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What are the three parts of a neuron?
Ans: Dendrites, cell body, axon
In which direction does an action potential travel in a neuron?
Ans: From dendrites to axon terminals
How is the intensity of a stimulus coded by the nervous system?
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Ans: Through the frequency of action potentials
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What are the five physiological changes associated with activation of the
sympathetic nervous system?
Ans: Increased heart rate, dilated pupils, increased blood flow to
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muscles, decreased digestion, increased sweat production
What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex and their primary
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functions?
Ans: Frontal (decision making), parietal (sensory processing), temporal
(auditory processing), occipital (visual processing)
What mediums do sound vibrations travel through from the ear to the
auditory nerve?
Ans: Air, tympanic membrane, ossicles, cochlea, auditory nerve
What is Weber's Law?
Ans: The principle that the just noticeable difference between stimuli is
proportional to the magnitude of the stimuli
How do peptide hormones and steroid hormones differ?
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Ans: Peptide hormones have immediate effects and are short-lived;
steroid hormones have longer-lasting effects and are slower to act
What are the four components of working memory according to
Baddeley's model?
Ans: Phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive,
episodic buffer
What is confirmation bias?
Ans: The tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information
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that confirms one's preconceptions
What heuristic may lead an ER physician to overestimate violent crime?
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Ans: Availability heuristic
What is the difference between dyssomnias and parasomnias?
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Ans: Dyssomnias affect the quality or timing of sleep; parasomnias
involve abnormal behaviors during sleep
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What role does cognition play in the Schachter-Singer theory of emotion?
Ans: Cognition is necessary to label the physiological arousal as a
specific emotion
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
Ans: A theoretical construct that suggests humans are born with an
innate ability to acquire language
Describe the speech of a patient with Wernicke's aphasia.
Ans: Fluent but nonsensical speech with poor comprehension
What is the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment?
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Ans: Negative reinforcement increases behavior by removing an
aversive stimulus; punishment decreases behavior by adding an aversive
stimulus
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Ans: The theory that language shapes thought and perception
What type of reinforcement schedule encourages high frequency of
responding and is resistant to extinction?
Ans: Variable ratio schedule
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What is long-term potentiation?
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Ans: A long-lasting increase in synaptic strength following high-
frequency stimulation of a synapse
Rank the three parenting styles in order of control from least to most
control.
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Ans: Permissive, authoritative, authoritarian
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What type of memory is utilized by a basketball player improving
shooting through repetition?
Ans: Procedural memory
What type of amnesia makes it difficult to encode and recall new
information?
Ans: Anterograde amnesia
According to Cognitive-Behavioral theory, what is the assumed problem
behind psychopathology?
Ans: Maladaptive thought patterns
List the Big Five Personality traits.
Psyc Soc MCAT Questions and Correct Answers |
Latest Update
What are the three parts of a neuron?
Ans: Dendrites, cell body, axon
In which direction does an action potential travel in a neuron?
Ans: From dendrites to axon terminals
How is the intensity of a stimulus coded by the nervous system?
Assignment Expert
Ans: Through the frequency of action potentials
Guru01 - Stuvia
What are the five physiological changes associated with activation of the
sympathetic nervous system?
Ans: Increased heart rate, dilated pupils, increased blood flow to
2026
muscles, decreased digestion, increased sweat production
What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex and their primary
©
functions?
Ans: Frontal (decision making), parietal (sensory processing), temporal
(auditory processing), occipital (visual processing)
What mediums do sound vibrations travel through from the ear to the
auditory nerve?
Ans: Air, tympanic membrane, ossicles, cochlea, auditory nerve
What is Weber's Law?
Ans: The principle that the just noticeable difference between stimuli is
proportional to the magnitude of the stimuli
How do peptide hormones and steroid hormones differ?
, 2 for specific request mail
Ans: Peptide hormones have immediate effects and are short-lived;
steroid hormones have longer-lasting effects and are slower to act
What are the four components of working memory according to
Baddeley's model?
Ans: Phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive,
episodic buffer
What is confirmation bias?
Ans: The tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information
Assignment Expert
that confirms one's preconceptions
What heuristic may lead an ER physician to overestimate violent crime?
Guru01 - Stuvia
Ans: Availability heuristic
What is the difference between dyssomnias and parasomnias?
2026
Ans: Dyssomnias affect the quality or timing of sleep; parasomnias
involve abnormal behaviors during sleep
©
What role does cognition play in the Schachter-Singer theory of emotion?
Ans: Cognition is necessary to label the physiological arousal as a
specific emotion
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
Ans: A theoretical construct that suggests humans are born with an
innate ability to acquire language
Describe the speech of a patient with Wernicke's aphasia.
Ans: Fluent but nonsensical speech with poor comprehension
What is the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment?
, 3 for specific request mail
Ans: Negative reinforcement increases behavior by removing an
aversive stimulus; punishment decreases behavior by adding an aversive
stimulus
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Ans: The theory that language shapes thought and perception
What type of reinforcement schedule encourages high frequency of
responding and is resistant to extinction?
Ans: Variable ratio schedule
Assignment Expert
What is long-term potentiation?
Guru01 - Stuvia
Ans: A long-lasting increase in synaptic strength following high-
frequency stimulation of a synapse
Rank the three parenting styles in order of control from least to most
control.
2026
Ans: Permissive, authoritative, authoritarian
©
What type of memory is utilized by a basketball player improving
shooting through repetition?
Ans: Procedural memory
What type of amnesia makes it difficult to encode and recall new
information?
Ans: Anterograde amnesia
According to Cognitive-Behavioral theory, what is the assumed problem
behind psychopathology?
Ans: Maladaptive thought patterns
List the Big Five Personality traits.
