Deck 19: The Worth Video Anthology for Introductory Psychology

Question 1

(Video: A variety of visual illusions) As a mask of Charlie Chaplin's head is rotated, the nose in the hollow back of the mask seems to be sticking out. In fact, it is sticking in. This illusion happens because

A) of retinal disparity.
B) of your vestibular sense.
C) we experience perceptual constancy.
D) a hollow face is so unlikely our brain refuses to see it that way.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

(Video: A case study in schizophrenia) The symptoms of schizophrenia can be divided into two groups: positive and negative. Positive symptoms include

A) hallucinations.
B) free-floating anxieties.
C) social problems.
D) panic attacks.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

(Video: A pill for forgetting) Propranolol seems to weaken memories of traumatic events by

A) acting as a tranquilizer.
B) making people more distractible.
C) weakening the effect of adrenaline.
D) causing people to more actively seek out social support.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

(Video: "Blindsight": Seeing without awareness) The parts of the brain that enable consciousness and our ability to communicate that awareness are located in the

A) frontal lobes.
B) visual cortex.
C) cerebellum.
D) corpus callosum.

Question 5

(Video: A happiness trait?) Hamer characterizes the neurotic personality as one who seems to

A) always get up on the wrong side of the bed.
B) pick a fight with friends as well as enemies.
C) see even positive life events as negative.
D) find the simple challenges of life as stressful.

Question 6

(Video: 100 years old and counting: Psychological and biological factors) Researchers Thomas Perls and Louis Kunkel report that they have

A) identified the specific genes responsible for longevity.
B) identified the chromosome region that contains the gene or genes for longevity.
C) have ruled out any genetic basis for long life.
D) identified the cultural basis for differences in longevity around the world.

Question 7

(Video: 100 years old and counting: Psychological and biological factors) The program indicates that one important characteristic of people who live to 100 is having

A) an unassertive personality.
B) interesting activities.
C) an introverted personality.
D) a Type A personality.

Question 8

("ActivePsych: Digital Media Archive" video: A Case Study in Schizophrenia) The symptoms of schizophrenia can be divided into two groups: positive and negative. Positive symptoms include

A) hallucinations.
B) free-floating anxieties.
C) social problems.
D) panic attacks.

Question 9

(Video: "Supertasters") The program indicates that about one in ______ people are supertasters.

A) three
B) four
C) five
D) six

Question 10

(Video: A journey into memory) The conversation between Nick and Amber includes references to Nick's desire to travel and work for the

A) Peace Corps.
B) United States Department of State.
C) Central Intelligence Agency.
D) United States Army.

Question 11

(Video: A journey into memory) Daniel Schacter refers to the memory distortion in which our current knowledge, beliefs, and feelings affect our recall of past events as

A) congruence.
B) bias.
C) reconstruction.
D) retroactive inhibition.

Question 12

(Video: "Blindsight": Seeing without awareness) The visual cortex is located in the ________ of the brain.

A) front
B) back
C) left but not the right side
D) right but not the left side

Question 13

(Video: "Supertasters") This program suggests that our degree of sensitivity to taste is

A) innate.
B) culturally conditioned.
C) learned within the family setting.
D) age specific.

Question 14

(Video: 100 years old and counting: Psychological and biological factors) 101-year- old Alva loves

A) spinach.
B) ice cream.
C) roasted almonds.
D) chocolate.

Question 15

(Video: "Supertasters") Supertasters seem to be particularly sensitive to ________ tastes.

A) sweet
B) sour
C) bitter
D) salty

Question 16

(Video: A Case Study in Schizophrenia) The symptoms of schizophrenia can be divided into two groups: positive and negative. Positive symptoms include

A) hallucinations.
B) free-floating anxieties.
C) social problems.
D) panic attacks.

Question 17

(Video: A pill for forgetting) According to the video, the drug propranolol has been used to treat

A) high blood pressure and schizophrenia.
B) high blood pressure and stage fright.
C) antisocial personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
D) obsessive-compulsive disorder and stage fright.

