BL-PSYC-6101-LEC-1933T INTRODUCTION

TO PSYCHOLOGY
By: Grace Carticiano

The nucleus of neuron contains____________ the chemical that contains the genetic
blueprint that directs the development of the neuron.
Select one:
a. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
b. Ions
c. Neurotransmitters
d. Oxytocin
It provides an objective description of how a variable is going to be measured and observed
in a particular study.
Select one:
a. Operational Definition
b. Drawing Conclusion
c. Data Analysis
d. Observation
It is a broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain observations.
Answer: Theory

This is resting state of the neuron, when more negative ions are inside and more positive
ions are outside the cell membrane.
Select one:
a. Polarized State
b. Action Potential
c. Depolarization
d. Myelin Sheath
Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with
psychological problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of
delivering such services as outreach programs.
Select one:
True
False
It is a testable prediction that derives logically from a theory.
Select one:

a. Empirical Research

b. Scientific Inquiry

c. Data

d. Hypothesis

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These are branchlike structures that receive incoming signals from other neurons.
Select one:

a. Myelin Sheath

b. Axon

c. Cell membrane

d. Dendrites
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Multiple Choice;
It is like a fence that surrounds the entire neuron, giving it shape and keeping the cell’s
internal fluid inside; it is said to be semi-permeable.
Select one:

a. Axon

b. Cell membrane

c. Dendrites

d. Myelin Sheath

These are chemical substances that are stored in very tiny sacs within the terminal buttons
and involved in transmitting information across a synaptic gap to the next neuron.
Select one:

a. Dopamine

b. Norepinephrine

c. Ions

d. Neurotransmitters
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Environmentalpsychology explores the effects of physical settings in most major areas of
psychology including perception, cognition, learning, and others.
Select one:

True

False

Which of the following topics would a psychologist have the least interest in?
Select one:
a. Sexuality
b. Color Perception
c. Weather Patterns
d. Learning
Multiple Choice;
It consists of layer of cells containing fat, encases and insulates most axons. .
Select one:

a. Cell membrane

b. Terminal Buttons

c. Myelin Sheath

d. Glial Cells
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Clinical psychology applies findings in all areas of psychology in the workplace.
Select one:

True

False
Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death,
concentrating on biological and environmental factors.
Select one:

True

False
Which of the following statements is correct?
Select one:
a. Only experimental research allows researchers to determine causality.
b. Both correlational and experimental research allow researchers to determine causality.
c. Neither correlational and experimental research allow researchers to determine causality
d. Only correlational research allows researchers to determine causality.

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Darwin’s theory speculated that certain behaviors or traits that enhance survival are
naturally selected.
Select one:

True

False

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Paul believes that physical attractive people are selfish. He conducts a study to see if he is
right. He goes up to five people he thinks are good looking and asks them for spare change.
They all turn him down. Paul concludes “Aha! I knew it all along.” The operational definition
of selfish in Paul’s study is _______________.
Select one:

a. whether Paul thought the person was attractive

b. physical attractiveness

c. asking for spare change

d. whether people gave Paul a spare change

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The more hours that students work, the less successful they are academically. This is an
example of what type of correlation?
Select one:

a. Perfect

b. Positive

c. Negative

d. Zero
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logos
This is a Greek word which means “the study of.”Answer
logos
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The ancient Greek philosopher who wrote about psyche and first broadly defined the
Aristotle
subject matter wasAnswer .
Aristotle

In an experiment on attitudes, participants are given either positive or negative information

about a speaker and then asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the speaker. In this
experiment, which is the independent variable?
Select one:
a. The type of information the participant is given

b. The effectiveness of the speaker

c. The speaker

d. Attitude change
Clinical psychology applies findings in all areas of psychology in the workplace.
Select one:

True

False

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Any changeable phenomenon that a scientist studies is called ______________.

Select one:

a. Variable

b. Variation

c. Diffirential

d. Predictor
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Forensic psychology applies psychology to the legal system. Forensic psychologists
might help with jury selection or provide expert testimonies in trials.

Select one:

True

False
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American Psychologists Martin Seligman and Ed Diener introduced behaviorism.
Select one:
 True

False

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Sigmund Freud established the first psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of
Leipzig, in Germany.
Select one:

True

False

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Multiple Choice;
These provide support, nutritional benefits, and other functions in the nervous system.
Select one:

a. Glial cells

b. Nerve cell

c. Synaptic Gap

d. Action Potential

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Gestalt is any object or event that is perceived by our senses.
Select one:

True

False

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It is a testable prediction that derives logically from a theory.
Select one:

a. Empirical Research

b. Scientific Inquiry

c. Hypothesis

d. Data

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Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death,
concentrating on biological and environmental factors.
Select one:

True

False

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Multiple Choice;
These are located at the ends of the axon where neurotransmitters are stored before being
released into the synapse.
Select one:

a. Cell membrane

b. Glial Cells

c. Terminal Buttons

d. Myelin Sheath

Which of the following statements is true?

Select one:

a. Survey determines the relationship between two or more variables.

b. Results of case study is applicable to everyone.

c. Quasi experimental research is not a true experiment because participants are not
randomly assigned to different conditions.
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Any changeable phenomenon that a scientist studies is called ______________.

Select one:

a. Diffirential

b. Variable

c. Predictor

d. Variation

The circadian rhythm of sleep is a natural rhythm of sleep and waking programmed by a
group of brain cells in the hypothalamus called_________________.
Select one:

a. Glial Cells

b. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

c. Thalamus

d. Sensory Neurons
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Identify what is defined through its function.
This governs the emotion of fear and aggression.
Amygdala
Answer:

Amygdala

This refers to respiration, consciousness, sleep, dreaming, facial movements, sensory

processes and transmission of neural signal from one part of the brain to another.
Pons
Answer:

Pons

Identify what is defined through its function.

It serves as a relay station for information coming from our senses to the brain.
Thalamus
Answer:

Thalamus

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A sleep disorder in which a person stops breathing while asleep.
Select one:

a. Sleep Apnea

b. Narcolepsy

c. Insomnia

d. Somnambulism

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Which of the following does mediation appear to improve?
Select one:

a. Well-being

b. Attention

c. Mindfulness

d. All of the above

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Identify what is defined through its function.
This is responsible for the transfer of information from short to long term memory.
Hippocampus
Answer:

Hippocampus

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____________ is a heightened awareness of the present moment, which can be applied to
events in one’s environment and events in one’s own mind.
Select one:

a. Optimism

b. Wakefulness

c. Mindfulness

d. Attention
_____________ occurs when someone is either physically or psychologically reliant on a
drug’s effect.
Select one:
a. Hypnosis
b. Substance dependence
c. Tolerance
d. Substance abuse
A sleep disorder in which a person falls asleep during alert times of the day.
Select one:
a. Insomnia
b. Narcolepsy
c. Sleep Apnea
d. Somnambulism

According to Freud, this refers to the dream’s hidden content; it unconscious and true
meaning.
Select one:
a. Manifest Content
b. Latent Content
c. Hypnosis
d. Wish Fulfillment
____________ produces mild hallucinations as well as physiological arousal and
sometimes called the “love drug” because it produces feelings of euphoria, warmth, and
connectedness with others.
Select one:
a. Ecstasy
b. Opiates
c. Cocaine
d. LSD

_____________ includes automatic processing that requires little attention?

Select one:
a. Subconscious Awareness
b. Lower-Level Consciousness
c. Altered States of Consciousness
d. Higher-Level Consciousness
According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise
the dream’s true meaning.
Select one:

a. Wish Fulfillment

b. Hypnosis

c. Manifest Content

d. Latent Content

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Identify what is defined through its function.
This is necessary for balance, muscle tone and performance of motor skills.
Cerebellum
Answer:

Cerebellum

Identify what is defined through its function.

