Which theory describes intelligence as a single general ability?

What is the term for the mental process of forming new ideas and concepts?

Which effect describes the rise in IQ scores over time?

What is the process of organizing information into manageable units?

When someone mentions fast food, you immediately picture a burger from McDonald's. Here, McDonald's is your _______.

There is a man who is tall, athletic and has big hands. You see him among a group of friends and are told that one is a basketball player, another is a hockey player and the third is a soccer player. If you assume that he is the basketball player, you are influenced by

Memory of a specific event

A multiple choice question is checking what part of memory?

The term for retaining information in your brain.

The term that shows how much we forget when we do not review information?

The term for remembering the things at the beginning and end of a list.

The type of memory that is immediate and involves the 5 senses?

Jose, the father of a newborn, gently strokes the bottom of his baby's foot. As he does this, the baby's toes move outward and then curl in. Which of the following newborn reflexes is Jose's baby demonstrating?

Amina, who is two-and-a-half years old, pointed to the ocean and called it a "pool" because she had never seen the ocean before. ? She is trying to use __________________ to understand the new information, but someone should help her create a new cognitive category for ocean.

Which of the following children would be considered to have a secure attachment, according to Mary Ainsworth?

Which of the following is most consistent with Erickson's psychosocial stage of industry vs. inferiority?

Which of the following did Harry Harlow contend was the most important factor in forming a strong bond between mother and infant?

Levi is in his mid-forties. He has a job he does not enjoy, but he does not know how to make a change. He recently was divorced and has not found a new relationship. Which of Erickson's stages of psychosocial development is Levi likely experiencing?

Rani is twenty-six. She has many friends from college. She has just started a job as an accountant, which she enjoys and for which she is well suited. She is living at home with her parents and pays them a small amount of rent. She has also recently taken on his own car and insurance payments. She has plans to look for an apartment in the next few years. Which of the following is Rani likely experiencing?

Charlotte is eighty-five. Each morning she successfully completes a crossword puzzle, and she enjoys reading and learning about presidential trivia and American history. She knows more about these topics than ever before. Which of the following is strong for Charlotte?

Substances that get to the fetus through the placenta and prevents normal development

An unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

A person's characteristic nature or emotional excitability

The Fertilized Egg.

The baby's tendency when their cheek is touched to open their mouth and look for a food source.

All mental activities are associated with thinking and memory.

Concepts or mental frameworks that organize categories and interpret information

Interpreting new experiences by relating them to existing schemas

Adapting current schemas to bring in new information.

This takes place from birth to roughly age 2. In this stage, babies ―take in‖ the world through their senses and interactions.

These parents believe children should make and learn from their own mistakes; they provide few rules.

Refers to the process by which a child learns to interact with others around them.

Stage of cognitive development when children begin to show signs of adult thinking

Who developed the theory of 8 stages of Psychosocial development?

Who developed the 4 stage theory of cognitive development?

Which theorist was famous for their work with moral development?

What is the process by which some animals form immediate attachments during a critical period?

Piaget’s term for the knowledge that an object exists even when it is out of sight is _______.

What term is used to describe a child’s inability to see the world through anyone else’s eyes except his or her own?

This man developed the first experiments around attachment. He used baby monkeys and their response to a wire mother and a cloth mother.

According to Jean Piaget, what type of learning do individuals acquire during the formal operational stage?

I developed an experimental procedure in order to observe the variety of attachment forms exhibited between mothers and infants. Called the “Strange Situation” method, it is based on a series of brief separations and reunions with the mother in a playroom situation. Who am I?

If individuals successfully solve their problems during each stage of life, they will develop good social traits. If they do not, their problem solving skills will be hindered, causing new problems at the next stage. Which psychologist(s) would agree with this statement

Authoritative parents can best be defined as:

Conservation

Psychological disorders are diagnosed using criteria from

obsessive-compulsive disorder

Dalton developed a phobia of dogs after watching his older cousin act fearfully when he interacted with dogs in their neighborhood. Which of the following best explains why Dalton developed his phobia of dogs?

 involves fear of interacting with others or being in a social situation.

Psychoanalysis was a therapy technique designed by...

What did Carl Rogers view as a cause of the most personal problems & unhappiness?

Which method of treating phobias involves progressive relaxation & exposure to the feared object?

What is a goal of cognitive therapy?

Antipsychotic drugs treat symptoms such as

The condition in which a person shows little or no emotion is referred to as _?

The biological model views psychological disorders as resulting from _.

In _, a person has a excessively ridgid, maladaptive pattern of behavior and ways of relating to others.

An irrational, persistent fear of something is called a ______.

A person who suffers from bipolar disorder alternates between periods of ________.

A disorder in which intruding thoughts that occur again and again are followed by repetitive, ritualistic behavior or mental acts meant to lower the anxiety caused by the thoughts is called____________ disorder.

Which of the following is the most commonly diagnosed mood disorder in the United States?

The popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) is known as _______________ .

Steve shows symptoms of both ADHD and anxiety simultaneously. His conditions are....

A therapist decides to treat their patients arachnophobia by getting them to look at pictures of spiders until their anxiety is reduced. What type of therapy is this?

For the past 8 months, Susan has had persistent and excessive bouts of anxiety. She is really anxious a lot of the time, but the reason for her anxiety is not something specific. What disorder is Susan showing symptoms of?

What is a psychological disorder?

Ana has been in psychotherapy for five years. At the start of each session she describes any dreams that she has had since her last session. Her therapist analyzes the symbolism in these dreams, and helps Ana understand the unconscious conflicts that underlie the dreams. In this case, Ana is most likely seeing a therapist who is trained in

An extreme fear of being in an open, public place is called what?

Which disorder is characterized by an inability to establish meaningful relationships, assuming social responsibilities and treating people as objects?

Which disorder is characterized by an individual having an unrealistic, inflated sense of their own importance?

A maladaptive behavior is one that:

The applied field of psychology that seeks to assess, understand and treat psychological conditions in clinical practice is called ____________.

Disorder marked by the inability to focus attention, or overactive and impulsive behavior, or both.

One of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia includes ____________.

We have a tendency to explain the behavior of others in terms of ____ and to explain our own behavior in terms of ____. 

Solomon Asch reported that individuals conformed to a group’s judgment of the lengths of lines:

Most people are likely to be surprised by the results of Milgram’s initial obedience experiment because:

According to Milgram, the most fundamental lesson to be learned from his study of obedience is that:

What is a fundamental attribution error?

What does 'social loafing' refer to?

What does 'groupthink' often lead to?