Psychology Practice Final Exam

Psychology is defined as-

• The study of human society

• The study of human emotion

• The study of the brain & mental processes

• The study of animals and humans

Agents in our environment that cause arousal of one's mind and body are called-

• Indicators

• Causes

• Factors

• Stressors

Skinner is to ______________conditioning as Watson is to___________________conditioning

• Operant; Classical

• Classical; Operant

• Operant; Behavioral

• Classical; Normal

Alcohol does mental and physical harm to a prenatal child and therefore it is referred to as a:

• Poison

• Teratogen

• Trialtogon

• Thematic indicator

You are playing with your baby sister and you hide her favorite toy under a pillow and she crawls to the pillow and tries to get it. By doing this, according to Piaget, she has acquired:

• Childhood Innocence

• Adolescence

• Object Removal

• Object Permanence

The technique of severing the connections between the frontal lobe and the thalamus is called:

• Lobotomy

• Phrenology

• Craniotomy

• Therapy

Inability to feel pleasure, lack of motivation and a decrease in personal hygiene are symptoms of schizophrenia that are referred to as______symptoms.

• Troublesome

• Delusional

• Negative

• Arsenal

Herbie is a workaholic: sleeps little, works much and mulit-tasks whenever possible. According to stress research, Herbie would be classified as a(n)

• Type B Personality

• Type A Personality

• Depression

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

The most important addition to psychology which allowed it to be considered a science was:

• DSM-4TR

• Asylums

• Demonology

• Scientific Method

The type of test that you are taking now could be considered a__________test.

• Achievement

• Projective

• Aptitude

• Free Response