This regulates heartbeat and respiration and plays a role in sneezing, coughing, vomiting,
swallowing and digestion.
Medulla
Answer:

Medulla
Identify what is defined through its function.
This regulates some of our basic emotional reaction.
Limbic system
Answer:

Limbic system

Identify what is defined through its function.

It maintains homeostasis in the body or a state of internal equilibrium across a variety of
bodily systems.
Hypothalamus
Answer:
Hypothalamus
A condition when individual forgets something because it is so painful or anxiety laden that
remembering is intolerable.
Select one:

a. Decay

b. Amnesia

c. Interference

d. Motivated Forgetting
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The ____________ is the smallest magnitude of a stimulus that can be detected half of the
time.
Select one:

a. Relative Threshold
b. Difference threshold

c. Visual Threshold

d. Absolute Threshold
It refers to a memory loss for a segment of the past but not for new events.
Select one:
a. Retrograde Amnesia
b. Proactive Interference
c. Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon
d. Decay
Multiple Choice;
It is a long tail-like structure growing out of the other end of the cell which carries signals
away from the cell body.
Select one:
a. Dendrites
b. Cell membrane
c. Myelin Sheath
d. Axon
Light waves are transduced into neural messages by two types of receptor cells, named
rods and cones, in the ____________of the eye.
Select one:
a. Iris
b. Pupil
c. retina
d. Ciliary structure
Type of attention in which involves concentrating on more than one activity at the same
time.
Select one:
a. None of the above
b. Sustained Attention
c. Divided Attention
d. Selective Attention
Cones are concentrated in the ___________.
Select one:
a. Blind spot
b. Periphery of the eye
c. iris
d. Fovea
A type of effortful retrieval that occurs when we are confident that we know something but
cannot quite pull it out of memory.
Select one:
a. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
b. Retrieval Task
c. Retrieval Cues
d. Decay
The sound wave is amplified by the hammer, anvil, and stirrup in the _____________.
Select one:
a. inner ear
b. Pinna
c. Outer ear
d. Middle ear
This pertains to the memory of emotionally significant events that people often recall with
more accuracy and vivid imagery than everyday events.
Select one:

a. Semantic Memory

b. Autobiographical Memory

c. Explicit Memory

d. Flashbulb Memory

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A response is an organism’s reaction to a stimulus.
Select one:

True

False
It is a conscious recollection of information, such as specific facts and events and at least in
humans, information that can be verbally communicated.
Select one:
a. Episodic memory
b. Explicit memory
c. Procedural memory
d. Semantic memory
t refers to any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about through experience.
Learning
Answer:
Learning
These reinforces are innate and often satisfy biological needs like food, water, sex, and
even artificial sweeteners with no food value
Primary reinforcers
Answer:
Primary reinforcers
A preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people to organize and interpret
information.
Select one:
a. Schema
b. Storage
c. Interference
d. Memory
Sensory receptors located in the muscles, joints, and skin provide the brain with messages
about movement, posture, and orientation of the body. These are
called______________receptors.
Select one:
a. Semicircular
b. Vestibular
c. Ciliary
d. Kinesthetic
It refers to the retention of information about the where, when, and what of life’s happenings
– that is how individuals remember life’s episodes.
Select one:
a. Explicit memory
b. Semantic memory
c. Procedural memory
d. Episodic memory
Psyche
This is a Greek word which means “mind.”Answer .

Psyche

This is a special form of episodic memory, consisting of a person’s recollections of his or

her life experiences.
Select one:
a. Semantic Memory
b. Autobiographical Memory
c. Explicit Memory
d. Flashbulb Memory
Russian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for his work on the role of saliva in
digestion.
Ivan Pavlov
Answer:
Ivan Pavlov
The ____________theory of color vision proposes that there are three kinds of cones in the
retina that respond primarily to light in either the red, green, or blue range of wavelengths.
Select one:
a. Trichromatic
b. Duplicity
c. Opponent-process
d. Psychophysical
These reinforcers are learned by association, usually via classical conditioning like money,
grades, and peer approval.
Secondary reinforcers
Answer:
Secondary reinforcers
It refers to the process of observing and imitating behaviors performed by others.
Modeling
Answer:
Modeling
his coordinates information between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
corpus callosum
Answer:
corpus callosum
According to_____________, the amount of the change in a stimulus needed to be
detected half the time is in direct proportion to the intensity of the original stimulus.
Select one:
a. Psychophysical dualism
b. Weber’s law
c. Threshold variation
d. McGurty’s law
When a stimulus is continuously present or repeated at short intervals, the sensation
gradually becomes weaker. This termed__________.
Select one:
a. desensitization
b. Sensory adaptation
c. Psyhcophysics
d. None of these
This occurs when material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned
later. taught earlier.
Select one:
a. Decay
b. Retroactive Interference
c. Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon
d. Proactive Interference
According to _____________, pitch perception occurs when the brain notices which
portions of the basilar membrane are being most excited by incoming sound waves.
Select one:
a. Place Theory
b. Volley
c. Duplicity Theory
d. Frequency Theory
It contains a nucleus.
Select one:
a. Myelin Sheath
b. Cell body
c. Synapse
d. Neurotransmitter
The sound wave is transduced into neural impulses in the ________, which is located in the
cochlea in the inner ear.
Select one:
a. Pinna
b. Cochlear Fluid
c. Auditory nerve
d. Organ of Corti
This governs high-level processes in the brain such as cognition and language.
Cerebral cortex
Answer:
Cerebral cortex
Environmentalpsychology explores the effects of physical settings in most major areas of
psychology including perception, cognition, learning, and others.
This coordinates information between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
corpus callosum
Answer:
corpus callosum
 An American psychologist who formulated the “law of effect”.
Edw ard Thorndike
Answer:
Edward Thorndike
refers to all of a person’s overt actions that others directly observe.
Answer: Behavior
A form of learning in which the consequences of behavior lead to changes in the probability
of its occurrence.
Operant conditioning
Answer:
Operant conditioning

refer to the private thoughts, emotions, feelings and motives that other people cannot directly
observe.
Answer: Mental Processes

Identify what is defined through its function.

