Final Exam Review

What is the primary goal of client-centered therapy?

Which is NOT a stage in Piaget's cognitive development theory?

Which phase of prenatal development starts in the second week and lasts until the end of the second month?

Which part of the brain controls hunger?

Which of the following traits is characteristic of a Type A personality?

In Pavlov's experiment, what was the conditioned stimulus?

Which stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory corresponds to the development of abstract reasoning?

When two variables are correlated, we can say that one variable caused the change in the other variable.

Researching the hormonal and behavioral changes in women following menopause represents which area of research?

Somatic NS connects to skeletal muscle and is responsible for voluntary movement.

Positive and negative reinforcement are parts of operant conditioning rather than classical conditioning.

Which theory focuses on the neural or physiological determinants of emotion?

Chronic stress can lead to coronary heart disease.

With the behavioral therapy technique systematic desensitization, which concept is most related?

Which region of the brain is the largest and most complex in humans?

According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which needs form the lowest level of motivation?

What is the white fatty substance that surrounds some axons that helps accelerate signal transmission down the neuron?

Which of the following best exemplifies an approach-approach conflict?

Which area of psychology saw tremendous growth due to World War II?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Type A personality?

The physiological changes that accompany emotion are caused by the..

Which contemporary psychological approach focuses on how information is processed, stored, retrieved, and used?

Humanistic psychology is about reaching your potential and being the best version of yourself

Which model became the most dominant way of thinking about abnormal behavior in the 18th and 19th centuries?

Which hormone is responsible for delivering satiety signals to the brain, reducing hunger?

Pavlov's dog experiment resembles which type of learning?

The term psychology comes from two Greek words, psyche, and logos, which in translation mean

What would be considered a daily hassle?

An experiment is a type of descriptive/correlational research.

What are the two main systems of the Peripheral Nervous System?

The main difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II is the duration of manic episodes.

Minor hassles are directly related to poor health outcomes

In the context of types of conflict, which scenario represents an approach-avoidance conflict?

Small knobs at the end of an axon that secrete chemical messengers are known as..

What is NOT a key factor in experimental research?

The Central nervous system is made up of...

Collecting data is the first step in the scientific method.

Which nervous system is responsible for increasing heart rate and perspiration, preparing the body for action?

What is an example of a positive correlation?

Preconventional level is guided by deep considerations about the nature of rules, morality, and effects on humanity.

The three components of emotion recognized by researchers are

What is the transfer of treatment of mental illness from impatient institutions to community-based facilities?

The facial-feedback hypothesis claims that other people's facial expressions can influence our own emotions.

The soma is the junction where information is transmitted from one neuron to another.

Negative reinforcement occurs when a response..

What is the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease?

Which of the following best describes drive theory in motivation?

Which of the following is NOT considered a strong predictor of happiness?

Which is NOT one of the 3 criteria that clinicians examine when making a diagnosis?

How is the anger and hostility component of Type A personality linked to health?

Which psychological disorder has been linked to elevated risk of heart disease?

What is NOT a Big Five personality dimension?

Client-centered therapists must provide three conditions:

Which correlational coefficient is the STRONGEST between 2 variables?

In Pavlov's experiment, the meat powder is the

Which of the following is NOT a major category of treatment approaches?

The James-Lange theory of emotion states that:

Conditioned taste aversions are mostly due to evolutionary learning.

What does anhedonia mean?

Which research design would be best to study behaviors among chimpanzees in the wild?

Avoidance learning is a type of..

Which one does NOT belong with the others?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three major categories of therapy?

Which level of moral reasoning is guided by possible outcomes that are rewarded or punished?

Focusing on observable responses, rather than internal states, is found in what perspective of psychology?

What is the best example of operationally defining memory?

What is the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease?

The biggest difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist is the therapeutic approach they prefer.

What happens when two variables are linked in a way that makes it difficult to sort out their specific effects?

What is the primary definition of psychology?

Which type of neuron carries information inward from sensory receptors to the CNS?

If I want my dog, Blue, to learn to lay down, what would be the best way to teach him?

A survey is a type of descriptive/correlational research method.

People can use unconscious defense mechanisms, such as resistance, to hinder the progress of therapy.

What is the correct order of Freud's psychosexual stages of development?