Quiz 3 with Answer Key for General Psychology | PSYC 1200, Quizzes of Psychology

Download Quiz 3 with Answer Key for General Psychology | PSYC 1200 and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! General Psychology Professor Hubbell Name: Quiz 3 Form 10 Instructions: Follow the instructions on the screen. Choose the best answer for each item. 1. Factors in the environment that can harm the developing fetus and interfere with normal patterns of growth are called a. mutations. b. toxins. c. analgesics. d. teratogens. 2. Imagine that researchers show a baby several pictures of men's faces, until the baby spends very little time looking at each new face. Then the researchers show a woman's face, and the baby once again looks very briefly. This would indicate that the baby a. has no natural bias against men or women. b. has a poorly developed visual system. c. dislikes the research situation. d. can't tell that the new face is different. 3. The tendency of young children to call all adult females "Mommy" is an example of what Piaget would call a. assimilation. b. accommodation. c. decentration. d. conservation. 4. Ralph is upset because his older sister took two cookies, but he only has one. His sister cuts Ralph's cookie in half, and he is satisfied that they now have the same amount. Ralph would be in which of Piaget's stages ofcognitive development? a. Sensorimotor. b. Concrete operations. c. Preoperational. d. Formal operations. 5. As an alternative to Piaget, the theories that focus on a child's capacity to process, store, retrieve, and actually manipulate information as a function ofage are called theories. a. Vygotsky's b. process c. information processing d. artificial intelligence 6. Morality judged in terms of abstract princip les and values, rather than in terms of existing laws or rules of society, is characteristic ofKohl berg's stage of moral development. a. religious b. preconventional c. conventional d, postconventional 7, It appears that temperament is only moderately stable early in life, but becomes highly stable after about a. six years. b. twenty-four months, c. sixteen years. d. eleven months. 8. When a child understands that he or she is a boy or a girl the child has acquired a. gender identity. b. sex-typing, c. sex roles. d. androgyny. 9. Characteristics of adolescence, such as its length or whether it even exists as a distinct period of development, are most influenced by a. maturation. b. hormones. c. gender. d. culture. 10. Erikson's theory emphasizes the importance _____ development across the life span. a. social b. cognitive c. sexual d. emotional According to Erikson, an understanding of an individual's unique traits and what is really of central importance to them is called a. crystallized intelligence. b. fluid intelligence. c. life structure. d. self-identity. 12. For the majority of women, menopause a. is a stressful experience. b. causes little difficulty. c. involves much physical discomfort. d. signals the end of sexual activity. 13. A research technique in which the same individuals are studied over substanti~l periods of time is called the _____ method. a. cross-sectional b. age-similarity c. longitudinal d. matched group 14. According to Kubler-Ross, the first stage of the dying process is a. denial. b. anger. c. depression. d. bargaining. 15. Research on how people deal with the death of a loved one indicates that they pass through the stages of a. shock, protest and yearning, despair, detachment and recovery. b. shock, denial and detachment, anger and protest, release and recovery. c. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. d. shock, denial, protest, despair, yearning. i6. In which of these situations would a clinical psychologist apply the concept of motivation,) a. Why do cats have reflective eyes? b. Why do parents love th ir children? c. Why do Pavlov's dogs salivate when the bell rings? d. Why do writers spend decades on one book? 1~I. According to drive theory, behaviors will.he repeated if they tend to _____ drives. a. increase h. have no effect on c. decrease d. initiate 16. Drives are to expectancies as a. achievements are to aroused states. b. ghost stories are to textbooks. c. incentives are to grades. d. foods are to beliefs. 39. One important criticism of the trait approach to personality is that it does NOT a. explain why people act consistently in different situations. b. allow us to predict how a specific person will behave. c. show how the various aspects of the personality interact. d. describe how various personality traits develop. 40. Modem learning theories differ from the earliest learning theories in that the modem theories a. deny that internal factors have any importance. b. put more emphasis on internal factors. c. emphasize classical rather than operant conditioning. d. are moving away from social learning theory. 11. The major criticisms oflearning approaches to personality center on a;;. their emphasis on internal, innate factors. S. the fact that these theories can't be tested. c. whether humans are basically good or evil. d. the older, more behavioristic theories that ignored cognitive factors. ';2. \\!hich of the following is an example of a projective test of personality? ~. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventorj CvfMPI-2). b. 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). c. Rorschach Ink Blot Test. d. California Personality Inventory (CPI). ";3. Lewis Terman developed the; _____ test as an individual test of intelligence. a. Stanford-Binet b. Harvard-Binet c. Weschler Scales d. Stanford-Weschler Jt4 After using a machine at the mall that claims it will find "the perfect date" for her, Jane follows the advice of the machine. However, Jane should be aware that these machines are low in because they _____, a. validity; do net measure what they are designed to measure b. validity; cannot duplicate thep- results c. reliability; do not measure what they are designed to measure d. reliability; C<L.'1Dot duplicate their results tJ.5. Researr:;h supports the assertion that approximately _____ percent of intelligence can be attributed to genetic factors. a. 30 b. 40 c. 50 d. 60 !3nus Questions (2 points each) /.·6. AdolesceIlts Lave a tendency to believe that their fetlings and thoughts are totally unique. This statement is a. fals~. c. does not apply to adolescents outside the U.S. b. true only for adolescents younger than 15. d. called the personal fable. q. The results of the "weird sex survey" indicate that students at ?J>I z.. engage in degree of very sexual behaviors. b. show variability with respect to their feelings aLout what is normal sexual behavior. c. rue relatively conservative with respect to sexual behavior. d. rarely engage in sexual behavior. 48. Intelligent brains a. expend more energy. b. expend less e:;,ergy. c. need more oxygen. d. are no different than any other Jrain. Answers Quiz 3 Form 10 1. D 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. A 11. D 12. B 13. C 14. A 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. D 19. D 20. B 21. B 22. C 23. C 24. C 25. B 26. B 27. D 28. D 29. B 30. B 31. C 32. D 33. B 34. B 35. D 36. B 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. B 41. D 42. C 43. A 44. A 45. C 46. D 47. B 48. B