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Pyschology 321
Test 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/29/2012

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Which of the following way is NOT an optimal way to administer punishment?
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Administer a punishment after the individual has had to time to reflect on his or her behavior
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What aspect of human psychological functioning is of particular interest to humanistic psychologists?
Definition
self-awareness
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The experiential system is more recent in in evolutionary terms than the rational system
Definition
False
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Which of the following is NOT one of the self-relevant schemas that are part of self-discrepancy theory?
Definition
the feared self
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Mark thinks that asks for a $50-a-week raise, he will definitely get it. He really wants a $75-a-week raise and thinks his chances of getting a raise of that amount is are about 25%. Expectancy value theory would predict that Mark will ask for a ______-a-week-raise, and classic behaviorism would would predict that he will ask for a ______-a-week-raise.
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$50; $75
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According to Dollard and Miller,_______ drives include drives for food, water, physical comfort and sexual gratification, and so on, whereas _________ drives include include drives for love, prestige, money and power.
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primary; secondary
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Which stage of the realistic accuracy model might be easier to apply to self-judgments with the passage of time?
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utilization
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Several studies have examined whether certain Big Five traits apply universally across cultures. As it stands, which trait does NOT appear to be truly universal?
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openness
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As a conflicted goal gets closer, the tendency to _____ goal becomes stronger than the corresponding tendency to _______ goal.
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avoid a negative; approach a postive
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Some cross-cultural researchers compare average levels of traits across cultures. For example, Chueng and Song (1989) found that, compared to an American sample, Chinese research participants generally decribed themselves as higher on?
Definition
emotional reserve
Term
Your expectations about sequences of events that should occur in certain situations are called cognitive?
Definition
scripts
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"The Little Engine that Could" provides an illustration of which self-related concept?
Definition
self-efficacy
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A ranked ordering of the behaviors that an indiviudal might perform is called a(n)
Definition
habit hierarchy
Term
Short-term memory is limited to seven plus or minus two chunks of information?
Definition
True
Term
Which of the following is NOT associated with low self-esteem?
Definition
fearlessness about death
Term
On the first day of kindergarten, Terry's teacher responds to the students every time they ask her a question. By the end of the first week, the teacher will only respond to students who are sitting quietly at their desks. At the end of the second week, the teacher will only respond to students' questions if they are quietly seated, raise their hands, and wait to be called on before asking their questions. Terry's teacher is using ______ to change the students' behavior.
Definition
shaping
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Which of the following is NOT one of the dianostic criteria for borderling personality disorder?
Definition
preoccupation with fantasies of ultimate attainment
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Believing that others value you based only on intelligence, success, or attractiveness can lead to
Definition
conditions of worth
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Narcissistic personality disorder might be the ultimate ego-dystonic disorder?
Definition
False
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Cross-cultural psychology has examined differences in the way that members of various cultures think. Some research suggests that people from collectivist cultures think _______ than those from individualistic cultures.
Definition
more holistically
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Individuals who are high in the trait of narcissism might seem charming and attractive on the first impression?
Definition
True
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Confused, delusional, and even self-destructive thinking is NOT associated with which of the following personality disorders?
Definition
antisocial
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What does it mean tos ay that cetain personality disorder are ego-syntonic?
Definition
People who have them do not think anything is wrong
Term
A utilitatian always values happiness over freedom?
Definition
True
Term
Starting at around age 21, symptos of antisocial personality disorder tend to subside?
Definition
False
Term
Which of the following symptoms is NOT associated with schizoid personality disorder?
Definition
instability of self-image
Term
What term describes the term that non-psychoanalytic researchers sometimes use to refer to the unconscious?
Definition
cognitive unconscious
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of idiographic goals?
Definition
They are common goals that essentially everyone pursues
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An individual who is typically irritable, aggressive, and irresponsible might have which personality disorder?
Definition
antisocial
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Personality traits are good predictors of single behaviors in particular situations
Definition
False
Term
Which class of drugs has shown some success as a treatment for OCPD?
Definition
antidepressants
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Behavioral consistency seems to be unrelated to measures of mental health among koreans.
Definition
True
Term
According to Funder's classification scheme, what three disorders are characterized by emotional and behavioral patterns of insecurity, fear, anxiety and general unhappiness?
Definition
dependent, avoidant, obessive-compulsive
Term
About 25 percent of the population should be left-handed.
Definition
False
Term
What term refers to the idea that the concepts that have been recently activated in the mind influence one's perceptions of the world?
Definition
priming
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Describing casual acquaintance as "dear, dear friends" is a behavior associated with which personality disorder?
Definition
histrionic
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Freedom to select sitations is an important corollary of behaviorist principles.
Definition
False
Term
According to Satre, angst can analyzed into three seperate sensations. What are they?
Definition
anguish, forlorness, despair
Term
A person with a judgment goal will respond to failure with a(n) ________ pattern of behavior.
Definition
helpless
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three basic dimensions proposed by Triandis to describe the characteristics of cultures?
Definition
agency versus communion
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Individuals with ego-dystonic disorders typically want to be cured.
Definition
True
Term
Which of the following is NOT a major achievment of the learning approaches to personality?
Definition
These approaches helped further the understanding of the importance of early childhood learning.
Term
What two types of processes are included in most dual-process models?
Definition
conscious and unconscious
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Nietzsche argues that the msot honorable response to the dilemmas of existence is to?
Definition
rise about it all and become a superman.
Term
Imagine that you are participating in a psychology experiment. The experimenter asks you to take a bite of chocolate and to describe your experience of the chocolate-its tastes, its texture, its feel on your tongue, and so on. You would be involved in which method of psychological research?
Definition
introspective
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What goal-related term describes the ongoing motivation that persits in the mind until the goal is either attained or abandoned?
Definition
current concerns
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What is the name of the sixth factor that might be required to fully capture psychopathology in addition to the Big Five domains?
Definition
oddity
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Which disorder appears in the DSM Cluster B?
Definition
antisocial
Term
An individual who truly believes that he or she should be the first person rescued from a burning building exhibits a symptom of which personality disorder?
Definition
narcissistic
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Umweld includes bodily sensation of pleasure and pain?
Definition
True
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