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The thalamus...

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is the relay station to which all sensory information goes first.

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Signals along the WHAT pathway from the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe produces ________________________________.

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information about the identity of an object

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Drugs that decrease the effect of neurotransmitters in the synapse by blocking the receptors in the post-synaptic cell are called:

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antagonists

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Damage to Wernicke's area is likely to affect which of the following

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ability to comprehend speech

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An inhibitory signal reaches the dendrites of a post-synaptic neuron. What happens?

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The cell becomes more negative, and a nerve impulse is less likely.

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After suffering a brain injury by falling from a ladder, Zack's wife continues to tell the doctor that his personality has changed. He used to be fun loving and care-free, but he is now more critical and yells at his children for seemingly little reason. Zack is likely to have suffered damage to the ________ of his cortex

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Frontal lobe

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As discussed in lectures, drugs work

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by increasing or decreasing the effectiveness of neurotransmitters in the synapse

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Which of the following is a group of several brain structures located under the cortex and involved in emotion, memory, and motivation?

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the limbic system

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As described in lecture, what is tetanus?

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A high-frequency stimulation to increase the ability of cell A to activate cell B

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The subdivision of the peripheral nervous system that consists of nerves that control all of the involuntary muscles, organs, and glands is called the ________ nervous system

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autonomic

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Which of the following is true about neurotransmitters?

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Neurotransmitters bind to receptor sites that are specific to that type of neurotransmitter

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Neurotransmitters are secreted from the _____________.

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terminal field

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Tranquilizers like Xanax work to diminish anxiety symptoms by stimulating the receptor sites for ________, thereby decreasing neuronal activity at those sites.

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GABA

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Mary put her hand on a hot stove. Ouch! A "move your hand" message is carried from her spinal column back to her hand by which neurons?

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motor neurons

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The voltage of -60 millivolts is known as the neuron's

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resting potential

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With its concern on the adaptive functions provided by the various psychological systems, evolutionary psychology is most like what early psychological school of thought?

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functionalism

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The approach to psychology that emphasized the purpose of consciousness was

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functionalism

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As described in lecture, the experimental tradition in psychology has developed from:

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behaviorism to cognitive approaches to biological approaches.

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Despite a lack of evidence, the prosecutor convinces the jury that the defendant murdered his business partner because he had means, motive and opportunity. In this case, the jurors "know" that the defendant is guilty through which of the following ways of knowing?

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rational

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Scientists attempt to minimize confirmation bias through:

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the experimental method

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The experiment is a research method in which the investigator

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manipulates a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observes whether there are changes in a second variable as a result

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Which of the following could never be a correlation?

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-1.02

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The study of rare or unusual phenomena is most easily done through the use of the ________ design.

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case study

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The placebo and nocebo effects are examples of ________ in experimental research.

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confounding variables

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During lecture, Psy 1001 students saw an experiment in which participants were told either that they would experience intense and painful shocks or mild shocks that were not painful. Then, while waiting for the shock treatment, participants answered survey questions on whether they would like to spend time waiting alone or with another person. In this study, the questionnaire that students completed served __________________.

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as the dependent variable

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Your friend tells you that there is a negative correlation between how much caffeine someone drinks and hours of sleep. But you never drink caffeine drinks and you sleep only five or six hours per night, so you conclude:

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No correlation is 100%

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Which of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency?

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correlation

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Generalizability (or external validity) is important because ______________________________________.

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experiments seek general rules of behavior. If a finding is not generalizable, then the value of the finding is limited

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If you are shown the face of an angry man, you immediately know several things--this is a man, the man is angry--and you quickly start looking for the cause of his anger. This effortless thinking illustrates what Daniel Kahneman calls __________________.

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system 1 thinking

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Studies that have investigated the influence of anecdotal information have found that

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people tend to be influenced by anecdotal information, even when they are forewarned that the information is not representative

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When evaluating hypotheses, the criterion of parsimony (or Occam's razor) states that the _____________________.

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the best explanation is the one that accounts for findings without adding unnecessary elements

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Dr. Riviera measures his students' knowledge on the topic of memory by giving them three different quizzes over the course of 3 weeks (1 per week). He is hoping to show that student scores are largely the same from week to week. He is trying to establish the ________ of his quiz.

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reliability

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The lowest level of a stimulus needed for the nervous system to detect it half the time is called

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absolute threshold

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Timothy was painting a picture of a jet on a runway; however, in his painting the sides of the runway are parallel to each other. Timothy's picture will seem to lack depth because he has failed to make use of the monocular depth cue of

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linear perspective

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Dr. Samuels is using his students in a live demonstration of the visual system. He has placed several students in a line and has asked each student to jump up and down ONLY when a specific hand motion is given. He then assigns different hand signals to each student. What aspect of the visual system might Dr. Samuels be demonstrating?

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Feature detection

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We often perceive a series of dots on a printed form as a "solid" line because of the Gestalt principle of

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closure

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The tendency to experience a stable perception of an object even though the sensory input we receive is continually changing is

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perceptual constancy

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When Krista first met Taylor, she had an immediate favorable impression. Her impression was formed instantly, effortlessly, and unconsciously. According to Daniel Kahneman, Krista's first impression of Taylor was the result of ____________________ thinking.

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system 1 thinking

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The fact that humans have three cone receptors, specialized for red, green and blue spectrum light waves, is consistent with which theory of color vision?

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Trichromatic theory

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Even though the cars at the end of the train look miniature, we know they are full-size due to

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perceptual constancy.

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If you were born without cones in your retina, which of the following would be most difficult for you?

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discriminating colors

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You are a radiologist who spends your days searching for malignant growths in x-rays. In your work detecting possible cancerous tumors, you prefer to say yes to further tests when no cancer is actually present, the kind of error known in signal detection theory as a _________.

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false alarm

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The term used for the process by which physical energy is converted to a nerve impulse in a sensory organ is _________________.

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transduction

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Bi-stable figures illustrate the observation that

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the same visual input can result in different perceptions.

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A researcher claimed that he had successfully cultured a type of bacteria that could generate heat from trash. However, no other researchers have been able to culture the same bacteria, even when they follow the same steps. So the claim made by this researcher violates which of the principles of scientific thinking?

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Replicability

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Max remembers the location and function of Wernickes's area because Wernicke starts with a W, a letter near the end of the alphabet, and Wernicke's area is near the back of the brain, behind the ear. This mnemonic (back + ear) helps Max remember that Wernicke's area is associated with _________.

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language comprehension

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Split brain surgery is rarely done on patients nowadays. However, it still remains an effective treatment in the case of severe _________________.

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Epilepsy

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When studying Consciousness scientifically, Dr He spoke about the "hard" problem and the "easy" problem. According to him, first person subjective experience is ___________________________________.

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hard because we don't know how to approach this problem

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Patient DF suffers from a severe form of visual agnosia after carbon monoxide poisoning. She is unable to consciously judge the orientation of a slot when asked to align a card and a slot, but she is still able to perform an action related task ("post the letter") which is consistent with which of the following statements?

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The parietal lobe seems to be able to operate without conscious awareness.

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Jim Steele lost his arm in a roadside bomb explosion while on military service in Iraq. Now, when he shaves, he feels the movement of the razor against his cheek and, at the same time, he feels stroking on his missing arm. At the VA, Jim is diagnosed with Phantom Limb Syndrome, a disorder due to plasticity in his

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parietal lobe

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