Apply the course version boundaries in notes.md; HSK tasks are transferable language practice, not a claimed HSK 3.0 mock.
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gre_psychology:mixed-revision:1
A researcher assigns volunteers randomly to two study methods. Identify what random assignment addresses and what volunteer recruitment still limits.
Ответ и обоснование
Random assignment reduces systematic confounding between groups. Volunteer recruitment may limit generalisability; assignment is not random sampling.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:2
A bell repeatedly precedes food and later evokes salivation. Identify the learned cue and distinguish reinforcement of a voluntary action.
Ответ и обоснование
The bell becomes a conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning. Operant reinforcement depends on consequences of an action, rather than a predictive cue-food pairing alone.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:3
A test is stable across administrations but systematically underestimates the target skill. Explain reliability and validity separately.
Ответ и обоснование
Stable measurements support test-retest reliability. Systematic underestimation challenges the proposed interpretation; reliability does not establish validity.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:4
A client shows intrusion and hyperarousal for six weeks after an assault. Which classification fits the duration criterion, and what would apply at ten days?
Ответ и обоснование
Beyond one month the post-traumatic stress disorder pattern can apply; at ten days the matching classification is acute stress disorder.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:5
In the diathesis-stress model, classify a family history of depression and a recent job loss.
Ответ и обоснование
The family history is the diathesis (pre-existing vulnerability); the job loss is the stress (later trigger). Neither factor establishes inevitability; their relation to risk is conditional.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:6
Why does a waitlist-controlled trial give stronger outcome evidence than pre-post measurement alone?
Ответ и обоснование
People often improve without treatment through spontaneous remission and regression to the mean; the comparison condition separates treatment gain from the natural course.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:7
Match each presentation to a first-line approach — a specific phobia, obsessive-compulsive rituals, and depression with hopeless thoughts.
Ответ и обоснование
Graduated exposure for the phobia; exposure with response prevention for the rituals; cognitive-behavioural restructuring plus behavioural activation for the depression.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:8
A test is given twice two weeks apart, r=.85; another study uses two parallel forms, r=.80. Name each reliability type.
Ответ и обоснование
Same test twice is test-retest reliability; two similar forms give alternate-forms reliability.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:9
With SD=15 and reliability .91, compute the standard error of measurement, and convert z=+2 to a Wechsler score.
Ответ и обоснование
SEM=15×sqrt(1−.91)=15×0.3=4.5. IQ=100+15×2=130.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:10
Each of 60 students is randomly assigned to one of three mnemonic conditions. Name the design and a suitable test for comparing the group means.
Ответ и обоснование
A between-subjects true experiment; one-way analysis of variance for the three group means.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:11
In a 2×2 design the lines for the two levels of factor B cross between the levels of factor A. What does this indicate, and what is needed to claim that A mattered overall?
Ответ и обоснование
Crossing lines indicate an interaction, meaning the effect of A depends on the level of B. Claiming A mattered overall requires a significant main effect of A.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:12
A lifted-weight study finds Weber fraction k=.04. What change is detectable at a 200 g baseline, and at 50 g?
Ответ и обоснование
8 g and 2 g. The just noticeable difference is a fraction of the baseline, not a fixed amount.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:13
Observer X and observer Y both detect 80% of signals, but X has 5% false alarms and Y has 30%. Who is more sensitive, and what else differs?
Ответ и обоснование
X is more sensitive — equal hits with fewer false alarms mean better separated distributions (higher d′). Y additionally uses a looser criterion.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:14
Why does a stronger stimulus not produce a larger spike, and how is intensity coded instead?
Ответ и обоснование
The action potential is all-or-none once threshold is crossed at the axon hillock. Intensity is coded by firing rate and the number of active neurons.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:15
A drug blocks dopamine D2 receptors. Is it an agonist or antagonist, and what is one clinical use?
Ответ и обоснование
An antagonist; D2 blockade is the mechanism of typical antipsychotics for positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:16
Order Piaget's four stages with one defining capacity each.
Ответ и обоснование
Sensorimotor (object permanence), preoperational (symbolic play, no conservation), concrete operational (conservation and reversible concrete operations), formal operational (controlled hypothesis testing).
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:17
What does passing the false-belief task show, and what does intentional deceptive lying presuppose?
Ответ и обоснование
Passing shows the child understands that others can hold false beliefs; deceptive lying presupposes modelling what another person believes.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:18
Which two 1870s laboratories mark psychology's founding, and what did Titchener and James each ask?
Ответ и обоснование
Wundt at Leipzig and James at Harvard. Titchener analysed experience into elements by introspection (structuralism); James asked what mental processes are for (functionalism).
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:19
Match Maslow, Skinner, Bandura and Beck to their central claims.
Ответ и обоснование
Maslow — hierarchy of needs and self-actualisation; Skinner — behaviour shaped by operant consequences; Bandura — observational learning and modelling; Beck — cognitive therapy targeting distorted thinking.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:20
A child avoids a cold bedroom because it is unpleasant, and avoidance grows stronger. Name the operant process and explain the sign.
Ответ и обоснование
Negative reinforcement — the behaviour strengthens because an aversive state is removed or prevented. It is not punishment, which decreases behaviour.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:21
A dog's salivation to a bell fades when food stops following the bell, then briefly returns after a week of rest. Name both phenomena.
