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Direction:
Select the letter of the best answer.
1.
John is an average young man who seems to be experimenting with different
roles. At home he is obedient and quiet but with his friends he is relaxed and
easily suggests trying out new things. According to Erikson, what stage of
development is John experiencing?
a.
Intimacy vs. isolation
b.
Identity vs. isolation
c.
Identity vs. role confusion
d.
Intimacy vs. role confusion
Answer:
c. Identity vs. role confusion
2.
May was relating her experience of a party she attended
last night to her bestfriend Diane. May said that she was asked to sing a song
at the party. Before she could tell Diane the title of the song, Diane said,
“You sang ‘Tell Me’”, which was the correct song. This form of extra sensory
perception is called ________.
a. psychokinesis
b. clairvoyance
c. pre-recognition
d. telepathy
Answer:
d. telepathy
3.
A child aged one year old realizes that things continue to exist even when it
is no longer present to the senses. According to Piaget, the child has achieved
_______.
a.
object movement
b.
object permanence
c.
concrete permanence
d.
concrete movement
Answer:
b. object permanence
4.
The cognitive perspective of psychology is concerned
with ________.
a. forms of behavior
b. unconscious
c. mental processes
d. experiences
Answer:
c. mental processes
5.
To make that which is unconscious, conscious is the
main focus of _______.
a. the humanistic approach
b. the social learning approach
c. the behavioral approach
d. the psychoanalytic approach
Answer:
d. the psychoanalytic approach
6.
Which of the following psychologists proposed that human behavior is motivated
according to a hierarchy that ascends from the basic biological needs to the
more complex psychological motivations that become important only after the
basic needs have been satisfied.
a.
Maslow
b.
Freud
c.
Piaget
d.
Kohlberg
Answer:
a. Maslow
7.
Mary is a highly creative person who has deep concern for the welfare of
humanity. She has also attained other characteristics which place her on the
highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This level is called _______.
a.
self-determination
b.
self-actualization
c.
self-acceptance
d.
self-achievement
Answer:
b. self-actualization
8.
An infant
experiences the need to eat, drink, eliminate wastes, and other basic needs
that seek immediate gratification. Freud terms this personality as the _______.
a. super ego
b. ego
c. id
d. libido
Answer:
c. id
9.
Freud believed that these two drives were the most important instinctual
determinants of personality throughout life.
a.
punishment and sexual drives
b.
sexual and assertive drives
c.
punishment and aggressive drives
d.
sexual and aggressive drives
Answer:
d. sexual and aggressive drives
10.
The internalized representation of the values and morals of society as taught
to the child by the parents and other authoritative figures is part of the
personality called _______.
a.
ego
b.
super ego
c.
id
d.
libido
Answer:
b. super ego
11.
This part of human personality develops as a young child learns to consider the
demands of reality.
a.
ego
b.
super ego
c.
id
d.
libido
Answer:
a. ego
12.
Behavior is the result of a continuous interaction between personal and
environmental variables. Which approach to personality best describes the above
statement?
a.
Humanistic approach
b.
Psychoanalytic approach
c.
Social learning approach
d.
Cognitive approach
Answer:
c. Social learning approach
13.
Which of the following best describes behaviorism?
a.
stimulus - response
b.
action - reaction
c.
conscious - unconscious
d.
nature - nurture
Answer:
a. stimulus - response
14.
A little girl who experienced fear when a dog bit her, initially responds with
fear to all dogs. This is a form of _______ behavior.
a.
fear
b.
discriminate
c.
acceptable
d.
generalized
Answer:
d. generalized
15.
To control hypertension, John was trained to take note of his thoughts, actions
and other aspects of his biological state, during moments when he experienced
normal blood pressure. Then he was told to repeat those moments to maintain a
normal blood pressure. This procedure is called _______.
a.
shaping
b.
biofeedback
c.
reinforcement
d.
control
Answer:
b. biofeedback
16.
A child who is learning to draw is slapped on the hand every time he draws on
the table and wall. This form of punishment is used _______.
a.
to increase the likelihood of an undesirable behavior
b.
to decrease the likelihood of an undesirable behavior
c.
to decrease the likelihood of desirable behavior
d.
to increase the likelihood of desirable behavior
Answer:
b. to decrease the likelihood of an undesirable behavior
17.
This approach believes that the crux of intelligence lies in an organism’s
ability to mentally represent aspects of the world and then to operate on these
mental representations rather than on the real objects of the world.
a.
Behavioral approach
b.
Psychoanalytic approach
c.
Cognitive approach
d.
Humanistic approach
Answer:
c. Cognitive approach
18.
Which of the following is not an assumption of the behavioristic approach to
conditioning?
a.
Simple associations are the building blocks of all learning.
b.
The laws of association are the same from all species and situations.
c.
Learning is better understood in terms of external causes than internal ones.
d.
Learning is constrained by its genetically determined traits.
Answer:
d. Learning is constrained by its genetically determined traits.
19.
Childhood amnesia is a phenomenon whereby a person has no recall of his first
years of life/ The following could be possible causes for childhood amnesia
except ________.
a.
repression of sexual and aggressive feelings that a child experiences towards
parents
b.
the hippocampus which consolidates memory is not mature
c.
encoding experiences of language and organized thoughts are incompatible
d.
memory space of a child is very limited as the brain size is small
Answer:
d. memory space of a child is very limited as the brain size is small
20.
One important distinction of memory concerns the three stages of memory. These
stages are ________.
a.
chunking, encoding, storage
b.
encoding, chunking, retrieval
c.
encoding, storage, retrieval
d.
storage, chunking, retrieval
Answer:
c. encoding, storage, retrieval
21.
Memory is made up of _______ memory.
a.
short term and long term
b.
implicit and explicit
c.
fact and skill
d.
happy and sad
Answer:
a. short term and long term
22.
“If information in short term memory is to persist, it must be transferred to
long term memory.” Which theory illustrates the above transfer?
a.
Transfer-retrieve theory
b.
Dual-memory theory
c.
Memory-retrieval theory
d.
Dual-transfer memory
Answer:
b. Dual-memory theory
23.
According to Brown and Kulik (1977), extraordinarily important events trigger a
special memory mechanism that makes a permanent record of everything the person
is experiencing at that moment. This is an example of a ________ memory.
a.
good
b.
photographic
c.
long term
d.
flash bulb
Answer:
d. flash bulb
24. A partial or total loss of memory caused by accidental
injuries to the brain, strokes, alcoholism, etc. is called ________.
a.
stereotyping
b.
forgetting
c.
amnesia
d.
decay
Answer:
c. amnesia
25.
Most people find they are unable to remember events during their early
childhood. According to Freud, this phenomenon is called _________.
a.
childhood amnesia
b.
oral stage
c.
anal stage
d.
phallic stage
Answer:
a. childhood amnesia
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