-What is the branch of psychology called where researchers study how groups work together and people interact with each other?

-What is the branch of psychology called where researchers study how groups work together and people interact with each other?

Social Psychology

Cross-cultural Psychology

Humanistic Psychology

Individual Psychology

-What does SR stand for in behavioral psychology?

Stimulus Response

Selective Response

Stimulation Reaction

Secondary Reaction

-What did the Little Albert Experiment tell us about the relation between stimuli and responses?

Conditioned responses can be eliminated

Conditioned responses cannot be eliminated

Responses to stimuli can be conditioned

Responses to stimuli cannot be conditioned

-Why does cognitive psychology consider the computer to be good analogy of the human brain?

It records information as binary code

Its operations cannot be seen

It stores vast quantities of information

It processes input and generates output

-What practice makes psychology a science rather than just a collection of ideas and arguments?

Experimentation

Publishing journal articles

Formal debates

Public funding

-Which part of the scientific process is observational research best suited for?

Refuting theories

Generating questions

Establishing theories

Generating answers

-If the amount of time a student spent studying was positively correlated with grades achieved, what would we expect to see if someone had low grades?

A strong negative correlation

There is not enough information to determine correlation

The student spent a lot of time studying

The student did not spend a lot of time studying

-A positive correlation between two variables means that as _______.

"one variable increases, the other variable increases"

"one variable decreases, the other variable increases"

"one variable decreases, the other variable stays the same"

"one variable increases, the other variable decreases"

-A scatter plot that shows a trend line that travels down to the right would demonstrate what type of correlation?

negative correlation

positive correlation

no correlation

weak correlation

-A t-test is a ratio of ___________ to ___________.

highest scores; lowest scores

expected values; observed values

success; failure

between-group differences; within-group differences

-A t-test is an example of __________ statistics.

scientific

descriptive

conclusive

inferential

-The upper curves of the brain are called ______________, while the deep grooves are called ________________.

white matter, fissures

gyri, grey matter

fissures, gyri

gyri, fissures

-What is the order of neuron structures from receiving information, processing information and sending information?

axon terminal, cell body, dendrites

terminal buttons, dendrites, cell body

dendrites, cell body, axon

synaptic cleft, cell body, dendrites

-Why does the surface of the brain contain folds?

To match the grooves on the inside of the skull

They allow for more brain tissue to fit in the skull

They look stylish

Pressure from cerebral fluids

-Constricting pupils, stimulated digestive and salivation activity and constricting lungs are due to the activation of the _________________ system.

central nervous

sympathetic

parasympathetic

somatic

-The peripheral nervous system links the brain to the _________.

skeletal system

spinal cord

central nervous system

body

-Why is the brainstem considered to be a reptilian system?

It is attached to the brain stem

It is a primitive brain structure

It is present in all reptiles

It is shaped like a snake

-Damage to which structure of the brain would result in deficits in motor learning and the production of uncoordinated movements?

Pons

Amygdala

Medulla

Cerebellum

-What impairment would you expect to see in an individual with damage to their primary visual cortex?

Problems with depth perception

Inattentional blindness

Color blindness

Black spots in their field of vision