Ответ и обоснование
Extinction (CS without US weakens the CR), then spontaneous recovery after a pause.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:22
A list's first and last words are recalled best. Explain both ends of the serial position curve.
Ответ и обоснование
Primacy — early items are rehearsed into long-term memory; recency — the last items are still in the short-term store.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:23
After learning Spanish, a student's earlier French keeps intruding, and later the Spanish starts erasing the French. Name both directions of interference.
Ответ и обоснование
French intruding on Spanish is proactive interference (old disrupts new); Spanish erasing French is retroactive interference (new disrupts old).
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:24
Split un-re-do-ing into morphemes, and say why letter count is the wrong measure.
Ответ и обоснование
Four morphemes (un, re, do, ing). Morphemes are meaning-bearing units; a morpheme can be one letter or several.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:25
A listener hears a sound midway between /b/ and /p/ as clearly one phoneme. Name the phenomenon and its implication for speech categories.
Ответ и обоснование
Categorical perception — continuous acoustic variation is perceived as discrete phoneme categories, so within-category differences are hard to hear.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:26
A voter estimates crime as rising because a recent vivid case comes to mind, then reads only reports that agree. Name both processes.
Ответ и обоснование
Availability heuristic (ease of recall inflates judged frequency) and confirmation bias (seeking only supporting evidence).
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:27
Contrast Spearman's and Cattell's accounts of intelligence structure in one sentence each.
Ответ и обоснование
Spearman proposed a single general factor g underlying test performance; Cattell separated fluid reasoning about novelty from crystallised learned knowledge.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:28
A manager blames a late report on an employee's laziness, ignoring the power cut. Name the error and its self-directed counterpart.
Ответ и обоснование
The fundamental attribution error — disposition over situation for others. For ourselves the actor-observer asymmetry favours situational explanations.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:29
A voter adopts a candidate after evaluating policy arguments, and a second voter after liking the candidate's smile. Compare the routes and their durability.
Ответ и обоснование
The first is central-route persuasion, durable because arguments were evaluated; the second is peripheral-route, cue-based and fragile.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:30
Why do skilled cyclists ride faster with an audience while novices ride worse, and why do tug-of-war teams underperform?
Ответ и обоснование
Social facilitation strengthens dominant (well-learned) responses and weakens novel ones. Tug-of-war shows social loafing when individual pulls are unidentifiable.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:31
In a crowded plaza nobody helps a collapsed passer-by. Name two mechanisms, and one feature that restores helping.
Ответ и обоснование
Diffusion of responsibility and pluralistic ignorance. A clearly identified single victim or a direct request to a specific person restores helping.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:32
Why does a hands-free phone call still slow braking, and which theory explains the shared-demand cost?
Ответ и обоснование
The bottleneck is central capacity, not occupied hands; multimode theory (Johnston and Heinz) moves the selection point with combined task demands.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:33
A commuter stops hearing the nightly train, then notices it again when the schedule changes. Name both processes and why neither is conditioning.
Ответ и обоснование
Habituation (decline to repetition) and dishabituation (recovery to change). No stimulus pairing is involved, so they are non-associative.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:34
Using Hamilton's rule, decide whether helping pays for r=.5, B=6, C=2 and for r=.25, B=6, C=2.
Ответ и обоснование
rB>C: sibling case 0.5×6=3>2 pays; r=.25 gives 1.5<2, does not pay. Help is ordered by relatedness.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:35
A goose rolls a doorknob into its nest as if it were an egg. Name the behaviour pattern and the stimulus phenomenon.
Ответ и обоснование
A fixed action pattern released by a sign stimulus; the oversized doorknob acts as a supernormal stimulus.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:36
Rank these study tasks by later recall and name the theory — counting letters, judging rhyme, judging sentence fit, generating an example sentence.
Ответ и обоснование
Generation > sentence fit > rhyme > letter counting. Levels of processing: depth and elaboration, not intention, build the trace.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:37
When can phonemic (rhyme) encoding beat semantic encoding, and what is the principle?
Ответ и обоснование
When the test probes rhyme recognition. Transfer-appropriate processing: the encoding matching the retrieval demand wins.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:38
Order the HPA cascade from stressor to cortisol and name the fast parallel pathway.
Ответ и обоснование
Hypothalamus (CRH) to pituitary (ACTH) to adrenal cortex (cortisol); in parallel the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary path releases adrenaline within seconds.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:39
Which hormone prepares the uterus for implantation, and how can a bloodstream-wide hormone act on only one organ?
Ответ и обоснование
Progesterone. Circulating hormone affects only cells carrying its receptor, so action is selective despite broadcast delivery.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:40
A country of 2 million records 4,000 new cases of a disorder this year and 30,000 current cases. Compute the incidence rate per 100,000 and the prevalence per cent.
Ответ и обоснование
Incidence 4,000/2,000,000 = 200 per 100,000 per year; prevalence 30,000/2,000,000 = 1.5%.
gre_psychology:mixed-revision:41
Order the evidence ladder and give the direction each observational design looks in time.
Ответ и обоснование
Case report, case-control (backward from outcome), cohort (forward from exposure), randomised trial, meta-analysis.