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Question 1

People that harbor unconscious negative racial associations best illustrate

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implicit attitudes

Question 2

Which form of therapy resulted in a sharp reduction in the number of people in mental hospitals

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drug therapy

Question 3

Sigmund Freud's form of therapy is known as

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psychoanalysis

Question 4

Projective test where you look at ambiguous pictures and make up a story about each.

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TAT

Question 5

Major depressive disorder occurs when signs last at least?

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two weeks

Question 6

Widespread improvement in intelligent test performance during the past century is called:

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Flynn effect

Question 7

Mr. Smith thinks his supervisors are communist spies out to get him because he is JFK grandson.

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schizophrenia

Question 8

You were happy with winning 10 dollars until you saw your friend won 1,000 dollars.

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relative deprivation

Question 9

A store owner won't hire black applicants. The owner is engaging in

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discrimination

Question 10

To regard an abstract concept as if it were a real, concrete thing is called:

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reification

Question 11

Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called:

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aptitude tests

Question 12

People lashing out at innocent Arab Americans after 9/11 is an example of?

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scapegoat theory

Question 13

As boys with tempers grow older, they are likely to have difficulty maintaining good jobs.

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stability or change

Question 14

Piaget's state of cognitive development when six year olds become capable of logical reasoning.

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concrete operational

Question 15

The murder of Kitty Genovese stimulated social psychological research on

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altruism

Question 16

Trevor cut up his brother's favorite shirt after he wouldn't let him borrow it.

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frustration-aggression principle

Question 17

Seeing rats crawling on you would be a(n)?. Believing you are Franklin Roosevelt would be a?

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hallucination; delusion

Question 18

Both million-dollar winners and paraplegics report similar levels of happiness.

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adaptation-level phenomenon

Question 19

Inhibition of hunger is to overeating as _______ is to ______________.

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destruction of lateral; destruction of ventromedial

Question 20

What type of therapists seek to promote personal growth and self-fulfillment?

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humanistic

Question 21

Disruptions in conscious awareness and sense of identity is characteristic of what disorders

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dissociative disorders

Question 22

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas is called:

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assimilation

Question 23

The underlying symbolic meaning of someone's dreams is called what?

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latent content

Question 24

You're more likely to help someone if you're in a good mood.

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feel-good, do-good phenomenon

Question 25

Therapists argue that DID is a way of protecting the self from awareness of hating abusive mom.

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psychoanalytic

Question 26

Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult.

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agoraphobia

Question 27

Bystander effect refers to the tendency of an observer of an emergency to withhold aid if the

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emergency is being observed by a number of people

Question 28

Repeatedly washing your hands because of your fear of germs is an example of?

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compulsions

Question 29

An antisocial personality disorder is most likely characterized by

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lack of guilt feelings

Question 30

Expert pool players make more shots when people are watching them then when they play alone.

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social facilitation

Question 31

Offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person are called?

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obsessions

Question 32

According to the __________,you would be able to experience emotion without sympathetic arousal

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Cannon-Bard theory

Question 33

Schizophrenia is most likely characterized by

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disorganized and fragmented thinking

Question 34

Conversion disorder is a type of _____________ diosrder.

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somatoform

Question 35

A continuous state of tension, apprehension, and autonomic nervous system arousal.

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generalized anxiety disorder

Question 36

Food deprivation is to __________ as hunger is to ____________.

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need; drive

Question 37

Jesse believes that most women are terrible drivers. His beliefs are an example of what?

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stereotypes

Question 38

Sitting in a motionless stupor or repeatedly shaking your head are signs of

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catatonia

Question 39

Morality based on avoidance of punishment and attainment of concrete rewards represents?

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preconventional morality

Question 40

Asch's experiment where subjects had to compare lines was an example of what?

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conformity

Question 41

Baby Stan isn't overly fearful of strangers but prefers being held by his mother.

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secure attachment

Question 42

Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information is called a(n):

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schema

Question 43

Zimbardo's prison experiment illustrated the impact of

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role-playing attitudes

Question 44

Carl Rogers referred to a caring, nonjudgmental attitude as

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unconditional positive regard

Question 45

Which theory of motivation emphasizes the importance of genetic predisposition?

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instinct theory

Question 46

Rorschach inkblot test is an example of what kind of personality test?

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Projective

Question 47

Body structures that enable reproduction are the:

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primary sex characteristics

Question 48

In anger provoking situations, sexually aroused people experience more intense hostility.

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Spillover effect

Question 49

According to Freud, the ego:

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is the executive part of personality

Question 50

The thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, of which we are largely unaware.

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unconscious

Question 51

A test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of:

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reliability

Question 52

Crystallized intelligence refers most directly to a person's:

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accumulated knowledge and verbal skills

Question 53

According to Piaget, people can reason abstractly and think hypothetically during ____ stage.

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formal operational

Question 54

Adjusting current schemas to make sense of new information is called:

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accommodation

Question 55

Assuming that slaves deserved the terrible treatment they received is an example of?

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just world phenomenon

Question 56

Sasha hates dresses but wears one to her sister's wedding to avoid family disapproval.

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normative social influence

Question 57

An unlearned and fixed pattern of behavior common to all members of a species is called a(n):

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instinct

Question 58

Children sleeping on liquid sensitive pad that wakes them up when they wet the bed.

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behavioral therapy

Question 59

Underestimating impact of the situation and overestimating the impact of personal disposition

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fundamental attribution error

Question 60

Normally law abiding citizens who may vandalize and loot when part of a mob experience what?

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deindividuation

Question 61

A general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks.

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Spearman's g factor

Question 62

Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original test was the:

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Stanford-Binet

Question 63

Girls sometimes score lower on test when tested by males rather than females.

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stereotype threat

Question 64

Incapacitating and highly distressing fear about being embarrassed in public.

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specific phobia

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