Psych midterm 1

Baby duck syndrome is

A psychiatric fixation on your rubber ducky

A phenomenon concerning people’s attitudes toward computer systems

A baby duck’s tendency to walk before it can swim

A kind of immaturity observed in young male but not young female ducks

Monism is

The tendency to moan with pleasure

The tendency to moan with pain

The tendency to covet (desire) other people’s money

The belief that there is only physical stuff or only mental stuff but not both

Sigmund Freud proposed that

Talking at length about one’s past can resolve conflicts among the superego, ego, and id

Talking at length about one’s past can resolve conflicts among one’s instincts

Talking at length about one’s past can always resolve all unconscious problems

There is no physical basis for mental illness

The youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize was

Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King

Marie Curie

Malala Yousafzai

Charles Darwin thought

All species originate from one and that natural selection is irrelevant to psychology

All species originate from one, and that natural selection is relevant to psychology

Species that can adapt to environmental challenges have more offspring, and this idea is relevant to psychology

Both b and c

The Greek philosopher Plato argued that

Nurture is more important than Nature in determining what we know, though a conversation with a slave could never reveal that

Nature is more important than Nurture in determining what we know, though a conversation with a slave could never reveal that

Nurture is more important than Nature in determining what we know, and a conversation with a slave could reveal that

Nature is more important than Nurture in determining what we know, and a conversation with a slave could reveal that

The French philosopher Descartes was the first to come up with the idea of

Plotting y as a function of x to represent space

Adding milk to coffee at café’s in Paris

Refusing to use reason to get at things we’re born knowing

Only relying on senses to learn things

John Locke, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner shared the view that

Experience has no role in learning

Experience has a limited role in learning

Experience and innate knowledge contribute equally to learning

Experience is the main contributor to learning

The reason a boy raised by wolves never learned language is believed to be that

He was rescued before puberty, during the critical period

He was rescued after puberty, after the critical period

He found humans scary

He was always so hungry, constantly wolfing down his meals and chewing with his canines, that he didn’t have any interest in learning language

If a little girl asks her parents if they want to go “tennising” (a term she invented), this suggests, most interestingly for psychologists, that

The little girl had not paid enough attention to what her parents said, for they had only said, “Do you want to play tennis?” not “Do you want to go tennising?”

The little girl’s mind was a blank slate at birth

The little girl had learned a rule for language but over-used it

The little girl will probably be a better tennis player than Serena or Venus Williams

In response to the question, “Can a computer be as intelligent as a person?” Alan Turing said

Of course

Of course not

You’d say yes if the computer solved math problems much more quickly than people can

You’d say yes if, when interacting with a computer, you couldn’t tell if it was a person or a computer

If you had to name a part of a computer that corresponded to consciousness, your best choice would be

Storage

The central processing unit

Input

Output

When psychologists use naturalistic observation, they

Go natural (wear no clothes)

Ask people to act naturally (preferably with their clothes on)

Observe people going about their everyday lives

Observe people in forests, jungles, and the like

Touching a frog on points of its body at different distances from its brain showed that

The speed of nerve conduction is as fast as the speed of light, which is why frogs are so quick

The speed of nerve conduction is surprisingly slow, despite the fact that frogs are quick

Some people freak out when they have to touch frogs, probably for the same reason that Little Albert was scared of puppies after John B. Watson banged cymbals when Little Albert was exposed to the puppies

None of the above

Reaction times are used in cognitive psychology

To infer the time required to carry out decisions

To infer the time to detect stimuli

Both a and b

To identify the fastest sprinters in races and to admonish people not to tailgate but for no other reason

Muscles contract because

They fill with fluid

They respond to electrical and chemical stimulation

Luigi Galvani proved that they do

Benjamin Franklin proved that they do

Axons

Send signals away from the somas of their own neurons

Send signals toward from the somas of their own neurons

Are special neurons for controlling chopping movements with an ax or hatchet

None of the above

The nervous system isn’t a “cotton ball.” Rather it has

Gaps (synapses) between neurons

Gaps (synapses) between neurons, with neurotransmitters going from pre-synaptic neurons to post-synaptic neurons

Gaps (synapses) between neurons, with neurotransmitters going from pre-synaptic neurons to postsynaptic neurons, and those neurotransmitters have excitatory or inhibitory effects on the post-synaptic neurons depending on the receptors on the post-synaptic side

All of the above

A plausible reason why you have more sensitivity on your fingers than on your abdomen is that

Your abdomen is on your ventral side

Your abdomen is on your dorsal side

Your abdomen has less neural “real estate” in the somatosensory cortex than your fingers do

Your abdomen has more neural “real estate” in the somatosensory cortex than your fingers do

Prosopagnosia is

Agony at the idea of proposing to someone because marriage is a huge commitment, plus it can ruin your pants when you get down on one knee

Being in favor of posing questions to others (the way Socrates was)

Wanting to propose a special medication called “gnosia”

Difficulty recognizing faces

Patterns of reaction times when people cross their hands and press keys in response to lights indicates that

Which hand is used is more important than where that hand is used

Which hand is used is less important than where that hand is used

Crossing the hands leads to more lying but weaker Galvanic skin responses

Crossing the hands leads to more lying and stronger Galvanic skin responses

If you sit in the same seat in this class over and over again and even get a bit perturbed if you find someone sitting in “your” seat if you arrive a bit later than usual, you are exhibiting

The Territorial Imperative, which some scientists think is instinctive

The Territorial Imperative, which no scientists think is instinctive

The desire for neural “real estate”

Fritsch-Hitzig syndrome

Wilder Penfield showed that

Body parts are represented topographically in the somato-sensory cortex but not the motor cortex

Body parts are represented topographically in the motor cortex but not the somato-sensory cortex

Body parts are not represented topographically in the somato-sensory cortex or the motor cortex

Body parts are represented topographically in the somato-sensory cortex and motor cortex

Mirror therapy is

Helpful for those who are Narcissistic and need some reality testing

A means of helping amputees “move” their painful phantom limbs

A way of reflecting light to people whose spirits need lifting

None of the above

A split-brain patient is someone who

Has terrible migraine headaches

Never has bad headaches

Has multiple (split) personalities

Whose corpus callosum has been cut

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