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Psychology 101 Exam 4 Practice
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 1. Who emphasized that slips of the tongue often reveal the personality dynamics that contribute to psychological disorders?
a. Allport
b. Maslow
c. Bandura
d. Freud
e.
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 2. The pleasure principle is to the ____ as the reality principle is to the ___ .
a. id; ego
b. id; superego
c. oral stage; anal stage
d. life instinct; death instinct
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 3. According to Freud, children develop unconscious sexual desires for the parent of the opposite sex during the ____ stage.
a. oral
b. genital
c. phallic
d. anal
e. latency
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 4. According to Freud, a person who is optimistic, gullible, and cocky is ____ in the ____ stage.
a. fixated; anal
b. indulged; oral
c. indulged; anal
d. fixted; oral
e. indulged; phallic
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 5. The defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously makes desires appear to be their opposite is called ____ .
a. repression
b. projection
c. sublimation
d. reaction formation
e. rationalization
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 6. Carl Jung emphasized the importance of ____ in personality functioning.
a. social interest
b. inferiority feelings
c. psychosexual stages
d. the collective unconscious
e. unconditional positive regard
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 7. One of the "Big Five" trait dimensions is:
a. agility
b. consistency
c. locus of control
d. distinctiveness
e. agreeableness
TOPIC NOT COVERED ON EXAM THIS YEAR 8. Self-actualized people, as described by Maslow, are least likely to be highly:
a. compassionate
b. religious
c. conforming
d. self-accepting
9. Psychological disorders in which people lose contact with reality and experience irrational ideas and distorted perceptions are known as ____ disorders.
a. hypochondriacal
b. generalized anxiety
c. dissociative
d. obsessive-compulsive
e. psychotic
10. While he was studying, Matthew was suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of intense apprehension. For several minutes hi felt so agitated that he could not catch his breath. Matthew was most likely suffering from a(n):
a. bipolar disorder
b. dissociative reaction
c. panic attack
d. obsessive-compulsive disorder
11. Richard washes his hands thirty times each day. He also cleans his bathroom ten times a day and vacuums his living room rug twenty times each day. Richard would probably be diagnosed as suffering from a(n) ____ disorder.
a. somatoform
b. obsessive-compulsive
c. bipolar
d. generalized anxiety
e. schizophrenic
12. Cheryl, a young married woman, has wandered from her home to a distinct city where she has completely forgotten her family and identity. Which term best characterizes Cheryl’s behavior?
a. multiple personality
b. antisocial personality
c. conversion disorder
d. fugue
e. schizophrenia
13. In class, we watched a film describing a person suffering from multiple personality syndrome. Approximately how many distinct personalities did this person have?
a. 2
b. 5
c. 10
d. 20
e. 50
14. In the Rosenhan study described in class, researchers faked auditory hallucinations to gain admittance into mental hospitals. The researchers
a. were refused admittance into the hospital.
b. were admitted but immediately released.
c. were admitted but released as "cured."
d. were admitted but released with the diagnosis "schizophrenia in remission."
15. The class of antidepressants known as tricyclics works by:
a. inhibiting the effects of the enzyme monoamine oxidase on molecules of serotonin.
b. inhibiting the effects of the enzyme monoamine oxidase on molecules of dopamine.
c. blocking the re-uptake of serotonin.
d. blocking the re-uptake of dopamine.
16. Mr. Kalish falsely believes that his supervisor was a communist agent who was putting poison in the employees’ coffee. When Mr. Kalish was referred to a psychiatrist, he claimed to be the grandson of Abe LIncoln. Mr. Kalish is most likely suffering from:
a. a multiple personality disorder
b. amnesia
c. a phobic disorder
d. schizophrenia
e. hypochondriasis
17. Schizophrenia seems to be associated with an ____ system.
a. underactive dopamine
b. overactive dopamine
c. underactive serotonin
d. overactive serotonin
18. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible, enduring, and socially maladaptive behavior patterns are called ____ disorders.
