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Category 1 questions follow
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Psychology is the scientific study of what?
Answer
Human behavior and mental processes
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What can a psychiatrist do that a psychologist
cannot?
Answer
Prescribe medication
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Which contemporary perspective in psychology
focuses on the interpretation of mental images,
thinking, and language?
Answer
Cognitive
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Which method of observation allows researchers to
witness the behavior of people or animals in settings
that are not artificial.
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Naturalistic Observation
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Why do psychologists sometimes use animals in
their research?
Answer
If it would be unethical to use humans
Category 2 questions follow
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What controls muscles and the glands in the body?
Answer
Central Nervous System
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What allows the two hemispheres of the brain to
work together?
Answer
The corpus callosum
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What psychological issue explores the influences of
heredity and the environment?
Answer
Nature vs. Nurture
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What psychological process involves the
interpretation of sensory stimulation?
Answer
perception
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Daytime sleep attacks is a symptom of ___.
Answer
Narcolepsy
Category 3 questions follow
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Which type of conditioning is based on
consequences of actions?
Answer
Operant conditioning
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What are the three stages of memory?
Answer
Sensory memory, Short-term memory, Long-term
memory
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What obstacle to problem-solving involves the
tendency to think of an object as being useful only
for the function for which it is typically used?
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Functional fixedness
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What are the basic sounds of a language called?
Answer
phonemes
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What does PQ4R stand for?
Answer
Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review
Category 4 questions follow
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What is the uncomfortable feeling that accompanies
a contradiction between attitudes and behavior?
Answer
Cognitive dissonance
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What is the tendency for people to feel less
responsible when the effort is shared among
members of a group?
Answer
Diffusion of responsibility
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According to ___, emotions occur in pairs (an
emotion is followed by its opposite).
Answer
Opponent-process theory
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Asch’s famous study indicates that people are likely
to do what when in a group where the group
opinion is different from their own opinion?
Answer
Conform to the group opinion
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What was primary finding of Milgram’s famous
study?
Answer
People tend to obey authority
Category 5 questions follow
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What do trait theorists study?
Answer
personality
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Which psychological disorder involves the
development of two or more distinct personalities
within an individual?
Answer
Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Who do teenagers model their political and religious
views after?
Answer
Their parents
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According to Maslow, what is at the top of the
hierarchy of needs?
Answer
Self-actualization
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What are the three main biological treatments for
psychological disorders?
Answer
Drug therapy, Electroconvulsive therapy,
Psychosurgery