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Psychology 101 Unit 4 practice test
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1Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and _____ intelligence.
- Aintrapersonal
- Bcreative
- Cspatial
- Dmusical
2Spearman's g factor refers to:
- Athe genetic contribution to intelligece
- Ba general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks
- Ca highly developed skill or talent possessed by an otherwise retarded person
- Dthe ability to understand and regulate emotions.
3The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term goals is most clearly a characteristic of:
- Aemotional intelligence
- Bheritability
- Csavant syndrome
- Ddivergent thinking
4Although Nicole scored well above average on an academic aptitude test, she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes even her best friends. Her behavior best illustrates a low level of :
- Aconvergent thinking
- Bthe g factor
- Cmental age
- Demotional intelligence
5In order to determine whether a child's intellectual development was fast or slow, Binet and Simon assessed the child's
- Adivergent thinking
- Bemotional intelligence
- Cmental age
- Dintrinsic motivation
6For the original version of the Stanford-Binet, IQ ws defined as:
- Amental age multiplied by 100
- Bchronological age subtracted from mental age and multiplied by 100
- Cchronological age divided by mental age and multiplied by 100
- Dmental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100
7Five-year-old Wilbur performas on an intelligence test at a level characteristic of an average 4-year-old. Wilbur's mental age is
- A4
- B4.5
- C5
- D80
8Object assembly, picture arrangement , and block design are three performance subtests of the :
- AWAIS
- BSAT
- CStanford-Binet
- DEmotional Intelligence Test
9When Brandon was told that he correctly answered 80% of the items on a mathematical achievement test, he asked how his performance compared with that of the average test taker. Brandon's concern was directly related to the issue of:
- Astandardization
- Bpredictive validitu
- Creliability
- Dcontent validity
10If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of:
- Astandardization
- Bpredictive validity
- Creliability
- Dcontent validity
11A test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to is said to have a high degree of:
- Avalidity
- Bstandardization
- Creliability
- Dthe g factor
12A measure of intelligence based on head size is likely to have a ________ leve of reliability and _________level of validity.
- Alow; low
- Blow; high
- Chigh; low
- Dhigh; high
13Academic aptitude test scores are most likely to predict accurately the academic success of ________ students.
- Aelementary school
- Bhigh school
- Ccollege
- Dgraduate school
14Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter are parents of a mentally retarded child. It is most likely that their child:
- Ais a female rather than a male
- Bi unusually creative
- Cwas born with an extra chromosome
- Dwill have difficulty adapting to the normal demands of independent adult life
15Which of the following observations provides the best evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by heredity?
- AJapanese children have higher average intelligence scores than do American children
- BFraternal twins are more similar in their intelligence scores than are ordinary siblings
- CThe intelligence scores of children are positively correlated with the intelligence scores of their parents
- DIdentical twins reared separately are more similar in their intelligence scores than fraternal twins reared together
16Motivation is defined by psychologists as:
- Aan impulse to accomplish something of significance
- Brigidly patterned behavior characteristic of all people
- Ca need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal.
- Dthe cause of behavior
17For a thirsty person, drinking water serves to reduce:
- Aa drive
- Ban instinct
- Cthe set point
- Dbasal metabolic rate
18Positive and negative environmental stimuli that motivate behavior are called:
- Aneeds
- Bincentives
- Cset points
- Ddrives
19Which theory would be most likely to predict that rats are motivated to explore precisely those areas of an experimental maze where they receive mild electric shocks
- Aarousal therory
- Bhierarchy of needs theory
- Cinstinct theory
- Ddrive-reduction theory
20According to Maslow, our need for_______ must be met before we are preoccupied with satisfying our need for __________
- Alove; food
- Badequate clothing; self-esteem
- Cself-actualization; friendship
- Dpolitical freedom; economic security
21In a series of studies, research participants were informed that personality test results indicated they were the type likely to end up alone later in life. As a result, they become ________ likely to under perform on aptitude tests and ________ likely to become aggressive toward someone who had insulted them.
- Amore; less
- Bless; more
- Cmore; more
- Dless; less
22Jeff, who is 14, engages in rigorous tennis drells or competitive play at least four hours every day because he wants to master the sport and play on one of the best college teams in the country. His goal and behavior best illustrate the concept of:
- Aset point
- Bhoeostasis
- Crefractory period
- Dachievement motivation
23People who are high in achievement motivation prefer __________ tasks; people who are low in achievement motivation prefer _______ tasks
- Avery difficult; very easy
- Bmoderately difficult; very easy or very difficult
- Cvery easy or moderately difficult; very difficult
- Dvery difficult or very easy; moderately difficult
24The James-Lange theory of emotion states that
- Ato experience emotion is to be aware of on's physiological responses to an emotion-arousing event
- Bthe expression of emotion reduces one's level of physiological arousal
- Can emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both physiological arousal and the subjective experience of emotion
- Dto experience emotion one must be physically aroused and able to cognitively label the emotion
25The idea that an emotion-arousing stimulus is simultaneously routed to the cortex and to the sympathetic nervous system is central to the:
- AJame-Lang theory
- Brelative deprivation principle
- Ctwo-factor theory
- DCannon-Bard theory
26According to the James-Lange theory, we experience emotion _________ ve notie our physiological arousal. According to the Cannon-Bard theory we experience emotion __________ we becom physiologically aroused.
- Abefore; before
- Bbefore; after
- Cafter; at the same time
- Dat the same time as; after
27The two-factor theory of emotion places more emphasis on the importance of ______ than does the James-Lange theory
- Acognitive activity
- Bsubjective well-being
- Cphysiological arousal
- Dcatharsis
28A therapist tells a patient who is afraid of elevators that his rapid breathing while on an elevator is not due to fear but is a natural consequence of too little oxygen in a small, enclosed space. With this new interpretation of his arousal, the patient no longer dreads elevators. The reduction in the patient's fear is best understood in terms of the:
- Aadaptation-level phenomenon
- Btwo-factor theory
- CJame-Lange therory
- Dcatharsis hypothesis
29Activation of the sympathetic nervous system:
- Aincreases respiration and increases salivation
- Bincreases respiration and decreases salivation
- Cdecreases respiration and decreases salivation
- Ddecreases respiration and increases salivation
30People are especially good at quickly detecting facial expressions of
- Aanger
- Bsurprise
- Chappiness
- Dboredom
31Men and women students watched film clips that were sad, happy, or frightening. Measures taken during their viewing of films showed that the genders differed the most in their:
- Aself-reported emotions
- Bchanges in heart rate.
- Cfacial expressions of emotion
- Dchanges in respiration
32The fact that people from widely different cultures display and interpret facial expressions of emotion in a similar manner best illustrates the impact of:
- Ahuman genetic similarities
- Bthe adaptation-level phenomenon
- Cthe catharsis hypothesis
- Dthe spillover effect
33People experience a mood shift when they switch from taking short shuffling steps to taking long strides and swinging their arms by their sides. This best illustrates:
- Athe adaptation-level phenomenon
- Bthe spillover effect
- Cthe behavior feedback phenomenon
- Dthe feel-good, do good phenomenon
34The term catharsis refers to emotional:
- Adisturbance
- Binhibition
- Crelease
- Dadaptation
35Subjective well-being among university and college students is _________ with the extent to which love is valued and _________ with the extent to which money is valued.
- Apositively correlated; positively correlated
- Bpositively correlated; uncorrelated
- Cuncorrelated; positively correlated
- Dpositively correlated; negatively correlated
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