It serves as a relay station for information coming from our senses to the brain.
Answer: thalamus

This regulates heartbeat and respiration and plays a role in sneezing, coughing, vomiting, swallowing
and digestion.
Answer: medulla

This is necessary for balance, muscle tone and performance of motor skills.
Answer: cerebellum
This coordinates information between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Answer: corpus callosum

This regulates some of our basic emotional reaction.

Answer: Limbic System

This is responsible for the transfer of information from short to long term memory.
Answer: hippocampus

This governs high-level processes in the brain such as cognition and language.
Answer: cerebral cortex

It maintains homeostasis in the body or a state of internal equilibrium across a variety of bodily
systems.
Answer: hypothalamus
This refers to respiration, consciousness, sleep, dreaming, facial movements, sensory processes and
transmission of neural signal from one part of the brain to another.
Answer: pons
This governs the emotion of fear and aggression.
Answer: amygdala

The ____________ is the smallest magnitude of a stimulus that can be detected half of the time.
d. Absolute Threshold

When a stimulus is continuously present or repeated at short intervals, the sensation gradually
becomes weaker. This termed__________.
b. Sensory adaptation

According to_____________, the amount of the change in a stimulus needed to be detected half the
time is in direct proportion to the intensity of the original stimulus.
a. Weber’s law
Light waves are transduced into neural messages by two types of receptor cells, named rods and
cones, in the ____________of the eye.
a. retina

Cones are concentrated in the ___________.

b. Fovea

The ____________theory of color vision proposes that there are three kinds of cones in the retina
that respond primarily to light in either the red, green, or blue range of wavelengths.
a. Trichromatic

The sound wave is amplified by the hammer, anvil, and stirrup in the _____________.
d. Middle ear
The sound wave is transduced into neural impulses in the ________, which is located in the cochlea
in the inner ear.
d. Organ of Corti

Sensory receptors located in the muscles, joints, and skin provide the brain with messages about
movement, posture, and orientation of the body. These are called______________receptors.
b. Kinesthetic

According to _____________, pitch perception occurs when the brain notices which portions of the
basilar membrane are being most excited by incoming sound waves.
a. Place Theory

Objects cast smaller images on the retina when they are more distant. As a result, parallel lines,
such as railroad tracks, appear to grow closer together the farther they are from us.
Linear Perspective

We tend to perceive lines or patterns that follow a smooth contour as being part of a single unit.
Continuity

It is a preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people organize and interpret information.
Schema

Visual stimuli in which the cues used in visual perception create a false perception.
Visual Illusions

A part of the inner ear that is characterized as a coiled, fluid-filled tube about 1.4 inches long that
resembles a snail. This is where the sound waves are turned into neutral impulses.
Cochlea

A form of mental training that can be used to calm the mind, stabilize concentration, or enhance
awareness of the present moment.
Meditation

_____________ in depth perception require both eyes to allow us to perceive depth.

Binocular Cues

Missing sensory information is automatically "filled in" in the process of perception to create
complete and whole perceptions.
Closure

A term in classical conditioning wherein a response is elicited by the conditioned stimulus.The shape
of the lens of the eye must change to focus the visual image on the retina from stimuli that are
different distances from the eye.
Accommodation

drugs act on the nervous system to alter consciousness, modify perceptions and alter mood.
Psychoactive

When we perceive a visual stimulus, part of what we see is the center of our attention and the rest
isthe indistinct ground.
Figure-ground

A type of reinforcement that is learned by association, usually via classical conditioning like money,
grades, and peer approval.Things that are close together are usually perceived as belonging
together.
Proximity

It is the tendency for perceptions of objects to remain relatively unchanged in spite of changes in
rawsensations.
Perceptual constancy

This refers to the savory taste of meat stock, cheese, and mushrooms, that some scientists believe
is another type of taste bud.
Umami

The ______________ schedule is where reinforcement always follows the first response after a set
amount of time, producing a response pattern in which the rate of response immediately following
reinforcement is low.
Fixed interval

Closer objects tend to be partially in front of, or partially cover up, more distant objects.
Superposition
A theory of dreaming that rests on the idea that dreams are essentially subconscious cognitive
processing.
Cognitive

Theory of DreamingThis is a state of mind characterized by focused attention, suggestibility,

absorption, lack of voluntarycontrol over behavior, and suspension of critical faculties of mind.
Hypnosis

____________ is a heightened awareness of the present moment, which can be applied to events in
one’s environment and events in one’s own mind.
a. Mindfulness

According to Freud, this refers to the dream’s hidden content; it unconscious and true meaning.
c. Latent Content

Which of the following does mediation appear to improve?

a. Mindfulness
b. Attention
c. Well-being
d. All of the above (Answer)

_____________ includes automatic processing that requires little attention?

a. Lower-Level Consciousness

_____________ occurs when someone is either physically or psychologically reliant on a drug’s

effect.
b. Substance dependence

____________ produces mild hallucinations as well as physiological arousal and sometimes called
the “love drug” because it produces feelings of euphoria, warmth, and connectedness with others.
b. Ecstasy

The circadian rhythm of sleep is a natural rhythm of sleep and waking programmed by a group of
brain cells in the hypothalamus called_________________.
b. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

A sleep disorder in which a person stops breathing while asleep.

b. Sleep Apnea

A sleep disorder in which a person falls asleep during alert times of the day.
d. Narcolepsy

According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the
dream’s true meaning
d. Manifest Content

Russian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for his work on the role of saliva in digestion.
Ivan Pavlov
It refers to any stimulus that decreases the frequency of behavior.
Punishment

A form of learning in which the consequences of behavior lead to changes in the probability of its
occurrence.
Operant conditioning

An American psychologist who formulated the “law of effect”.

Edward Thorndike

It refers to any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about through experience.
learning

These reinforces are innate and often satisfy biological needs like food, water, sex, and even
artificial sweeteners with no food value
Primary reinforcers

These reinforcers are learned by association, usually via classical conditioning like money, grades,
and peer approval.
Secondary reinforcers

This reinforcement occurs when the presentation or addition of stimulus to a situation increases the
likelihood of a behavior like giving extra credit points for turning in homework on time.
Positive reinforcement

This reinforcement involves the removal of the stimulus to increase behavior.

Negative reinforcement

It refers to the process of observing and imitating behaviors performed by others.