Question 18

(Video: A happiness trait?) Hamer concludes that complex human traits

A) involve many genes.
B) sometimes involve only one rather than many genes.
C) are primarily a product of nurture rather than nature.
D) are the product of evolution.

Question 19

(Video: "Blindsight": Seeing without awareness) Although he is unaware of moving lights in his right visual field, Graham correctly reports the direction of their movement ________ percent of the time.

A) 60
B) 70
C) 80
D) 90

Question 20

(Prenatal brain development: From conception to birth) About 4-8 weeks after conception, the two hemispheres of a human fetus' brain begin to emerge. These areas control complex behaviors, problem solving, and memories and are called the

A) hindbrain.
B) cerebral cortex.
C) cerebellum.
D) pineal gland.

Question 21

(Video: Alzheimer's disease) Alzheimer's disease was first identified as a real disease in

A) 1822.
B) 1894.
C) 1907.
D) 1936.

Question 22

(Video: Activity, exercise, and the brain) In a research study, one group of adult rats was placed in an "enriched" environment, the other group in individual barren laboratory cages. The researchers found that, compared to the brains of the "deprived" rats, those of rats living in enriched environments

A) were smaller.
B) had fewer neural connections.
C) had greater blood supply.
D) were the same.

Question 23

(Video: Aging and Memory) In attempting to remember to press a key on a computer keyboard, older adults did not perform as well as younger adults when the task involved

A) time-based retrospective memory.
B) time-based prospective memory.
C) event-based retrospective memory.
D) event-based prospective memory.

Question 24

(Video: Alzheimer's Family Case Study, Clip B) The old woman's response to questions about shopping was to

A) stick out her tongue.
B) fall asleep.
C) reminisce about Bloomingdale's.
D) sing.

Question 25

(Video: Animal language) Researchers at Georgia State University taught Kanzi, a(n) ________, to communicate.

A) gorilla
B) bonobo
C) dolphin
D) orangutan

Question 26

(Video: Alzheimer's disease) One of the defining characteristics of Alzheimer's disease is ________ in the brain.

A) the presence of amyloid plaques
B) the absence of the neurotransmitter dopamine
C) a severed corpus callosum
D) damage to the occipital lobes

Question 27

(Video: Are today's girls academically superior to boys?) According to Thompson, girls now outperform boys

A) in elementary and middle school, but not later.
B) at all levels of formal education.
C) beginning in middle school.
D) in high school and college, but not graduate school.

Question 28

(Video: An amazing memory) According to the video, people who experience strokes sometimes show improved

A) empathy.
B) artistic abilities.
C) vocabulary.
D) motor skills.

Question 29

(Video: Alzheimer's Family Case Study, Clip B) One sign that the woman with Alzheimer's disease has regressed physically is that she

A) can only eat soft food with a plastic spoon.
B) drinks out of a sippy cup.
C) requires wheelchair to move around.
D) can no longer hold her knitting needle.

Question 30

(Video: Alzheimer's Family Case Study, Clip A) In an early stage of Alzheimer's, the woman being described started putting all her valuables

A) in the closet.
B) in the refrigerator.
C) inside her socks.
D) under the mattress.

Question 31

(Video: Achieving hemispheric balance: improving sports performance) In studying success in sports, researchers have found, for example, that the key to good putting in golf is

A) for the left hemisphere to become more active.
B) for the right hemisphere to become quieter.
C) to keep your feet close together.
D) to achieve a state of balance between the two cerebral hemispheres.

Question 32

(Video: Alzheimer's disease) The average cost of caring for a victim of Alzheimer's disease, from first diagnosis to death, is

A) $782 thousand.
B) $526 thousand.
C) $174 thousand.
D) $112 thousand.

Question 33

(Video: Anxiety disorders) Anxiety is

A) never normal.
B) a common factor in many psychological disorders.
C) the same as fear.
D) a modern development, unlikely to have roots in human history.

