Foundations of Psychology Exam Bank
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Foundations of Psychology introduces students to the fundamental principles, theories, and methodologies of modern psychology. The course covers key topics such as the biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Through an exploration of scientific research and classic studies, students will develop an understanding of how psychological concepts apply to everyday life and human experience. Emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking skills and the ability to analyze human thought and behavior from multiple psychological perspectives.
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Introduction to Psychology 11th Edition by James W. Kalat
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) What event led to a great expansion of clinical psychology?
A)The abolition of slavery in the mid 1800s
B)Soldiers' traumatic experiences during World War II
C)The industrial revolution
D)The development of effective antidepressant drugs
Answer: B
Q2) Many menstruating women crave potato chips because of their need for what?
A)Sugar
B)Vitamin C
C)Fats
D)Salt
Answer: D
Q3) People who support the idea of free will OPPOSE which of these concepts?
A)Human behavior differs from that of animal behavior.
B)Heredity and environment are equally important.
C)Parents should apply discipline to disobedient children.
D)It is possible for scientists to discover the causes of behavior.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Scientific Methods in Psychology
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Q1) An investigator analyzes the results determines that p < 0.05.Why is p important?
A)It tells us how many individuals were affected by the experimental treatment.
B)It tells us how accurately the experimenter measured the results.
C)It tells us how improbable the results would be by chance alone.
D)It tells us how consistent the results are from one study to another.
Answer: C
Q2) If the correlation between variables A and B is zero,what can we conclude?
A)A and B have the same mean, the same median, and the same distribution.
B)As A goes up, B does not consistently go either up or down.
C)The mean value of either A or B must be zero.
D)If we know the value of A, we can predict the value of B with zero error.
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following claims would NOT be falsifiable?
A)"Anxiety is more common in young adults than in old people."
B)"Mothers who take folic acid during pregnancy tend to have healthier children."
C)"Dreams are often disguised to hide their true meaning."
D)"Early music training improves children's language development."
Answer: C
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Q1) The sum of all the scores divided by the total number of scores is called the ______.(NOT "average." Give the more precise term.)
Answer: mean
Q2) Describe an example of a negative correlation.
Answer: A few possible examples: (1)The greater the number of days in a month spent exercising,the fewer the number of sick days used.(2)The more time someone practices golf,the lower the person's golf score,on average.(3)On average,people who smoke more cigarettes have a shorter life expectancy.(4)The more times a student misses class,the lower the probable score on a test.
Q3) Any ethical experiment on people begins by asking participants for their informed consent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) If every individual in the population has an equal chance of being selected for a sample,the sample is said to be a(n)____________________ sample.
Answer: random
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) What do the findings in epigenetics imply about the concept of heritability?
A)The effects of heredity depend on the environment.
B)Hereditary differences and environmental differences are equal for all behaviors.
C)Evolution continues to improve humanity from one generation to the next.
D)Genes are more important for behavior than for anything else in biology.
Q2) Which of the following facts made it possible to develop drugs to block nausea?
A)Nausea depends on one type of serotonin receptor.
B)Nausea depends on a particular speed of action potential.
C)Nausea depends on a particular area in the spinal cord.
D)Nausea depends on a particular concentration of hormones.
Q3) After parietal lobe damage,people have trouble with which aspect of vision?
A)They have difficulty perceiving the location of objects.
B)They have difficulty perceiving the speed and direction of movement.
C)They have difficulty remembering what they have seen a few minutes ago.
D)They have difficulty learning to recognize people's faces.
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Chapter 3: A: Biological Psychology
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Q1) Ritalin (methylphenidate)affects the same synapses as cocaine,in the same way.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After a neuron releases transmitters into the synapse,it reabsorbs many of the molecules.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If a gene influences behavior,we can assume it alters brain development.
A)True
B)False
Q4) We can almost always explain the reasons for our own behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An action potential remains equally strong as it travels on an axon from start to finish.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Most scientists agree that mind and brain are separate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The retinex theory of color vision attempts to explain which of these?
A)Depth perception
B)Color constancy
C)Optical illusions
D)Negative afterimages
Q2) On a dark night,why do you see a faint star better if you focus slightly to the side of it?
