Ashworth Semester Exam S01V Introduction to Psychology I

S01V : Introduction to Psychology I
Question 1
The ability to make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons rather than emotion or anecdote is called:
applied psychology.
critical thinking.
functionalism.
introspection.

Question 2
__________ concluded that his patients’ distress was due to conflicts and emotional traumas that occurred in early childhood but were too threatening to be remembered consciously.
Wilhelm Wundt
William James
Sigmund Freud
E. B. Titchener

Question 3
An operational definition is a(n):
statement that attempts to describe or explain a given behavior.
organized system of assumptions and principles that claims to explain a specified set of phenomena and their interrelationships.
precise definition of a term, which specifies the processes required for observing and measuring the phenomenon being investigated.
statement that is accepted without proof and regarded as fundamental to a subject.

Question 4
Milton is a researcher who wants to know whether eating chocolate makes people nervous. Some participants are given two bars of chocolate to eat, while other participants are given no chocolate at all. One hour later, all participants are tested for nervousness. In this experiment, the amount of chocolate eaten:
acts as a dependent variable.
is used as a placebo.
acts as the independent variable.
may be an independent or dependent variable.

Question 5
Professor Schmidt presents her students with a quiz to determine if they know the four chemical elements that form DNA. The majority of students know that the correct answer is:
adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
adenine, thymine, cysteine, and gametangium.
adenine, telomerase, cytosine, and guanine.
adenine, thiol, chlorine, and guanine.

Question 6
__________ is an approach used only with animals to study the brain.
Positron-emission tomography
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Transcranial direct current stimulation
Lesion method

Question 7
Hypnotic responsiveness depends upon:
the skill of the hypnotist.
the efforts and qualities of the person being hypnotized.
the gullibility of the person being hypnotized.
the hypnotist’s ability to become easily absorbed in the world of imagination.

Question 8
Soo Lei is a concert violinist. Depending on the piece she’s playing, she describes the music as purple or pale green with pink and orange edges. Soo Lei is displaying signs of:
imagination.
synesthesia.
creativity.
functional sensation.

Question 9
The __________ effect is the existence of a greater biological readiness to associate sickness with taste than with sights or sounds.
Garcia
Pavlov
Watson
Seligma

Question 10
Tahir, an Arab, and Jan, a Swede, meet at a dinner for international students. Because the cultures of these two men differ with regard to __________, both may feel uncomfortable during their conversation.
common eating etiquette
attitudes toward higher education
explicit laws
conversational distance

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