Psychology Final Exam_S25

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Final exam using GSE (Georgia Standards) for High School Psychology

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Psychology Final Exam_S25

Posljednje ažuriranje 10 months ago

Napomena autora:

Final exam using GSE (Georgia Standards) for High School Psychology

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Psychology can be defined as the study of...

the study of the body

behavior and mental processes

the evolution of the human species

how people interact with one another

SSPFR1.a

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

They require specialized equipment

They can only be taken once in a lifetime

They are too expensive to administer

Participants may provide socially desirable responses

SSPVB2.c

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

Social learning theory

Classical conditioning

Attribution theory

Psychodynamic theory

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Identify the psychologist associated with the following concepts.

Stavka koja se može prevući		Odgovarajuća stavka
Functionalism in psychology		John Watson
Operant conditioning		Abraham Maslow
Hierarchy of needs		William James

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

Unconscious desires

Environmental reinforcement

Self-actualization

Genetic predisposition

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Match the psychologist with their major contribution:

Stavka koja se može prevući		Odgovarajuća stavka
Carl Rogers		Psychoanalysis & the unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud		Behaviorism & Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner		Social Learning & Observation
Albert Bandura		Client-Centered Therapy & self-actualization

SSPFR1.b

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

There is no (or very little) correlation between ice cream sold and outside temperature.

When temperatures rise, less ice cream will be sold.

There is a strong positive correlation between ice cream sold and outside temperature.

There is a strong negative correlation between ice cream sold and outside temperature.

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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)...

independent variable (IV)

dependent variable (DV)

placebo

confounding variable

SSPFR2.c

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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...

the dependent variable

the independent variable

the control group

a placebo effect

SSPFR2.c

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What advantage does an experiment have over a correlational study?

an experiment is usually cheaper

an experiment can prove causation

an experiment is faster

an experiment can use just previously collected data

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

mean

median

mode

range

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

a contract

a campaign

a code of ethics

a constitution

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

participants are allowed to quit the study (withdraw)

no (or little) harm should come to participants

that participants are not forced to participate (consent)

making sure participants know what they are signing up for (informed consent)

that experiments are done correctly

that sample populations are randomly selected

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

Are people more likely to vote republican or democrat in the next election?

Are violent criminals genetically different from nonviolent criminals?

What is the best study technique for AP exams?

Does extra sleep improve memory?

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

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Match the function with the correct lobe of the brain.

Hearing/ auditory processing
Problem Solving
Decision making
Planning
Attention
Responsible for touch, feeling pressure and temperature.
Understanding speech
Vision

Frontal
Parietal
Occipital
Temporal

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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

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What is a function of the autonomic nervous system?

Regulates involuntary bodily functions like heartbeat and digestion.

Processes sensory information

Controls voluntary movements

Transmits signals to skeletal muscles

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What is neurotransmission?

The insulation of the axon.

The process of sending signals between neurons.

The growth of new neurons.

The metabolic process in neurons.

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

Stavka koja se može prevući		Odgovarajuća stavka
E		dendrites
D		Nucleus
B		axon
A		soma (cell body)
C		axon terminals/ terminal buttons

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drag the term and line it up with the defintion

Stavka koja se može prevući		Odgovarajuća stavka
law of similarity		idea that people prefer to see smooth patterns rather than disrupted oned
closure		nearness of objects or figures to each other
law of continuity		tendency to perceive a complete figure even if gaps exist
proximity		idea that people like to group similar items together

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What is the difference between sensation and perception?

Sensation only relates to sight.

Sensation involves interpretation; perception is detection.

Sensation is detection; perception is interpretation of stimuli.

Perception occurs before sensation.

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Place the following steps to the vision process in order.

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

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Sort the concepts below into the correct categories.

convergence
relative height
relative size
texture gradient
retinal disparity
clarity

monocular clues
binocular clues

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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?

sensory adaptation

threshold theory

law of continuity

just noticeable difference

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

cause perception without actual sensation
example: caffeine
increase brain activity and autonomic functions such as breathing and heart rate
example: LSD (acid)
decrease brain activity and autonomic functions such as breathing and heart rate
example: alcohol

Depressants
Stimulants
Hallucinogens

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Circadian rhythms primarily regulate which biological function?

Sleep-wake cycles are managed by circadian rhythms.

Food intake is affected by rhythms.

Daily exercise routines are regulated.

Heart rates are determined by circadian rhythms.

