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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.

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