Share General Psychology Final Exam Review Spring 2025
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T or F: The central nervous system is composed of the autonomic and somatic system
False
T or F: When the sympathetic nervous system is activated, one’s salivation, digestion, and production of tears are inhibited.
True
T or F: If the right side of the brain is damaged, people lose their ability to understand jokes, irony, sarcasm, implications, and other nuances of language.
True
T or F: The reticular formation does not fully mature until adolescence, which may be why children have such short attention spans.
True
T or F: As you are walking down a dark street, you hear a noise directly behind you, and you immediately dart off the sidewalk because of the activation of your amygdala.
True
T or F: When psychologists attribute development to nurture, they are referring to the effects of heredity
False
T or F: When a gene is recessive, it must be paired with a second gene of the same type before its effect will be expressed
True
T or F: Current guidelines suggest that toilet training goes most smoothly when it begins between 18 and 24 months of age
True
T or F: Authoritarian parents tend to control their children's behavior through discipline strategies known as management techniques.
False
T or F: Overly permissive parents tend to have children who are resilient and who use positive coping skills
False
T or F: When our attention is narrowly focused, we may experience inattentional blindness.
True
T or F: Repetitious stimuli shown in television commercials tend to be so boring that they fail in capturing our attention
False
T or F: East Asians tend to have a relatively narrow focus of attention, while European Americans have a broader focus of attention.
False
T or F: Good advice to help a person to minimize motion sickness would be to move one’s head as little as possible and fixate on a distant immobile object.
True
T or F: The three small bones of the middle ear are called the auditory ossicles.
True
T or F: Everyone experiences some altered state of consciousness every day.
True
