Psychology Midterm Exam Review
1. Which perspective studies why the fear of darkness may have promoted the survival of our
human ancestors?
2. Dr. Stevens provides psychotherapy to people who suffer from excessive anxiety. Dr. Stevens
is most likely a ________ psychologist.
3. Jamie and Lynn were sure that they had answered most of the multiple-choice questions
correctly because "the questions required only common sense." However, they each scored less
than 60% on the exam. This best illustrates
4. Which research method runs the GREATEST risk of collecting evidence that may be
unrepresentative of what is generally true?
5. After looking up his friend's phone number, Alex was able to remember it only long enough to
dial it correctly. In this case, the telephone number was clearly stored in his ________ memory.
6. After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was asked whether she
recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that
the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates
7. Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had
directly experienced best illustrates
8. Janica studied French vocabulary in the morning and Spanish vocabulary in the afternoon.
During her Spanish exam that evening, she finds herself remembering only the French terms. Her
difficulty best illustrates
9. After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Arotza cannot form new memories. He
can, however, remember events before the accident. Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly
illustrates
10. Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course.
Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the
need to distinguish between
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11. The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates
12. Researchers control factors that might influence a dependent variable by means of
13. Dr. Stevens provides psychotherapy to people who suffer from excessive anxiety. Dr.
Stevens is most likely a ________ psychologist.
14. Professor Carter observes and records the behavior of grocery shoppers as they select items
to purchase. Which type of research is Professor Carter using?
15. In drug-treatment studies, double-blind procedures minimize outcome differences between
experimental and control conditions that could result from
16. In an experimental study of the extent to which mental alertness is reduced by sleep loss,
alertness would be the
17. In stressful situations, the sympathetic nervous system ________ blood sugar levels and
________ the pupils of the eyes.
18. Which of the following would be most useful for detecting the brain areas that are most
active as a person solves math problems?
19. The limbic system structure that regulates hunger is the
20. Which lobes of the cerebral cortex enable people to plan ahead to begin baking a cake for a
loved one's birthday?
21. Due to an automobile accident, Hana suffered damage to her cerebral cortex in Broca's area.
Hana is most likely to experience
22. Normal vision accompanied by prosopagnosia best illustrates the distinction between
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23. The absolute threshold is the minimum stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus
24. If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few
moments. This best illustrates
25. The ring of muscle tissue that controls the pupil's size is called the
26. The distance between our right and left eyes provides us with a cue for depth perception
known as
27. After some practice, Carol was able to read books while holding them upside down. This best
illustrates
28. The cochlea is a
29. The sense we feel when we bend our knees or raise our arms is called
30. In vision, an inverted mirror image of an object is focused on the