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11. Michael Ross and his colleagues observed that people exposed to very convincing arguments about the
desirability of frequent toothbrushing tended to:
A) quickly forget the arguments if they were in the habit of brushing frequently.
B) quickly forget the arguments if they were not in the habit of brushing frequently.
C) exaggerate how frequently they had brushed their teeth in the past.
D) exaggerate how infrequently they had brushed their teeth in the past.
12. Both classical and operant conditioning are forms of:
A) associative learning.
B) respondent behavior.
C) observational learning.
D) intrinsic motivation.
13. Research findings suggest that the best advice to give people who want to avoid belief perseverance is:
A) Try to justify your positions.
B) Consider the opposite.
C) Don't draw hasty conclusions.
D) Be as objective as possible.
14. Whenever he feels sexually jealous, David is flooded with painful recollections of the rare occasions in
which he had observed his girlfriend flirting with other men. David's experience best illustrates:
A) source misattribution.
B) retroactive interference.
C) mood-congruent memory.
D) the misinformation effect.
15. Watching a TV soap opera involving marital conflict and divorce led Andrea to recall several instances in
which her husband had mistreated her. The effect of the TV program on Andrea's recall provides an
example of:
A) the spacing effect.
B) repression.
C) the serial position effect.
D) priming.
16. Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that:
A) children are less susceptible to source amnesia than adults.
B) children are no more susceptible to the misinformation effect than adults.
C) it is surprisingly difficult for both children and professional interviewers to reliably separate the
children's true memories from false memories.
D) all of the above are true.
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17. We are more likely to remember the words typewriter, cigarette, and fire than the words void,
process, and inherent. This best illustrates the value of:
A) the peg-word system.
B) flashbulb memory.
C) visual encoding.
D) iconic memory.
18. Some people are unable to arrange six matches to form four equilateral triangles because they fail to
consider a three-dimensional arrangement. This best illustrates the effects of ________ on problem
solving.
A) fixations
B) heuristics
C) framing
D) overconfidence
19. Mr. Oates always sleeps restlessly, snorting and gasping throughout the night. It is most likely that Mr.
Oates suffers from:
A) sleep apnea.
B) narcolepsy.
C) night terror.
D) insomnia.
20. Rates of operant responding are ________ for fixed-ratio than for fixed-interval schedules; they are
________ for variable-ratio than for variable-interval schedules.
A) lower; higher
B) higher; lower
C) lower; lower
D) higher; higher
21. During her psychology test, Kelsey could not remember the meaning of the term mnemonics Surprisingly,
however, she accurately remembered that the term appeared on the fourth line of a left-hand page in her
textbook. Her memory of this incidental information is best explained in terms of:
A) automatic processing.
B) the spacing effect.
C) the method of loci.
D) the next-in-line effect.
22. Mr. Schneider frequently tells his children that it is important to wash their hands before meals, but he
rarely does so himself. Experiments suggest that his children will learn to:
A) practice and preach the virtues of cleanliness.
B) practice cleanliness but not preach its virtues.
C) neither practice nor preach the virtues of cleanliness.
D) preach the virtues of cleanliness but not practice cleanliness.
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23. The day after Kirsten was introduced to 13 people at a business luncheon, she could recall the names of
only the first 4 people to whom she had been introduced. Her effective recall of these particular names
best illustrates the benefits of:
A) automatic processing.
B) rehearsal.
C) flashbulb memory.
D) the method of loci.
24. Which of the following is an unconditioned response?
A) playing jump rope
B) running through a maze to get a food reward
C) sweating in hot weather
D) clapping after a thrilling concert performance
25. Why does the predictive validity of general aptitude tests decrease as the educational experience of the
students who take them increases?
A) More educated students have taken aptitude tests so frequently that for them such tests are no longer
pure measures of aptitude.
B) Comparisons of mental age with chronological age are inadequate for assessing the aptitude of older
and more educated students.
C) There is a relatively restricted range of aptitude test scores among students at higher educational
levels.
D) Among more educated students, motivation has a much greater effect on academic success than does
aptitude.
26. Children of abusive parents often learn to be aggressive by imitating their parents. This illustrates the
importance of:
A) delayed reinforcement.
B) observational learning.
C) respondent behavior.
D) shaping.
27. Because of the discomfort and embarrassment associated with his childhood bedwetting, Andrew
becomes nervous whenever he has the urge to urinate. If genital arousal subsequently makes Andrew
unusually anxious, this would best illustrate:
A) shaping.
