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AP Psychology Bimester 2 Exam Dec -2005
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One difference between axons and dendrites is that
A. Axons are always short but dendrites can be very short or several feet long.
B. Dendrites receive information and axons carry information away from the cell.
C. Dendrites have branches but axons do not.
D. Neurons can have many axons but only one dendrite.
Which of the following statements about communication in the
human nervous system is true?
A. Charged impulses carry signal within neurons, but neurons use chemicals to communicate with
one another.
B. Neurons are physically connected to each other, and charged impulses shoot from one to another.
C. Chemicals carry signals within neurons, but neurons communicate by sending charged impulses
from one to another.
D. Neurons are physically connected by small tubes that allow the flow of chemicals from one to
another.
Standing in line outside the movie theater, John heard music coming
out of someone's radio. Because he liked what he heard, he began to
move to the music. Which nervous system allowed him to respond in
that way?
A. Autonomic
C. Somatic
B. Parasympathetic
D. Sympathetic
While walking in the woods, Amy sees a bear. The sympathetic
branch of her autonomic nervous system activates. What is the most
likely result?
A. She remains calm and tries to conserve her body's energy.
B. She begins to sweat, and her heartbeat quickens.
C. She stops receiving information from her sensory systems.
D. Her behavior becomes instinctive, since her spinal cord takes control.
Dudley goes to the doctor for a physical exam. During the exam, the
doctor strikes Dudley's kneecap, and his leg kicks forward. Dudley,
having taken a psychology class, knows that this reflex is controlled
by his
A. autonomic nervous system.
C. spinal cord.
B. parasympathetic nervous system.
D. brain.
During a fall, eleven-year-old Steven sustained an injury to his
cerebellum. Consequently, before he recovered, he was unable to
A. brush his teeth.
B. remember his address.
C. sing his favorite rap song.
D. wake up on his own in the morning.
After an accident that resulted in injury to his brain, Matthew lost the
ability to link features from two sensory systems. For instance, when
he smells a rose, he recognizes the odor but he cannot visualize the
flower without actually looking at it. The part of Matthew's brain that
was damaged is probably the
A. amygdala.
B. hippocampus.
C. reticular formation.
D. hypothalamus.
One Sunday, Leslie broke her foot while skiing. A week later, while
limping along on crutches, she slipped on a patch of ice and sustained
a head injury in the area of the hippocampus. What is the likely status
of Leslie's memories of the two events?
A. Both memories were probably erased.
B. She probably was only able to remember the more recent event of slipping on the ice.
C. She was likely only able to remember the earlier event of breaking her foot while skiing.
D. Both memories probably remained intact.
Jed is in the hospital because he damaged his Wernicke's area diving
into the side of a pool. When he wants the nurse to get him a drink,
he might say:
A. "Ppp uh leease ss uh mmm waaa ttt errr."
B. "Please give me water," in sign language.
C. "I'm really thirsty but I can't remember what I like to drink."
D. "Car flower out it by standard."
After having a stroke, Marty finds it difficult to communicate with
others. Although he still understands what people are saying to him,
he has trouble making himself understood by others. He knows what
he wants to say, but the task of actually saying the words is very
difficult for him. Marty's stroke most likely caused damage to which
area of the association cortex?
A. Broca's
B. Bernstein's
C. Wernicke's
D. Skinner's
After having had her corpus callosum cut by surgeons, six-year-old
Monica was placed in front of a device that presented visual images
only to the right hemisphere of her split brain. When the doctor
showed her a picture of farm animals and asked her to point to the
horse and say what it is, Monica most likely
A. pointed to the horse and said, "Horse."
B. pointed to another animal and said, "Horse."
C. pointed to the horse and said, "I don't know what it is."
D. pointed to another animal and said, "I don't know what it's called."
Because her mood improved when she took an anti-depressant, Dr.