Modeling

Type of attention in which involves concentrating on more than one activity at the same time.
a. Divided Attention

A type of effortful retrieval that occurs when we are confident that we know something but cannot
quite pull it out of memory.
d. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

It refers to the retention of information about the where, when, and what of life’s happenings – that is
how individuals remember life’s episodes.
c. Episodic memory

It is a conscious recollection of information, such as specific facts and events and at least in
humans, information that can be verbally communicated.
c. Explicit memory

A preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people to organize and interpret information.
d. Schema
This is a special form of episodic memory, consisting of a person’s recollections of his or her life
experiences.
c. Autobiographical Memory

This pertains to the memory of emotionally significant events that people often recall with more
accuracy and vivid imagery than everyday events.
b. Flashbulb Memory

A condition when individual forgets something because it is so painful or anxiety laden that
remembering is intolerable.
d. Motivated Forgetting

It refers to a memory loss for a segment of the past but not for new events.
b. Retrograde Amnesia

This occurs when material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned later. taught
earlier.
c. Proactive Interference

These are substances that create distorted perceptions of reality ranging from mild to extreme.
Hallucinogens

A psychoactive drug that stimulates the brain by blocking neurotransmitters that slow down our
nervous system and cause sleep.
caffeine

___________ memory is the conscious recollection of information such as specific facts and events
and at least in humans, information that can be verbally communicated.
declarative

The activation of information that people already have in storage to help them remember new
information better and faster.
Priming

___________ is defined as the minimum intensity of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the
time.
Absolute Threshold

These processes involve changes in an individual’s relationship with other people, changes
in emotions, and changes in personality.
Select one:
a. Physical Processes
b. Cognitive Processes
c. Socioemotional Processes
d. Biopyschoemotinal Processes
The ______________ schedule is where reinforcement always follows the first response after a
set amount of time, producing a response pattern in which the rate of response immediately
following reinforcement is low.

Select one:
a. Variable interval
b. Fixed ratio
c. Fixed interval
d. Variable ratio
A psychoactive drug that stimulates the brain by blocking neurotransmitters that slow down
our nervous system and cause sleep.

Answer:

Most individuals have progressed to full adult cognition, including the ability to reason using
abstract concepts
Select one:
a. Preoperational
b. Concrete Operational
c. Sensorimotor Stage
d. Formal Operational
A part of the inner ear that is characterized as a coiled, fluid-filled tube about 1.4 inches
long that resembles a snail. This is where the sound waves are turned into neutral impulses.

Select one:
a. Oval window
b. Round window
c. Organ of corti
d. Cochlea
Conflicts over dangerous motives or feelings are avoided by unconsciously transforming
them into the opposite desire
Select one:
a. Reaction formation
b. Ineffective Coping
c. Physiological Reactions
d. Rationalization
e. Psychological Reaction

MIDTERM
Shirley, a sales representative, uses MapQuest to get driving directions to her client’s office.
She is using a(n)_______________to reach her destinations.
Select one:

a. Category

b. Prototype

c. Heuristic

d. Algorithm
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The reproducibility of the test’s result is known as ______________.
Select one:

a. Validity

b. Reliability

c. Criterion validity

d. Standardization
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Someone who has difficulty exploring more than one possible solution to a problem is
demonstrating_____.
Select one:

a. Inductive Reasoning

b. Deductive reasoning

c. Subgoaling

d. Functional fixedness
If mental age is the same as chrono;ogical age, the individual’s IQ is 100 or _________.
Select one:

a. Average

b. Superior

c. Below average

d. Above average

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These are states of cellular or bodily deficiency that compel drives; these are what your
body seeks.
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a. Needs

b. Emotion

c. Motives

d. Instincts

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The body functions best at a specific level of arousal, which varies from one individual to
another .
Select one:

a. James-Lange Theory

b. Drive-reduction theory

c. Optimum Level Theories

d. Cognitive-consistency theories
e. Incentive Theory
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These are brief, acute changes in conscious experience and physiology that occur in
response to a personally meaningful situation.
Select one:

a. Emotion

b. Extrinsic Motivation

c. Internal Motivation

d. Basic Physiological Needs

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Theory that views motivated behavior as directed toward the reduction of a physiological
need.
Select one:
a. Cognitive-consistency theories

b. Incentive Theory

c. Drive-reduction theory

d. James-Lange Theory

e. Optimum Level Theories

These are the perceived states of tension that occur when our bodies are deficient in some
need and creating an urge to relieve the tension.
Select one:
a. Emotions
b. Needs
c. Drives
d. Incentives
Deductive reasoning starts at _________and goes to _____________.
Select one:
a. The general; the specific
b. Fixation; function
c. The specific; the general
d. Function; fixation
This refers to any external object or event that motivates behavior.
Select one:

a. Incentives

b. Emotions

c. Attitude

d. Drives

e. Needs
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These pertain to development of one’s potential to the fullest extent.
Select one:

a. Esteem Needs

b. Basic Physiological Needs

c. Self-actualization needs

d. Safety Needs

e. Belongingness & Love Needs

This includes food, water and sleep.
Select one:

a. Self-actualization needs

b. Basic Physiological Needs

c. Esteem Needs

d. Safety Needs

e. Belongingness & Love Needs

A classic research by Yerkes and Dodson which states that we function in accordance to a
certain level.
Select one:

a. Optimum Level Theories

b. Arousal Theory

c. Optimal Arousal Model

d. Cognitive-consistency theories

e. Drive-reduction theory

_______ pertains to the ability to grapple with the big questions of human existence, such
as meaning of life and death, with special sensitivity to issues of spirituality.
Select one:

a. Existentialist

b. Interpersonal

c. Naturalist

d. Intrapersonal

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Categories by which the mind groups things, events, and characteristics are called_____.
Select one:

a. CognitionAA

b. Algorithms

c. Concepts

d. Heuristics
An example of concept is __________________.
Select one:

a. A basketball

b. A daisy

c. A vegetable

d. An eagle
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This is the urge to move towards one's goals.
Select one:

a. Optimum Level Theories

b. motivation

c. Motive

d. drive

e. behaviour

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Critical thinking involves two mental habits such as _______and ______.
Select one:

a. Biases and heuristics

b. Mindfulness and open-mindedness

c. Divergent and convergent thinking

d. Fixation and function

The common criterion for determining mental retardation is ________.

Select one:
a. an IQ below 100
b. an IQ below 70
c. an IQ below 55
d. an IQ below 85
The needs for affiliation with friends, supportive family, group identification and intimate
relationship.
Select one:
a. Safety Needs
b. Esteem Needs
c. Basic Physiological Needs
d. Self-actualization needs
e. Belongingness & Love Needs
This theory taks about how an emotional reaction is a result of physiological reactions to
stimuli
Select one:

a. Incentive Theory
b. James-Lange Theory

c. Cognitive-consistency theories

d. Optimum Level Theories

e. Drive-reduction theory
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This involves anything that energizes or directs behavior.
Select one:

a. Motives

b. Instincts

c. Drives

d. Energy

e. Needs
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The needs for attention and recognition from others, & feelings of achievement,
competence, & mastery.
Select one:

a. Safety Needs

b. Self-actualization needs

c. Belongingness & Love Needs

d. Esteem Needs

e. Basic Physiological Needs

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Someone who has difficulty exploring more than one possible solution to a problem is
demonstrating_____.
Select one:

a. Deductive reasoning

b. Subgoaling

c. Functional fixedness
d. Inductive Reasoning
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This includes food, water and sleep.
Select one:

a. Self-actualization needs

b. Basic Physiological Needs

c. Belongingness & Love Needs

d. Safety Needs

e. Esteem Needs
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These are the needs for order, predictability, physical security, & freedom from fear.
Select one:
a. Esteem Needs

b. Self-actualization needs

c. Safety Needs

d. Belongingness & Love Needs

e. Basic Physiological Needs

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It consists of unconscious drives and is the individual’s reservoir of sexual energy. It works
for the pleasure principle.

