1.

Multiple Choice;
These are branchlike structures that receive incoming signals from other neurons.
Select one:
a. Myelin Sheath
b. Dendrites
c. Axon
d. Cell membrane

2. Directions: Fill in the blanks.

refer to the private thoughts, emotions, feelings and motives that other people cannot
directly observe.

3. Multiple Choice;
It is like a fence that surrounds the entire neuron, giving it shape and keeping the cell’s internal fluid
inside; it is said to be semi-permeable.
Select one:
a. Dendrites
b. Cell membrane
c. Myelin Sheath
d. Axon

4. Multiple Choice;
It contains a nucleus.
Select one:
a. Cell body
b. Neurotransmitter
c. Synapse
d. Myelin Sheath

5. A response is an organism’s reaction to a stimulus.

Select one:
True
False
 6. Environmentalpsychology explores the effects of physical settings in most major areas of
psychology including perception, cognition, learning, and others.
Select one:
True
False

7. It is a testable prediction that derives logically from a theory.

Select one:
a. Empirical Research
b. Scientific Inquiry
c. Hypothesis
d. Data

8. Multiple Choice;
These are located at the ends of the axon where neurotransmitters are stored before being released
into the synapse.
Select one:
a. Cell membrane
b. Glial Cells
c. Myelin Sheath
d. Terminal Buttons

9. Darwin’s theory speculated that certain behaviors or traits that enhance survival are
naturally selected.
Select one:
True
False

10. These are chemical substances that are stored in very tiny sacs within the terminal buttons
and involved in transmitting information across a synaptic gap to the next neuron.
Select one:
a. Dopamine
b. Neurotransmitters
c. Norepinephrine
d. Ions
According to Freud, this refers to the dream’s hidden content; it unconscious and true meaning.
Select one:
a. Latent Content
b. Hypnosis
c. Manifest Content
d. Wish Fulfillment

____________ is a heightened awareness of the present moment, which can be applied to events in
one’s environment and events in one’s own mind.
Select one:
a. Wakefulness
b. Attention
c. Optimism
d. Mindfulness

A sleep disorder in which a person falls asleep during alert times of the day.
Select one:
a. Somnambulism
b. Insomnia
c. Narcolepsy
d. Sleep Apnea

_____________ includes automatic processing that requires little attention?

Select one:
a. Higher-Level Consciousness
b. Lower-Level Consciousness
c. Altered States of Consciousness
d. Subconscious Awareness

Identify what is defined through its function.

This regulates some of our basic emotional reaction.

Answer:
Identify what is defined through its function.
This is necessary for balance, muscle tone and performance of motor skills.

Answer:

_____________ occurs when someone is either physically or psychologically reliant on a drug’s

effect.
Select one:
a. Substance abuse
b. Hypnosis
c. Tolerance
d. Substance dependence

The circadian rhythm of sleep is a natural rhythm of sleep and waking programmed by a group of
brain cells in the hypothalamus called_________________.
Select one:
a. Glial Cells
b. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
c. Thalamus
d. Sensory Neurons

Identify what is defined through its function.

This is responsible for the transfer of information from short to long term memory.

Answer:

Identify what is defined through its function.

This refers to respiration, consciousness, sleep, dreaming, facial movements, sensory processes
and transmission of neural signal from one part of the brain to another.

Answer:

Which of the following statements is true?

Select one:
a. Survey determines the relationship between two or more variables.
b. Results of case study is applicable to everyone.
c. Quasi experimental research is not a true experiment because participants are not randomly
assigned to different conditions.
Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with psychological
problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of delivering such services as
outreach programs.
Select one:
True
False

It refers to any stimulus that decreases the frequency of behavior.

Answer:

A sleep disorder in which a person stops breathing while asleep.

Select one:
a. Somnambulism
b. Narcolepsy
c. Sleep Apnea
d. Insomnia

This occurs when material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned later. taught
earlier.
Select one:
a. Proactive Interference
b. Retroactive Interference
c. Decay
d. Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon

Identify what is defined through its function.

This is necessary for balance, muscle tone and performance of motor skills.

Answer:

Gestalt is any object or event that is perceived by our senses.

Select one:
True
False
The sound wave is amplified by the hammer, anvil, and stirrup in the _____________.
Select one:
a. Pinna
b. Middle ear
c. inner ear
d. Outer ear

Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death,
concentrating on biological and environmental factors.
Select one:
True
False

Cones are concentrated in the ___________.

Select one:
a. Periphery of the eye
b. Blind spot
c. iris
d. Fovea

Multiple Choice;
These provide support, nutritional benefits, and other functions in the nervous system.
Select one:
a. Synaptic Gap
b. Action Potential
c. Nerve cell
d. Glial cells

An American psychologist who formulated the “law of effect”.

