Psi Chi/PSA 4/22
Our last meeting!!
Events
-April 22- Meeting
-April 26- Inductions
-April 28- B.D’s Mongolian BBQ Fundraiser
-Contact Allissa for coupons!
-Relay for Life- A success! Check out pictures on Facebook.
Meeting Agenda
-Evaluations
-Quiz Bowl
-Becky put together a game of jeapordy using actual questions from the 2008-2009 psychology subject GRE.
-The prisoner’s dilemma is used to study
E) Cooperation and competition
-The learned helplessness model put forth by Seligman is a model of which of the following?
C) Depression
-The Myth of Mental Illness was written by
E) Thomas Szasz
-Who first showed that contact comfort was necessary for the formation of the mother-infacnt attachment bond?
E) Harry Harlow
-For Noam Chomsky , the semantic interpretation of a sentence comes from
C) Deep Structure
-Lewin and his colleagues in their 1939 study of leadership styles found that
D) autocratic leaders created more hostility than democratic leaders
-A person gets a good grade on a midterm exam and believes that the good grade was due to an easy test. This statement is most relevant to which of the following theorists?
B) Julian Rotter
-Which of the following is NOT a morpheme?
D) the “ou” in “soup”
-Staring at a red stimulus for a while leads to a green afterimage. This supports
B) Hering’s opponent-process theory
-A Type II error occurs
C) Whenever a false null hypothesis is accepted
-According to inoculation theory, a person’s belief can be inoculated against a persuasive attack by
D) Anticipating the attacker’s arguments and discrediting those arguments
-Which of the following best states John Garcia’s major contribution to classical conditioning?
D) Classical conditioning is affected by the animal’s biological makeup
-Upon being asked to list various uses for a blanket, Lillian responds, “A parachute, a basketball net, and fake icing for a small sculpture of a cake.” Lillian is using
D) Divergent thinking
-When a person says, “Molly is smarter than John,” she is employing which measurement scale?
B) Ordinal
-Delusions, flat affect, and catatonic behavior are all symptoms of
A)Schizophrenia
-Which of the following determine perceived size?
-I. Retinal size
-II. Perceived distance
-III. Pupil size
D) I and II only
-Disturbances in nerve tracts for certain neurotransmitters have been linked with various psych disorders and degenerative diseases. Which of the following pairings is NOT correct?
E) GABA and Parkinson’s disease
-According to Piaget, the attainment of formal operations is characterized by
D) tertiary circular reactions
-The dispute between the place theory and the frequency theory has to do with the action of the
A)basilar membrane
-Kohler’s experiment on chimpanzee problem solving demonstrated that
B)not all learning is trial-and-error
0In an experiment on vision, stimuli of different magnitudes are presented to a subject who is then asked to responding “yes” if he sees the stimulus and “no” if he does not. Using this procedure, the experimenter is likely to find that a subject with HIGH sensitivity will
C)have more hits than false alarms
FIRST PLACE- The Red Team
SECOND PLACE- Team Awesome
THIRD PLACE- Skinner’s Pigeons
Thank you for a great year!!! We will see you at inductions on Sunday!