Question 1

People have been most likely to describe themselves as a "sandwich generation" during their

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A)  adolescence. 
B)  early adulthood. 
C)  middle adulthood. 
D)  late adulthood.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 2

Physical abilities such as muscular strength,reaction time,sensory keenness,and cardiac output reach their peak during

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A)  late adolescence. 
B)  early adulthood. 
C)  puberty. 
D)  middle adulthood.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 3

The ability to learn a new computer software program is to ________ as knowledge of state capitals is to ________.

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A)  concrete operations; formal operations 
B)  formal operations; concrete operations 
C)  crystallized intelligence; fluid intelligence 
D)  fluid intelligence; crystallized intelligenceE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 4

Visual information is processed by

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A)  feature detectors before it is processed by rods and cones. 
B)  ganglion cells before it is processed by feature detectors. 
C)  bipolar cells before it is processed by rods and cones. 
D)  feature detectors before it is processed by bipolar cells.E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 5

To qualify for the office manager's job,55-year-old Mariel must take a series of psychological tests. Her performance on the test of ________ is likely to be poorer than if she had taken it as a 25-year-old.

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A)  general knowledge 
B)  spelling 
C)  abstract reasoning 
D)  vocabularyE) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 6

When children grow up and leave home,mothers most frequently report feeling

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A)  depressed. 
B)  bored. 
C)  happy. 
D)  anxious.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 7

The process by which the lens changes its curvature is

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A)  accommodation. 
B)  sensory adaptation. 
C)  feature detection. 
D)  audition.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

The fovea refers to

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A)  the outer protective surface of the eye. 
B)  a colored muscle that adjusts light intake. 
C)  an area of the thalamus that receives information from the optic nerve. 
D)  the central focal point in the retina.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 9

Marie feels socially useful in her career as a financial investment advisor. Erik Erikson would have suggested that Marie experiences a sense of

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A)  secure attachment. 
B)  conventional morality. 
C)  generativity. 
D)  conservation.E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 10

Patients who have negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure may experience increased postoperative pain. This best illustrates the importance of

Accepted Answer

A)  accommodation. 
B)  sensory adaptation. 
C)  difference thresholds. 
D)  top-down processing.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

Which of the following strategies best illustrates the use of subliminal stimulation?

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A)  A store plays a musical soundtrack in which a faint and imperceptible verbal warning against shoplifting is repeated frequently. 
B)  The laughter of a studio audience is dubbed into the soundtrack of a televised situation comedy. 
C)  A radio advertiser repeatedly smacks her lips before biting into a candy bar. 
D)  An unseen television narrator repeatedly suggests that you are thirsty while a cold drink is visually displayed on the screen.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to ________ as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  absolute threshold; difference threshold 
B)  sensory adaptation; feature detection 
C)  feature detection; sensory adaptation 
D)  sensation; perceptionE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 13

A psychophysicist would be most directly concerned with

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A)  our psychological reactions to physical stress. 
B)  the effects of heredity on the endocrine system. 
C)  the effect of neurotransmitters on depression. 
D)  the relationship between the wavelength of light and the experience of color.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 14

As men advance through middle adulthood they experience a gradual decline in

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A)  testosterone level. 
B)  sperm count. 
C)  ejaculation speed. 
D)  all of these things.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 15

When asked to recall the one or two most important events over the last half century,older adults tend to name events that occurred when they were between ________ years of age.

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A)  2 and 5 
B)  5 and 10 
C)  10 and 30 
D)  30 and 50E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 16

Berdine has developed cataracts in both eyes,preventing her from being able to identify even her mother's face. Berdine most clearly suffers a deficiency in

Accepted Answer

A)  the optic nerve. 
B)  accommodation. 
C)  bottom-up processing. 
D)  psychopshysics.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 17

The blind spot is located in the area of the retina

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A)  called the fovea. 
B)  that contains rods but no cones. 
C)  where the optic nerve leaves the eye. 
D)  where bipolar cells connect with ganglion cells.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 18

If a partially deaf person's hearing ability ________,his or her absolute threshold for sound ________.

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A)  improves; remains unchanged 
B)  worsens; decreases 
C)  worsens; remains unchanged 
D)  improves; decreasesE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 19

Given normal sensory ability,a person standing atop a mountain on a dark,clear night can see a candle flame atop a mountain 30 miles away. This is a description of vision's

Accepted Answer

A)  difference threshold. 
B)  jnd. 
C)  absolute threshold. 
D)  feature detection.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 20

Older people are NOT increasingly susceptible to

Accepted Answer

A)  pneumonia. 
B)  Parkinson's disease. 
C)  common cold viruses. 
D)  dementia.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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