Psychology 100 Madigan Fall 2001 FORM A page 1PSYCHOLOGY 100 TEST #2- Write Name, SSN, and FORM (A,B) on your scantron.- Make complete erasures.01. This woman has two golf tees glued to her forehead. She probably:a. is trying to shape her infant into the next Tiger Woodsb. is demonstrating voluntary control of muscles in the foreheadd. is a subject in an experiment on facial expression and induced emotiond. is stuck for something to do on a slow weekend02. Patient H.M. would have the most difficulty in remembering:a. the last few words of a list in a free-recall experimentb. the first few words in a list in a free recall experimentc. what the words in the list meantd. all would be very difficult for him.03. For the perception of distance, the size of the retinal image produced by an object is most like aa. bottom-up influenceb. top-down influencec. context influenced. conscious influence04. A subliminal stimulus is one:a. that is below the absolute threshold for perceptionb. that triggers unconscious motivationsc. that activates another related stimulusd. that bypasses sensory memory stores05. Mnemonic devices improve memory largely because they:a. increase short-term memory capacityb. extend the duration of sensory memoryc. utilize implicit as well as explicit memoryd. cause information to be stored in primary visual cortexPsychology 100 Madigan Fall 2001 FORM A page 206. If the male population is more variable than the female population in some ability, then, compared with females:a. you would expect find more males with very low and very high scores, b. you would expect males to have a somewhat higher average scorec. you would expect males to have a somewhat lower scored. you would expect males and females to have equal average scores07. Kimura suggests that the __________ cause of sex differences in cognition is _______ and the __________ cause is _____________.a. immediate; socialization; ultimate; learning sex rolesb. proximate; early hormonal influence; ultimate; selection pressuresc. primary; short-term memory capacities; secondary; reinforcementd. all of the above are suggested by Kimura08. Infanticide is most likely to occur with a step-parent. According to Daly and Wilson, the fundamental reason for this is:a. lack of parental investmentb. sexual jealousyc. drugs and alcohold. low intelligence in the step-parent09. According to Kimura’s research, which group tends to have the highest mathematical reasoningscores:a. high-testosterone malesb. high-testosterone femalesc. low testosterone femalesd. low testosterone males10. To qualify as an “instinct”, a behavior must have all of the following characteristics except:a. be completely independent of learning or experienceb. be universal in a species or in one sex of a speciesc. be adaptived. have the same form in members of a given species11. The distinction between the availability and the accessibility of information in memory is best illustrated by:a. the difference between short-term and long-term memoryb. recall under hypnosisc. the difference between episodic and semantic memoryd. having a word or name “on the tip of your tongue”12. The “eyebrow flash” in humans seems to consist of :a. an instinctual response and a learning componentb. an universal instinctual responsec. a voluntary or operant responsed. an autonomic responsePsychology 100 Madigan Fall 2001 FORM A page 313. Suppose that in Schachter’s emotion experiment, the subject was given a tranquilizer rather than a stimulant, and was told that the drug would arouse them. According to Schachter’s theory, the presence of an annoying actor would:a. not lead to anger or negative emotion in the subject.b. would create high levels of annoyance or anger in the subjectc. would create a positive emotional response by the subjectd. trigger activity in the amygdale14. Which of the following seems most inconsistent with the principle of fitness:a. self-sacrificing behaviorb. spousal murderc. adoption of childrend. parental investment15. Suppose that in order to decrease the number of false positives produced by a lie-detection procedure, you start to require stronger reactions before you would be willing to conclude that subjects are lying. A necessary consequence of this would be:a. an increase in the “miss” categoryb. greater accuracy of your lie-detection systemc. an increase in the “hit” categoryd. an increase in the “false positive” category16. According to the levels of processing principle, repetition of new information such as a telephone number:a.. is effective for short-term retention but not for long-term retentionb. will readily create a chunk out of several bits of unrelated informationc. will create a durable cortical memoryd. is effective for long-term memory but not short-term memory17. Damage to area V1 would cause _____________ while damage to area V4 would cause___________:a. language impairments; hearing impairmentsb. vision in general; recognizing objectsc. decrease in information from retina to thalamus; difficulties in naming objectsd. impaired object recognition; impaired face recognition18. The red belly of the stickleback fish is a ____________ and the swimming about in circles is a______________.a. discriminating stimulus, operant responseb. discerning stimulus, instinctual responsec. universal signal, selective responsed. sign stimulus, fixed action patternPsychology 100 Madigan Fall 2001 FORM A page 419. Peacocks with longer tails are more likely to mate and pass on its genes because male peacocksthat can survive with all the extra plumage are considered more fit. This is an example of ___________.a. natural selectionb. sexual selectionc. random pairingd. mate selection20. Paul Ekman’s research in Papua New Guinea illustrated:a. facial expressions are unlearned and cross culturalb. the frustration aggression hypothesis is expressed cross culturallyc. facial expressions are learned and shaped by the environment in which you are raisedd. that the facial expression of