Conversion disorder (or "functional neurological symptom disorder") might cause an individual to complain of which one of the following problems?

paralysis for which there is no apparent medical explanation

a compulsion to inflict self-harm

A child who has mastered conservation understands that

a given amount of liquid remains the same despite being poured into a smaller container

objects still exist even thought they can't be seen

human law is fallible and subject to a higher morality

abstract ideas can be represented by symbols

outward expression of aggressive impulses will displease authority figures

Which of the following best exemplifies the halo effect?

Louise has the highest GPA in her class, so everyone assumes she'll be the best cheerleader on the new team and votes to make her captain.

Louise is the best student in her algebra class, so her teacher praises her constantly in front of the other students.

Louise has won the annual skiing competition for the past three years, so everyone assumes she'll win again this year.

Louise is the most obedient child out of all her siblings, so her parents reward her with special privileges.

Louise is such an exceptionally talented ballerina that the other ballerinas in her class seem mediocre in comparison, even though some are quite good.

A longitudinal study would be most appropriate to examine which of the following research issues?

The rate of remission for institutionalized schizophrenics vs. non-institutionalized schizophrenics

The relationship between race, divorce, and income in the US

The effects of age and gender on conformity

The efficacy of a new experimental drug for hypertension

The extent to which single-parent households are impoverished in urban vs. rural areas

Which of the following best exemplifies confirmation bias?

Victor believes that drinking alcohol leads to serious health problems; he subscribes to several newsletters and podcasts that address the dangers of alcohol.

Victor holds no definitive views on alcohol consumption, so he avoids discussing the topic with others.

Victor believes drinking alcohol is morally wrong, although he remains open to thoughtful debate on the subject.

Victor used to drink heavily, but, after suffering alcohol-related problems, firmly believes that drinking is wrong.

Victor has never believed that drinking alcohol is harmful; he continues to drink on occasion.

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding hormones and neurotransmitters?

Hormones transmit signals faster than neurotransmitters do.

Neurotransmitters are primarily found in the nervous system.

Hormones are transmitted through the bloodstream.

Neurotransmitters are transmitted across the synaptic cleft.

Hormones are produced by the endocrine system.

Which of the following tests appears to have predictive validity?

Scores on law school entrance exams are very highly correlated with first-year law school GPA's.

97% of high school students who take a certain college entrance exam a second time will score within 3 points of their first score on the exam.

A questionnaire designed to assess the severity of tobacco addiction asks a variety of questions about how often the subject smokes, the circumstances under which the subject smokes, the severity of the withdrawals symptoms, etc.

A certain narcissism scale has very little overlap with most sociopathy scales; those who are determined to be narcissistic are typically not determined to be sociopathic.

Scores on a newly developed depression scale correlate highly with scores on a well-established depression scale.

A psychologist wishes to examine the relationship between age and career satisfaction among Americans. Which of the following research methods would be the best choice?

a controlled laboratory experiment

In the Milgram obedience experiments, subjects ("teachers") were instructed by the experimenter to administer shocks to confederates ("learners") as punishment for wrong answers on a memory test. Which of the following variations did not lead to a decrease in obedience?

Allowing the teacher to instruct an assistant to administer the shocks.

Conducting the experiment in a run-down office instead of a prestigious university.

Moving the experimenter farther from the teacher.

Having other teachers present who refused to obey.

Moving the learner closer to the teacher.

Which of the following groups, charged with the task of making a collective decision, would be most likely to fall victim to a groupthink process?

A close-knit extended family whose members must decide where to go on vacation.

A nationwide television audience voting online for their favorite performers on a talent-competition reality show.

Residents of a sparsely populated state voting to elect a new governor.

Members of two rival sororities required to plan campus charity events togehter.

A group of commuters on a subway attempting to render first aid to an injured woman.

On a snowy day, the Eta Pi fraternity members miss an important meeting with the dean of students, as do members of their rival fraternity. Which of the following would best exemplify the ultimate attribution error?

The Eta Pi members believes that the snowstorm prevented them from getting to the meeting, but that the rival fraternity members were just too lazy to attend.

