292 ❯ STEP 5. Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
47.Jared thinks that going to psychology lecture
classes is a waste of time, and that you can do just
as well in the course if you just read the review
book, watch “Discovering Psychology,” and take
the tests. He decides to test his hypothesis with
an experiment. The independent variable in his
experiment is
(A) going to lecture classes
(B) going to lecture classes, reading the review
book, and watching “Discovering Psychology”
(C) not going to lecture classes, reading the
review book, and watching “Discovering
Psychology”
(D) just taking tests
(E) doing as well on tests without going to class
as with going to class
48.In class, John’s teacher tells him that she will give
him the coin and bill for each picture he can cor-
rectly identify on the face of the penny, nickel,
dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar bill and five-
dollar bill. John cannot identify any of them
although he has been handling money for 17
years. His inability to remember the pictures
most likely results from
(A) confabulation
(B) failure to reconstruct
(C) failure to encode
(D) deep processing
(E) repression
49.Stranded in a deserted area after a boating acci-
dent, Harry was able to survive by eating leaves
and insects, and drinking water he boiled in a
fire he made. According to Gardner’s Theory of
Multiple Intelligences, Harry displayed a high
level of which of the following intelligences?
(A) naturalistic
(B) interpersonal
(C) verbal–linguistic
(D) mathematical
(E)g
50.Menarche occurs at about age
(A) 12 in males only
(B) 12 in females only
(C) 12 in both sexes
(D) 12 in females and 14 in males
(E) 50 in females only51.Amy’s therapist shakes her head affirmatively and
says, “Yes, uh huh,” as Amy talks about her prob-
lems. Which of the following treatments did she
experience?
(A) psychoanalysis
(B) behavior therapy
(C) humanistic therapy
(D) cognitive therapy
(E) existential therapy
52.Lucille suffered a stroke last week and cannot
recognize her children or grandchildren by look-
ing at them. Of the following structures, her
brain lesion is most likely in the
(A) cerebellum
(B) hypothalamus
(C) amygdala
(D) left cerebral cortex
(E) right cerebral cortex
53.According to the Gestalt organizing principles of
perception, when you look at, “i n car n a t e,”
you tend to notice the word car rather than
in, nate, at or ate, because of
(A) continuity
(B) the phi phenomenon
(C) similarity
(D) figure-ground
(E) proximity
54.Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?
(A) food
(B) water
(C) money
(D) sex
(E) token economy
55.An action potential involves the movement of
(A) glucose into the axon
(B) fats out of the axon terminal
(C) molecules in the synaptic gap
(D) sodium ions into the axon
(E) fluoride ions out of the axon