Introduction to Psychology - Midterm 2

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Questions (80)

1 - Quiz
Ella is automatically processing the sensation of touching a sponge. What 20 sec
consciousness is this?

Non-conscious

Subconscious

Unconscious

Preconscious

2 - Quiz
While Jason runs, he notices that no matter what, his body will always 20 sec
make him breathe. What consciousness is this?

Non-conscious

Subconscious

Unconscious

Preconscious
3 - Quiz
Max was assaulted once in high school, but he says he no longer 20 sec
remembers it. What consciousness is this?

Non-conscious

Subconscious

Unconscious

Preconscious

4 - Quiz
What is NOT an aspect of your circadian rhythm? 20 sec

Natural light is the biggest source of information for functions

Body temperature drops during sleep

You become more alert as the day goes on

Growth hormones are secreted in your sleep

5 - Quiz
What contributes to sleep regulation? 20 sec

Dopamine

Melatonin

Serotonin

Cortisol
6 - Quiz
Next summer, I plan on surprising my family in Portugal. I'll be flying east. 20 sec
What'll most likely happen?

Nothing

I'll more likely to feel disoriented

I'll want to dance more

I don't know! I keep confusing east and west

7 - Quiz
In the autumn, we change our clocks back an hour, adding an hour to our 20 sec
day. What most likely happens?

Nothing

People are more likely to get into accidents

We'll feel terrible

I don't remember!

8 - Quiz
Janice is displaying delta wave sleep. What stage of sleep is she in? 20 sec

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 5 (REM sleep)

9 - Quiz
Evelyn is starting to have dreams. What stage of sleep is she in? 20 sec

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 4

Stage 5 (REM sleep)

10 - Quiz
Jackson's sleep waves include sleep spindles. What stage of sleep is this? 20 sec

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 5 (REM sleep)

11 - Quiz
What happens during REM sleep? 20 sec

Major muscle groups are activated

Heart rate decreases

Arousal increases

Brain activity resembles a sleep state

12 - Quiz
Alexia is having problems with her girlfriend. She has a dream about 20 sec
talking about it with her. What is this theory?

Wish Fulfillment Theory

Problem-Solving Theory

Activation-Synthesis Model

Fixing Theory

13 - Quiz
Damian is dreaming, but it means nothing. He displays random neural 20 sec
firings in the brain. What theory is this?

Wish Fulfillment Theory

Problem-Solving Theory

Activation-Synthesis Model

Fixing Theory

14 - Quiz
Alex dreams that she's riding an elephant. What component of the Wish 20 sec
Fulfillment Theory is this?

Manifest content

Latent content

Extinction content

Element content
15 - Quiz
Teenagers should be getting _______ hours of sleep. 20 sec

8.5 to 9.5

7 to 9

9 to 11

8 to 10

16 - Quiz
Adam is sleep deprived. What is he NOT going to do? 20 sec

He won't concentrate in class

He'll become severely irritated

He'll begin to zone out while reading his textbook

He'll do better on the test

17 - Quiz
What is NOT a reason we need sleep? 20 sec

For neurogensis to occur

To learn better

To regulate our mood

To prepare ourselves for danger

18 - Quiz
Jasmine wants to increase her sleep success. What should she do? 20 sec

Don't expose yourself to bright light

Avoid excessive caffeine after 2 pm

She can stay awake in bed for more than 20 minutes

Make big incremental changes

19 - Quiz
Jessica wants to interpret her dreams better. What should she do? 20 sec

Interpret the dream literally

Write the dream in the past tense

Link the dream to waking life

Forget her dreams

20 - Quiz
Alphonso is being hypnotized. What is most likely happen? 20 sec

He'll do things against his will

His pain will be alleviated

Lost memories will be recovered

He'll act like a child

21 - Quiz
Genevieve often gets absorbed into her own fantasy world. What can most 20 sec
likely be said about her?

She's high in suggestibility

She's low in suggestibility

She lies within the average of suggestibility

She can't be hypnotized at all

22 - Quiz
A hypnotist tells Noah to cluck like a chicken. Noah catches on and 20 sec
pretends he's been hyponotized. What theory is this?

Role Enactment Theory

Unification

Hypnosis as an altered state

Wish Fulfillment Theory

23 - Quiz
Henry is told that he is getting sleepier. His brain waves start to display 20 sec
such waves. What theory is this?

