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Questions
1. You notice that listening to music seems to help you concentrate better when you are doing your homework. Propose an experiment that you could use to test this observation, by specifying a hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, control group, and experimental group.
1- Independent Variable Music
2- Dependent Variable Test
3- Control group
4- Experimental group effect
2. Sometimes I eat even when I am not hungry, simply because I like the taste of the food that I am eating. This is best explained by
1- optimal arousal theory
2- Drive-reduction theory
3- Incentive theory
4- Cognitive dissonance
3. When Julie starts paying her son Alex to practice the piano, she notices that although he used to practice sometimes for fun, he now only practices the bare minimum time he needs in order to get paid. This is probably because
4. When we are feeling sad, it is often very difficult to remember happy events in our life. This might be because our retrieval is affected by
5. When we learned the parts of a neuron in a class by drawing them, explaining their function, and then singing and acting out a song that named all the parts, we were using the strategy of
1- distributed practice
2- Elaborative rehearsal
3- Encoding specificity
4- Social Construction
6. Opioid antagonists such as Naloxone (Narcan) can be used to treat an opioid overdose.
1- Give a one-sentence description of how Naloxone affects opioid receptors in the brain.
2- If Naloxone were an agonist instead of an antagonist, how would it affect a person who has taken a dose of opioids?
7. Matthew plays the piano while his mom listens. She enjoys his piano playing so much that she tells him that if he keeps playing she will fold his laundry while she listens to him play. Matthew likes not having to fold his laundry, so he plays the piano for his mom more often.
For the behavior of playing the piano:
1- Does the behavior increase or decrease?
2- What is the consequence?
3- Is the consequence added or taken away?
4- What type of operant conditioning is this?
8. Colin just enrolled in a new school. At his old school, very few teenagers smoked cigarettes since the popular opinion was that smoking was dumb. At his new school, several of his friends regularly smoke and say that "It's no big deal." As a result, Colin begins smoking. This exemplifies
9. Jacob sees a woman stumbling and clumsily tripping. She looks like she is either drunk or ill in some way. Jacob wants to help but has groceries in his hand and sees other people who are closer to her car and will probably step up to help. This failure to act is called
10. Which approach to personality emphasizes unconscious motives and drives as the basis for conscious behavior?
11. Which theory most emphasizes the conflict between societal restrictions and the inner desires of individuals?
12. Which theory emphasizes the interaction between the environment, a person's thoughts, and a person's behavior?
13. Sharon turned down Susan's invitation to go on a hike. Susan thought to herself, "Nobody ever likes me", and immediately felt depressed and lonely. Which type of therapy would directly address Susan's irrationally pessimistic thinking?
14. Marlena tells her therapist that she often feels helpless and unable to accomplish her goals. Her therapist responds by acknowledging her feelings, restating what she has told him, and clarifying the feelings behind what Marlena is expressing. What type of therapy is this?
15. This therapy suggests that most of our psychological problems are the result of repressed impulses and trauma experienced in childhood, and one must uncover long-buried feelings. During a therapy session you might see a client lying on a couch speaking of dreams or childhood memories.
1- Rational-Emotive Therapy
2- Psychoanalysis
3- Humanistic Therapy
4- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
16. While talking to his therapist, Joseph paused for several minutes right after he started discussing his parents' divorce. His therapist interpreted this as a sign that Joseph's ego was trying to prevent him from revealing an unconscious conflict. What type of therapy is this?
1- Psychoanalytic
2- Cognitive-Behavioral
3- Humanistic
4- Cognitive