1) allanah has declared psychology as her major. which of the following alternatives
best identifies what allanah will study?
a.the structure and function of the brain
b.mental disorders and their treatment
c.feelings and other subjective states
d.mind, brain, and behavior
2) according to interactionists, behavior at a funeral:
a.is a weak situation
b.is a strong situation
c.has no effect on behavior
d.none of the above
3) jamisons parents noticed that jamison hardly said any words by the time he was 2
years old, that he had never really made eye contact with them, and that he was
intensely preoccupied with the buttons and zippers on clothing and paid little attention
to anything else. jamison:
a.would probably be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder
b.will be at higher risk for antisocial personality disorder
c.will be at higher risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder
d.would probably be diagnosed with autism
4) odelia has schizophrenia and has been successfully treated with medication; her
visual and auditory hallucinations have decreased, and she no longer believes that her
great aunt speaks to her through the television. however, odelia still has some odd
behaviors, and others view her as a little strange. odelias doctor will most likely
recommend that she receive:
a.social skills training
b.emotion management training
c.assertiveness training
d.dialectical behavior training
5) as the pace of technological change increases, which kind of intelligence should
become ever more important?
a.practical
b.logical/mathematical
c.fluid
d.emotional
6) samantha has always bought japanese cars because she believes they are more
reliable than cars made in the united states. samantha has formulated a(n) _____ for
buying cars that may help her save time and money on her next car purchase.
a.deductive strategy
b.inductive strategy
c.algorithm
d.heuristic
7) eyewitness testimony is very convincing because people incorrectly assume that
memory is like:
a.a video camera
b.a live journal
c.an interactive web site
d.the evening news report
8) when you read, your eyes fixate for a fraction of a second, and then jump to a new
point in the text. your reading experience is continuous because during the jump, the
information from the last eye fixation is held in:
a.short-term memory
b.working memory
c.sensory memory
d.echoic memory
9) cybelle and tupac love to spend time together and will call or e-mail several times a
day to check in with each other. while they do not fight very often, when they do fight it
is serious and intense. according to gottsman, cybelle and tupac are likely to have a
relationship that is _____ because _____.
a.at risk; the level of conflict is too high
b.lasting; they enjoy being together so much
c.at risk; they handle their disagreement by fighting
d.lasting; they have many more positive than negative interactions
10) kyoung and sohee, identical twins from korea, were adopted when they were infants
by two different families. kyoung and sohee grew up in different cities, went to
different schools, and had sets of parents with quite different personalities. which of the
following people will be most similar to kyoung in personality?
a.her adoptive mom
b.a female sibling in her adoptive family
c.her biological mom
d.sohee
11) rajneesh decided that in order for him to lead a healthy and productive life, he
needed to separate emotionally from his parents and give up their dreams of him
becoming a doctor. rajneesh resented his parents because of their lack of understanding
of his unique interests and abilities. when he was young, they always said, we want you
to be as successful as your brother, the doctor, even though rajneesh never showed an
interest in medicine and instead preferred the arts. rajneesh was trying to work out his
issues between himself and his parents. problems like rajneeshs, which deal with
childhood attachment, interpersonal relationships, and early childhood experiences,
might be best helped by treatment with:
a.applied behavior analysis
b.rational emotive therapy
c.psychodynamic therapy
d.exposure therapy
12) psychotherapeutic treatments of adolescent depression are:
a.ineffective
b.effective but time consuming
c.about three times more effective as treatment with drugs alone
d.seldom effective unless used in combination with drugs
13) according to your textbook, being encouraged by peers and enhancing ones
self-image are reasons why people:
a.eat too much
b.engage in emotional coping
c.start smoking
d.develop a type a personality
14) which of the following people who were diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 20
will have the best prognosis?
a.slim, a man who lives in a developed country
b.hassim, a man who lives in a developing country
c.shauna, a woman who lives in a developed country
d.sariyah, a woman who lives in a developing country
15) phonemes are:
a.the basic sounds of a language
b.the smallest units of language that have meaning
c.equivalent to syllables
d.sounds that are similar across various languages