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Question 1

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The reproducibility of the test’s result is known as ______________.

Select one:
a. Standardization

b. Validity

c. Reliability 

d. Criterion validity

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Reliability

Question 2

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If mental age is the same as chrono;ogical age, the individual’s IQ is 100 or _________.

Select one:
a. Superior

b. Above average

c. Below average

d. Average 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Average

Question 3

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

Select one:
a. Explicit Memory

b. Autobiographical Memory 

c. Flashbulb Memory

d. Semantic Memory

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Autobiographical Memory

Question 4

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This leads to changes in many aspects of our psychological states and process – changes in our emotions, motivations, and cognitions.

Select one:
a. Rationalization

b. Reaction formation

c. Psychological Reaction 

d. Physiological Reactions

e. Ineffective Coping

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Psychological Reaction

Question 5

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Closer objects tend to be partially in front of, or partially cover up, more distant objects.

Select one:
a. Binocular Cues

b. Continuity

c. Figure-ground

d. Accommodation

e. Visual Illusions

f. Closure

g. Monocular Cues

h. Proximity

i. Linear Perspective

j. Superposition 

k. Perceptual constancy

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Superposition

Question 6

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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. Incentives

b. Needs

c. Emotions

d. Drives 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Drives

Question 7

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These processes pertain to changes in individual’s thought, intelligence, and language.

Select one:
a. Biopyschoemotinal Processes

b. Cognitive Processes 

c. Physical Processes

d. Socioemotional Processes

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Cognitive Processes

Question 8

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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

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Interpretation of transference

Question 9

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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. Intrapersonal Psychotherapy

c. Humanistic Psychotherapy

d. Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Question 10

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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. Collective unconscious

b. Defense Mechanisms

c. Ego

d. Superego

e. Id 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Id
Question 11

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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. a. Projective Test

b. Objective Test 

c. Interview

d. Observational Methods

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: Interview

Question 12

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The emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times by reducing it to cold logic

Select one:
a. Repression

b. Intellectualization 

c. Displacement

d. Denial

e. Sublimation

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Intellectualization
Question 13

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The tendency to worry and experience negative emotions.

Select one:
a. Neuroticism 

b. Openness to Experience

c. Extraversion

d. Conscientiousness

e. Agreeableness

The correct answer is: Neuroticism

Question 14

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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. Gordon Allport

b. Karen Horney

c. Carl Rogers

d. Abraham Maslow 

e. Carl Jung

The correct answer is: Abraham Maslow

Question 15

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It is the most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism. It pushes unacceptable id impulses back into the unconscious mind.  

Select one:
a. Sublimation

b. Intellectualization

c. Displacement

d. Repression 

e. Denial

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Repression

Question 16

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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. Abraham Maslow

d. Carl Jung 

e. Gordon Allport

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Carl Rogers 
Question 17

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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. Episodic memory 

c. Semantic memory

d. Procedural memory

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Episodic memory

Question 18

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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. Observational Methods

c. Interview  

d. Objective Test 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Objective Test
Question 19

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Stress is reduced by explaining away the source of stress in ways that sound logical.

Select one:
a. Reaction formation

b. Physiological Reactions

c. Psychological Reaction

d. Ineffective Coping

e. Rationalization 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Rationalization

Question 20

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

Select one:
a. Amnesia

b. Interference

c. Decay

d. Motivated Forgetting 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Motivated Forgetting

Question 21

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

Select one:
a. Arousal Theory 

b. Optimal Arousal Model 

c. Drive-reduction theory

d. Cognitive-consistency theories

e. Optimum Level Theories

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Optimal Arousal Model

Question 22

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

Select one:
a. Carl Jung

b. Abraham Maslow

c. Gordon Allport 

d. Carl Rogers

e. Karen Horney

The correct answer is: Gordon Allport

Question 23

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Deductive reasoning starts at _________and goes to _____________.

Select one:
a. Fixation; function

b. Function; fixation

c. The general; the specific 

d. The specific; the general

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: The general; the specific

Question 24

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

The correct answer is: Absolute threshold

Question 25

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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. Repression

b. Displacement

c. Sublimation 

d. Intellectualization

e. Denial

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Sublimation

Question 26

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Things that are close together are usually perceived as belonging together.

