MC practice Exam

Danny pushes Judy so he can steal her dessert. Which of the following best explains Danny's aggressive behavior?

• The frustration-aggression hypothesis

• Excitation of transfer

• Hostile aggression

• Instrumental aggression

• Social learning theory

Makayla and Noah are listening to a song that ends with all the instruments playing the same note. Makayla can distinguish the various instruments playing the note, while Noah cannot. Which of the following best explains their perceptual differences?

• Makayla has synesthesia while Noah does not.

• Makayla has a lower absolute threshold for sound than Noah.

• Makayla has a higher difference threshold for sound than Noah.

• Makayla is better at discriminating amplitude than Noah.

• Makayla is better at discriminating timbre than Noah.

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is an example of which of the following types of tests?

• Aptitude

• Achievement

• Intelligence

• Projective

• Neuropsychological

One day, during a therapy session, the client suddenly began acting angrily toward the therapist with no provocation. A psychodynamically oriented therapist would describe this behavior as which of the following?

• Projection

• Transference

• Countertransference

• Sublimation

• Reaction formation

Being able to perform a task so well that the performance becomes automatic is most likely a result of

• homeostasis

• instinct

• discriminative learning

• self-efficacy

• overlearning

Most intelligence tests are normed such that the mean score is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. Therefore, the discovery of the Flynn effect leads one to conclude that

• IQ tests should be renormed at periodic intervals

• the tests may not have been valid when they were initially constructed

• members of minority groups may not be accurately assessed by IQ tests

• the relatively high reliability coefficients for IQ tests may not be accurate

• IQ scores tend not to change over the course of a person’s life

Lewis Terman's studies of gifted children indicated that:

• they often experience psychological problems

• they frequently have difficulty interacting with peers

• they generally demonstrate above-average emotional stability and social satisfaction in adulthood

• their intelligence scores continue to increase throughout their lives

• they are more likely than average to have difficulties in marriage or other personal relationships as adults

Stimulation of which of the following brain areas will lead a person to eat?

• Ventromedial hypothalamus

• Lateral hypothalamus

• Thalamus

• Somatosensory cortex

• Pons

John moves to a new job in a large urban area. For the first few days, John is continuously distracted by the sounds of traffic and street noise. By the end of the first week, John barely notices the sounds of the city. Which of the following has occurred?

• Sensitization

• Habituation

• Accommodation

• Signal detection

• Conduction deafness

Which of the following phenomena can the opponent-process theory of color vision explain that the trichromatic theory cannot?

• The presence of the blind spot

• Accommodation of the lens

• The detection of white light

• Light and dark adaptation

• Negative afterimages