Cognitive Psych & Motivation, Emotion, Stress & Personality

Question 1

Which has the correct the order of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

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physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem, & self-actualization

Question 2

Sue takes the same test @ 10am 2 days in a row; she gets very diff. scores on these 2 days, like many others, suggesting

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the test is not reliable

Question 3

Students who do well on college entrance exams generally do well in college. This helps establish that these exams have

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predictive validity

Question 4

Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve indicates

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most forgetting occurs early on and then levels off

Question 5

The sight of an oncoming car in your lane makes you have a pounding heart and feel fear. Which theory of emotion is this

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cannon-bard

Question 6

The use of a word form like "sitted" by a child is known as:

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overgeneralization

Question 7

Which theory of emotion emphasizes the importance of consciously experienced thoughts?

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schacter-singer two factor theory

Question 8

According to Sternberg, which of the following is not a component of creativity?

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a position of ignorance

Question 9

Which of the following is not an obstacle to us problem solving?

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creativity

Question 10

Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis relates to the

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influence language has on thinking

Question 11

Which Neo-Freudian is associated with collective unconscious and archetypes?

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Carl Jung

Question 12

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called

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emotional intelligence

Question 13

General rules that often, but not always, help people find a solution to a problem are called:

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heuristics

Question 14

Which term best describe Bob who yells at his employees all the time; gets angry easily and is impatient & competitive?

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type a personality

Question 15

Which of the following does Robert Sternberg include as a type of intelligence?

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practical

Question 16

The best type of mnemonic devices will use all of the following except

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echoic sounds

Question 17

The perception that you control your own fate is called:

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internal locus of control

Question 18

In the trait perspective Eysenck & Eysenck used which factors for their personality dimensions?

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stable/unstable & introverted/extroverted

Question 19

Collectivist cultures are characterized by members

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giving priority to group goals

Question 20

The reality principle controls:

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the ego

Question 21

Gardner would most likely classify the individual below as having this type of intelligence:

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naturalist

Question 22

The cartoon below best relates to which term?

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adaptation-level phenomenon

Question 23

What are the basic sounds of language called?

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phonemes

Question 24

The intelligence quotient compares a child's

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mental age to his or her chronological age

Question 25

Our _____ consists of all of the thoughts and feelings we have in response to the question, "Who am I?"

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self-concept

Question 26

Stimulating this brings on hunger ; if destroyed, even starving animals have no interest in food

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lateral hypothalamus

Question 27

_________ explains why, when our biological needs are satisfied, we may still feel driven to experience stimulation.

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arousal theory

Question 28

You are likely to remember more psychology in your psychology classroom than in other environments because of

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context effects

Question 29

Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as

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measurement is to prediction

Question 30

Which of the following represents a prototype for the concept indicated in parentheses?

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A golden retriever (dog)

Question 31

After failing to be offered a good job, an applicant decides he wouldn't have liked the job anyway. This is an ex. of?

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rationalization

Question 32

One of the most widely used intelligence test is the

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WAIS

Question 33

A kid is punished for something she did. She then hits her brother. This is an example of:

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displacement

Question 34

An adult who dislikes eating, & avoids kissing and smoking would according to Freud, be described as:

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fixated at the oral stage

Question 35

The three stages in order of GAS are:

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alarm; resistance ; exhaustion

Question 36

People are more worried about a procedure when told it has a 10% deathrate vs when told it has a 90% survival rate b/c

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of framing

Question 37

Learning a friend's email address in H.S. interferes w/ the recalling of a friend's new college email addy is an ex of:

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proactive interference

Question 38

Two examples of projective tests are:

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Rorschach & TAT

Question 39

Having something "on the tip of the tongue" indicates a problem:

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with retrieval

Question 40

"Memories are formed in the brain when a synapse changes to allow for efficient transfer of information" describes:

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long term potentiation

Question 41

Which would be considered an implicit memory?

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Knowing how to ride a bike

Question 42

The " magical number seven, + or - two" refers to the

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capacity of short-term memory

Question 43

________ is the idea that physiological needs create an aroused state that motivates an organism to reduce the need.

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drive-reduction theory

Question 44

The inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective is called

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fixation

Question 45

Kid's TV viewing habits influence their viewing preferences which influences how tv affects their current behavior is:

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an example of reciprocal determinism

Question 46

In English, we know to put adjectives before nouns because of:

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syntax

Question 47

This type of encoding would NOT be considered engaging in shallower processing?

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semantic

Question 48

Which of the following is an example of source amnesia?

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Stephen misremembers a dream as something that really happened

Question 49

The image below relates to...

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

Question 50

Charles Spearman's g refers to

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general intelligence

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