PSYC 100 Winter Term Questions

The enduring dispositions that people show across situations are called personality ______.

Genetic factors make individuals more or less responsive to environmental influences. This is known as ______.

Individuals have often theorized on the cause, or ______, of mental illness.

In non-industrialized countries, the ______ segment of the population rarely experiences emerging adulthood.

Which of the following is not a feature of a strong attitude:

An object that can move itself and work toward a goal is known as a(n)

Cognitive ______refers to the process of identifying, evaluating, and changing maladaptive thoughts in psychotherapy.

Relationships help satisfy our deep-seated, psychological need to ______.

The way in which a person infers the cause or meaning of behaviors or events around them is called their ______style.

______occurs when thinking about one concept causes you to think about other related concepts.

For which personality disorder has a manualized and empirically validated treatment protocol been developed?

The amount of desire an individual feels toward a reward corresponds with how much he or she likes that reward

____________ message processing is associated with long lasting attitude change.

Both “typical” and “atypical” antipsychotic medications work by blocking a specific type of ______receptor in the brain.

Attitudes are:

Adolescents tend to associate with peers who are similar to themselves. What is the name for this condition?

Children with ASD tend to show decreased attention to human faces by what age:

What is one of the biggest problems with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

How do drive states differ from other affective or emotional states?

“I love dogs!” This statement demonstrates which component of attitudes?

At what age do most people start to develop a theory of mind?

When golfing, Jill plays better when her teammates are watching than when she is by herself. This is an example of:

Persuasive communicators may have the following characteristics, except:

When informant ratings are used to assess the personalities of children, who is most likely to be the informant?

Emerging adults experience ______ in education, work, love, and housing.

Which term is probably the best synonym for the word "cognition" as it is used in a discussion of cognitive development?

Alison thinks of herself as a good friend, a big sister, and a loving wife. Which self-construal is she an example of?

One major cognitive change in adolescence is a shift toward ______thinking.

True or false: Greater fluctuations in emotions are associated with worse well-being

The false-belief test is a procedure for determining if a child has developed what?

______personality disorder combines the Five Factor traits of neuroticism and maladaptive agreeableness.

The psychiatrist asked Maria how she felt about the quality of her marriage; a type of ______ variable.

Why do psychologists sometimes avoid using the term "happiness"?

Which is a question that Social Psychologists would not be likely to study:

What tool of theory of mind develops early in childhood and is automatic?

Which of the BIG 5 personality dimensions is most associated with being a cause of positive feelings?

fMRI brain scans of people who were excluded from groups showed:

Individuals need to understand others’ mental states in order to ______.

A structure in the brain associated with liking is the:

“Happy individuals tend to bounce back more quickly after losses and negative events.” This is a description of:

Which question framing below is likely to elicit a measurement that is most likely to predict behaviour?

The idea that the cultural norms and values of a society can only be understood in their own context is known as what?

Natasha gives an IQ test to 15 different children, and the test is administered the same way each time she gives it.

The tendency to see or present ourselves in an overly favorable manner is called the ______.

______biases are those that are unintended, immediate, and irresistible.

What book allows psychiatrists and psychologists to standardize their diagnoses of mental illness?

When students wear a cap and gown and receive a printed diploma in front of friends and family, this is an example of:

Correlations between abilities and interests typically range from:

Currently, what is the median age of marriage for women in the US?

What is an average IQ score?

According to Erik Erickson, the most important conflict in adolescence involves what?

One of the ways in which drive states can narrow a person's attention is by collapsing their time perspective toward:

In Social Psychology, the relationship between people and the situation is considered to be:

Jamie trusts her best friend Ariana and shares all her secrets and fears with her. Ariana is known as Jamie’s ______.

Presently, in the US, the average person has how many jobs between ages 20 and 29?

Paul's friends praised him when he stole some cigarettes. After, some of his friends began to shoplift also. This is...

Rowe and Kahn (1997) defined three criteria for successful aging. They included which of the following?

Adolescence is marked by physical, cognitive, and ______ changes.