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

Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black

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

Manifest Content and Latent Content

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1
What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?
Red/Yellow, Green/Bue, Black/White
Rods/Cones
Red/Green/Blue
Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black
2
True or False: Clients generally speak negatively of their therapists.
True
False
3
In Pavlov's experiments, what is the conditioned stimulus?
Salivation
Food
None of the Above
Sound of Bell
4
Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?
Top-down processing
Perception
Bottom-up processing
Critical Thinking
5
Client-centered therapy falls under which perspective?
Humanistic
Active Listening
Psychodynamic
Behavioral
6
True or False: Depression is usually unaffected by stressful life events.
True
False
7
Asch's experiments exhibit what psychological concept?
Hindsight Bias
Conformity
Cognitive Dissonance
Overconfidence
8
The word 'but' has how many phonemes?
1
4
2
3
9
According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and underlying meaning of a dream?
Manifest Content and Latent Content
Sleep Apnea and Night Terrors
Latent Content and Matent Content
REM and Hypnosis
10
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is...
Sematics
Phoneme
Syntax
Morpheme
11
What is a desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people, or ideas?
Extrinsic Motivation
Satisfaction Motivation
Incentive
Achievement Motivation
12
Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?
Cause and Effect
Overconfidence
Illusory Correlation
Pattern Seeking
13
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as...
Hindsight Bias
Language Construction
Perception of Language`
Linguistic Determinism
14
Which stage of Freud's psychosexual stages is characterized by dormant sexual feelings?
Dormant
Oral
Phallic
Latency
15
Crediting primarily someone's disposition to explain their behavior is due to...
Hindsight Bias
Reflection
Attitude
Fundamental Attribution Error
16
The picture below is an example of what concept?
Proximity
Connectedness
None of the Above
Continuity
17
According to Kohlberg, one obeys either to avoid punishment or gain rewards during which stage?
Initiative vs. Guilt
Preconventional
Postconventional
Conventional
18
What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?
Imagination
Amnesia
Misinformation Effect
Memory Construction
19
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes are classified as...
Major Personality Disorders
Bipolar Disorders
Mood Disorders
Mania Disorders
20
Which method of coping attempts to alleviate stress directly?
Emotiong-Focused Coping
Problem-Focused Coping
None of the Above
Coping
21
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...
Explicit Memory
Declarative Memory
Both B and C
Implicit Memory
22
The basic defense mechanism that ejects anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories is...
Retrieval
Regression
None of the Above
Repression
23
The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?
convergence
Relative Size
Texture Gradient
Interposition
24
Goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals is
Conditioning
Social Leadership
Positive Coaching
Task Leadership
25
The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is...
Learning
Observing
Mirroring
Modeling
26
What is known as the "Aha!" moment?
Heuristics
Insight
Divergent Thinking
Confirmation Bias
27
Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
Serotonin
28
What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?
Gender Identity
Gender-Typing
Gender Role
Gender Schema Theory
29
What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?
Speed
Texture Gradience
Movement
Distance
30
A correlation coefficient of +.95 signifies...
A strong, positive correlation
No Correlation
A weak, positive correlation
No Relationship
31
The model below depicts Freud's idea of...
Body Structure
Intelligence
Mind Structure
Confidence
32
What is the body's speedy, electrochemical communication network?
Endocrine System
Limbic System
Nervous System
Digestive System
33
What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?
Classical Definition
Operational Defintion
Hypothesis
Basic Definition
34
Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others is known as...
Deindividuation
Social Loafing
Social Facilitation
Group Polarization
35
A revoked driver's license is an example of what?
Negative Punishment
Positive Punishment
Operant Conditioning
Negative Reinforcement
36
A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...
Savant Syndrome
None of the Above
Specific Intelligence
General Intelligence
37
Who concluded that the mind is separable from the body, and that knowledge is innate?
William James
Aristotle
Wilhelm Wundt
Socrates
38
What is the study of paranormal activity?
Psychology
Psychokinesis
Parapsychology
Scientific ESP
39
Which personality type is competitive, impatient, verbally-aggressive, and anger-prone?
Type 1
Type B
Type A
Type C
40
What is the ability of produce novel and valuable ideas?
Creativity
Divergent Thinking
Intelligence
Confidence
41
What is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behavior?
Illusory Correlation
False Consensus Effect
Hindsight Bias
Overconfidence
42
Who famously argued that the mind at birth is a blank slate- a "white paper?"
Socrates
Plato
Wilhelm Wundt
John Locke
43
Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?
Cell Body
Axon
Dendrite
Myelin Sheath
44
What are the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state?
Hallucinations
Beta
Delta
Alpha
45
Which of the following are structures of the limbic system?
Medulla/Pons
Thalamus
Amygdala/Hypothalamus
Cerebellum
46
Which observation technique studies one person in depth in the hope of showing universal ideas?