A)Perception of faint light is better outside the fovea.
B)The pupil casts a shadow onto the fovea.
C)Cones are more abundant slightly outside the fovea than within it.
D)Perception of detail is better outside the fovea.
Q3) People heard subliminal audiotapes that contained messages different from what they were told to expect.For example,tapes about memory or self-esteem might be mislabeled as the opposite.What is the usual outcome of such studies?
A)People report improvement in whatever they thought the tapes contained.
B)People report improvement in what the tapes actually contained.
C)People report improvement in both what actual content and the expected content.
D)People do not report improvement in any regard.
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Q1) Color constancy depends on the ability of the cortex to compare information from several parts of the retina.This view is known as the _______ theory of color vision.
Q2) Absolute pitch (or "perfect pitch")is more common in people who speak Mandarin Chinese than in English speakers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) People taste very dilute sugar or salt solutions more easily than equally dilute bitter substances.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Itch sensation is a mild type of pain.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe differences between vision in the fovea and vision in the periphery of the eye.
Q6) Pain activates two brain areas,one that is responsible for sensation and one that is related to _________.
Q7) Explain why everyone has a blind spot in each eye.
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Q1) Many studies show a relationship between parents' behavior and their children's behavior.However,the relationship is weak for parents and their adopted children.What conclusion is likely?
A)Biological children are more variable than adopted children.
B)Adopted children are more variable than biological children.
C)Rearing patterns control most of children's personality development.
D)Much of the reported parent-child similarity is due to genetics.
Q2) If people differ because of a "cohort effect," what caused the difference?
A)Genetic variations in the proteins that guide brain development
B)The way in which investigators measured a behavior
C)The historical era in which people grew up
D)Physical injuries or illnesses
Q3) At least in the United States,what do women say more often than men?
A)"I'm sorry."
B)"See you soon."
C)"I can do that."
D)"Nice day today."
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Chapter 5: A: Development
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Q1) People often react to reminders of death by reaffirming their religious and political beliefs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Piaget,a child who cannot easily take another person's perspective is said to be ___________.
Q3) Suppose we put a colored dot on a child's face.Now the child looks in a mirror.A child who has a "sense of self" will react by pointing to the dot in the mirror.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The main reason for adolescent risk-taking behaviors is that the adolescents are not aware of the dangers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Even month-old infants notice the difference between the sounds "ba" and "pa."
A)True
B)False
Q6) According to terror-management theory,how do people react to reminders that they will die?
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Rats receive a shock when they drink saccharin-flavored water from a tube that produces loud noises and bright lights.Later,what do they avoid,if anything?
A)The loud noises and bright lights
B)Saccharin-flavored water
C)The tube
D)Nothing
Q2) Suppose that when several students raise their hands in class,the professor calls on one at random.Thus,the more often you raise your hand,the more your chance of being called,but you can never be sure when that will be.Which schedule of reinforcement is this?
A)Fixed-interval
B)Variable-interval
C)Fixed-ratio
D)Variable-ratio
Q3) What procedure leads to extinction in operant conditioning?
A)Punishing the response
B)Giving no reinforcement after the response
C)Presenting the CS without the UCS
D)Presenting the UCS without the CS
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Chapter 6: A: Learning
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Q1) In operant conditioning,"shaping" a response means putting the animal into the correct position and posture to make the response.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Both positive and negative reinforcement increase the probability of a behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Today's behaviorists explain all behavior in terms of reactions to the stimuli immediately present in the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The process of establishing a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations to it is known as ____________.
Q5) In classical and operant conditioning,any stimulus can be paired equally easily with any possible outcome.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why do behaviorists argue that your thoughts do not cause your behaviors?
Q7) Describe how classical conditioning could explain drug tolerance.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) When you read the word fall on a list,you think of it as a season of the year.Later when someone asks which word on the list means a way to get injured,you don't think of fall.Why?
A)Hindsight bias
B)Implicit memory
C)Depth of processing
D)Encoding specificity
Q2) When you gradually learn that a certain pattern of wind and cloud means that you need an umbrella,which type of memory is this?
