PSYC1300 CH8-11 REVIEW

Question 1

CH11: Gordon Allport said there were 4000 traits to consider when understanding personality.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

CH11: What is the difference between objective and projective personality inventories?

Accepted Answer

Objective are standardized, more valid, and self-reported

Question 3

CH9: What is a culture fair test?

Accepted Answer

test that is easily accessible to all cultures and social backgrounds

Question 4

CH8: Who was the memory researcher who investigated human memory for phone number lengths?

Accepted Answer

George Miller

Question 5

CH9: How do prototypes relate to mental concepts?

Accepted Answer

Best representation of concepts

Question 6

CH8: H.M's ability to remember the number by rehearsal means that he retained the ability to _______.

Accepted Answer

retain short-term memories

Question 7

CH8: Procedural memory includes facts and events.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

CH10: The six emotions are anger, surprise, disgust, contempt, stress, and frustration

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

CH9: What is the difference between crystallized and fluid intelligence?

Accepted Answer

crystallized represents knowledge, fluid represents how to use knowledge

Question 10

CH11: Which part of Freud's structure of the mind (the iceberg) remains 'above water' 100% of the time?

Accepted Answer

Ego, Superego

Question 11

CH9: What are the three types of abnormal children as labeled by Binet and Simon?

Accepted Answer

moron, idiot, imbecile

Question 12

CH10: How can you tell when a theory has high face validity?

Accepted Answer

It fits well with thoughts and expectations

Question 13

CH8: Which experiment did Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch do to find out more about working memory?

Accepted Answer

dual task: look at numbers, answer question, recall numbers

Question 14

CH9: Wolfgang Kohler's chimpanzee experiments taught us about which term?

Accepted Answer

insight; chimps' behavior changed when they figured out how to get bananas

Question 15

CH9: Which of the following is an example of an availability heuristic?

Accepted Answer

Preferring cars over planes because you think you're less likely to die

Question 16

CH11: Who came up with the idea that there were 16 personalities?

Accepted Answer

Raymond Cattell

Question 17

CH11: The Big Five approach makes the acronym, POLAR

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

CH11: What does OCEAN stand for?

Accepted Answer

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

Question 19

CH9: Howard Gardner said we have 8 intelligences.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

CH10: Which theory says that we have a physiological response to stimulus, eliciting an emotion?

Accepted Answer

James-Lange

Question 21

CH10: How do positive and negative affect differ from each other?

Accepted Answer

positive affect is positive engagement, negative is unwanted engagement

Question 22

CH10: Increased heart rate is an example of a physiological change in response to threat

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

CH10: An animal which is likely to survive and pass on its genes to offspring can be said to be genetically fit.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

CH8: ____ says that since mental is distinct from physical, mental intentions cannot affect physical state

Accepted Answer

Mind-Body Problem

Question 25

CH9: Forensic psychologists prescribe medication based on mental health issues

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

CH 9: The way people perceive color does not change based on the way their language labels the colors.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

CH8: What are the two main lessons to be learned from the shape of Ebbinghaus’s classic forgetting curve?

Accepted Answer

forgetting is adaptive, but to forget everything would make relearning hard

Question 28

CH8: Chunking information helps to extend the duration for which it is remembered.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

CH10: Which fundamental motivation did Baumeister & Leary propose as part of their belongingness hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

need to belong

Question 30

CH11: When someone pretends to feel an emotion that they don't, this is the reaction formation defense mechanism.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

CH10: What is self-determination theory?

Accepted Answer

we are highly motivated to be engaged in meaningful social interactions

Question 32

CH11: What is the relationship between introverts and extroverts?

Accepted Answer

Relate to how energy is attained; extroverts-from people: introverts- alone

Question 33

CH11: If someone hesitates to try new things, they might score low on

Accepted Answer

openness

Question 34

CH8: Memory is a faithful copy of an experienced event.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

CH10: Under what conditions does the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory predict we might make emotional errors?

Accepted Answer

When the source of arousal is ambiguous

Question 36

CH8: How do the full report and partial report techniques differ in terms of the number of study items and test items?

Accepted Answer

full report uses same amount study items, but more test items than partial

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