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The "fundamental attribution error" phenomenon can best be seen in which of the following examples
John blames his failure to get a job on his lack of appropriate skills and ill preparedness
Phyllis doesn't get the lead in the school play and blames her drama teacher for this failure.
Jane blames herself for forgetting that she has a term paper due in two days
Bill doesn't hire John bc he believes that John's lateness is a result of John's laziness & lack of respect for the job. In reality, John was late bc he got a flat tire on the way to the interview
Karen understands that her friend is late because she was caught in rush hour traffic.
A group of 5 students & a group of 3 students all roughly the same size & strength, engage in a game of tug of war. The game is equal for a long while, neither side immediately gaining an advantage. This is most likely an example of
social loafing
dehumanization
conformity
social faciliatation
Albert Bandura's famous Bobo Doll experiment shows the power of
Observation
conformity
hositle aggression
instrumental aggression
Stanley Milgram's study involving the "teacher", learner, & experimenter tested which of the following principles?
Conformitity
Groupthink
Role playing
obedience
Jamie has always hated the color orange. However, once she became a student at Princeton, she began to wear a lot of orange Princeton Tiger clothing. The discomfort caused by her long standing dislike of the color orange & her current ownership of so much orange & black striped clothing is known as
cognitive dissonance
opposing conginitions
inconsistent ideas
conflicting motives
On their second date, Mary confides in Frank that she still loves to watch Rugrats. He in turn, tells her that he still cries when he watches Bambi. These 2 young lovers will be brought closer together through this process of
self disclosure
in-group bias
dual sharing
deindividuation
Prejudice is a(n) _________, whereas discrimination is a(n) ________.
behavior; attitude
attitude; behavior
dislike; hatred
hatred; dislike
response; cognition
What are two methods of surveying?
tests and interviews
experiments and questionnaires
interviews and questionnaires
case studies and experiments
Every person in the population has an equal chance of being selected -which sampling method
Systematic sampling
Quota sampling
Volunteer sampling
Random sampling
in Psychological research, Ethics are about ensuring
the protection of all participants
all ethnic groups are considered
experiments are well planned
the results are clear
To establish reliability a study must show
Consistency
Durability
Accurate results
Useful conclusions
How can you "operationalize" verbal aggression?
Yelling at someone
Kicking someone
The number of insulting comments per hour.
Giving someone the silent treatment.
This structure is involved in fear/panic response
Cerebellum
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Parietal Lobe
Anna recently hit her head while rock climbing. Since the accident, her memory of the past has been limited and she has had trouble forming new memories. Based on this information she most likely damaged which brain component?
amygdala
hippocampus
hypothalamus
thalamus
Stage _____ is the deepest stage of sleep.
stage 1
stage 2
stage 3
stage 4
Charles and his wife are at a baseball game, yet are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. which principle best explains this scenario
Weber's law
Cocktail party effect
Top down processing
Sensory adaption
Children participate in decisions affecting their lives in _________families.
Authoritarian
Republican
Lazze Faire
Authoritative
The most important developmental task of adolescence is building a(n)
Identity
Large group of friends
Reputation
Followers on instagram
studied children's cognitive development, developed a 4 stage theory
Piaget
Erikson
Kohlberg
Vygotsky
Begins to understand concept of conservation; still has trouble with abstract ideas; classification abilities improve; masters concept of conservation - 3rd Stage in Piaget's cognitive development theory
Sensorimotor
Pre-Operational
Concrete Operations
Formal Operations
the process of fitting objects and experiences into one's existing schemas
Accomodation
Assimilation
Egocentrism
Schema
Three stages of Kohlberg's moral development include (in order):
Pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional.
Conventional, pre-conventional, post-conventional.
Post-conventional, conventional, sub-conventional.
Pre-conventional, post-conventional, conventional.
Infants are repeatedly shown an object dropping onto a platform. Eventually, the infants spend less time looking at the object, and their heart rates and respirations decrease. This is an example of
Habituation - an indication of memory/learning
Dehabituation - a decrease in response rate
Generalization - familarity with the object
Discrimination - ability to see repetition
Object permanence - understand the reality of the ball
A person's ability to reason speedily and abstractly (for example, in solving novel logic problems) decreases slowly up to about age 75, then more rapidly, especially after age 85. This type of ability is also known as
factor analysis
factor analysis
crystallized intelligence
fluid intelligence
In the human eye, rods are to _________, as cones are to ________.
light/ color
color/ light
monochromat/ dichromat
dichromat/ monochromat
lens/ iris
Where is the basilar membrane located?
middle ear
auditory canal
semicircular canal
cochlea
feature detected
Which of the following are chemical senses?
touch
smell
taste
vision
hearing
Sensitivity to other people's feelings and a keen understanding of the laws of nature are components of
the nine intelligences described by Gardner
the s factor described by Gardner
Sternberg's model of intelligence
Sternberg's description of emotional intelligence
Which is a part of intelligence
learning from experience
thinking rationally
dealing effectively with others
all of the above
What does the distribution of IQ scores on a graph look like?
a downward slope
a bell curve
an S-curve
an upward slope
Spearman's g factor refers to
the genetic contribution to intelligence.
a general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks.
a highly developed skill or talent possessed by a person with an otherwise limited mental ability.
the ability to understand and regulate emotions.
A test designed to assess whether newly graduated medical students should be granted the legal right to practice medicine would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test.
WAIS
aptitude
IQ
achievement
Before publishing her test of musical aptitude, Professor Reed first administered the test to a representative sample of people. This was most clearly necessary for purposes of
standardization
reliability
predictive validity
content validity
If Jane is 9 years old and has an IQ of 100; what is her "mental age"?
5
6
10
9
Michael Scott is not a profound thinker, but understands personal relationships which makes him a great salesman and actually an effective manager of people. Although Michael is not analytically smart, he exhibits?
Compassionate Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Creative Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence
ambiguous stimuli shown to look at your unconscious motives are these kind of test:
Myers Briggs Personality Test
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Test
Projective test
hidden true animalistic wants and desires; operates on pleasure principles
ID
EGO
SUPEREGO
replace a less acceptable reasoning with a more acceptable one (don’t get into your college – justify it was a sucky college anyway)
Regression
Displacement
Rationalization
Sublimination
Hold the belief that humans have a desire to achieve self-actualization
Pyschoanalytic
Trait perspective
Humanistic
Behavioral/Learning
The belief that either we are responsible for what happens, or things happened to us and cause us to react in various ways.
Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Trait Perspective
Locus of Control