The Eta Pi members blame the snowstorm for causing both fraternities to miss the meeting.

The Eta Pi members adit that they didn't attend because they really don't care about administrative meetings; they assume their rival fraternity felt the same way.

The rival fraternity assumes that Eta Pi didn't attend because of the snowstorm.

The rival fraternity assumes that the Eta Pi members were just too lazy and irresponsible to attend the meeting.

Tim, an animal trainer, wanted to teach his seal to clap its flippers whenever Tim said the seal's name. Which manner of training the seal would be LEAST effective?

rewarding the seal with a fish every five minutes, regardless of its behavior

rewarding the seal with a fish every time it claps at the sound of its name

rewarding the seal with a fish every other time it claps a the sound of its name

rewarding the seal with a fish every third time it claps at the sound of its name

rewarding the seal with a fish for claps at the sound of its name, on average once every five times (sometime every three times, sometimes every seven times, etc.)

Dr. Jackson gives Louie, his three-year-old patient, a painful shot and Louie screams and cries. The next four times Louie visits Dr. Jackson, Louie screams and cries at the sight of him, even though no shot is given. On the fifth visit no shot is given and Louie shows no signs of distress. Which of the following best describes ALL of Louie's above-mentioned reactions to Dr. Jackson?

Louie was classically conditioned to respond fearfully to Dr. Jackson; then that conditioned response was extinguished.

Louie was conditioned to cry at the sight of Dr. Jackson through negative reinforcement.

Dr. Jackson became a conditioned stimulus for Louie's screaming and crying response.

Through shaping, Louie was conditioned not to scream and cry at the sight of Dr. Jackson.

Louie was positively reinforced for crying and screaming in Dr. Jackson's presence, then positively reinforced for remaining calm in his presence.

Which of the following individuals, each of whom suffers from anxiety, would be LEAST likely to benefit from systematic desensitization?

A young mother who developed debilitating generalized anxiety after giving birth.

A combat veteran who began experiencing crippling symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after an intense battle.

A CEO who is so afraid of flying that she panics at the mere sight of an airplane.

A college student who developed a mild fear of dogs after having been attacked by one.

A housebound man who is terrified to step outside his home.

The Asch conformity experiments involved asking subjects to identify the longest of several lines in the context of a "vision test." Which of the following is true regarding this series of experiments?

The number of confederates present affected the rate at which the subjects conformed.

Subjects were as likely to conform when they delivered written responses in private as they were when they voiced their responses aloud.

Most subject conformed even when one of the confederates opposed the group by giving the correct response.

The study was representative in that it included roughly equal numbers of males and females, as well as adult subjects of all ages.

Making the lines more similar in length decreased conformity on the part o the subjects.

Billy's mother takes him out of the crib in his bedroom and carries him away for a bath, leaving his favorite stuffed toy behind. While being taken down the hallway Billy cries and reaches out in the direction of the bedroom for a toy. According to Piaget, Billy most likely

has reached the formal operations stage because he used logic in his attempt to regain the toy.

has reached the concrete operations stage

is in the sensorimotor stage because he has mastered conservation

is in the preoperational stage because he can think symbolically

Alice had always included two teaspoons of salt in her gravy recipe until her husband, Ralph, recently complained that it was too bland. The next six times Alice makes gravy, she added an additional teaspoon of salt, but Ralph only noticed this increase on two of those six occasions. Which of the following statements is accurate regarding Ralph and Alice's gravy?

His difference threshold (JND) for salt is greater the one teaspoon.

His absolute threshold for salt is two teaspoons.

His difference threshold (JND) for salt is one teaspoon.

His absolute threshold for salt is greater than his difference threshold (JND) for salt.

His difference threshold (JND) for salt is three teaspoons.

