Download Name: Mock Exam 2 (Hopkins) Which stage of the sexual response

Name: _____________________________
Mock Exam 2 (Hopkins)
1. Which stage of the sexual response cycle is does the refractory period take place?
A) Plateau
B) Excitement
C) Orgasm
D) Resolution
2. Who is the famous developmental psychologist known for his work with children?
A) Wilhelm Wundt
B) Jean Piaget
C) B.F. Skinner
D) William James
3. Johnny boy has just begun enjoying pretend play. Which stage of cognitive development would he
most likely be in?
A) sensorimotor
B) preoperational
C) concrete operational
D) formal operational
4. Ursula is eight years old and has become quite skilled at multiplication tables. What stage of
cognitive development is she most likely in?
A) sensorimotor
B) preoperational
C) concrete operational
D) formal operational
5. When does a menarche generally occur?
A) childhood
B) infancy
C) adolescence
D) mid-life crisis
6. A recent study was performed by Dr. Francis that compared the pain tolerance between a
group of adolescent boys and males in their 50s.
A) case study
B) double-blind procedure
C) longitudinal study
D) cross-sectional study
7. In Erikson’s stages, the primary task during adolescence is
A) attaining formal operations
B) forging an identity
C) developing an intimate relationship with another person
D) living independent of parents
8. What is an example of a secondary sex characteristic?
A) vagina
B) skin color
C) facial hair
D) eye color
9. Nicki is an infant and her family has bought her many dolls and pink articles of clothing. This
is an example of …..
A) gender identity
B) gender typing
C) gender role
d) sexual characteristics
10. Which of the following has been linked in determining a person’s sexual orientation?
A) abnormally large pons
B) levels of sex hormones in the blood
C) parental relationship
D) differences in the hypothalamus
11. Isabella works at the paper mill. Every morning when she arrives at work she smells the
atrocious odor but then she doesn’t notice it any longer. What is this an example of?
A) sensory adaptation
B) sensory interpretation
C) just noticeable difference
D) sensory interaction
12. What is adjusted during accommodation?
A) cornea
B) eardrum
C) lens
D) retina
13. Ned has a rare disease that has disabled the function of his iris. What will be the
consequences of this rare disease?
A) no conseqences
B) he will not have the ability to refract incoming light into his eye
C) he will lose the ability to adjust the amount of light entering his eye
D) he will has a heightened visual acuity
14. Axons of what cells make up the optic nerve?
A) photoreceptors
B) bipolar cells
C) feature detectors
D) ganglion cells
15. Which theory states that there are only three color receptors that can produce perception of
any color?
A) opponent-process theory
B) place theory
C) Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory
D) frequency theory
16. What determines pitch with regards to audition?
A) wavelength
B) amplitude
C) frequency
D) intensity
17. What are the receptors for pain?
A) nociceptors
B) vestibular receptors
C) photoreceptors
D) endorphins
18. _________________ is to classical conditioning as _______________ is to operant
conditioning?
A) Skinner; Pavlov
B) Pavlov; Skinner
C) Watson; Pavlov
D) punishments; rewards
19. John’s cat knows it’s time to eat when the bell rings. The cat also believes it’s time to eat
when the clock’s bell chimes? This is an example of ….
A) generalization
B) recovery
C) extinction
D) acquisition
20. Which psychologist is responsible for the Bobo doll experiment?
A) Skinner
B) Bandura
C) Watson
D) Pavlov
21. The what are the receptor cells for the auditory system?
A) hair cells
B) semicircular canals
C) photoreceptors
D) proprioceptors
22. Which of the following is an example of a monocular cue?
A) relative height
B) linear perspective
C) interposition
D) All of the above
23. Which of the following is true of cones?
A) they are more numerous
B) high sensitivity in dim light
C) high detail sensitivity
D) perceive black and white
24. What determines the sex of a child?
A) the father’s sex chromosome
B) the mother’s sex chromosome
C) the prenatal environment
D) All of the above
25. Which of the following is true?
A) females are more relationally aggressive
B) men tend to be more democratic leaders
C) males tend to be more interdependent
D) men prefer to work with people
Additional Questions
1. Alexis uses cocaine, which activates her sympathetic nervous system. When anticipating
a visit from her dealer, her hands shake and her heart pounds. Which of the following
correctly identifies the neutral stimulus, the CS, and the US?
a. neutral stimulus – knock on the door; CS – cocaine; US – cocaine
b. neutral stimulus – knock on the door; CS – knock on the door; US – pounding
heart
c. neutral stimulus – knock on the door; CS – knock on the door; US – cocaine
d. neutral stimulus – cocaine; CS – knock on the door; US – cocaine
2. Janine completed several tours of duty in Afghanistan. She suffers from PTSD. Now,
back home in Texas, she is frightened by firecrackers and cars backfiring. The fact that
these sounds scare her reflects stimulus:
a. extinction.
b. discrimination.
c. generalization.
d. association.
3. Mrs. Martin, a third-grade teacher, is teaching cursive writing. At first, she reinforces
even crude attempts to reproduce letters with an encouraging word; as time goes on,
though, she reinforces only well-formed letters. By reinforcing progressively better
attempts at writing letters, Mrs. Martin is using:
a. shaping.
b. classical conditioning.
c. partial reinforcement.
d. modeling.
4. Which consequence is correctly matched with an example of it?
a. positive reinforcement – Harvey is suspended when he vandalizes school
property.
b. negative reinforcement – Jeff puts up his umbrella when it starts to sprinkle so he
won’t get wet.
c. positive punishment – Jacqueline’s teacher puts a cute sticker on an arithmetic
exercise completed without mistakes.
d. negative punishment – Tommy receives a written reprimand from his boss
following a series of customer complaints.
