APS review Flashcards
The study of fossil remains is called archaeology. True or False
FALSE
Charles Darwin’s greatest discoveries occurred on the Great Britain Islands. True or False
FALSE
Interpreting and manipulating ideas and mental images to obtain information is commonly referred to as the cognitive process. True or False
TRUE
Adolescence is considered to be a time of “high risk” because of the immature corpus callosum.
FALSE
Higher order conditioning, extinction and experimental neuroses are terms relating to B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning theory. True or False
FALSE
The term “gender” refers only to the anatomical (physical) differences between males and females. True or False
FALSE
Experimental neuroses is associated with Ivan Pavlov’s research. True or False
TRUE
Carolus Linnaeus is responsible for discovering the theory of Species Classification. True or False
TRUE
The earliest behaviour guidelines that are assigned to humans are gender roles. True or False
TRUE
According to Noam Chomsky, there is evidence that suggests the existence of a grammar gene. True or False
TRUE
what is the earliest form of communication:
A) body gestures
Skinner supported _______ while Chomsky supported the ______ in an attempt to understand language development.
B) nurture, nature
Nature is related to ________ as nurture is related to _________.
C) heredity, environment
OR
E) none of the above
According to Freud, our repressed impulses present themselves through:
D) a and B
Excluding from consciousness a feeling or thought that causes anxiety, shame or guilt can best be described as:
C) repression
According to Manufacturing Design, on average the percentage of television commercials
which last in a human’s mind after 24 hours is:
A) 5%
According to Freud, when we dream which theory does he use to explain this concept?
D) Psychoanalytical
A subject may become confused when it is exposed to too many stimuli, this is known as:
D) experimental neuroses
Subliminal messages are processed by our:
C) subconscious/unconscious
Freud believed the mind consisted of three aspects, which he called the id, ego and superego. In order, those are also known as:
B) pleasure principle, reality principle, moral principle
Approximately what percentage of human DNA is the same as that of chimpanzees?
E) 98%
In Freudian theory, which part of our mind would most closely be associated with our
conscience?
C) the superego
The common elements of a stereotype include:
E) all of the above
Linguistics is the study of:
A) language
Diffusion of responsibility is
B) the tendency for bystanders to believe that the responsibility to act is shared with all
those who are present
Which of the following theorists came to this conclusion in their research in relation to the
causes of aggression? “The more realistic the violence, the more effect it has on the viewer.”
C) L. Huesmann
All teenagers are rebellious. You are a teenager. You are rebellious. This is an example of
________ reasoning:
B) deductive
Looking at the early theorists and their interpretations of why we dream, this theorist believed the function of dreams was to dissipate vapours that rise from the stomach after we eat.
B) Aristotle
Acts as the relay centre, handling incoming and outgoing signals falls under this section of the human brain.
C) thalamus
According to this theory, language is acquired through rewards and punishments.
B) learning theory
In 1924 _________ confirmed proof of human evolution by discovering the fossil of a child in
South Africa that was over 2 million years old.
D) Raymond Dart
The “best” thinkers are said to be _________, that is they use both sides of their brain to
solve problems.
A) bilateral
According to Manufacturing Desire, advertising began as early as the 12 th century with this
Form.
C) town crier
This newly discovered evidence suggests a small “hobbit” like species which inhabited the earth as recently as 12,000 years ago.
A) homo floresiensis
The American Psychiatric Association has agreed upon a system for classifying abnormal
symptoms. This document is known as the:
B) APA
The earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old, when broken down so the age of the earth is
represented by an hour consisting of 60 minutes, modern homosapiens have been around for:
C) 5 seconds
The largest section of the human brain is the:
E) cerebral cortex
In chronological order, identify the correct sequence of evolutionary periods.
D) australopithecus africanus, homo habilis, homo erectus, archaic homo sapiens
According to the video entitled “The Truth about Violence” aggression is “hard wired” into
our brains for:
E) all of the above
In relation to the topic of media violence, effects of violent visual imagery include:
E) b and c
One of the earliest forms of communication was the Biami tribe in New Guinea.
B) False
A _________ can best be described as a bridge of fibers passing information between the two cerebral hemispheres.
C) corpus callosum