Select one:

a. Defense Mechanisms

b. Collective unconscious

c. Ego

d. Id

e. Superego
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The emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times by reducing it to cold logic
Select one:

a. Displacement

b. Repression

c. Sublimation

d. Denial

e. Intellectualization
It is the most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism. It pushes unacceptable id
impulses back into the unconscious mind.
Select one:

a. Repression

b. Displacement

c. Sublimation

d. Intellectualization

e. Denial
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He/She is referred to as the father of American personality psychology.
Select one:

a. Carl Rogers
b. Karen Horney

c. Abraham Maslow

d. Gordon Allport

e. Carl Jung
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He/She believed that the need for security, not for sex, is the prime motive of human
existence.
Select one:

a. Carl Rogers

b. Gordon Allport

c. Carl Jung

d. Karen Horney

e. Abraham Maslow
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The tendency to worry and experience negative emotions.
Select one:

a. Agreeableness

b. Openness to Experience

c. Conscientiousness

d. Extraversion

e. Neuroticism
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These are tactics that the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
Select one:

a. Id

b. Superego

c. Collective unconscious

d. Defense Mechanisms
e. Ego
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He/She believed that we are all born with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life – we simply
need the right condition to thrive. Each person is born with natural capacities for growth and
fulfillment.
Select one:

a. Karen Horney

b. Carl Rogers

c. Gordon Allport

d. Carl Jung

e. Abraham Maslow
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_________ is a method of measuring personality characteristics that directly asks people
whether specific items describe their personality traits.
Select one:

a. Projective Test

b. Objective Test

c. Observational Methods

d. Interview

This is the most primitive defense mechanism, in which the ego simply refuses to
acknowledge anxiety- producing realities.
Select one:
a. Displacement
b. Intellectualization
c. Repression
d. Sublimation
e. Denial
According ___________self-actualization is the motivation to develop one’s full potential as
human being. A person at this optimal level of existence would be tolerant of others, have a
gentle sense of humor, and be likely to pursue the greater good.
Select one:

a. Abraham Maslow

b. Carl Rogers

c. Karen Horney

d. Carl Jung

e. Gordon Allport
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_________ emphasizes that personality is primarily unconscious or is beyond awareness,
thus enduring patterns that make up personality are largely unavailable to out conscious
awareness and they powerfully shape our behaviors.
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a. Psychodynamic Perspective

b. Humanistic Perspective

c. Trait Perspective

d. Biological Perspective
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This defense mechanism involves directing unacceptable impulses at a less threatening
target.
Select one:

a. Repression

b. Intellectualization

c. Denial
d. Sublimation

e. Displacement

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This is Jung’s name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by
all human beings because of their common ancestral past.
Select one:

a. Ego

b. Defense Mechanisms

c. Superego

d. Id

e. Collective unconscious
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The person expresses an unconscious wish in a socially valued way, such as a boxer who
channeled his aggressive drive in the ring.
Select one:

a. Denial

b. Repression

c. Intellectualization

d. Sublimation

e. Displacement

_________ is a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts and emotions, and behaviors that
characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
Select one:
a. Traits
b. Personality
c. Defense Mechanism
d. Persona
This is the Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality. It abides
by reality principle as it tries to bring the individual pleasure within the norms of the society.
Select one:

a. Collective unconscious

b. Superego

c. Id

d. Ego

e. Defense Mechanisms
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This is the harsh internal judge of our behavior. It is reflected in what we often call
conscience and evaluates the morality of our behavior.
Select one:

a. Id

b. Ego

c. Superego

d. Collective unconscious

e. Defense Mechanisms
He/She concluded that archetypes emerge in art, literature, religion and dreams .
Select one:

a. Karen Horney

b. Carl Jung

c. Abraham Maslow

d. Carl Rogers

e. Gordon Allport
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A factor of personality characterized by being more likely than others to engage in social
activities, experience gratitude, strong sense of meaning in life, and are more forgiving.
Select one:

a. Neuroticism

b. Conscientiousness

c. Agreeableness

d. Extraversion

e. Openness to Experience

The Freudian structure personality that is known as the harsh internal judge of our behavior.
It is reflected in what we often call conscience and evaluates the morality of our behavior.
Superego
Answer:
Superego
These are strategies that comes in different forms such as formulas, instructions, and the
testing of possible solutions.

Select one:
a. Subgoaling
b. Heuristics
c. Algorithms
d. Hypotheses
The model of motivation implies that all organisms are motivated to maintain physiological
equilibrium around an optimal set point.

Select one:
a. Evolutionary Model
b. Hierarchial Model
c. Drive Reduction Model
d. Optimal Arousal Model
This means thinking reflectively and productively and evaluating the evidence.
Critical Thinking
Answer:
Critical Thinking

This stage of human development is when the young child's thought is egocentric or self-
centered, as they can only see things from their perspective.
Select one:

a. Neonatal period

b. Middle childhood

c. Adolescence

d. Early childhood

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A normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance
in some way. This results from appraisal of demands of a situation as exceeding our ability
to cope with or manage those demands.
Stress
Answer:

Stress

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A tool used by Freud in which the patient is encouraged to talk about whatever comes to
mind, allowing contents of the unconscious mind to slip past the censorship of the ego.
Select one:

a. Catharsis

b. Interpretation of Resistance

c. Dream Interpretation

d. Interpretation of Transference

e. Free Association

A defense mechanism that is a special form of displacement in which the person expresses
an unconscious wish in a socially valued way.

Select one:
a. Denial
b. Repression
c. Sublimation
d. Displacement
This is a basic drive that ensures that we take in sufficient nutrition to survive.
Hunger
Answer:
Hunger
A method developed by Freud in which the symbols of the manifest content of dreams that
are recalled by the patient are interpreted to reveal their latent content.
Select one:

a. Interpretation of Resistance

b. Dream Interpretation
c. Interpretation of Transference

d. Free Association

e. Catharsis
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The Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality.
Ego
Answer:

Ego

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Any form of patient opposition to the process of psychoanalysis.
Select one:

a. Free Association

b. Dream Interpretation

c. Interpretation of Resistance
d. Interpretation of Transference

e. Catharsis

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The phenomenon in psychoanalysis in which the patient comes to feel and act toward the
therapist in ways that resemble how he or she feels and acts toward other significant adults.
Select one:

a. Interpretation of Transference

b. Free Association

c. Catharsis

d. Interpretation of Resistance

e. Dream Interpretation
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The likeliness over others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude, show strong
sense of meaning in life and be more forgiving.
Select one:

a. Extraversion

b. Neuroticism

c. Agreeableness

d. Openness to Experience
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The release of emotional energy related to unconscious conflicts.
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a. Dream Interpretation

b. Interpretation of Resistance

c. Interpretation of Transference

d. Free Association

e. Catharsis
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The perceived states of tension that occur when our bodies are deficient in some need and
creating an urge to relieve the tension.
Select one:

a. Drives

b. Motives

c. Needs

d. Incentives
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Reasoning
Answer is the mental ability of transforming information to reach conclusions.

