IMPORTANT:
It is most beneficial to you to write this mock midterm UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS .
This means:
• Complete the midterm in ___ hour(s).
• Work on your own.
• Keep your notes and textbook closed.
• Attempt every question.
After the time limit, go back over your work with a different colour or on a separate piece of paper and try to do the questions you are unsure of. Record your ideas in the margins to remind yourself of what you were thinking when you take it up at PASS.
The purpose of this mock exam is to give you practice answering questions in a timed setting and to help you to gauge which aspects of the course content you know well and which are in need of further development and review. Use this mock exam as a learning tool in preparing for the actual exam.
Please note:
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Come to the PASS session with your mock exam complete. There, you can work with other students to review your work.
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Often, there is not enough time to review the entire exam in the PASS session.
Decide which questions you most want to review – the facilitator may ask students to vote on which questions they want to discuss.
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Facilitators do not bring copies of the mock exam to the session. Please print out and complete the exam before you attend.
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Facilitators do not produce or distribute an answer key for mock exams.
Facilitators help students to work together to compare and assess the answers they have. If you are not able to attend the PASS session, you can work alone or with others in the class.

1.
The retina contains receptors for _________________. a.
Hearing b.
Vision c.
Sensation d.
Wavelength
2.
Steven is listening to music in the car. The ________________ is when Steven’s mom increases the volume on the radio and Steven notices that it is louder than before. a.
Sensory adaptation b.
Detection threshold c.
Just noticeable difference d.
Absolute threshold
3.
Luc’s parent’s are colour blind to the colour red. Luc will most likely have ______________. a.
Protanopia b.
Cones c.
No red cones d.
Triptanopia
4.
You enter a light filled room engaging your cones. You notice a green sign up on the board. Your
______________________ ganglion cells are being _______________. a.
Red-green, inhibited b.
Red-blue, excited c.
Green-red, excited d.
Blue-red, inhibited
5.
Rods are specialized visual receptors that play a key role in night vision because they are a.
Less sensitive than cones to dim light b.
More sensitive than cones to bright light c.
Less sensitive than cones to bright light d.
More sensitive than cones to dim light
6.
The frequency theory states that the hair cell receptors in the ear vibrate the same number of times per second as the sounds that reach them. What type of frequency can these receptors detect based on this theory? a.
Medium frequency b.
Low frequency c.
Low to medium frequency d.
Medium to high frequency

7.
Recent discovery into our gustatory system provides evidence that taste receptors have the capability of sensing a.
Sweet, sour, bitter, strong, and umani b.
Sweet, bitter, sour, umani, and salty c.
Sweet, sour, spicy, umani and salty d.
Sweet, sour, spicy, strong, and bitter
8.
Morgan is completing her readings for her Introduction to Psychology class at university. She is able to read each word without going through each letter of that word. This sheds light on which phenomena? a.
Bottom-up processing b.
Feature analysis c.
Top-down processing d.
Subjective contours
9.
The sensation of pain is crucial to survival. The receptors for pain are mostly free nerve endings in the skin. There are two types of pain pathways. One is the fast pathway for sharp pain and the other is the slow pathway for longer-lasting pain and aches. The fast pathway uses
_________________ ___and the slow pathway uses _____________________. a.
C fibres, A-delta fibres b.
C fibres, Beta fibres c.
A-delta fibres, beta fibres d.
Both pathways use C fibres and A-delta fibres
10.
In the Gate-control theory, incoming pain sensation must pass through a “gate” in the spinal cord. The “gate” is a/an a.
Anatomical structure in the brain b.
Pattern of neural activity inhibiting incoming pain signals c.
A combination of anatomical structures in the brain designed to stop pain d.
A gate that is placed in the brain surgically, so patients can stop feeling pain
11.
The electroencephalograph is a device that records the axon potentials in the brain. What are the four principal bands of brain wave activity recorded? a.
Gamma, alpha, beta, delta b.
Alpha, beta, delta, omega c.
Alpha, theta, delta, gamma d.
Beta, alpha, theta, delta
12.
Every morning you wake up as your body temperature goes up and every night when it gets dark you start to feel tired and your body temperature begins to drop. You need sleep. This is the role of the ______________________. a.
Biological scale

b.
Circadian rhythm c.
Circadian heart beat d.
Arcadian rhythm
13.
The day-night cycle resets biological clocks. When exposed to light, some receptors in the retina send direct inputs to a small brain structure. What is the name of this brain structure? a.
Pineal gland b.
Pituitary gland c.
Suprachiasmatic nucleus d.
Thalamus
14.
Jimmy is talking to his buddy on the phone in his cubicle at work. He hears his name in the cubical beside him. He is no longer engaged in his conversation with his buddy, instead he is now listening in on the conversation going on in the other cubicle. Jimmy is engaging in the process of a.
Learning b.
Selective attention c.
Awareness d.
Eaves dropping
15.
As you sleep through the night, you will a.
Spend more time in REM sleep and less time in the other stages of sleep b.
Spend less time in REM sleep and more time in the other stages of sleep c.
Spend more time in stage 3 and 4 of sleep and less time in REM sleep d.
Spend more time trying to remember a dream if you wake up in the middle of the night
16.
In the stroop test experiment, participants take two tests. Participants engage in automatic processing during the first test but what were the results from the second test? a.
Participants continued to engage in automatic processing b.
Participants were confused about which colour to pick c.
Participants engaged in uncontrolled processing d.
Participants engaged in controlled processing
17.
The phenomenon that helps understand why we, often, are not able to detect dramatic shifts in our environment is known as ______________. a.
Dissociative cognitions b.
Familiarity c.
Change blindness d.
Hypnosis
18.
You are a psychologist and your patient tells you about the dream they had last night. The person’s dream consisted of them flying through a sky of money. You tell your patient that you

think that the dream is revealing their unconscious desire to have lots of money. Which theory of dreams is this an example of? a.
Cognitive problem solving theory of dreaming b.
Activation-synthesis model theory of dreaming c.
Wish fulfillment theory of dreaming d.
REM sleep theory of dreaming
19.
Whether or not a person can be hypnotized depends on the individual person’s level of suggestibility. A person who is able to be hypnotized may be able to get help with which of the following, based on what was discussed in lecture? a.
Pain management b.
Falling in love c.
Sleep walking d.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
20.
After the administration of the Opiate heroin, brain activity is more likely to a.
be stimulated and more excited b.
be depressed and slowed down c.
be neutralized and calm d.
mimic that of hallucinations
21.
Which of the following is not a stimulant? a.
Caffeine b.
Cocaine c.
Morphine d.
Amphetamine
22.
Classical conditioning is one of the ways that behaviourists suggest that we learn. Which of the following is not involved in classical conditioning? a.
Neutral stimulus b.
Positive reinforcement c.
Extinction d.
Unconditioned response
23.
At school some teachers give their students stickers every time they are quiet at lunch in attempt to get students to stop talking during lunch. Based on what was discussed in class, the stickers are an example of a.
Acquisition b.
Learning in society c.
Token economies d.
Learned behaviour

24.
You are in an elevator, and the elevator suddenly drops causing you to have a fear response.
Every time you are in a building you now take the stairs in fear of taking the elevator. The dropping of the elevator is the ______________________ in this example. a.
Neutral stimulus b.
Unconditioned response c.
Unconditioned stimulus d.
Conditioned stimulus