psychology Mcqs
501. Sensory-motor responses that are rapid and autonomic are called ____________?
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A. reuptake

B. instincts

C. reflexes

D. effective

502. The portions of your nervous system which control breathing and digestion is ______________?
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A. axon

B. autonomic

C. linear circuit

D. none of these

503. The type of study construction in which different subjects at different developmental levels are compared is a _____________?
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A. group construction

B. field study

C. cross-sectional study

D. longitudinal study

504. As a person caloric intake increases, his weight gain also increases. This is an example of ____________?
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A. case history

B. negative correlation

C. positive correlation

D. correlation

505. Which branch of psychology is defined as an effort to understand the specific biological mechanisms that control behavior and psychological experience?
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A. neuropsychology

B. physiological psychology

C. structuralism

D. None of these

E. ethnology

506. The cells that response to changes in their environment and signal these changes into nervous system are called ___________?
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A. receptor

B. myelin

C. effectors

D. striated

507. The approach that suggest behavior is influenced by unconscious is ___________?
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A. psychoanalysis

B. humanism

C. interactive dualism

D. phenomenology

508. Follicle-stimulating hormone is secreted by the ____________?
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A. ovaries

B. pituitary gland

C. hypothalamus

D. testes

509. In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?
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A. left cerebral hemisphere

B. regular formation

C. corpus collosum

D. right cerebral hemisphere

510. Neurons generally cannot fire at rates exceeding 100 impulses per second. This maximum firing rate can be largely attributed to ____________?
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A. excitatory postsynaptic potentials

B. relative refractory periods

C. absolute refractory periods

D. spatial summation

511. Eriksons trust vs mistrust stage occurs during _______________?
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A. early childhood

B. middle childhood

C. early adulthood

D. infancy
512. Innate behavior patterns develop primarily as a function of _______________?
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A. instrumental conditioning

B. infant stimulation

C. maturation

D. learning

513. Stimulation of the cheek will cause a newborn to begin making sucking responses. This illustrates the __________ reflex?
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A. Korsakoff

B. startle

C. rooting

D. Perkinjie

514. In developmental terminology, PKU refers to _________________?
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A. Downs syndrome

B. sickle cell

C. a hereditary enzyme deficiency

D. the effect of thalidomide

515. The lobes of the brain located in the back of the head are ____________?
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A. parietal lobes

B. occipital lobes

C. temporal lobes

D. frontal lobes

516. The ____________ act as a relay station for information coming from the mid and hindbrains and going to the cortex?
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A. cerebellum

B. thalamus

C. partial lobe

D. pons

517. The gate control theory of pain perception presumes that pain signals are blocked by ____________?
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A. efferent neurons

B. non-myelinated neurons

C. myelinated neurons

D. afferent neurons

518. The philosopher who believed that some ideas are innate ____________?
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A. Aristotle

B. Plato

C. Descartes

D. Locke

519. If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?
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A. unreliable

B. invalid

C. biased

D. error

520. The stages of cognitive development associated with Piaget are ____________ in number?
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A. four

B. two

C. seven

D. six

521. The childrens game of peak-a-boo centers around which of the following developmental concepts?
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A. conservation

B. formal operational

C. object permanence

D. schema

522. Who most stressed the importance of maturation in development?
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A. Jean Piaget

B. John Locke

C. Arnold Gesell

D. Lev Vygotsky

523. According to Piaget, the major accomplishment of sensorimotor stage is ________________?
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A. contraction

B. egocentrism

C. abstract thinking

D. object permanence
524. Specialized cells of nervous system carry ____________?
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A. messages

B. reflexes

C. both a and b

D. none of these

525. Occipital lobe is located in ___________?
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A. none of these

B. parietal lobe

C. temporal lobe

D. frontal lobe

526. Which of the following plays an important role in the regulation of respiration?
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A. pons

B. hypothalamus

C. thalamus

D. midbrain

527. The school of thought which restricted psychologys subject matter to the observable actions of people and other animals is ___________?
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A. None of these

B. ethnology

C. behaviorism

D. Structuralism

E. physiological psychology

528. ___________were major figures in behaviorism ?
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A. B.F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky

B. Watson C. Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget

C. Jean Piaget and John

D. John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner
529. A term completely describing muscles and glands is ____________?
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A. receptors

B. affectors

C. effectors

D. innervates

530. Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to your heart muscles by the ____________?
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A. autonomic nervous system

B. limbic system

C. central nervous system

D. skeletal nervous system

531. A physical stimulus is converted into a neural impulse by a process ____________?
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A. transposition

B. transition

C. transference

D. transduction
532. The term germ cell when used in genetics refers to _________________?
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A. somatic cells

B. ova and sperm cells

C. both a and b

D. none of these

533. Information is carried from the central nervous system to the tissue by _______________?
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A. motor neurons

B. interneurons

C. afferent neurons

D. sensory neurons

534. As one moves from external stimulus to moto response, which of the following constitutes an accurate sequential pattern?
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A. afferent nerve, efferent nerve, neural modulator

B. efferent nerve, afferent nerve, neural modulator

C. afferent nerve, interneuron, efferent nerve

D. efferent nerve, interneuron, afferent nerve

535. This is not the characteristic attributed to consciousness by William James ___________?
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A. selective

B. continuous

C. personal

D. stability
536. According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the _____________ stage?
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A. concrete operational

B. formal operational

C. preoperational

D. sensorimotor

537. In human females, the primary sex hormones are _____________?
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A. progesterone and estrogen

B. testosterone and estrogen

C. testosterone and androgen

D. progesterone and testosterone

538. In Piagets theory of cognitive development, internalizing of action schemes is the major task of the______________ stage?
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A. sensorimotor

B. preoperational

C. concrete-operational

D. formal operational

539. Who would comment that environment is of central importance?
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A. Watson

B. Dewey

C. Darwin

D. Wundt

540. The longest part of neuron is ____________?
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A. axon

B. synapses

C. cell body

D. dendrite

541. The brain structure that plays a critical role in motivated behaviors such as eating and sexual activity is the ___________?
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A. hypothalamus

B. cerebral cortex

C. corpus collosum

D. amygdala

542. Psychologists who specialize in the study of language are called ______________?
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A. psycho-metricians

B. psycho-grammarists

C. morphemologists

D. psycholinguists
543. Humanistic approach to psychology was founded by ___________?
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A. Rogers and Maslow

B. Freud and Jung

C. Watson and Skinner

D. Wundt and James

544. Which of the following is commonly referred to as the father of developmental psychology?
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A. Sigmund Freud

B. William James

C. Erik Erikson

D. G. Stanley Hall
545. The process by which a single neuro relays messages to other neurons is known as _____________?
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A. polarization

B. depolarization

C. synaptic transmission

D. axonal transmission

546. Preparing the body for fight or fight is the function of the _____________?
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A. adrenal medulla

B. parasympathetic nervous system

C. pituitary gland

D. parathyroid gland

547. Which of the following brain areas is important for speech?
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A. hippocampus

B. cerebellum

C. thalamus

D. Wernickes area
548. The term cognition means ___________?
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A. free will

B. knowledge

C. objectivity

D. observation

549. According to Eriksons developmental theory, the maturity stage deals with which of the following crises?
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A. integrity vs. despair

B. intimacy vs. isolation

C. initiative vs. guilt

D. autonomy vs. doubt

550. Comparatively speaking, ___________ has the most prominent cerebral cortex?
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A. alligator

B. rabbit

C. pigeon

D. dog