What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?

Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black

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

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