PSYC&100 General Psychology Midterm Exam Completed A+++
5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General
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Midterm 1
Due May 11 at 11:59pm Points 100 Questions 50 Available May 5 at 12am May 11 at 11:59pm 7 days
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Question 1 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following best illustrates the impact of brain activity in the absence of normal sensory input?
sensory interaction
Correct! tinnitus
kinesthesia
transduction
Question 2 2 / 2 pts
When 80yearold Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her
parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The picture served as a powerful
Correct! retrieval cue.
spacing effect.
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iconic memory.
Question 3 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following is true for those assigned to a control group?
The research participants are exposed to all the experimental treatments.
The experimenter exerts the greatest influence on participants' behavior.
Correct! The experimental treatment is absent.
The research participants are exposed to the most favorable levels of experimental treatment.
Question 4 2 / 2 pts
Sixyearold Ashley effectively restrained herself from touching a burning candle by inaudibly whispering the
word “hot.” The advantage of her verbal selfcontrol tactic was most clearly highlighted by
Correct! Lev Vygotsky.
Lawrence Kohlberg.
Erik Erikson.
Jean Piaget.
Question 5 2 / 2 pts
Erik Erikson suggested that the major psychosocial task of middle adulthood was to discover a sense of
contributing to the world by being productive. According to Erikson, those who do this effectively demonstrate
Correct! generativity.
conservation.
moral intuition.
accommodation.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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Question 6 2 / 2 pts
The interior surface of the cochlea is lined with
feature detectors.
olfactory receptors.
bipolar cells.
Correct! hair cells.
Question 7 2 / 2 pts
According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to
a failure to realize that things continue to exist even when they are out of sight.
young children's exaggerated interest in themselves and their own pleasure.
a sensorimotor need for selfstimulation, for example, by thumb sucking.
Correct! the difficulty seeing things from another person's point of view.
Question 8 2 / 2 pts
REM rebound involves the
increase in REM sleep that characteristically follows intense learning episodes or stressful
daytime experiences.
tendency for REM sleep periods to become increasingly longer and more frequent as a normal
night of sleep progresses.
unusual symptoms of tiredness and irritability that follow periods of REM sleep deprivation.
Correct! tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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Question 9 2 / 2 pts
To remember the information presented in her psychology textbook, Susan often relates it to her own life
experiences. Susan's strategy is an effective memory aid because it facilitates
the serial position effect.
Correct! meaningful encoding.
iconic memory.
proactive interference.
Question 10 2 / 2 pts
Neurons that function within the brain and spinal cord are called
motor neurons.
sensory neurons.
glial cells.
Correct! interneurons.
Question 11 2 / 2 pts
Jamal claims that his special psychic powers enable him to perceive exactly where the body of a recent
murder victim is secretly buried. Jamal is claiming to possess the power of
telepathy.
precognition.
psychokinesis.
Correct! clairvoyance.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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Question 12 2 / 2 pts
Endorphins are
Correct! neurotransmitters.
sex hormones.
endocrine glands.
glial cells.
Question 13 2 / 2 pts
Traffic accident rates have been found to ________ after the spring change to daylight savings time and to
________ after the fall change back to standard time.
decrease; increase
increase; increase
decrease; decrease
Correct! increase; decrease
Question 14 2 / 2 pts
After working hard for eight hours, Alex was paid $100. The money was a(n)
operant behavior.
primary reinforcer.
spontaneous recovery.
Correct! conditioned reinforcer.
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Bedwetting is most likely to occur at the end of ________ sleep.
NREM1
Correct! NREM3
NREM2
REM
Question 16 2 / 2 pts
Professor Smith emphasizes that human similarities and differences result from the interaction among
individual genetic variations, cultural influences, and our beliefs and expectations. The professor's emphasis
best illustrates
Correct! a biopsychosocial approach.
Kohlberg's moral development theory.
a behaviorist perspective.
Harlow's attachment theory.
Question 17 2 / 2 pts
Martin Seligman advocates a positive psychology that focuses on such topics as
Correct! compassion.
poverty.
prejudice.
depression.
Question 18 2 / 2 pts
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Correct! memories of facts and personal events that can be consciously retrieved.
anxietyarousing memories that are banished from awareness.
memories of physical skills such as how to ride a bike.
classically conditioned associations that are automatically processed.
Question 19 2 / 2 pts
Watching the night sky for shooting stars is likely to be reinforced on a ________ schedule.
variableratio
Correct! variableinterval
fixedratio
fixedinterval
Question 20 2 / 2 pts
If a sea slug repeatedly receives an electric shock just after being squirted with water, its withdrawal response
to a squirt of water grows stronger. This best illustrates
operant conditioning.
observational learning.
Correct! associative learning.
spontaneous recovery.
Question 21 2 / 2 pts
To track the development of children's social skills, Professor Ober carefully monitors and records their
classroom behaviors. Professor Ober is engaged in
experimentation.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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Correct! naturalistic observation.
survey research.
replication.
Question 22 2 / 2 pts
Damage to the retina's area of central focus would probably have the LEAST effect on visual sensitivity to
________ stimuli.
finely detailed
brilliantly colored
highly familiar
Correct! dimly illuminated
Question 23 2 / 2 pts
The most notable feature of the psychodynamic perspective is its emphasis on
learned behaviors.
brain chemistry.
natural selection.
Correct! unconscious conflicts.
Question 24 2 / 2 pts
Some of the information in our ________ memory is encoded into ________ memory.
