Devry PSYC 110 Midterm Exam 2015 (Latest Version)

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DevryPSYC110MidtermExam 2015(LatestVersion)QuestionQuestion1. Question:(TCOs 1, 2) Participants in research early in psychology’s history mighthave been asked to view a chair and describe its color, shape, texture, and other aspects oftheirconscious experience. These individuals would have been using a method calledhypnosis.objective introspection.psychosurgery.psychoanalysis.Question 2. Question : (TCO 4) As part of a psychology experiment, Brett decides to measure aperson’s “anxiety” by noting the number of blinks a person makes in a 20-minute socialinteraction with a stranger. Brett appears to have offered a(n) _____ of anxiety.variableoperational definitiontheoryhypothesisPoints Received: 2 of 2Question 3. Question : (TCOs 2, 3) Marta was in an automobile accident and suffered an injuryto her brain, resulting in the paralysis of her left arm. What part of Marta’s brain was injured?Auditory association areaMotor cortexAssociation areasSomatosensory cortexQuestion 4. Question : (TCOs 2, 3) A group of axons bundled together coated in myelin thattravels together through the body is called asynaptic vesicle.nerve.neurilemma.myelinated pathway.Question 5. Question : (TCOs 2, 3) _____ are holes in the surface of the dendrites, or certaincells of the muscles and glands that are shaped to fit only certain neurotransmitters.NeurotransmittersAxonsSynaptic vesicles

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Receptor sitesQuestion 6. Question :(TCO 4) Which of the following phenomena is a function of thedistribution of the rods and cones in the retina?The moon looks much larger near the horizon than it looks when it is higher in the sky.The light from distant stars moving rapidly away from us is shifted toward the red end of thespectrum.Stars can be seen only with difficulty during the daytime.A dim star viewed at night may disappear when you look directly at it, but reappear when youlook to one side of it.Question 7. Question : ( TCO 4) What are the five primary tastes?Hot, sour, spicy, sweet, origamiSalty, sour, spicy, sweet, tartBitter, salty, sour, sweet, umamiPeppery, salty, sour, sweet, acidicQuestion 8. Question :(TCO 4) Suppose your town is located in a valley. Obviously, you’llrealize that the size of your town doesn’t change regardless of whether you look at it up close orfrom a hilltop. This is primarily due tosize constancy.color constancy.retinal disparity.stereopsis.Question 9. Question : (TCO 5) Sid is taking part in research on the effects of sleep deprivation;he has been without sleep for 75 hours. Right now, researchers have asked him to sit in front of acomputer screen and hit a button each time he sees the letter S on the screen. A few days ago, Sidwas a whiz at this task; however, he is doing very poorly today. How are sleep researchers likelyto explain Sid’s poor performance?Due to the sleep deprivation, Sid does not understand the task.Microsleeps are occurring due to the sleep deprivation and he is asleep for brief periods of time.He is determined to ruin the research because of the suffering he is enduring at the hands of theresearchers.He is probably dreaming that he is somewhere else and has no interest in responding to the “hereand now.”Instructor Explanation: Microsleeps occur, causing a block-out during that time. Chapter 4, page140.

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Question 10. Question : (TCO 5) You are telling a joke to your friend, who is laughinguproariously and then suddenly collapses to the floor. You are not surprised to later learn that hehas a sleep disorder known as ¬¬¬enuresis.narcolepsy.sleep terror.daytime insomnia.Question 11. Question :(TCO 5) How does the activation-synthesis hypothesis explaindreaming?the surfacing of repressed sexual urgesbiological attempts to make recent memories more permanentthe cortex making sense of signals from the brain stemthe use of elaborate symbolism to disguise “unthinkable” topicsQuestion 12. Question : (TCOs 7, 8) Sue noticed that whenever she opened the door to thepantry, her dog would come into the kitchen and act hungry by drooling and whining. Shethought that because the dog food was stored in the pantry, the sound of the door had becomea(n)unconditioned stimulus.conditioned stimulus.unconditioned response.conditioned response.Question 13. Question : (TCOs 7, 8) Bill hates to clean up after dinner. One night, he volunteersto bathe the dog before cleaning up. When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen, hiswife has cleaned everything up for him. Which of the following statements is most likely true?Bill will start cleaning up the kitchen before he bathes the dog.Bill’s wife has positively reinforced him for bathing the dog.Bill’s wife has negatively reinforced him for bathing the dog.Bill will never bathe the dog again.Question1. Question:(TCOs 7, 8) A young child watches her mother make pancakes. She wantsto please her mother so she pays attention. However, when she goes to make them on her own,she can’t break the eggs for the batter without making a terrible mess and dropping them on thefloor, no matter how hard she tries. Her attempt failed because of a problem with which part ofthe necessary components for observational learning?attentionmemoryimitation

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