5. Vending machine is to ____ reinforcement as slot machine is to _____ reinforcement.
a. continuous; partial
b. partial; continuous
c. partial; intermittent
d. intermittent; partial
6. Which promotion exemplifies the use of a variable-ratio schedule of reinforcement?
a. Every now and then, a café announces a two-for-one deal.
b. A café offers its customers a punch card. Each time a patron purchases a
beverage, a hold is punched; when ten holes are punched, the patron receives a
free beverage.
c. A café prints “You are a winner” on a random one-twelfth of its coffee lids;
patrons receiving such a lid can redeem it for a free beverage.
d. A café offers each patron an early morning two-for-one free-beverage-withpurchase deal from 5 to 6 a.m. on Monday mornings.
7. Skip would like his partner to stop leaving shaving cream and stubble in the sink after he
shaves in the morning. At first, Skip complains to his partner about the mess. Then Skip
changes tactics: he thanks his partner on the occasional mornings when he rinses out the
sink. Skip has changed from using _____ to using _____.
a. positive punishment; positive reinforcement
b. negative reinforcement; negative punishment
c. negative reinforcement; positive reinforcement
d. positive reinforcement; negative reinforcement
8. After flying from California to New York, Arthur experienced a restless, sleepless night.
His problem was most likely caused by a disruption of his normal:
a. change blindness.
b. circadian rhythm.
c. hypnagogic sensations.
d. alpha wave patterns.
9. Cory Monteith, star of the television show Glee, died from a toxic combination of alcohol
and heroin. Alcohol and heroin are both:
a. depressants.
b. hallucinogens.
c. barbiturates.
d. stimulants.
10. Many times each night, Claire's airway closes and her breathing stops for 10 to 15
seconds. She wakes, gasping. Claire exhibits:
a. sleep spindles.
b. somnambulism.
c. narcolepsy.
d. sleep apnea.
11. Dreams are most often reported when sleepers wake from _____ sleep.
a. Stage 1
b. REM
c. slow-wave
d. non-REM
12. Which statement concerning hypnosis is false?
a. Attention is less focused in the hypnotized state.
b. Hypnotized people are highly responsive to suggestion.
c. Hypnosis is associated with heightened imagination.
d. Hypnosis is associated with an extremely receptive attitude.
13. Fawn consumed a drug at a party. She is now talkative, on edge, and somewhat irritable.
Of the following, the drug she MOST likely consumed is:
a. heroin.
b. Xanax.
c. rohypnol.
d. methamphetamine.
14. Jay complains to his father that he does not have enough juice. There is no more juice in
the house, so his father takes the juice Jay has in his glass and pours it into a taller,
narrower glass. Jay believes that he has more juice because he has not yet developed an
understanding of:
a. object permanence.
b. formal operations.
c. reversibility.
d. conservation.
15. Four-year-old Hope thought her next-door neighbor's new pet rabbit was a kitty-cat until
she noticed it hopped instead of walked, and it didn't purr at all. The change in Hope's
understanding of her neighbor's new pet illustrates Piaget's process of:
a. conservation.
b. assimilation.
c. reversibility.
d. accommodation.
16. Tom rarely acts nervous in strange situations and pays little attention to whether his
mother is present or absent. Tom would most likely be classified as having a(n) ______
attachment pattern.
a. secure
b. ambivalent
c. avoidant
d. hard-to-classify
17. Based on Harlow's research with monkeys, what is the MOST helpful thing a person can
do for a frightened infant or child?
a. leave her alone
b. offer her something good to eat
c. talk to her
d. touch or hold her
18. As identical twins get older, their observable characteristics become increasingly
dissimilar, whereas their genetic makeup remains the same. In other words, their _____
changes, whereas their _____ does not.
a. dominant gene; recessive gene
b. recessive gene; dominant gene
c. genotype; phenotype
d. phenotype; genotype
19. Maura and Trish are eighth graders who have been caught smoking. Maura's parents yell
at her, ground her for a month, and take away her television and Internet privileges for 2
months. Trish's parents talk to her about their disappointment and concern; additionally,
they make her spend every afternoon for a week at the library researching the dangers of
smoking and discussing her findings with them each night at dinner. Most likely, Maura's
parents are _____ and Trish's are _____.
a. authoritative; permissive
b. authoritative; authoritarian
c. authoritarian; permissive
d. authoritarian; authoritative
20. During the Vietnam War, Michael moved from the United States to Canada to avoid the
draft. He didn't want to go to war because he was afraid he might be killed or seriously
injured. Michael's reasons for not going to war reflect Kohlberg's _____ moral reasoning.
a. preconventional
b. ambivalent
c. conventional
d. postconventional
21. Research suggests that the likelihood that a boy will become a gay man is _____
associated with the number of older brothers he has.
a. negatively
b. not
c. weakly
d. Positively
22. When women reach maturity at puberty, the two ovaries begin to produce _____ and
progesterone, female sex hormones.
a. androgens
b. estrogens
c. genitals
d. ovaries
23. Which sequence correctly orders the phases of the human sexual response cycle, from
first to last?
a. excitement > plateau > orgasm > resolution
b. excitement > plateau > resolution > orgasm
c. plateau > excitement > orgasm > resolution
d. plateau > resolution > excitement > orgasm
24. The refractory period is the:
a. moment before orgasm during which sexual arousal is maintained at a fairly high
level.
b. stage of the sexual response cycle during which sexual excitation reaches its
climax.
c. span of the monthly female reproductive cycle during which ovulation occurs.
d. time span after orgasm during which a male cannot be aroused to another orgasm.
25. Which of the following is indicative of a sexual disorder?
a. nocturnal emissions
b. premature ejaculation
c. erotic plasticity
d. refractory periods