Psychology Study Techniques Quiz

Tuesday Quiz 1

• Spaced practice is superior to cramming because it allows more time for consolidation.
• Deception in a study requires participants to be informed of the reasoning behind the deception at some point.
• Self-reports are susceptible to demand characteristics because the questions may reveal the variables being measured.
• Controlling demand characteristics in a study on relationship status and life satisfaction could include a measure of religious beliefs.
• A study examining family relationships and confidence poses a risk of demand characteristics if participants answer questions about relationship with their father and confidence in separate tasks.
• Studying intensely right before a test (Katie) is less effective than spaced studying over weeks (Hallie) when tested a year later.
• Caffeine consumption can affect mental performance in studies, as demonstrated by Tate's study.

Tuesday Quiz 2

• Students who spend more hours studying are more likely to earn an A in their final exams (correlation example).
• Caffeine consumption is an example of a conceptual independent variable.
• Opportunity sampling involves recruiting any available participants.
• Bias is a common issue in self-report data collection.
• Varying versions of a stimulus is a manipulation.
• When testing the impact of background noise on concentration, the number of mistakes participants made on a task defines concentration.
• Students who use the same perfume daily (encoding specificity) would have an advantage on a quiz.

Tuesday Quiz 3

• Myelin Sheath maintains the strength of Action Potential, as it travels down the axon.
• The Hypothalamus regulates body rhythms (sleep, temperature, blood sugar)
• Bone, cartilage, and muscle tissue growth are influenced by hormones.
• Heart Rate is one function controlled by the medulla.
• The hindbrain is associated with survival and movement.
• An increase in neuron firing frequency, as observed by researchers, indicates an increase in sound loudness.
• An EPSP increases the potential of a neuron to 25mV above resting potential; the neuron returns to its resting potential.
• Researchers choose unusual brains for post-mortem discussions for studying trauma or mental illness.

Tuesday Quiz 4

• The brain is designed to be efficient and prunes unused connections, which may cause neurodegeneration later in life.
• Cross-sectional studies have the disadvantage of a changing population over time.
• Neuroplasticity decreases with natural aging.

Tuesday Quiz 5

• The primary function of the Temporal Lobe is Facial Recognition.
• The peripheral nervous system (PNS) has nerve cells outside the brain and spinal cord while the central nervous system (CNS) has nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
• Identifying exact activation time is related to temporal resolution.
• Only ERP can identify the exact activation time for several repeating stimuli.
• Dopamine is the neurotransmitter for feeling satisfied after eating.
• Monozygotic twins have the same genetic makeup.

Tuesday Quiz 6

• Memory is better for items at the beginning of a list (primacy effect).
• A schema is a way to organize concepts surrounding a topic.
• Three components of memory are encoding, storing, and retrieving.
• The amygdala plays a large role in recalling fearful events.
• Memory is better for items at the end of a list (recency effect).
• Asking participants about their birth date has a large impact on recency effect.
• Learning related to a skill or a method is better when the state of being in the process of learning is similar to the state of being in the process of executing that skill or method.
• When recall or memory is required to happen, the technique of chunking helps to organize related information in order to improve the memory process.
• Semantic memory helps to remember childhood addresses as an example.

Tuesday Quiz 7

• The foot-in-the-door technique involves asking a person for a small request prior to making a larger request.
• Social loafing is a situation in which individuals perform in a group less efficiently than they do when working individually.
• Diffusion of responsibility is when people in a group assume someone else will take care of a situation leading to the lack of responsibility to deal with problematic situations.
• Situational attribution is ascribing the cause of behavior to factors in the environment rather than to personality traits.
• Groupthink occurs when the desire for harmony within a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
• One factor that would lead you to attribute external or situational cause would be noticing one type of behavior in one context.
• People who are secretly involved in studies are called confederates.
• Ingroup/outgroup bias means someone shows favoritism towards members of their social group over those that aren’t in the group.

Tuesday Quiz 8

• Altruism is assisting someone without any attached reward.
• Nonverbal cues are a more significant factor in forming impressions than verbal communication.
• The development of positive perceptions may occur from a situation that has past negative experiences between individuals.
• Peripheral route involves making decisions to buy products through advertisements.
• An external factor may be the cause of behaviors if that behavior appears only in limited situations.
• Other people responding differently in the same situation, makes the behavior have a higher dispositional significance.

Tuesday Quiz 9

• The highest delivery rate is expected right before payday.
• A natural response is triggered by the US (unconditioned stimulus).
• Spontaneous recovery is when a conditioned response reoccurs after a pause.
• Associative learning occurs when a skill or method is learned and performed in a similar mental state.
• Escape behavior and reward behavior are examples when an individual can successfully execute a skill or method.
• Sensitization occurs when a stronger response occurs due to a stimulus repeated multiple times.
• Learning theory and learned behavior are illustrated by Bandura Bobo Doll Studies through aggression.

Tuesday Quiz 10

• The best way to quit smoking is quickly and abruptly.
• Coping strategies provide ways to manage and reduce stress which enhances well-being.
• Chlamydia is a type of STI that can be easily treated.
• Eustress improves motivation and focus; conversely, distress impairs these aspects.
• The fight-or-flight response involves the release of stress hormones which increases alertness.
• Mirror Neurons are involved when someone is experiencing a feeling in their body due to another person, like a knee injury.

Tuesday Quiz 11

• Both Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and drive reduction theory relate to motivation by highlighting an imbalance or deficit within the needs and how these are fulfilled.
• The two-factor theory of emotion emphasizes both the physiological arousal and the cognitive interpretation of that arousal.
• Homeostasis is the process whereby the body regulates and maintains certain bodily functions within an acceptable range.
• Sustaining is a factor in motivation that keeps individuals working toward a goal.
• The facial feedback hypothesis is about how expressing a facial expression makes an individual feel the matching emotion.

Tuesday Quiz 12

• Dysfunction in the four Ds is a way to explain when a disorder demonstrates a major problem and a significant impact on daily life.
• Checking door locks is an example of dysfunctional behavior.
• OCD describes the habit of obsessively cleaning spaces because of a fear of contamination.
• The symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder are equally distributed between genders.
• Alogia is a symptom of schizophrenia that shows restricted speech.
• A deviance behavior is outside social norms while a distress behavior is causing personal discomfort.
• The DSM-5 is based on categorization which could result in misdiagnosis for comorbidity.
• A person experiencing fluctuating moods with periods of low motivation and energy may show signs of major depressive disorder.

Tuesday Quiz 13

• Intimate partner violence may lead to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• Diathesis-stress model describes disorders that arise from vulnerability coupled with external stressors.
• Incorrect diagnosis, from a disorder perspective, would be the most criticized perspective in DSM.
• An adjustment disorder may form in the wake of a loss such as pet death.
• Bipolar II has noticeably less severe manic episodes.
• Alicia may be experiencing social anxiety disorder where she fears how others may perceive her actions or words.