An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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

Manifest Content and Latent Content

Which of the following is NOT a projective test?

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?

Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)

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

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