Mendez surmised that Lucy had low levels of the neurotransmitter
A. acetylcholine.
C. glutamate.
B. GABA.
D. serotonin.
Alice accidentally knocks Brad's coffee into his lap. Brad's brain
releases a neurotransmitter to help deal with the pain. What is that
neurotransmitter called?
A. Dopamine
C. Serotonin
B. Endorphin
D. Acetylcholine
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Myelin is
A. fatty substance that wraps around some axons.
B. hormone secreted by the pituitary gland.
C. protein component of the tangles seen in Alzheimer's disease.
D. small molecule neurotransmitter.
An action potential just traveled down to the tip of an axon. What
will it do next?
A. It will "jump" to the target neuron.
B. It will travel across the synapse.
C. It will trigger the release of neurotransmitters.
D. It will gain in strength.
Which of the following is NOT true of neurons?
A. Neurons have signal senders known as axons.
B. Neurons are held together by glial cells.
C. Neurons have signal receivers known as dendrites.
D. Neurons must touch each other in order to communicate.
The fight-or-flight syndrome refers to the combined reaction to stress
of the adrenal glands and which nervous system?
A. The central nervous system
B. The parasympathetic nervous system
C. The somatic nervous system
D. The sympathetic nervous system
A reflex behavior, such as withdrawing your hand when it touches a
hot surface, is directed by the
A. autonomic nervous system.
C. somatic nervous system.
B. brain.
D. spinal cord.
The medulla is involved with which of the following:
A. Attention and arousal
B. Blood pressure and heart rate
C. Initiation of smooth movements
D. Sequencing and timing of behaviors
Tangles and plaques are associated with which of the following
disorders?
A. Alzheimer's
B. Epilepsy
C. Multiple sclerosis
D. Parkinson's
The two halves of the brain are connected by the
A. corpus callosum.
B. locus coeruleus.
C. reticular formation.
D. superchiasmatic nuclei
Which part of the cerebral cortex is likely to have sustained damage
when a patient is able to speak but unable to understand neither his
own speech nor what others are saying to him?
A. Broca's area
B. Motor cortex
C. Somatosensory cortex
D. Wernicke's area
Which of the following is true about the lateralization of the normal
brain?
A. Language abilities are more localized in the brains of women than they are for men.
B. Most people's left hemisphere has better language abilities than their right hemisphere.
C. Most people's left hemisphere has better spatial abilities than their right hemisphere.
D. Most people's left hemisphere processes music better than their right hemisphere
After a bad fall, Bernie damaged some neurons in one area of his
brain. How will his brain respond to the injury?
A. By having nearby neurons sprout new axons to take over lost functions
B. By immediately generating whole new neurons in the affected area
C. By replacing the dendrites of the damaged neurons
D. By using glial cells to grow new axons for the injured neurons
After Eliot had been in Mexico for two weeks, the food no longer seemed
as fiery hot as it had when he first arrived. Eliot's taste buds had
undergone
A. avoidance conditioning.
C. habituation.
B. extinction.
D. vicarious conditioning.
Han moves into a new apartment. Soon, afterward, he is taking a
shower when he hears his son flush the toilet and the water suddenly
becomes extremely hot, causing Han to jump. After a few flushings
during his showers, Han notices a change in his behavior; He jumps
and experiences fear whenever he hears a toilet flushing. For Han,
the flushing of a toilet has become
A. an unconditioned stimulus. (UCS)
B. a conditioned stimulus. (CS)
C. an unconditioned response. (UCR)
D. a conditioned response (CR).
Every time, little Clara blows air into her pet rabbit's face, he blinks.
Soon, Clara starts to giggle right before blowing into his face. After a
while, the rabbit blinks as soon as Clara starts to giggle before she
has a chance to blow. In this example of classical conditioning, the
rabbit's blinking the puff of air is the
A. conditioned response (CR)
B. unconditioned response (UCR)
C. conditioned stimulus (CS)
D. unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
Han again: He jumps and experiences fear whenever he hears a toilet
flushing. He decides to ask his son not to flush the toilet when he is
showering but to flush the toilet as many times a day as possible
when he is not showering. Which procedure is Han attempting to
perform on himself?