a. psychotic
b. dissociative
c. schizophrenic
d. personallity
e. somatoform
19. Mr. Choi’s therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelilngs of love and hate for his parents. The therapist thinks that these unresolved conflicts are causing anxiety. The therapist’s goal best reflects a primary aim of:
a. person-centered therapy
b. rational-emotive therapy
c. operant conditioning therapy
d. systematic desensitization
e. psychoanalysis
20. Which therapist paid a great deal of attention to a client’s nonverbal behavior and pointed out inconsistencies between the nonverbal behavior and what the person was saying?
a. Freud
b.
c. Perls
d. Maslow
e. Ellis
21. "For you to think that you are worthless because your parents criticize you is absurd! You’re worthless only if you thinkyou are!" This statement would most likely be made to a client by a ____ therapist.
a.. rational-emotive
b. Gestalt
c. psychoanalytic
d. person-centered
e. behavior
22. Which therapist stresses the importance of providing clients with unconditional positive regard?
a. Freud
b.
c. Perls
d. Ellis
23. After performing a meta-analysis of some 475 psychotherapy outcome studies, Smith and her colleagues reported in 1980 that:
a. evidence overwhelmingly supports the effectiveness of psychoptherapy.
b. psychotherapy is no more effective than talking to a friend.
c. psychoherapy harms just as many people as it helps.
d. it is impossible to measure the effectiveness of psychotherapy.
TOPIC NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR 24. The fundamental attribution error is most likely to lead observers to conclude that unemployed people:
a. are victims of discrimination.
b. are irresponsible and unmotivated.
c. have parents who provided poor role models.
d. are victims of bad luck.
25. Phil Zimbardo devised a simulated prison and randomly assigned college students to serve as prisoners and guards. This experiment best illustrates the impact of:
a. team membership on social loafing.
b. groupthink on social conflict.
c. frustration on aggression.
d. role playing on attitudes and behavior.
e. deindividuation on the fundamental attribution error.
26. Solomon Asch reported that individuals conformed to a group’s judgment of the lengths of lines:
a. even when the group judgment was clealry incorrect.
b. only when the group was composed of at keast six members.
c. even when the group seemed uncertain and repeatedly altered its judgment.
d. only when members of the group were of high status.
27. As discussed in class, Milgram asked the subject to take either direct or indirect action that (seemingly) resulted in the delivery of severe shocks to an innocent victim. When subjects were asked to take only indirect action by reading words on a list, ____ percent fully complied with the experimenter’s instructions.
a. 20
b. 30
c. 50
d. 70
e. 90
28. In the study by Hofling and colleagues described in class, nurses received a phone call from a "physician" they had not met and were asked to administer a drug to a patient. The nurses could nont comply with the request without violating several important hospital rules. What percentage of nurses complied with the request?
a. 0
b. 10
c. 25
d. 55
e 95
29. Social loafing refers to the tendency for people to:
a. exert less effort when they are pooling their efforts toward a common goal
b. perform a complex task more poorly when others are present.
c. exert less effort when they are paid by the hour, not by the amount of work completed.
d. become more distracted from their tassks when working with friends than when working with strangers.
30. The ill-fated decision of
President Kennedy and his advisors to invade
a. deindividuation.
b. the bystander effect.
c. social facilitation.
d. the mere exposure effect.
e. groupthink.
31. Most researchers who have examined the effects of viewing televised aggression conclude that:
a. viewing violence takes people’s minds off of theur own problems and thus reduces aggressive urges.
b. viewing violence leads children and teenagers to behave aggressively.
c. there is no correltion between viewing aggression and behaving agressively.
d. although viewing violence is correlated with increased aggression, there is no evidence that viewing violence actually causes aggression.
NOT ON EXAM 4 THIS YEAR32. According to the class lecture, two factors were excellent predictors that two people would continue in a romantic relationship. One factor was the similarity be ....
33. According to the class lecture, the most important DYADIC factor in explaining why two people break up a romantic relationship is:
a. interest in someone else.
b. boredom.
c. incompatibility of views.
d. parental intervention.
34. The tendency for initial compliance with a small request to facilitate subsequent compliance with a larger request is known as the:
a. mere exposure effect
b. fundamental attribution error
c. reciprocity norms
d. foot-in-the-door phenomenon
e. bystander effect