A)Declarative memory or explicit learning
B)Semantic memory or classical conditioning
C)Episodic memory or mnemonic learning
D)Procedural memory or habit learning
Q3) Proactive interference (or the lack of it)is a possible explanation for which of the following?
A)The Stroop effect
B)The episodic specificity effect
C)The primacy effect in memory
D)The recency effect in memory
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Chapter 7: A: Memory
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Q1) In the method of loci,you first memorize a series of places and then use them to help you remember some other list.The method of loci is one example of a ______ device.
Q2) The system for using current information is known as _______ memory.
Q3) Letting a child use a doll to act out an event improves the accuracy of relating the event.
A)True B)False
Q4) Patient H.M.suffered severe amnesia after damage to his ________.
Q5) Finding your own car in a large parking lot is like testing memory with the __________ method.
Q6) The more times you have memorized lists of a particular type,the longer you will remember each new list that you learn.
A)True B)False
Q7) Prolonged deficiency of vitamin B1 (usually caused by severe alcoholism)leads to an impairment of memory and attention known as __________ syndrome.
Q8) Describe an example of source amnesia.
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Chapter 8: Cognition and Language
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Q1) What does the "word-superiority effect" mean?
A)People read faster if they focus on one word at a time.
B)Putting something into words makes it easier to remember.
C)It is easier to identify a letter within a word than by itself.
D)The whole-word method is the best way to teach children to read.
Q2) When Washoe and similar chimpanzees learned to communicate by sign language,how did their output differ from that of young children?
A)The chimpanzees seldom linked symbols to make new combinations or sentences.
B)The chimpanzees used their symbols mainly to describe and seldom to request anything.
C)The chimpanzees showed no indication of understanding the symbols' meaning.
D)The chimpanzees used their hands and feet equally to communicate.
Q3) In which of these cases have researchers found good evidence of "far transfer"?
A)Old people who practice crosswords and Sudoku improve memory for daily life.
B)Computer games that require attention improve academic performance for some children.
C)Students who learn to use a formula in physics apply it immediately in algebra.
D)Learning calculus leads to brain growth and increased intelligence.
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Chapter 8: A: Cognition and Language
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Q1) One hypothesis about language is that humans evolved language as an accidental by-product of evolving overall intelligence.What evidence argues against that hypothesis?
Q2) Behavioral methods are often useful for helping people with attention deficit disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One type of brain damage impairs language comprehension and another impairs language production.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bilingual children show impairment of their attention in several regards.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compared to satisficers,maximizers tend to make better choices but be less pleased with their choices.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A unit of sound is called a phoneme.A unit of meaning is a _____.
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Q7) The most typical or familiar examples of a category are known as __________.
Chapter 9: Intelligenceintelligence
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Q1) Whose performance does stereotype threat impair?
A)People who have not had adequate opportunity to develop their skills
B)People who have seldom met anyone from outside their ethnic or racial group
C)People who are told that their group does very well on some task
D)People who are told that their group does poorly on some task
Q2) Before a new test can be considered "standardized," what must its authors do?
A)Demonstrate that the reliability is at least 0.95.
B)Make the test freely available to anyone who wishes to use it.
C)Determine the norms for the test scores.
D)Compare the test to other widely used tests in the same field.
Q3) What limits the accuracy of estimates of the heritability of IQ?
A)Heritability of scores is lower within impoverished families.
B)Heritability of scores is lower within highly educated families.
C)Heritability of scores is lower in the countries of northern Europe.
D)Heritability of scores is lower for girls than for boys.
Q4) What is the main thing that IQ tests try to predict?
A)Mental health
B)Levels of brain activity
C)Social and emotional adjustment
D)Performance in school
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Chapter 9: A: Intelligence Intelligence
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Q1) Although the mean score on an IQ test is 100,the most common score is a few points higher.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the IQ tests abbreviated WISC and WAIS,the W stands for ________.
Q3) The process of establishing rules for administering a test and for interpreting its scores is known as ____________________.
Q4) Describe two explanations for the g factor in intelligence.
Q5) Aptitude is similar to fluid intelligence,and achievement is similar to crystallized intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q6) If scores on a particular test are accurate for predicting students' grades in school,the test has high _________.