A. Reconditioning
C. Extinction
B. Stimulus generalization
D. Stimulus discrimination
Little Erica loves to eat strawberries, cherries, red plums, and
watermelon. In fact, for a while, she thought that all red things taste
delicious. Then, one day, her brother gave her a red chili pepper and
she promptly popped it in her mouth. After that, she was more
careful about which red things she ate. Erica's new wariness is
indicative of which conditioning principle?
A. Reconditioning.
B. Spontaneous recovery.
C. Stimulus discrimination.
D. Stimulus generalization.
Anika receives an allowance from her parents. Because she has
learned that she can exchange the money for candy, toys and other
treats, her allowance is a
A. primary reinforcer.
B. negative reinforcer.
C. secondary reinforcer.
D. unconditioned stimulus.
Joshua's mother decided to use positive reinforcement to get Joshua
to clean up his room. So, she checked the room every Friday evening
and if it was neat, Joshua received a dollar. As a result Joshua only
cleaned his room on Friday mornings. The rest of the week, it was a
mess. Without substantially increasing the reward, or having to keep
tabs on how many times he's cleaned his room since it was last
inspected, how could Joshua's mother get him to keep his room clean
more often?
A. By using a fixed-interval schedule
B. By using a fixed-ratio schedule
C. By using a variable-interval schedule
D. By using a variable-ratio schedule
The power was out late last night when Eduardo got home. Even
though he couldn't see very well, he was able to move around his
apartment without much difficulty because he had
A. a conditioned stimulus.
B. a cognitive map.
C. an unconditioned stimulus.
D. a secondary reinforcer.
The two basic requirements for classical conditioning are a neutral
stimulus and what type of behavior?
A. Learned behavior
B. Instrumental behavior
C. Operant behavior
D. Reflex behavior
What is the unconditioned stimulus in Pavlov's experiment?
A. The meat powder
B. The sound of the tone
C. Salivating to the meat powder
D. Salivating to the sound of the tone
After conditioning a dog to salivate to the sound of the tone, Pavlov
stopped giving the dog the meat powder. As a result, the dog
A. gradually stopped responding to the sound of the tone.
B. immediately stopped salivating to the sound of the tone.
C. no longer salivated either to the meat, or to the sound of the tone.
D. now salivated exclusively to the sound of the tone.
The reappearance of a conditioned response after it had been
extinguished and without further pairings of the conditioned stimulus
with the unconditioned stimulus is called
A. Reconditioning.
B. Spontaneous recovery.
C. stimulus discrimination.
D. stimulus generalization.
Rats can be conditioned with shock to fear a light or a buzzer, but not
flavored water. Conversely, they can be conditioned with nausea to
avoid flavored water, but not a light or a buzzer. The above is an
example of
A. biopreparedness.
B. reconditioning.
C. stimulus discrimination.
D. stimulus generalization.
Thorndike discovered that an animal would repeat a behavior in the
presence of a stimulus, if that behavior was rewarded in the past.
This describes
A. biopreparedness.
B. habituation.
C. systematic desensitization.
D. the law of effect.
Operant conditioning differs from classical conditioning in that
A. in classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus both precede the
response, but in operant conditioning the response comes first.
B. in operant conditioning, the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus both precede the
response, but in classical conditioning the response comes first.
C. the processes of stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination only occur in classical
conditioning.
D. the processes of stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination only occur in operant
conditioning.
