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1
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impaired language comprehension following a stroke is diagnosed as what?

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wernickes aphasia

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door-to- door salespeople are paid on commission and maintain high levels of perseverance despite infrequent sales displays an effect of what?

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variable ratio schedule

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what did investigators into the influence of group pressure on perceptual judgements reveal?

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the more open to interpretation the stimulus, the more likely it is that the subject will conform to group pressure

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what is a statement that characterizes cognitive-structuralist orientation in developmental psych?

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a child actively constructs their own knowledge

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5
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who is associated with functional autonomy?

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allport

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what is the most important assumption made by Piaget about intelligence?

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assimilation and accommodation are necessary for the development of intelligence

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7
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what does motion parallax do?

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makes objects appear larger when the viewer steps back

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Bowlby’s major contribution to theories of child development grew out of studies of?

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children separated from their families

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9
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in the auditory system, where does transduction take place?

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organ of corti

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10
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what can calculating standard deviations most directly assess?

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whether the price of corn was subject to greater fluctuations during July than the price of wheat

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11
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what did McClelland & Rumelhart develop the idea of?

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parallel distributed processing

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12
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what is the dominant hemisphere more adept at?

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spatial organization

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what was Galton’s major contribution to psychology?

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focus on ind. diffs

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14
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what does the dual code hypothesis suggest?

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concrete information tends to be recalled better than abstract information

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15
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what is bandura associated with?

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social learning theory

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16
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removal of the hippocampus is most likely to lead to what?

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retrograde amnesia

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17
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who studied the effect of misleading questions on eyewitness testimony?

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loftus

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18
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what is used to treat an acute schizophrenic episode?

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chlorpromazine

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19
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what is confabulation usually a symptom of?

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Korsakoff’s syndrome

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20
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what four researchers made important contributions to psychophysics?

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fechner, Stevens, weber and swets

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21
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what does iconic memory refer to?

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short term visual sensory memory

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22
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what is the custom that a majority vote is sufficient to become law closely associated with?

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all or nothing law regarding action potential

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23
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what is used to measure the time it takes to perform various mental processes?

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mental chronometry

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24
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under dim light, a researcher repeatedly displays several objects to a subject, so that each time, the image falls on a different part of their retina. what is the expected result?

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object discrimination will be best in the fovea

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25
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who clearly demonstrated vicarious learning?

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bandura

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26
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where is aggressive behavior inhibited

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septal nuclei

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27
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what did Schacter and singer find in their experiments concerning cognitive influences on emotions?

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uninformed subjects became angry or euphoric depending on the confederate’s behavior

28
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what finding would weaken a sociobiological explanation for the evolution of dominance hierarchies?

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inverse relationship between rank and inclusive fitness

29
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sterling discovered that sensory memory could contain how many pieces of information?

Milner fund that short term memory can contain how many chunks of information?

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9

7

30
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what does the dominant hemisphere of the brain control

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expression and comprehension of language

31
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what is the statistical method used to elicit information concerning the component parts of intelligence known as?

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factor analysis

32
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what is an inhibitory NT

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GABA

33
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how is Piaget’s approach to investigating the thought process underlying a given verbal response best described?

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clinical method

34
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what do approaches of Horney and Adler share emphasis on?

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significance of social relationships in physical development

35
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what is studying to avoid a bad grade an example of?

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negative reinforcement

36
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what is feature detection an example of?

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bottom-up processing

37
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what is true of the lymbic system?

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lesions of portions of it may result in unpredictable, vicarious behavior

38
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who’s personality theory is central to regions and boundaries?

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Lewin

39
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the theory that early attachment behaviors may be traced to innate psychological tendencies centers on the process of what?

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imprinting

40
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what is true about neurosis?

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is is not a category of mental disorders in the DSMv

41
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who tried to relate personality to perception?

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Witkin

42
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what did petty and cacioppo develop?

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elaboration likelihood model of persuasion

43
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what does the length of the prodromal phase of schizophrenia most directly relate to?

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process-reactive distinction

44
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who stressed the importance of maturation in development?

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gessell

45
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if a fetus inherits an X chromosome from mom and a Y chromosome from dad, but doesn’t produce androgens, it will what?

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have a masc genotype and fem phenotype

46
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ablation of the lateral geniculate nucleus would most likely affect which sensory system?

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vision

47
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what is true if reliability is 0.00

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SEM is relatively high

48
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according to Kohler, when one of his chimps fastened two sticks together to reach a bunch of bananas, it was showing evidence of what?

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insight

49
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what is true about the babinsky reflex?

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consists of extending the toes when the sole of the foot is stimulated

50
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the volley principle can be considered an improvement on what?

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frequency theory

51
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who is most likely to argue that researchers should investigate the effects vicarious social behaviors have on fitness?

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wilson

52
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what does Bartletts reconstructive theory predict?

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subject’s recall is better when the story is from their own culture

53
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why is autoshaping important?

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shows that behaviors thought to be solely due to operant conditioning may have a classical conditioning component

54
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an adult knows that Bit and Pit have two different meanings, but Bit said by a male and female means the same thing is evidence of what?

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categorical perception

55
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a subject in an experiment wears a set of headphones that allow different messaged to be given to each ear. the subject is asked to repeat one of the messages aloud as she hears it, what is this technique called?

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shadowing

56
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what is used to implant electrodes into specific brain areas?

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stereotaxic instrument

57
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what concept is most relevant to signal detection theory?

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ROC curve

58
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latent learning depends most strongly on which distinction?

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learning vs. performance

ex: I might know everything for the GRE, but I have not had to perform it yet

59
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what is a cross sectional design considered to be an example of?

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between-subjects design

60
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beliefs can be made resistant to attack by presenting refuted counter-arguments which is a basic premise of what?

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inoculation theory

61
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damage to the left visual cortex will do what?

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impair vision for images of objects falling on the left half of each eye’s retina

62
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what was the theory of kin selection proposed to explain?

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altruism

63
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what is the principal function of the parietal lobe?

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spatial processing

64
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the presence of a large number of people tends to increase the likelihood of wild, impulsive behavior. what is the least likely plausible explanation for this behavior?

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functional autonomy

65
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what best describes Kelly’s basic approach to autonomy?

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people have a need to control the environment

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