A double-blind design is preferable for an experimental drug trial because it will likely eliminate which of the following?

serious side effects of the drugs ingested

According to Freudian theory, an individual who is fixated at the oral stage of psychosexual development is likely to

have a rigid sense of gender roles

be preoccupied with cleanliness

have an overly obsessive personality

have difficulties with romantic partners

Annie is very late for an important interview and there are few empty parking spaces nearby. When a woman attempts to park her car in a spot that Annie had planned to park in, an argument develops and insults are exchanged. According to attribution theory, Annie will most likely

conclude that the other woman is a rude and aggressive individual

assume that the other woman was also late for an interview

attribute the other woman's hostile behavior to the fact that Annie was herself hostile

consider the argument to be the result of her own character flaws and feel guilty

believe that the unpleasant exchange occurred because both women were feeling stressed

A psychology professor visits a certain kindergarten classroom, which is known for being especially rowdy, in order to study the effects of a token economy on disruptive behavior. Half the students were put on a token economy and the other half were not, with students being randomly assigned to the "token" and "control" groups. If disruptive behavior decreased significantly for both groups, but the reduction was much greater for the "token" group, which concepts would, respectively, best explain these two findings?

the Hawthorne effect and operant conditioning

social facilitation and operant conditioning

the Hawthorne effect and the placebo effect

the placebo effect and operant conditioning

operant conditioning and social facilitation

Randy is a new patient at a psychiatric facility and his doctor suspects that he might have antisocial personality disorder. Which of the following would be the best way to assess Randy for this disorder?

rely on whatever relevant information is available from third parties, such as family accounts and police reports, and have staff monitor his behavior closely

have him fill out a psychopathy questionnaire

interact with him for several hours in order to get an intuitive sense of his character

go over each of the DSM-5 criteria for antisocial personality disorder with him during the clinical intake interview in order to determine which, if any, apply

Sienna's behavior is extremely erratic, and she is prone to frequent mood swings. She is self-destructive, highly emotional, overly concerned with physical appearance, and never comfortable unless she is the center of attention. In terms of a different diagnosis, Sienna's psychologist should consider which of the following personality disorders?

histrionic, borderline and narcissistic

paranoid, borderline and antisocial

Paul Ekman identified 6 basic human emotions that are universal across cultures. These emotions are

disgust, anger, fear, happiness, surprise, and sadness

happiness, disgust, jealousy, sadness, fear, and anger

fear, love, happiness, sadness, surprise, and disgust

surprise, sadness, happiness, disgust, shame and jealousy

shame, sadness, disgust, anger, fear and happiness

Which of the following accurately states a critical difference between PTSD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

PTSD, not Generalized Anxiety Disorder, emerges following exposure to the threat of death, injury or sexual assault

PTSD affects older individuals more than Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is more likely than PTSD to involve hyper-vigilance

Unlike Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PTSD does not usually involve intrusive thoughts.

Unlike PTSD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder does not usually involve avoidance behaviors.

Tiana, a very shy three-year-old girl, falls and skins her knee. She runs to her mother crying, but then runs away when her mother attempts to comfort her. Based on the research and theories of Mary Ainsworth, it is likely that

Tiana has an "insecure ambivalent/resistant" attachment to her mother

Tiana has a "secure" attachment to her mother

Tiana's mother has never attempted to comfort her daughter before

Tiana has a more secure attachment to her father than to her mother

Tiana has an "insecure avoidant" attachment to her mother

Which of the following is true about efferent neurons?

they carry neural impulses away from the central nervous system to the muscles

they transmit impulses between other neurons

they carry neural impulses from sensory stimuli towards the central nervous system

they enable communication between sensory and motor neurons

Brad is highly sociable and loves to attend large parties, although when he does he often gets into physical altercations or other legal trouble. He is quick to anger and unpredictable, often jeopardizing his safety and that of others. According to Hans Eysenck, which of the following is probably true of Brad?

He falls toward the high end of the psychoticism scale and towards the "extraversion" end of the extraversion/introversion continuum.

He falls towards the "stability" end of the stability/neuroticism continuum and the high end of the psychoticism scale.

He falls toward the low end of the psychoticism scale and towards the "neuroticism" end of the stability/neuroticism continuum.

He is biologically predisposed to avoid stimulation.

He falls toward the "introversion" end of the introversion/extraversion continuum.

Which of the following is the best example of top-down processing?

Ned is trying to read a cookie recipe that has been partially torn. He sees the letters "b" and "u" and correctly concludes that the word is "butter".

