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Psychology Unit Test Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The study and application of how the brain learns and the study of mental processes like thinking, knowing and remembering refers to which school of thought?

a)

Cognitive Psychology

b)

Behavioral Psychology

c)

Social Learning Theory

d)

Operant Conditioning

2.

According to this humanist psychologist, we must meet our lower-level needs before we can seek self-actualization:

a)

Harry Harlow

b)

Jean Piaget

c)

Ivan Pavlov

d)

Abraham Maslow

3.

This developmental psychologist believed that humans continued to develop over their lifetime rather than just in childhood.

a)

Erik Erikson

b)

Jean Piaget

c)

Donald Johansson

d)

Sigmund Freud

4.

This type of motivation is the desire to perform a task because of outside factors, such as a reward or threat of punishment

a)

Intrinsic

b)

Extrinsic

c)

Self-regulation

d)

Initiative

5.

The part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behaviour

a)

Id

b)

Ego

c)

Super Ego

d)

Psycho dynamic theory

6.

The continued focus on an earlier stage of psycho sexual development due to an unresolved conflict at the oral, anal, and phallic stage

a)

Fixation

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Archetypes

d)

Stimulus

7.

A time in a teenager’s life filled with extreme self-consciousness as they attempt to test various roles

a)

Trust vs. Mistrust

b)

Identity Crisis

c)

Introvert

d)

Extrovert

8.

The understanding that materials continue to exist even when they cannot be perceived (seen, heard, touched, smelled or sensed in any way)

a)

Object disappearing

b)

Object Permanence

c)

Stability

d)

Cultural Materialism

9.

An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

a)

Extrovert

b)

Introvert

c)

Personality

d)

Behavior

10.

A mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else

a)

Projection

b)

Anger

c)

Rage

d)

Blame

11.

This behavioral psychologist studied how the use of rewards and punishment can influence behavior.

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

B.F Skinner

d)

Sigmund Freud

12.

Shivering because it is cold outside is an example of:

a)

Unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response

b)

Conditioned stimulus and conditioned stimulus

c)

positive reinforcement

d)

negative reinforcement