Question 34

(Video: ADHD and the family) The characteristics of ADHD include all of the following EXCEPT

A) impulsivity.
B) inattention.
C) restlessness.
D) intellectual disability.

Question 35

(Video: ADHD and the family) The video suggests that ADHD children develop oppositional behavior as

A) the result of a damaged brain.
B) a way of coping with criticism of behavior over which they have no control.
C) a reaction to physical and sexual abuse in early childhood.
D) part of their effort to gain attention when they feel that they have been ignored.

Question 36

(Video: Alzheimer's Family Case Study, Clip A) One woman says the first time she knew that something was wrong was when her mother

A) couldn't remember where she went to high school.
B) didn't know how old she was.
C) seemed unaware that the woman was her daughter.
D) asked about her own father, who had died many years earlier.

Question 37

(Video: Animal language) Honeybees communicate the location of food sources by

A) buzzing.
B) flying in patterns.
C) pushing other bees.
D) dancing.

Question 38

(Video: Aging and memory: studying Alzheimer's disease) People in the very early stages of Alzheimer's

A) experience a decline in all cognitive functioning.
B) have problems forming new memories.
C) lose some of their senses of sight, hearing, and touch.
D) show an increase in neural activity.

Question 39

(Video: An amazing memory) The clip suggests that there are about ________ true savants in the world.

A) 50
B) 500
C) 5000
D) 50,000

Question 40

(Video: An amazing memory) Daniel reports that, shortly after the interviewer leaves, he will be unable to remember the interviewer's

A) tie.
B) suit.
C) face.
D) dominant personality traits.

Question 41

(Video: Attitudes and prejudicial behavior) During WWII, over ________ Japanese- Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, were placed in internment camps.

A) 10,000
B) 50,000
C) 70,000
D) 120,000

Question 42

(Video: Behavior genetics) If the heritability of intelligence is 50 percent, this means

A) your intelligence is 50 percent genetic.
B) genetic influence explains 50 percent of the observed variation among people.
C) you and your genetic siblings will have the same intelligence.
D) that all of these statements are correct.

Question 43

(Video: Automatic skills: Disrupting a pilot's performance) This study was designed to examine the impact of a(n) ________ task on a(n) ________ task.

A) motor; verbal
B) quantitative; qualitative
C) analytical; holistic
D) conscious; unconscious

Question 44

(Video: Brain Structure) Which of the following areas of the human brain contains the greatest amount of brain tissue?

A) hypothalamus
B) frontal lobes
C) amygdala
D) occipital lobes

Question 45

(Video: Are today's girls academically superior to boys?) According to the video, boys lag behind girls academically

A) and therefore also earn less money in the job market.
B) but gender balance exists in the workplace after school.
C) but continue to outpace women on the career front.
D) but make up for this in later life because of athletic success.

Question 46

(Video: Bandura on social learning with clips from original experiment) In Bandura's Bobo doll study, children watched a film of an adult acting aggressively. Then when left alone in a playroom, the children

A) often started to cry.
B) acted the same as children who had not see the film.
C) were more likely to play with guns and act aggressively.
D) were fearful of anyone or anything in the room.

Question 47

(Video: Attitudes and prejudicial behavior) The tendency to favor people who are like ourselves is called

A) in-group bias.
B) social categorization.
C) the Pearl Harbor effect.
D) stereotype threat.

Question 48

(Video: Body Part Counting System) In the unique 27 body part counting system used by the Oksapmin people of Papua New Guinea, the number 1 is represented by the

A) thumb of one hand.
B) big toe of one foot.
C) the elbow of one arm.
D) the nose.

Question 49

(Video: Brain Imaging) A simulated MRI scan of the brain indicates that looking at a grid of black and white lines produces the most activity in the central areas of the ________ lobe.