Negative reinforcement is
A. a combination of reward and punishment.
B. a type of punishment.
C. a type of reward.
D. neither a reward nor a punishment.
Because their teacher gives pop quizzes on a fixed interval schedule,
the students can expect to have a quiz after
A. a certain amount of material has been covered.
B. a certain amount of time has passed.
C. differing amounts of material have been covered.
D. differing amounts of time have passed
When it comes to effective punishment, all of the following pieces of
advice should be followed EXCEPT
A. "Administer the punishment emphatically, not in a half-hearted sort of way."
B. "Emphasize that it is the behavior that was bad and not the person."
C. "Specify the exact reason for the punishment."
D. "Wait until a certain 'cooling period' has passed before administering the punishment."
Judy, the new teller, was so terrified during the robbery, that she
encoded only acoustic information. Afterwards, when the police
questioned her, all she could say was, "I don't remember," until they
asked,
A. "Was there anything unusual about his appearance?"
B. "When did you realize that he was going to rob the bank?"
C. "Did he have a gun?"
D. "What did his voice sound like?"
Glenn likes to watch nature documentaries. While watching a
documentary about the mating habits of the octopus, Glenn was
reminded of his trip to Mardi Gras two years earlier. Glenn's
involuntary recollection is an example of
A. explicit memory.
B. semantic memory.
C. implicit memory.
D. procedural memory.
Rachel calls her husband Ted at his office to ask him to pick up a few
things at the store on the way home. She rattles off a list of twentyfive items. The two then say good-bye and hang up. Ted reaches for
pencil and paper. How many of the twenty-five items should he be
able to write down from memory without chunking?
A. Three to five
B. Five to nine
C. Twelve to sixteen
D. Twenty to twenty-five
Merle was asked to remember the following list of numbers: 1, 7, 7,
6, 1, 8, 6, 5, 1, 9, 1, 8, 1, 9, 4, 2. She was able to do this because she
grouped them this way: 1776, 1865, 1918, 1942. What method did
Merle use to remember the list of numbers?
A. The method of loci
B. Chunking
C. Maintenance rehearsal
D. Spreading activation
The items you are working on now are testing which memory
process?
A. Encoding
C. Recall
B. Storage
D. Recognition
Last month, Roger got drunk and misplaced his glasses. He couldn't
find them until today when he came home slightly inebriated and
remembered exactly where he had put them. The fact that he was
able to find them after drinking but not while he was sober
demonstrates
A. context-dependent memory.
C. state-dependent memory.
B. episodic memory.
D. explicit memory.
Greg studied French in high school. When he went to college, he
decided to study Spanish. He found the class very difficult because
he kept using French vocabulary words and French verb endings.
This is an example of
A. retroactive interference.
C. retrograde amnesia.
B. anterograde amnesia.
D. proactive interference.
Koji was accidentally struck on the head. At first, he seemed to be all
right. After a while, it became apparent that, although he remembered
events leading up to the accident, he had no memory of what
happened after the accident. Koji's condition is an example of
A. retroactive interference.
C. retrograde amnesia.
B. anterograde amnesia.
D. proactive interference.
Instead of repeating, "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto" to remember the planets, Mary says to
herself, "Man very early made jars stand up nearly perfect." Mary is
using
A. maintenance rehearsal.
C. a mnemonic.
B. the method of loci.
D. massed practice.
Julius is determined to remember everything that happened on his
trip abroad. The first step that he must take is to
A. encode the information.
C. store the information.
B. maintain the information.
D. Retrieve the information.
As Bernardo sits back listening to music, the music is being encoded
into his memory with which type of code?
A. Acoustic
B. Visual
C. Semantic
D. Retrieval
Knowing what sequence of actions to take in order to construct a
picket fence requires what type of memory?
A. Constructive
B. Episodic
C. Procedural
D. Semantic
Roger and Amanda go out to see a movie. Amanda tells Roger during
the film, "The reason we perceive smooth motion on the screen is
because each image is held in memory long enough to allow our eyes
to fixate again." What kind of memory is Amanda talking about?
A. Sensory memory
B. Short-term memory
C. Working memory
D. Long-term memory
Information is most often encoded into short-term memory using
________ coding, and into long-term memory using ________
coding.
A. acoustic; semantic
B. acoustic; visual
C. semantic; acoustic
D. semantic; visual
What does the "'magic number' of seven plus or minus two" refer to?
