According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and underlying meaning of a dream?

Manifest Content and Latent Content

A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is

Industrial-Organizational Psychology

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
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is...
Phoneme
Sematics
Morpheme
Syntax
2
The diagram below depicts which theory of emotion?
Two-Factor
James-Lange
Cannon-Bard
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
3
The word 'boot' has how many phonemes?
3
1
4
2
4
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...
Emotions
The Human Mind
Observable Behavior
Behavior and Mental Processes
5
In psychoanalytic therapy session, the blocking from the consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as...
psychotherapy
transference
repression
resistance
6
What are the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state?
Delta
Alpha
Hallucinations
Beta
7
Asch's experiments exhibit what psychological concept?
Overconfidence
Conformity
Cognitive Dissonance
Hindsight Bias
8
Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?
Axon
Dendrite
Myelin Sheath
Cell Body
9
What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?
Gender Identity
Gender-Typing
Gender Role
Gender Schema Theory
10
According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and underlying meaning of a dream?
Latent Content and Matent Content
Sleep Apnea and Night Terrors
REM and Hypnosis
Manifest Content and Latent Content
11
Which perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
Cognitive
Psychodynamic
Social-Cultural
Evolutionary
12
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Phobia
PTSD
None of the Above
13
Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?
interpretation
transference
functionalism
eclectic
14
Which of the following is NOT one of Garner's eight intelligences?
Practical
Naturalist
Interpersonal
Linguistic
15
What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?
Misinformation Effect
Imagination
Amnesia
Consolidation
16
Which personality type is competitive, impatient, verbally-aggressive, and anger-prone?
Type A
Type C
Type 1
Type B
17
The picture below portrays what idea?
Grouping Principles
Binocular Cues
Visual Cliff
pitch
18
What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: 'Who am I?'
Role
Egocentrism
Identity
Self-Concept
19
The diagram below is an example of what idea?
Incentive Theory
Homeostasis
Drive-Reduction Theory
Hierarchy of Needs
20
Which of the following are structures of the limbic system?
Cerebellum
Medulla/Pons
Amygdala/Hypothalamus
Thalamus
21
A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...
Savant Syndrome
General Intelligence
Implicit memory
Specific Intelligence
22
The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Flow
Workforce Psychology
Real-Life Psychology
23
You see a tragic story on Twitter about a scary kidnapping. You overestimate the chances of this happening due to the
overconfidence
framing
availability heuristic
representative heuristic
24
Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?
Critical Thinking
Perception
Bottom-up processing
Top-down processing
25
What is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behavior?
Hindsight Bias
False Consensus Effect
Illusory Correlation
Overconfidence
26
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...
Basal Heart Rate
Set Point
Basal Metabolic Rate
Psychology of Hunger
27
The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is...
Conditioning
Modeling
Learning
Action potentional
28
True or False: Aerobic exercise may alleviate depression and anxiety.
True
False
29
Republicans often watch conservative media because it supports their views and avoids liberal views-- an example of....
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
Framing
Implicit bias
30
Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose?
MRI
EEG
PET
fMRI
31
People from which type of culture may act shy in new groups and are more easily embarrassed?
Collectivist
Northern
Western
Individualistic
32
Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
Serotonin
33
Which observation technique studies one person in depth in the hope of showing universal ideas?
Longitudinal Study
Survey
Experiment
Case Study
34
An angry teenager channels his aggressive urges by playing football. This is an example of which defense mechanism?
Displacement
Sublimation
Projection
Reaction formation
35
The basic defense mechanism that ejects anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories is...
Retrieval
Repression
Reaction formation
Regression
36
What is the ability of produce novel and valuable ideas?
Confidence
Intelligence
Creativity
Convergent Thinking
37
Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others is known as...
Social Facilitation
Deindividuation
Group Polarization
Social Loafing
38
What is a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity?
Temperament
Rooting Reflex
Personality
Attitude
39
Which study compares people of different ages at the same time?
Longitudinal Study
Experiment
Case Study
Cross-Sectional Study
40
According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?
Infancy (to 1 year)
Toddlerhood (1-2 years)
Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)
Middle Adulthood ( 40s-60s)
41
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...
Encoding
Processing
Chunking
Spacing
42
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...
Iconic
Implicit Memory
Explicit Memory
Procedural
43
Which method of coping attempts to alleviate stress directly?
Coping
Emotion-Focused Coping
Problem-Focused Coping
None of the Above
44
Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?
Psychoanalytic
Cognitive
Humanistic
Behavioral
45
Which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?
