PSYC 333 EXAM 1 ANSWERS – Psychology course exam questions with
solutions
_____ Refers to systematic continuities and changes in an individual that happen over the
course of life.
- Randomization
- Metabolism
- Accumulation
- Development - ANS ✔✔Development
Which section of a published research article would you direct a peer to review if they had
questions regarding the target population and sampling procedures used in a research
experiment?
- Introduction
- Method
- Conclusion
- Results - ANS ✔✔Method
Which of these is NOT among the several methods for studying infants' sensation/perception?
- Habituation/dishabituation
- High-amplitude sucking
- Deferred imitation
- Evoked potentials - ANS ✔✔Deferred imitation
The child's sensitivity to pain develops as early as
- the first day after birth
,- the age of one month
- the age of three months
- the age of six months - ANS ✔✔the first day after birth
Which of these is an advantage of longitudinal research?
- Longitudinal projects are time-consuming, lasting years.
- Practice affects confound data collected in later tests.
- Some children eventually drop out of the study.
- Long- term patterns of individual development are shown with much detail. - ANS ✔✔Long-
term patterns of individual development are shown with much detail.
A neonate is an
- Infant who was born early.
- Infant who has a low birth weight.
- A newborn to one-month-old infant.
- Infant who is about to be born. - ANS ✔✔A newborn to one-month-old infant.
SENSATION is to PERCEPTION as ____ is to _____.
- CONSTANCY :: ILLUSION
- DETECTION :: INTERPRETATION
- HABITUATION :: DISHABITUATION
- FREEDOM :: SLAVERY - ANS ✔✔DETECTION :: INTERPRETATION
Nerve cells that nourish neurons and encase them in insulating sheets of myelin are called
- Synapses
- Neurotransmitters
, - Corpus callosum
- Glia cells - ANS ✔✔Glia cells
A woman may develop a recessive sex-linked defective genetic trait
- Under no circumstances
- If her Y sex chromosome bears a dominant allele
- If she is homozygous for the recessive trait
- With certainty when she is heterozygous for the trait - ANS ✔✔If she is homozygous for the
recessive trait
During restorative fetal surgery, a surgeon declares, "The fetus's vernix appears abnormal!" To
what does the doctor refer?
- Reflexes that respond to touch
- Roundness of the facial features
- A white cheesy coating on the skin
- Muscle tension in the arms and legs - ANS ✔✔A which cheesy coating on the skin
The ways in which a person's inherited characteristics are observable or measurable is referred
to as
- Phenotype
- Genotype
- Shared environmental influence
- Concordance rate - ANS ✔✔Phenotype
The correlation design is WEAKEST at
- Describing the direction of a relationship
- Describing the strength of a relationship
solutions
_____ Refers to systematic continuities and changes in an individual that happen over the
course of life.
- Randomization
- Metabolism
- Accumulation
- Development - ANS ✔✔Development
Which section of a published research article would you direct a peer to review if they had
questions regarding the target population and sampling procedures used in a research
experiment?
- Introduction
- Method
- Conclusion
- Results - ANS ✔✔Method
Which of these is NOT among the several methods for studying infants' sensation/perception?
- Habituation/dishabituation
- High-amplitude sucking
- Deferred imitation
- Evoked potentials - ANS ✔✔Deferred imitation
The child's sensitivity to pain develops as early as
- the first day after birth
,- the age of one month
- the age of three months
- the age of six months - ANS ✔✔the first day after birth
Which of these is an advantage of longitudinal research?
- Longitudinal projects are time-consuming, lasting years.
- Practice affects confound data collected in later tests.
- Some children eventually drop out of the study.
- Long- term patterns of individual development are shown with much detail. - ANS ✔✔Long-
term patterns of individual development are shown with much detail.
A neonate is an
- Infant who was born early.
- Infant who has a low birth weight.
- A newborn to one-month-old infant.
- Infant who is about to be born. - ANS ✔✔A newborn to one-month-old infant.
SENSATION is to PERCEPTION as ____ is to _____.
- CONSTANCY :: ILLUSION
- DETECTION :: INTERPRETATION
- HABITUATION :: DISHABITUATION
- FREEDOM :: SLAVERY - ANS ✔✔DETECTION :: INTERPRETATION
Nerve cells that nourish neurons and encase them in insulating sheets of myelin are called
- Synapses
- Neurotransmitters
, - Corpus callosum
- Glia cells - ANS ✔✔Glia cells
A woman may develop a recessive sex-linked defective genetic trait
- Under no circumstances
- If her Y sex chromosome bears a dominant allele
- If she is homozygous for the recessive trait
- With certainty when she is heterozygous for the trait - ANS ✔✔If she is homozygous for the
recessive trait
During restorative fetal surgery, a surgeon declares, "The fetus's vernix appears abnormal!" To
what does the doctor refer?
- Reflexes that respond to touch
- Roundness of the facial features
- A white cheesy coating on the skin
- Muscle tension in the arms and legs - ANS ✔✔A which cheesy coating on the skin
The ways in which a person's inherited characteristics are observable or measurable is referred
to as
- Phenotype
- Genotype
- Shared environmental influence
- Concordance rate - ANS ✔✔Phenotype
The correlation design is WEAKEST at
- Describing the direction of a relationship
- Describing the strength of a relationship
