IB Psychology Exam Review

Question 1

A dynamic system of explicit & implicit rules governing beliefs that ensure a group's survival.

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Culture

Question 2

Asserts social comparison & categorization & positive distinctiveness are all components of SIT

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Tajfel

Question 3

NIMH study; 280 patients; 28 clinicians; 4 conditions; IPT, CBT, Tricyclic Med, Control

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Elkin et. al.

Question 4

Has conducted correlational research on baboons suggesting a link b/w stress & social hierarchy

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Sapolsky

Question 5

According to Tajfel, stereotypes may, unfortunately, be a result of this cognitive process.

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Social categorization

Question 6

Research posits there is a chemical, hormonal basis for intergroup bias & stereotypes.

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DeDreu et. al

Question 7

Assigned participants as game show host, participant, or audience member & rate intelligence

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Ross et. al.

Question 8

Phelps et al conducted 9/11 FBM research using ?? to examine brain activation & WTC proximity.

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fMRI

Question 9

Research team that used fMRI to examine possible mirror neuron systems amongst college stdts.

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Iacoboni et. al.

Question 10

The tendency to overestimate another person's disposition & underestimate situational factors

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Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)

Question 11

Which of the following scientific contributions was NOT a result of research with HM?

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Recognition our neural pathways have evolved over time.

Question 12

Suggests FBM are vivid but unreliable although we trust them based on Challenger research.

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Neisser & Harsch

Question 13

According to Tajfel, which is NOT true regarding social categorization.

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It promotes negative distinctiveness amongst one's ingroup.

Question 14

The hormone DeDreu's experiments examine w/ Dutch participants using names & moral dilemmas is.

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oxytocin

Question 15

Tendency to attribute one's own successes to disposition & failures to situation.

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Self-serving bias

Question 16

After assessment at the study's start, 16 weeks, & 18 months, Elkin et al concluded all BUT

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Placebo control was as effective as any psychotherapy

Question 17

Noninvasive; detects brain blood flow; provides detailed spatial & temporal resolution; 3D

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fMRI

Question 18

Showed American & Japanese students slides; recollect details; different explanation for errors

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Triandis & Kashima

Question 19

Conducted surveys w/IBM employees in 50+ nations to posit how culture affects values & behavior

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Hofstede

Question 20

Hofstede's cultural dimensions of behavior include all of the following EXCEPT

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Industrialized vs Agrarian

Question 21

Using MRI compared hippocampi of those w/MDD to cohorts w/o, finding volume differences.

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Sheline et. al.

Question 22

Univ-Chicago researcher conducted surveys amongst Puerto Rican, American, & Japanaese students

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Triandis

Question 23

Ross et al found participants rated game host most intelligent although random assignment. This

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is evidence of FAE

Question 24

Examined how the introduction of television to the St. Helena community affected aggression

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Charlton et. al.

Question 25

Used MRI to examine HM's brain, discovering minor hippocampus damage; estensive amygdala & MTL

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Corkin

Question 26

Conducted initial research on flashbulb memories via interviews w/80 participants & 10 events

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Brown & Kulik

Question 27

Researchers that found 5-HTT short variation/ss alleles made one vulnerable to stressors & MDD

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Caspi et. al.

Question 28

Research study that found football coaches & players engaged in SSB when explaining wins/losses

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Lau & Russell

Question 29

The inability to determine how another's culture may impact her behavior or symptomology.

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Culture-blindness

Question 30

Sheline et. al. speculate the hippocampi volume differences are due to...

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The high # of glucocorticoid receptors in the hippocampus, Chronic stress

Question 31

Longitudinal prospective study examining 1500 teens' thoughts, life stressors, & dev of MDD.

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Lewinshohn et. al.

Question 32

Showed videotapes of a patient receiving psychotherapy to various therapists to examine bias

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Jenkins-Hall & Sacco

IB Psychology Exam Review

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IB Psychology Exam Review

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