Intro to Psychology (1 semester course for 11th and 12th graders) Final Exam
Match the psychologist with their key contribution to developmental psychology.
Abraham Maslow
Jean Piaget
Lev Vygotsky
Hierarchy of Needs
Theory of Cognitive Development
The Zone of Proximal Development
Which theory addresses the following concepts or stages?
Kohlberg's Moral Development Theory
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory
Piaget's Cognitive Theory
Preconventional Level
Integrity vs Despair
Sensorimotor and Preoperational Stages
Associate the term with the appropriate developmental stage according to Erikson's theory.
School Age
Young Adulthood
Adolescence
Infancy
Industry vs Inferiority
Intimacy vs Isolation
Identity vs Role Confusion
Trust vs Mistrust
Refers to the process by which a child learns to interact with others around him
Taking in new information and fitting it into existing schemas
The emergence of personal and behavioral characteristics through growth processes is known as
Because Pedro see everthing that happens around him from his own point of view, his thinking is
A time in development when specific skills or abilities are most easily learned is called what?
Which part of the eye is responsible for peripheral vision?
Classify these experiences as either a sensation or a perception.
Understanding the taste as salty
Feeling the texture of a cat's fur
Tasting salty fries
Recognizing a dog's bark
Perception
Sensation
Which perception theory can explain these examples?
Perceiving a face in the clouds
Ignoring the sound of AC while focusing on studying
Judging the distance of a parked car
Hearing your name at a loud party
Selective Attention Theory
Signal Detection Theory
Gestalt Theory
Depth Perception Theory
Classify these phenomena as either physiological or psychological.
Feeling cold
Experiencing Deja vu
Perceiving danger
Tasting sweet
Psychological Senses
Physiological Senses
Which sense is primarily responsible for detecting sound waves?
The reason that you probably stopped feeling the pressure of your clothes on your skin within a few minutes of dressing this morning was due to:
Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation
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Perceptions can be affected by our beliefs, values, prejudices, expectations, and life experiences
Leah is a good player whose performance seems to improve as the crowd watching her gets larger. The best explanation for this phenomenon is
An individual bystander is most likely to help an injured person under which of the following circumstances?
Pedro walks into art class and is overwhelmed by the smell of paint. However, the longer he stays in the room, the less noticeable the smell becomes. Which of the following appears to be operating in this instance?
Olivia, a high school student strongly opposed to video game use, is researching the topic for a speech she will deliver to her English class. Rather than searching for “the effects of video games,” Olivia searches for “the dangers of video games” and finds hundreds of Web sites with information she can use to argue her position. Her behavior is an example of
Melany is in a hotel room with a cake that needs slicing, but she does not have a knife. She goes to the bathroom and comes back with a long strand of dental floss, which she uses to cut the cake. Melany has overcome which barrier to problem solving?
Which of the following types of intelligence would be most important in answering trivia questions?
Which of the following examples best represents altruism?
Approaches.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
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psychodynamic | arrow_right_alt | behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
evolutionary | arrow_right_alt | behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
cognitive | arrow_right_alt | natural selection of traits has promoted survival skills |
socio-cultural | arrow_right_alt | how we encode, process, store and receive information |
Nerve impulses travel through the neuron in this order.

The purpose of the marshmallow experiment was to show the relationship between ___________________ and success later in life.
In which of the 10 unbelievable experiments were electric shocks given to show that people would follow orders that hurt others just as Nazi soldiers did?
The four main goals of psychology are to
The modern definition of psychology is the science of ___________ and mental processes.
A general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized is known as the
A person with a fixed mindset would
A growth mindset person would most likely
What is the junction between two nerve cells is the
This part of the body secretes hormones that trigger “fight or flight” responses
The placebo effect is when a fake pill is given to an unknowing participant in a study to see the difference in effect between that participant and a participant receiving the real medicine.
The part of the brain responsible for vision processing, analyzing shapes, colors and movement is the
Substances that carry information between neurons and target cells are known as
In order to determine cause and effect relations between two variables, a researcher would
Which of the psychologists below gets credit for this "Hierarchy of Needs" diagram which is part of the Humanistic Approach?
Latent learning is when we learn without reinforcement and punishment and we're unaware that learning has taken place.
How are classical conditioning and operant conditioning different?
Classify these figures from their contribution to the study of conditioning:
B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson
Albert Bandura
Founder of Classical Conditioning
Contributor to Behaviorism
Proponent of Observational Learning
Proponent of Operant Conditioning
Match the following types of memory to their definitions.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
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Semantic Memory | arrow_right_alt | Specific events, situations, or experiences |
Episodic Memory | arrow_right_alt | Skills and tasks that are performed automatically |
Procedural Memory | arrow_right_alt | General factual knowledge about the world |
Match these memory-bias terms with their definitions.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
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Confirmation Bias | arrow_right_alt | Seeing past events as more predictable than they were |
Hindsight Bias | arrow_right_alt | Recalling an event differently due to misleading information |
Misinformation Effect | arrow_right_alt | Favoring information that confirms your existing beliefs |
Match the stages of memory to their descriptions.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
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Storage | arrow_right_alt | Initial process of recording information |
Encoding | arrow_right_alt | Process of reclaiming information stored in memory |
Retrieval | arrow_right_alt | Maintaining information over time |
Match the sleep stage with its characteristic description.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
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Stage 1 Sleep | arrow_right_alt | Vivid dreaming often occurs. |
Stage 3 Sleep | arrow_right_alt | Transition between sleep and wakefulness. |
REM Sleep | arrow_right_alt | Deep and restorative sleep. |
Match the following sleep disorders with their symptoms.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
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Sleep Apnea | arrow_right_alt | Sudden uncontrollable episodes of sleep. |
Insomnia | arrow_right_alt | Breathing repeatedly stops and starts. |
Narcolepsy | arrow_right_alt | Difficulty falling or staying asleep. |
How does the cocktail party effect give us evidence about selective attention?
What is consciousness in psychology?
What does the term 'subconscious' refer to?