midterm Flashcards
A mental health professional with a medical degree that can prescribe medication is a
a. Psychologist
b. Psychiatrist
c. Social worker
d. License professional coW1selor
b. Psychiatrist
2) A psychologist doing research from the perspective might
be interested in how our blood chemistry affects our moods and motives
a. Psychodynamic
b. Behavioral
c. Neuroscience
d. Social-cultural
Neuroscience
3) In 1879, in psychology’s first experiment, and his students measured the time lag between hearing a ball hit a platform and pressing a key
a. Freud
b. Wundt
c. Skinner
d. Bandura
Wundt
4) A psychologist treating emotionally troubled individuals at a local mental health agency is most likely to be a(n)
a. Research psychologist
b. Psychiatrist
c. I/O psychologist
d. Clinical psychologist
Clinical psychologist
5) To determine causation which of the following research designs must be used?
a. Correlation
b. Experimentation
c. Natural observation
Experimentation
6) A study finds that the more I study, the more quiz questions I answer correctly. This finding can be stated as A correlation.
a. Positive
b. Negative
Positive
7) The case study is a research method in which;
a. a single individual or group is studied in great depth
b. a representative sample of people arc questioned regarding their opinions or behaviors
c organisms are carefully observed in a laboratory environment (
d. an investigator manipulates one or more variables that might affect
behavior .
a single individual or group is studied in great depth
8) When generalizing from a sample to the population, it is important that:
a. The sample be representative
b. The sample be nonrandom
c. The sample not be too large
d. There is no sample
The sample be representative
9) A hypothesis is a(n):
a. Observable relationship between spcci1ic independent and dependent variables ‘(
b. Testable prediction. often implied by a theory
c. Set of principles that organizes and explains newly discovered facts ,;(
d. Unprovable assumptions about the unobservable processes that underlie
psychological functioning
Testable prediction. often implied by a theory
10) Psychological theories
a. organize scientific observations
b. explain observed facts
c. generate hypothesis
d. all of the above
a. organize scientific observations
b. explain observed facts
c. generate hypothesis
d. all of the above
8) A cats ferocious response to electrical brain stimulation would lead you to suppose the electrode had touched the:
a. Hippocampus
b. Thalamus
c. Amygdala
d. Medulla
Amygdala
Information is most quickly transmitted from one cerebral hemisphere re to the other by the: a. corpus callosum b. angular gyrus c. Limbie system. d reticular formation
a. corpus callosum
The process by neural commination occurs would be considered :
a. chemical, chemical, electrical
b. electrical, electrical, chemical
c. electrical, chemical, electrical
d. chemical, electrical, electrical
c. electrical, chemical, electrical
I) T he nineteenth-century theory that bumps on the skull reveal a person ability and trails is called: a. Evolutionary psychology b. Behavior genetics c. Biological psychology d. Phrenology
d. Phrenology
2) The tiny space between the axon of one neuron and t11e dendrite of cell body p /' of another is called the: a. Axon terminal b. Branching fiber c. Synaptic gap d. threshold
Synaptic gap