Role Enactment Theory

Unification

Hypnosis as an altered state

Activation-Synthesis Model
24 - Quiz
Piper is told her arm is getting heavier. She believes in hypnosis, and she 20 sec
actually feels this. What theory is this?

Role Enactment Theory

Unification

Hypnosis as an altered state

Problem-Solving Theory

25 - Quiz
Ray begins to meditate by focusing on something within. What kind of 20 sec
meditation is this?

Open monitoring

Focused attention

Mindful meditation

Attentional meditation

26 - Quiz
What meditation is most endorsed in our society? 20 sec

Mindful meditation

Focused attention

Transcendental meditation

Attentional meditation
27 - Quiz
What is NOT a benefit of meditation? 20 sec

Attentional

Emotional

Physical

Transcendence

28 - Quiz
What are NOT some long term gains of meditation? 20 sec

Doing better in school

Increases energy

Induces relaxation

Prevents relaspe in depression

29 - Quiz
What are NOT some complications with alcohol abuse? 20 sec

Relationship problems

Your roles go unfulfilled

Liver is destroyed

Your eyes get destroyed

30 - Quiz
What drug causes mild euphoria and relaxation? 20 sec

Marijuana

Hallucinogens

Stimulants

Sedatives

31 - Quiz
What drug type is cocaine? 20 sec

Stimulants

Hallucinogens

Narcotics

Marijuana

32 - Quiz
What drug causes a mystical experience? 20 sec

Hallucinogens

Stimulants

Sedatives

Alcohol
33 - Quiz
What drug has been most often used to relieve pain? 20 sec

Hallucinogens

Narcotics

Marijuana

Alcohol

34 - Quiz
What is NOT a factor of drug abuse? 20 sec

Depression

Having fewer dopamine receptors

Peer pressure

Having fewer melatonin receptors

35 - Quiz
What is NOT a type of learning? 20 sec

Classical conditioning

Operant conditioning

Observational learning

Emotional learning
36 - Quiz
Who founded observational learning? 20 sec

Pavlov

Watson

Bandura

Skinner

37 - Quiz
Who founded operant conditioning? 20 sec

Pavlov

Skinner

Watson

Bandura

38 - Quiz
What was the UCS in Pavlov's experiment? 20 sec

Meat

Bell

Salivation

Bowl
39 - Quiz
What was the CS in Watson's experiement? 20 sec

White furry objects

Noise

Fear

Meat

40 - Quiz
If I fear snakes, what is my therapist most likely to do first? 20 sec

Get me to hold a snake

Work on my thoughts about snakes

Reassure my avoidance tactics

Treat my panic around snakes

41 - Quiz
What is NOT a secondary reinforcement? 20 sec

Food

Toys

Money

Verbal praise
42 - Quiz
What is NOT a primary reinforcer? 20 sec

Warmth

Food

Water

Stickers

43 - Quiz
Ashley's big brother is picking on her. She reacts by crying every time, and 20 sec
her brother keeps doing it. What is this?

Positive reinforcement

Negative reinforcement

Punishment

Negative response

44 - Quiz
Annalise is chatting a lot in class. Her teacher gives her time out, and 20 sec
Annalise stops talking. What is this?

Positive reinforcement

Negative reinforcement

Punishment

Negative response
45 - Quiz
What's most likely to happen when Everly hits her son when he swears? 20 sec

He'll stop swearing altogether

He'll stop swearing only around his mom

He'll swear more around his mom

His self-esteem will increase

46 - Quiz
Skye wants to change a behaviour. What should she NOT do? 20 sec

Take a hard look at her triggers and consequences

Track on a daily basis

Avoid social support

Monitor your current habits

47 - Quiz
In Bandura's experiment, what did children subjected to violence do? 20 sec

Nothing

Displayed more violent acts themselves

Cry

Displayed a decrease in violent acts themselves

48 - Quiz
Mirror neurons do NOT play a role in... 20 sec

Die-hard sports fans

Feeling empathy

Salivating when you see food

Learn from wathcing someone else

49 - Quiz
Journey is observing everything in her surroundings. What memory 20 sec
system is she using?

Sensory memory

Short term memory

Long term memory

Working memory capacity (WMC)

50 - Quiz
Trisha is observing everything in her visual field. What is memory is being 20 sec
used?

