5 Written Questions

1. nervous system cells that receive information from the environment
2. the point at which one's body tries maintain weight
3. occur most often during REM sleep; may be caused by activation-synthesis, or may be a way of cementing memories
4. theory of emotion that says that a stimulus causes simultaneously psyiological arousal and the subjective experience of an emotion
5. name for Freud's stage which features the Oedipus stage

5 Matching Questions

1. independent
2. perception
3. double blind
4. cognitive
5. alpha waves

1. a seen when an individual is in a relaxed, unfocused, yet still awake state
2. b this term describes an experiment in which neither the subjects nor the experimenter knows whether a subject is a member of the experimental group or the control group
3. c type of variable manipulated by the experimenter
4. d the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information
5. e perspective on psychology that stresses the importance of mental activities associated with thinking, remembering, etc

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. defense mechanism in which unacceptable impulses are transformed into their opposite
   1. reaction formation
   2. action potential
   3. assimilation
   4. accommodation
2. the transparent outer covering of the eye
   1. cornea
   2. schema
   3. norm
   4. rods
3. this cognitive shortcut features the idea that events which are vividly in memory seem to be more common
   1. availability heuristic
   2. activation synthesis
   3. attribution theory
   4. social learning
4. describes Piaget's stage in which the child explores the world through interaction of his mouth and hands with the environment
   1. sensory neurons
   2. reliability
   3. plasticity
   4. sensorimotor
5. a subdiscipline of computer science that attempts to simulate human thinking
   1. artificial intelligence
   2. social learning
   3. retroactive interference
   4. associative learning

5 True/False Question

1. gene → initials of a method of representation of brain waves
   

   True        False

2. panic disorder → characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks
   

   True        False

3. fovea → the most commonly occurring term in a batch of data
   

   True        False

4. peripheral nervous system → the subsystem of the nervous system that does not include the CNS
   

   True        False

5. dependent variable → extraneous factor that interferes with the action of the independent variable on the dependent variable
   

   True        False