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Accommodating a schema means
a decrease in response to a stimulus
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a decrease in response to a stimulus
habituation
cognition
impinting
critical period
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Accommodating a schema means
interpreting new experiences in terms of it
erasing it from memory
modifying it to incorporate new info
telling it to another person
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Parents who enforce standards and discuss rules with their children have a
authoritative parenting style
permissive parenting style
authoritarian parenting style
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As an adopted child gets older, their intelligence resembles that of
their best friends
their teachers
their biological parents
their adopted parents
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The Thematic Apperception Test and Rorschach Inkblot tests are
freudian tests
Projective tests
reciprocal tests
trait tests
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perception of being worse off than others
adaptation-level phenomenon
relative depravation
subjective well being
catharsis
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If someone believes they have no control of their fate they exhibit
The spotlight effect
Self-actualization
Internal locus of control
External locus of control
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an instinct is
complex behavior, fixed pattern in a species, unlearned
basic, natural, necessary
found across species, learned from elders, is adaptive
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The Minnesota Multiphastic Personal Inventory is a
test for to determine IQ
empirically derived test to identify emotional disorders
A test to compare Americans to people in Minnesota
projective test
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A normal IQ curve is centered around
100 points
70 points
150 points
changes with every person
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Alberto cannot remember anything since his hippocampus was damaged. This is an example of...
retroactive interference
anterograde amnesia
proactive interference
retrograde amnesia
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developmental phenomena associated with the sensorimotor stage are
stranger anxiety and object permanence
conservation and motor skills
egocentrism and logic
moral reasoning and theory of mind
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Defense mechanism of satisfying an impulse in an acceptable way
projection
sublimation
reaction formation
displacement
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Sigmund Freud's perspective is
Social-cognitive
Behaviorist
Humanistic
Psychoanalytical
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Schacter and Singer proposed that
A simultaneous reaction of arousal and emotion
emotions involve a physiological arousal and cognitive label
feeling emotion and then a physiological arousal
having a physiological arousal and then emotion
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I can't speed because it's against the law. What stage of moral development is this?
Authority orientation
Approval Seeking orientation
punishment and obedience orientation
Universal moral principle orientation
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Robert Sternberg is known for
the triarchic theory
primary mental abilities
the g factor
seven intelligences
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afferent neurons are
motor neuron
efferent neuron
sensory neuron
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Social leadership involves
ignoring employees
creating goals
being group oriented
setting standards
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Sense that that controls parts of the body and their position
Vestibular sense
hearing
smell
kinesthetic sense
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Carl Jung inspired
Reaction formation
Psychosexual stages
The Meyers-Briggs type indicator
Positive psychology
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An aptitude test...
predicts future performance
is very hard
shows success in the past
tests things you've learned
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Remembering new things interferes with old things
retroactive interference
memory decay
retrograde amnesia
proactive interference
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Delusions and hallucinations are a symptom of
PTSD
General anxiety disorder
Schizophrenia
antisocial personality disorder
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Increased activity in _____ signals happy personalities
amygdala
hypothalamus
right frontal lobe
left frontal lobe
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the neurotransmitter associated with OCD is
Norepinephrine
Serotonin
Epinephrine
Dopamine
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A test is standardized when
predicts intended behvior
tests intended behavior
the answers are pretested on a representaive grup
yields consistent results
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when someone has two or more distinct personalities they could have
Schizophrenia
Disassociative identity disorder
OCD
A panic attack
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fluid intelligence is
ability to reason quickly and abstractly
easy to learn
the facts gained over a lifetime
higher in older adults
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A need causes an aroused state that motivates
instinct
set point
drive reduction theory
incentive
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manipulated/experimental variable
dependant
independant
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A person who recruits, selects, develops new ways to train employees
human factors psychologist
behavior psychologist
organizational psychologist
personnel psychologist
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People with schizoid personality disorder
most likely commit crimes
Develop vivid hallucinations
Fearful of rejection
Exhibit eccentric behavior
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Immediately after firing a neuron cannot respond to stimulation. This is known as...
action potential
depolarization
absolute refractory phase
threshold difference
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An excess of dopamine Could signify
Depression
OCD
Dopamine
Parkinson's
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outcome/measured variable
dependant
independant
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Harlow's monkeys proved that mother-child attachment comes from
food provided
noises mom makes
feeling of security
child's fear of the world
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The ego is described as
An intristic drive with the pleasure principal
the conscience with the moral principal
The executive with the reality principal
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insecurely attached kids within mom's sight will
explore the room
react unpredictably to mom leaving
babble and play
eat food
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If someone is fearfully sensitive to social rejection they could have
general anxiety disorder
Antisocial personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
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IQ scores in the Stanford-Binet were calculated by
chronological age/mental age times 100
100/mental age times chronological age
mental age/chronological age times 100
mental age/100
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You would feel more anger after just...
riding a mountain bike
taking a nap
playing chess
reading a mystery novel
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schizophrena that develops rapidly due to stress is
Process; can't recover
Reactive; can recover
Process; can recover
Reactive; can't recover
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Bipolar disorder is treated with
serotonin depressers
Lithium salt
Dopamine enhancers
Prozac
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The Flynn Effect refers to
the Savat syndrome
how to cheat in an IQ test
the higher IQ scores of today
the disparity between countries' IQ scores
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Which measure of central tendency is most influenced by extremes?
mode
standard deviation
mean
median
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The timeline of prenatal development goes
fetus, conception, zygote, embryo
zygote, embryo, fetus, conception
conception, zygote, embryo, fetus
conception, embryo, zygote, fetus
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Which brain imaging technique produces the most detailed picture of brain structure?
CAT
PET
MRI
EEG
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An intelligence test shows predictive validity when
It yields consistent results
defines meaningful scores from pretested group
It tests the intended behavior
It predicts the intended behavior
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By listing 50 uses for a brick, many unusual, Susan is displaying...
convergent thinking
divergent thinking
computational learning
hypothetical thinking
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At the top of the hierarchy of needs is
safety
physiological need
self esteem
self actualization
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Process schizophrenia is
Rapidly developing and a response to stress
Only occurring during the winter
Easily treatable
Slow developing and mostly incurable
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Martin Seligman worked with
IQ test
The ego and repression
Unconditional positive regard
Positive psychology and learned helplessness
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People with Dysthymic disorder...
Have been in a low energy and self-esteem slump for 2 years
Also have szchizopherenia
have many panic attacks
alternate between mania and depression
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How many intelligences did Gardner identify?
seven
eight
nine
one
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The catharsis hypothesis is ____ because...
true; no more aggressive urges
false; it only relieves aggression temporarily
False; it causes people to become sad
true; punching stuff relieves tension permanently
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Carl Rogers developed
Learned helplessness
Collective unconscious
Unconditional positive regard
Self-actualization
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accumulated knowledge; increases with age
schema
cognition
crystallized intelligence
fluid intelligence
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What is the Social-Cognitive perspective?
behavior is influenced by personality and context
people have a repressed id
Behavior is biologically determined
humans are inherently good
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Charles Spearman explained the
multiple intelligences
primary mental abilities
triarchic theory
the g factor