Select one:
a. Linear Perspective

b. Binocular Cues

c. Proximity 

d. Perceptual constancy

e. Monocular Cues

f. Accommodation

g. Superposition

h. Figure-ground

i. Continuity

j. Closure

k. Visual Illusions

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Proximity

Question 27

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

Select one:
a. Socioemotional Processes

b. Cognitive Processes

c. Physical Processes 

d. Biopyschoemotinal Processes

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Physical Processes

Question 28

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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. Incentive Theory

c. Optimum Level Theories 

d. Drive-reduction theory

e. Cognitive-consistency theories

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Optimum Level Theories

Question 29

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

Answer: Modeling 

The correct answer is: Modeling

Question 30

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

Select one:
a. Figure-ground

b. Perceptual constancy

c. Closure

d. Proximity

e. Visual Illusions

f. Accommodation

g. Linear Perspective

h. Superposition

i. Continuity 

j. Monocular Cues

k. Binocular Cues

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Continuity

Question 31

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

The correct answer is: Explicit

Question 32

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A term in classical conditioning wherein a response is elicited by the conditioned stimulus. 

Select one:
a. Conditioned stimulus

b. Unconditioned response

c. Unconditioned stimulus

d. Conditioned response 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Conditioned response

Question 33

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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. Carl Jung 

b. Abraham Maslow 

c. Gordon Allport

d. Karen Horney

e. Carl Rogers 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Abraham Maslow

Question 34

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Fill in the blank: Psychoactive  drugs act on the nervous system to alter consciousness, modify perceptions and alter mood.

The correct answer is: Psychoactive

Question 35

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The tendency to worry and experience negative emotions.

Select one:
a. Openness to Experience

b. Neuroticism 

c. Agreeableness

d. Extraversion

e. Conscientiousness

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Neuroticism

Question 36

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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. Superego

c. Id

d. Collective unconscious 

e. Defense Mechanisms

The correct answer is: Collective unconscious

Question 37

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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. Avoidance-avoidance conflict

c. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict 

d. Stress

e. Approach-approach conflict

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

Question 38

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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. Inductive Reasoning

d. Functional fixedness 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Functional fixedness

Question 39

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

The correct answer is: Distressing

Question 40

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The theoretical approach to psychological disorders that attributes psychological disorders to organic and internal causes. 

Select one:
a. Biological approach 

b. Sociocultural approach

c. Psychological approach

d. Biopsychosocial model

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Biological approach

Question 41

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This refers to any external object or event that motivates behavior. 

Select one:
a. Needs

b. Drives

c. Emotions

d.  Attitude

e. Incentives 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Incentives

Question 42

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

Select one:
a. Health Psychology 

b. Developmental Psychology

c. Cognitive Psychology

d. Sports Psychology

e. Counseling Psychology

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Health Psychology

Question 43

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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. Drive-reduction theory 

c. Optimum Level Theories

d. Incentive Theory

e. James-Lange Theory

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Drive-reduction theory
Question 44

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_______ 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. Intrapersonal

b. Naturalist

c. Interpersonal

d. Existentialist 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Existentialist

Question 45

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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. Biopyschoemotinal Processes

c. Cognitive Processes

d. Socioemotional Processes 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Socioemotional Processes
Question 46

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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. Embryonic Period

b. Development 

c. Conception

d. Germinal Period

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Development

Question 47

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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.

Answer: Hypnosis 

The correct answer is: Hypnosis

Question 48

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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. Defense Mechanisms

c. Superego 

d. Ego

e. Collective unconscious

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Superego

Question 49

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

Select one:
a. Adjustment disorders

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

c. Factitious disorders

d. Dissociative disorders 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Dissociative disorders

Question 50

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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. Rationalization

c. Physiological Reactions

d. Reaction formation

e. Psychological Reaction 

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: Physiological Reactions

Question 51

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

Select one:
a. Retroactive Interference

b. Proactive Interference 

c. Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon

d. Decay

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Proactive Interference

Question 52

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

The correct answer is: Deviant

Question 53

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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. Carl Jung 

d. Karen Horney

e. Gordon Allport 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Gordon Allport
Question 54

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This is the urge to move towards one's goals.