Correct! iconic; shortterm
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shortterm; sensory
longterm; iconic
Question 25 2 / 2 pts
Which psychologist was most influential in shaping our understanding of cognitive development?
Sigmund Freud
Correct! Jean Piaget
Erik Erikson
Harry Harlow
Question 26 2 / 2 pts
A child's learned fear at the sight of a hypodermic needle is a(n)
unconditioned stimulus.
unconditioned response.
Correct! conditioned response.
conditioned stimulus.
Question 27 2 / 2 pts
The reticular formation is located in the
limbic system.
Correct! brainstem.
cerebellum.
somatosensory cortex.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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Question 28 2 / 2 pts
Without stimulation from sounds, a temporal lobe area normally dedicated to hearing may begin to process
visual signals. This best illustrates
neurotransmission.
tomography.
neurogenesis.
Correct! plasticity.
Question 29 2 / 2 pts
Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that
children are no more susceptible to the misinformation effect than adults.
All of these statements are true.
children are less susceptible to source amnesia than adults.
it is surprisingly difficult for both children and professional interviewers to reliably separate the
children's true memories from false memories.
Correct!
Question 30 2 / 2 pts
Which research method assesses how well one variable predicts another without specifying a cause and
effect relationship between the variables?
the experimental method
the case study
naturalistic observation
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Question 31 2 / 2 pts
Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves
retroactive interference.
memory decay.
Correct! retrieval failure.
longterm potentiation.
Question 32 2 / 2 pts
Regis thinks it's wrong to drive over the speed limit simply because he might get punished for doing so. He is
demonstrating Kohlberg's ________ stage of morality.
Correct! preconventional
postconventional
preoperational
conventional
Question 33 2 / 2 pts
Studies conducted for the sake of building psychology's base of knowledge are most clearly examples of
the testing effect.
Correct! basic research.
replication.
positive psychology.
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John has more difficulty batting baseballs that are pitched to him than his classmates do because he was born
blind in his right eye. His difficulty can best be attributed to his lack of the depth cue known as
Correct! retinal disparity.
linear perspective.
interposition.
proximity.
Question 35 2 / 2 pts
Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fall asleep is most likely due to
the misinformation effect.
retroactive interference.
Correct! encoding failure.
motivated forgetting.
Question 36 2 / 2 pts
Who emphasized that perceptual understanding comes from our inborn ways of organizing sensory
experiences?
Aristotle
Sigmund Freud
Correct! Immanuel Kant
John Locke
Question 37 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following refers to the genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring?5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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conservation
maturation
Correct! heredity
social identity
Question 38 2 / 2 pts
The process of encoding refers to
the persistence of learning over time.
a clear memory of an emotionally significant event.
the recall of information previously learned.
Correct! getting information into memory.
Question 39 2 / 2 pts
Operant response rates remain highest when people anticipate that their behavior will actually lead to further
reinforcement. This best illustrates the importance of ________ in operant conditioning.
Correct! cognitive processes
intrinsic motivation
biological predispositions
secondary reinforcers
Question 40 2 / 2 pts
While listening to sad rather than happy music, people are more likely to perceive a spoken word as mourning
rather than morning. This best illustrates that perception is influenced by
Correct! context effects.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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tinnitus.
precognition.
interposition.
Question 41 2 / 2 pts
A developmental stage between adolescent dependence and responsible adulthood is called
the midlife crisis.
Correct! emerging adulthood.
puberty.
the crosssectional stage.
Question 42 2 / 2 pts
Displaying data in a scatterplot can help us see the extent to which two variables are
replications.
operationally defined.
Correct! correlated.
random samples.
Question 43 2 / 2 pts
Sixteenyearold Brenda questions her parents' values but does not fully accept her friends' standards either.
Her confusion about what she really wants and values in life suggests that Brenda is struggling with the
problem of
Correct! identity.
initiative.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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integrity.
autonomy.
Question 44 2 / 2 pts
The personality theorist, Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian
politician.
Correct! physician.
chemist.
theologian.
Question 45 2 / 2 pts
Perception is the process by which
stimulus energies are detected.
stimulus energies are transformed into neural impulses.
nerve cells respond to specific features of a stimulus.
Correct! sensory input is organized and interpreted.
Question 46 2 / 2 pts
Our inability to consciously process all the sensory information available to us at any single moment best
illustrates the need for
REM rebound.
circadian rhythms.
hypnagogic sensations.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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Correct! selective attention.
Question 47 2 / 2 pts
Hormones are the chemical messengers of the
reticular formation.
Correct! endocrine system.
limbic system.
autonomic nervous system.
Question 48 2 / 2 pts
To get you to increase the frequency of your daily exercise, operant behavior specialists are most likely to
recommend that you
congratulate yourself even when you fail to fulfill your specific exercise goals.
never reward yourself with a light snack after achieving specific exercise goals.
avoid trying to keep track of exactly how much you have exercised in a specific weekly period.
Correct! specify your exercise goals and inform some close friends of your goals.
Question 49 0 / 2 pts
Subliminally presented stimuli
Correct Answer can sometimes be consciously perceived.
You Answered effectively influence purchases on consumer goods.
increase our absolute thresholds for visual images.
are usually mentally processed as completely as any other stimuli.5/12/2016 Midterm 1: 5418B564 PSYC&100 General Psychology
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Question 50 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following is likely to produce securely attached human infants?
authoritarian discipline
conventional morality
stranger anxiety
Correct! responsive parenting
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