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PSYC 1101-B Exam 2 Practice Test
____ 1. The gate control theory of pain proposes that two conditions must be met for an individual to experience pain. The first condition is that the pain receptors are active. The second condition is that:
a. the thalamus allows pain signals to be transmitted to the cortex.
c. gate neurons in the peripheral nervous system generate action potentials. b. a neural gate in the spinal cord allows pain signals to be transmitted to the brain.
d. pain signals go directly to the cortex, bypassing the thalamus.
____ 2. Bill is driving his car when he notices a police car behind him. His ____________ stream is involved in recognizing what object is behind him, while his ____________ stream is involved in determining the spatial location of the police car.
a. somatosensory; motor c. ventral; dorsal b. dorsal; ventral d. motor; somatosensory
____ 3. Which of the following components of working memory co-ordinates information from other working memory components?
a. Phonological loop c. Episodic buffer b. Central executive d. Visuospatial sketchpad
____ 4. ___________________ rehearsal leads to shallower encoding than ____________ rehearsal, in which encoded items are linked to existing items in long-term memory.
a. Repetition; meaning c. Automatic; controlled b. Maintenance; elaborative d. Explicit; implicit
____ 5. Food is an example of a(n) ___________________ reinforcer.
a. primary c. secondary b. conditioned d. discriminative
____ 6. The Rescorla - Wagner model suggests that the strength of the relationship between an unconditioned and conditioned stimulus depends on how _______________ the appearance of the unconditioned stimulus is during conditioning.
a. consistent c. infrequent b. surprising d. latent
____ 7. Which of the following statements about attention IS FALSE?
a. Attention is a limited capacity system. c. Humans are capable of selective listening. b. It is easier to simultaneously attend to stimuli of the same sensory modality than different sensory modalities.
d. Visual attention is a parallel processing system.
PSYC 1101-B Exam 2 Practice Test
____ 8. If I were to turn the classroom projector on right now, the noise of the projector will probably initially draw your attention. However, over time, you will begin to notice the noise less and less, eventually not even paying attention to it. Your gradual reduction in responsiveness to the noise of the projector is referred to as _________________.
a. classical conditioning c. sensitization b. operant conditioning d. habituation
____ 9. The gestalt principle of _______________ suggests that human perceptual systems are wired to interpret lines moving behind an occluder as continuous.
a. similarity c. figure continuity b. good continuation d. continuous closure
____ 10. Imagine that two of your friends are walking towards you. If you notice that one of your friends is blocking your ability to see the other, you have used the monocular depth cue of _______________ to judge the distance of your friends.
a. familiar size c. occlusion b. relative size d. linear perspective
____ 11. The initial repeated pairing of the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus refers to the __________________ phase of classical conditioning.
a. spontaneous recovery c. extinction b. positive reinforcement d. acquisition
____ 12. The major contribution of Bandura’s Bobo Doll studies was a demonstration that aggressive behavior could be influenced by:
a. positive and negative punishment. c. classical conditioning. b. latent learning. d. observational learning.
____ 13. Accommodation occurs in which of the following parts of the eye?
a. Lens c. Iris b. Pupil d. Retina
____ 14. You don’t like your friend Dave very much and want to make him look foolish using classical conditioning. To do so, you repeatedly tap his knee with a small hammer to generate a reflexive kick. Every time you tap his knee, you say the word “kick”. The next day, you cause Dave to kick his girlfriend just by saying “kick” to him when they are together. In this example, the reflexive kick created by the hammer is a(n) __________________, while the word “kick” is a(n) __________________.
a. unconditioned stimulus (UCS); unconditioned response (UCR)
c. unconditioned response (UCR); conditioned stimulus (CS) b. conditioned stimulus (CS); conditioned response (CR)
d. conditioned stimulus (CS); unconditioned response (UCR)
PSYC 1101-B Exam 2 Practice Test
____ 23. The intoxicating effects of cocaine use are primarily a result of:
a. increased GABA activity. c. activation of existing acetylchohline receptors in the brain. b. accumulation of dopamine in the synaptic cleft.
d. binding of serotonin to opiod receptors in the limbic system.
____ 24. You have just had a dream in which you were swimming with a group of dolphins in the ocean. You believe that this dream represents your desire to take a vacation to the beach with several of your intelligent friends. Swimming with dolphins represents the _____________ content of your dream, while your desire to take a vacation represents the _________________ content of your dream.
a. unconscious; conscious c. activating; synthesizing b. latent; manifest d. manifest; latent
____ 25. Which memory system would be involved in answering the question “What happened on your first day of college?”
a. Semantic memory c. Procedural memory b. Episodic memory d. Prospective memory
____ 26. The neurons of the primary auditory cortex have a(n) _______________ organization. Neurons in the rear of this section of cortex respond to lower pitches, while neurons in the front of this section of cortex respond to higher pitches.
a. homunculus c. tonotopic b. temporal d. amplified
____ 27. Which of the following characteristics of light is a physical dimension that influences perceptions of color in the visual system?
a. Amplitude c. Brightness b. Wavelength d. Lightness
____ 28. __________________ color mixing is a physical process, while ____________ color mixing is a psychological process.
a. Resting; graded c. Subtractive; additive b. Additive; subtractive d. Graded; resting
____ 29. Which of the following statements DOES NOT accurately describe brain activity while sleeping over the course of a night?
a. The sleep cycle reverses after approximately 90 minutes.
c. Less time is spent in Stages 3 and 4 sleep as morning approaches. b. More time is spent in REM sleep as morning approaches.
d. Stage 4 sleep is only reached after spending more than four hours asleep.
ID: A
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