FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH

EXAM FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -84 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Minutes after eating a few bites of food, Mary was unable to breathe and began to experience muscular paralysis. She has ingested food contaminated w/botulism, which blocked the action of

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acetylcholine Question 2: Many children learn to fear lightning because it is often paired with loud thunder. In this case, lightning is the ___ and thunder is the ____ and fear is the ____

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CS; US; UR

Question 3: A child who cleans up their room to avoid losing a privilege is operating at the ____ level of Kohlberg's theory

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preconventional

Question 4: Alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates all have ____ effects

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depressant Question 5: If you were to conduct an experiment on the effects of temperature on aggressive behavior, temperature would be the ____ variable

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independent

Question 6: Which represents the strongest correlation?

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-.99

Question 7: The amount of time you spend in stage 4 sleep

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lessens with age

Question 8: this means maintaining info over time

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storage Question 9: Positive reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the behavior preceding it will happen again while negative reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the preceding behavior will happen again.

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increases; increases

Question 10: Amphetamines are

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stimulants Question 11: In the Atkinson and Skiffrin stages of memory, the progress of information through these stages

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determines whether and how long information is retained

Question 12: A kind of therapy closely related to classical conditioning that is designed to gradually reduce anxiety about a particular object or situation when relaxed is known as ___ therapy

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systematic desenitization Question 13: The theory that we have three pairs of color receptors and that the members of each pair oppose each other is known as the ___ theory

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opponent-process

Question 14: Tracy plays tennis

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implicit Question 15: Industrial psychologists and organizational psychologists study the behavior of people in

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workplaces Question 16: The part of the neuron that receives messages from a neighboring neuron is the

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dendrite Question 17: ____ remove dead neurons and waste products from the nervous system, nourish and insulate neurons and direct their growth

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glial cells Question 18: A four month old infant is playing with keys. You place a magazine on top of the keys. The infant does not search for them. This demonstrates a lack of

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object permanence

Question 19: Which of the following is NOT true of psychological theories?

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theories are always discarded as new observations are made Question 20: Rick was goofing around with a friend when he fell and hit his head. Soon after, he was having difficulty with his vision. It is possible that he sustained injury to the ____ lobe.

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occipital

Question 21: Which of the following is NOT true regarding a synapse?

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a synapse is bordered by an axon terminal from the transmitting neuron Question 22: After a gunshot wound to the head, a patient is unable to form new memories but

can recall old ones. Damage to the :

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hippocampus

Question 23: Attachment is defined as

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an enduring emotional tie

Question 24: Sensory neuron is to motor neuron as

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afferent neuron is to efferent neuron

Question 25: A student is asleep for 25 and cannot be woken up. He is in stage

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4 Question 26: The zygote journeys to the uterus, where implantation occurs. Which stage is this?

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the germinal stage