Friday Mixed Psychology Review

Question 1

Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...

Accepted Answer

Obedience

Question 2

Which kind of drugs depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but impairing memory?

Accepted Answer

Barbiturates

Question 3

Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?

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Top-down processing

Question 4

According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and underlying meaning of a dream?

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Manifest Content and Latent Content

Question 5

What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?

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Spontaneous Recovery

Question 6

The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is...

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Modeling

Question 7

Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes are classified as...

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Mood Disorders

Question 8

What is the ability of produce novel and valuable ideas?

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Creativity

Question 9

The basic defense mechanism that ejects anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories is...

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Repression

Question 10

What is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself?

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Relative Deprivation

Question 11

True or False: Most major depressive episodes self-terminate.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

The picture below portrays what idea?

Accepted Answer

Visual Cliff

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a projective test?

Accepted Answer

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Question 14

What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: 'Who am I?'

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Self-Concept

Question 15

True or False: Aerobic exercise may alleviate depression and anxiety.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What determines the hue of light?

Accepted Answer

Wavelength

Question 17

Which structure of the brain helps process explicit memories for storage?

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Hippocampus

Question 18

True or False: Clients generally speak negatively of their therapists.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?

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Movement

Question 20

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as...

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resistance

Question 21

Which stage of Freud's psychosexual stages is characterized by dormant sexual feelings?

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Latency

Question 22

Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others is known as...

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Social Facilitation

Question 23

Asch's experiments exhibit what psychological concept?

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Conformity

Question 24

Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as...

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Linguistic Determinism

Question 25

Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?

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Middle Ear

Question 26

False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders are...

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delusions

Question 27

The model below depicts Freud's idea of...

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Mind Structure

Question 28

What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?

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Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black

Question 29

What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?

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Circadian Rhythm

Question 30

Which of the following in NOT a "Big Five" personality trait?

Accepted Answer

None of the Above

Question 31

What is the study of paranormal activity?

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Parapsychology

Question 32

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...

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Chunking

Question 33

A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...

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Savant Syndrome

Question 34

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is known as...

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Personality

Question 35

Goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals is

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Task Leadership

Question 36

The diagram below depicts which theory of emotion?

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James-Lange

Question 37

A revoked driver's license is an example of what?

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Negative Punishment

Question 38

The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...

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Internal Locus of Control

Question 39

Which method of coping attempts to alleviate stress directly?

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Problem-Focused Coping

Question 40

The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is

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Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Question 41

The word 'but' has how many phonemes?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 42

Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?

Accepted Answer

eclectic

Question 43

The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?

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Interposition

Question 44

In Pavlov's experiments, what is the conditioned stimulus?

Accepted Answer

Sound of Bell

Question 45

True or False: Depression is usually unaffected by stressful life events.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

The diagram below is an example of what idea?

Accepted Answer

Drive-Reduction Theory

Question 47

A robin is a ______ of bird.

Accepted Answer

Prototype

Question 48

The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...

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Basal Metabolic Rate

Question 49

Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?

Accepted Answer

Pupils Contract

Question 50

What are the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state?

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Alpha

Question 51

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...

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Both B and C

Question 52

Which personality type is competitive, impatient, verbally-aggressive, and anger-prone?

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Type A

Question 53

Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?

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Cannon-Bard

Question 54

Which of the following is NOT one of Garner's eight intelligences?

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Practical

Question 55

Systematic desensitization is what kind of therapy?

Accepted Answer

Exposure

Question 56

Which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?

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Aptitude Test

Question 57

What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?

Accepted Answer

Fovea

Question 58

What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?

Accepted Answer

Misinformation Effect

Question 59

The picture below is an example of what concept?

Accepted Answer

Proximity

Question 60

Which of the following states of consciousness are psychologically induced?

Accepted Answer

Hypnosis/Meditation

Question 61

Crediting primarily someone's disposition to explain their behavior is due to...

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Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 62

What is the tendency of people to be helpful when already in a good mood?

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Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon

Question 63

What is known as the "Aha!" moment?

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Insight

Question 64

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is...

Accepted Answer

Morpheme

Friday Mixed Psychology Review

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Friday Mixed Psychology Review

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