Psych 100 Exam 2 (PSU Crosby) 90 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+ 2025 NEW UPDATE
absolute threshold - CORRECT ANSWER: Lowest level of energy that a person can
reliably detect (50% is reliable)
Adaptive theory - CORRECT ANSWER: Animals and humans evolve sleep patterns to
avoid predators
Afterimages - CORRECT ANSWER: Sensations that linger after the stimulus is
removed.
altered state of consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER: Shift in quality or pattern of
mental activity (increases or decreases)
B.F. Skinner - CORRECT ANSWER: Studied observable, measurable behavior
(reinforcement)
binocular cues - CORRECT ANSWER: cues for perceiving depth based on both eyes
biological preparedness - CORRECT ANSWER: Tendency of animals to learn certain
associates with only one or a few pairings due to the survival value of learning
bottom up processing - CORRECT ANSWER: Most closely related to sensation.
circadian rhythm - CORRECT ANSWER: a cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-
hour period
, classical conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER: Learning to make an involuntary (reflex)
response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces
the reflex
Closure - CORRECT ANSWER: the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete
color constancy - CORRECT ANSWER: Tendency to perceive the apparent color of an
object the same, even when light conditions change
Conditioned response - CORRECT ANSWER: learned reflex response to a conditioned
stimulus. Ex: dogs salivating to bell
conditioned stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER: Stimulus that becomes able to produce a
learned reflex response by being paired with the original unconditioned stimulus. Ex:
Bell after conditioning
conditioned taste aversion - CORRECT ANSWER: Development of a nausea or averse
response to a particular taste because that taste was followed by a nausea reaction,
occurring after only one association
Cones - CORRECT ANSWER: Colors, bright vision
Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER: A person's awareness of everything that is
going around him or her at any given time. - Used to organize behavior
Contiguity - CORRECT ANSWER: The tendency to perceive two things that happen
close together in time as being related
Continuity - CORRECT ANSWER: The tendency to perceive things as simply as
possible with a continuous pattern rather than a complex, broken up pattern
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+ 2025 NEW UPDATE
absolute threshold - CORRECT ANSWER: Lowest level of energy that a person can
reliably detect (50% is reliable)
Adaptive theory - CORRECT ANSWER: Animals and humans evolve sleep patterns to
avoid predators
Afterimages - CORRECT ANSWER: Sensations that linger after the stimulus is
removed.
altered state of consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER: Shift in quality or pattern of
mental activity (increases or decreases)
B.F. Skinner - CORRECT ANSWER: Studied observable, measurable behavior
(reinforcement)
binocular cues - CORRECT ANSWER: cues for perceiving depth based on both eyes
biological preparedness - CORRECT ANSWER: Tendency of animals to learn certain
associates with only one or a few pairings due to the survival value of learning
bottom up processing - CORRECT ANSWER: Most closely related to sensation.
circadian rhythm - CORRECT ANSWER: a cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-
hour period
, classical conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER: Learning to make an involuntary (reflex)
response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces
the reflex
Closure - CORRECT ANSWER: the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete
color constancy - CORRECT ANSWER: Tendency to perceive the apparent color of an
object the same, even when light conditions change
Conditioned response - CORRECT ANSWER: learned reflex response to a conditioned
stimulus. Ex: dogs salivating to bell
conditioned stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER: Stimulus that becomes able to produce a
learned reflex response by being paired with the original unconditioned stimulus. Ex:
Bell after conditioning
conditioned taste aversion - CORRECT ANSWER: Development of a nausea or averse
response to a particular taste because that taste was followed by a nausea reaction,
occurring after only one association
Cones - CORRECT ANSWER: Colors, bright vision
Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER: A person's awareness of everything that is
going around him or her at any given time. - Used to organize behavior
Contiguity - CORRECT ANSWER: The tendency to perceive two things that happen
close together in time as being related
Continuity - CORRECT ANSWER: The tendency to perceive things as simply as
possible with a continuous pattern rather than a complex, broken up pattern
