Exam 17: Integrative Questions

By today's standards,Milgram's study on obedience is considered unethical because:

_____ is a brain imagining technique that also is used as a treatment for major depressive disorder.

B.F.Skinner's recommendations for social change MOST appeal to which motive?

A researcher manipulated the intensity of light in increments of five lumens and asked participants if the light was present or absent.The study found that two particular participants had the same _____ threshold for perceiving the light.Had the investigators manipulated the light in units of one lumen,a difference would have been found between the individuals.The study was lacking the _____ to detect this difference.

Naturalistic observation of helping behaviour in public places reveal a _____ between the size of a group and the willingness of any one individual to help someone in need.

Treatment for which psychological disorder is MOST susceptible to the treatment illusion of natural improvement?

_____ argued that people react to the world as they see it and not as how it is._____ identified this mind bug as a culprit for why it is so difficult to think critically about evidence.

A person who frequently helps others with no expectation of personal benefit is engaging in _____ and probably will score highest on the Big Five trait of _____.

Multitasking disrupts the _____ of consciousness and contributes to the memory sin of _____.

Most psychologists prefer the Big Five personality model to Eysenck's theory of personality.As it pertains to the role of parsimony in evaluating these theories,the general acceptance of the Big Five model over Eysenck's theory of personality demonstrates the general rule that:

Someone with a prevention focus probably will:

In the literature on stereotyping,_____ is defined as the tendency for people to see what they expect to see.Within the philosophy of science,this threat was first expressed by _____.

_____ raised infant rhesus monkeys in social isolation for the first 6 months of their lives.Most of them exhibited severely disturbed behaviour consistent with the _____ phase of general adaptation syndrome.

Over the past few years,Joanna has received a number of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)sessions to manage her _____.She finds that she has trouble remembering new information in the week or so after each session,a side effect known as temporary _____ amnesia.

Brain imaging studies reveal that emotionally intelligent people show _____ activation of the _____ when making decisions of an emotional content than do people with less emotional intelligence.

When conceptualizing intelligence,behaviourists would MOST likely focus on:

In the general population,the frequency distribution of intelligence scores is _____ but slightly more _____ for males than it is for females.

John Watson criticized _____ for _____.

The fact that information projected onto the left half of each _____ is processed in the right hemisphere of the brain is an example of _____.

Studies investigating the development of object permanence typically utilize a form of implicit learning termed: