A researcher wants to know to what extent economic status can be used to best predict political preferences. What research method would s/he most likely employ?

In a classic experiment, John B. Watson and Rosalie Raynor conditioned a fear response in “Little Albert”. They did so by presenting a white rat and other stimuli while simultaneously making a loud striking noise behind his back. As a result, Little Albert became afraid of not only white rats, but all things furry. Why does this study violate ethical standards of contemporary psychology?

In order to study the potential effects of social interaction on problem solving, some research participants were instructed to solve problems working together. Other participants were instructed to solve problems working alone. Those who worked alone were exposed to the ________ condition.

A child is stung by a bee and now fears all flying insects. This best illustrates:

Three of the criteria that psychiatrists and psychologists use to label abnormal behavior are:

Stanley Milgram conducted a classic experiment on obedience to authority in the 1960’s. When soliciting participants, he advertised it as a study of learning. Subsequently, participants served in the role of the “teacher” who sat behind a controller and administered “electric shock” to the “learner” for incorrect responses. Throughout the study, participants believed that they had either badly injured, or in some cases, created a fatality. What about this study is considered ethically problematic in contemporary psychology?

The cognitive development of children proceeds through several stages. Which theorist is most associated with them?

Which of the following is known for his work in classical conditioning?

Which of the following do psychologists believe is NOT true when studying the role of culture in psychology?

__________ developed the model known as the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS), which describes how our bodies react to stress.

Suppose there is a strong correlation between being abused as a child and becoming an adult spousal abuser. The main reason why we cannot say that being abused causes someone to become an abuser is that

The ________ perspective examines causes of mental processes and behavior in the functioning of genes, hormones, the brain, the nervous system, and the endocrine system.

When carrying out an experiment, the factor that the researcher changes or manipulates is known as the ________ variable; the researcher measures or observes the ________ variable.

Dr. Holmes reported inferential statistics in the results section of her study to show the probability of future outcomes. In this study inferential statistics help psychologists obtain the goal of

Behjat is writing a science article for her psychology class. Writing a brief

A peer-reviewed (sometimes called refereed) journal article

Schizophrenia is most likely to be characterized by:

A therapist who takes an eclectic approach is one who:

According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, this is the part of our personality that is the principal decision maker, solves problems, and manipulates situations.

The capacity of our long-term memory is _____

Psychologists have long determined that intelligence tests contain cultural items that depend on language in assessments. To support various cultural backgrounds and minimize bias they created which types of tests?

Social and cultural factors influence cognitive development according to which theorist?

The humanistic approach toward psychology emphasizes

If a culture is community-oriented and emphasizes group harmony and obedience to authority, it is most likely a(n) ________ culture.

_________ can affect those who personally experience a catastrophe or traumatic event, those who witness the tragedy, and/or those who are involved with the tragic events afterwards, such as first responders, emergency workers or law enforcement personnel.

In Pavlov’s experiments on the salivary conditioning of dogs, the conditioned response was:

In order to understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist has conducted a detailed examination of an individual, by carefully investigating the client's current life situation as well as the client’s physical, social-cultural, and educational history. Which research method has the psychologist employed?

Which citation below is typed in the correct APA reference style?

Sandra presses the CTRL and S keys on her keyboard to save a file. A file is then created on her computer’s hard drive for later retrieval. Sandra’s action is most analogous to the memory activity of:

Delores is afraid of heights and is seeing a therapist to overcome this fear since she would like to go skiing and is afraid of riding up a chairlift to the top of the ski slope. Her therapist started by teaching Delores relaxation methods that involve learning slow breathing and how to relax her muscle groups. Then the therapist had Delores construct a hierarchy of fears regarding heights from the least scary (looking over a one story high balcony) to the most scary (riding up in a high ski chairlift). In their sessions together, Delores’s therapist plans to gradually expose Delores to each of the fears on her hierarchy while having her use her relaxation techniques to combat it, so that eventually Delores will be able to ride the chairlift without fear. Delores’s therapist is most likely a ________________ therapist.

Hakeem has taken 15 credits this semester and also works 30 hours a week. Now that finals are here, he has developed a bad cold. One could say his cold is a result of

Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Study on social roles has been used by some to explain

Which of the following would be an example of prejudice

While doing research for a paper on "teenage rebellion," you discover that there are some places in the world where young adults experience very little turmoil and other places where teenagers seem prone to violent outbursts. Psychological studies of such differences are most likely to be done by psychologists who favor the ________ perspective.

In explaining juvenile delinquency, a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic therapist would most likely have emphasized:

Psychologists in Russia have worked for 40 years breeding foxes together who exhibited behaviors closest to dogs. After 40 years, the Russian psychologists have a group of foxes who no longer smell like foxes, who wag their tails like dogs, and who are rather tame. This research reflects the __________ perspective.

Aaron was trying to take a screw out of his dorm room door yesterday so he could repair the door knob, but he didn’t have a screwdriver. In his pocket was a pair of scissors that could have gotten the job done; however, Aaron did not think about the scissors as a substitute for a screwdriver. Aaron probably had difficulty solving this particular problem due to _______ .

The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons (i.e., communicate from neuron to neuron) are called:

The nature-nurture issue is concerned with

During periods of REM sleep people

To prevent ethical abuse in psychological research, the APA has suggested that

Three major ethical concerns of psychological researchers are deception, lasting harm to subjects, and

A subset of a population is chosen for inclusion in an experiment by using a procedure that ensures that all members of said population have an equal chance of being selected to participate in the experimental study. This procedure involves the use of ______ .

In an experiment to test the effectiveness of a new drug to treat phobias, the experimental group, who gets the new medical drug and weekly counseling, should be compared to a control group who

Alexia recently had a lot of painful dental work done. Now when she is at the dentist and hears the sound of the dentist’s drill, she tenses up and her heart beats faster. Which of the following explains what Alexia is experiencing?

Sandra starts her homework immediately after school because her mom allows her an hour of fun computer time every night that her homework is completed before dinner. In this instance, the fun computer time is ______ .

On the first day of class Professor Walton tells her psychology students that chapter quizzes will be given every Friday throughout the semester. Clearly, studying for Professor Walton’s weekly quizzes will be reinforced on a _______ schedule.

Reynaldo likes to use the gymnasium facilities to shower after working out. During a shower, he hears a toilet flushing nearby. Suddenly boiling hot water comes out of the showerhead, causing Reynaldo serious discomfort. Later on in the shower, he hears another toilet flush, and he immediately flinches and jerks away from the showerhead. In this scenario, what is the conditioned response (CR)?