1. The law of effect formulated by thorndike states that:
responses leading to satisfying results become more likely to be repeated, and those
leading to unpleasnt results become less likely to be repeated
2. Psychologists who are part of this movement have done most of the reaserach on
the field of learning
behaviorism
3. Where is the DNA that contains the entire genetic code for a particular
individual
in the nucleus of the body’s cells
4. A psychologist wants to determine whether the lighting in a room affects tests
performance. He has one group of students take a test in a brightly lit room and a
comparable group take the same test in the dimly lit room. In this experiment, what
are the variables
the level of brightness is the independent variable and the test score is decepndent
variable
5. Which of the following is a theory of how altruistic behavior is evolutionary adaptive
reciprocity theory
6. Piaget contributed greatly to cog pysch through is accounts of
cognitive development in children
7. How do you achieve extinction in a classical conditioning experiment
unpair CS and US
8. Sasha’s blood type is A. She received heterozygous alleles for blood type from
her parents- an A allele from her mother and an O allele from her father. The fact
that sasha’s DAN contains both A and O alleles for blood type referes to her ___
and it is the ___ relationship of these alleles that causes only her A allele to be
expressed
geneotype; dominant-recessive
9. This type of research is often done as a first step in a sequence of studies. It lacks
the control of other techniques, but does not have a great deal of external validity
descriptive study
10. Watson’s experiment that involved Little Albert provided evidence of which of
the following classical conditioning phenomena
Response generalization
11. A measurement is ____ if it yields the same, or similar, results each time that it is
used
Reliable
