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Psych 102 Final
Psych test questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ____ is a measure of ______ | Standard deviation, Variation |
| Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are most closely associate with | Humanistic psychology |
| A negative correlation between peoples physical health and their marital happiness would indicate that | Higher levels of marital happiness are associated with lower levels of physical health |
| In order to determine the effects of a new drug on memory, one group of people is given a pill that contains the drug. A second group is given a sugar pill that does not contain the drug. The second group is called_______ | Control Group |
| A psychologist studies the play behavior of third-grade children by watching groups during recess at school. | Naturalistic observation |
| According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to | The difficulty perceiving things from another persons point of view |
| What is an example of a secondary sex characteristic | male facial hair |
| According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the special task of the _____ | Adolescent |
| In a pleasant but unfamiliar setting infants with a secure material attachment are most likely to | Use their mothers as a base from which to explore the new surroundings |
| At about 8 months, children become increasingly likely to react to newcomers with tears | Stranger Anxiety |
| Individuals who believe that the death penalty should be abolished meet to discuss the issue. Research on group interaction suggests that after discussion the individual will be | Even more convinced that the death penalty should be abolished |
| After an exciting football game in which the home team loses by one point, angry fans throw bottles and begin to tear up the field. This behavior is best understood in terms of | Deindividuation |
| Social loafing refers to the tendency for people to | Exert less effort when they are pooling their efforts toward a common goal |
| Most children believe their school is better than the other schools in town. | Ingroup Bias |
| Four equally attractive women silently attended a 200 student cal for 0,5,10, or 15 class sessions. When shown slides of each woman, students in the class rated the women who had attended____ class sessions as the most attractive | 15 |
| According to Carl Rogers, people who are self-disclosing and open with their own feelings are demonstrating | Genuineness |
| When she was 8, Inge was sexually abused by her uncle. At 14, Inge felt uncomfortable whenever she saw this uncle but was unable to understand why she felt this way. Apsychoanalyst would most likely to suggest that she is using the defense mechanism of | Repression |
| Some psychoanalysts in Freud's era believed that girls experienced unconscious sexual desires for their father during phallic stage. These feelings, they thought reflected | an Electra complex |
| According to Freud, the part of the personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the | Superego |
| Carl Jung referred to a shared reservoir of memory traces from our species history as the | Collective unconscious |
| A generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by | A continuous state of tension, apprehension, and autonomic nervous system arousal |
| An immediate and irrational anxiety response to the mere sight of blood is indicative of | A specific Phobia |
| A disorder in which an individual is overexcited, hyperactive, and wildly optimistic is known as | Mania |
| In which disorder do people alternate between states of lethargic hopelessness and wild over excitement | Bipolar Disorder |
| Many clinicians diagnose disorders by answering questions from five levels of the | DSM-IV-TR |