AP Psych-Unit 7

A hostile person with a type A personality is most at risk for developing which of the following?

• phobias

• heart disease

• bulimia nervosa

• antisocial personality

After school, George and his friends complain of intense hunger. They go to George’s home and immediately open his refrigerator to look for a snack. Which of the following is a theory of motivation that best explains their behavior?

• arousal

• social learning

• self-determination

• drive reduction

Carl Jung believed in a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from a person’s ancestral past. Which of the following psychological terms refers to that storehouse?

• ID

• Ego

• Superego

• Personal Unconscious

• Collective Unconscious

Chris believed he did well on his exam because he was lucky. Which psychological concept applies to Chris’s explanation?

• positive psychology

• external locus of control

• humanistic psychology

• self-serving bias

• internal locus of control

Mark, a flight attendant, began his workday in a bad mood. However, by the end of the day, he felt much happier. According to the facial feedback hypothesis, what may have influenced Mark’s mood?

• The flight was so full that Mark did not have time to reflect on events that were troubling him.

• The change in flight altitude helped decrease Mark’s stress.

• Because it is his job to be courteous to customers, Mark smiled at passengers frequently.

• Mark helped several passengers who then told his supervisor how nice he was.

• Mark is good friends with some of the other flight attendants, and they cheered him up during the flight.

According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the need to have respect for ourselves and to be valued by others is classified within the category of

• physiological needs

• safety needs

• belongingness needs

• esteem needs

• self-actualization needs

A researcher finds that participants work hardest and are most engaged in tasks when their behavior allows them to receive awards. The researcher’s finding exemplifies

• psychoanalytic theory

• evolutionary theory

• incentive theory

• social facilitation

• intrinsic motivation

Which of the following is the best example of a homeostatic process?

• Manny decides he is overweight and goes on a diet.

• Cathy drinks a large amount of water to reduce thirst after a long race.

• Bert eats nothing but fruits and grains for a week before a huge holiday dinner.

• Edesa stays up later than normal to study for a test.

The basic components of emotion are

• sympathetic arousal, parasympathetic inhibition, and cognitive labeling

• physical gestures, facial expressions, and psychological drives

• physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experiences

• cognition, affect, behavior

In the James-Lange theory of emotion, which of the following immediately precedes an emotion?

• observation of the external stimulus

• recognition of similar past experiences

• experience of physiological changes

• appraisal of cognitive factors