PSY 101 SUNY ADK FINAL

Introduction to Psychology questions SUNY ADK SUNY ACC PSY 101

What is psychology?

The study of behavior and mental processes

What are the goals of psychology?

Describe, understand, predict and control behavior

What are cognitions?

Thoughts

The scientific method has ___ number of elements

6

What is a theory?

Map of knowledge

How is a positive correlation expressed?

+1

Cause and ___

Effect

A variable is ___

Any condition that can change the outcome

The soma is the ___

Cell body

The axon carries ___ away from the soma

Information

A synapse is like a ___ between two neurons

River

Which of the following is a neurotransmitter?

Serotonin

The brain and the ___ make up the Central Nervous System

Spinal cord

There are ___ pairs of spinal nerves

31 pairs

The ___ is a thick white band that helps the two halves of the brain talk to each other

Corpus callosum

Broca’s area is involved with

Expressive language

The Limbic System is closely linked with what?

Emotions

What kind of chemicals are used in the endocrine system?

Hormones

The Pituitary Gland is often called the ___

The master gland

An extraneous variable is one that:

is unplanned for and alters the outcome of the experiment

The placebo effect is:

produces change in behavior due to expectations that something will work

The “Barnum Effect” supports the idea:

A new sucker is born every minute

T/F: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that destroys/breaks down myelin

True

The fight or flight response is related to:

Survival

T/F: Aphasia is a type of language skills problem

True

The ___ is involved in the memory process

Hippocampus

The amygdala is strongly related to ___

Fear

The thyroid gland helps regulate:

Growth

T/F: There are two occipital lobes

True

In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy was the best therapist because:

He made people feel good about themselves

In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one of the reasons Nurse Ratched was voted the fifth most evil character in film history was because:

In many ways, she killed Billy Bibbitt

The Ishihara Test is a measure for:

Color blindness

T/F: Most people who have issues with color vision are blue-green color weakness

False

T/F: You keep growing new hair cells in your cochlea

False

T/F: There is only one way of becoming deaf: rock music

False

Stuttering involves a problem with:

Timing mechanism

Dyslexia is:

Inability to read with understanding

T/F: About 80 percent of all adults function as the post conventional level of moral development

False

T/F: The visual spectrum is very large

False

T/F: Pheromones can give you a sense of well-being

True

T/F: Umami is a possible fifth taste sensation

True

T/F: Warning pain is carried along small nerve fibers

False

T/F: Kubler-Ross was a stage theorist

False

Kubler-Ross’s stages of death and dying are:

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

T/F: Walt Disney is frozen in cryonic suspension

False

T/F: The second level of Kohlberg’s stages of moral development is preconventional

False

T/F: Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development is the latency stage

False

T/F: Erickson was interested in the physical development of children

False

Why do you need a “barf bag” on roller coasters and other thrill rides?

None of the above

T/F: Cryonics is a type of passive euthanasia

False

T/F: The minimum amount of stimulation necessary for a sensation to occur is defined as Just Noticeable Difference

True

Hyperopia is related to:

farsightedness

The eyes become more sensitive to light when you enter a movie theater due to:

dark adaptation

Which of the following is NOT part of the cochlea?

All of the above

T/F: By age 65, 40% of your hair cells are gone.

True

T/F: Taste buds often last only 2-3 days.

True

T/F: Malleus = hammer

True

During concrete operational stage a child learns:

conservation

T/F: Life span development is the study of children

False

In Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development, stage 2 is called:

autonomy vs. shame and doubt

___ is associated with ADD and ADHD?

All of the above

T/F: The receptor cells for vision are located in the optic nerve

False

Cones are involved with:

Color vision

Type of farsightedness caused by old age is:

Presbyopia

T/F: In the reaction to death that Kubler-Ross describes as bargaining, the dying individual asks “why me?”

False

T/F: A dazed state of shock or numbness is typical in the first phase of grief

True

T/F: In passive euthanasia, death is allowed to occur but is not actively induced

True

T/F: Nerve deafness occurs when the auditory ossicles are damaged.

False

T/F: From a survival standpoint, we are fortunate that we are LEAST sensitive to bitter taste.

False

T/F: Umami is a possible fifth taste sensation.

True

T/F: DNA has 48 chromosomes in ALL strands.

False

The rooting reflex involves:

Turning toward the direction of touch

Anosmia is:

Loss of smell

The receptor sites for smell are located in your:

Nose

Anosmia can be caused by:

Poisoning

Gustation is the sense of:

Taste

The four basic taste sensations are:

Sweet, salty, bitter, sour

Taste receptor cells are located:

On your tongue

T/F: Some people have as many as 100,000 taste buds

True

T/F: The fovea is the area of the eye containing only cones

True

The sensory conflict theory is involved with:

Motion sickness

The vestibular system is involved with:

Balance

According to Erickson, adolescence is a very stable time for most teenagers.

False.

T/F: SIDS is a very low risk problem for premature babies.

False

Learning is best defined as:

A relatively permanent change in behavior

Events that occur just before a response are called:

Antecedents

In Pavlov’s experiments, the meat powder was the:

Unconditioned stimulus

In a conditioning experiment, a bell is paired again and again with meat. When the dog salivates to the sound of just the bell, this salivation is called:

Conditioned response

A neutral stimulus is one that:

Does not cause the unconditioned response

The best maximum delay between a response and reinforcement is:

3 seconds

Acquiring a fear of spiders because you saw someone else get attacked by spiders is an example of:

Vicarious learning

This reinforcer is used to avoid the problem of satiation:

Tokens

Being addicted to gambling is MOST closely related to:

Partial reinforcement schedule

Anything that follows a response and decreases the likelihood of the response occurring again is a:

Punishment

T/F: A person only sleep walks during REM sleep

False

T/F: Nightmares and night terrors both occur during non REM sleep

False

“Dreams are a window into the unconscious” was said by:

Freud

T/F: A sensory deprivation tank was used to study memories

False

T/F: Punishment can increase aggressive behavior

True

A common type of secondary reinforcer used in our society is:

Money