1) how might television advertisements affect a persons decision to seek treatment for
depression?
a.television advertisements teach people what treatments are available.
b.television advertisements only help encourage people with severe depression to seek
help.
c.television advertisements help to normalize the treatments of mental disorders making
people more likely to seek help.
d.television advertisements do not affect peoples decisions to seek treatment.
2) which of the following is not a secondary emotion?
a.remorse
b.anticipation
c.happiness
d.submission
3) if the difference between two groups is statistically significant, it suggests that:
a.there is a positive correlation among the data
b.the data show low levels of systematic error
c.the researcher has to use descriptive statistics to test for the validity of the results
d.if the experiment were repeated, the same results would likely occur
4) as a research psychologist, dr. brown wants to be sure that she gathers information
from all her patients in the same way, and that she asks questions about all of the same
areas. dr. brown probably uses:
a.an unstructured interview
b.a structured interview
c.a mental status interview
d.the minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
5) even though they probably look at coins on a daily basis, most people are unlikely to
be able to correctly identify which coin is a real quarter from an array of possible
quarters because:
a.people do not pay attention to pennies
b.people do not pay attention to quarters
c.memories are transient
d.other things interfere with the memory of the quarter
6) during the phallic stage, children develop hostility toward the same-sex parent
because they desire an exclusive relationship with the opposite-sex parent. freud argued
that this conflict is typically resolved by the:
a.childs taking on many of the same-sex parents values and ideals
b.childs rationalizing the hostility in terms of the characteristics of the same-sex parent
c.id, which attempts to rein in the sexual urges
d.time the child is 4 years old
7) dr. prescott is a physician treating an elderly patient showing early symptoms of
dementia. ms. ellis is a teacher working with children with autism. finally, mr.
washington is a lawyer selecting individuals to serve on a jury. which of these
individuals is likely to use psychological science in his or her professional activities?
a.dr. prescott only
b.both dr. prescott and ms. ellis
c.ms. ellis only
d.all three: dr. prescott, ms. ellis, and mr. washington
8) li-ting is painting a picture. she paints a vase of flowers and then, right next to it, half
of a book. when bijal looks at the painting, she sees the book as being _____ because of
_____.
a.adjacent to the vase; occlusion
b.adjacent to the vase; linear perspective
c.behind the vase; linear perspective
d.behind the vase; occlusion
9) if you try to remember a list of words that relate to the idea of sleep and later report
remembering that you heard the word sleep in the list (even though it was not there),
you are suffering from a(n):
a.repressed memory
b.sleep disorder
c.false memory
d.engram
10) sleep spindles are indicative of which stage of sleep?
a.stage 2
b.stage 1
c.rem
d.stage 4