1) a social interaction during which a person responds to suggestions to experience
changes in memory, perception, and voluntary action is also called:
a.a hallucination
b.an illusion
c.unconsciousness
d.hypnosis
2) which of the following statements is false?
a.self-esteem evaluates personal worth.
b.self-esteem is part of the self-concept.
c.self-esteem plays a major role in how successful a person will be in life.
d.self-esteem may buffer against difficulties.
3) which of the following people is most likely to develop coronary heart disease at
some point in his or her life?
a.john, a counseling psychologist who is laid-back and enjoys his job
b.erik, a ceo of a fortune 500 company who takes frequent vacations
c.louis, a competitive poker play who is aggressive, impatient, and thrives on beating
the competition
d.jarrod, who is an elementary school teacher and is easygoing
4) marco never had to study in high school and he starts college the same way. after his
first exams, he realizes he needs to study. he decides to go to the library every night and
study for six straight hours. when he cannot study for that long, he does not know what
to do and gives up. marcos approach to solving his problems with studying failed
because:
a.he was using inductive reasoning inappropriately
b.his solution was conscious and lacked insight
c.he did not establish reasonable subgoals
d.he did not have a clearly defined goal
5) which of the following items would most likely be defined as a primary reinforcer?
a.a new set of china dishes
b.a bottle of water
c.a vacation
d.money
6) an implicit personality theory is:
a.useful in very limited situations
b.difficult to describe and difficult to research
c.equivalent to the concept of self-construal
d.based on the assumption that certain personality characteristics go together
7) in which real-life context did john dewey apply the principles of functionalism?
a.hospital
b.home
c.factory
d.classroom
8) consciousness is best defined as:
a.moment-to-moment subjective experiences
b.focused attention
c.a state of wakefulness
d.the sum of your voluntary experiences
9) when an immigrant group places a high priority on success in school, children in that
group routinely have higher levels of achievement in school than their iq scores would
predict. this fact suggests that:
a.effort can mediate the effects of iq on achievement
b.the iq tests were culturally biased against these children
c.iq tests are an inaccurate measure of academic intelligence
d.the correlation between iq and achievement is weak