PSY 101 Exam

These questions cover Introduction to Psychology as a whole. They are optional. A score does not lock or unlock any chapter. Wrong answers are nearby mistakes, not jokes.

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1. A claim is empirical, in the sense used in this class, when:

an authority has already published it it is tied to observations another investigator could inspect, and some outcome would count against it it uses technical vocabulary

2. Informed consent is owed before a procedure runs. Debriefing is owed:

only if the IRB never met after participation, and especially when the study used deception or a hidden purpose only when the construct is a personality trait

3. An action potential is all-or-none. Intensity of input is typically coded by:

how tall each spike is how many spikes occur per second how heavy the axon is

4. Localization of function, as used here, means:

one skull bump equals one personality trait particular structures contribute more to particular jobs, still inside a network every neuron does every job equally

5. REM sleep is distinguished from deep NREM in that:

the body is more mobile in REM than in deep NREM vivid dreaming is common and motor output to the limbs is largely blocked REM is the same state as surgical anesthesia

6. Heritability of extraversion is:

the percent of extraversion inside one person that is genetic a population statistic about variation in that trait proof that environment is irrelevant

7. In this class, sex names biological status; gender names:

the number of X chromosomes only social and personal meanings, roles, and identities organized around sex whatever a mean difference between two groups happens to be

8. Conservation, in Piaget’s account, is:

keeping a secret from a caregiver understanding that quantity can remain the same when appearance changes the zone of proximal development

9. Transduction is:

grouping elements by proximity conversion of stimulus energy into neural signals using expectation to complete a scene

10. Top-down processing uses:

only the current retinal image knowledge, expectation, and context to organize sensory data the spinal cord exclusively

11. Classical conditioning pairs a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus. Operant conditioning pairs:

two unconditioned stimuli a behavior with a consequence a genotype with a phenotype

12. A name coming back to mind after a delay is, in the memory chapter:

proof the name was never encoded retrieval succeeding an operational definition of extraversion

13. The availability heuristic uses:

a guaranteed algorithm ease of retrieval as a cue to probability skull shape

14. IQ, as used here, is:

the construct of intelligence itself a score on a standardized test; one operational definition of intelligence a person’s worth

15. Two-factor theory (Schachter–Singer) says emotion is:

only a facial expression arousal plus a cognitive label of that arousal heritability of extraversion

Next course: PSY 200: Research Methods, starting with Lesson 1: Scientific understanding of behavior.

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