In Erik Erikson's Stages of Personality Development, at what age do we acquire our sense of
own identity and grow confused about our role in life?
Select one:
a. 40-65 years
b. 11-18 years
c. 5-11 years
d. 18-40 years
e. 65 years-and on
A subjective method of personality assessment that involves questioning techniques
designed to reveal the personality of the client.

Answer:

reasoning starts from a general case that we know to be true to a specific instance.

Answer: Deductive

A biological theory of aging that argues that aging in the body's hormonal system can lower
resistance to stress and increase the likelihood of the disease.

Select one:
a. Hormonal Stress Theory
b. Free Radical Theory
c. Cellular Clock Theory

QUIZ 6
This refers to the tendency of members of groups to work less hard when group
performance is measured than when individual performance is measured.
Select one:

a. Social Loafing

b. Social Norms

c. Social Facilitation

d. Group think

e. Social Inhibition
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The following statements except for one are true.
Select one:

a. Obedience is more likely to occur when we are in the presence of other disobedient
individual.

b. Conformity is highest when we face a group who all feel the same way about a topic –
the group is unanimous.

c. Obedience is greatest when we are instructed to do something by a person who is high in

status and who is physically present.

d. Conformity occurs in all cultures around the world but persons from individualistic
cultures, which place an emphasis on the welfare of the individual are less conforming than
are persons from the collectivistic cultures which emphasize the welfare of society as a
whole rather than the individual.

e. c are culturally determined guidelines that tell people what behavior is expected of them.
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Dysfunctional
Answer behavior interferes with everyday functioning and occasionally can be a
risk to oneself or others.
Answer: Dysfunctional
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This consists of guidelines provided by every culture for judging acceptable and
unacceptable behavior.
Select one:

a. Polarization

b. Social Inhibition

c. Cohesiveness

d. Social Norms

e. Group think
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It is a branch of psychology that studies individuals as they interact with others.
Select one:

a. Developmental Psychology
b. Organizational Psychology

c. Positive Psychology

d. Social Psychology

e. Counseling Psychology
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It refers to the phenomenon in psychoanalysis in which the patient comes to feel and act
toward the therapist in ways that resemble how he or she feels and acts toward other
significant adults.
Select one:

a. Dream interpretation

b. Interpretation of resistance

c. Catharsis

d. Interpretation of transference

e. Free association
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The theoretical approach to psychological disorders that attributes psychological disorders
to organic and internal causes.
Select one:

a. Sociocultural approach

b. Biological approach

c. Psychological approach

d. Biopsychosocial model

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It refers to the effect in which working in a group improves one’s performance on individual
projects.
Select one:

a. Social Inhibition

b. Group think

c. Social Loafing

d. Social Norms
e. Social Facilitation
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Coping
Answer refers to anything people do to deal with or manage stress or emotions.
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A kind of conflict that requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain
both positive and negative consequences.
Select one:

a. Approach-avoidance conflict

b. Avoidance-avoidance conflict

c. Approach-approach conflict

d. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

behavior leads to real discomfort or anguish, either in the person directly or in others.

Answer: Distressing

means different from the norm or different from what most people do.
Answer Deviant

This refers to yielding to group pressure to act as everyone else does.

Select one:
a. Conformity
b. Obedience
c. Stress
d. Group thinking
A defense mechanism wherein stress is reduced by returning to an earlier pattern of
behavior.

Answer: Regression
When we perceive a visual stimulus, part of what we see is the center of our attention and
the rest is the indistinct ground.

Select one:
a. Figure-ground
A type of reinforcement that is learned by association, usually via classical conditioning like
money, grades, and peer approval.

Select one:
a. Primary reinforcers
b. Negative reinforcement
c. Secondary reinforcers
d. Positive reinforcement
It is the tendency for perceptions of objects to remain relatively unchanged in spite of
changes in raw sensations.

Answer: Perceptual constancy

This refers to the person’s observable characteristics which show the contributions of both
nature (genetic heritage) and nurture (environment).
Select one:
a. Phenotypes
Stress is reduced by explaining away the source of stress in ways that sound logical.
Select one:
a. Ineffective Coping
b. Reaction formation
c. Psychological Reaction
d. Rationalization
e. Physiological Reactions
It refers to the pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout
the course of life, involving both growth and decline.
Select one:
a. Development
b. Embryonic Period
c. Conception
d. Germinal Period
This leads to changes in many aspects of our psychological states and process – changes
in our emotions, motivations, and cognitions.
Select one:
a. Reaction formation
b. Rationalization
c. Ineffective Coping
d. Physiological Reactions
e. Psychological Reaction
A form of mental training that can be used to calm the mind, stabilize concentration, or
enhance awareness of the present moment.
Meditation
Answer:
A theory of dreaming that rests on the idea that dreams are essentially subconscious
cognitive processing.

Select one:
a. Cognitive Synthesis Theory
b. Cognitive Theory of Dreaming
c. Activation-Synthesis Theory
d. Manifest and Latent Content
At this stage (2 – 7 years), the child is capable of symbolic thought – however, this thinking
is still quite different from that of adults. It is often “illogical” in ways that reveal the unique
nature of preoperational cognition
Select one:
a. Sensorimotor Stage
b. Formal Operational
c. Concrete Operational
d. Preoperational Stage
These processes pertain to changes in individual’s thought, intelligence, and language.
Select one:
a. Cognitive Processes
b. Socioemotional Processes
c. Biopyschoemotinal Processes
d. Physical Processes

These processes involve changes in an individual’s biological nature.

Select one:

a. Cognitive Processes

b. Biopyschoemotinal Processes

c. Physical Processes

d. Socioemotional Processes
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This requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain both positive and
negative consequences.
Select one:
a. Approach-avoidance conflict

b. Stress

c. Approach-approach conflict

d. Avoidance-avoidance conflict

e. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

These are substances that create distorted perceptions of reality ranging from mild to
extreme.
Hallucinogens
Answer:

The type of reaction that pertains to the fact that the body reacts to stress with an alarm
reaction, a phase of resistance to the stress, and a stage of exhaustion if coping is not
successful.
Select one:
a. Ineffective Coping
b. Reaction formation
c. Psychological Reaction
d. Rationalization
e. Physiological Reactions

A psychoactive drug that stimulates the brain by blocking neurotransmitters that slow down
our nervous system and cause sleep.
Caffeine
Answer:

