Start Exam: Psychology 9.00SC Exam I Fall 2011 by Prof.

Question: Empirical evidence supports which one conclusion?

Choices:

hypnosis is effective in highly hypnotizable people

the Rorschach inkblot test is a valid clinical test

medical school interviews are effective for identifying which applicants will perform well in medical school classes

praising a child’s intelligence helps them perform well on a challenging task

Question: When people name line drawings or read words naming animals or tools while their brains are being imaged functionally

Choices:

there is greater activation for animals than tools in visual (occipital) cortex, visual-motion cortex, and motor cortex associated with hand actions

there is greater activation for tools than animals in visual (occipital) cortex, visual-motion cortex, and motor cortex associated with hand actions

there is greater activation for animals than tools in visual (occipital) cortex, and greater activation for tools than animals in visual-motion cortex and motor cortex associated with hand actions

there is greater activation for tools than animals in visual (occipital) cortex, and greater activation for animals than tools in visual-motion cortex and motor cortex associated with hand actions

Question: In a social psychology experiment, white participants either forecasted (imagined) or actually experienced how they would feel and how they would behave towards a white stranger who made a racial slur about a black stranger. The findings were:

Choices:

both forecasters and experiencers felt negative feelings towards the white stranger and were less likely to select the white stranger as a partner for performing a task (relative to a control condition without any slur being made)

neither forecasters nor experiencers felt negative feelings towards the white stranger and both groups were likely to select the white stranger as a partner for performing a task (relative to a control condition without any slur being made)

forecasters felt negative feelings towards the white stranger and were less likely to select the white stranger as a partner for performing the task; experiencers felt negative feelings towards the white stranger but were as likely to select the white stranger as a white stranger in a control condition without any slur being made

forecasters felt negative feelings towards the white stranger and were less likely to select the white stranger as a partner for performing the task; experiencers did not have negative feelings towards the white stranger and were as likely to select the white stranger as a white stranger in a control condition without any slur being made

Question: There are two major visual cortical pathways, the "what" and "where" pathways. The "where" pathway travels through the __________ lobe, and lesions to it impair the ability to get food rewards on the basis of __________.

Choices:

temporal; object shape

parietal; object shape

temporal; object location

parietal; object location

Question: Which of these aspects of face perception is NOT true for infants?

Choices:

human infants have better memory for faces from their family’s racial group

human infants prefer top-heavy facial configurations

human infants have similar memory for human and monkey faces

monkey infants prefer seeing photographs of faces than photographs of objects the first time they see a face

Question: At what point in the human visual system are neurons or axons that code for the same visual field from the two different eyes first brought together anatomically?

Choices:

rods and cones

retina

optic chiasm

primary visual cortex

Question: Experiments have shown that which manipulations can enhance one’s feelings or positive actions towards another person?

Choices:

holding a warm drink relative to a cold drink just before evaluating another person

not thinking about money

rotating from table to table at a speed dating event

all of the above

Question: In a brain imaging study of empathy, men and women played a financial game with two partners, a fair player and an unfair player. In a brain imaging study of empathy, men and women played a financial game with two partners, a fair player and an unfair player. __________ showed activation in the insula when they received pain, and also when they saw the fair player receive pain. __________ showed insula activation when the unfair player received pain. __________ showed nucleus accumbens activation when the unfair player received pain. __________ reported a stronger desire for revenge against the unfair player.

Choices:

Both men and women; Both men and women; Men; Men

Women; Women; Men; Men

Women; Both men and women; Women; Women

Both men and women; Women; Men; Men

Question: For a typical split-brain (= callosotomy) patient, if a picture of a pencil is presented in the right visual field and a picture of a hammer is presented to the left visual field and the patient is asked to identify what had been presented

Choices:

the patient would say "pencil" and would pick out a hammer from an array of unseen objects with the left hand

the patient would say "hammer" and would pick out a pencil from an array of unseen objects with the left hand

the patient would say "hammer" and would pick out a hammer from an array of unseen objects with the left hand

the patient would say "pencil" and would pick out a pencil from an array of unseen objects with the left hand

Question: The parvocellular visual pathway, relative to the magnocellular visual pathway,

Choices:

has many more cells, is wavelength sensitive, and has slow, sustained responses

has many fewer cells, is wavelength insensitive, and has rapid, transient responses

has many fewer cells, is wavelength insensitive, and has slow, sustained responses

has many more cells, is wavelength sensitive, and has rapid, transient responses

Question: Evidence from patients indicates that the __________ hemisphere is specialized for local (vs. global) features of a visual object, and the __________ hemisphere is specialized for the appearance (vs. function) of a visual object, and that injuries to the __________ hemisphere result in associative (vs. apperceptive) agnosia.

Choices:

left; left; right

right; left; right

left; right; left

right; right; left