Answer Options:
Wilson Hall
Student Success Center
Varner House
Rose Hall
Answer: Varner House
Question: Ida is 65 years old and does not like to make mistakes while she types. She has intentionally goes to theaters early (while the lights are still on) in order to be able to find her seat easily. This behavior is an example of:
Answer Options:
neural noise
strategy
rods and cones
glaucoma
Answer: strategy
Question: Which of the following is the BEST way to deal with impending death?
Answer Options:
Denial
Individuals should learn, deliberate/induce, and document each stage of grief until they are at peace with the inevitable.
There is no single “best” way. Adaptive coping differs according to personal circumstances and personality.
Biological life should be prolonged as long as possible until the individual comes to peace with death.
Answer: There is no single “best” way. Adaptive coping differs according to personal circumstances and personality.
Question: Mary Ainsworth believes that parents should respond quickly to the cries of their infants because a quick response will:
Answer Options:
stop the crying before it becomes overly reinforced by environmental cues.
enhance the infant’s sense of secure attachment.
increase the parents’ confidence in their parenting ability.
prevent the baby from crying harder.
Answer: enhance the infant’s sense of secure attachment.
Question: Aleigha, a toddler eating supper with her family, accidentally knocks over her milk and says, “Milk fall.” What type of speech is this?
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comprehensive
reflective
telegraphic
intrinsic
Answer: telegraphic
Question: If Zelda decides to go through in vitro fertilization where an egg is fertilized by sperm outside of her body, she can make certain choices about her baby such as skin color, hair color, eye color.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Cases have gone all the way to the Supreme Court over the misuse of genetic information.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: While attending his first horror movie, Claven begins eating out of his box of popcorn. Claven likes popcorn and continues to eat during the film. After a few minutes, a character in the film is surprised by a critical turn of the movie’s events startling Claven’s munch. His popcorn spills all over himself. After the character’s scream reverberates across the movie, Claven glances down, sees an overturned box of popcorn, and screams in turn. A classical conditioning theorist would argue that popcorn has now become a(n) _____ that elicits a fear response.
Answer Options:
unconditioned stimulus
conditioned stimulus
unconditioned response
conditioned response
Answer: conditioned stimulus
Question: Defining death as nonfunction of the higher cortex implies that:
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human life is dependent only on the ability to breathe and pump blood.
human life depends on electrical activity in the lower portions of the brain.
human life depends on the abilities to think, behave, and have feelings.
Answer: human life depends on the abilities to think, behave, and have feelings.
Question: James Madison is referred to as the “Father of the ____.”
Answer Options:
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
Constitution
Articles of the Confederation
Answer: Constitution
Question: Kathy wakes up worried that her stuffed toys are cold without a blanket to cover them. This is an example of:
Answer Options:
animism
conservation
centration
egocentric thought
Answer: animism
Question: In the Gibson and Walk visual cliff experiment, most of the babies who had been crawling for some time; therefore, approx. 9-10 months of age who were encouraged to crawl onto the deep side of the visual cliff:
Answer Options:
would crawl onto the cliff side
would not crawl onto the cliff side
would crawl onto the cliff-side only when their mothers called them
would crawl onto the cliff-side but showed significant increases in heart rate indicating anxiety about the situation
Answer: would not crawl onto the cliff side