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50 questions
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Final exam using GSE (Georgia Standards) for High School Psychology
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Question 1
1.

Psychology can be defined as the study of...

Question 2
2.

What is a major limitation of self-report personality tests?

Question 3
3.

Sarah observes her older sister getting praise for good grades and begins studying harder herself. This best illustrates:

Question 4
4.

Identify the psychologist associated with the following concepts.

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Hierarchy of needs
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John Watson
Functionalism in psychology
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Abraham Maslow
Operant conditioning
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William James
Question 5
5.

According to humanistic theory, what is the primary motivating force in human behavior?

Question 6
6.

Match the psychologist with their major contribution:

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Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalysis & the unconscious mind
Albert Bandura
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Behaviorism & Operant Conditioning
Carl Rogers
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Social Learning & Observation
B.F. Skinner
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Client-Centered Therapy & self-actualization
Question 7
7.

Which of the following is TRUE about scatterplot A comparing temperatures and ice cream?

Question 8
8.

In her experiment, Ms. Gajda wanted to know the impact of donuts on memory. In this experiment, the number of words memorized would be a(n)...

Question 9
9.

In the donut study mentioned in #10, Ms. Gajda had one group eat donuts before memorizing words and the other group NOT each a donut before memorizing words. The group that did not eat the donuts would represent...

Question 10
10.

What advantage does an experiment have over a correlational study?

Question 11
11.

When looking at descriptive statistics, which term refers to an average of scores?

Question 12
12.

A set of rules or guidelines that define moral behavior is called...

Question 13
13.

Which of these is/are ethical concerns in psychological research?

Question 14
14.

Which of the following questions is best investigated by means of a survey?

Question 15
15.

What are the three main parts of the brain. Check off three.

Question 16
16.

Match the function with the correct lobe of the brain.

  • Responsible for touch, feeling pressure and temperature.
  • Understanding speech
  • Decision making
  • Attention
  • Planning
  • Vision
  • Hearing/ auditory processing
  • Problem Solving
  • Frontal
  • Parietal
  • Occipital
  • Temporal
Question 17
17.

Match the function or description to the part of the brain.

  • Coordinates movement
  • Largest part of the brain
  • Responsible for balance
  • Controls heartbeat, breathing, and blood pressure
  • Made up of the left and right hemisphere
  • Cerebrum
  • Brain stem
  • Cerebellum
Question 18
18.

What is a function of the autonomic nervous system?

Question 19
19.

What is neurotransmission?

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Question 21
21.

drag the term and line it up with the defintion

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closure
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idea that people prefer to see smooth patterns rather than disrupted oned
proximity
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nearness of objects or figures to each other
law of similarity
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tendency to perceive a complete figure even if gaps exist
law of continuity
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idea that people like to group similar items together
Question 22
22.

What is the difference between sensation and perception?

Question 23
23.

Place the following steps to the vision process in order.

  1. light passes through the pupil
  2. light is focused by the lens onto the retina
  3. optic nerve carries signals to the brain
  4. light passes through the cornea
  5. axons send messages from the ganglion cells to the optic nerve
  6. photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) convert light into neural impulses and send them to ganglion cells
  7. visual cortex in the occipital lobe interprets signals
Question 24
24.

Sort the concepts below into the correct categories.

  • convergence
  • clarity
  • retinal disparity
  • texture gradient
  • relative height
  • relative size
  • monocular clues
  • binocular clues
Question 25
25.

There is a fan that is constantly running in Melinda's room. Most days, however, she forgets that it's on, even though it is noisy. Which idea explains why Melinda doesn't hear her fan?

Question 26
26.

Sort the descriptions and examples into the appropriate category of drug.

  • example: LSD (acid)
  • increase brain activity and autonomic functions such as breathing and heart rate
  • cause perception without actual sensation
  • decrease brain activity and autonomic functions such as breathing and heart rate
  • example: alcohol
  • example: caffeine
  • Depressants
  • Stimulants
  • Hallucinogens
Question 27
27.

Circadian rhythms primarily regulate which biological function?