A. The number of chunks that can be processed in short-term memory at any one time
B. The number of chunks that can be retrieved from long-term memory at any one time
C. The number of discrete sensations that can fill up the sensory register to capacity at any one time
D. The number of discrete elements that can be handled by working memory at any moment.
Sometimes we are able to recall only partial, or incomplete,
information from long-term memory. One such example, that does
not involve brain damage, is
A. anterograde amnesia.
B. long-term potentiation.
C. the serial-position effect.
D. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
When new information prevents a person from remembering
something learned in the past, the forgetting is due to
A. decay.
B. proactive interference.
C. repression.
D. retroactive interference.
Research on motivated forgetting has shown that people are more
likely to forget ________ events than ________ events.
A. important; trivial
C. unpleasant; pleasant
B. solitary; group
D. visual; aural
What are mnemonics?
A. Chunks of incomplete knowledge
B. False, or constructed, memories
C. Network-based models of memory
D. Organization-based memory strategies
Danica is going to read a chapter from her text using the PQ4R
method. She opens her book and flips through the chapter noting
topic headings and italicized words. Which step of the PQ4R has
Danica completed?
A. Preview
C. Read
B. Question
D. Reflect
Which of the following is true about fetal alcohol syndrome?
A. Only an alcoholic woman can have a child with alcohol-related birth defects.
B. A woman who drinks moderately can have a child with alcohol-related birth defects.
C. The father's drinking habits are as important as the mother's during the pregnancy.
D. Children born with fetal alcohol syndrome rarely have any cognitive deficiencies.
Which of the following is an example of the rooting reflex?
A. When a baby's cheek is touched with a finger, the baby turns its head to face the finger.
B. In response to the sudden sensation of falling, the baby first flings arms and legs to the sides, and
then brings the arms in toward the body in a hugging motion.
C. When a finger is placed in the palm of a baby's hand, the baby grasps the finger tightly.
D. When a finger is placed in a baby's mouth, the baby begins sucking.
The Piagetian process in which new experiences cause the child to
re-think and change existing ideas is called
A. accommodation.
C. conservation.
B. assimilation.
D. reversibility.
An infant monkey named Freddie is brought to the zoo and put in a
special cage. On one side of the cage is a food dispenser inside a wire
frame that resembles a female monkey. On the other side of the cage
is a soft stuffed animal that resembles a female monkey. If Freddie
reacts in the same way as the monkeys in Harlow's research on
attachment, what will he do?
A. He will reject both "mothers" and eventually die unless a living female monkey is found to care for
him.
B. He will spend most of his time with the "wire mother" because that is where the food is.
C. He will spend most of his time with the "soft mother" because he has a need for contact comfort.
D. He will spend an equal amount of time with both "mothers" because he has equal needs for food
and contact comfort.
One thing that longevity is related to is
A. exercise.
C. occupation.
B. level of education.
D. wealth.
Derek, who is five years old, goes to the zoo and sees a dolphin for
the first time. When Derek sees that the dolphin has fins and lives in
water, he says, "That's a big fish!" Derek's error is an example of
what Piaget called
A. object permanence.
C. conservation.
B. assimilation.
D. accommodation.
Jorge gets out some clay and makes two balls that are about the same
size. He keeps one for himself and hands one to Tim. Tim takes his
clay and rolls it between his hands until it is long and stringy. Tim
then says to Jorge, "Look! I have a lot more clay than you!"
According to Piaget, Tim has not yet mastered the concept of
A. object permanence.
C. hypothetical thought.
B. conservation.
D. accommodation.
Which of the following children is demonstrating concrete
operational thought?
A. Daquan, who is sorting the toy dinosaurs by size.
B. Hannah, who is making believe that the little dolls in the dollhouse are members of her own family.
C. Peter, who is playing at being a fast food counter person.
D. Sonia, who is imitating a cartoon character that she saw on television the night before.
A one-year-old tripped and fell down. She quickly looked at her
mother. Since her mother happened to be laughing, the one-year-old
was most likely to have reacted
A. by crying.
C. with anger.
B. by laughing.
D. with confusion.
Celine is a warm and loving, stay-at-home mother. Ellen is a warm
and loving, working mother whose baby attends day care. If the two
babies are typical, which attachment pattern will they display in the
'Strange Situation'?
