PSY101 Exam 1
1. Little Moby and Little Beck are eating hot dogs for lunch. Moby notices that his hot dog is sliced into six pieces while Beck's hot dog is sliced into nine pieces. Moby understands, however, that Beck's hot dog is not actually any larger that his own. This indicates that Moby has reached which stage of development: a. sensorimotor b. formal operational c. concrete operations d. preoperational
a. Rogers and Maslow b. Watson and Skinner c. Freud and Erikson d. Wundt and Titchener
3. Neurons send messages by firing a brief electrical charge known as a(n): a. action potential b. dendrite c. refraction d. synapse
4. Infant monkeys raised with a nourishing wire "mother" and a non-nourishing cloth "mother": a. preferred the nourishing wire "mother" to cling to. preferred the non-nourishing cloth "mother" to cling to. showed no preference for one"mother"over the other d Shifted their initial preference for the wire "mother" to cling to the cloth "mother" to cling to as they matured.
5. Chemical messengers released through the endocrine system which travel through the blood are known as: a. neurotransmitters b. pheromones c. hormones d. reflexes
6. Noxious substances which can disrupt fetal development and prevent an individual from reaching his/her genetic potential are called: a. cell-adhesion molecules b. teratogens c. chaining d. heritability
7. Nas is 8 months old. When his mother plays "Peek-A-Boo" with him, she holds up a towel in front of her face and asks, "Where am I?" Nas grabs the towel and pulls it away from her face. According to Piaget, Nas has probably achieved: a. concrete operations
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b. schema potential c. object permanence d. cognition
8. When a child is able to understand that 8 ounces of milk is the same quantity whether it is in a baby's bottle or carton, the child has achieved a. fluid constancy b. abstract reasoning c. critical reasoning d. conservation
9. The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles is: a. motor (efferent) neurons b. interneurons c. sympathetic nervous system d. somatic nervous system
10. The chromosome which determines the sex of a person comes from: a. the mother b. the father c. differentiation d. schemas
11. The psychologist who studied pioneered research on modeling and observational behavior is: a. Watson b. Piaget c. Skinner d. Bandura
12. Loss of the myelin sheath, which insulates axons, can result in a disease in which the individual experiences diminished muscle control. This disease is: a. Parkinson's Disease b. Alzheimer's Disease c. Schizophrenia d. Multiple Sclerosis
13. Attachment style in infancy can be a predictor of later social development. a. true b. false
14. In a study comparing London's taxi drivers and London's bus drivers, the taxi drivers who studied and passed the final test developed an enlarged hippocampus while bus
a. natural selection b. agonist system c. glial functionality d. neuroplasticity
15. Erikson calls the feeling that one's life has been meaningful and worthwhile:
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a. despair b. integrit