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HUMAN BEHAVIOR FINAL
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mr. Hirsch triggered a rooting reflex in his infant son by touching him on the | mouth |
| Four-year-old Karen can't remember anything of the first few months of her life. This is best explained by the fact that | the brain is not fully developed, the hippocampus is not fully developed |
| Hank, the youngest child of a high school athletic directer, was able to roll over at 3 months, crawl at 6 months, and walk at 12 months. This ordered sequence of motor development was largely due to | normal development |
| Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget's theory of | cognitive development, specifically the pre operational stage |
| Children are likely to experience the greatest sense of personal control over their lives if their parents are | authoritative model of parenting |
| During early adulthood, the period of re-evaluating decisions is known as | post conventional morality in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning |
| Memories that we can easily recall were said by Freud to be located in the | |
| According to the psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that strives for immediate gratification of basic drives is the | id |
| When 2 year old Matthew was told we would get no dessert until he finished the food on his plate, he threw his plate on the floor in a temper tantrum. Freud would have suggested that Matthew was unable to resist the demands of his | ego |
| When Haley received a large inheritance from her grandfather, tempted to purchase an expensive car. decided, instead, to deposit most of the money in savings account for her college education and bought an economy sized used car. Haley shows signs of a | a healthy, well adjusted, young adult |
| The three basic information-processing steps involved in memory are | encoding, storage, retrieval |
| The process of encoding refers to | the first memory process; translation of information into a form in which it can be stored |
| The process of getting information out of memory storage is called | recall/retrieval |
| The conscious repetition of information in order to maintain it in memory is called | maintenance rehearsal |
| Chunking refers to | the organization of items into manageable units; the magic #7- we are able to hold 7 chunks of information in the short term memory |
| Amnesia is due to failure in | short term memory |
| Which of the following is a way of defining abnormality | |
| 8-year-old deathly afraid of leaving his mother or father. His mother has to leave work frequently because he cried uncontrollably when he starts thinking about his parents. He might be diagnosed as suffering from | separation anxiety |
| The experience of anxiety is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT | |
| Dolores is so intimidated by the possibility of having a panic attack that she stays home. If she does go out, she insists that one of her friends accompanies her in case she has one. While having panic disorder, Dolores might also be described as being | agoraphobic |
| Which of the following is a common compulsion | |
| Which somatoform disorder is characterized as by the client's dissatisfaction and delusional preoccupation with the idea that some part of his or her body is ugly or defective | body dysmorphic disorder |
| In which dissociative disorder does an individual develop more than one self, typically in response to some psychological trauma | dissociative identity disorder |
| Cindy reports long-standing feelings of emptiness and desperation. She has attempted suicide several times and repeatedly gets involved in intense, demanding relationships with men. Cindy might be diagnosed with | borderline personality disorder |
| Norm often boasts about how talented he is, notes that the reason he doesn't get promoted is because no one fully appreciates him, resents any one who has been promoted, and he is insensitive to others' feelings. Norm could be diagnosed with | narcissistic personality disorder |
| Robert might be considered a "momma's boy: because at 28 he lets his mother make all of his life decisions. He doesn't seem to mind and often says. "Momma knows best." Robert might be diagnosed with having | dependent personality disorder |
| Rhonda fears that her employer is trying to poison her with gas emitted from the overhead lights in her office. Given that you know about Rhonda's thoughts, what subtype of schizophrenia is she most likely to have | paranoid schizophrenia |
| Jabar, a 25 year old auto mechanic, thinks he is Napoleon. He further believes he is being imprisoned against his will in the mental hospital where his relatives have brought him for treatment. Jabar is most likely suffering from | bipolar 1 manic episode with psychosis |
| Although Mrs. Petrides usually sits passively in a motionless stupor, she sometimes repetitiously shakes her head or waves her arms. She most likely suffers from | catatonia |
| Adolescence | great leaps forward emotionally, cognitively, physically, and morally e & s-make great strides in better understanding their identity, as per Eriks c- piaget notes that they experience developmental leaps in experiencing the beginings of formal operatio |
| Types of identity crises that arise in forming identity | as per Erik Erikson, there are 8 types of identity crises that arise in forming identity |
| Kinds of memory | short term, long term, explicit, implicit, autobiographical, memory and morpheus |
| Stages of memory | sensory to short term to long term |
| Processes of memory | encoding, storage, and retrieval |
| Causes of schizophrenia | heredity, biochemistry, brain structure, environment |
| Treatment of schizophrenia | antipsychotic medication and psychosocial therapy |
| Repression | banishes anxiety from consciousness |
| Regression | retreating to an earlier/infantile stage of development |
| Reaction Formation | makes unacceptable impulses look like the opposite; saying "I hate her" but really thinking and feeling "I love her" |
| Projection | disguises impulses by attributing or blaming others |
| Rationalization | generate self-justifying explanations to hide real reasons for actions |
| Displacement | diverts one's impulse towards another person or object that is more psychologically acceptable |
| Sublimation | finding socially acceptable ways of discharging energy from the unconscious |
| Denial | distorted belief that a real event did not happen |
| Residual or Borderline | gradual development of minor problems |
| Catatonic | stuporous condition or prolonged, frenzied even violent behavior |
| Disorganized | personality disintegration is almost complete |
| Paranoid | involved organized and complete delusions, auditory hallucinations and relatively few other symptoms |
| Undifferentiated | shows prominent psychotic symptoms that do not meet the criteria for the paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic categories |