Select one:
a. Motive

b. behaviour

c. motivation 

d. Optimum Level Theories

e. drive

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: motivation

Question 55

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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

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Secondary reinforcers

Question 56

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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. Defense Mechanisms

c. Ego 

d. Id

e. Superego

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Ego

Question 57

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

The correct answer is: Health

Question 58

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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. Flashbulb Memory 

b. Semantic Memory

c. Explicit Memory

d. Autobiographical Memory

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Flashbulb Memory

Question 59

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

Answer: Primary reinforcers 

The correct answer is: Primary Reinforcers

Question 60

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

Select one:
a. None of the above

b. Selective Attention

c. Divided Attention 

d. Sustained Attention

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Divided Attention
Question 61

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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. Extraversion 

c. Openness to Experience

d. Conscientiousness

e. Agreeableness

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Extraversion
Question 62

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Matching Type

Conflict in which achieving a positive goal will produce a negative outcome as well.  Approach-avoidance conflict

Conflict in which the individual must choose between two positive goals of approximately
Approach-approach conflict
equal value.

Conflict in which individual must choose between two negative outcomes of
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
approximately equal value.


This can be thought of as any event that strains or exceeds an individual’s ability to cope. E. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

This requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain both positive and
Approach-avoidance conflict
negative consequences


Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is:
Conflict in which achieving a positive goal will produce a negative outcome as well. 

→ Stress,
Conflict in which the individual must choose between two positive goals of approximately equal value.

→ Avoidance-avoidance conflict,
Conflict in which individual must choose between two negative outcomes of approximately equal value.

→ E. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict,

This can be thought of as any event that strains or exceeds an individual’s ability to cope.

→ Approach-avoidance conflict,
This requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain both positive and negative consequences

→ Approach-approach conflict
Question 63

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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. Proximity

b. Monocular Cues

c. Linear Perspective

d. Figure-ground 

e. Visual Illusions

f. Accommodation

g. Closure

h. Superposition

i. Binocular Cues

j. Continuity

k. Perceptual constancy

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Figure-ground

Question 64

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

Select one:
a. Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon

b. Decay

c. Proactive Interference

d. Retrograde Amnesia 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Retrograde Amnesia

Question 65

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This defense mechanism involves directing unacceptable impulses at a less threatening target.

Select one:
a. Displacement 

b. Denial

c. Sublimation

d. Repression

e. Intellectualization

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Displacement

Question 66

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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. Semantic memory

b. Episodic memory

c. Procedural memory

d. Explicit memory 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Explicit memory

Question 67

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

Select one:
a. Needs 

b. Instincts

c. Emotion

d. Motives

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Needs

Question 68

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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. Gordon Allport

b. Abraham Maslow

c. Carl Rogers 

d. Carl Jung

e. Karen Horney

The correct answer is: Carl Rogers

Question 69

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

The correct answer is: Psychotherapy

Question 70

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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. Decay

b. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon 

c. Retrieval Cues

d. Retrieval Task

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

Question 71

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Matching Type

. This is related to altruism and generosity, to reports of religious faith and to more satisfying romantic Neuroticism
relationships.


The tendency to worry and experience negative emotions. Conscientiousness


This is related to altruism and generosity, to reports of religious faith and to more satisfying romantic Extraversion
relationships.

.It is a key factor in a variety of life domains. Researchers have found that it is positively related to high Agreeableness
school and college student’s grade point averages, is organized, careful and disciplined. 

This is characterized more likely than others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude, strong sense Openness to Experience
of meaning in life, and are more forgiving.


Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: . This is related to altruism and generosity, to reports of religious faith and to more satisfying romantic relationships.
→ Extraversion, The tendency to worry and experience negative emotions. → Agreeableness, This is related to altruism and generosity, to
reports of religious faith and to more satisfying romantic relationships. → Conscientiousness, .It is a key factor in a variety of life domains.
Researchers have found that it is positively related to high school and college student’s grade point averages, is organized, careful and
disciplined.  → Openness to Experience, This is characterized more likely than others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude,
strong sense of meaning in life, and are more forgiving. → Neuroticism
Question 72

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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. Sociocultural approach

b. Biopsychosocial model 

c. Psychological approach

d. Biological approach

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Biopsychosocial model

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