A) occipital
B) temporal
C) frontal
D) parietal

Question 50

(Video: Brain and behavior: Phineas Gage revisited) Franz Joseph Gall, who believed that different "faculties" or traits are located in distinct parts of the brain, thought bumps in the skull could reveal these different traits. His theory is known as

A) phrenology.
B) reaction formation.
C) self-transcendence.
D) naturalistic observation.

Question 51

(Video: Brain Transplants in Parkinson's patients) The patient, as a result of transplant surgery, was once again able to ________ despite Parkinson's disease.

A) play the piano
B) play tennis
C) swim laps
D) read poetry aloud

Question 52

(Video: Brain Transplants in Parkinson's patients) Dopamine is projected to the basal ganglia from neurons in which region?

A) hypothalamus
B) hippocampus
C) locus coeruleus
D) substantia nigra

Question 53

(Video: Beyond perfection: Female body dysmorphic disorder) Jennifer claims that she is feeling happier as a result of

A) finding meaningful work.
B) having close, supportive friends.
C) undergoing cosmetic surgery, including a nose job.
D) undergoing psychotherapy.

Question 54

(Video: Attention) Cell-phone use while driving is dangerous because

A) we think we're attending to everything that we want to notice, but we probably aren't.
B) our intentional and working memory and visual our capacities are limited.
C) any time we're attending to two or more tasks at the same time, there are costs.
D) of all of these reasons.

Question 55

(Video: Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment) In Bandura's classic Bobo doll experiment, children learned ________ behavior simply by observing the actions of an adult.

A) aggressive
B) patient
C) greedy
D) fearful

Question 56

(Video: Being gay: coming out in the 21st century) According to the American Psychiatric Association, homosexuality

A) should be controlled by drug therapy.
B) is not considered a mental disorder.
C) is less common in the U.S. than in other countries.
D) is clearly caused by environmental factors.

Question 57

(Video: Beyond perfection: Female body dysmorphic disorder) The therapist claims that Jennifer meets the criteria for all of the following psychological disorders EXCEPT

A) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
B) major depressive disorder.
C) antisocial personality disorder.
D) post-traumatic stress disorder.

Question 58

(Video: Automatic skills: Disrupting a pilot's performance) In comparison to the less experienced pilot, the veteran finds that

A) counting backward is more disruptive to his performance.
B) counting backward is less disruptive to his performance.
C) describing what he is doing is more disruptive to his performance.
D) describing what he is doing is less disruptive to his performance.

Question 59

(Video: Are today's girls academically superior to boys?) The experience of Franklin Goodman is highlighted because he

A) provides extra support in a coeducational setting.
B) encourages girls to succeed in athletics as well as academics.
C) coaches as well as teaches.
D) does not allow boys with poor grades to participate in sports.

Question 60

(Video: Beyond perfection: Female body dysmorphic disorder) Jennifer works

A) in a college library.
B) as a cosmetologist.
C) as a travel agent.
D) part time at McDonald's.

Question 61

(Video: City of Gheel: Community mental health at its best) In Gheel, Belgium, one does not find ________ people.

A) homeless
B) intoxicated
C) drug addicted
D) wealthy

Question 62

(Video: Chemically induced hallucinations: Studies of anesthetic drugs) Ketamine is

A) a hormone.
B) an anesthetic drug.
C) one of the brain's natural neurotransmitters.
D) a form of marijuana.

Question 63

(Video: Brain fingerprinting: Memory, recognition, and lie detection) Researcher William Iaconno believes that brain fingerprinting

A) has promise but needs much further study.
B) is unsubstantiated as a tool.
C) can replace the judgment of courts and juries.
D) is backed by solid scientific evidence.

Question 64

(Video: Can chimpanzees plan ahead?) The researcher suggests that Pansy's capacity to plan ahead reflects a very active

A) left brain hemisphere.
B) right brain hemisphere.
C) prefrontal lobe system.
D) amygdala.

Question 65

(Video: Bystander apathy: Failing to help others in distress) Psychiatrist Sandra Scott describes the process that observers go through in deciding whether to help as

A) rational and methodical.
B) instinctive and unconscious.
C) learned and automatic.
D) emotional and irrational.

