PSYC 565 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY MOD_Quiz_PRACTICE MATERIAL 2023.pdf

PSYC 565

Question 13.75 pts

Which statement is TRUE regarding people with frontal-lobe damage who

exhibit deficits in the ability to imitate?

Group of answer choices

They often lack the motor control necessary to imitate actions.

They are less likely to have echolalia.

They have a tendency to imitate actions involuntarily.

They are completely unable to imitate actions.

observe someone else being rewarded for doing homework and be rewarded

himself for imitating that behavior.

be rewarded for doing his homework without having observed anyone else

doing homework.

observe someone else being rewarded for doing homework, be rewarded

himself for imitating that behavior, and be able to take the perspective of the

person he observed doing homework.

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Question 33.75 pts

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Question 43.75 pts

In the basic process to explain how people copy what they see, which step

takes into consideration the actions of others as salient cues that act as a

magnet for attention?

Group of answer choices

presence of a model

accessible format

ability to reproduce the action

motivation for reproducing

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observational conditioning.

stimulus enhancement.

social transmission of information.

emotional contagion.

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Question 63.75 pts

The ability to be good at singing karaoke seems to depend on the "secret

ingredient" of having:

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Question 73.75 pts

Research suggests that viewing violent images:

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can increase the likelihood that a child will behave aggressively immediately

after seeing them.

can lead to positive outcomes when people imitate nonviolent "heroes" in

otherwise violent TV shows.

is much more likely to lead to aggression than is reading about violence or

seeing violence in a play.

Which statement is TRUE regarding the brains of individuals with autism?

They show more overall activity-related circulation of blood within the

temporal lobes.

Cortical activation patterns are atypical.

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Question 93.75 pts

Which statement is an example of a task that would be required in a two-

action test?

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A pigeon has to first turn in a circle and then peck at a light to obtain access

to food.

Two pigeons have to peck at the same light for either of them to obtain

access to food.

Two dolphins are taught to swim to a trainer for a fish reward, one by

locations within an environment as a result of another organism's action is

called:

Group of answer choices

observational conditioning.

stimulus enhancement.

imitation.

emotional contagion.

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Question 113.75 pts

Which are the only mammals other than humans that have the flexibility to

dolphins

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for girls, aggression was more common when they observed a female model

than a male model.

only the children who were first provoked showed aggression toward the

Bobo doll.

the attack styles of the children who behaved aggressively were different

from the attack styles of the models they observed.

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Question 133.75 pts

Which statement is TRUE regarding emotional contagion?

Group of answer choices

It usually involves motor acts that have been learned.

The actions that result from emotional contagion are usually different from

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Mirror

Echolalia

Modeling

Question 153.75 pts

Studies of copying how to open a box in humans and chimpanzees have

shown that _____ copy the details of actions modeled by an adult human.

Group of answer choices

both chimpanzees and human children

chimpanzees but not human children

human children but not chimpanzees

neither human children nor chimpanzees

Question 163.75 pts

The foundation of language and speech acquisition is:

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classical conditioning.

operant conditioning.

social learning.

intelligence.

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Question 173.75 pts

Researchers hypothesized that mirror neurons provide a basic mechanism for

true _____ of simple actions, allowing researchers to directly examine the

mechanisms better.

Group of answer choices

conditioning

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activated by performance of an action and the regions activated by

observing that action being performed.

researchers have been able to record directly from mirror neurons in the

cortex.

cortical regions associated with mirror neurons are different from those in

monkeys.

researchers have had difficulty in locating any brain regions that behave as if

Group of answer choices

Of those who survive beyond age 40, nearly all individuals with Down

syndrome develop amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

In adulthood, nearly all individuals with Down syndrome develop cognitive

The PS1 gene has been implicated in both Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

disease.

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Question 203.75 pts

A fetus is sufficiently developed to start perceiving and learning about

sounds by about _____ week(s) gestational age.

Group of answer choices

10

testosterone.

androgen.

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Elderly individuals are always impaired in learning basic skills but not in real-

world skills.

People who exhibit highly practiced skills continue to improve their skills

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Oscar, who repaints his house about every 5 years

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measuring levels of tau proteins.

recognizing behavioral symptoms and assessing hippocampal volume.

tests of hippocampal-independent specialization.

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Young children can remember only three to four digits, whereas teenagers

can remember seven to eight digits.

Performance on the 2-back task reaches a peak in adolescence and then

stays consistent in adulthood.

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The research has been mostly inconclusive.

Nearly all of the variation in memory scores may be accounted for by

differences in environment and upbringing.

More than half of the variation in memory scores may be accounted for by

differences in genetic makeup.

Nearly all of the variation in memory scores may be accounted for by

differences in genetic makeup.

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In women, the _____ is proportionately larger than in men, and this is

reflected in women's superior performance on _____ tasks.

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detrimental for neural reorganization later in life.

detrimental to the developing brain.

beneficial to the developing brain.

beneficial to an older, well-established brain.

Question 303.75 pts

Men generally perform better than women on tasks involving:

verbal abilities.

remembering locations of objects.

remembering the way around a maze.

working memory.

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basal ganglia.

cerebellum.

prefrontal cortex.

hippocampus.

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neurons with fewer connections to other neurons are more likely to survive.

there is an increase in neurotrophic factors such as BDNF.

about one-third of the neurons produced prenatally die.

Communicating with gestures provides scaffolding for the development of

verbal language.

Gestures typically do not get a response from parents; thus, they get

replaced with words.

Question 343.75 pts

Eyeblink conditioning:

can be learned by infants when delay conditioning is used.

cannot be learned by infants when delay conditioning is used.