Fall PSYC100, 2011, Exam 3, Version A
PSYC 100 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY DR. SMITH
Fall, 2011
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EXAM 3
December 8, 2011
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1. Which of the following is NOT a way in which attitudes are acquired?
a. Childhood experiences
b. Classical conditioning
c. Encounter with a single source of information
d. Modeling
2.
Mary Sue just attended a protest against killing animals for their fur, and then
bought a floor length chinchilla fur coat. Because of this discrepancy, Mary Sue
may be feeling:
a. Cognitive dissonance
b. The effects of Daryl Bem's Self Perception Theory
c. Cognitive consistency
d. Social inhibition
3. Which of the following factors help facilitate a change in attitude?
a. A radically different opinion on a subject
b. A communicator with ambiguous credibility
c. An audience with high self esteem
d. A communicator that is trustworthy
4. The Solomon Ash study on group conformity and subsequent research on group
conformity shows that:
a. Every participant gave the correct answer based on their judgment
b. One third of real participants gave in to group norms and consciously
complied with an incorrect answer
c. Culture does not play a role in conformity
d. Conformity increases when one individual deviates from the group norms
5. Bryant orders a camera online for 200 dollars; when he goes to pay for the camera
he finds that he has to pay an additional 100 dollars for shipping and insurance.
The compliance technique the online store used is:
a. Foot in the door
b. Door in the face
c. Low ball technique
d. Cognitive switch and bait
6. Which of the following is NOT true about the Milgram experience on obedience?
a. 65% of undergraduate participants believed they administered 450 volts of
electricity despite the screams of the learner
b. The learner was a confederate in the experiment
c. Normal people are very obedient even when causing harm to others
d. As a result of ethical concerns, further research on obedience has been
prohibited
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7. The ancient process of drilling holes in the skull of patients with psychological
problems in order to let out the evil spirits is called:
1. Exorcism
2. Trephining
3. Blood letting
4. Demonizing
8. _____________ are an alternative option to mental hospitals, that offer partial
care and isolation for formally hospitalized patients that are not quite ready to go
out on their own.
a. Outpatient clinics
b. Halfway houses
c. Crisis intervention clinics
d. Transference homes
9. _________ is a type of psychological disorder prevention that works to eliminate
conditions in the home and community that may lead to emotional disorders.
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Quaternary prevention
10. After spending a few months talking with her therapist, Nicole starts to feel strong
feelings of affection towards him as if he were like her father. Freud would label
this phenomenon as:
a. Free association
b. Freudian slip
c. Desensitization
d. Transference
11. Modern psychoanalysts who practice ego psychology are different from classical
Freudian psychoanalysis in that they:
a. Prefer to stress the present rather than focus on repression of
problems from the past
b. Focus more on the power of the irrational id than Freud did
c. Are more passive in the discussion with their patients
d. Are more brief and accomplished in fewer sessions
12. When is it legally and ethically permissible to commit a person to a mental
hospital involuntarily?
a. If the patients family says the patient is mentally ill
b. If the cost of taking care of the mentally ill person is a burden to the
family
c. If the patient is found by experts to be a danger to himself or others
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d. If the patient is too young to make their own decisions
13. A major goal of family therapy is to:
a. Help families cope with the cost and problems that come with having a
mentally ill person in the family
b. Create a loving environment between strangers in a group so they feel
more like a family and can safely express their problems
c. Treat patients such as orphaned children to accept their new families
d. Modify the interactions, communications and relationships among
family members so that they become positive and supportive of each
other
14. Which of the following are stressful events?
a. Divorce
b. Retirement
c. Christmas
d. All of the above
15. Annas firm has recently been laying off a number of employees. Fearing that she
is the next to be fired, she starts searching for a new job. Annas action is an
example of which of the following coping methods?
a. Self-instruction
b. Defense mechanism
c. Stress inoculations
d. Assertive coping
16. Studies of stressors suggest that:
a. Everyone experiences stress in the same way
b. There is little evidence that stressors have long-term effects
c. Stressors can have long-term impact
d. There is little evidence that environmental factors produce stress
17. Which of the following smokers is most likely to quit?
a. Benjamin, who believes he is likely to develop coronary heart disease
b. Jessie, who has read the most about the negative health effects of smoking
c. Jordan, who has seen a lot of anti-smoking commercials on TV
d. Abigail, who has the highest IQ
18. Joseph Brady and J. Weiss conducted executive studies using monkeys and rats,
respectively; to study the stress related effects of decision-making. Which of the
following statements regarding their findings are correct?
a. They found similar results; the animal in control would develop ulcers.
b. They found similar results; the animal not in control would develop ulcers.
c. They found similar results; the animal in control would not develop ulcers.
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d. They found contradictory results
19. According to Selyes General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS), the body adapts to
stress in three stages. GAS follows which of the following predictable patterns?
a. Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
b. Resistance , Alarm, Exhaustion
c. Alarm, Exhaustion, Resistance
d. Resistance, Exhaustion, Alarm
20. Which of the following is least likely to be involved in the bodys response to
stress?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Hypothalamus
Thalamus
Adrenal Medulla
Pituitary gland
21. the ____________is field of study that studies the biological bases of social
behavior. This field of study contests that both humans and animal groups form as
a result of evolutionary reasons.
a. Evolutionary Psychology
b. Sociobiology
c. Cognitive Psychology
d. Freudian Psychology
22. Albert Bandura's Bobo doll study showed that:
a. Children learn aggressive behavior by observation
b. Children acted aggressively regardless of observing aggressive behaviors
c. The social learning hypothesis in relation to aggression is not supported
d. The children, who viewed the video modeling aggressive behavior,
refused to act aggressively
23. Which part of the brain, when stimulated, will foster aggression?
a. The Occipital lobe
b. The Pons
c. The Hypothalamus
d. The Corpus Collusum
24. Scientific phenomena are based off of:
a. Free will
b. Determinism
c. Nature
d. Nurture
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25. What percentage of the extroversion/introversion personality trait is attributed to
genetics?
