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1Wilhelm Wundt believed the focus of psychology should be
1. Aquestioning the nature of existence
2. Bstudying stimulus-response associations
3. Cdetermining people's unconscious motivation for behavior
4. Dexamining people's awareness of their immediate experience
2Dr. Lee is studying pain perception using a functionalist perspective. It is most likely that Dr. Le would suggest that we can only understand the conscious experience of pain
1. Aif all the component parts that make up the experience of pain are understood
2. Bby observing the outward expression of pain in response to different stimuli
3. Cif we first understand the role of pain in human survival and adaptation
4. Dif we understand the unconscious processes that initiate the sensation of pain
3According to Sigmund Freud, and individual's personality is largely determined by
1. Aself-actualizing tendencies
2. Bforces in the environment
3. Cstriving for superiority
4. Dforces in the unconcious
4Organisms tend to repeat responses that lead to positive outcomes, and they tend not to repeat responses that lead to neutral or negative outcomes. These words would most likely have been said by
1. AWilhelm Wundt
2. BWilliam James
3. CB. F. Skinner
4. DAbraham Maslow
5Manny tends to be very passive and allows people to take advantage of him. What would a humanist be most likely to say about Manny.
1. AManny will find it difficult to change because he probably has deep-seated feelings of inferiority.
2. BManny can become more assertive once he begins to feel better about himself.
3. CManny simply needs to take an assertiveness training class in which he can learn and practice assertive behaviors
6Which of the following sounds LEAST like the work of an applied psychologist?
1. Afinding ways to teach learning disabled children
2. Bstudying basic learning processes in rats
3. Ctreating someone with a phobia
4. Dlooking for ways to increase efficiency in an organization
7The Human Genome Project invoves a large number of scientists who are trying to determine the biochemical nature of all the genes on each chromosome in the human body. These scientists come from a variety of areas, including, psychology. The psychologists working on this project are most likely
1. Aevolutionary psychologists
2. Bcross-cultural psychologists
3. Cbehavioral psychologists
4. Dbiological psychologist
8Researchers in psychology have "to see it to believe it." This orientation is most consistent with
1. Aempiricism
2. Bstructuralism
3. Cfunctionalism
4. Dhumanism
9A biopsychosocial approach to explaining your performance in a course would most likely focus on
1. Apersonal factors more than situational factors
2. Bsituational factors more than personal factors
3. Cboth personal and situational factors
4. Dthe relationship between you and your professor
10Nature is to nurture as
1. Aexperience is to environment
2. Blearning is to knowing
3. Cheredity is to environment
4. Dbehavior is to doing

11Dr. Malm predicts that if teachers ignore students who act up in class, fewer students will act up in class. Dr. Malm's prediction is an example of
1. Aan operational definition
2. Ba theory
3. Cinferential statistics
4. Da hypothesis
12An operational definition
1. Adescribes the actions and procedures used to measure or control a variable
2. Bseparately defines each term used
3. Cprovides a logical basis for each term
4. Dstates relationships to other variables
13The experiment is a research method in which the investigator
1. Asystematically observes two variables to see whether there is an association between them
2. Bobserves behavior as it occurs in its natural environment
3. Cconducts an in-depth investigation of an individual subject
4. Dmanipulates a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observes whether there are changes in a second variable as a result
14Researchers who were studying plant growth raised plants in two separate rooms. One room had taped conversations playing 24 hours a day; the other room was silent. The researchers found that the plants grew better in the room which had the conversations playing. In this study, the type of room (conversation or silence) would be
1. Athe dependent variable
2. Ban extraneous variable
3. Ca placebo
4. Dthe independent variable
15A group of researchers wants to determine if people are more likely to follow directions if the person giving the directions is in a uniform. Half the participants are directed to a parking spot by a uniformed security guard, the other half are directed to a parking spot by an individual wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt. In this study the dependent variable would be
1. Athe number of participants who park in the spot they are directed to
2. Bthe type of clothing worn by the person giving the directions
3. Cthe gender of the person driving into the parking lot
4. DThe distance between the parking spot and the entrance
16Psychologists see the study of ________ as an attempt to account for the individuality of the human mind
1. Apersonality
2. Bnurture
3. Ccharacter
4. Dmotivation
17The unique and relatively stable ways in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels is called _______.
1. Apersonality
2. Bnurture
3. Ca trait
4. Dnature
18The question of whether people's behviors can best be predicted by individual personality traits or external circumstances is called the _______ debate
1. Ainternalization=-externalization
2. Bunidirctional-bidirctional
3. Cnature-nurture
4. Dperson-situation
19Freud believed that the _____ was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality
1. Aid
2. Bpreconscious mind
3. Cmanifest awareness
4. Dunconscious mind
20Jay is an executive with a large financial firm. Any time his investments do poorly, he throws temper tantrums and breaks things. The he starts barking orders at hes secretary. Which personality structure would Freud say is exerting control?