A. Both babies will exhibit secure attachment patterns.
B. Celine's baby will exhibit an ambivalent attachment, whereas Ellen's baby will exhibit a secure
attachment.
C. Celine's baby will exhibit an avoidant attachment, whereas Ellen's baby will exhibit a disorganized
attachment.
D. Celine's baby will exhibit a secure attachment, whereas Ellen's baby will exhibit an avoidant
attachment.
Silviano, who is seventeen years old, asks his parents for permission
to visit a friend over winter break. His parents respond, "Well, it's not
that we don't trust you, but some people just don't know how to drive
in bad weather. Maybe this spring you can go, but for now we have
to say no. We hope you understand why." Which type of parents does
Silviano have?
A. Permissive
C. Authoritarian
B. Authoritative
D. Preconventional
Four-year-old Stevie is screaming in a restaurant because they don't
happen to have his favorite meal of chicken nuggets on the menu. His
mother makes no attempt to quiet him. What style of parenting does
Stevie's mother probably subscribe to?
A. Authoritarian
B. Authoritative
C. Disorganized
D. Permissive
Dina works the late shift at a local convenience store. She has many
opportunities to steal money from the cash register, but she never
does. If Dina operates at Kohlberg's preconventional stage of moral
reasoning, which of the following will she most likely say when
asked why she never steals?
A. "I'd go to jail and lose my job if I was caught!"
B. "Stealing is against the law!"
C. "My friends and family would think I was a horrible person!"
D. "Stealing violates my self-chosen moral principles."
When light strikes a photoreceptor, it is converted into neural
activity. What is this conversion process called?
A. Perception
B. Transduction
C. Adaptation
D. Accommodation
Sensory nerves carry information from the receptors to the cerebral
cortex by way of the thalamus. This is true for all of the senses
EXCEPT for the sense of
A. hearing.
C. taste.
B. smell.
D. touch.
Which of the following persons has conduction deafness?
A. Amy, who has a damaged cochlea.
B. Paul, whose deafness involves damage to the hair cells.
C. Cynthia, whose hammer, anvil, and stirrup are fused together.
D. Dave, whose hearing problem involves the auditory nerve.
Ryan has been diagnosed with nerve deafness. Which of the
following auditory structures has been damaged?
A. The pinna
B. The ear canal
C. The eardrum
D. The cochlea
While Kevin was dressing for his big date with Robyn, the power
went out in his apartment, so he dressed in the dark. Later that night,
Robyn noticed that Kevin was wearing one black sock and one navy
blue sock. "It's true that I dressed in the dark," Kevin said, "but I
don't understand how I could have made such a silly mistake." Robyn
explained that the photoreceptors active in low light are unable to
discriminate colors. What are those photoreceptors?
A. Rods
B. Ganglion cells
C. Cones
D. Pupils
Damage to which of the following structures would inhibit the
transduction of light into neural activity?
A. The pupil
C. The cornea
B. The lens
D. The retina
Which cells extend from the retina to the brain?
A. Bipolar cells
B. Cones
C. Ganglion cells
D. Rods
The blind spot is located in the
A. center of the retina.
B. optic chiasm.
C. periphery of the fovea.
D. place where the optic nerve exits the eye.
Which of the following people is sending information primarily to
his olfactory bulb?
A. Barry, who is watching a movie
B. Bert, who is listening to music
C. Barney, who is smelling a flower
D. Brent, who is petting his dog
During a game of softball, Gilda slid into a base and banged her
knee. According to the gate control theory of pain, which of the
following should Gilda do to decrease the intensity of pain in her
knee?
