PSY1011 Exam

The "aha!" experience is known as ________.

Which of the following statements regarding conditioned taste aversions is true?

The research into the usefulness of considering an individual's learning style has found which of the following?

Studies of latent learning emphasise the importance of ________ on learning.

You wake up at 3.00 am craving a glass of water. You get out of bed and walk to the kitchen but you do not turn on the light. Your ability to successfully navigate the house in the dark is due to the presence of ________.

Which type of neuron becomes active when we engage in observational learning?

Who is best known for studying the phenomenon of insight in animals?

Which of the following terms refers to the fact that animals and human beings may be evolutionarily predisposed to fear certain stimuli that threaten their survival?

What does SALTT stand for?

Sarah has recently learned that the sun does not go up and down each day, but that it is the Earth that moves. The fact that Sarah visualises the Earth moving up and down next to the sun each day (rather than orbiting the sun on its axis) demonstrates which Piagetian developmental task?

Julie is expected to cut the lawn weekly. Her parents only give her money once in a while after she cuts the lawn. Julie is being conditioned using a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

In S-O-R learning, what does the "O" stand for?

________ was the first person to describe learning as acquired through classical conditioning while studying the digestive process of dogs.

Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate at a metronome sound that was paired with a meat stimulus. After the CS—UCS linkage was strongly established, Pavlov then presented the dog with several flashes of a light followed by the metronome sound. After a few days, when the light flashes were presented by themselves, the dog salivated. This is an example of ________.

A reinforcer is a consequence that ________ a behaviour, while a punisher is a consequence that ________ a behaviour.

An animal trainer is trying to teach a lion to perform tricks for circus. First the lion is given food if he sits quietly on a chair. Next the lion is given food if he raises one paw. Finally the lion is given even more food if he gives the trainer a "high-five". In this example, the lion is being trained by ________.

The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behaviour is called ________.

Young Albert is initially not afraid of white rats, but if white rats and loud noises are presented in sequence, Albert may learn to fear the rats. In this example, white rats would be the

Which of the following is true concerning intermittent schedules of reinforcement?

Which of the following statements pertaining to the conditioned response is accurate?

What method of personality assessment is considered the most controversial in psychology today?

One concern with the use of structured personality tests, like the MMPI, is that certain questions do not appear to be relevant to the psychological dimensions they supposedly measure. A psychologist would say such questions have a low degree of ________.

According to your textbook, criminal profilers are

The Luscher Colour Test, a popular projective test, is

Tests consisting of ambiguous stimuli that examinees must interpret are called ________.

The ________ is the most extensively researched of all structured personality tests.

Many people believe in the validity of activities like palmistry, tarot card reading, and astrology. The evidence to support the usefulness of these activities as anything other than entertainment is virtually non-existent. This reminds you to consider which principle of critical thinking the next time you are at a carnival with a mind reader or a fortune teller?

When Kate read her horoscope for the day, she was amazed to find that it described her very well. She is probably a victim of

Quentin is suffering from a disorder that causes him to have problems recognising everyday objects. The other day he was looking at a wine glass and couldn't come up with its name. He said to his wife, "I want one of those things that you hold the wine in", but try as he did, he could not find the word "glass". This demonstrates a form of visual ________.

According to the opponent process theory of colour vision, the correct pairings of opposite colours are ________.

Brightness refers to the intensity of light. The corresponding term when discussing sound is

The bony, spiral-shaped sense organ used for hearing is the

The part of the ear we see is called the

One theory of pitch perception is the ________ theory, which suggests that the rate at which neurons in the ear fire produces different pitches. This theory is particularly effective at explaining humans' perception of lower pitches.

A whistle that gives a sound so high that it can only be heard by dogs, but not humans, exploits which aspect of the auditory system?

Pete has played lead guitar in a rock band for years. He would often turn the volume on his guitar up loud and spend a great deal of time in front of the speakers during the shows. His resulting hearing loss over the past few years is most likely the result of

The complexity or quality of sound that makes instruments, voices, and other sources of sound unique is called

Research exploring infantile temperament has found that there are generally three different temperaments. They are

According to Kohlberg, behaviour motivated by the avoidance of punishment and the gaining of rewards represents ________ morality.

Young Jamal is asked whether it is right for a police officer to give a speeding ticket to a man who is driving his daughter to the hospital after a serious injury that left her with several broken bones. Which of the following answers would demonstrate the postconventional level of moral reasoning in Jamal?

Sixteen-year old Brenda's parents are political conservatives, while she identifies more with liberal political views. When asked her political orientation, Brenda seems uncertain and does not respond. Brenda is dealing with the ________ crisis.

Bertram is a surly child who can't bear to be alone, yet he has few friends because he has little self-control. Even the children he prefers to be with, who are much younger than he is, get frustrated with his impulsiveness. His parents are probably of the ________ type.

An individual's ability to handle their given roles in society is called their ________ age, and it may be a better indicator of that person's readiness to retire from work then chronological age.

Which one of the following children would most likely be described as "independent"?

Which of the following is not one of the dimensions of the Big Five?

Jayne is a 26-month-old toddler. She is most likely in the ________ stage.

Most of the neo-Freudians agreed with Freud's ideas on

According to the humanists, a core motive in human personality development was

Justin is working on his psychology assignment for class when he gets a phone call inviting him to a party. His decision to finish the assignment before going to the party reflects the functioning of the ________.

The role of reciprocal determinism was highlighted by the ________.

A ________ is a specialised cell responsible for converting external stimuli into neural activity for a specific sensory system.

Jordan and her friends are in the front row for a rock concert. During the concert, the lead singer moves all around the stage but Jordan continues to perceive him as the same height even though the image received in her eye and brain constantly changes. This illustrates which type of perceptual constancy?

Which of the following is the best example of the signal-to-noise ratio?

Jan can see objects well up close, but they appear blurry from afar. She is probably

A blind spot is a part of the visual field we can't see, where the ________ connects to the ________.

When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his left eye and right eye, the image seems to jump from one position to another. This phenomenon illustrates ________.

As the number of people talking in a room increases, the stimulus intensity needed to detect a change in the number of people talking becomes

The white part of the eye is the

Stanton is taking chemistry with Ms Neville and has heard many negative stories about her class from his friends. The fact that his beliefs about Ms Neville affect his interpretation of his interactions with her during the school year is an example of

Functionalism seeks to explain