Q7) If you have been told that your group tends to do poorly on a particular test,you become distracted and fail to perform as well as you could.This tendency is known as ______ _______.
Q8) Define stereotype threat,and describe the findings from Claude Steele's classic study on stereotype threat.
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Chapter 10: Consciousnessconsciousness
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Q1) You don't consciously perceive a brief masked visual stimulus,but you do perceive a slightly longer one,which seems to have lasted the entire duration.What is the implication of this result?
A)Consciousness depends on connections between the brain and the spinal cord.
B)You sometimes construct a perception after a stimulus, not while it is occurring.
C)Unconscious mental processes can complete complex reasoning.
D)You need to have equal activity in both hemispheres of the brain to be conscious.
Q2) People made a spontaneous decision of when to flex a wrist,and later reported the time of that decision.What was the key result?
A)The reported decision took place a few milliseconds before the brain activity began.
B)The reported decision took place at the same time when the brain activity began.
C)Brain activity preparing for the movement started before the reported decision.
D)Most people reported the time of the decision at the same time the movement started.
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Chapter 10: A: Consciousnessconsciousness
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Q1) When you are conscious of seeing or hearing something,your consciousness occurs instant by instant while the stimulus is present.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Paradoxical sleep,marked by high brain activity but no muscle activity,is synonymous with _____ sleep.
Q3) During sleep,increased inhibition stops nerve messages from spreading.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Modern methods of measuring brain activity enable researchers to answer certain questions about consciousness.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Increased activity in the motor cortex of the brain prior to the start of a movement is known as the _________ potential
Q6) Cells in your brain generate a 24-hour rhythm that affects sleepiness and other activities.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Motivated Behaviorsmotivated Behaviors
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Q1) What happened when the Pima Indians of the Sonoran desert switched from their traditional diet to a more typical American diet?
A)Increasing prevalence of malnutrition
B)Increasing prevalence of obesity
C)Increasing prevalence of anorexia
D)Increasing prevalence of vitamin deficiencies
Q2) What is meant by an intrinsic motivation?
A)Motivation based on a desire to help someone else
B)Motivation based on rewards or punishments
C)Motivation based on the pleasure of doing the act itself
D)Motivation based on a change in some body variable
Q3) What change led to increasing obesity among the Pima of Arizona?
A)A change in climate
B)Increased stress levels
C)A change in diet
D)A change in genetics
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Q1) Insulin increases the flow of glucose and several other nutrients into body cells.c.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Theory Y,employees like to have a feeling of accomplishment and a sense of responsibility.Theory Y is also known as the ______ ________ approach.
Q3) What did Masters and Johnson discover that contradicted what previous authorities had said about female sexuality?
Q4) A goal to "do your best" is highly effective in motivating increased efforts.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Many women have multiple consecutive orgasms.
A)True B)False
Q6) Bulimia nervosa occurs only in cultures that have a strong Western influence.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Hunger is increased by the hormone ghrelin,which is released by the
Q8) What causes some children to be born with an intersex anatomy?
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Chapter 12: Part 1 Emotions,stress,and
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Q1) Which term refers to an ability to handle difficult situations with a minimum of distress?
A)Subjective well-being
B)Type A personality
C)Resilience
D)Inoculation
Q2) Emotional intelligence refers to which of the following?
A)Remembering the research results about emotion
B)The decisions that people make when they feel intense emotions
C)The total range of emotions that a person feels during the course of a day
D)The ability to perceive and understand other people's emotions
Q3) What could someone measure to infer the intensity of someone's current emotion?
A)Heart rate and breathing rate
B)Velocity of conduction of action potentials
C)Facial microexpressions
D)Hand gestures
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Q1) Most people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)have a smaller than average ________ in the brain.
Q2) People who have only weak autonomic arousal generally report weak emotional feelings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The idea that emotional feeling results from sensing your body's reaction is known as the ________- ________ theory.
Q4) If you think a pill caused your rapid breathing and racing heart,you won't feel as much emotional arousal.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most people who experience extremely traumatic events develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why is it difficult to measure stress by means of a questionnaire?
Q7) State the James-Lange theory and briefly describe evidence that supports it.
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Chapter 13: Social Psychologysocial Psychology
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Q1) Which of these would lead you to make an internal attribution for someone's behavior?
