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1
Which psychologist is associated with the concept of a collective unconscious (ancestral memories common to all people)?
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
Carl Rogers
Karen Horney
2
A couple w/ 4 daughters believe they are more likely to have a son than a daughter when they have another child. This is
Availability heuristic
Gambler’s fallacy
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Algorithm
3
Which of the following phrases accurately describes top-down processing?
The effect that our experiences and expectations have on perception
Our tendency to scan a visual field from top to bottom
The entry-level data captured by our various sensory systems
Our ability to detect letters of a word before we know what the word is
4
You are more likely to remember happy memories when you are presently happy than when you are sad due to
iconic memory.
proactive interference.
retroactive interference.
mood congruence.
5
Which of the following statements is best supported by research on human intelligence?
Crystallized intelligence continues to increase through adulthood.
Fluid intelligence increases across the adult lifespan.
Average IQ scores have remained stable across generations across centuries.
Fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence have life-long stability.
6
Which of the following is a characteristic common to all individuals with a narcissistic personality disorder?
Oversensitivity to rejection or possible humiliation
Restricted ability to express warmth and affection
A domineering attitude toward others
An unwarranted sense of self-importance
7
This psychologist mainly studied latent learning and cognitive maps:
B.F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
Edward Tolman
Ivan Pavlov
8
What does evolutionary psychology suggest is a main factor in men being sexually attracted to a potential mate?
financially well-off
appearance of fertility
height
high social status
9
Which of the following is a researcher most likely to do in determining the reliability of an intelligence test?
give the test to a representative group
split the test in half and compare scores
contrast correlations between test scores of identical twins
compare future performance to the test score
10
Which of the following statements is true of behaviorism?
It focuses on the development of thought processes and knowledge.
It was formulated to account for cognitive development.
It is rooted in Sigmund Freud's view of the importance of early experience.
It holds that development is largely a product of learning.
11
The change in the curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances is called
accommodation
adaptation
convergence
conduction
12
Which of the following memory systems would be most affected by damage to the cerebellum?
Prospective
Echoic
Procedural
Semantic
13
Which of the following describes a perception process that the Gestalt psychologists would have been interested in?
The similarities between shape constancy and size constancy
Depth perception and how it allows us to survive in the world
How an organized whole is formed out of its component pieces
What the smallest units of perception are
14
A student records the height of all their classmates and calculates standard deviation. What would cause SD to go up?
If the tallest and shortest person were removed from the data set
If the shortest person were taller
If the tallest person were taller
If everyone in the class were one inch taller
15
Sigmund Freud's primary contribution to psychology is
the study of how unconscious desires drive behavior
the discovery of the id
stages of morality
unconditional positive regard for clients
16
Bipolar disorders are most effectively treated with a combination of tricyclic antidepressants and
antianxiety drugs
acetaminophen
lithium carbonate
amphetamines
17
Which strategy maximizes your chances of successfully retrieving the information he will need for an exam?
Distributed practice
Automatic processing
Iconic memory
Massed practice
18
Which is not true about the blind spot?
it lacks rods and cones
it has a high concentration of rods
it goes unnoticed because the brain fills in the missing information
It is located where the optic nerve exits the retina.
19
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome is mainly concerned with:
How the brain represses traumatic memories
Explaining our reaction to stress
Our defense mechanisms as suggested by pscyhoanalysts
How to resolve cognitive dissonance issues
20
Which of the following is true of the reticular activating system?
It regulates levels of arousal.
It controls the uptake of pituitary hormones.
It is the major system in the brain for controlling emotions.
It functions primarily in the control of motor responses.
21
Which of the following concepts is depicted in the graph?
The serial position effect
State-dependent memory
The spacing effect
Mood-congruent recall
22
Which of the following is most likely to occur in the third stage of the general adaptation syndrome?
A positive appraisal of the stressor
A mobilization of the body’s resources
An increased tend-and-befriend response
An increased vulnerability to stress-related illnesses
23
What is meant by the term 'reliability' for a test?
How well a test measures what it's supposed to do
The component measured is the correct one
If you were to repeat the test, you'd get similar results
The test is appropriate
24
A word/ part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that can't be broken into smaller meaningful units is called a
grapheme
morpheme
holophrase
phoneme
25
Which psychologist conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment and had to call off the study in only six days?