Answer:

Identify what is defined through its function.

This refers to respiration, consciousness, sleep, dreaming, facial movements, sensory processes
and transmission of neural signal from one part of the brain to another.

Answer:
Identify what is defined through its function.
This coordinates information between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Answer:

Any changeable phenomenon that a scientist studies is called ______________.

Select one:
a. Variable
b. Diffirential
c. Variation
d. Predictor

In an experiment on attitudes, participants are given either positive or negative information about a
speaker and then asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the speaker. In this experiment, which is the
independent variable?
Select one:
a. The type of information the participant is given
b. The speaker
c. Attitude change
d. The effectiveness of the speaker

Clinical psychology applies findings in all areas of psychology in the workplace.

Select one:
True
False

According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the
dream’s true meaning.
Select one:
a. Wish Fulfillment
b. Hypnosis
c. Latent Content
d. Manifest Content
Darwin’s theory speculated that certain behaviors or traits that enhance survival are naturally
selected.
Select one:
True
False

The circadian rhythm of sleep is a natural rhythm of sleep and waking programmed by a group of
brain cells in the hypothalamus called_________________.
Select one:
a. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
b. Thalamus
c. Sensory Neurons
d. Glial Cells

This is a special form of episodic memory, consisting of a person’s recollections of his or her life
experiences.
Select one:
a. Semantic Memory
b. Explicit Memory
c. Autobiographical Memory
d. Flashbulb Memory

Multiple Choice;
It is a long tail-like structure growing out of the other end of the cell which carries signals away from
the cell body.
Select one:
a. Dendrites
b. Cell membrane
c. Myelin Sheath
d. Axon

Identify what is defined through its function.

It maintains homeostasis in the body or a state of internal equilibrium across a variety of bodily
systems.

Answer:
Forensic psychology applies psychology to the legal system. Forensic psychologists might help
with jury selection or provide expert testimonies in trials.

Select one:
True
False

Identify what is defined through its function.

It serves as a relay station for information coming from our senses to the brain.

Answer:

A response is an organism’s reaction to a stimulus.

Select one:
True
False

A preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people to organize and interpret information.
Select one:
a. Memory
b. Storage
c. Interference
d. Schema

Multiple Choice;
This is resting state of the neuron, when more negative ions are inside and more positive ions are
outside the cell membrane.
Select one:
a. Polarized State
b. Depolarization
c. Action Potential
d. Myelin Sheath

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

refer to the private thoughts, emotions, feelings and motives that other people cannot
directly observe.
Directions: Fill in the blanks.

Answer refers to all of a person’s overt actions that others directly observe.

Identify what is defined through its function.

This regulates heartbeat and respiration and plays a role in sneezing, coughing, vomiting,
swallowing and digestion.

Answer:

These are the needs for order, predictability, physical security, & freedom from fear.
Select one:
a. Esteem Needs
b. Self-actualization needs
c. Belongingness & Love Needs
d. Safety Needs
e. Basic Physiological Needs

A classic research by Yerkes and Dodson which states that we function in accordance to a certain
level.
Select one:
a. Optimal Arousal Model
b. Arousal Theory
c. Optimum Level Theories
d. Drive-reduction theory
e. Cognitive-consistency theories

This involves anything that energizes or directs behavior.

Select one:
a. Instincts
b. Motives
c. Drives
d. Needs
e. Energy
Deductive reasoning starts at _________and goes to _____________.
Select one:
a. Fixation; function
b. The general; the specific
c. The specific; the general
d. Function; fixation

These are the perceived states of tension that occur when our bodies are deficient in some need
and creating an urge to relieve the tension.
Select one:
a. Incentives
b. Drives
c. Emotions
d. Needs

This theory taks about how an emotional reaction is a result of physiological reactions to stimuli
Select one:
a. Optimum Level Theories
b. Incentive Theory
c. Drive-reduction theory
d. James-Lange Theory
e. Cognitive-consistency theories

Theory that views motivated behavior as directed toward the reduction of a physiological need.
Select one:
a. Cognitive-consistency theories
b. Optimum Level Theories
c. Incentive Theory
d. Drive-reduction theory
e. James-Lange Theory
Shirley, a sales representative, uses MapQuest to get driving directions to her client’s office. She is
using a(n)_______________to reach her destinations.
Select one:
a. Prototype
b. Category
c. Heuristic
d. Algorithm

This is the urge to move towards one's goals.

Select one:
a. behaviour
b. motivation
c. drive
d. Optimum Level Theories
e. Motive

The needs for attention and recognition from others, & feelings of achievement, competence, &
mastery.
Select one:
a. Safety Needs
b. Self-actualization needs
c. Basic Physiological Needs
d. Esteem Needs
e. Belongingness & Love Needs