A)The person behaves consistently from one situation to another.
B)You think you would behave the same way this person does.
C)The person's behavior in this situation resembles that of other people.
D)The person's behavior seems to vary from one day to the next.
Q2) Why do many people get a poor outcome in the prisoner's dilemma?
A)Each person makes a choice that harms someone else.
B)Many people do not fully understand what their choices might mean.
C)People prefer a small reward now instead of a larger reward later.
D)People show too much respect for authority.
Q3) Which of the following would DECREASE the effectiveness of a persuasive message?
A)Someone who resembles you in many ways delivers the message.
B)The message starts with a small request, and increases the request after you agree.
C)Many other people seem to agree with the message.
D)Someone tells you in advance to expect the persuasive message.
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Q1) People with mental illness are not especially dangerous,unless they abuse alcohol or other drugs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Attributions that we adopt to maximize credit for our successes and minimize blame for our failures are called ________-_________ biases.
Q3) Many people deny having racial or other prejudices,and it seems likely that many of them are reporting incorrectly.Name and describe a method that social psychologists use to measure prejudices or other attitudes that people don't want to admit.
Q4) Describe a study that demonstrates cognitive dissonance.
Q5) A group of people unanimously but moderately favor a certain idea.After they discuss it,most will become more extreme in supporting that idea
A)True
B)False
Q6) How did Lawrence Kohlberg measure moral reasoning? And what are some reasons for doubt about his approach?
Q7) Describe Milgram's obedience study.
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Chapter 14: Personalitypersonality
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Q1) In Freud's theory,which stage is marked by suppression of sexual interest?
A)Genital
B)Anal
C)Latent
D)Oral
Q2) Toward whom does a boy feel sexual attraction during the Oedipus complex?
A)His mother
B)His father
C)Himself
D)No one
Q3) What evidence did Freud use as the basis for his theories?
A)His guesses or inferences about his patients' childhood
B)Memories his patients reported about their childhood
C)Results of surveys and laboratory experiments
D)Comparisons of the artworks and folktales of many cultures
Q4) In Freud's theory,what is an Oedipus complex?
A)A child's belief in being superior to other people and destined for greatness
B)A child's fear of being destroyed by magical forces
C)A boy's sexual interest in his mother and aggression toward his father
D)A girl's conflict between remaining a child and growing into a woman
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Q1) A psychologist administering the Rorschach inkblot test gives precise instructions and examples about how to respond.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Handwriting analysis reveals several important points about personality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In contrast to a state,which is a temporary tendency in behavior,a consistent and lasting tendency to act in a particular way is called a ___________.
Q4) According to Alfred Adler,everyone has a natural drive to achieve excellence and fulfillment.He called this drive the striving for ____________.
Q5) A search for broad,general principles of personality illustrates the idiographic approach.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Freud and Jung had practically the same concept of the unconscious mind.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What is meant by "spontaneous remission"?
A)Gaining access to an unconscious thought or emotion
B)An experience that someone considers spiritually meaningful
C)A sudden onset of a disorderc
D)Improvement without therapy
Q2) Why are many researchers skeptical about antidepressant drugs?
A)The benefits are temporary, but the side effects are permanent.
B)The drugs help people with mild depression, but they are less effective for serious cases.
C)The effectiveness of the drugs discourages patients from long-term psychoanalysis.
D)For many or most patients, the drugs are not much better than placebos.
Q3) Which disorder is less common than average among people who eat much seafood?
A)Sleep apnea
B)Depression
C)Generalized anxiety disorder
D)Schizophrenia
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Q1) The causes of autism probably include both genetics and prenatal environment. A)True
B)False
Q2) People with obsessive-compulsive disorder generally have a normal memory,but don't trust it.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How has psychotherapy changed since the middle of the 20th century,and why?
Q4) Early-onset alcoholism has a stronger genetic basis than later-onset alcoholism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The book describing the criteria for diagnosing psychological disorders is abbreviated ______.
Q6) Most cases of schizophrenia can be traced to a single,identified gene. A)True B)False
Q7) The genes that predispose to one psychological disorder predispose to other disorders also.
A)True
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