Psychology 101:05 Spring 2022 Exam 2
Practice questions – COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Activation Synthesis Theory - ✔✔The theory suggesting that we turn random neural signals into dreams
is _____ theory.
a. Freudian
b. the i
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Psychology 101:05 Spring 2022 Exam 2
Practice questions – COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Activation Synthesis Theory - ✔✔The theory suggesting that we turn random neural signals into dreams
is _____ theory.
a. Freudian
b. the information processing
c. the preserving neural pathways
d. the activation synthesis
information processing - ✔✔Hahn tells his friends that he needs to go to sleep after their study session
rather than studying all night because sleeping will help to consolidate his memory of what he learned.
Hahn is a proponent of the _____ theory of sleep.
a. evolutionary/adaptive
b. restorative
c. information
d. processing
activation synthesis
our unconscious desires - ✔✔According to Freud, dreams reflect:
a. events that we experienced that day.
b. our unconscious desires.
c. random firing of visual and motor neurons.
d. the need to keep our brains active during sleep.
rooting - ✔✔When you touch your baby niece's cheek, she turns her head toward your hand and opens
her mouth. She is exhibiting the _____ reflex.
a. Moro
b. Babinsky
c. sucking
d. rooting
accommodation - ✔✔Olenna had thought that a firefighter was a "man who fights fires" until she saw a
female firefighter and then realized that a firefighter is a "person who fights fires." Olenna went through
the process of:
a. assimilation.
b. accommodation.
c. conservation.
d. transitivity.
transitivity - ✔✔Tywin understands that since his mom will arrive home after his dad, and his Uncle
Stannis will arrive after his mom, that his dad will be the first of the three to arrive. Tywin understands
the concept of:
a. transitivity.
b. conservation.
c. object permanence.
d. egocentric thinking.
object permanence - ✔✔Little Osha really wants to pet a cute skunk she sees outside, and is chasing it
with determination. Luckily, the skunk runs under a bush where Osha can't see it. She immediately
forgets about the skunk and picks up a ball to play with instead. Osha doesn't yet understand:
a. object permanence.
b. conservation.
c. transitivity.
d. assimilation.
formal operational stage - ✔✔Aisling often thinks about what kind of career she wants to have when
she grows up and what it might be like to have that career. According to Piaget, Aisling is probably in the
_____ stage of cognitive development.
a. preoperationa
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