5 Written Questions

1. an inert substance given to the control group in an experiment
2. inability to fall asleep or remain asleep long enough for sufficient rest
3. this kind of sample accurately reproduces the characteristics of the population a researcher is studying
4. these include fixed interval and variable ratio
5. early stage of human development, when cells have begun to differentiate

5 Matching Questions

1. diffusion of responsibility
2. lesion
3. self-concept
4. motor neuron
5. role-play

1. a any destruction or damage to brain tissue
2. b reduction in sense of responsibility often felt by individuals in a group; may be responsible for the bystander effect
3. c this carries information from the brain to the muscles; also called
4. d one's idea and evaluation of oneself; this contributes to one's sense of identity
5. e technique in therapy and training in which participants act out new behaviors or skills

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the variable that the experimenter measures at the end of the experiment
   1. dependent variable
   2. belief perseverance
   3. applied research
   4. authoritarian
2. a type of creative thinking in which one generates new solutions to problems
   1. dependent variable
   2. divergent thinking
   3. representative
   4. social learning
3. in classical conditioning, the response elicited by the conditioned stimulus
   1. endocrine system
   2. night terrors
   3. formal operations
   4. conditioned response
4. a prediction of how the an experiment will turn out
   1. hypothesis
   2. catharsis
   3. cones
   4. homeostasis
5. we have two, right and left, and some brain functions seem to centered in one or the other
   1. hemispheres
   2. reinforcer
   3. sympathetic
   4. heuristic

5 True/False Questions

1. fundamental attribution error → tendency to attribute others' behavior to their dispositions and our own behaviors to our situations

   True        False

2. structuralism → school of psychology developed by Wilhelm Wundt

   True        False

3. Central Nervous System → consists of the brain and the spinal cord

   True        False

4. phobia → part of the brain, works with the cerebellum in coordinating voluntary movement; neural stimulation studied in activation synthesis theory may originate here

   True        False

5. all-or-nothing → description of the action of neurons when firing

   True        False