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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

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