2. A) Is how you can choose your sample from
the population
B) Happens when you are distributing
participants into the control or
experimental group
C) Is avoided by the researchers as it
unreliable

3. A) p < 0.001
B) p < 0.01
C) p < 0.10
D) p < 0.05

4. A) Focussed attention
B) Minimum attention
C) A shift in attention from internal to
external stimuli
D) A shift in attention form external to
internal stimuli

5. A) Participants are responsible for the
research
B) Participants can make comments on the
results whenever they want to
C) The welfare of the researcher is not
compromised in any way
D) The welfare of the participants are not
compromised in any way

6. A) all conditions of the experiment
B) the IV only
C) the IV repeatedly
D) the DV repeatedly

7. A) How the variables being studied will be
observed, manipulated and measured
B) The operational procedures used in the
study
C) How the researcher will use the IV
D) How the DV will be measured

8. A) Enables us to spread our attention between various
activities
B) Prevents us form taking in any other information
C) Is an altered state of consciousness in which we can
only focus on a few select features of a stimulus
D) Is associated with normal waking consciousness and
filters information form the complete range of what we
are experiencing

9. A) Occipital
B) Frontal
C) Parietal
D) Temporal

10. A) Auditory cortex
B) Motor cortex
C) Somatosensory cortex
D) Visual cortex

11. A) Corpus callosum
B) Cerebral cortex
C) Primary cortex
D) Association cortex

12. A) frontal lobe association areas
B) occipital lobe association areas
C) Wernicke’s area
D) Broca’s area

13. A) hemispheric
B) independent
C) neural
D) association

14. A) occipital
B) frontal
C) parietal
D) temporal

15. A) Voluntary movements of skeletal
muscles
B) Involuntary movement of skeletal
muscles
C) The amount of the cortex that is sensitive
to movement
D) The sensitivity of body parts

16. A) Comprehending a VCE lecture
B) Giving an oral presentation
C) Kicking a football
D) Detecting a light touch on the cheek

17. A) Using a PET to stimulate the brain’s
electrical activity
B) Using the EEG to record the brains
electrical activity
C) Using the MRI to examine brain structure
D) Using CT to examine brain structure

18. A) EEG
B) MRI
C) fMRI
D) CT

19. A) Activates bodily functions to deal with a
stressor
B) Activates the muscular relaxation and
decreases heart rate
C) Is slower to respond in an emergency
situation than the parasympathetic
nervous system
D) Maintains the internal systems of the
body in a balanced state

20. A) Physiological responses
B) Truthful responses
C) Lies
D) Truthful responses and lies

21. A) Causes stressors
B) Always leads to permanent physiological
and psychological illnesses
C) Affects all people in the same way
D) Can be caused by factors within and
outside the individual and may have
physiological and or psychological
effects

22. A) resistance
B) exhaustion
C) alarm reaction
D) countershock

23. A) The overall state of alertness and
activation of an organism
B) The amount of stress an organism
requires to function at their best
C) The maintenance of bodily functions to
conserve energy
D) The activation of the parasympathetic
nervous system

24. A) Maintain the parasympathetic nervous
system in an active state, resulting in
disease
B) Contribute to a breakdown in the
functioning of the Immune system
C) Deplete the body of all its hormones
D) Cause cancer, but only if the person is in
a negative emotional state

25. A) Resistance
B) Exhaustion
C) Alarm reaction
D) Countershock

26. A) distortion of perception
B) conflicting cues
C) apparent distance
D) context

27. A) Cholesterol
B) Adrenalin
C) Phagocyte
D) Oestrogen

28. A) A continuum
B) A person’s level of awareness of their
internal state and external events
C) A person’s level of awareness of their
internal state without awareness of
external environment
D) A person’s physiological responses to
external stimuli

29. A) a state of wakefulness
B) our awareness of how we are feeling
C) a state of full alertness and focused attention
D) a mixture of automatic and controlled
processes

30. A) We can usually consciously control the
information coming into consciousness
B) Information is continually flowing in and
out of consciousness
C) there is a limit to the amount of time
we’re are awake
D) Controlled processed dominate
automatic processes

31. A) An important stimulus
B) A novel stimulus
C) An unchanging stimulus
D) A changing stimulus

32. A) Eye movements or position
B) Muscle tone or muscle movement
C) Areas in the cerebral cortex
D) Areas deep within the brain

33. A) During the night, REM sleep lengthens in
duration
B) During the night, REM sleep occurs after
each NREM cycle
C) Muscle tone increases during REM sleep
D) REM follows the lightest stages of sleep

34. A) Results from a preoccupation with one’s
own thoughts
B) Results from insufficient REM sleep
C) Usually occurs within a few minutes of
falling asleep
D) Usually occurs during the deepest stage
of NREM sleep

35. A) Sleep apnoea
B) Hypersomnia
C) Insomnia
D) microsleep

36. A) Sleep apnea
B) Hypersomnia
C) Insomnia
D) microsleep

37. A) Make more errors on all types of tasks than
they would when not deprived of sleep
B) Make fewer errors on simple, boring tasks than
they would when not sleep deprived
C) Make more errors on complex or interesting
tasks than they would when not deprived of
sleep
D) Make more errors on simple, boring tasks than
they would when not sleep deprived

38. A) REM sleep
B) NREM sleep stage 1
C) NREM sleep stage 2
D) NREM sleep stage 4