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GMAT/GRE Grammar Review Misplaced or Dangling Modifiers: A misplaced modifier is identified as a clause which cannot stand on its own (that is, it relates to / “modifies” some other part of the sentence—subject, verb, etc— as an adjective or adverb) but is positioned too far from the element which it relates to

GRE Psychology Subject Test Questions & Answers Ablation - Answer-A surgically induced brain lesion. Absolute refractory period - Answer-The period that follows the onset of an action potential. During this period, a nerve impulse cannot be initiated Absolute threshold - Answer-The minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate a sensory system. Accommodation - Answer-A principle of Piaget's theory of cognitive development. It occurs when cognitive structures are modified because new inf...

GRE psychology practice Exam Review Solution Acetycholine - ANS-neurotransmitter associated with voluntary movement, sleep and wakefulness. Too little is associated with Alzheimer's Analysis of Variance/ANOVA - ANS-inferential statistical procedure used to compare 2 or more means to see if the difference is not chance (need p<.05 for statistical significance) Aphasia - ANS-impairment of ability to communicate either through oral or written discourse as a result of brain damage. Ex. ...

GRE Psychology Subject Test Practice Questions & Answers Complete Solution An athlete's performance may improve or worsen according to the level of arousal. Under extreme pressure, performance may diminish. This is an example of a) The Yerkes-Dodson Law b) Clark Hull's theory of motivation c) the Garcia effect d) Zajonc's theory e) the James-Lange theory - Correct Answer-a) The Yerkes-Dodson Law A developmental psychologist is interested in conducting a study on children's gender ...

GRE Psychology Questions & Answers Exam Review 2023 estrus - ANS-a recurring period of sexual receptivity and fertility in many female mammals; heat. G. Stanley Hall - ANS-founder of developmental psychology; American psychologist who established the first psychology research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological Association There is no correlation between z scores and t scores. - ANS-Each of the following is true about z scores except: a. the mean of a...

GRE Psychology - Biological Psychology Exam Review Solution Central Nervous System - Ans->>- composed of the brain and spinal cord Peripheral Nervous System - Ans->>- the pathway that runs to and from the CNS - afferent fibers run toward the CNS; efferent fibers run away from the CNS - composed of: 1) Somatic Nervous System - controls voluntary movements of the striated muscles 2) Autonomic Nervous System - involuntary movements of the smooth muscles, 2 parts: a) Sympathetic n...

GRE- Psychology Subject (Social Psych) Exam 2023/2024 Norman Triplett - ANS-first study of social psychology; people perform better on familiar tasks when in the presence of others than alone. William McDougall and E.H. Ross - ANS-Both published the first textbooks in social psychology. Verplank - ANS-social approval influences behavior; found that the course of a conversation changes dramatically based on feedback (approval) from others. Reinforcement Theory - ANS-behavior is motivated ...

GRE Psychology Test 100% Correct Review Exam Solution A child with an IQ of 63 would be diagnosed with: - Correct Ans-Mild mental retardation A phenomenological view of personality asserts that type theory neglects the - Correct Ans-Self Factitious disorders - Correct Ans-Which of the following is one of sixteen major diagnostic categories used in the DSM-IV? What is the key distinction between classical and operant conditioning? - Correct Ans-Operant conditioning emphasizes the conseq...

GRE Psychology Practice Set Questions & Answers Which of the following situations involving two people, P and O, and an object, X, will NOT be balanced according to Heider's balance theory? a. P likes O, and they both like X b. P likes O, and they both dislike X c. P dislikes O, and they both dislike X d. P dislikes O, P likes X, and O dislikes X e. P dislikes O, P dislikes X, and O likes X - Correct Ans-c (P dislikes O, and they both dislike X) According to inoculation theory, a perso...

GRE Psychology- Personality and Abnormal Psychology popular meanings of personality generally fall into one of two categories: - >>the social skills and the salient impression one leaves on others who defined physical and biological variables that he related to human behaviors and characterized people by body type, relating body type to personality type - >>William Sheldon Who used the terms endomorphy (soft and spherical) mesomorphs (hard muscular and rectangular) and ectom...