CS, CR, and his results. Briefly discuss two examples of classical conditioning in your own life, naming the UCS, UCR, CS, and CR.

Question 3. Question : (TCOs 7, 8) The information processing of memory is one of the best-known models in all of psychology. Describe the three stages of memory and their characteristics. Explain how the three-stage model of memory might explain the famous serial position effect.

Question 4. Question : (TCOs 9, 11 ) 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?

Question 5. Question : (TCOs 7, 8) What is meant by a flashbulb memory? Describe its characteristics. Give an example that is well-known. Some psychologists are not impressed by these well-known examples of this phenomenon. What are some of the criticisms of the idea of flashbulb memory?