Ned reaches into his bag for his French book but mistakenly grabs his English book instead, as the books are about the same size.

Ned sees an object lying in the road but can't identify it at such distance; when he gets closer, he realizes that it is a discarded bag of groceries.

Need sees a woman standing outside a store, then notices that she is wearing a uniform, then notices she is holding a plate of food; he then realizes that the woman is a salesperson offering free samples of the store's merchandise.

Ned is colorblind, so he differentiates between oranges and grapefruits by size, not color.

The humanistic approach to psychology emphasizes the importance of

free will and conscious awareness

In a double-blind experimental design, which of the following would be true?

Neither the researchers nor the experimental subjects know whether the latter have been assigned to an experimental group or control group.

The experimental subjects know whether they are in an experimental group or in a control group, but the researchers do not.

The researchers know whether particular subjects have been assigned to an experimental group or a control group, but the experimental subjects do not.

Both the researchers and the experimental subjects know whether the latter have been assigned to an experimental group or a control group.

The observers are unable to see the responses or behaviors of the experimental group during the course of the experimental manipulation.

Which of the following would NOT be considered essential for a proposed research design to meet the requirements for ethicality?

Both the subjects and the researchers must know which of the subjects will be part of the experimental group.

Research subjects must consent to participate in the project, and a full description of what their participation consists of must be spelled out.

Participants must be allowed to withdraw from the project at any time.

If deception is involved, a full debriefing of the subjects must occur soon after the completion of the project.

In keeping with protecting the privacy and confidentiality of the subjects, data should be obtained as anonymously as possibly.

Damage to Broca's area in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain would likely result in which of the following?

a repetition of the speech of others

a loss of the ability to visually integrate information

a loss of the ability to comprehend speech

an inability to solve verbal problems.

A demyelinating disorder, such as multiple sclerosis, would cause all of the following symptoms EXCEPT

an increased rate of neuronal conduction

a reduction of white matter in the central nervous system

a slower propagation of signals along the axon

a decreased neuronal insulation

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Margaret stores tomatoes together with apples and oranges, rather than together with carrots and celery. This is most likely an example of which Gestalt principle?

proximity

similarity

figure and ground

continuity

closure

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The brain's occipital lobe controls

impulse control

hearing and language processing

planning and goal-setting

pain recognition

visual processing

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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Kerri didn't bother to study much for her medical school entrance exam. She believed that, if she was meant to be a doctor, she would do well on the test and ultimately get accepted to medical school. Which of the following is most likely to be true based on this information?

She has an external locus of control.

She suffers from learned helplessness.

She has an internal locus of control.

She has a self-serving bias.

She lacks self-esteem.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

A psychology professor examining the effects of teacher praise on academic performance randomly assigns each of her students to one of two groups: high praise or low praise. She praises her students accordingly and then administers a test: the "high praise" students perform an average of 13% better than they did on the last exam, while the "low praise" students perform only 6% better on average. The independent variable in this study is

the test scores earned by the two groups

how well the teacher expected the two groups to perform

how well the students performed on the last test prior to the experiment.

the amount of praise given to the students

the difference between the average improvement rates demonstrated by the "high praise" and "low praise" groups

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Fred received a score of 120 on a standardized college entrance exam, which places him in the 68th percentile. This means that

he answered 68% of the questions correctly

32% of the students who took that test scored lower than he did

he scored higher than 68% of the students who took that test

68% of the students who took that test scored higher than he did

a score of 120 is below average for that test

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

One evening Carol wears clothing that she herself thinks is appropriate, but is sharply criticized by her community for dressing in that manner. Upon learning of the criticism, Carol is overcome with shame and guilt and swears to never wear clothing of that type again. According to Kohlberg, Carol is most likely at which level/stage of moral development?

preconventional morality

stage 8: integrity vs. despair

conventional morality

stage 6: universal ethical principles

stage 1: punishment and obedience orientation

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

According to Freudian theory, a lifelong criminal with no regard for others' rights has probably failed to develop a(n)

ego

superego

Oedipal complex

fixation

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