If the EEG record reveals evidence of very small and very fast waves in a person
that otherwise appears to be asleep, and other data indicates the person’s eyes are
moving back and forth but the rest of the body is still, you are likely to conclude that
the sleeping person is in REM
Question 2
CPAP stands for _Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
When you enter a darkened room (e.g., a movie theater), you will find it hard to see at first, but shortly
afterward you will be able to see much better. This phenomenon is referred to as:
Dark Adaptation
For every 5 times that you go to the gym each week, you reward yourself with a treat. This best
illustrates which of the following schedules of reinforcement? Fixed Ratio
Question 5
Hair follicle nerve endings respond to Slight bending of hair as occurs in light touch.
Question 6
Your friend has experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. He is laughing with you and suddenly falls to
the ground. Your friend is probably suffering from __narcolepsy
Question 7
An olfactory stimulus travels from receptor to ________olfactory bulb
Question 8
In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After
several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. Which of the following is
true? The puff of air serves as the unconditioned stimulus.
Question 9
As an infant, Stephanie received many penicillin injections from the doctor. When she later saw a
photographer in a white coat that was similar to the doctor's coat, she started to cry. This is an example
of __ classical conditioning.
Question 10
Jamie, a toddler, is making distinctions about various aspects of color in terms of whether it looks red,
blue, and so on. In doing so, she is referring to its ________HUE
Question 11
Learning is said to be a relatively permanent change in behavior because ___ When people learn
anything, some part of their brain is physically changed to record what they have learned.
, Question 12
__Melatonin, a hormone involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms, is secreted by the pineal gland.
Question 13
Narcolepsy occurs when __ REM sleep and intrudes into wakefulness
Question 14
What are the five primary tastes? sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami
Question 15
A monthly paycheck best represents a Fixed Interval schedule of reinforcement.
Question 16
Catching fish when fishing in a lake would most likely represent which of the following schedules of
reinforcement? You never know how long you'll have to sit with your line in the water before you get a
fish-- this demonstrates variable interval reinforcement.
Question 17
After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a
white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not stimulus
generalization had occurred.
Question 18
Manifest content is to latent content as ________.
Question 19
Selma notices that as her supply of marijuana decreases, she starts thinking more and more about where
she can get another supply as well as feeling nervous and anxious. This is an example of _psychological
dependence
Question 20
________ is an example of a primary reinforcer, whereas ________ is an example of a secondary
reinforcer. a candy bar; a gold star
Question 21
You walk up to a soda machine and put in a dollar, and are rewarded with a bottle of root beer. When
you put in another dollar, you get another soda. Assuming that the machine has a limitless supply of root
beer, which kind of reinforcement schedule does this machine operate on? continuous reinforcement
Question 22
Fred is afraid of spiders. He won't even watch a nature show on TV about them. When he sees a picture
of a spider, he has a panic attack, but when he avoids looking at the image, his panic goes away. Fred's
avoidance of spiders is being _ negatively reinforced
, Question 23
Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of the dogs, and they began to salivate. Pavlov's student
noticed that after a few days the dogs began to salivate at the sound of the student's footsteps. The
salivation to the sound of the footsteps was a __ conditioned response
Question 24
Mary is having insomnia. Which piece of advice would you give to help her deal with it?
Don't do anything but sleep in your bed.
Question 25
If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see a
greenish image of the object. This phenomenon BEST supports ________ theory of color vision.
opponent process
Question 26
A newspaper advertisement describes a book that offers interpretations of dreams. In attempting to tell
readers the meaning of the symbols of their dreams, the author intends to describe the Latent Content
latent content
The activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming states that ________.
Question 28
A sound mixer is impressed by the new equipment that was just installed in his recording studio. He says
that now he will be able to help singers and musicians produce better CDs because he can eliminate
unneeded and undesired wavelengths. What term describes the characteristic of sound waves that the
sound mixer is now able to alter? B. Frequency
Psychoactive drugs are _ act on the nervous system to alter consciousness, modify perceptions, and
change moods.
Question 30
Jim is 56 years old and slightly overweight. His wife reports that he snores loudly. What sleep disorder
seems to fit Jim's symptoms? Sleep apnea
Question 31
A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the
boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, is
what Freud called its ________.
