OC userin Psychology·5 Jul 201853. You drive down a familiar stretch of road that you travel daily. Despite the fact that none of the road signs have changed you find that you read them all each time you see them. This is an example of A) procedural memory B) effortful processing C) maintenance rehearsal D) automatic processing E) retrieval from LTM
OC userin Psychology·2 Jul 201813. According to Freud, what motivates much of human behavior is of that A) the expected outcome of the behavior combined with the subjective value outcome B) the subjective interpretation of physiological arousal C) the battle between unconscious impulses struggling for release and psychological defenses used to keep them under control D) the consequences of a given behavior E) an intrinsic striving for self-actualization
OC userin Psychology·4 Jul 201815. Circadian rhythms can be described as a A) repetition of physiological events such as a heartbeat B) sequence of brain activity following stimulation C) monthly behaviour or physiological cycle D) weekly behaviour or physiological cycle E) daily behaviour or physiological cycle
OC userin Psychology·3 Jul 201845. In Asch's conformity studies (where participant's had to judge the length of lines), what effect did a dissenter have (a confederate who disagrees with the others)? A) dissenters were criticized and excluded from the group B) dissenters increased conformity C) dissenters reduced conformity D) dissenters only reduced conformity if they dissented by choosing the correct answer E) dissenters only increased conformity if they dissented by choosing the correct answer
OC userin Psychology·3 Jul 201824. Although Manuel was sitting right next to his parents, he smelled a skunk minutes before they did. Manuel might have a lower for skunk odor than his parents. a. perceptual set b. critical period c. just noticeable difference d. absolute threshold
OC userin Psychology·3 Jul 201851. We are likely to have a more difficult time encoding the word list honesty, fellowship, integrity as compared to the word list refrigerator, automobile, television. Why? A) the first list generates more interference B) the second list generates primacy making it easier to remember C) it is difficult to generate a visual image for the first list D) it is easy to generate a visual image for the second list E) C and D above
OC userin Psychology·2 Jul 201811. The critical feature of cognition is a. organization c. conversion of stimuli to action potentials b. developing meaning d. all of these
OC userin Psychology·29 Jun 201844. Pausing in the letter string FBITWACIAIBM to form familiar groups allows people to take advantage of A) absolute judgement B) chunking C) acoustic codes D) paraphrases E) referential connections
OC userin Psychology·29 Jun 201811. Simon recently walked into a hospital emergency room in Florida. He had no , and although he didn't appear to be hurt in anyway, he had no idea who he was or where he lived. A check of missing person reports showed that Simon had walked away from his home in Brooklyn ten days earlier. In this case, Simon's symptoms are MOST consistent with
OC userin Psychology·26 Jun 201811. During dinner one evening, Arial mentions that she just read in a popular magazine that a particular herbal substance improves memory. She's very excited about trying this supplement in hopes that it might improve her grades. Sitting across the table from her, Juan is skeptical. He begins to ask her about such things as the nature of the evidence regarding the herb's effectiveness and how big the memory improvement effect is supposed to be. Juan's behavior is most consistent with which of the following concepts discussed in the text? A) Gestalt psychology B) functionalism C) British empiricism D) critical thinking E) A & C are both correct
OC userin Psychology·24 Jun 2018Remembering your first grade teacher's name and which school you attended are examples of A) declarative memories B) context memories C) procedural memories D) iconic memories E) echoic memories
OC userin Psychology·22 Jun 201820. Structure A is called the a. Tympanic Memberaneb. Ossicles c. Cochlea d. Pinna
OC userin Psychology·20 Jun 201828. Which schedule of conditioning gives the highest rate of responding and is the most resistant to extinction a. Fixed Ratio b. Variable Ratio c. Fixed Interval d. Variable Interval
OC userin Psychology·17 Jun 201834. Although early research suggested that the hypothalamus was responsible for reward and motivation, more recent research has demonstrated that reward and motivation are associated with activity within the A) basal ganglia B) thalamus C) hippocampus D) reticular formation E) nucleus accumbens
OC userin Psychology·18 Jun 2018The "Place theory of pitch perception" proposes that A) the location of a sound is coded using time of arrival cues from both ears B) the specific point on the basilar membrane in the cochlea where the fluid wave peaks and maximally bends the hair cells is used as a frequency cue. C) the number of nerve impulses per second that are sent to the brain match the frequency of the sound D) the nerve impulses per second that are sent to the brain match the amplitude of the sound waves E) the location of a sound is coded in the occipital cortex