B) generalization.
C) spontaneous recovery.
D) secondary responding.
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28. The rock musician was hit with a rotten egg while performing his latest hit song. The fact that you can
recognize two different meanings for the word hit in the preceding sentence demonstrates the
importance of:
A) syntax.
B) semantics.
C) morphemes.
D) prototypes.
29. When grocery shopping with his mother, 4-year-old Hakim sometimes throws temper tantrums if his
mother refuses his requests for a particular snack food. Parent training experts would suggest that his
mother should:
A) threaten to punish Hakim if he continues his tantrums.
B) offer to buy the snack food Hakim wants only if he quiets down and behaves himself.
C) continue shopping while ignoring Hakim's tantrums.
D) return any snack foods that are already in her cart to the store shelves.
30. Cultural fads and fashions that are often spread by one person copying another are called:
A) memes.
B) generalizations.
C) prosocial behaviors.
D) mirror neurons.
31. Monism refers to the presumption that:
A) hypnosis and REM sleep are identical states of consciousness.
B) near-death experiences provide scientific evidence for life after death.
C) different psychological theories offer complementary rather than contradictory perspectives.
D) mind and body are different aspects of the same thing.
32. Cerebellum is to ________ memory as hippocampus is to ________ memory.
A) short-term; long-term
B) long-term; short-term
C) implicit; explicit
D) explicit; implicit
33. Rhesus macaque monkeys are more likely to reconcile after a fight if they grow up with forgiving older
stumptail macaque monkeys. This best illustrates the impact of:
A) immediate reinforcement.
B) spontaneous recovery.
C) observational learning.
D) shaping.
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34. Which memory test would most effectively reveal that Mr. Quintano, at age 55, still remembers many of
his high school classmates?
A) recall
B) recognition
C) rehearsal
D) reconstruction
35. Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name. Judy's poor
memory most likely results from a failure in:
A) storage.
B) encoding.
C) rehearsal.
D) retrieval.
36. When Brandon was told that he correctly answered 80 percent of the items on a mathematical
achievement test, he asked how his performance compared with that of the average test taker. Brandon's
concern was directly related to the issue of:
A) standardization.
B) predictive validity.
C) reliability.
D) content validity.
37. Unlike the use of algorithms or heuristics, insight does not involve:
A) concepts.
B) prototypes.
C) belief bias.
D) strategy-based solutions.
38. Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially:
A) slow and subsequently stays slow.
B) slow and subsequently speeds up.
C) rapid and subsequently stays rapid.
D) rapid and subsequently slows down.
39. Mood-congruent memory refers to the effect of emotional states on the process of:
A) encoding.
B) storage.
C) retrieval.
D) relearning.
40. Every Saturday morning, Arnold quickly washes the family's breakfast dishes so that his father will allow
him to wash his car. In this instance, washing the car is a(n):
A) positive reinforcer.
B) unconditioned response.
C) conditioned response.
D) negative reinforcer.
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41. It is difficult to explain language acquisition solely in terms of imitation and reinforcement because
children:
A) acquire language even in the absence of social interaction.
B) resent being corrected for grammatical mistakes.
C) overgeneralize grammatical rules, producing speech errors they have never heard before.
D) employ telegraphic speech patterns before their second birthday.
42. One plausible theory suggests that hypnosis relieves pain by:
A) distracting attention.
B) blocking sensory input.
C) speeding up the circadian rhythm.
D) eliciting delta waves characteristic of deep sleep.
43. At some point during the babbling stage, infants begin to:
A) imitate adult grammar.
B) make speech sounds only if their hearing is unimpaired.
C) speak in simple words that may be barely recognizable.
D) lose their ability to discriminate sounds they never hear.
44. Memory of facts is to ________ as memory of skills is to ________.
A) brainstem; hippocampus
B) explicit memory; implicit memory
C) automatic processing; effortful processing
D) short-term memory; long-term memory
45. In elementary school and high school, Charlie got away with copying his test answers from classmates.
Because the college has test proctors who are very observant, Charlie spends as many hours devising new
ways to cheat as it would take him to study and perform well in an honest fashion. Charlie's strategy for
passing tests illustrates the consequences of:
A) functional fixedness.
B) a mental set.
C) confirmation bias.
D) the availability heuristic.
46. Research on sleep patterns indicates that:
A) the elderly and newborns have very similar sleep patterns.
B) different sleep patterns reflect significant personality differences.
C) everyone needs a minimum of 8 hours of sleep per night to function well.