None of the Above
Aptitude Test
Achievement Test
Standardized Test
46
Which structure of the brain helps process explicit memories for storage?
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Amygdala
Hippocampus
47
The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?
convergence
Interposition
Relative Size
Texture Gradient
48
According to Piaget, during what stage does one develop object permanence?
Preoperational
Formal Operational
Concrete Operational
Sensorimotor
49
What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?
Basic Definition
Hypothesis
Classical Definition
Operational Defintion
50
What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?
Movement
Distance
Speed
Texture Gradience
51
Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...
All of the Above
Normative Social Influence
Conformity
Obedience
52
The just-world hypothesis would best explain which of the following
Cognitive dissonance
Blaming the victim
Groupthink
Need for power
53
Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?
Illusory Correlation
Cause and Effect
Overconfidence
Implicit memory
54
When trying to solve a problem, Bret uses a, logical step-by step formula called a(n)
Fixation point
Algorithm
Mental set
Heuristic
55
A correlation coefficient of +.95 signifies...
A weak, positive correlation
No Correlation
A strong, positive correlation
No Relationship
56
Which kind of drugs depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but impairing memory?
Barbiturates
Hallucinogens
Stimulants
Opiates
57
What determines the hue of light?
Frequency
Intensity
Wavelength
Amplitude
58
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as...
Hindsight Bias
Perception of Language`
Language Construction
Linguistic Determinism
59
A robin is a ______ of bird.
Heuristic
categorization
Algorithm
Prototype
60
Most people would eat a burger that is 75% lean rather than 25% fat. This is an example of.....
Anchoring effect
Availability heurstic
Representative heuristic
Framing
61
Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?
Digestion Inhibits
Heart Accelerates
Pupils Contract
Salivation Decreases
62
What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?
Biological Rhythms
Circadian Rhythm
REM Sleep
Social Clock
63
What are the threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes?
Genomes
DNA
Genes
Chromosomes
64
What is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself?
Envy Theory
Hindsight Bias
Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
Relative Deprivation
65
Which of the following is NOT a projective test?
Draw a person test
Themantic Apperception Test (TAT)
Rorscharch Inkblot Test
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
66
True or False: High reliability ensures a test's validity.
True
False
67
A revoked driver's license is an example of what?
Positive Punishment
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Punishment
Operant Conditioning
68
According to Kohlberg, one obeys either to avoid punishment or gain rewards during which stage?
Preconventional
Postconventional
Initiative vs. Guilt
Conventional
69
Systematic desensitization is what kind of therapy?
Active Listening
Behavior
Exposure
behavior modification
70
The model below depicts Freud's idea of...
Confidence
Intelligence
Body Structure
Mind Structure
71
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders are...
belief perseverance
schizophrenia
delusions
hallucinations
72
Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Outer Ear
Cochlea
73
What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?
Fovea
Pupil
Ganglion Cell
Optic Nerve
74
The picture below is an example of what concept?
Connectedness
None of the Above
Continuity
Proximity
75
Getting a hug (after a response) is an example of what?
Shaping
Conditioning
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
76
You meet a new student; he's 6 1/2 ft (2 m.) tall and athletic. You assume he is a basketball player. You are using a(n)
Representativeness heuristic
Availability heuristic
algorithm
Framing device
77
What is the body's speedy, electrochemical communication network?
Nervous System
Endocrine System
Digestive System
Limbic System
78
You hate Taylor Swift. You are passionately dancing to a new song, by Taylor Swift. "She isn't so bad" you say...this is
Groupthink
Cognitive Dissonance.
Bystander effect
Conformity
79
What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?
Red/Green/Blue
Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black
Red/Yellow, Green/Bue, Black/White
Rods/Cones
80
What is the tendency of people to be helpful when already in a good mood?
Intrinsic Motivation
Happiness Effect
Catharsis
Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon
81
Crediting primarily someone's disposition to explain their behavior is due to...
Hindsight Bias
Fundamental Attribution Error
Reflection
Attitude
82
Joe believes Earth is flat. When shown a globe, he says, "Fake News" and continues to be a "Flat-Earther". This is...
Confirmation bias
Fixation
Hindsight bias
Belief Perseverence
83
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?
Spontaneous Recovery
Extinction
Acquisition
Generalization
84
Client-centered therapy falls under which perspective?
Active Listening
Humanistic
Behavioral
Psychodynamic
85
What is known as the "Aha!" moment?
Insight
Heuristics
Confirmation Bias
Divergent Thinking
86
In Pavlov's experiments, what is the conditioned stimulus?
Sound of Bell
Salivation
None of the Above
Food
87
The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...
Personal Control
Learned Hopefulness
External Locus of Control
Internal Locus of Control
88
Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?
James-Lange
Schachter-Singer
Two-Factor
Cannon-Bard

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