The following except for one are the changes during the adolescence period.
Select one:
a. Increase in crystallized intelligence or individual’s accumulated information and verbal
skills
b. Menarche (first menstrual cycle) in girls; first nocturnal emission for boys
c. Egocentrism or the quality of thinking that leads them to believe that they are the focus of
attention in social situations
d. Concentrations of hormones increase dramatically
This can be thought of as any event that strains or exceeds an individual’s ability to cope.
Select one:

a. Stress

b. Avoidance-avoidance conflict

c. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

d. Approach-approach conflict

e. Approach-avoidance conflict
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It occurs when a single sperm cell from the male merges with the female’s ovum (egg) to
produce a zygote – a single cell with 23 chromosomes from the mother and 23 from the
father.
Select one:

a. Development

b. Germinal Period

c. Embryonic Period

d. Conception

These are substances that create distorted perceptions of reality ranging from mild to
extreme.
Answer:
Conflict in which an individual must choose between two negative outcomes of
approximately equal value.
Select one:
a. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict
b. Avoidance-avoidance conflict
c. Approach-approach conflict
d. Stress
e. Approach-avoidance conflict

An eclectic approach integrates or combines several perspectives to provide a more

complete picture of behavior.
True
Answer:
Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with
psychological problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of
delivering such services as outreach programs.
True
Answer:
A theoretical approach to psychological disorders that implies that these are influenced by
biological factors such as genes, psychological factors such as childhood experiences and
sociocultural factors such as gender.
Select one:

a. Biopsychosocial model

b. Biological approach

c. Psychological approach

d. Sociocultural approach
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Health
Answer psychology is the field of psychology that uses psychological principles to
encourage healthy lifestyles and to minimize the impact of stress.
Health
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The tendency for group discussion to make beliefs and attitudes more extreme.
Select one:

a. Polarization

b. Size of the group

c. Cohesiveness

d. Social loafing

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Social roles
Answer are culturally determined guidelines that tell people what behavior is
expected of them. Answer: Social roles
A form of psychotherapy that focuses on the accurate identification and communication of
feelings and the improvement of current social relationships
Select one:

a. Interpersonal Psychotherapy

b. Humanistic Psychotherapy

c. Cognitive Behavior Therapy

d. Intrapersonal Psychotherapy
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replace the underlined word with the correct term. Note that the system accepts an
exact answer. Wrong spelling is considered wrong.
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An eclectic approach integrates or combines several perspectives to provide a more

complete picture of behavior.
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replace the underlined word with the correct term. Note that the system accepts an
exact answer. Wrong spelling is considered wrong.
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Environmental psychology explores the effects of physical settings in most major areas of
psychology including perception, cognition, learning, and others.
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This is characterized more likely than others to engage in social activities, experience
gratitude, strong sense of meaning in life, and are more forgiving.

Select one:

a. Openness to Experience

b. Conscientiousness

c. Agreeableness

d. Extraversion
e. Neuroticism

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Deviant
Answer means different from the norm or different from what most people do.
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A kind of conflict that requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain
both positive and negative consequences.
Select one:

a. Avoidance-avoidance conflict

b. Approach-approach conflict

c. Approach-avoidance conflict

d. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

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This refers to the interpretation of sensation. It is an active process in which perceptions that
are created often go beyond the minimal information provided by the senses.
Perception
Answer:

He/She believed that we are all born with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life – we simply
need the right condition to thrive. Each person is born with natural capacities for growth
and fulfillment.

Select one:

a. Karen Horney

b. Carl Jung

c. Gordon Allport

d. Abraham Maslow

e. Carl Rogers

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Cognitive re
Answer refers to a method in which faulty cognitions, maladaptive beliefs,
expectations and ways of thinking are changed by pointing out their irrationality.
Cognitive restructuring
Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with
psychological problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of
delivering such services as outreach programs.
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Distressing
Answer behavior leads to real discomfort or anguish, either in the person
directly or in others.
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He/She believed that the need for security, not for sex, is the prime motive of human
existence.

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a. Abraham Maslow

b. Carl Rogers

c. Karen Horney

d. Carl Jung

e. Gordon Allport
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The theoretical approach to psychological disorders that attributes psychological disorders
to organic and internal causes.
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a. Psychological approach

b. Sociocultural approach

c. Biological approach

d. Biopsychosocial model
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Physiological
Answer reactions occurs when the body reacts to stress with an alarmed reaction,
a phase of resistance to the stress, and a stage of exhaustion if coping is not successful.
Answer: Physiological
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A disorder that involves a sudden loss of memory or change of identity.
Select one:

a. Factitious disorders

b. Dissociative disorders

c. Adjustment disorders

d. Delirium, dementia, amnestic, and other cognitive disorders

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This refers to the tendency of members of groups to work less hard when group
performance is measured than when individual performance is measured.
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a. social inhibition

b. groupthink

c. social facilitation

d. social loafing
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He/She concluded that archetypes emerge in art, literature, religion and dreams.

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a. Carl Rogers

b. Carl Jung

c. Abraham Maslow

d. Gordon Allport

e. Karen Horney

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Coping
Answer refers to anything people do to deal with or manage stress or emotions.
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Dysfunctional
Answer behavior interferes with everyday functioning and occasionally can be a
risk to oneself or others. Answer: Dysfunctional
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replace the underlined word with the correct term. Note that the system accepts an
exact answer. Wrong spelling is considered wrong.
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Darwin’s theory speculated that certain behaviors or traits that enhance survival are
naturally selected.
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This is the harsh internal judge of our behavior. It is reflected in what we often call
conscience and evaluates the morality of our behavior.

Select one:

a. Ego

b. Id

c. Collective unconscious

d. Defense Mechanisms

e. Superego

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This refers to yielding to group pressure to act as everyone else does.
Select one:

a. Obedience

b. Group thinking

c. Conformity

d. Stress

According ___________self-actualization is the motivation to develop one’s full potential as

human being. A person at this optimal level of existence would be tolerant of others, have a
gentle sense of humor, and be likely to pursue the greater good.

Select one:
a. Karen Horney

b. Gordon Allport

c. Carl Jung

d. Carl Rogers

e. Abraham Maslow

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This is Jung’s name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by all
human beings because of their common ancestral past.

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a. Ego

b. Id

c. Defense Mechanisms

d. Superego

e. Collective unconscious

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replace the underlined word with the correct term. Note that the system accepts an
exact answer. Wrong spelling is considered wrong.
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A response is an organism's reaction to a stimulus.

True
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He/She is referred to as the father of American personality psychology.

Select one:

a. Abraham Maslow

b. Carl Rogers

c. Karen Horney

d. Carl Jung

e. Gordon Allport

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These are tactics that the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

Select one:

a. Collective unconscious

b. Id

c. Superego

d. Defense Mechanisms

e. Projection

is a form of therapy in which a trained professional uses methods based on psychological

theories to help a person with psychological problems.
Psychotherapy
The tendency to worry and experience negative emotions.

