PSYC 1101 EXAM 2

Question 1

CPAP stands for ________.

Question 2

An olfactory stimulus travels from receptor to ________.

Question 3

If the EEG record reveals evidence of very small and very fast waves in a person that otherwise
appears to be asleep, and other data indicates the person’s eyes are moving back and forth but the
rest of the body is still, you are likely to conclude that the sleeping person is in ________.

Question 4

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"If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is

followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of
________.

Question 5

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Selma notices that as her supply of marijuana decreases, she starts thinking more and more about
where she can get another supply as well as feeling nervous and anxious. This is an example of
 ________.

Question 6

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Suppose Maria is painting while the sun is setting; once she notices that the room is getting darker,
she decides to call it quits for the day. This example illustrates the role of ________.

Question 7

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Catching fish when fishing in a lake would most likely represent which of the following schedules of
reinforcement?

Question 8

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Jim is 56 years old and slightly overweight. His wife reports that he snores loudly. What sleep
disorder seems to fit Jim's symptoms?

Question 9

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Your friend has experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. He is laughing with you and suddenly falls
to the ground. Your friend is probably suffering from ________.

Question 10

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You hit yourself with a hammer and later suffer a deep ache. This is an example of ________.

Question 11

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What is the pupil of the eye?

Question 12

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Manifest content is to latent content as ________.

Question 13

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After taking a drug for several years, Bruce decides to quit taking it. He begins to experience a variety
of physical symptoms, psychological symptoms such as irritability, and a strong craving for the
substance. What term is used to describe what Bruce is experiencing?

Question 14

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When you enter a darkened room (e.g., a movie theater), you will find it hard to see at first, but
shortly afterward you will be able to see much better. This phenomenon is referred to as:

Question 15

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If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see
a greenish image of the object. This phenomenon BEST supports ________ theory of color vision.

Question 16

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Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of the dogs, and they began to salivate. Pavlov's student
noticed that after a few days the dogs began to salivate at the sound of the student's footsteps. The
salivation to the sound of the footsteps was a ________.

Question 17

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Your brain waves are being monitored in a sleep laboratory. If you are in deep sleep less than an
hour after falling asleep, what brain waves will be detected?

Question 18

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As an infant, Stephanie received many penicillin injections from the doctor. When she later saw a
photographer in a white coat that was similar to the doctor's coat, she started to cry. This is an
example of ________.

Question 19

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________, a hormone involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms, is secreted by the pineal gland.
 Question 20

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The process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste, touch, smell, and vision is
"ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves is called _________.

Question 21

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Fred is afraid of spiders. He won't even watch a nature show on TV about them. When he sees a
picture of a spider, he has a panic attack, but when he avoids looking at the image, his panic goes
away. Fred's avoidance of spiders is being ________.

Question 22

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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.

Question 23

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Narcolepsy occurs when ________.

Question 24

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Every time Maricella goes to work in the morning, she notices that her dog sulks in the corner of the
room and looks very sad. Over several weeks, she notices that the dog gets unhappy when she picks
 up her car keys, immediately before leaving the house. Which phenomenon of learning best
describes the dog's behavior?

Question 25

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Psychoactive drugs are ________.

Question 26

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To treat your sleep problem, you are told that you should not nap, you should set your alarm clock to
wake up at the same time each day, and you should get out of bed if you cannot sleep. What sleep
disorder have you been experiencing?

Question 27

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John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by
striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the ________ in his study.

Question 28

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Learning is said to be a relatively permanent change in behavior because ________.

Question 29

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In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After
several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. Which of the following
is true?

Question 30

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Jamie, a toddler, is making distinctions about various aspects of color in terms of whether it looks
red, blue, and so on. In doing so, she is referring to its ________.

Question 31

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You are listening to a person who keeps telling you to relax, attempting to create a situation in which
you are likely to follow suggestions. What treatment are you undergoing?

Question 32

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A sound mixer is impressed by the new equipment that was just installed in his recording studio. He
says that now he will be able to help singers and musicians produce better CDs because he can
eliminate unneeded and undesired wavelengths. What term describes the characteristic of sound
waves that the sound mixer is now able to alter?

Question 33

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For every 5 times that you go to the gym each week, you reward yourself with a treat. This best
illustrates which of the following schedules of reinforcement?
 Question 34

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What are the five primary tastes?

Question 35

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A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey,
the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the
therapist, is what Freud called its ________.

Question 36

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You train your dog, Milo, to salivate at the sound of a bell. Then you ring the bell every five minutes
and don't follow the ringing with food for Milo. He salivates less and less and finally stops salivating
at all when the bell rings. But the next morning, when you ring the bell, Milo salivates! What term is
used to explain the reappearance of this response?

Question 37

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A newspaper advertisement describes a book that offers interpretations of dreams. In attempting to

tell readers the meaning of the symbols of their dreams, the author intends to describe the
________.

Question 38

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A monthly paycheck best represents a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

Question 39

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Mary is having insomnia. Which piece of advice would you give to help her deal with it?

Question 40

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Imagine that you flinch after seeing lightning because in previous instances the lightning is followed
by thunder, which scared you. In this scenario, lightning can be interpreted as being a(n):

Question 41

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What aspect of circadian rhythms might explain why we tend to feel so tired at night?

Question 42

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The activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming states that ________.

Question 43

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 Which device would a sleep researcher use to monitor a sleeping person's brain waves?

Question 44

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When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented
tones to Ann through earphones. The tones started at a low intensity and then became louder. The
doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she started to hear a sound. The doctor was testing
Ann's ________.

Question 45

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You walk up to a soda machine and put in a dollar, and are rewarded with a bottle of root beer.
When you put in another dollar, you get another soda. Assuming that the machine has a limitless
supply of root beer, which kind of reinforcement schedule does this machine operate on?

Question 46

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After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a
white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not ________ had
occurred.

Question 47

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Hair follicle nerve endings respond to ________.

Question 48
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________ is an example of a primary reinforcer, whereas ________ is an example of a secondary

reinforcer.

Question 49

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A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a
sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the
coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn to not eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the
principle of _________ to accomplish this.

Question 50

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Sid is taking part in research on the effects of sleep deprivation; he has been without sleep for 75
hours. Right now researchers have asked him to sit in front of a computer screen and hit a button
each time he sees the letter S on the screen. A few days ago, Sid was a whiz at this task; however, he
is doing very poorly today. How are sleep researchers likely to explain Sid's poor performance?