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1 clep is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board,which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this PsychologyPractice TestTime 90 MinutesFor each question below, choose the best answer from the100 Questionschoices who are interested in behavioralsimilarities and differences betweenspecies are(A) biological psychologists(B) experimental psychologists(C) comparative psychologists(D) animal psychologists(E) physiological morale and staff cooperation would bethe concern of a(n)(A) clinical psychologist(B) forensic psychologist(C) social psychologist(D) industrial and organizational psychologist(E) business determine if people are coming to a full stopat an intersection with a new stop sign, the bestresearch method would be a(n)(A) naturalistic observation(B) experiment(C) case study(D) correlation(E) survey4.

2 If a researcher wished to determine whether heatcauses an increase in aggression, the best ap-proach would be to(A) observe people in a public park on hot andcold days(B) compare and cross-reference weatherreports with crime statistics(C) recruit participants, put half in a cold roomand half in a hot room, and observe theirbehavior(D) compare crime rates in countries that arewarm and cool(E) ask people if they feel irritable and prone toaggression in the hot an experiment, subjects given various amountsof alcohol drive a course marked by orangepylons. The independent variable in this experi-ment is the(A) various amounts of alcohol(B) subjects driving ability before alcoholconsumption(C) subjects driving ability after alcoholconsumption(D) the number of orange pylons hit(E) speed through the obstacle use replication in order to(A) increase validity(B) increase research grants(C) show cause and effect(D) become more confident about their conclu-sions across a variety of situations(E) satisfy ethics , 11.

3 34 AM1 Copyright 2004 Peterson'sCLEP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board,which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this Psychology Practice psychological perspective that includes theassumption that people are often unaware of thereal motives behind their behavior is(A) psychoanalysis(B) trait theory(C) behaviorism(D) cognitive Psychology (E) humanistic theorist who claimed that he could make anydozen healthy babies into anything he wishedthrough conditioning was(A) Wilhelm Wundt(B) Sigmund Freud(C) Carl Rogers(D) B. F. Skinner(E) John primary job of most brain cells is(A) transmitting messages(B) picking up sensations from the environment(C) thinking and reasoning(D) providing the brain with nutrients(E) maintaining neuron s senders are the(A) myelin sheaths(B) dendrites(C) axon terminal buttons(D) pons(E) receptor within a cell is _____; activity betweencells is _____.

4 (A) positive, negative(B) electrical, chemical(C) chemical, electrical(D) electrical, electrical(E) chemical, spinal cord is part of the(A) peripheral nervous system(B) cerebellum(C) central nervous system(D) reticular activating system(E) parasympathetic brain s relay station, which receives incom-ing sensory messages and passesthem on to the cerebral cortex, is the(A) corpus callosum(B) hypothalamus(C) limbic system(D) thalamus(E) basal part of the brain chiefly responsible foremotion is the(A) limbic system(B) reticular activating system(C) thalamus(D) corpus callosum(E) sympathetic division of the autonomicnervous system is MOST likely tobe activated when you are(A) sleeping(B) frightened(C) studying(D) talking to a good friend(E) association area of the cortex, which seemsto play a role in planning andproblem solving, is located in the(A) amygdala(B) frontal lobes(C) temporal lobes(D) occipital lobes(E) parietal , 11:34 AM2 Copyright 2004 Peterson'sCLEP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board,which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this Psychology Practice and James both have brown eyes, but theirdaughter has blue eyes.

5 What isthe MOST likely explanation for this?(A) The child is adopted.(B) James is not the child s father.(C) Eye color is not determined by the domi-nant-recessive principle.(D) The child s eye color will change when sheis older.(E) Both James and Sarah carry a recessivegene for blue minimum amount of stimulus energyrequired to stimulate a receptor is the(A) just noticeable difference ( )(B) wavelength(C) absolute threshold(D) pattern theory(E) stimulus-receptor of the following is TRUE about perceiv-ing objects?(A) Sensory adaptation allows us to focus onone stimuli among many.(B) Our eyes must continuously quiver in orderto counteract the effects of sensoryadaptation.(C) Weber s law is another term for the absolutethreshold.

