(T/F)Behaviors that are repeated over and over in the same way are called catatonic behaviors.
false
(T/F) Cognitive resonance is a name for an unpleasant tension that people feel when their attitudes and behaviors don't match.
false
(T/F) Bipolar disorder is typically treated with surgery
false
(T/F) Token economies are based on aversive conditioning.
false
(T/F)Humans only develop learned helplessness after multiple failures at a specific task
false
(T/F) In an experiment, the independent variable is manipulated while the dependent variable is measure
true
(T/F) Psychology is a science because it studies people
false
(T/F) Simply repeating information over and over is not a good way to store it permanently.
true
(T/F) ats will self-administer psychoactive drugs such as alcohol and cocaine
true
(T/F) The most serious mental disorders, often characterized by hallucinations and delusions are called neuroses
false
(T/F) Drug therapy has generally proven effective in treating severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia.
true
(T/F) Altruism means being able to mentally imagine what another person is feeling
false
(T/F) Modern Psychology essentially started in Great Britain.
false
(T/F) Animal research was extremely important to the development of psychology as a science
true
(T/F) In classical conditioning, extinction results in the gradual elimination of the CS
false
(T/F) Money is an example of a primary reinforcer
false
(T/F) Humans place more importance on objective actions that subjective emotions
false
(T/F) The theory of personality developed by Sigmund Freud is specifically called "Psychoanalytic" theory
true
(T/F)humans and dinosaurs coexisted
false
(T/F)Only experiments and correlations provide cause and effect information. FALSE
The human brain weighs about 6 pounds.
false
(T/F)Among psychologists, Sigmund Freud is generally considered the founder of the field.
false
(T/F)PTSD occurs when individuals show a reaction to a stressful situation weeks, months or even years after the situation ends.
true
(T/F) Ivan Pavlov studied rats to develop classical conditioning
false
(T/F) Psychologists tend to be skeptical about the concept of demonic possession and think most such experiences are really due to alien abduction
false
(T/F) John Watson is credited with developing operant conditioning through his study with Little Albert.
false
(T/F)The Stanford county prison study indicated that people will do almost anything when ordered to be an authority figure
true
(T/F)OCD is another name for Asperger's Syndrome
false
(T/F) Darwin's theory of natural selection is poorly supported by scientific evidence
false
(T/F)A good scientific theory must be able to be proven false
true
(T/F) The "Monoamine Hypothesis" is applied to schizophrenia
false
(T/F) Type A behavior is associated with greater ambition level
true
(T/F) The brain's left side controls the body's right side.
true
(T/F) You "see in the dark" using your "rods.
true
(T/F) Experimental psychology is a more recent field than clinical psychology.
false
(T/F) An illusion is a false though while a hallucination is a false experience
false
(T/F) A good scientific theory will generate a lot of questions for researchers to answer
true
(T/F)Nature represents biology while nurture represents your education
true
(T/F) Lie detectors are so good at detecting lies that they are admissible as evidence in court.
false
(T/F) Spoken language skills are generally located on the left side of the brain.
true
(T/F)The type of statistic used to test for cause and effect relationships is called the deferential statistic
false.
(T/F)The so called chemical senses are taste, smell and touch
false
(T/F) A between subject design has at least two groups while a within subject design has only one group.
true
(T/F) Psychology is defined as the study of the mind
true
(T/F) Sigmund Freud was not actually a psychologist
true
(T/F) Another name for Multiple Personality Disorder is Psychogenic Fugue
false
(T/F) Classical conditioning involves choice behaviors while operant conditioning involves reflexes
false
(T/F) Flooding treats phobias by exposing the sufferer to gradual increasing levels of the phobic stimulus.
false
(T/F)Phobias are defined as rational fears
false
(T/F)The term cognition means perception
false
(T/F)Chimps are capable of learning spoken language
false
(T/F)As defined in psychology, punishment always works to decrease behaviors
true
(T/F)Cognitive psychology is a pseudoscience
false
(T/F) Most social killers are schizophrenics
false
(T/F) Learning and performance are not the same thing
true
(T/F) Attractive people get treated more harshly in life than less attractive people
false
(T/F) Jean Piaget studied dogs to develop classical conditioning
false
(T/F) Control variables are things you measure in an experiment to see if the independent variable has produced an effect
false
(T/F)Human intelligence is primarily located in the brain's central processor
false
(T/F) Psychologists believe that attitudes are genetically based.
