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)

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

Manifest Content and Latent Content

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1
According to Piaget, during what stage does one develop object permanence?
Sensorimotor
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational
Preoperational
2
Who concluded that the mind is separable from the body, and that knowledge is innate?
William James
Aristotle
Wilhelm Wundt
Socrates
3
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as...
resistance
repression
transference
psychotherapy
4
According to Kohlberg, one obeys either to avoid punishment or gain rewards during which stage?
Postconventional
Conventional
Initiative vs. Guilt
Preconventional
5
In Pavlov's experiments, what is the conditioned stimulus?
Salivation
Food
None of the Above
Sound of Bell
6
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders are...
schizophrenia
delusions
hallucinations
belief perseverance
7
Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?
Pattern Seeking
Cause and Effect
Overconfidence
Illusory Correlation
8
Which perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
Cognitive
Social-Cultural
Psychodynamic
Evolutionary
9
A revoked driver's license is an example of what?
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Punishment
Positive Punishment
Operant Conditioning
10
Which structure of the brain helps process explicit memories for storage?
Hypothalamus
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Thalamus
11
What is a desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people, or ideas?
Achievement Motivation
Satisfaction Motivation
Extrinsic Motivation
Incentive
12
The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is
Workforce Psychology
Real-Life Psychology
Flow
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
13
Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others is known as...
Deindividuation
Social Loafing
Social Facilitation
Group Polarization
14
What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?
Ganglion Cell
Fovea
Pupil
Optic Nerve
15
What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?
Gender Identity
Gender Role
Gender-Typing
Gender Schema Theory
16
What is the ability of produce novel and valuable ideas?
Divergent Thinking
Creativity
Intelligence
Confidence
17
True or False: Aerobic exercise may alleviate depression and anxiety.
False
True
18
According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?
Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)
Middle Adulthood ( 40s-60s)
Toddlerhood (1-2 years)
Infancy (to 1 year)
19
What is the fertilized egg that enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division?
Fetus
Uterus
Embryo
Zygote
20
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...
Behavior and Mental Processes
The Human Mind
Emotions
Observable Behavior
21
True or False: High reliability ensures a test's validity.
True
False
22
Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?
Critical Thinking
Top-down processing
Perception
Bottom-up processing
23
What is the complete genetic instructions for making an organism?
DNA
Genome
Genes
Neurons
24
Client-centered therapy falls under which perspective?
Behavioral
Psychodynamic
Active Listening
Humanistic
25
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...
Declarative Memory
Explicit Memory
Implicit Memory
Both B and C
26
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is...
Sematics
Phoneme
Morpheme
Syntax
27
Which method of coping attempts to alleviate stress directly?
None of the Above
Problem-Focused Coping
Emotiong-Focused Coping
Coping
28
What is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself?
Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
Envy Theory
Relative Deprivation
Hindsight Bias
29
Getting a hug (after a response) is an example of what?
Shaping
Positive Reinforcement
Conditioning
Negative Reinforcement
30
Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
Norepinephrine
Dopamine
Serotonin
Acetylcholine (ACh)
31
True or False: Clients generally speak negatively of their therapists.
True
False
32
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...
Basal Heart Rate
Basal Metabolic Rate
Psychology of Hunger
Set Point
33
A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...
Savant Syndrome
General Intelligence
None of the Above
Specific Intelligence
34
Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...
Obedience
Normative Social Influence
All of the Above
Conformity
35
Which personality type is competitive, impatient, verbally-aggressive, and anger-prone?
Type 1
Type A
Type C
Type B
36
The basic defense mechanism that ejects anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories is...
Repression
None of the Above
Retrieval
Regression
37
A robin is a ______ of bird.
Algorithm
Heuristic
categorization
Prototype
38
Crediting primarily someone's disposition to explain their behavior is due to...
Attitude
Hindsight Bias
Fundamental Attribution Error
Reflection
39
Which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?
Achievement Test
None of the Above
Standardized Test
Aptitude Test
40
Which of the following are structures of the limbic system?
Cerebellum
Amygdala/Hypothalamus
Medulla/Pons
Thalamus
41
Goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals is
Social Leadership
Task Leadership
Positive Coaching
Conditioning
42
What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: 'Who am I?'
Identity
Role
Egocentrism
Self-Concept
43
Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?
Schachter-Singer
Cannon-Bard
Two-Factor
James-Lange
44
Systematic desensitization is what kind of therapy?
Counterconditioning
Active Listening
Exposure
Behavior
45
True or False: Most major depressive episodes self-terminate.
True
False
46
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is known as...
Character
Self-Esteem
Intelligence
Personality
47
