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After his parents offered him money as an incentive for reading.

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The intrinsic motivation decreased
(Over justification)

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Sami shouts at another student we quickly assume that he is an angry person and we understatement the influence of … Factors

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(Fundamental error )

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What is psychology

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( Study of the Mind)

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what is the method used to find a relationship between psychological trails

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(correlational)

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A Students attribute his grade to luck undermining his hard work, how can we describe it

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(over justification effect)

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Dr Ahmad wants to analyze your eating habit based on your cognitive perspective, what would the analysis focus on

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(thoughts and feelings that trigger eating behavior )

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Which one is correct
a) psychologist only study behavior
b) one can’t make a distinction between mind and body
c) psychology is the science of the mind

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C

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To see details of an object people typically move their eyes so that the object is projected onto what region of the eye

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Fovea

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Where is the blind spot in our retina

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(optic nerve leaves the eye )

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A study found that the more women attend child training session, the less likely they require pain medication of child birth

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(negative coloration)

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What describes our ability to detect change in stimulus intensity ?

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(to detect a difference a larger change is necessary in a strong stimulus than weak stimulus)

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What is the weakest light that can be reliably discriminated from darkness?

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( Absolute threshold)

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By what primary means is sensory modality coded? OR
What is the primary mean by which stimulus intensity is coded ?

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(rate of neural firing)

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At the shop you recognize the smell of a freshly baked pizza the process of interrupting the

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( Perception)

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Damage to which area of the brain results in the difficulty in expressing

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(Broca Area )

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When do we see an obiect as far away

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( when the object on the ground are higher than our field of view)

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What is the term used to describe motion that is perceived by normal people when no real motion has occurred and is the basis for motion in movies, videos, and television?

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(stroboscopic )

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The occurrence of inattention blindness and change blindness?

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( Selectively attending to thing in our environment)

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A solider dresses in dark splotchy
“camouflage” clothing while hiding in terrain of the same color trying to make it harder for the enemy to see. Camouflage interferes with which of Gestalt perceptual theory?

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Food / cake in the plate (Figure ground)

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Binocular disparity is greatest for:

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Near obiect

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What is the term used to describe innately determined growth

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maturation

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What type of conditioning is taste aversion

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classical conditioning

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After the child was a scared by a cat he cries when he sees any animal, it is an example of what

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generalization

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Food was available for animal responses in a box only when a light was on, what type of stimulus is the light

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conditioned stimulus

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What is the difference between positive and negative punishment

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positive something is added negative something is taken away

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A kid was bitten by a large dog, when he saw a large dog he was sacred but when he saw a small dog he didn’t get scared what type of learning is this

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stimulus discrimination

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Which of the following statements best define the Temporal contiguity

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(unconditional and conditional are together in time)

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Which term is used when a condition stimulus is presented alone without pairing it with … stimulus

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(extinction)

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What schedule can produce the highest rate/value of response?

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Variable ratio

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According to Rescorla, what factor regarding the stimulus is the most important in conditioning?

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Predictably

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What represents the proper sequence of the 3 stages of memory

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(encoding - storage - retrieval)

32
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Last year Ahmed went to Bahrain, and now he remembers his experiences with friends and how much fun he had. What kind of memory is involved in this scenario?

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Episodic

33
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You are trying to remember your old phone number but you can’t

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(displacement)

34
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What is the inability to acquire a new factual information or to remember everyday events?

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( Antero amnesia)

35
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How is retrograde amnesia is described

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(inability to remember events that occurred before the memory loss )

36
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What is the repeating of material of short term storage to prevent it from being forgotten

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(rehearsal )

37
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You’ve been assigned to remember a phone number but you don’t have your phone or pen and paper, how can you remember it by

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(rehearsal )

38
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what is the condition where one does not have a feeling of hunger due to the damage to a part of the hypothalamus that is responsive for eating

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( lateral hypothalamic syndrome )

39
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During the exam a student was trying to remember something but couldn’t, because of what

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Anxiety

40
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Which theory of motivation emphasized the motivation role of incentive events

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(incentive )

41
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What were the results of Bouchard experiment in which identical twins were

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( Genetic factors were more important than the amount of eating)

42
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What is the neurotransmitter that appears to be involved in many neutral rewards in the brain

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( dopamine)

43
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What are the two main causes of weight gain

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( Genetics and calorie intake )

44
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Sarah went to the doctor for her annual physical check up her normal weight is 50 but she is weighted as 40 she thinks she is fat and asks for sliming pills

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( anorexia nervosa)

45
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Several studies suggest that personality is determined by genetics and the environment, which of the following has …

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(identical twins reared together )

46
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Which part of the brain is involved in emotions appraisals?

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Amyglada/ limbic system

47
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Which part of the brain is involved in long term memory?

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(Hippocampus )

48
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Ali organized punctual reliable and hard working person with good impulse control and goal directed behavior

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(Conscientiousness )

49
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A guy is usually moody, depressed, anxious, and guilt-feeling
Which personality factor will be most influential?

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Neuroticism

50
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Openness to experience - Conscientiousness - Extroversion - Agreeableness - Neuroticism

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( The big five personality characteristics)

51
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What is the personality test that test projection

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(Roscharsh )

52
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how does the social learning theory difference from strict behaviorizim

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( cognitive processes)

53
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Attempt to gain detachment from stressful event

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(Intellectualization)

54
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Ahmads parents don’t watch him and he started to smoke

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exosystem

55
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Which of the following is true about the sensory system of newborn …..

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(all sensory systems are functional at birth but vary in their degree )

56
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What best describes Cephalocaudal development

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(child can left head before chest )

57
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What does the visual clift experiment

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( crawling babies can …. Depth perception)

58
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A child is given two balls made by clay of same size then we change one of the balls size, What are we trying to messure

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( conservation)

59
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A baby is changed from feeding from his mother to a bottle

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( assimalation)

60
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A child learns that not all nurses are female what type of cognitive task he learned

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( accommodation)

61
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A man hates hospital and thinks they are worst after being in a hospital … He changed his mind and now sees them as good what happened

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( accommodation)

62
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In which stage from theory assimilation and reflex happen at which stage …..

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(sensory motor ) / sensorimotor

63
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In the school children are learning the life cycle of butterflies and flower, in which stage are these children according to paigate theory

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( concrete operational)

64
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Which of the following characteristics is in the concrete operational stage

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Classification

65
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Nora wants to be an elementary teacher like her mother, she did not explore the field she just followed

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(identity foreclosure )

66
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What brain base changes are responsible for the risk taking behavior of adolescents

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( preforntal cortex )

67
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A 16 year old boy changes his clothes constantly before he leaves his house

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(imigary audience )

68
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What brain base changes are responsible for the risk taking behavior of adolescents

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( preforntal cortex )

69
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James likes to raid his motorcycle on the road fastly and thinks nothing will happen to him

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Invencible….

70
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After a person reaches a sexual maturity our probability of death will

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Increase

71
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A child is learning to gain control of his choice and has toilate train

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(autonomy vs shame and dout )

72
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An experiment of Harlow and Harlow on baby monkeys of anartificial mother

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( they love the cloth mother regardless of who gave
food) *Love = preferred

73
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A child over separation at 14 to 18 month declines, why

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( memory and autonomy )

74
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What does the rogue in the nose procedure test:
A- Face perception
B- Early memory
C- Visual self recognition
D- development of language skills

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C

75
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A child has one previous negative experience and now refuse to go to any health care faculty.
Stating that all doctors cause pain. What type of reasoning is the child demonstrating ?

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Inductive reasoning

76
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What is the overjustication effect

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Exaggerated consideration of situational and personal causes

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