D) sleep patterns may be genetically influenced.
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47. After hamsters learned whether to turn right or left in a maze in order to find food, their body
temperature was lowered until the electrical activity in their brains ceased. When the hamsters were
revived, they still remembered what they had learned prior to the blackout. The hamsters' directional
memory was apparently a(n) ________ memory.
A) sensory
B) short-term
C) long-term
D) implicit
48. When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which test of memory is
being used?
A) recognition
B) rehearsal
C) recall
D) relearning
49. Lavonne was careful to avoid the use of dangling participles and run-on sentences in her essay because
she did not want to lose points for faulty:
A) semantics.
B) phonemes.
C) morphemes.
D) syntax.
50. After attending group therapy sessions for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Karen mistakenly
remembered details from others' traumatic life stories as part of her own life history. This best illustrates
the dangers of:
A) proactive interference.
B) mood-congruent memory.
C) implicit memory.
D) source amnesia.
51. Using the mnemonic ROY G. BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow in the order of wavelength
illustrates the use of:
A) the method of loci.
B) an acronym.
C) the spacing effect.
D) the peg-word system.
52. Chomsky suggested that as a child first begins hearing language, appropriate settings or standards
regarding the rules of that language are activated in the child's:
A) surface structure.
B) language acquisition device.
C) grammatical structure.
D) deep structure.
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53. People's scores on the general intelligence factor are most highly correlated with their ability to solve
________ problems.
A) emotional
B) sexual
C) social
D) novel
54. Most of the TV shows that 9-year-old Fred watches involve violence. This is most likely to lead Fred to:
A) react with a sense of distress at the sight of two children fighting on the school playground.
B) overestimate the percentage of crimes that involve violent acts.
C) be more inhibited about personally starting a fight on the school playground.
D) overestimate the pain and injury experienced by victims of violent crime.
55. B. F. Skinner's work elaborated what E. L. Thorndike had called:
A) shaping.
B) observational learning.
C) the law of effect.
D) latent learning.
56. With increasing age, adopted children's intelligence test scores become ________ like their adoptive
parents' scores and ________ similar to their biological parent's scores.
A) more; more
B) less; less
C) more; less
D) less; more
57. Explicit memory is to long-term memory as iconic memory is to ________ memory.
A) sensory
B) short-term
C) flashbulb
D) implicit
58. L. L. Thurstone identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities including word fluency, memory, and
reasoning. He claimed that word fluency:
A) underlies all of our intelligent behaviors.
B) is the most difficult mental ability to assess reliably.
C) involves a different dimension of intelligence from that of reasoning.
D) is not actually a form of intelligence.
59. Sea slugs, mice, and fruit flies have displayed enhanced memories following enhanced production of the
protein:
A) LTP.
B) CREB.
C) GABA.
D) THC.
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74. Superior memory for rap lyrics that include the most rhymes best illustrates the value of:
A) the spacing effect.
B) the next-in-line effect.
C) the serial position effect.
D) acoustic encoding.
75. Research indicates that Head Start programs:
A) contribute to dramatic and enduring gains in the participants' intelligence test scores.
B) yield the greatest benefits for participants coming from intellectually stimulating home environments.
C) reduce the likelihood that participants will repeat grades or require special education.
D) do all of the above.
76. Months after she was raped, Courtney's heart pounds with fear merely at the sight of the place in which
she was attacked. The location of her attack is most likely a(n) ________ for Courtney's anxiety.
A) conditioned stimulus
B) negative stimulus
C) unconditioned stimulus
D) partial stimulus
77. A real estate agent showed Gavin several pictures of lakeshore property while they were eating a
delicious, mouth-watering meal. Later, when Gavin was given a tour of the property, he drooled with
delight. For Gavin, the lakeshore property was a:
A) US.
B) CS.
C) UR.
D) CR.
78. The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely
due to:
A) encoding failure.
B) the spacing effect.
C) retroactive interference.
D) source amnesia.
79. As Inge recalled her dream, she was dancing with a tall, dark gentleman when suddenly the music shifted
to loud rock and the man disappeared. According to Freud, Inge's account represents the ________
content of her dream.
A) paradoxical
B) manifest
C) latent
D) hypnagogic
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80. A person adhering to the cognitive perspective would be likely to emphasize that classical conditioning
depends on:
A) an organism's active behavioral responses to environmental stimulation.
B) the amount of time between the presentation of the CS and the US.
C) how frequently an organism is exposed to an association of a CS and a US.
