Final!

Question 1

A reduction in number of participants as some drop out is called

Answer 1

Attrition

Question 2

An intelligence score below what number is considered an intellectual disablity

Answer 2

70

Question 3

What perceptual system allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and hit a baseball without focusing on her hands

Answer 3

Propreoception

Question 4

The storage capacity of long-term memory is____

Answer 4

Essentially unlimited

Question 5

Mohammed is sleeping, and his eyelids are darting around. He is most likely in what type of sleep

Answer 5

REM sleep

Question 6

Lidya is standing on 1 leg with his arms in the air the this sense helps him keep his balance so he has less of a chance to fall over

Answer 6

vestibular system

Question 7

What part of the brain is probably damaged if I am unable to recognize basic objects around my house

Answer 7

Hippocampus

Question 8

Melatonin released by the pinneal gland is stimulated by what and is inhibited by what

Answer 8

Stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light

Question 9

The practice of administering, scoring, and interpreting an assessment tool, in the same way, is called

Answer 9

Standardization

Question 10

What type of research design allows for a cause-and-effect conclusion

Answer 10

Experimental

Question 11

In this type of study both the researchers and participants are unaware of their group assignments

Answer 11

double blind

Question 12

What type of memories do we conciosly try to remember recall and report

Answer 12

Explicit

Question 13

Jeff is an unforgiving perfectionist who would rather turn in work a week late then turn in a project with even minor mistakes, infact he spends so much time working that he never has time for anything else. He is known to be rigid inflexible and stubborn. What is his diagnosis?

Answer 13

OCPD

Question 14

Jory is a 6 year old and is picking out a card for his mothers birthday, he picks out a lightning McQueen card because he loves cars reasoning that his mother also loves cars. What does this exemplify?

Answer 14

Egocentrism

Question 15

You salivate when you begin to smell your favorite meatloaf in the oven but now when you smell green bean casserole baking. This is an example of?

Answer 15

Discrimination

Question 16

Denise is in the middle of a distinct period of abnormal mood. She cleaned her house from top to bottom, breaking windows and dishes in the process, she also bought a new car. She is experiencing what?

Answer 16

Manic episode

Question 17

Elen has been described as creative, imaginative, curious, artistic, and nonconforming. She is likely to obtain an elevated score on a questionnaire designed to measure what?

Answer 17

Openness

Question 18

Tesla makes immitation dream catchers in her spare time. Her father encourages her to sell them on eBay and when she does she notices that while she still enjoys making them she no longer does it for fun, she does it to make money. This is an example of what?

Answer 18

Overjustification

Question 19

You are a big fan of your grandmas chocolate chip cookies just the smell of them causes you to feel hungry. One night she us cooking chocolate chip, almond, oatmeal cooking, a variation of her usual recipe. Even though its a different scent you still feel hungry, what does this exemplify

Answer 19

Generalization

Question 20

During adolescence there is a tendency to see people engage in higher levels of risk-taking behavior, emotional outbursts are also quite common, this is because this part of brain is not yet developed

Answer 20

Prefrontal cortex / frontal lobe / frontal cortex

Question 21

According to Carl Rogers a healthy personality would result from congruance between your ______ and your ________

Answer 21

Real self and ideal self

Question 22

An individual who exerts less effort in a group task if their individual contributions will not be evaluated and the task is easy is a what

Answer 22

Social loafer

Question 23

Symptoms that cause noticiable decreases and absences in certain behaviors and drives are called what? (Schizophrenia)

Answer 23

Negative symptoms

Question 24

What has research shown about processing subliminal messages

Answer 24

In laboratory settings people can process and respond to information outside of their awareness