Question 32
that otherwise appears to be asleep, and other data indicates the person’s eyes are
moving back and forth but the rest of the body is still, you are likely to conclude that
the sleeping person is in REM
Question 2
CPAP stands for _Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
When you enter a darkened room (e.g., a movie theater), you will find it hard to see at first, but shortly
afterward you will be able to see much better. This phenomenon is referred to as:
Dark Adaptation
For every 5 times that you go to the gym each week, you reward yourself with a treat. This best
illustrates which of the following schedules of reinforcement? Fixed Ratio
Question 5
Hair follicle nerve endings respond to Slight bending of hair as occurs in light touch.
Question 6
Your friend has experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. He is laughing with you and suddenly falls to
the ground. Your friend is probably suffering from __narcolepsy
Question 7
An olfactory stimulus travels from receptor to ________olfactory bulb
Question 8
In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After
several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. Which of the following is
true? The puff of air serves as the unconditioned stimulus.
Question 9
As an infant, Stephanie received many penicillin injections from the doctor. When she later saw a
photographer in a white coat that was similar to the doctor's coat, she started to cry. This is an example
of __ classical conditioning.
Question 10
Jamie, a toddler, is making distinctions about various aspects of color in terms of whether it looks red,
blue, and so on. In doing so, she is referring to its ________HUE
Question 11
Learning is said to be a relatively permanent change in behavior because ___ When people learn
anything, some part of their brain is physically changed to record what they have learned.
, Question 12
__Melatonin, a hormone involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms, is secreted by the pineal gland.
Question 13
Narcolepsy occurs when __ REM sleep and intrudes into wakefulness
Question 14
What are the five primary tastes? sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami
Question 15
A monthly paycheck best represents a Fixed Interval schedule of reinforcement.
Question 16
Catching fish when fishing in a lake would most likely represent which of the following schedules of
reinforcement? You never know how long you'll have to sit with your line in the water before you get a
fish-- this demonstrates variable interval reinforcement.
Question 17
After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a
white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not stimulus
generalization had occurred.
Question 18
Manifest content is to latent content as ________.
Question 19
Selma notices that as her supply of marijuana decreases, she starts thinking more and more about where
she can get another supply as well as feeling nervous and anxious. This is an example of _psychological
dependence
Question 20
________ is an example of a primary reinforcer, whereas ________ is an example of a secondary
reinforcer. a candy bar; a gold star
Question 21
You walk up to a soda machine and put in a dollar, and are rewarded with a bottle of root beer. When
you put in another dollar, you get another soda. Assuming that the machine has a limitless supply of root
beer, which kind of reinforcement schedule does this machine operate on? continuous reinforcement
Question 22
Fred is afraid of spiders. He won't even watch a nature show on TV about them. When he sees a picture
of a spider, he has a panic attack, but when he avoids looking at the image, his panic goes away. Fred's
avoidance of spiders is being _ negatively reinforced
, Question 23
Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of the dogs, and they began to salivate. Pavlov's student
noticed that after a few days the dogs began to salivate at the sound of the student's footsteps. The
salivation to the sound of the footsteps was a __ conditioned response
Question 24
Mary is having insomnia. Which piece of advice would you give to help her deal with it?
Don't do anything but sleep in your bed.
Question 25
If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see a
greenish image of the object. This phenomenon BEST supports ________ theory of color vision.
opponent process
Question 26
A newspaper advertisement describes a book that offers interpretations of dreams. In attempting to tell
readers the meaning of the symbols of their dreams, the author intends to describe the Latent Content
latent content
The activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming states that ________.
Question 28
A sound mixer is impressed by the new equipment that was just installed in his recording studio. He says
that now he will be able to help singers and musicians produce better CDs because he can eliminate
unneeded and undesired wavelengths. What term describes the characteristic of sound waves that the
sound mixer is now able to alter? B. Frequency
Psychoactive drugs are _ act on the nervous system to alter consciousness, modify perceptions, and
change moods.
Question 30
Jim is 56 years old and slightly overweight. His wife reports that he snores loudly. What sleep disorder
seems to fit Jim's symptoms? Sleep apnea
Question 31
A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the
boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, is
what Freud called its ________.
Question 32
