5 Written Questions

1. organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
2. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness, impatience, hostility, and constant efforts to do more in less time
3. a tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
4. process of repeatedly verbalizing, thinking about, or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
5. the extent to which scores differ from one another

5 Matching Questions

1. menopause
2. bottom-up processing
3. behaviorism
4. Personality
5. Erik Erikson

1. a perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
2. b information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
3. c the cessation of the ability to reproduce
4. d A pattern of relatively permanent traits, dispositions, or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
5. e neo-Freudian, humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting "Who am I?"

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
   1. Broca's area
   2. range
   3. case study
   4. random sample
2. loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
   1. decay
   2. lens
   3. fovea
   4. Wolpe
3. storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
   1. photoreceptors
   2. long-term memory
   3. Photoreceptors
   4. Robert Yerkes
4. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event, which increase when there are more observers.
   1. aptitude test
   2. Hans Eysenck
   3. Bystander Effect
   4. Halo effect
5. afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
   1. Photoreceptors
   2. preconscious
   3. sensory neurons
   4. interference

5 True/False Question

1. Egocentrism → study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
   

   True        False

2. theory → a collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe, explain, and predict behavior and mental processes
   

   True        False

3. Representative sample → branch of mathematics that deals with collecting, classifying, and analyzing data
   

   True        False

4. thyroid gland → The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
   

   True        False

5. Stimulus Discrimination → The process of analyzing and interpreting events, other people, oneself, and the world in general.
   

   True        False