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Drugs can...

increase or decrease neurotransmitters in the brain

block neurotransmitter reuptake

mimic neurotransmitters to achieve the same result

all of these

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Match the reinforcement/punishment to its example

Stavka koja se može prevući		Odgovarajuća stavka
Positive Punishment		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
Negative Punishment		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
Negative Reinforcement		You cussed in practice, the rule is you have 25 push-ups now... Every time you swear its 25 push-ups
Positive Reinforcement		You came home late (past curfew) your parents take away your car for a week

SSPBC1.c

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Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about

operant conditioning.

observational learning

counterconditioning.

classical conditioning.

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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?

Susana has not paid attention to the incoming information so it was not encoded into long-term memory.

Such implicit memory is stored in the cerebellum, thus Susana must have experienced damage to that brain region.

The memory of the mural has decayed over time.

Because of the time span between being exposed to the mural, the spacing effect has interrupted memory formation.

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Conscious memory of factual information is called ________ memory.

explicit

procedural

implicit

proactive

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Drag and drop the correct terms into their place in this diagram about memory.

Drugi mogući odgovor:

Short-term

Long-term

Retrieval

Attention

Sensory

Encoding

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

Behaviors learned from classical conditioning can experience extinction while behaviors learned from operant conditioning last forever.

Classical conditioning can only be done on animals, while operant conditioning can be used on humans.

Classical conditioning involves involuntary behaviors, while operant conditioning involves voluntary behaviors.

Classical conditioning is a type of associative learning and operant conditioning is not.

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Match the memory technique to the correct description.

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

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

adaptation

equilibrium

accommodation

assimilation

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

assimilation

accommodation

attachment

imprinting

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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.

permissive

uninvolved

authoritative

authoritarian

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

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

Nature
Nurture

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

assimilation

selection effect

cultural norms

schema

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

young adulthood

adolescence

late adulthood

middle adulthood

SSPBC3.a

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During this stage of development teratogens an important outside influence.

infancy

adolescence

early childhood

prenatal

SSPBC3.a

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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

a token economy.

active listening.

free association.

systematic desensitization.

SSPVB3.c

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Illness anxiety disorder is characterized by

offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person.

the misinterpretation of normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease.

a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.

constant fear of new, strange situations.

SSPVB3.c

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

standardized

general intelligence

achievement

aptitude

SSPVB1.c

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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

standardized.

reliable.

normally distributed.

valid.

SSPVB1.c

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What distinguishes general intelligence from multiple intelligences?

General intelligence encompasses a single measure of cognitive abilities.

General intelligence includes skills in specific domains only.

Multiple intelligences ignore cultural aspects of learning completely.

Multiple intelligences rely solely on numerical test scores.

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What is the purpose of the DSM-V?

to accurately diagnose a learning disability

to accurately measure an individual's intelligence

to define mental illnesses and create a standard gauge for measuring dysfunction

to tell clinicians how to treat their patients with mental illness

SSPVB3.b

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

Stavka koja se može prevući		Odgovarajuća stavka
Deviant		disrupts the patient's everyday life
Distressful		against the norm for behavior in the patient's culture
Dysfunction		causes the patient or those around them anxiety or pain

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Psychology Final Exam_S25

Psychology Final Exam_S25

Psychology can be defined as the study of...

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

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

Identify the psychologist associated with the following concepts.

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

Match the psychologist with their major contribution:

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

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)...

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...

What advantage does an experiment have over a correlational study?

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

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

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

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

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

Match the function with the correct lobe of the brain.

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

What is a function of the autonomic nervous system?

What is neurotransmission?

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

drag the term and line it up with the defintion

What is the difference between sensation and perception?

Place the following steps to the vision process in order.

Sort the concepts below into the correct categories.

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?

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

Circadian rhythms primarily regulate which biological function?

Drugs can...

Match the reinforcement/punishment to its example

Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about

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?

Conscious memory of factual information is called ________ memory.

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

Match the memory technique to the correct description.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

During this stage of development teratogens an important outside influence.

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

Illness anxiety disorder is characterized by

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

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

What distinguishes general intelligence from multiple intelligences?

What is the purpose of the DSM-V?

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

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

Psychology can be defined as the study of...

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

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

Identify the psychologist associated with the following concepts.

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

Match the psychologist with their major contribution:

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

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)...

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...

What advantage does an experiment have over a correlational study?

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

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

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

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

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

Match the function with the correct lobe of the brain.

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

What is a function of the autonomic nervous system?

What is neurotransmission?

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

drag the term and line it up with the defintion

What is the difference between sensation and perception?

Place the following steps to the vision process in order.

Sort the concepts below into the correct categories.

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?

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

Circadian rhythms primarily regulate which biological function?

Drugs can...

Match the reinforcement/punishment to its example