Question 28
28.

Drugs can...

Question 29
29.

Match the reinforcement/punishment to its example

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Negative Reinforcement
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A child throws a fit in a store because they want a toy. The parent gets the child the toy to get them to behave
Positive Punishment
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The radio in your car will not turn on until you buckle your seat belt. So, you buckle your seat belt, now you can get your tunes on
Positive Reinforcement
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You cussed in practice, the rule is you have 25 push-ups now... Every time you swear its 25 push-ups
Negative Punishment
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You came home late (past curfew) your parents take away your car for a week
Question 30
30.

Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about

Question 31
31.

Every day as she walks to school, Susana passes a mural painted on the side of a building. However, when asked, she says she does not remember ever seeing it. Which of the following is the best explanation for this occurrence?

Question 32
32.

Conscious memory of factual information is called ________ memory.

Question 33
33.
Drag and drop the correct terms into their place in this diagram about memory.
Other Answer Choices:
Short-term
Long-term
Retrieval
Attention
Sensory
Encoding
Question 34
34.

Which of the following best describes the DIFFERENCE between classical and operant conditioning?

Question 35
35.

Match the memory technique to the correct description.

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Visualization
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breaking information into smaller parts to make it easier to remember
Maintenance Rehearsal
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intentionally making connections between new and old information while reviewing to create deeper encoding
Chunking
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repeating the information over and over to keep it in short-term memory longer (like repeating a phone number until you dial it)
Elaborate Rehearsal
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Using the first letter of a list of items to create one word to help keep information in short-term memory
Acronym
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creating mental images of things in a list or steps in a procedure to help encode information into long-term
Spacing Review
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Reviewing material in shorter but more frequent bursts (like 10 minutes each night) in order to improve long-term memory
Question 36
36.

During Piaget's Sensorimotor stage, what is the ability to flexibly alter existing schemas into new schemas called?

Question 37
37.

The intense, enduring, social-emotional relationship that develops between a child and a caregiver is termed

Question 38
38.

Eddie’s parents often include him in decisions such as curfew and chores around the house.  Once a decision is made, the rules are enforced.  Eddie’s parents are using a(n)______ parenting style.

Question 39
39.

Both nature and nurture can influence human learning and behavior. Sort the following examples and descriptions into the appropriate category.

  • Heredity
  • Joan had a genetic scan and was found to be carrying the gene for cancer.
  • Parenting Style
  • Education and schooling
  • Tim and Tim are twins who were raised apart. They both love music and play instruments.
  • Carlos was raised by a single mother and never had a strong father figure
  • Nature
  • Nurture
Question 40
40.

Rules for expected and accepted behavior that are shared by a group of people are called...

Question 41
41.

At which stage of development is the human brain fully developed and at its peak?

Question 42
42.

During this stage of development teratogens an important outside influence.

Question 43
43.

To encourage Mrs. Coleman, a withdrawn schizophrenia patient, to be more socially active, institutional staff members give her small plastic cards whenever she talks to someone. She is allowed to exchange these cards for candy and cigarettes. Staff members are making use of

Question 44
44.

Illness anxiety disorder is characterized by

Question 45
45.

The final exam in a calculus course would be an example of a(n) ________ test.

Question 46
46.

A college administrator is trying to assess whether an admissions test accurately predicts how well applicants will perform at his school. The administrator is most obviously concerned that the test is

Question 47
47.

What distinguishes general intelligence from multiple intelligences?

Question 48
48.

What is the purpose of the DSM-V?

Question 49
49.

For a behavior to be considered a disorder, it must meet certain criteria. Match each description with the criterion listed below.

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Dysfunction
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disrupts the patient's everyday life
Deviant
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against the norm for behavior in the patient's culture
Distressful
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causes the patient or those around them anxiety or pain
Question 50
50.

List three things you enjoyed learning about in psychology this semester.

Question 20
20.

Match each part of the neuron listed below with the correct letter on the picture to the left.

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D
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dendrites
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Nucleus
E
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axon
C
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soma (cell body)
B
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axon terminals/ terminal buttons