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1
Holmes and Rahe (1967) created which scale?
Social Management Scale
Life Management Scale
Stress Adjustment Scale
Social Readjustment Scale
2
Hoarding, Excoriation, Tricotillomania, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder are subtypes of
Asperger's
Eating Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive
Phobias
3
The extreme reaction known as fugue refers to
physical flight and loss of identity
hallucinations
severe depression
obsessive behavior
4
What defines a dissociative disorder?
all of the above
break from sense of personal identity
break from conciousness
break in memory
5
Rosa's Law 2010 changed the terminology to intellectual disability from the R word
True
False
6
Storage capacity of short-term memory?
unlimited
20 seconds
7 ± 2 bits
50 units
7
Which psychologist studied attachment with the artificial monkey experiment?
Harry Harlow
Lawrence Kohlberg
Hans Selye
Jean Piaget
8
Dr. Money is famous for his research on
John/Joan case
all of the above
David Reimer
gender identity
9
Which of these psychologists conditioned little Albert to fear white rats?
B.F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
John Watson
Philip Zimbardo
10
Which is not a symptom of poor/lack of sleep?
obesity
nightmares
diabetes and heart disease
hampered immune system
11
What is the third need according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Love & Belongingness
Physiological
Safety
Esteem
12
Multiple Personality Disorder is now known as
Bipolar Disorder
Dissociative Fugue
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder
13
How many stages of socioemotional development does Erikson have?
8
4
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6
14
Who is most likely to be affected by color blindness?
men
women
both are equal
15
The McGurk effect best illustrates
sensory interaction
sensory adaptation
color constancy
tinnitus
16
According the the Recency Effect...
It will be easier to remember items at the top of a list
It will be difficult to remember items at the beginning
It will be difficult to recall items at the end of a list
It will be easy to remember items at the end of the list
17
Damage to the Broca's area disrupts...
speaking
thinking
crying
understanding
18
Dopamine influences motivation, pleasure, and addiction
True
False
19
The order of the Scientific Method is....
Observe, Ask ?, Make Hypothesis, Do Experiment, Conclusion, Gather Data
Observe, Ask a ?, Make Hypothesis, Do Experiment, Gather Data, Conclusion
Ask a ?, Observe, Make Hypothesis, Do Experiment, Get Data, Conclusion
Ask a ?, Observe, Make Hypothesis, Gather Data, Do Experiment, Conclusion
20
Which dimension of the Myers-Briggs looks at how outgoing you might be in social situations?
Judging-Perceiving
Thinking-Feeling
Introversion-Extraversion
Sensation-Intuition
21
Olds and Milner (1954) famously studied...
Brain stimulation in rats
Neural firing related to joy
Lesions in pre-frontal cortex
Lesions in inferior temporal cortex
22
Phineas Gage, as a result of an accident, had an iron rod through his frontal lobe which impacted his:
health
vision
personality
speech
23
What were the results of the "Smelly T-Shirt Study"?
Females preferred males with different MHC from themselves
Females had no preference for the males MHC
Females preferred males with similar MHC from themselves
Females preferred feminine MHC
24
He is considered the father of Psychology; he created the very first psych lab
Wundt
Pavlov
Freud
Watson
25
What did the Milgram experiment focus on?
memory and aging
kindness and sharing
intelligence and problem solving
obedience and authority
26
Solomon Asch did a study on?
Monkeys
Conformity
Classical Conditioning
Prison
27
Lawrence Kohlberg developed a theory concerning
cognitive development
moral synthesis
cognitive rehearsal
moral development
28
Which is not one of the 3 keys to being fully charged, according to Tom Rath?
meaning
energy
stability
interaction
29
Confirmation bias
the inability to look from another perspective, in order to maintain belief
tendency to approach a problem with a method that worked previously
fast, automatic, unreasoned feelings and thoughts
seeking evidence to support an idea, rather than refute it
30
This type of learning was researched by B.F. Skinner.
cooperative learning
classical conditioning
social learning
operant conditioning
31
What is the happiest nation, according to the Gallup Poll mentioned in the text?
New Zealand
Spain
Holland
United States
32
Which percentile would a student with an IQ of 130 be in?
84th
50th
98th
16th
33
The Stanford Prison experiment occurred in _____ by __________ __________.
1960, B. F. Skinner
1930, Sigmund Freud
1940, John B Watson
1971, Phillip Zimbardo
34
What role do dopamine and seratonin have in our brain?
they make us smarter
they help us sleep
all of the above
they make us happy
35
ESP is said to include _______.
telepathy, priming, subliminal
absolute threshold, phi phenomenon
telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition
retinal disparity, clairvoyance, priming
36
What animal did Wolfgang Köhler use to study insight learning?
Chimpanzees
Humans
Rats
Dogs
37
What is hypnosis?
Habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep
Trance like state in which a person is highly suggestible.
Walk around and sometimes perform other actions while asleep
Extreme tendency to fall asleep in relaxing surroundings
38
Aphasia affects loss of __________
Hearing
Smell
Memory
Speech
39
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers were both
Evolutionists
Psycholoanalysts
Behavioralists
Humanists
40
In what order did Piaget determine children developed?