false
(T/F)Negative reinforcement and punishment work the same way
false
(T/F) Experimenters are never allowed to lie to potential participants in psychological experiments
false
(T/F) Homeostasis is a scientific term meaning that someone's gender is undetermined.
false
(T/F) The 3 stages of Hans Selye's GAS theory are alarm, resistance and recovery
false
(T/F) A forensic psychologist is a type of detective who investigates murders, particularly serial killings
false
(T/F) The least amount of energy needed to detect a stimulus is the absolute threshold
true
(T/F) Herman Helmholtz is associated with the cats in puzzle box experiment
false
(T/F) Studying on group of people across a long-time span is called a cross sequential study
false
(T/F)In Piaget's theory, logical reasoning doesn't develop until stage 3, the concrete operational stage
true
(T/F)The sympathetic nervous system burns energy while the parasympathetic restores it
true
(T/F)Animals only kill to eat
false
(T/F) Subjective variables are harder to measure than objective variables
true
(T/F)Humans have 5 specific senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch
false
(T/F) Correlation studies evaluate relationships between 1 variable that changes and one the doesn't
false
(T/F)Say we find that GPAs and scores on standardized tests are negatively correlated. This means that if GPAs gown down then standardized test scores also go down
true
(T/F) How we define normal and abnormal depends primarily on the religion we belong to.
false
(T/F)Physiological activity plays a large role in emotions
true
(T/F) According to Milgram's research, most humans do not trust authority figures and will not follow their orders.
false
(T/F)Two objective variable that humans talk about all the time in casual conversation are hunger and thirst
false
(T/F) The letters DSM stand for Diagnosis, Statistics, and Measurement.
false
(T/F)Experimental research has been able to localize the Freudian unconscious to the frontal lobe of the brain
false
(T/F)A valid test measures what it is supposed to measure
true
(T/F) Conformity means going along with others when you don't want to.
true
(T/F)The simplest form of an experiment has 2 groups
true
(T/F) What happened in Germany under Hitler showed that some ethnicities are just naturally cruel and aggressive
false
(T/F) Humans use only about 10 percent of their brain
false
(T/F) Social psychologists study large scale social forces like the impact of the Civil Rights movement on society.
false
(T/F) Superstitious behavior is often based on faulty learning
true
(T/F) Taste aversions are most likely to develop to foods that you've gotten sick from eating many times.
false
(T/F) A seizure can be strictly a brain occurrence while a convulsion always involves motor activity
true
(T/F) Freud used the term manifest content to refer to the symbolic meaning of dreams.
false
(T/F) Neurons function like batteries, with a separation of electrical charge between the inside and outside
true
(T/F) According to the Medical model mental disorders are cause by a person's history of sexual behavior and/or physical abuse
false
(T/F) Knowing a person's attitudes allows you to confidently predict their behavior
false
(T/F) Another term for the study of aging is genealogy
false
(T/F)Introverts are less social than extraverts
true
(T/F) Humans share about 50 percent of our genetic material with chimps and gorillas
false
(T/F)Humans share about 50 percent of our genetic material with chimps and gorillas
false
(T/F) Neurotransmitters are drugs that affect the brain
false
(T/F)Cocaine is actually manufactured by the brain and is involved in pleasurable sensation
false
(T/F)Introverts are less social than extraverts
true
(T/F) Humans share about 50 percent of our genetic material with chimps and gorillas
false
(T/F)Humans share about 50 percent of our genetic material with chimps and gorillas
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(T/F)Introverts are less social than extraverts
true
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(T/F)Experimental research has been able to localize the Freudian unconscious to the frontal lobe of the brain
false
(T/F)A valid test measures what it is supposed to measure
true
(T/F) Conformity means going along with others when you don't want to.
true
(T/F)The simplest form of an experiment has 2 groups
true
(T/F) What happened in Germany under Hitler showed that some ethnicities are just naturally cruel and aggressive
false
(T/F) Humans use only about 10 percent of their brain
false
(T/F)Experimental research has been able to localize the Freudian unconscious to the frontal lobe of the brain
false
(T/F)A valid test measures what it is supposed to measure
true
(T/F) Conformity means going along with others when you don't want to.
true
(T/F)The simplest form of an experiment has 2 groups
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