Here are some example questions for the quiz.  The sole purpose of these example questions is to get you thinking about the material that will be covered on the quiz exam.  In addition to knowing the basic definitions of the issues/theories we have learned in class, you should have a working understanding of the effects, applications, and causes of these issues/theories that have been outlined in class and in the readings.

These questions reflect only a randomly selected portion of the material that will be covered on the quiz.  Your outlines from the webpage for "Chapter 1: History", "Chapter 1: Research Methods", and "Chapter 2: The Brain" are essentially your review material (NOTE: make sure you have the most recent outlines that are currently on the webpage).  Therefore, I suggest that you use these outlines to guide your studying of class material and reading in the book.  The format for the quiz questions will include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer.

Note: The quiz will be held on Wednesday, May 29, from 11:30-12:15 pm in our classroom (Dey 204).  Please bring a scantron (i.e., bubble sheet) and a pencil!!  After completion of the Quiz, students will be required to sign their initials on a class roster print-out in order for me to verify official receipt of this quiz.

Another note: you can access more practice questions and/or review on the web at: http://cw.abacon.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kosslyn_ab/

• When you get to this page, scroll to the bottom and select a chapter.  After you select and go to the chapter webpage, you'll see links on the left associated with review questions (e.g., "Practice Test 1", "Fill In The Blanks", etc.)
• Note that a lot of questions you'll see on these web pages will not apply to this first exam (i.e., the chapters cover tons more material than we do in this class!)
• See above for information about what material is covered on this first exam

Which of the following statements is most likely to have been said by cognitive psychologist?
A. "We don't really have thoughts!"
B. "The unconscious plays a powerful role in determining our behaviors."
C. "The past is less important than the future in determining behavior."
D. "All sensory input is organized in memory by use of schematic structures."

Which of the following would a social psychologist be most likely to ask?
A. How stable is personality over the life span?
B. Why do we like some people and not others?
C. What effect does anxiety have on test performance?
D. Do depressed people think differently than nondepressed people?

Olivia is in a study in which she is carefully observing and reporting her conscious reactions to several stimuli.   Olivia is most likely participating in a study conducted by a psychologist who adheres to the  ________ school  of psychology.
A. structuralist
B. developmental
C. functionalist
D. psychoanalytic

Structuralism characterized conscious processes as having 2 basic elements: __________________________ and __________________________.

Briefly explain the main premise of evolutionary psychology.

The basic unit of the nervous system is:

A. the hormone
B. the gene
C. the neuron
D. DNA

The sympathetic nervous system generally _____ activity; the parasympathetic nervous system generally _____ activity.

A. increases; decreases
B. decreases; increases
C. initiates; terminates
D. terminates; initiates

The close attention that you are paying while you are taking this exam is partially mediated by the:

A. hypothalamus
B. hippocampus
C. thalamus
D. amygdala

The spinal cord initiates _____________: automatic responses to an event that don't require thought (i.e., information for these responses to occur is sent directly from the spinal cord and is not sent to the brain).

Dr. Verma wants to test the hypothesis that body contact will help sick babies to get well.  She selects two groups of equally ill babies.  Volunteers rock the babies in the test group for an hour each day, while the babies in the control group are not rocked.  At the end of the study, Dr. Verma discovers that significantly more babies in the test group recovered faster from their illnesses than babies in the control group.  In this study, the independent variable was __________ and the dependent variable was ____________.

A. how sick the babies were; what group the babies were in
B. what group the babies were in; how many babies got better
C. how many babies got better; whether they were rocked
D. whether they were rocked; how quickly the babies got better

A variable other then the independent variable which might have caused changes in the dependent varible is a(n) _____________ variable.

A. confounding
B. control
C. construct
D. experimental

An researcher was interested in the effect of hunger on memory.  For the experimental group (eating M&Ms), the researcher stressed the importance of paying close attention to the list of words to be memorized.  In contrast, for the control group (no M&Ms), the researcher acted casually when presenting the memory task.  The results of study showed that the experimental group remembered more words on average than the control group.  These results were most likely influenced by:

A. response bias
B. experimenter expectancy effects/experimenter bias
C. sampling bias
D. participant expectancy effects

List one quality of a "good" theory.