1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Introverts?
Correct : B. introverts can become overstimulated.
2. At what time of life does Erikson stage Industry vs. Inferiority occur?
Correct : D. school age
3. If a young adult sees stealing as wrong because of the harm it brings to someone, which of Kolberg?s stages are they displaying?
Correct : C. legalistic orientation
4. Bob hasn?t missed a day of work since he started his job three years ago. Every morning he comes in with a smile on his face that remains there until he leaves. He works for a charity and it gives him great satisfaction to know that he?s helping others. He loves his job. Bob is most likely
Correct : D. work enthusiast
5. A relationship based on a previous friendship that developed into lovers is characteristic of what love style?
Correct : B. storge
6. A mother and her infant son are being tested by Aisworth?s Strange Situation procedure. After the mother has left and comes back onto the room the child acts like he is mad at the mother. This child is said to be?
Correct : D. avoidant
7. Some people crave high levels of arousal through high levels of stimulation. They are said to be
Correct : A. sensation seekers
8. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a Protestant Work Ethic?
Correct : D. spend a lot of money
9. James Marcia?s 4 identity stages are:
Correct : B. diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, longitudinal achievement
10. According to Erikson?s eight stages of psychosocial development, during which age does the psychological stage of trust vs. mistrust develop?
Correct : B. infancy
11. Which one(s) is (are) myths about heredity?
Correct : D. all of the above
12. Which love style does this example fir? "I try to keep lover a little uncertain about my commitment to him/her".
Correct : D. ludus
13. Bill Clinton displays what form of political personality?
Correct : D. active-dependent
14. Which of the following would be true of birth order?
Correct : D. all of the above
15. Which of the following would be an evolved trait(s)?
Correct : D. all of the above
16. A "strange-situation" setting is developed in a lab. After a mother and her young child are playing and interacting with each other as they so often do, the mother suddenly leaves. The observer witnesses the child becoming hysterical and upset, and when the mother returns, the child will not let go of her. The child is said to be
Correct : B. anxiously attached
17. Which of the following is a way to measure activity level in an infant?
Correct : B. how much they sleep
18. Ever since Roxanne could remember, she had always wanted to be an Olympic gymnast?never once had she suggested anything else! In grade school, she asked parents to send her to gymnast team. When her friend asked her to go to "career day", Roxanne said that she didn?t need to. According to Marcia, she is demonstrating
Correct : C. identity foreclosure
19. John and Jane have two children?Billy, 21 and Jerome who?s only 10. Which of the following statement is probably true?
Correct : A. billy has low n affil and high n ach
20. According to James Marcia, a person who has never doubted what they wanted to become and so never explored other options is considered to be
Correct : C. identity foreclosed
21. Which one of the following descriptions is best associated with Protestant Work Ethic?
Correct : C. belief in the value of hard work
22. The identity status that Marcia came up with that involved the early acceptance of choice is what?
Correct : B. identity foreclosure
23. Which would stress the idea of delay of gratification?
Correct : C. protestant work ethic
24. Which style of love matches this statement "I try to keep my lover a little uncertain about my commitment to him/her"?
Correct : B. ludus
25. Kathryn Mazzaferro Of the following, which is not considered a delay of gratification?
Correct : D. buying a national enquirer in the check out line at the grocery store
26. What aspect(s) of personality are believed to have evolved in humans?
Correct : D. all of the above
27. People high in the trait of ________ are more easily conditioned with emotional stimuli.
Correct : A. neuroticism
28. The research strategy for assessing personality stability that studies two or more groups assumed to be at different stages of development is
Correct : B. cross-sectional
29. _________ vs. _________ achieved a high .75 on the heritability of Cattell?s 16 PF.
Correct : C. concrete vs. abstract
30. Which of the following is NOT one of the Erikson?s stages of psychosocial development?
Correct : D. life vs. death
31. A baby being measured for attachment using Ainsworth?s Strange-situation procedure appears to be extremely clinging and attached to the mother?s side when she comes back into the room. This baby would be classified as
Correct : B. anxious
32. Generativity is best described as
Correct : D. both a and b
33. Ainsworth?s three types of attachment in an infant?s "strange situation" are
Correct : A. secure, avoidant, anxious
34. The part of personality development where one seems to have no evidence of exploration and also does not have a clear identity is
Correct : A. identity diffusion
35. According to James Marcia?s identity statuses, which of the following is NOT an identity status?
Correct : B. identity association
36. George is in preschool. His teachers notice that he is hyper?likes to jump around a lot and cannot sit still during nap time. George is probably
Correct : D. high in activity level
37. Dennis always wanted to be a doctor. His parents pushed him in biology and chemistry. When he applied for college, he declared his major as pre-medical and only took classes that would help him to get into Medical School. According to the identity status paradigm, Dennis is in which stage?
Correct : A. identity foreclosure
38. An identity that results in an individual exploring different options before making a decision is said to be
Correct : C. moratorium
39. The idea that you can assess someone’s personality by studying their face is
called:
Correct : B. physiology
40. Humanistic psychologists explained
Correct : A. human traits
41. Extraverts have ________ participation
Correct : B. social
42. traits could be organized into three levels:
Correct : A. primary, secondary, tertiary
43. Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five traits?