Question 66

(Video: City of Gheel: Community mental health at its best) Mark Hendricks, a psychiatric nurse, suggests that the families prove therapeutic because, in contrast to institutions, they give the patients

A) medication that is carefully monitored.
B) greater physical space.
C) responsibility.
D) a healthier diet.

Question 67

(Video: Circadian rhythms) In mammals, the circadian clock is located in the

A) hypothalamus.
B) adrenal gland.
C) cerebellum.
D) hippocampus.

Question 68

(Video: Brain plasticity: rewiring the visual cortex) In an experiment, a young woman volunteered to wear a blindfold for four days. During that time, she learned Braille. After the four days, an MRI showed that when her index finger was stimulated, her

A) parietal lobes were activated.
B) temporal lobes were activated.
C) visual cortex was activated.
D) brain showed no reorganization.

Question 69

(Video: Classical conditioning: Pavlov and his legacy) According to Robert Epstein's example of classical conditioning, which involved getting a speeding ticket, his nervousness upon seeing a police officer or car is an example of a(n) ________ response. The police officer or car is an example of a ________ stimulus.

A) unconditioned; neutral
B) unconditioned; conditioned
C) conditioned; neutral
D) conditioned; conditioned

Question 70

(Video: Brain fingerprinting: Memory, recognition, and lie detection) To what degree of certainty is researcher Lawrence Farwell convinced of the suspect's innocence?

A) about 25 percent
B) fifty percent
C) almost 100 percent
D) about 75 percent

Question 71

(Video: Chomsky's View of Language Development) Chomsky argued that the aspect of language most likely to have a biological basis is not so much the meaning of individual words as the ________ we use in putting words together.

A) language accents
B) algorithms
C) mental sets
D) grammar

Question 72

(Video: Classical conditioning and the immune system: Combating Lupus) Merritt's mother suggests that her daughter's heart attack was due to

A) clogged arteries produced by initial steroid use.
B) a weakened immune system.
C) a genetic predisposition to congestive heart failure.
D) too much involvement in school sports.

Question 73

(Video: Chemically induced hallucinations: Studies of anesthetic drugs) Ketamine produces

A) hallucinations.
B) depression.
C) insomnia.
D) antisocial conduct.

Question 74

(Video: Chemically induced hallucinations: Studies of anesthetic drugs) Franz Vollenweider's research indicates that ketamine affects

A) the output of the pituitary gland.
B) the hypothalamus and appetite hormones.
C) the adrenal glands' release of epinephrine and norepinephrine.
D) communication between nerve cells.

Question 75

(Video: Brain fingerprinting: Memory, recognition, and lie detection) The recognition of familiar words, phrases, or pictures triggers a specific electrical signal called a

A) murmur.
B) stimulus.
C) flash.
D) brain record.

Question 76

(Video: Bystander apathy: Failing to help others in distress) The helper concludes the program by stating that if he had not been a self-defense instructor, he would

A) have called the police.
B) have asked someone else to help him intervene.
C) not have physically intervened himself.
D) still have physically intervened, even if it meant getting beaten himself.

Question 77

(Video: Childhood Disorder: Understanding Autism) Autism is characterized by a wide range of problems. Which of the following is a common symptom of people with autism?

A) hallucinations
B) delusions
C) difficulties in social relationships
D) intellectual disability

Question 78

(Video: Classical conditioning and the immune system: Combating Lupus) One of the side effects that Merritt suffered from use of the steroid drug was

A) temporary blindness.
B) weight loss.
C) hair loss.
D) memory loss.

Question 79

(Video: Circadian rhythms) The most important factor for the timing of the circadian clock is

A) social interaction.
B) regular exercise.
C) a good night's sleep.
D) sunlight exposure.

Question 80

(Video: Can chimpanzees plan ahead?) The researcher concludes that chimpanzees can plan ahead several

A) days.
B) weeks.
C) months.
D) years.