Select one:

a. Openness to Experience

b. Agreeableness

c. Neuroticism

d. Extraversion

e. Conscientiousness

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A defense mechanism wherein the emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times
by reducing it with the help of logic.
Select one:

a. Intellectualization

b. Repression

c. Humanistic Psychotherapy

d. Denial

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It refers to the phenomenon in psychoanalysis in which the patient comes to feel and act
toward the therapist in ways that resemble how he or she feels and acts toward other
significant adults.
Select one:

a. Interpretation of transference

b. Interpretation of resistance

c. Catharsis
 d. Dream interpretation

e. Free association

A defense mechanism wherein stress is reduced by returning to an earlier pattern of

behavior.
Regression
Answer:

A tool used by Freud in which the patient is encouraged to talk about whatever comes to mind, allowing
contents of the unconscious mind to slip past the censorship of the ego.
b. Free Association

A method developed by Freud in which the symbols of the manifest content of dreams that are
recalled by the patient are interpreted to reveal their latent content.
a. Dream Interpretation

Any form of patient opposition to the process of psychoanalysis.

d. Interpretation of Resistance

The phenomenon in psychoanalysis in which the patient comes to feel and act toward the therapist
in ways that resemble how he or she feels and acts toward other significant adults.
e. Interpretation of Transference

The release of emotional energy related to unconscious conflicts.

c. Catharsis
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Short Quiz 18
It is a branch of psychology that studies individuals as they interact with others.
d. Social Psychology

The following statements except for one are true.

a. Obedience is more likely to occur when we are in the presence of other disobedient individual.

This consists of guidelines provided by every culture for judging acceptable and unacceptable
behavior.
a. Social Norms

This refers to the tendency of members of groups to work less hard when group performance is
measured than when individual performance is measured.
a. Social Loafing

It refers to the effect in which working in a group improves one’s performance on individual projects.
d. Social Facilitation
A defense mechanism wherein the emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times by reducing
it with the help of logic.
b. Intellectualization
are culturally determined guidelines that tell people what behavior is expected of them.
social roles

is a form of therapy in which a trained professional uses methods based on psychological theories to
help a person with psychological problems.
Psychotherapy

A disorder that involves a sudden loss of memory or change of identity.

a. Dissociative disorders

reactions occurs when the body reacts to stress with an alarmed reaction, a phase of resistance to
the stress, and a stage of exhaustion if coping is not successful.
Physiological

The tendency for group discussion to make beliefs and attitudes more extreme.
d. Polarization

refers to a method in which faulty cognitions, maladaptive beliefs, expectations and ways of thinking
are changed by pointing out their irrationality.
cognitive restructuring

psychology is the field of psychology that uses psychological principles to encourage healthy
lifestyles and to minimize the impact of stress.
Health

A form of psychotherapy that focuses on the accurate identification and communication of feelings
and the improvement of current social relationships
d. Interpersonal Psychotherapy

A theoretical approach to psychological disorders that implies that these are influenced by biological
factors such as genes, psychological factors such as childhood experiences and sociocultural
factors such as gender.
c. Biopsychosocial model
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Week 14: Social PsychologyLong Quiz 004
The theoretical approach to psychological disorders that attributes psychological disorders to organic
and internal causes.
d. Biological approach

It refers to the phenomenon in psychoanalysis in which the patient comes to feel and act toward the
therapist in ways that resemble how he or she feels and acts toward other significant adults.
c. Interpretation of transference

means different from the norm or different from what most people do.
Deviant

refers to anything people do to deal with or manage stress or emotions.

Coping

behavior leads to real discomfort or anguish, either in the person directly or in others.
Distressing

A kind of conflict that requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain both
positive and negative consequences.
b. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

This refers to yielding to group pressure to act as everyone else does.

d. Conformity

behavior interferes with everyday functioning and occasionally can be a risk to oneself or others.
Dysfunctional

This refers to the tendency of members of groups to work less hard when group performance is
measured than when individual performance is measured.
c. social loafing
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Finals

According ___________self-actualization is the motivation to develop one’s full potential as human

being. A person at this optimal level of existence would be tolerant of others, have a gentle sense of
humor, and be likely to pursue the greater good.
e. Abraham Maslow

This refers to the interpretation of sensation. It is an active process in which perceptions that are
created often go beyond the minimal information provided by the senses.
Perception

Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death,
concentrating on biological and environmental factors.
False

Gestalt is any object or event that is perceived by our senses.

False

He/She concluded that archetypes emerge in art, literature, religion and dreams.
a. Carl Jung

American Psychologists Martin Seligman and Ed Diener introduced behaviorism.

False

This is characterized more likely than others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude,
strong sense of meaning in life, and are more forgiving.
d. Extraversion

This is the harsh internal judge of our behavior. It is reflected in what we often call conscience and
evaluates the morality of our behavior.
a. Superego

This is characterized by persistent worry about having a panic attack - ( GAD) - General Anxiety
Disorder Correct Answer

The tendency to worry and experience negative emotions.

c. Neuroticism

Forensic psychology applies psychology to the legal system. Forensic psychologists might help with
jury selection or provide expert testimonies in trials.
True

These are tactics that the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
a. Defense Mechanisms

This is Jung’s name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by all human
beings because of their common ancestral past.
c. Collective unconscious

Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with psychological
problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of delivering such services as
outreach programs.
True

He/She believed that we are all born with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life – we simply need the
right condition to thrive. Each person is born with natural capacities for growth and fulfillment.
d. Carl Rogers

He/She believed that the need for security, not for sex, is the prime motive of human existence.
c. Karen Horney

He/She is referred to as the father of American personality psychology.

e. Gordon Allport
Conflict in which the individual must choose between two positive goals of approximately
equal value.
Select one:
a. Approach-approach conflict
b. Approach-avoidance conflict
c. Stress
d. Avoidance-avoidance conflict
e. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

Conflict in which achieving a positive goal will produce a negative outcome as well.
Select one:
a. Stress
b. Approach-avoidance conflict
c. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict
d. Approach-approach conflict
e. Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Erikson’s psychosocial stage when a child Learns to meet the demands imposed by school
and home responsibilities; or comes to believe that he or she is inferior to others.
Select one:
a. Basic Trust vs. Mistrust
b. Industry vs. Inferiority
c. Initiative vs. Guilt
d. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
A term in classical conditioning wherein a response is elicited by the conditioned stimulus.

Select one:
a. Conditioned stimulus
b. Unconditioned response
c. Conditioned response
d. Unconditioned stimulus

This is a state of mind characterized by focused attention, suggestibility, absorption, lack of

voluntary control over behavior, and suspension of critical faculties of mind.
Hypnosis
Answer:
This is the field of psychology that uses psychological principles to encourage healthy
lifestyles and to minimize the impact of stress.
Select one:
a. Sports Psychology
b. Developmental Psychology
c. Health Psychology
d. Cognitive Psychology
e. Counseling Psychology

American Psychologists Martin Seligman and Ed Diener introduced behaviorism.

False - Positive psychology
Answer:
False - Positive psychology
Gestalt is any object or event that is perceived by our senses.

Answer: False - Stimulus

Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death,
concentrating on biological and environmental factors.

Answer: False - Developmental

Clinicalpsychology applies findings in all areas of psychology in the workplace.

Answer: False – Industrial and Organization