FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC

MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -60 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: From a cognitive psychology perspective, why is getting plenty of sleep the night before an exam important?

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It allows for consolidation of studied material in long-term memory.

Question 2: Reinforcement is to ____, as punishment is to ____.

Answer:

increase; decrease

Question 3: Cognitive psychology focuses on studying ________.

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thinking, information processing and memory Question 4: Select the set of words that are most closely related to the psychoanalytic approach?

Answer:

unconscious, childhood experiences, and anxiety

Question 5: What is episodic memory?

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information about events we have personally experienced Question 6: Consider this: It is the early 20th century and you are Freud's personal assistant. As you listen to him speak, you can second-guess what he is about to say. One day, Freud says, "Anxiety, fear, and psychological problems are caused by..." and he thinks.

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"...unconscious thoughts and feelings!" Question 7: Behaviorism focuses on making psychology an objective science by ________.

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studying overt behavior and deemphasizing the importance of unobservable mental processes Question 8: ________ is when you take away a desirable or pleasant stimulus to stop a behavior.

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negative punishment Question 9: Which famous female psychologist completed all of the requirements for a doctorate in psychology but was denied that degree because of her sex?

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Mary Whiton Calkins Question 10: In Bandura's experiment, children learned to hit the Bobo doll through

Answer:

watching an adult model hit a Bobo doll

Question 11: Psychology refers to the ________.

Answer:

scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Question 12: Oona wants to conduct research on personnel management, workplace

environment, and what type of environment results in high levels of employee productivity and efficiency. Oona should conduct research in the area of ________ psychology.

Answer:

industrial-organizational

Question 13: What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve both implicit and explicit information over different periods of time?

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memory Question 14: In operant conditioning, the response is ____. In classical conditioning that response is ____.

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voluntary; involuntary Question 15: Select the correctly ordered list of psychological perspectives, with the earliest perspective listed first.

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structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, humanism Question 16: In Pavlov's dog study, the unconditioned response was___; in quack attack, the unconditioned response was

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salivation; ducking Question 17: Which perspective within psychology emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans, free will and choice.

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Humanism Question 18: Dakota is using operant conditioning to get his dog Rover to bring him his slippers. He sounds a bell, has Rover bring the slippers, and reinforces the behavior with a dog biscuit. One a church bell sounds outside and Rover brings Dakota his slippers.

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generalization Question 19: What type of memories do we consciously try to remember, recall, and report?

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explicit memories

Question 20: Lucy wants to study changes in physical attributes, cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan. Lucy should specialize in ________ psychology.

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developmental Question 21: The cognitive revolution created an impetus for psychologists to focus their attention on better understanding ________.

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the mind and mental processes that underlie behavior Question 22: Ashya wants to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior. What area of psychology should she work in?

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clinical psychology Question 23: Sometimes you give your dog a treat after he performs a trick and sometimes you do not. What reinforcement schedule are you using?

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partial or intermittent reinforcement Question 24: Who would have argued that we don't need to directly be reinforced or punished to learn?

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Albert Bandura Question 25: The ____ approach studies how our genes, hormones, and nervous system interact with the environment to influence behavior and mental processes.

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biological Question 26: The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as ________.

Answer:

retrieval