1. Aid
2. Bsuperego
3. Cego
4. Dpreconscious
21You are quite hungry but don't have any money. If you were described as "all id and only id" what would you do?
1. Adistract yourself with images of food
2. Bsteal a hotdog from the vendor on the corner
3. Crun all the way home to get something to eat as soon as possible
4. Duse the defense mechanism of denial to thwart the hunger pangs until an appropriate meal can be obtained
22There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical and cunning. Hermione was rule oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Ron was mostly ______.
1. Aid
2. Bego
3. Csuperego
4. Dlibido
23In the metaphor the angel, the devil, and me, the angel is the _______.
1. Aid
2. Bego
3. Csuperego
4. Dunconscious
24A personality that consisted of only the go and the id would be completely______.
1. Aillogical
2. Bselfless
3. Crational
4. Damoral
25The job of the ______ is to find practical ways for the _____ to get its pleasure needs met without offending the morality of the ______.
1. Aid; ego; superego
2. Bego; id; superego
3. Cego; superego; id
4. Dsuperego; id; ego
26Many have compared Freud's idea of the mind to an iceberg. If that were the case and you were standing on the deck of a ship in Alaska, what part of the mind would you see above the water?
1. Aego
2. Bsuperego
3. Cid
4. Dpreconscious
27Carolyn took home some printer paper from the office. Later, she felt guilty for stealing it so she brought some paper to work to replace what she took. Freud would suggest that Carolyn's ________ was responsible for making her feel bad over what she did
1. Aid
2. Bunconscious mind
3. Cego
4. Dsuperego
28Jeromy has been having an affair with anther woman. On afternoon his wife cam home later that usual and Jeromy became angry, accusing his wife of infidelity. Which defense mechanism is behind Jeromy's accusations?
1. Adenial
2. Bprojection
3. Crationalization
4. Dreaction formation
29What is the correct sequence of Freud's psychosexual stage?
1. Alatency, anal, oral, genital, phalic
2. Boral, genital, latency, phallic, anal
3. Canal, oral, latency, phallic, genital
4. Doral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
30Carl Jung's term for the part of our personality that Freud referred to as the unconscious was the ________
1. Apersonal unconscious
2. Barchetype
3. Ccollective unconscious
4. Danimus
31The neo-Freudian, Carl Jung, suggested the existence of a collective unconscious that contains images shared by all people. These images are what he called _______.
1. Aschemas
2. Bparadigms
3. Carchetypes
4. Dprototypes
32The _________ perspective of personality was a direct reaction against the negative view that the psychoanalytic perspective had of human beings.
1. Ahumanistic
2. Btrait
3. Cprojective
4. Dinventory
33Jerod has saved plenty of money and has a lucrative business that he enjoys. He likes to volunteer his time in the community and enjoys the company of other- but still saves time to be alone. One of his favorite things to do in the evening is sit outside and watch the sunset. Maslow might suggest that Jerod is ________.
1. Aretired
2. Bexperiencing a superiority conplex
3. Cself-actualizing
4. Demotionally conditioned
34According to Carl Rogers, anxiety and distress occur when ________.
1. Aa person has low self-esteem
2. Bthere is matching between the actual self and ideal self
3. Cthere is a descrepancy between the real self and ideal self
4. Dthe individual receives to much unconditional positive regard
35According to Rogers, which of the following people is MOST likely to become a fully functioning person?
1. Asomeone with a strongly developed superego
2. Bsomeone with an extraverted personality
3. Csomeone brought up with conditional positive regard
4. Dsomeone brought up with unconditional positive regard
36What is Albert Bandura's term for the relationship among the three factors that influence personality?
1. Afeedback loops
2. Blearned responses
3. Creciprocal determinism
4. Dexternal expectancies
37What are the Big Five personality traits?
1. Aconscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, extroversion, dominance
2. Bopenness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
3. Csensation seeking, conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, dominance
4. Dneuroticism, psychoticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness
38Ted is friendly, loves to tell jokes at parties, and is perceived by others as warm and considerate. On which two of the Big Five traits would you expect Ted to obtain high scores?
1. Aagreeableness and extraversion
2. Bextraversion and conscientiousness
3. Cneuroticism and openness to experience
4. Dopenness to experience and concientiousness
39One limitation of the trait perspective compared to the other perspectives is there is not much _________
1. Adescription
2. Bresearch
3. Cmaterial
4. Dexplanation

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