Correct : B. openness to experience
44. The ________ approach to understanding human behaviour.
Correct : B. psychodynamic
45. The influence of parents on the personality of their children is:
Correct : C. strongest in early childhood
46. A good command over a ……..is need of speech
Correct : B. language
47. Few…. traits can not changed.
Correct : B. inborn
48. Which of the following characteristics describe someone who, according to
Maslow, is self-actualized?
Correct : B. confidence
49. One can express through…….
Correct : D. all the above
50. Psychometric tests claim give information about:
Correct : A. career interest
51. People with different body types have different personalities has been:
Correct : A. supported by research
52. Which of the following is not a defence mechanism?
Correct : D. sublimation
53. Rohan is self-disciplined, focused on achievement and keen to do his duty.
He would be
expected to score highly on:
Correct : D. conscientiousness
54. ________ are the basic biological units that transmit characteristics from one
generation to the next:
Correct : B. neurons
55. Which of the following would NOT be useful to a behavioural geneticist?
Correct : D. twin studies
56. Thinking oneself very different is…..
Correct : A. superego
57. Lana is friendly, always willing to help others and compassionate. We
would expect Lana to score highly on:
Correct : A. extraversion
58. A syllogism is a form of
Correct : D. deductive reasoning
59. Most people categorize most rapidly at the _____ level of hierarchy
Correct : B. superordinate
60. Humans think using
Correct : C. mental images and concept
61. Which of the following is the smallest unit within a language system?
Correct : D. phoneme
62. What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according to
the strong version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?
Correct : D. language determines thought
63. What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according to
the weak version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?
Correct : B. language only interacts with thought
64. Damage to which area of brain can impair general planning ability according to
Owen?
Correct : C. prefrontal cortex
65. Reasoning involving moving from specific facts to a conclusion is also known as
Correct : D. inductive reasoning
66. All of the following represent components of natural language use except
Correct : C. mnemonics
67. When related sentences are put together to make a sensible message, this is referred
to as
Correct : D. discourse
68. The common term used to describe all types of language loss is
Correct : B. aphasia
69. Which of the following is an example of people's reliance on the representativeness
heuristics to make decisions or judgements?
Correct : C. people are more likely to attribute a case of heartburn to spicy food than bland food
70. All of the following qualities describe reasoning by intuition except
Correct : D. logical analysis
71. The temporary inability to retrieve a word that is well known to us is referred to as
Correct : B. tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
72. Availability heuristic is not
Correct : D. influenced by the underlying possibilities
73. Chomsky proposed that children learn a language
Correct : B. because they possess an innate language acquisition device
74. The term cognition includes
Correct : A. thinking, problem solving, reasoning and dreaming
75. A student taking multiple choice test by reading the stem of each item, generating
the correct response closest to the answer is using
Correct : C. heuristics
76. Set of rules for structuring sentences is called
Correct : A. grammar
77. ______ thinking goes from general principles to specific facts
Correct : C. deductive
78. A perceptual set that causes one to become hung up on wrong solutions or remain
blind to alternatives is called
Correct : A. fixation
79. General 'mental short cuts' or quick decision making rules could be considered
what type of problem solving strategy?
Correct : A. heuristics
80. Which of the following is the final step in problem solving?
Correct : B. selecting one effective solution
81. Which of the following is the first step in problem solving?
Correct : A. identify the problem
82. In order for something to be creative, it should be useful,
Correct : B. original and surprising
83. Creativity includes
Correct : B. divergent thinking
84. Unconscious thought process involved in creative thinking is at work in this stage
Correct : C. incubation
85. Incoming sensory information must go through this sequence in order to be
remembered
Correct : C. encoding, storage, retrieval
86. Which of the measures of retention is considered the most sensitive?
Correct : D. relearning
87. How to measure explicit memory?
Correct : A. recalling method
88. The entry point of memory- the initial stage of the memory system in which all of
the stimuli that bombard our senses are retained in their original sensory form for a
very brief time
Correct : A. sensory memory
89. Rehearsal is the process of actively manipulating information so that it can be
retained in memory. There are two main types of rehearsal, they are
Correct : C. maintenance and elaborative rehearsal
90. The process of linking new information in a meaningful way with information
already stored in memory or with other new information; to aid in its storage and
retrieval from long term memory
Correct : B. elaborative rehearsal
91. The relatively permanent memory system that holds vast amount of information for
a long period of time
Correct : B. long term memory
92. Psychologists have distinguished between two types of long term memory storage.
They are called
Correct : D. declarative and non-declarative memory
93. The declarative memory system that holds information about specific events or
personal experiences; the declarative memory system that stores the information we
have about the world
Correct : A. episodic; semantic
94. A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
Correct : B. flash bulb memory
95. The persistence of learning over time through the encoding , storage and retrieval
of information
Correct : A. memory
96. Unconscious encoding of incidental information
Correct : D. automatic processing
97. The most common effortful processing technique where information is repeated
Correct : D. rehearsal
98. Encoding information from its sound
Correct : B. echoic
99. Encoding information by picturing it in our mind
Correct : C. iconic
100. Organizing items into familiar, manageable units