Need help! Need answers for all of the questions below!!

 

1.  Dr. Lombard's research focuses on the capacity of the human mind to store and retrieve information. Her colleague, Dr. Fry, is a clinician who strives to help his clients "be all they can be". As a fly on the wall listening to these two psychologists' civil disputes during coffee breaks, which psychological perspective can you assume Dr. Fry adheres to? 

A. Cognitive

B. Behavioral

C. Psychodynamic

D. Humanist

 

 

2.  The left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex is more specialized in language functions and processing information sequentially. The right hemisphere tends to specialize in spatial perception and distinguishing patterns. These are examples of cortex 

A. lateralization.

B. evolution.

C. neuroplasticity.

D. adaptation.

 

3.  In a neuron, the myelin sheath serves to insulate 

A. dendrites.

B. the axon.

C. the cell body.

D. terminal buttons.

 

4.  Among the advanced technologies used to study the brain's structure and functions, which one provides detailed three-dimensional images of the brain's structures and activities? 

    A. Positron emission tomography

B. Functional magnetic resonance imaging

C. Electroencephalogram

D. Transcranial magnetic stimulation

 

5.  Which of the following statements regarding taste and smell is true? 

A. So-called supertasters may be inclined to obesity.

B. Taste buds wear out and are replaced about every 25 days.

C. Women tend to have a better sense of smell than men.

D. People often have a very short memory of smells.

 

6.  A clinical experiment is designed in such a way that neither the researchers dispensing a treatment nor the persons in the experimental or control groups know if they're getting a sugar pill or a new drug. This sort of experimental design is employing a/an _______ procedure. 

A. reverse psychology

B. experimenter expectations

C. double-blind

D. placebo

 

7.  A reflex, like automatically removing your hand from a hot stove, involves pain messages sent to the spinal cord by way of _______ neurons, while the movement of your hand is controlled by _______ neurons. 

A. somatic; sympathetic

B. motor; sensory

C. somatic; sensory

D. sensory; motor

 

8.  Dr. Jones suspects that loud noises can raise stress levels in young children. He decides to test this idea using the scientific method. His idea about loud noises would be considered a/an 

A. hypothesis.

B. educated guess.

C. experiment.

D. law.

 

9.  The body’s voluntary movements are mostly controlled by which part of the cerebral cortex? 

A. Movement lobe

B. Temporal lobe

C. Occipital lobe

D. Frontal lobe

 

10.  Rods are to light intensity as cones are to 

A. the retina.

B. the iris.

C. the optic nerve.

D. color perception.

 

11.  By means of introspection, Dr. Marsh attempts to determine the components of things like perception, thinking, and consciousness. By contrast, Dr. Smyth wants to understand what the mind does in producing different kinds of behavior. We can reasonably assume that Dr. Marsh's research is mainly guided by the principles of 

A. objectivism.

B. functionalism.

C. structuralism.

D. Gestalt psychology.

 

12.  Which of the following statements regarding depth perception is true? 

A. Motion parallax is detected because we perceive binocular disparity.

B. The change in position of an object relative to the retina is a binocular cue.

C. Experience teaches us to perceive relative size as an indicator of the color of an object.

D. Texture gradient is a monocular cue.

 

13.  Ron is running an experiment to see if certain sounds can improve memory. While testing the subjects’ memory, Ron unintentionally smiles when the subjects seem to be arriving at the proper answer. His smile helps the subject pick the correct answer. In this case, Ron is showing 

A. invalid experimental placebos.

B. experimental bias.

C. experiment effect.

D. informed consent.

 

14.  In the ear, the basilar membrane and hair cells are found in the 

A. cochlea.

B. anvil and stirrup.

C. auditory nerve.

D. oval window.

 

15.  In his research, Dr. Caulfield wants to compare levels of test anxiety among high school students in grades 10 and 12. His hypothesis is that seniors will have higher levels of test anxiety than sophomores will. His _______ definition of test anxiety for each person in his sample will be a self-reported test-anxiety level, marked in a questionnaire as "high," "moderate," or "low." 

A. subjective

B. theoretical

C. functional

D. operational

 

16.  Agatha maintains that people are capable of freely making voluntary choices. Constance is mainly focused on how aggression is caused by genetic inheritance. It seems reasonable to assume that Constance is not much interested in environmental factors impacting behavior while Agatha rejects  

A. mental processes.

B. heredity.

C. introspection.

D. determinism.

 

17.  Among his oil-field buddies, Conrad was known as a cheerfully profane, hard drinker who was seldom averse to a barroom scrap. But, after he suffered a head injury in a car accident, he returned to work as a docile, timid man who could no longer deal with the violent activity of a drilling platform. His physicians determined that damage to his __________ was the likely cause of his changed behavior. 

A. amygdala

B. hippocampus

C. thalamus

D. cerebellum

 

18.  If you adopt the _______ perspective, you'll reject an emphasis on what goes on in people's minds in favor of focusing on measurable behaviors that can be objectively measured. 

A. behavioral

B. psychodynamic

C. neuroscience

D. cognitive

 

19.  Which of these statements most accurately characterizes linear perspective? 

 

A. Through experience, we determine that changes in images focused on the retina occur as a result of the motion of our bodies.

B. As we view a landscape, the relative sizes of objects are revealed by texture gradient cues.

C. We learn to compensate for the monocular disparity between the retinal images of the left and right eye.

D. Having learned that distant objects tend to be closer together, we interpret a two-dimensional image on the retina in three dimensions.

 

 

 20.  Which of the following statements regarding processing is true? 

 

A. Top-down processing allows us to fill in the gaps in an incomplete or ambiguous pattern.

B. Bottom-up processing allows us to fill in the gaps in an incomplete or ambiguous pattern.

C. Bottom-up processing is guided by experience, expectations, and motivations.

D. Top-down processing is a process of recognizing and processing components of a pattern.