a. 20%
b. 80%
c. 60%
d. 50%
26. Bradys Executive Monkey experiment and Weisss later modifications using
mice explained a lot about the relationship between stress and control. According
to the findings from these experiments, which of the following mice would be the
MOST stressed?
a. One that had no control over whether or not they received a shock
b. One who had control over whether or not they received a shock, but
were uncertain that their control would be effective.
c. One who didnt receive a shock but could see the others receiving a shock
d. One who had control over whether or not they received a shock, and were
certain that their control would be effective.
27. A person who is intense, competitive, and constantly stressed is said to have
which type of personality?
a. Type A
b. Type B
c. An even mix of A and B
d. Neither
28. A researcher is interested in looking at unique, consistent patterns of behavioral
and psychological attributes that endure over time and across situations. This
researcher is studying ________.
a. Intelligence
b. Human Development
c. Personality
d. Social Behavior
29. John was an introvert all through middle school and high school. He thought he
would change but is disappointed to realize he continues to be an introvert in
college. This is an example of the _________ aspect of personality.
a. Motivation
b. Free will
c. Continuous
d. Holism
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30. Which of the following is NOT a segment of the consciousness continuum as
proposed by Freud?
a. Subconscious
b. Unconscious
c. Conscious
d. Preconscious
31. Freud believes dreams are an expression of our:
a. Unconscious
b. Preconscious
c. Subconscious
d. Conscious
32. The __________ is to id, as the _________ is to ego.
a. Reality principle; pleasure principle
b. Pleasure principle; reality principle
c. Conscious; preconscious
d. Superego; libido
33. Samantha was in a life threatening car accident when she was 10 years old.
However, she does not remember having been in the accident. This may be an
example of:
a. Displacement
b. Projection
c. Repression
d. Regression
34. ___________ is the inborn tendency of the total organism to realize all its
potentials, to grow and improve, and to maintain and enhance itself.
a. Self concept
b. Actualization
c. Self efficacy
d. Self evaluation
35. Which of the following is an accepted psychological definition of abnormal
behavior?
a) Maladaptive patterns of behavior
b) Socially incompetent behavior
c) Erratic competence
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d) Erratic responses
36. Rosenhan and his colleagues demonstrated a major problem in diagnosing
psychological disorders when they were each admitted to ten different hospitals for
schizophrenia after reporting hearing voices one time. One of the issues with the
diagnostic process was due to:
a) Validity
b) Bias
c) Reliability
d) Labeling
37. DSM stands for:
a) Manual of Disorders and Statistical Means
b) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
c) Diagnostic and Mental Disorders
d) Manual of Diagnoses and Statistical Outcomes
38. Arachnophobia is an example of a(n)_______ phobia while agoraphobia is an
example of a(n) _______ phobia.
a) Stupid; serious
b) Popular; nonexistent
c) Untreatable; treatable
d) Simple; complex
39. Sarah experienced an extremely traumatic car accident. There is a chance that she
will experience symptoms of:
a) BPD
b) OCD
c) PTSD
d) DBT
40. Which is the following disturbances is a symptom of schizophrenia?
a) Slow motor reactions
b) Reduced sensitivity
c) Disturbances of physical development
d) Disturbances of affect
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41. A mood disorder characterized by persistent, negative mood state is:
a) Biopolar depression
b) Anxiety depression
c) Delusional depression
d) Unipolar depression
42. Which of the following is NOT true about stress and anxiety?
a. Stress can be a good thing
b. Coping with stress can harm a persons health
c. Certain days, like Mondays, can cause stress
d. Stress can continue for an extended period of time without harming a
person
43. Who was the main person involved with health belief models and who claimed
that behaviors regarding health such as whether or not to quit smoking are
governed by four main cognitive perceptions?
a. Joseph Brady
b. Richard Lazarus
c. Irwin Rosenstock
d. Donald Meichenbaum
44. The community mental health movement encouraged:
a. Patients to go to the emergency room for psychological problems
b. Patients to move from large institutions to community mental health
centers
c. Doctors to prescribe more psychiatric drugs
d. The community to accept people with mental disorders
45. During psychiatric emergencies, patients may call a crisis hotline or go to a walk-
in crisis service at a community mental health center. Such psychiatric
emergencies typically include:
a. Attempted or threatened suicide
b. Psychotic behavior
c. Extreme confusion
d. All of the above
46. A ____________ has a medical degree and provides biomedical therapy, while a
___________ provides psychotherapy and psychological testing.
a. Psychiatrist, psychologist
b. Psychologist, psychiatrist
c. Social worker, psychiatric nurse
d. School psychologist, psychiatric nurse
47. Psychoanalysis, which is based on Sigmund Freuds psychoanalytic theory,
involves:
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a.
b.
c.
d.
Free association
Dream analysis
Answers A and B
None of the above
48. Behavior therapy:
a. Focuses on insight
b. Aims to change behavior
c. Encourages the client to develop a better self-concept
d. Answers A and C
49. Sally gets candy when she cleans her room, but is put in time out when she hits
her brother. These techniques are part of:
a. Cognitive therapy
b. Aversion therapy
c. Behavior therapy
d. Client-centered therapy
50. According to Freuds theory, libido is contained in the:
a) Id
b) Ego
c) Superego
d) Tanatos