Which stage of Freud's psychosexual stages is characterized by dormant sexual feelings?
Dormant
Oral
Phallic
Latency
48
According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and underlying meaning of a dream?
Manifest Content and Latent Content
Latent Content and Matent Content
Sleep Apnea and Night Terrors
REM and Hypnosis
49
Which of the following in NOT a "Big Five" personality trait?
Agreeableness
None of the Above
Extraversion
Openness
50
What is the study of paranormal activity?
Psychokinesis
Parapsychology
Scientific ESP
Psychology
51
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes are classified as...
Bipolar Disorders
Mania Disorders
Mood Disorders
Major Personality Disorders
52
Which study compares people of different ages?
Experiment
Cross-Sectional Study
Longitudinal Study
Case Study
53
Which kind of drugs depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but impairing memory?
Hallucinogens
Barbiturates
Opiates
Stimulants
54
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?
Extinction
Acquisition
Generalization
Spontaneous Recovery
55
What is a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity?
Attitude
Personality
Temperament
Rooting Reflex
56
The diagram below depicts which theory of emotion?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Two-Factor
James-Lange
Cannon-Bard
57
Asch's experiments exhibit what psychological concept?
Conformity
Overconfidence
Cognitive Dissonance
Hindsight Bias
58
Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose?
fMRI
MRI
EEG
PET
59
What is known as the "Aha!" moment?
Confirmation Bias
Divergent Thinking
Heuristics
Insight
60
Which of the following states of consciousness are psychologically induced?
Hallucinations/Dreaming
Daydreaming/Drowsiness
Food/Oxygen Starvation
Hypnosis/Meditation
61
What is the tendency of people to be helpful when already in a good mood?
Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon
Happiness Effect
Catharsis
Intrinsic Motivation
62
What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?
Operational Defintion
Hypothesis
Basic Definition
Classical Definition
63
Which of the following is NOT a projective test?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Themantic Apperception Test (TAT)
None of the Above
Rorscharch Inkblot Test
64
The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?
Relative Size
Texture Gradient
convergence
Interposition
65
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...
Phobia
PTSD
None of the Above
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
66
What is the body's speedy, electrochemical communication network?
Nervous System
Limbic System
Digestive System
Endocrine System
67
What is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behavior?
False Consensus Effect
Hindsight Bias
Illusory Correlation
Overconfidence
68
Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Outer Ear
Middle Ear
Cochlea
Inner Ear
69
The picture below portrays what idea?
Grouping Principles
Binocular Cues
Depth Perception
Visual Cliff
70
People from which type of culture may act shy in new groups and are more easily embarrassed?
Western
Collectivist
Individualistic
Northern
71
The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...
Personal Control
Learned Hopefulness
Internal Locus of Control
External Locus of Control
72
The diagram below is an example of what idea?
Homeostasis
Hierarchy of Needs
Drive-Reduction Theory
Incentive Theory
73
The word 'but' has how many phonemes?
2
1
4
3
74
Which observation technique studies one person in depth in the hope of showing universal ideas?
Case Study
Survey
Experiment
Longitudinal Study
75
Who famously argued that the mind at birth is a blank slate- a "white paper?"
Wilhelm Wundt
Socrates
Plato
John Locke
76
What are the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state?
Hallucinations
Delta
Beta
Alpha
77
What determines the hue of light?
Wavelength
Amplitude
Intensity
Frequency
78
Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?
interpretation
eclectic
transference
functionalism
79
What are the threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes?
Genomes
DNA
Chromosomes
Genes
80
What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?
Speed
Distance
Texture Gradience
Movement
81
The model below depicts Freud's idea of...
Intelligence
Confidence
Mind Structure
Body Structure
82
Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?
Heart Accelerates
Salivation Decreases
Pupils Contract
Digestion Inhibits
83
The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is...
Learning
Mirroring
Modeling
Observing
84
Which of the following is NOT one of Garner's eight intelligences?
Interpersonal
Naturalist
Linguistic
Practical
85
Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?
Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Cognitive
Behavioral
86
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...
Encoding
Spacing
Processing
Chunking
87
True or False: Depression is usually unaffected by stressful life events.
False
True
88
The picture below is an example of what concept?
Proximity
Connectedness
Continuity
None of the Above
89
A correlation coefficient of +.95 signifies...
No Relationship
A strong, positive correlation
No Correlation
A weak, positive correlation
90
What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?
Imagination
Misinformation Effect
Amnesia
Memory Construction
91
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as...
Hindsight Bias
Perception of Language`
Language Construction
Linguistic Determinism
92
Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?
Dendrite
Cell Body
Myelin Sheath
Axon
93
What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?
Circadian Rhythm
REM Sleep
Biological Rhythms
Social Clock
94
What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?
Rods/Cones
Red/Green/Blue
Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black
Red/Yellow, Green/Bue, Black/White

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