PSY 101 EXAM 1 |STRAIGHTERLINE
,Question 1
What does psychology have in common with all other sciences?
c. It uses rigorous methods of observation.
Question 2
According to studies of gender differences in emotion and social behavior,
men are more likely to engage in
d. physical aggression.
Question 3
As light enters the eye, eventually it reaches the light-sensitive at the
back of the second chamber of the eye.
c. retina
Question 4
One way to think about how we process color images is that the
describes the events at the first level of neurons in the visual system, while
the best describes the activities of neurons in the rest of the visual
system.
c. trichromatic theory; opponent-process theory
Question 5
What differentiated Sigmund Freud from most of the other influential
founders of psychology?
d. Freud was a physician and treated psychological problems.
Question 6
Essential body functions such as heartbeat, breathing, digestion, sweating,
and sexual arousal are under the control of the
d. autonomic nervous system.
Question 7
Which division of the nervous system is composed of all the nerves that
branch from the brain and spinal cord?
a. peripheral nervous system
Question 8
In general, studies of adopted children's IQs show them to be
c. closer in IQ to their biological parents than to their adoptive parents.
,Question 9
In thinking about Mary (a female), a psychologist would tend to view Mary's
gender role as being comprised of
d. both masculine and feminine characteristics
Question 10
If you are interested in understanding the structures of the brain that
influence emotion, reasoning, speech, and other psychological processes,
then you are interested in studying psychology from the perspective.
c. neuroscience
Question 11
The Gestalt principle of suggests that we perceive lines or patters
that flow a smooth contour as being part of a single object.
b. continuity
Question 12
If a neurologist wants an extremely accurate image of a patient's brain, the
neurologist would probably order a(n)
c. MRI.
Question 13
Visual stimuli that are close together are usually seen as belonging together;
this is called
b. proximity.
Question 14
The degree of association between variables is expressed statistically as the
b. correlation coefficient.
Question 15
Which of the following is actually an example of how a gene might be
expressed?
b. Proteins are synthesized.
Question 16
A danger in using the correlational strategy is that
a. one might attribute causation between two events.
Question 17
, What is the significance of a hypothesis?
b. It is used to test theories.
Question 18
Variations in a trait based upon spontaneous changes in a gene are called
a. mutations.
Question 19
J. Henry Alston was notable as an African American psychologist and for his
studies of the sensations of heat and cold. J. Henry Alston was an early
c. structuralist.
Question 20
Early in the history of psychology a memory researcher (Ebbinghaus) used
himself as the only research participant in his study. Given this information,
what might cause you to be skeptical about his results?
b. The sample was probably not representative.
Question 21
In the processing of verbal tasks, women tend to be more accurate and use
different parts of their brain. This difference in cerebral hemisphere
functioning was determined by using
c. functional MRI.
Question 22
When the most highly aggressive female mice are bred with random male
mice, and for each generation only the highly aggressive female mice are
selected to breed, what happens to these selected female mice over
successive generations?
a. The highly aggressive female mice become more and more aggressive
in each new generation.
Question 23
Perceptually, humans display a tendency to mentally complete forms and
figures that are actually incomplete. This tendency is known as
c. closure.
Question 24
According to the gate control theory of pain, how do gate neurons inhibit
,Question 1
What does psychology have in common with all other sciences?
c. It uses rigorous methods of observation.
Question 2
According to studies of gender differences in emotion and social behavior,
men are more likely to engage in
d. physical aggression.
Question 3
As light enters the eye, eventually it reaches the light-sensitive at the
back of the second chamber of the eye.
c. retina
Question 4
One way to think about how we process color images is that the
describes the events at the first level of neurons in the visual system, while
the best describes the activities of neurons in the rest of the visual
system.
c. trichromatic theory; opponent-process theory
Question 5
What differentiated Sigmund Freud from most of the other influential
founders of psychology?
d. Freud was a physician and treated psychological problems.
Question 6
Essential body functions such as heartbeat, breathing, digestion, sweating,
and sexual arousal are under the control of the
d. autonomic nervous system.
Question 7
Which division of the nervous system is composed of all the nerves that
branch from the brain and spinal cord?
a. peripheral nervous system
Question 8
In general, studies of adopted children's IQs show them to be
c. closer in IQ to their biological parents than to their adoptive parents.
,Question 9
In thinking about Mary (a female), a psychologist would tend to view Mary's
gender role as being comprised of
d. both masculine and feminine characteristics
Question 10
If you are interested in understanding the structures of the brain that
influence emotion, reasoning, speech, and other psychological processes,
then you are interested in studying psychology from the perspective.
c. neuroscience
Question 11
The Gestalt principle of suggests that we perceive lines or patters
that flow a smooth contour as being part of a single object.
b. continuity
Question 12
If a neurologist wants an extremely accurate image of a patient's brain, the
neurologist would probably order a(n)
c. MRI.
Question 13
Visual stimuli that are close together are usually seen as belonging together;
this is called
b. proximity.
Question 14
The degree of association between variables is expressed statistically as the
b. correlation coefficient.
Question 15
Which of the following is actually an example of how a gene might be
expressed?
b. Proteins are synthesized.
Question 16
A danger in using the correlational strategy is that
a. one might attribute causation between two events.
Question 17
, What is the significance of a hypothesis?
b. It is used to test theories.
Question 18
Variations in a trait based upon spontaneous changes in a gene are called
a. mutations.
Question 19
J. Henry Alston was notable as an African American psychologist and for his
studies of the sensations of heat and cold. J. Henry Alston was an early
c. structuralist.
Question 20
Early in the history of psychology a memory researcher (Ebbinghaus) used
himself as the only research participant in his study. Given this information,
what might cause you to be skeptical about his results?
b. The sample was probably not representative.
Question 21
In the processing of verbal tasks, women tend to be more accurate and use
different parts of their brain. This difference in cerebral hemisphere
functioning was determined by using
c. functional MRI.
Question 22
When the most highly aggressive female mice are bred with random male
mice, and for each generation only the highly aggressive female mice are
selected to breed, what happens to these selected female mice over
successive generations?
a. The highly aggressive female mice become more and more aggressive
in each new generation.
Question 23
Perceptually, humans display a tendency to mentally complete forms and
figures that are actually incomplete. This tendency is known as
c. closure.
Question 24
According to the gate control theory of pain, how do gate neurons inhibit