6 (D) Perception occurs independently of expecta-tions.(E) Perception is the same as , unlike rods, will respond to(A) movement but not color(B) color but not movement(C) movement but not brightness(D) brightness but not movement(E) both movement and LEAST efficient of the human senses is(A) taste(B) touch(C) hearing(D) vision(E) of the head are detected by(A) rods and cones(B) the semicircular canals(C) free nerve endings(D) Krause end bulbs(E) the ear bones in the middle is shown a card with the stimuliAAABBBCCC and is asked to report what hesees. Todd states that there are three groups ofdifferent letters. This illustrates the rule ofperceptual organization known as(A) similarity(B) gestalt(C) closure(D) continuation(E) vision provides clues regarding(A) depth and distance(B) brightness and hue(C) timber and pitch(D) color and size(E) complexity and have met and seen Juan Perez only in yourpsychology class.

7 You are MOST likely torecognize Juan if you see him(A) as a patrolman directing traffic(B) studying in the library(C) swimming at the beach(D) close up(E) eating at an expensive , 11:34 AM3 Copyright 2004 Peterson'sCLEP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board,which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this Psychology Practice one of the sleep stages can be objectivelyidentified as different from the other stages bymeans of(A) specific body positions(B) the amount of eye movement(C) heart and breathing rates(D) EEG recordings(E) blood most vivid dreams occur during(A) stage 1 sleep(B) stage 2 sleep(C) stage 3 sleep(D) stage 4 sleep(E) None of the of the following does NOT occur duringREM sleep?

8 (A) Sleepwalking(B) Heightened physiological arousal(C) Sexual arousal erections in males, lubrica-tion in females(D) Irregular heartbeat(E) All of the tremens are associated with(A) addiction to any drug(B) Parkinson s disease(C) withdrawal from alcohol(D) anxiety disorders(E) withdrawal from of the following drugs is a stimulant?(A) Alcohol(B) Heroin(C) Barbiturates(D) LSD(E) of the following is TRUE about hypnosis?(A) Under hypnosis, people can be forced to dothings that violate their morals.(B) Everyone can be hypnotized.(C) Psychologists generally agree that hypnosisis indeed a divided state of consciousness.(D) Hypnosis has enabled some people to gothrough surgical procedures without anes-thetic.(E) Recovered memories retrieved underhypnosis are usually Learning is any relatively permanent change inbehavior is an incomplete definition of learningbecause it does not include the role of(A) growth(B) conditioning(C) cognition(D) experience(E) caused dogs to salivate to a neutralstimulus through a process known as(A) classical conditioning(B) operant conditioning(C) insight conditioning(D) successive approximations(E) cognitive classical conditioning, the unconditionedresponse occurs when the(A) reward is available(B) unconditioned stimulus is presented(C) conditioned stimulus is presented(D) conditioned response is blocked(E) unconditioned stimulus is , 11.

9 34 AM4 Copyright 2004 Peterson'sCLEP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board,which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this Psychology Practice TEST the conditioned stimulus (CS) repeat-edly without an accompanying unconditionedstimulus (UCS) generally results in(A) punishment(B) generalization(C) discrimination(D) the conditioned response(E) a child learns not to use swear words infront of his parents, but does so in front offriends, the child is exhibiting the principle of(A) stimulus discrimination(B) classical conditioning(C) stimulus generalization(D) selective extinction(E) response is often suggested that classically conditionedresponses are _____, whereas operantly condi-tioned responses are _____.

10 (A) voluntary, involuntary(B) aversive, appetitive(C) aversive, reflexive(D) reflexes, voluntary(E) appetitive, Psychology student is training a rat to climb aladder. She first rewards the rat for any move-ment it makes toward the ladder, and then onlywhen the rat actually makes contact with theladder. Eventually, the rat must successfullyclimb the ladder in order to obtain the student has used the behavioral technique of(A) shaping(B) stimulus discrimination(C) negative reinforcement(D) positive reinforcement(E) general, learning takes place more rapidly with(A) continuous reinforcement(B) partial reinforcement(C) random reinforcement(D) no reinforcement(E) intermittent applying principles of operantconditioning to influence and change behavior isreferred to as(A) observational learning(B) mind control(C) classical conditioning(D) psychotherapy(E) behavior is very frustrated because her cat keepsjumping up on the counter, even though she hadspent a lot of time trying to train him not to doso.