D) an organism's expectation that a US will follow a CS.
81. Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of a single intelligence test score as an index of an
individual's mental capacities?
A) Thurstone
B) Spearman
C) Gardner
D) Sternberg
82. Stress hormones facilitate the formation of new memories by:
A) decreasing the availability of serotonin.
B) increasing the availability of glucose.
C) decreasing the availability of CREB.
D) increasing the availability of dopamine.
83. Howard Gardner is most likely to agree that the concept of intelligence includes:
A) minimizing one's negative emotions.
B) spatially analyzing visual input.
C) experiencing positive self-esteem.
D) behaving morally.
84. In order for Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg to best predict their newborn daughter's future intellectual aptitude
they should:
A) carefully assess the infant's sensory and reflexive responses.
B) observe their daughter's general level of emotional reactivity.
C) obtain information about their own levels of intelligence.
D) monitor the age at which their child first walks and talks.
85. Storage is to encoding as ________ is to ________.
A) active processing; passive processing
B) imagery; attentiveness
C) rehearsal; retrieval
D) retention; acquisition
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86. Wu believes that some murderers truly love their own children; he also believes that all who truly love
their own children are effective parents. Wu's negative attitude toward murderers is so strong, however,
that he finds it very difficult to accept the logical conclusion that some murderers are effective parents.
His difficulty best illustrates:
A) the framing effect.
B) confirmation bias.
C) the availability heuristic.
D) belief bias.
87. Four-year-old Della asks her mother for a special treat every time they go to the grocery store. Although
at one time her mother granted every request, she now does so less consistently. Research suggests that
Della will:
A) soon give up asking for a treat entirely.
B) come to ask for a treat only occasionally.
C) continue to ask for a treat nearly every time she goes to the store.
D) ask for a treat every time her mother takes her out, even if they don't go to the grocery store.
88. Socially responsive toddlers who readily imitate their parents tend to become preschoolers with a strong
internalized conscience. This best illustrates the impact of:
A) operant conditioning.
B) spontaneous recovery.
C) observational learning.
D) respondent behavior.
89. Sorting children into gifted child education programs is most likely to be criticized for:
A) overemphasizing the genetic determinants of giftedness.
B) widening the achievement gap between higher- and lower-ability groups.
C) claiming that intelligence test scores can predict children's academic success.
D) underestimating the extent to which a g factor underlies success in a wide variety of tasks.
90. As adults age, the size of their brains ________ and their nonverbal intelligence test scores ________.
A) increase; decrease
B) decrease; increase
C) increase; increase
D) decrease; decrease
91. Which test of memory typically provides the fewest retrieval cues?
A) recognition
B) recall
C) relearning
D) rehearsal
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92. Unlike today's most widely used intelligence tests, the original Stanford-Binet would be most clearly
criticized with respect to its:
A) standardization sample.
B) reliability.
C) predictive validity.
D) heritability.
93. The WAIS consists of separate ________ subtests.
A) intelligence and creativity
B) aptitude and achievement
C) convergent and divergent thinking
D) verbal and performance
94. It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos' rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive
differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly
illustrates:
A) inborn universal grammar.
B) the representativeness heuristic.
C) linguistic determinism.
D) the framing effect.
95. Boys outnumber girls at the ________ levels of reading ability and at the ________ levels of
mathematical problem-solving ability.
A) high; low
B) low; low
C) high; high
D) low; high
96. Craik and Tulving experimentally demonstrated that people effectively remember seeing a specific word
after they decide whether that word fits into an incomplete sentence. This research highlighted the
effectiveness of:
A) the method of loci.
B) the peg-word system.
C) semantic encoding.
D) the next-in-line effect.
97. According to the text, learning involves:
A) the ability to think abstractly.
B) a change in behavior due to experience.
C) the development of prosocial behavior.
D) a reduction in extrinsic motivation.
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98. The idea that any perceivable neutral stimulus can serve as a CS was challenged by:
A) Garcia and Koelling's findings on taste aversion in rats.
B) Pavlov's findings on the conditioned salivary response.
C) Watson and Rayner's findings on fear conditioning in infants.
D) Rescorla and Wagner's findings that expectancy affected the strength of the conditioned response.
99. To assess mental age, Binet and Simon measured children's:
A) head size.
B) reasoning skills.
C) muscular power.
D) neural processing speed.
100. The use of barbiturates ________ anxiety and ________ sympathetic nervous system activity.
A) increases; decreases
B) decreases; increases
C) decreases; decreases
D) increases; increases
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