Stanley Milgram
Leon Festinger
Solomon Asch
Philip Zimbardo
26
A person with sight in only one eye lacks which of the following visual cues for seeing in depth?
Linear perspective
Relative size
Motion parallax
Retinal disparity
27
Which of the following is an example of metacognition?
Understanding the role of various parts of the brain in memory
Solving a complex problem in a slow, deliberate way
Recognizing the faces of people after meeting them once
Knowing the effectiveness of different strategies for learning formulas
28
Which theory of color vision helps explain seeing a negative afterimage?
trichromatic theory
opponent-process theory
dichromatic theory
monochromatic theory
29
Which of the following best describes results from experiments on conformity?
Subjects conformed less when their judgments were made known to the group
If other subjects' judgments were not unanimous, conformity went down.
People conformed if they knew and respected the authority figure present
An increase from 7 to 12 confederates increased conformity of subjects
30
The defense mechanism of reaction formation is best exemplified in which of the following situations?
A student speaks sharply to her friend after arguing with her teacher.
A man lights up a cigarette after being cured of lung cancer.
A woman, unaware of her anger towards her friend, expresses affection.
A man who dislikes his manager believes that his manager dislikes him.
31
Which is not an example of crystallized intelligence?
Solving a logic puzzle
Knowing how to do advanced algebra
Memorizing the capitals of the United States
Reciting the pledge of allegiance
32
Mr. Turner gives you an exam. If the exam scores were normally distributed what % would fall at or below the mean score?
17.5%
66.67%
25%
50%
33
Which of the following best characterizes individuals diagnosed as having personality disorders?
They may function reasonably well in society.
They are typically afraid to leave their homes.
Their symptoms are characterized by sudden onset and short duration.
They are consistently psychotic in their cognition and affect.
34
Which of the following demonstrates semantic memory?
Knowing the formula to calculate the area of a square.
Remembering the correct way to swing a golf club
remembering that you have a dental appointment next Tuesday
Having a vivid memory of your wedding day.
35
Someone who is able to remember their past but cannot form new semantic memories most likely has:
an enlarged corpus callosum
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
damage to their occipital lobe
36
The graph depicts which of the following phenomena?
The serial-position effect
The forgetting curve
Yerkes-Dodson law
Decay of short-term memory contents
37
Grass seen through sunglasses appears equally as green as it does without glasses. This best illustrates
color constancy.
Weber's law.
sensory interaction.
the McGurk effect.
38
Persistent repetitive thoughts that cannot be controlled are known as
sublimations
delusions
obsessions
compulsions
39
Which of the following circumstances would most likely lead to a person experiencing an increased feeling of love?
Decreasing levels of endorphins
A sudden increase in levels of oxytocin
Consistently high levels of adrenaline
A sudden increase in levels of norepinephrine
40
Which schedule of reinforcement produces behavior that is extinguished with the fewest trials?
Continuous
Variable-interval
Variable-ratio
Fixed-interval
41
The intelligence quotient (IQ) has traditionally been based on the relationship between an individual's mental age and:
physiological development
chronological age
cognitive development
quantitative aptitude
42
What is meant by the term 'validity' for a test?
The component measured is the correct one
How well a test measures what it's supposed to
If you were to repeat the test, you'd get similar results
The test is appropriate
43
The goal of rational-emotive therapy is to help clients
use introspection to alleviate their feelings of self-doubt
practice relaxation techniques and autohypnosis to reduce anxiety
Correct self-defeating thoughts about their lives
focus on the significance of childhood events for current self-worth
44
Which psychologist would attribute a child's prejudicial attitudes to the attitudes demonstrated by the child's parent?
Skinner
Bandura
Pavlov
Watson
45
Which is as a characteristic of autistic children?
Paranoia comparable with that experienced in schizophrenia
Severely impaired interpersonal communication
Minor developmental delays in academic achievement
Above-average performance on tests of creativity
46
Which of the following types of test is designed to measure an individual's knowledge of a subject?
Projective
Interest inventory
Aptitude
Achievement
47
According to evolutionary psychologists, what drives our need for social interaction?
desire to achieve
self-actualization
desire to learn
survival
48
For most people, which of the following is an activity based in the right hemisphere of the brain?
Simple spatial reasoning
Arithmetic reasoning
Language comprehension
Speech
49
If you stare at a red spot for 1 minute & then look at white paper, you are likely to experience an afterimage that is:
red
black
green
blue
