ANSWERS TO EXAM 1 IN BOLD I Multiple Choice 1 Suppose you were a research participant in one of Wilhelm Wundt s studies Most likely you would have been required to a Be hypnotized by Wundt himself b Report the content of your dreams over a series of nights c Report your reactions to various stimuli d Write a stream of consciousness essay 2 John Watson rejected in favor of studying a b c d introspection structuralism phenomenology animals the mind behavior behavior the mind 3 From the case of Phineas Gage one thing we learned was a b c d Brain damage can occur without changing personality The frontal lobe is involved in thinking planning and impulse inhibition The parietal lobe is responsible for personality characteristics Intellectual functioning is localized in the occipital lobe 4 The results of our online survey demonstrated that the more the class reported drinking beer the more you reported having upset stomachs thus a Drinking beer causes people to have upset stomachs b Drinking beer is one of many causes of upset stomachs c Upset stomachs and beer drinking are positively correlated d Upset stomachs and beer drinking have a negative correlation coefficient r 5 In class when we all acted out neurons your fingers were that received messages your bodies were axons that signals and your feet were responsible for transmission a Dendrites insulate axons b Axons conduct dendrites c Dendrites conduct axon terminals d Axon terminals conduct dendrites 6 In the Greenwald et al study of subliminal self help tapes discussed in class research participants heard either correctly labeled or mis labeled self esteem or memory improvement tapes then were tested for self esteem and memory The results revealed that a All participants who actually heard self esteem tapes had increased self esteem b All participants who actually heard memory improvement tapes had increased memory ability c Only those who thought they were listening to a self esteem or memory improvement tape showed improvement d There was no improvement regardless of tape heard but participants thought they had improved 7 A chef wants to add just enough vanilla to a recipe to make its taste barely detectable The chef s problem is closely related to the concept of a The difference threshold b The absolute threshold c Weber s law d The JND 8 To avoid waking up your room mate you pick out your clothes in the semi darkness of dawn The bright bathroom light reveals a near fashion mistake a red shirt green pants and purple socks Your problem is that a Rods only operate in bright light to show color b Cones which detect color don t operate in semi darkness c The lens only lets in color in bright light d Only the center of the retina operates in semi darkness 9 Suppose John Kerry s new advertising campaign wants a patriotic theme where viewers see a red white and blue American flag on the screen that is actually blank What color flag should they present in the ad for viewers to fixate on before the screen goes blank a Blue white and red b Green black and yellow c Red orange and yellow d Blue indigo and violet 10 After a night out on Sixth Street Johnny was pulled over by the cops and asked to walk a straight line and touch his nose with one finger He was unable to do this because alcohol affects the instrumental in coordinating a Hypothalamus fear responses b Cerebellum muscle movements c Corpus Callosum the right and left hemispheres of the brain d Broca s area language 11 In class we discussed the case of Julia who exhibited unexplained fits of rage temper tantrums and violent outburst Surgery that destroyed part of her was accompanied by a mellowing effect a Hippocampus b Hypothalamus c Amygdala d Reticular formation 12 Because the olfactory bulbs extend some of their axons to directly into the brain s limbic system it is not surprising that certain smells are associated with a Tastes b Emotional memories c Visual afterimages d Certain sounds 13 If we were to collect t shirts from the 30 students in our class we would most likely find a b c d Your room mates might confuse your scent for their own Your mothers would not be able to pick out their own children s People would be able to differentiate between men and women s Most of you would report smelling your own shirts was sexually arousing 14 Which expression is most closely related to the concept of perceptual set a b c d We see what we expect to see In one ear and out the other A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush Here today gone tomorrow 15 You don t have to think about pumping blood through your body or maintaining proper glucose levels thanks to the part of the a Autonomic nervous system sympathetic nervous system b Somatic nervous system peripheral nervous system c Autonomic nervous system peripheral nervous system d Sympathetic nervous system parasympathetic nervous system 16 neurons travel from the CNS whereas neurons travel to the CNS a b c d Sensory afferent Motor efferent Motor sensory Sensory motor 17 The resting state of a neuron is a b c d Negative Positive Neutral Dependent on neurotransmitter levels 18 Michael J Fox has recently become a spokesperson for Parkinson s a neurodegenerative disease Although the cause is unclear the muscular rigidity involuntary movements and pillrolling tremors we see in him are most likely a result of given its role in motor control and voluntary muscle movements a Excess Acetylcholine b Dopamine depletion c Excess L DOPA d Ingesting MPTP 19 A statistically significant negative correlation between listening to hip hop and drinking wine means a b c d The more you listen to hip hop the more you drink wine The more you listen to hip hop the less you drink wine Listening to hip hop is completely unrelated to drinking wine Listening to hip hop causes you to drink less wine 20 If you were a split brain patient and someone flashed a row of lights at you what would you SAY that you saw a Only lights on the left b Only lights on the Right c Nothing d The whole row 21 Which of the following is most closely associated with causality a b c d Positively correlated variables Manipulating variables The results of descriptive research Self report data 22 Smokers probably noticed in the textbook that the ingestion of nicotine has several cognitive effects due to its activation of receptors which can initially heighten attention improve problem solving and facilitate memory a Epinephrine b GABA c Acetylcholine d Substance P 23 Which example shows
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