Midterm 1 Review

Michael Vilensky
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Review
Paul recently suffered a head injury, after which he was
unable to form new memories (although his old memories
remained intact). Its likely that Paul experienced damage
to his ____________.
a) Cerebellum
b) Basal ganglia
c) Prefrontal cortex
d) Hippocampus
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Review
You decide to study how freshmen adapt to life at Ohio
State by following around one freshman for the entire
school year, interviewing him weekly about his
psychological well-being and collecting data about his
grades. This type of research design is called a(n)
___________.
a) Correlational design
b) Case study
c) Experimental design
d) Inferential statistics
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Review
You sit next to someone in class who is wearing thick
glasses, has a pen protector, and is wearing a Star Trek
shirt. If you assume this person is a computer science
major, you likely used the ____________ to come to this
conclusion.
a) Representativeness heuristic
b) Overconfidence bias
c) Availability heuristic
d) Operational definition
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Review
When you reach into your book bag without looking and
feel around for a pen, you are likely activating the
_________, the part of the cerebral cortex most closely
associated with touch.
a) Parietal lobe
b) Occipital lobe
c) Temporal lobe
d) Frontal lobe
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Review
Relative size the idea that more distant objects look
smaller than closer objects is an example of a
___________ that helps us perceive depth.
a) Feature detection cell
b) Monocular cue
c) Gestalt principle
d) Binocular cue
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Review
When no neurotransmitters are acting on a neuron, the
neuron is said to be at ________; that is, in a baseline
state of about -60mv.
a) Absolute refractory period
b) Resting potential
c) Reuptake
d) Threshold
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Review
While some brain scanning techniques only show the
brains structure, _________ is an example of a brain
scanning technique that shows the brains activity. This
technique does so by measuring consumption of glucose-
like molecules.
a) Computed tomography (CT)
b) Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
c) Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
d) Phrenology
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Review
You find that this is a very small (r = .03), but statistically
evident correlation between GPA and hair length among
all male students at Ohio State (about 25,000). Since its
unlikely that this finding has any real-world implications,
such that its essentially useless for predicting anything, it
lacks __________________.
a) Internal validity
b) Reliability
c) Standard deviation
d) Practical significance
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Review
A book in the psychology section of the bookstore claims
that there are computer chips that have been inserted
into peoples heads that control their thoughts and
behavior, but that if anyone ever tried to locate the chips,
they would self-destruct before being detected. Since this
claim isnt capable of being disproven, it lacks
__________.
a) Replicability
b) Belief perserverence
c) Nave realism
d) Falsifiability
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Review
Stephanie suffered a head injury, causing her extreme
difficulties with understanding speech (she could still
produce some speech, although much of it was gibberish).
Its likely that Stephanie suffered damage to
____________, which is located in the temporal lobe.
a) Wernickes area
b) Brocas area
c) The amygdala
d) The recticular activating system (RAS)
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Review
You want to test whether a new energy drink makes
people extremely anxious. Before giving the energy drink
to the experimental group, you mention that the drink can
cause extreme anxiety in some people, and that you will
be measuring how anxious they become. Giving
participants this information, which cues them into the
purpose of the study and may therefore influence their
reactions, can produce _____________.
a) External validity
b) Illusory correlation
c) Reliability
d) Demand characteristics
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Review
You only notice a chance in volume when you turn your
car radio volume from level 1 to level 3. You also only
notice a change when you go from level 3 to level 9. By
noticing this constant, proportional relationship, you are
demonstrating ____________.
a) Transduction
b) Absolute threshold
c) Webers law
d) Bottom-up processing
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You decide to measure depressive symptoms by asking
people about the number of siblings they have. In this
case, your measure seems to lack _________.
a) Informed consent
b) Reliability
c) Validity
d) Central tendency
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