Iconic sensory memory

Echoic sensory memory

Long term memory

Short term memory

51 - Quiz
Jessie is on her way to work. What memory is being used? 20 sec

Implicit memory

Explicit memory

Semantic memory

Episodic memory

52 - Quiz
How long is memory stored in short term memory? 20 sec

10-20 seconds

20-30 seconds

2-3 seconds

1-2 minutes

53 - Quiz
Anna emphasizes how a word sounds. What type of processing is used? 20 sec

Intermediate processing

Deep processing

Shallow processing

Semantic processing
54 - Quiz
To remember my mom's phone number, I remember it by looking at every 20 sec
3 to 4 numbers. What is this called?

Mneumonics

Chunking

Time and spacing effects

Imagery

55 - Quiz
"Obama was a president of the USA." What kind of memory is this? 20 sec

Semantic memory

Non-declarative memory

Episodic memory

Implicit memory

56 - Quiz
What is the tip of the tongue phenomenon? 20 sec

Ineffective encoding

Decay

Retrieval failure

Interference
57 - Quiz
James' new learning interferes with his old learning. What is this? 20 sec

Decay

Retroactive interference

Proactive interference

Retrieval failure

58 - Quiz
What was intact with HM? 20 sec

Episodic memory

Explicit memory

Semantic memory

Procedural memory

59 - Quiz
According to cognitive psychologists... 20 sec

If you think negatively, you'll feel bad

If you think positively, you'll feel good

If you think negatively, you'll feel good

If you think positively, you'll feel bad

60 - Quiz
"He said no to our date. I'm going to be alone forever!" 20 sec

Mindreading

Overgeneralization

Magnification and minimization

Reasoning from how you feel

61 - Quiz
How do we know what we know? 20 sec

Authority

Reason

Nature

Cognition

62 - Quiz
What is a problem with deductive reasoning? 20 sec

Confirmation bias

Reason

Authority

Self-fulfillment prophecy
63 - Quiz
"A carpenter is to a house is as an author is to a book." What is this? 20 sec

Deductive reasoning

Authority

Inductive reasoning

Non-sense

64 - Quiz
What is NOT a barrier to reasoning? 20 sec

Mental sets

Functional fixedness

Stress

Incubation

65 - Quiz
"Xavier loves reading about music. Is he a librarian, or a librarian who's also 20 sec
a musician?" What is this?

Availability heuristic

Conjunction fallacy

Alternative outcome effect

Framing
66 - Quiz
"You have a 70% chance of being denied." "You have a 30% chance of being 20 sec
accepted." What is this?

Framing

Representative heuristic

Overconfidence effect

Availability heuristic

67 - Quiz
What should you NOT do to improve critical thinking? 20 sec

Remember common pitfalls

Define your terms concretely

Create simplistic explanations

Avoid emotional reasoning

68 - Quiz
How is intelligence NOT defined? 20 sec

Ability to reason, solve problems

Think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas

Learn quickly and be articulate about what you know

Can be empathic
69 - Quiz
Who created the first ever IQ test? 20 sec

Binet

Stanford

Terman

Wechsler

70 - Quiz
A child is 8 years old. Their mental age is 12 years old. What is their IQ? 60 sec

150

67

100

170

71 - Quiz
Intelligence is ___________ distributed. 20 sec

Normally

Positively

Negatively

Abnormally
72 - Quiz
In the General Factor Theory, the G-factor represents... 20 sec

Your general ability to do things

Your specfic skills

All your specfic skills combined

Nothing

73 - Quiz
This intelligence is mildly related to IQ 20 sec

Creative

Analytic

Practical

Street smarts

74 - Quiz
Who can benefit from bodily kinesthetic intelligence? 20 sec

Athletes

Psychologists

Scientists

Musicians
75 - Quiz
EQ does NOT include... 20 sec

Self-awareness

Empathy

Self-regulation

Ability to analyze

76 - Quiz
What scales are part of the WAIS-R 20 sec

Verbal

Performance

Musical

Technical

77 - Quiz
How much of your intelligence is genetic? 20 sec

50%

25%

80%

95%
78 - Quiz
You're more likely to be at the low end of your reaction range if... 20 sec

Your parents offer you things like books

You're part of the low socioeconomic status

You're pushed to do better in school

You enjoy school

79 - Quiz
There tends to be differences in IQ between different ethnic groups 20 sec
because...

Some are genetically inferior

The environments vary

IQ tests weren't made for them

Some are genetically superior

80 - Quiz
Schooling is positively correlated to... 20 sec

IQ

EQ

Income

Ethnicity