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| Shawn explains that he chose a business management major because his father insisted he be self sufficient; he describes his girlfriend's choice of nursing major as a result of her caring nature. This is an example of: ______. |
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| Dacey tells her professor she prefers individual assignments over group projects because she accomplishes more on her own. The process that best explains why she accomplishes less in a group is: _______. |
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| ________ is the most common result from interactions among id, ego, and superego |
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| 3 yr old Jason spilled a bowl of popcorn all over the room, his sister, and himself. He looked at all the popcorn and at the bowl and said "We got lots more popcorn now." Jason is most likely in which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development? |
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| As an infant, Jon rarely cried when his mother left, and usually didn't acknowledge her when she cam back. Jon was exhibiting a(n) ________ attachment style. |
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| Sigmund is interested in Sally but has anxiety about this since his friends wouldn't approve. Every time he sees her he acts rude and says mean things, despite his attraction. This is an example of the defense mechanism __________. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| Psychiatrist asks Lucinda to look at a set of ten pictures and make up a story for each one. The psychiatrist is likely using the _______. |
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| External Locus of Control |
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| Jasmine says it really doesn't matter if she studies for her psychology exam. She believes grades in the course are a matter of luck. It appears Jasmine has a(n) _________. |
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| Alone DeeDee would never sing at the top of her lungs in front of strangers, but with her sorority sister she loses her inhibitions; this behavior change is __________. |
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| Jonas knew animals with fur, pointy ears, tail, four legs, and says 'woof' are called 'dogs' by his parents. He saw a new animal and thought it was a dog until it mewoed. Parents called this a cat. Jonas now distinguishes between dog and cat depending on the sound it makes. This revision of Jonas's schema of dog illustrates: ______. |
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| The SAT is a standard test of knowledge, skills, and reasoning ability for college applicants. If students who score high on the SAT are more successful at college than those with low scores, then the test has high: _______. |
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| According to Maslow, human needs can be represented: _________. |
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inductive intelligence
mnemonic: PAC |
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Robert Sternberg suggested that there are three kinds of intelligence, which include all of the following except:
a. analytic
b. creative
c. inductive
d. practical |
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| Steele & Aronson demonstrated that African American students perform ______ on tests if asked to report race at the top of their answer sheet. |
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| demonstrate infants need experience with crawling to develop fear of depth |
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| Studies of depth perception in infants: _____________. |
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three major dimensions of love proposed by Sternberg in his triangle theory?
a. intimacy
b. passion
c. security
d. commitment |
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| Oedipal complexes occurs during the _______ stage |
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| Individuals attributing their successes to internal actors and failures to external factors are displaying the __________ bias. |
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| Antonio is in his 80s and realizes he is coming to the end of his life. He looks back on his life and feels it has meaning and he is ready to die. Erikson would say Antonio is successfully resolving the psychosocial challenge of __________. |
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conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion
mnemonic: OCEAN |
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| The Big Five, the traits of the five-factor model, include: |
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| Pleasure principle is to ______ as reality principle is to ________. |
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1. Attachment to caregiver
2. Animism
3. Mastery of conversation
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Arrange the following developmental events in order of occurrence:
a. animism
b. mastery of conversation
c. attachment to caregiver
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| When attempting to solve an abstract word problem you've never seen before, and are given 3 min to come up with the solution, you probably rely on your ____________. |
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| Both Freud and the learning theory propose that _________ is crucial to development of infant attachment. |
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| Mark is studying identity formation. He asks a group of 5, 10, and 15 yr olds what they plan to be when they finish school. Mark is using a _________. |
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X = id
Y = ego
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X: I'm so mad at that guy I could hit him.
Y: Why not tell him his behavior is inappropriate so he won't repeat it?
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| A freudian might explain excessively messy or compulsively neat behavior as being the result of fixation at the ________ stage. |
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| Antonio, who as a child loved to pull wings off of moths and was fascinated by blood and guts, grew up to be a surgeon. His career choice represents ________. |
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| In 1st grade, Luis took an intelligence test invented by Binet and Simon, a test initially designed to measure a child's ________. |
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| In the sensorimotor stage, when a pleasurable event accidentally occurs, the infant tries to repeat it. Piaget called this _________. |
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| Two people go on a date. Research suggests how much they like each other and want to see each other again depends mostly on ________. |
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| The steady increase in intelligence test performance over the past 100 yrs is called the _______. |
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| an understanding of object permanence |
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| Tamara's father hides a bottle under a blanket. Tamara quickly retrieves it. According to Piaget, this suggests Tamara has developed ____________. |
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| Many older adults experience visual changes that make it difficult to clearly see nearby objects. This is called _______. |
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| An individual's belief that she/he has the ability to perform a task or accomplish a goal is referred to as ________. |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| Carl Rogers believes healthy personality development would not occur without ___________. |
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| Lester always accuses his wife of being attracted to other men, but really Lester is the one who has frequent thoughts of affairs with other women. Freud might suggest Lester is using the defense mechanism of ________. |
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| An individual is asked to describe his/her real self by sorting adjectives into piles such as 'not like me' and 'very much like me'. This is called ________. |
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| Which type of intelligence is likely to decline with old age? |
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a. can differentiate "BA" from "DA"
b. can perceive phonemes from different languages
c. are better phoneme perceivers than college students. |
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| Studies of phoneme perception have demonstrated that babies: _____, _______, ______ |
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| Nina got a bad grade on her 1st exam. This led her to think she could never pass the class, so she quit trying and failed. Bandura calls this ___________. |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| Professor Holt graded Arnie's exam and entered the failing grade on her spreadsheet. She commented to her husband that Arnie's not too bright. This is an example of _______. |
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| a 'mother' made of terry cloth that didn't offer food |
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| In Harry Harlow's experiments where baby monkeys were separated from their mothers, frightened baby monkeys tended to cling to _____________. |
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| the tendency of our 1st impression of a person to bias our interpretation of their subsequent behavior |
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| In impression formation, the primacy effect refers to ______________. |
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| According to the notion of bystander intervention, if you have a heart attack in public it's probably better if there is a ___________ around. |
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| Mere exposure effect suggests you are more likely to find someone _________ the more time you spend with them. |
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| Some critics have suggested that President Bush's staff consensus on the issues of Irag than listening to dissenting opinions. If this is true, it is an example of ________. |
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| intelligence is largely inherited |
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| Galton was convince that ___________. |
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| concentrates on one dimension; doesn't understand reversibility; hasn't yet acquired the concept of conversation |
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| Little Wayne is convinced that his brother got more juice than he. When Wayne's mom pours his juice into a taller, thinner glass, Wayne is happy. This is because Wayne: |
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| The same red light was presented repeatedly until an infant stopped responding. Then a new slighlty different colored light was presented, and the infant responded again. This is an example of _______. |
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