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1
Who reported that infantattachment goes beyond thesatisfaction of the need for nourishment?
Jean Piaget
Albert Bandura
Harry Harlow
Conrad Lorenz
2
According to Sigmund Freud, our sexual and aggressive instincts are located primarily in the
id
latent stage
superego
ego
3
Which process transfers information from sensory memory to short-term memory?
perception
sensation
attention
cognition
4
Who is this young man?
Mr. Zay
Dr. Zimbardo
No clue
Dr. Zahn
5
Which is a measure of central tendency that is most influenced by extreme scores?
mode
median
standard deviation
mean
6
Which of the neurotransmitters has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia?
Gama-aminobutyric acid
Dopamine
Serotonin
Acetylcholine
7
The frustration-aggression hypothesis views aggression as
reactive
unconscious
cognitive
innate
8
The section of the brain considered most vital to the initiation of feeding behaviors is the
Substantia nigra
Hippocampus
Superior olive
Hypothalamus
9
Which of the following is the best exampleof a homeostatic process?
Cathy drinks a lot of water to reduce thirst after a race.
Lian becomes angry after sitting in trafficfor an hour.
Manny decides that he is overweightand goes on a diet.
Edesa stays up later than normal to studyfor a test.
10
An example of episodic memory is the memory of
how to type
one's high school graduation
what the musical note of C sounds like
the capital of a state
11
Which of the following is LEAST likely to be used in research on personality?
Projective Tests
Inventories
Conservation tasks
Interviews
12
Which of the following is a hormone that is most directly related to human sex drive?
Acetylcholine
Testosterone
Norepinepherine
Dopamine
13
Which of type of medicationthat has been linked to the side effect of tardivedyskinesia?
Neuroleptics
Antidepressants
Tricyclic
Anxiolytics
14
Most professionals in the US rate themsleves better in performance than their averge peer. This is
self-serving bias
self-actualization
objective self-awareness
the fundamental attribution error
15
Which of the following is true of persons with schizophrenia?
They have multiple personalities.
They are often unable to make simple statements
They are typically cured if they take appropriate medicine
They typically experience onset in late adolescence or adult
16
Although it produces undesirable side effects, ECT has been an effective treatment of
depression
panic disorder
schizophrenia
multiple personality
17
Who is this young man?
Skinner
Pavlov
James
Freud
18
Which procedure can reduce problems associatedwith the use of deception by a researcher?
random sampling
random assignment
using only double-blind studies
debriefing
19
The reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response is called
spontaneous recovery
acquisition
generalization
discrimination
20
Which of the following psychoactive drugs work by inhibiting the repute of serotonin?
Clozapine
Xanax
Lithium carbonate
Prozac
21
Which type of therapy uses free association,dream interpretation, and analysis oftransference?
Cognitive-behavioral
Behavioral
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
22
Who is this young man?
Mr. Zay
Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Wundt
Albert Bandura
23
The experience of an emotion, as described by the James-Lange theory, would follow which order?
Stimulus, emotion, arousal
arousal, stimulus, emotion
emotion, arousal, stimulus
Stimulus, arousal, emotion
24
A person fearful of rattlesnakes but not garden snakes is exhibiting
response learning
insight learning
generalization
discrimination learning
25
At night, Alicia stops breathingrepeatedly and snoresloudly at regular intervals. She has
narcolepsy
Insomnia
Night terrors
Sleep apnea
26
Damage to the occipital lobe would mostlikely affect a person’s
balance
fine motor movements
vision
language processing
27
Long-term potentiation is best described as the
interference effect of old memories on new memories
superior ability of older adults to recall events
increased efficiency of synaptic transmission after learning
tendency of people to recall experiences with current moods
28
Who is this young man?
Lawrence Kohlberg
Lev Vygotsky
Mr. Zay
Jean Piaget
29
Ben normally sleeps 10pm-7am. In which of the following would he experience the LEAST REM sleep
6am and 7am
10pm and 11pm
12am and 1am
1am and 2am
30
A basic assumption underlying short-term memory is that it is
long lasting
limited capacity
resistant to decay
not under conscious control
31
Who is this young man?
Sigmund Freud
Albert Bandura
Philip Zimbardo
Stanley Milgram
32
Which gland of the endocrine system controls the activity of other glands?
Pineal
Thyroid
Pancreas
Pituitary
33
When the word “walk” is changed to “walked,”the suffix “ed” is an example of a
morpheme
phoneme
lexicon
syntax
34
Aversion therapy to eliminate undesirable behavior is most likely to be used by which therapist
Psychoanalytic
Cognitive
Reality
Behavioral
35
Which of the following did Adler suggest is the primary force in development of personality
Analyzing the collective unconscious
Resolving the Electra Complex
Repressing the libido
Overcoming the inferiority complex
36
Gestalt psychology is concerned primarilywith understanding which of the following?
Perception
Learning
Sensation
Development
37
Who is this young women?
Mary Ainsworth
No clue
Mrs. Zay
Karen Horney
38
The 5 factor theory of personality does NOT include which of the following characteristics
Intelligence
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Extraversion
39
The just-world hypothesis would best explainwhich of the following phenomena?
Bystander apathy
Groupthink
Blaming the victim
Cognitive dissonance
40
Bob recalls last summer when he felloff his bicycle and scraped his knee.This is anexample of
Episodic memory
Iconic memory
Short term memory
Semantic memory
41
Who is this young man?
No clue.
Wilhelm Wundt
Stanley Milgram
Albert Bandura
42
After constant exposure to a stimulus, our nerve cells fire less frequently. This is called?
Weber's Law
Absolute Threshold Sensitivity
Signal Detection
Sensory Adaptation
43
When trying to solve a problem, Bret uses a logical, step-by-step formula called
priming
A hueristic
an algorithm
insight
44
According to Erik Erikson's theory of development, the key concern of early adulthood is
raising children
sharing intimacy with another
establishing a career
leaving the parent's world
45
According to Piaget, children cease toexhibit egocentrism during which of thefollowing stages?
sensorimotor
preoperational
formal operational
concrete operational
46
Which of the following is a binocular cue for depth perception?
Retinal disparity
Motion parallax
Texture gradient
Linear perspective
47
Which type of intelligence would be important in answering trivia questions?
Creative
Bodily Kinesthetic
Crystallized
Fluid
48
Noam Chomsky hypothesized that humans learn language through
trial and error
conditioning and reinforcement
interpersonal communication
an innate language acquisition device
49
Who is this young man?
Freud
James
Pavlov
Skinner
50
The overjustification effect has led some psychologists to question the value of
Intrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation
Framing
Set point theory
51
A bundle of nerve fibers that interconnects the two brain hemispheres is the
thalamus
Sylvian fissure
corpus callosum
association areas
52
Which perspective argues that every person has the potential to becomeself-actualized?
Gestalt
Behavioral
Cognitive
Humanistic
53
In a normal dist, aprox what percent of the scores occur within one SD above and below the mean
33%
99%
68%
5%
54
In neurons, neurotransmitters are released at the
axons
dendrites
cell bodies
synaptic vesicles
55
Who is this young women?
Karen Horney
Mrs. Zay
No clue.
Mary Ainsworth