A. Rub the area around her wound
B. Drink an entire glass of ice water while pinching her nose shut
C. Lie down and be very still
D. Scream as loud as she can
When Julio first placed the engagement ring on her finger, Carla was
acutely aware of its presence against her skin. Now, a week later, she
finds herself constantly checking to make sure that it's still on her
finger. The fact that she no longer senses its presence is explained by
the phenomenon of
A. accommodation.
B. adaptation.
C. proprioception.
D. transduction.
While enjoying a concert, Steve hears a sound wave that has high
amplitude and low frequency. What kind of sound is Steve hearing?
A. A soft, low-pitched sound
B. A loud, low-pitched sound
C. A soft, high-pitched sound
D. A loud, high-pitched sound
A flute and an oboe play the same note at the same loudness. The
sound made by the oboe is thick and rich whereas that made by the
flute sounds pure. The difference between the two sounds is due to
the psychological property known as
A. amplitude.
C. pitch.
B. frequency.
D. timbre.
Bianca is doing needlepoint. Whenever she needs to closely focus on
the canvas, the muscles surrounding the lens of her eye ________ to
make the lens ________.
A. loosen; curved
B. loosen; flattened
C. tighten; curved
D. tighten; flattened
Blair and Paula are enjoying a clear, beautiful day at the beach.
When they look at the blue sky, which photoreceptors are most
active?
A. Rods
B. Short-wavelength cones
C. Medium-wavelength cones
D. Long-wavelength cones
Blair and Paula are spending the day at the beach. If they stare at the
blue sky for a long time and then look at their white beach towel,
what color will they see, according to the opponent-process theory of
color vision?
A. Yellow
B. Red
C. Green
D. Black
Edie displayed synesthesia when she claimed that
A. the water was no longer freezing after being in the pool for five minutes.
B. she saw a blue banana after staring at a yellow one for a long time before looking down at the white
tablecloth.
C. she saw no difference in the color of a red rose and its stem.
D. she saw the color yellow upon hearing the music of a flute.
Which of the following can be explained by the fact that connections
from the olfactory bulb are especially prevalent in the amygdala?
A. Whenever Anthony smelled ammonia, he felt nauseous.
B. Whenever Bonnie smelled a flower, she sneezed.
C. Whenever Charlene smelled mothballs, she felt sad.
D. Whenever Mike smelled the bread baking in the oven, he became hungry.
Elliot is a "supertaster." Accordingly, when he takes a bite of
broccoli, he will
A. enjoy it more than most people.
C. find it salty.
B. find it bitter.
D. find it sweet.
First, the babysitter picked up the teddy bear and gave it to the baby.
Then, when the baby kept crying, she picked the baby up and walked
with her around the room. The babysitter was able to correctly sense
that the baby weighed more than the teddy bear because the
A. teddy bear caused more neurons in her skin to fire than did the baby, and they fired at a faster rate
than the ones stimulated by the baby.
B. baby caused fewer neurons in the skin to fire than the teddy bear did, but those neurons fired at a
faster rate than the ones stimulated by the teddy bear.
C. baby caused more neurons to fire than the teddy bear did, and those neurons fired at a faster rate
than the ones stimulated by the teddy bear.
D. baby caused more neurons to fire than the teddy bear did, but those neurons fired at a slower rate
than the ones stimulated by the teddy bear.
Martin was blindfolded and spun in a circle several times. Because
Martin's balance had been impaired, he fell down and found it
difficult to get up. Which of Martin's senses did the spinning affect?
A. Kinesthetic
C. Vestibular
B. Somatosensory
D. Olfactory
Short Answer/Essay Questions
Why will most 5-year-olds choose a tall, narrow glass of lemonade over a short, fat one containing the
same amount? Explain.
Describe the process of a neuron transmission.
Use examples to explain the 3 different types of learning we studied in class. Be sure to explain the process
of classical conditioning using UCS, UCR, CS, CR.
Define memory and explain the process of forming memories. What part or parts of the brain are involved
in memory formation? Based on what you know about memory suggest some methods that may benefit a
student.
How is sensation related to the field of psychology?
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