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!