Case Study
Experiment
Longitudinal Study
Survey
47
True or False: High reliability ensures a test's validity.
False
True
48
What determines the hue of light?
Intensity
Amplitude
Wavelength
Frequency
49
The diagram below is an example of what idea?
Homeostasis
Hierarchy of Needs
Incentive Theory
Drive-Reduction Theory
50
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is known as...
Character
Personality
Intelligence
Self-Esteem
51
What is the tendency of people to be helpful when already in a good mood?
Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon
Catharsis
Happiness Effect
Intrinsic Motivation
52
True or False: Aerobic exercise may alleviate depression and anxiety.
True
False
53
The picture below portrays what idea?
Visual Cliff
Depth Perception
Binocular Cues
Grouping Principles
54
Which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?
Aptitude Test
Standardized Test
None of the Above
Achievement Test
55
The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is
Workforce Psychology
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Flow
Real-Life Psychology
56
A robin is a ______ of bird.
Heuristic
Algorithm
categorization
Prototype
57
What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?
Social Clock
REM Sleep
Circadian Rhythm
Biological Rhythms
58
Systematic desensitization is what kind of therapy?
Exposure
Active Listening
Counterconditioning
Behavior
59
Which of the following states of consciousness are psychologically induced?
Food/Oxygen Starvation
Hallucinations/Dreaming
Daydreaming/Drowsiness
Hypnosis/Meditation
60
Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Outer Ear
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Cochlea
61
Which kind of drugs depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but impairing memory?
Opiates
Hallucinogens
Barbiturates
Stimulants
62
Which of the following is NOT a projective test?
Rorscharch Inkblot Test
Themantic Apperception Test (TAT)
None of the Above
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
63
Getting a hug (after a response) is an example of what?
Positive Reinforcement
Shaping
Negative Reinforcement
Conditioning
64
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?
Spontaneous Recovery
Acquisition
Generalization
Extinction
65
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders are...
belief perseverance
hallucinations
schizophrenia
delusions
66
What is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself?
Relative Deprivation
Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
Envy Theory
Hindsight Bias
67
Which structure of the brain helps process explicit memories for storage?
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
68
According to Piaget, during what stage does one develop object permanence?
Preoperational
Formal Operational
Concrete Operational
Sensorimotor
69
Which of the following in NOT a "Big Five" personality trait?
Extraversion
None of the Above
Agreeableness
Openness
70
Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...
Normative Social Influence
Conformity
All of the Above
Obedience
71
Which study compares people of different ages?
Experiment
Cross-Sectional Study
Longitudinal Study
Case Study
72
Which of the following is NOT one of Garner's eight intelligences?
Naturalist
Practical
Interpersonal
Linguistic
73
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as...
repression
psychotherapy
transference
resistance
74
According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?
Infancy (to 1 year)
Middle Adulthood ( 40s-60s)
Toddlerhood (1-2 years)
Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)
75
What is the complete genetic instructions for making an organism?
Neurons
Genes
DNA
Genome
76
Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose?
fMRI
EEG
MRI
PET
77
Which perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
Evolutionary
Social-Cultural
Cognitive
Psychodynamic
78
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...
Set Point
Psychology of Hunger
Basal Metabolic Rate
Basal Heart Rate
79
True or False: Most major depressive episodes self-terminate.
True
False
80
Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?
Cognitive
Behavioral
Humanistic
Psychoanalytic
81
What are the threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes?
Genomes
DNA
Chromosomes
Genes
82
The diagram below depicts which theory of emotion?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
James-Lange
Two-Factor
Cannon-Bard
83
People from which type of culture may act shy in new groups and are more easily embarrassed?
Individualistic
Northern
Collectivist
Western
84
Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?
functionalism
interpretation
transference
eclectic
85
Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?
Pupils Contract
Digestion Inhibits
Salivation Decreases
Heart Accelerates
86
What is a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity?
Attitude
Rooting Reflex
Temperament
Personality
87
The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...
Internal Locus of Control
External Locus of Control
Personal Control
Learned Hopefulness
88
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...
Spacing
Encoding
Processing
Chunking
89
What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?
Fovea
Optic Nerve
Ganglion Cell
Pupil
90
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...
Behavior and Mental Processes
The Human Mind
Observable Behavior
Emotions
91
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
None of the Above
PTSD
Phobia
92
What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: 'Who am I?'
Identity
Egocentrism
Self-Concept
Role
93
What is the fertilized egg that enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division?
Fetus
Zygote
Embryo
Uterus
94
Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?
James-Lange
Two-Factor
Cannon-Bard
Schachter-Singer

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