1) beatrices mother and father both carry a dominant gene for brown eyes and a
recessive gene for blue eyes. the probability that beatrices eyes are brown is:
a.0.75
b.0.50
c.0.25
d.1.00
2) june feels that she has too many projects to do and too many people demanding too
much of her. she knows she cannot keep up with the demands. what is she
experiencing?
a.stress
b.eustress
c.anticipatory coping
d.emotional coping
3) which of the following is not a likely contributor to the development of addiction?
a.learning by watching others abuse a drug or alcohol
b.being a risk taker
c.escape from pain or avoiding problem areas in ones life
d.personal views as to whether addiction is a disease or a choice
4) this concept states that people are not very good at trying to predict how they will
feel about something in the future:
a.availability heuristic
b.representativeness heuristic
c.loss aversion
d.affective forecasting
5) high levels of general intelligence (g) are associated with better:
a.parenting
b.marriages
c.physical health
d.mental health
6) which of the following constructs is most clearly knowledge based?
a.the self
b.self-esteem
c.self-evaluation
d.self-schema
7) jacob learned french in high school and is now learning spanish in college. he finds
that sometimes when he intends to write a spanish word he instead writes a french
word. jacobs problem is due to:
a.blocking
b.persistence
c.proactive interference
d.retroactive interference
8) research on the role of hormones in the development of homosexuality has found
that:
a.lesbians have higher levels of testosterone than heterosexual women
b.gay men have higher levels of estrogen than heterosexual men
c.homosexuals have had prenatal exposure to unusual levels of androgens
d.both a and b
9) students who study a little for tests tend to make more errors on tests; students who
study a lot tend to make fewer errors. if a researcher collected data on such test scores,
she would likely spot a(n):
a.inferential statistic
b.variable standard deviation
c.positive correlation
d.negative correlation
10) based on what you know about the prevalence and diagnosis of various
psychological disorders, which of these disorders is most likely to see increasing
numbers of cases diagnosed in the next 10 years?
a.attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
b.autism
c.depression
d.schizophrenia
11) research on possible factors in the development of male homosexuality has found a
causal role:
a.for family patterns with dominant mothers and submissive fathers
b.for underlying maladaptive personality structures
c.for early sexual experience with same sex adults
d.does not exist for any family or environmental factors