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Formal Operational, & Concrete Operational
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, & Formal Operational
Preoperational, Sensorimotor, Concrete Operational, & Formal Operational
41
What are the 3 stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome?
Alarm Stage, Research Stage, Exhaustion Stage
Alarm Stage, Resistance Stage, Exhaustion Stage
Avoidance Stage, Research Stage, Burnout Stage
Avoidance Stage, Resistance Stage, Burnout Stage
42
Angela Duckworth created the...?
Grit scale
IQ test
Growth Mindset
Flynn Effect
43
Dr. Seligman came up with the concept of ________________________
Learned Helplessness
Personality Types
Explanatory Style
Pessimism
44
What is the Mere Exposure Effect?
repeated exposure increases liking
an expectation that people will help those dependent
seeing the same thing often makes you dislike it more
unselfish regard to the welfare of other
45
Who ran the Bobo Doll experiment?
Sam Wineburg
Howard Gardner
Alfred Binet
Albert Bandura
46
Trait Theory uses this word to categorize personality types
TREES
OCEAN
AIR
FIRE
47
According to James Marcia, there are four categories of adolescent...
identity status
intervention
addiction
development
48
What did Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry research?
brain injuries
neuroplasticity
phantom limb syndrome
the effects of having a split brain
49
Which of these account for all the stages of Grief by Kubler - Ross?
Denial, Anger, Bereavement, Depression, Acceptance
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
Denial, Apathy, Bargaining, Depression Acceptance
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Dealing, Acceptance
50
What is Ivan Pavlov most famous for?
Classical conditioning
Teaching children
Humanistic behavior research
Animal learning
51
Concussion
starring Will Smith dramatizes the true story of Dr. Bennett Omalu's discovery of:
MBTI
CTE
MMPI
MRI
52
Which is not a theory of aging?
Free Radical Theory
Hormonal Stress Theory
Decay Theory
Cellular Clock Theory
53
What is inattentional blindness?
Failing to see objects when attention is elsewhere
Failing to accurately recall choices previously made
Failing to notice unpleasant stimulus
Failing to notice changes in the environment
54
What did Mary Ainsworth contribute to Psychology?
Five Factor Theory
Multiple Intelligence Theory
Attachment Theory
Attribution Theory
55
Which defense mechanism is this?
Reaction Formation
Projection
Denial
Rationalization
56
William James is known as?
The Father of American Psychology
The Father of Psychological Theory
The Ingenious Mind
The Discoverer
57
What is leptin associated with?
Body temperature
Appetite
Blood glucose
Circadian rhythms
58
Positive reinforcement is to negative reinforcement as ___-____
Removing something unpleasant - > giving something pleasant
Reward is to punishment
Giving something pleasant - > giving something unpleasant
Giving something pleasant - > removing something unpleasant
59
Afferent nerves ______, efferent nerves ______
carry nerve impulses to CNS, carry info from CNS to the body
carry info from CNS to body, carry nerve impulses to CNS
60
On the Stanford-Binet Intelligence tests, the IQ is determined by...
how quickly you finish the test
the expression of your creativity
the comparison of your mental age with your actual age
all of the above
61
__ and colleagues set up a Boy Scout Camp, Robbers Cave, to measure conflict.
Philip Zimbardo
Solomon Asch
Muzafer Sherif
Stanley Milgram
62
The Multiple Intelligence Theory was proposed by...
Norman Webb
Howard Stern
Howard Gardner
Lev Vygotsky
63
What is the Placebo Effect?
to give the patient drugs to see their reaction
change in patients illness based off fact rather than belief
when the lab mice get out of their cage and run away
change in patients illness based off belief rather than fact
64
Edward Thorndike's law of effect
states that rewarded behavior is more likely to happen again
relates to the limited effectiveness of punishment
establishes the difference between + & - reinforcement
demonstrates how shaping can be used to establish operant conditioning
65
Cognitive dissonance was created by which American psychologist?
Benjamin Whorf
Phillip Zimbardo
Edward Thorndike
Leon Festinger
66
The Greek playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex, leading Freud to coin the term Oedipus Complex.
Hippocrates
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Plato
67
Which is not 1 of the 4 attitudes of a scientific approach?
skepticism
research
curiosity
critical thinking
68
The three phases of memory are ______, storage and retrieval.
encoding
sensory observation
epinephrine
learning
69
According to Freud, ________ is a dream's hidden content—its unconscious and true meaning.
evident content
latent content
conspicuous content
manifest content
70
Describe the psychodynamic perspective of psychology
how we encode, process, store and retrieve information
how we learn observable responses
how much our genes and environment influence us
how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
71
Endorphins are a type of ______
endocrine gland
glial cell
sex hormone
neurotransmitter
72
What does the central nervous system consist of?
Cells and dendrites
Neurons and hormones
Legs and arms
Brain and spinal cord
73
Walter Mischel emphasized the importance of _______________ in determining behavior.
specific goals for the future
situations
personality traits as revealed by the MMPI
feelings of control
74
The TAT and Rorschach Inkblot Test are both ________ tests
Subjective
Collective
Objective
Projective