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Fall 09 Gen Midterm
Please clearly mark your scantron (form 2052 available in the bookstore) with the correct answer. Make sure you erase any mistakes thoroughly. Please turn in your scantrons at the beginning of class on 10/29. This means within the first fifteen minutes of class. You must hand me your scantron personally. No outside or intermediary persons are to be allowed to hand in your work. All work must be your own, and there is to be no discussion or exchange of information. If you have questions please email me.
Items 1 – 30 are mutiple choice questions. On your scantron (available in the bookstore - please use form 2052), please indicate a corresponding letter that you feel indicates the BEST answer.
please note the your midterm MUST be handed to me personally by you on October 29th at 6:20 pm
There is to be no sharing of information between students. Do not bring the midterm to class and do not have any reason to have me suspect you of falsity.
1. The term consciousness can be defined as
a. Sensory awareness
b. The waking state
c. Personal unity
d. All of the above
2. Which of the following is not a main metaphor used by Evolutionary Psychologists?
a. Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap
b. we are like runners in a race, competing for survival
c. society will take care of its weakest members though they may die out
d. individual self-interest allows for maximum survival
3. What distinguished Wilhelm Wundt's contribution from other contributions to psychology?
a. He wrote the first textbook of psychology.
b. He defined psychology as the science of behavior.
c. He established psychology as a laboratory science.
d. He studied insight in lower animals.
4. A measures ability to produce consistent results is its:
a. reliability
b. validity
c. generalizability
d. measurability
5. The corpus callosum
a. is at least partially responsible for movement
b. is the largest region of the contemporary human brain
c. connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres
d. is critical to the functioning of vital bodily organs
6. A dog salivating in time to a ringing bell (Pavlov) is an example of :
a. Operant conditioning
b. Classical conditioning
c. Behaviorism gone astray
d. how Darwin was wrong
7. Which variable determines if the manipulation had any effect?
a. dependent
b. independent
c. continuous
d. categorical
8. The myelin sheath can dramatically increase
a. the speed with which messages can be transmitted
b. the number of messages a dendrite can receive
c. the amount of information a dendrite can convey in one firing
d. the time it takes for an axon to fire across the synaptic cleft
9. Feeling the need to check your email after hearing the ding that indicates a new message has been received is an example of:
a. operant conditioning
b. classical conidiotning
c. shaped behavior
d, both a and c
e. a really messed up set of priorities
10. A research wants to determine the effect of background noise on the length of time it takes for a subject to fall asleep. The time it takes to fall asleep is:
a. continuous, independent variable
b. continuous, dependent variable
c. categorical, independent variable
d. categorical, dependent variable
11. Prior conditioning can either ______ or _______ learning
a. accelerate. . . inhibit
b. evoke . . . elicit
c. emit . . . protract
d. enhance . . . distinguish
12. In the Harlow study of attachment of infant monkeys to their mothers, the independent variable is:
a. the placement of the milk
b. the wire mothers versus the terrycloth mothers
c. the preference of the infants to the source of the milk
d. the preference of the infants for the cloth mother
13. The branched extensions of the neuron's cell body are:
a. axons
b. myelin sheath
c. dendrites
d. chromosomes
14. MA/CA x 100 =
a. a person’s intelligence
b. the IQ formula
c. a way for children to be tracked
d. discrimination
15. Which of the following is not an innate biological expression:
a. disgust
b. sadness
c. fear
d. love
16. A memory such as your first birthday party is what kind of memory
a. semantic memory
b. procedural memory
c. episodic memory
d. declarative memory
17. Given a list of seventeen items, which are you more likely to remember with the recency effect?
a. items 1 - 5
b. items 6 - 11
c. the middle one
d. items 12 - 17
18. Which theorist argues the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
a. Lev Vygotsky
b. Noam Chomsky
c. B.F. Skinner
d. Nim Chimsky
19. A man walks into class to make an announcement and then leaves. Your professor later asks you what color his jacket was. You answer with assurance that it was black. It is later revealed the man was not wearing a jacket at all. What controversial phenomenon does this represent?
a. declarative memory
b. suggestive memory
c. implicit memory
d. repressive memory
20. What is the normal range of information a person can hold in short-term memory?
a. three to five items
b. five to nine items
c. seven to ten items
d. seven minutes
21. The purpose of Watson studying Poor Little Albert was to demonstrate:
a. a phobia which can be induced can be extinguished
b. operant and classical conditioning achieve the same result
c. latent learning can occur in toddlers
d. a fear response can be classically conditioned
22. Which of the following is measured in decibels?
a. amplitude
b. pitch
c. timbre
d. complexity
23. A researcher wants to determine the effect of background noise on how well a student does on a test. The test score is:
a. continuous, independent variable
b. continuous, dependent variable
c. categorical, independent variable
d. categorical, dependent variable
24. Which perspective attempts to explain already existing traits and behaviors?
a. psychodynamic
b. behaviorist
c. cognitive
d. evolutionary
25. Gattaca was used in class to exemplify:
a. the idea of genetics as a precursor for all behavior
b. the human spirit as transcending genetics
c. we are more than what we are made of
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
26. Psychology is defined as:
a. the study of the conscious and unconscious mental processes
b. the scientific investigation of behavior
c. the scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
d. the study of paradigms of culture and behavior.
27. Which lobe in the brain is associated with vision
a. temporal
b. frontal
c. occipital
d. parietal
28. Which of the following is not an example of an abstract construct:
a. I.Q.
b. color
c. love
d. language
29. Which of the following is not included in Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?
a. musical
b. vocal
c. interpersonal
d. intrapersonal
30. Which sleep disorder has been called the mirror image of insomnia?
a. apnea
b. terrors
c. narcolepsy
d. sleepwalking
Questions 1-31 are true/false. On your scantron (available in the bookstore - please use form 2052), please indicate "a" for a true answer and "b" for a false answer.
31. Validity examines the truth of a study
32. Automatically dialing a phone without conscious thought is called implicit memory
33. The cocktail party effect means your threshold has been lowered to martinis
34. Chunking expands the capacity of semantic memory
35. The most vivid memories are explicit memories
36. Standing up a date after an argument is an example of negative reinforcement
37. Roughgarden believes that a female’s choice of mate has more to do with managing male power than obtaining good genes
38. The human brain can only understand all languages in the first two years
39. Toxic substances to humans usually taste sweet.
40. All people have the same working memory capacity
41. Brain lesions are areas of the brain that are damaged
42. The “market economy” is unique to humans
43. Cognition focuses on the reason behind behavior
44. The basic unit of the nervous system is the axon
45. The human brain develops completely in the first two years
46. Nightmares are products of REM sleep
47. Media violence is a form of observational learning
48. You get a wrinkle in your brain every time you learn something new
49. A photographic memory is not as rare as we once thought
50. Japan has discovered a new taste which applies to all races
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