Exam 1

Question 1

Who was the first president of the APA?

Answer 1

G. Stanley Hall

Question 2

Who performed ablations on animals?

Answer 2

Pierre Flourens

Question 3

Who is considered the father of modern psychology?

Answer 3

Wilhelm wundt

Question 4

Who studied aphasics’ problems producing speech?

Answer 4

Paul Broca

Question 5

Who studied aphasics’ problems understanding speech?

Answer 5

Karl Wernicke

Question 6

Who was the German phrenology specialist?

Answer 6

Franz Joseph Gall

Question 7

Who was the English philosopher who formalized scientific method?

Answer 7

Roger Bacon

Question 8

What is it called when simple explanations are better?

Answer 8

Parsimony; occams razor

Question 9

What is the word for experimental prediction?

Answer 9

Hypothesis

Question 10

What is it called when conditions improve based on patient’s beliefs?

Answer 10

Placebo

Question 11

What does not imply casuality?

Answer 11

Correlation

Question 12

What involves extensive in-depth, studies of an individual?

Answer 12

 case study

Question 13

What is the fear of horses called?

Answer 13

Equinophobia

Question 14

EEG and fMRI are examples of what research methodology 

Answer 14

Psychophysiological Method Nueroimaging.

Question 15

What is the drug that causes experiences of fantastic images?

Answer 15

LSD

Question 16

What is the Illusion of movement neon signs?

Answer 16

The phi phenomenon

Question 17

What are the three types of intelligence according to Sternberg?

Answer 17

Analytical, creative, and practical 

Question 18

What is another word for overwhelming sleepiness?

Answer 18

Nacrolepsy

Question 19

Five Gestalt principles of perception:

Answer 19

Proximity, similarities, continuity, connectedness and closure.

Question 20

When we see an apple as red it is called ___ vs. when we see an apple as a fruit is it ____

Answer 20

Sensation and perception

Question 21

What is the study of anomalous experiences called?

Answer 21

Psi phenomena (psychic phenomena)

Question 22

What are five things intelligence tests measures?

Answer 22

1. Predict academic performance
2. Evaluate for Mental Retardation & Learning Disabilities
3. Evaluate for brain damage
4. Career counseling
5. Research

Question 23

Six reasons why chimps are not smarter than humans:

Answer 23

1. Highest Encephalization Quotient
2. Highest Sentience Quotient
3. Sophisticated language
4. Large frontal cortex
5. Most Extensive Gyrification
6. Humans dominate all other species

Question 24

Six parapsychological phenomena and psychological evidence to explain each

Answer 24

1. Telepathy: mind to mind communication
2. ESP: sixth sense
3. Poltergeist events: paranormal experience
4. Alien abduction
5. UFOs
6. Teleportation

Question 25

What is our awareness of ourselves and our environment called?

Answer 25

Consciousness