General Psychology Quiz

The ______ area of development relates to how we think, reason, and communicate.

Cognitive

Positive punishment causes a(n) ________ in behavior through the _______ of a stimulus.

Decrease; Addition

Which of the following is a type of explicit memory?

Episodic Memory

When reading emotional information on faces, humans get the most information from the:

Eyes

Reinforcement that comes after a predetermined amount of time is delievered on a _____.

Fixed Interval

When we process information about the self, there is more activity in the ____ of the brain.

Frontal Lobes

What drug is an example of an opoid?

Heroin

Which of the following is a criticism of the Rorschach inkblot test?

It appears to reveal psychological disorders in many normal adults and children.

The main reason that people make attributions that reflect the just world hypothesis is that these explanations:

Make them feel safer

Ming is learning english and today she learned that the word talking is made up of two units of meaning: talk & ing. Ming learned about:

Morphemes

A person who has experienced the loss of past memories may be experiencing ______.

Retrograde Amnesia

Which psychological disorder is characterized by extreme alternations in thoughts, perceptions, and consciousness?

Schizophrenia

During the first year of college, increased _____ correlates with better mental health.

Self-Compassion

If someone wants to create an attitude that will last a long time, he or she should use the ______ route of persuasion. If someone wants to create an attitude that will last only a short time, he or she should use the ______ route of persuasion.

Central; Peripheral

A change in the behavioral expression of a trait based on the demands of specific situations is called a _____.

Characteristic Adaption

Children raised to have connections with their family and to follow societal norms are more likely to be from a(n) _____ culture.

Collectivist

When a person experiences two or more disorders at the same time, it is called ____.

Comorbidity

________ is a severe but not complete impairment of awareness. Your brain can process information coming in, but cannot respond to the information.

Concussion

Which of the following traits is NOT part of the five-factor theory of personality?

Constraint

When people are more likely to agree with a small request after refusing a large request, it is an example of the _____ strategy.

Door-In-The-Face

The period between the end of physical growth and the completed transition to stable adult relationship and work pattern is known as:

Emerging Adulthood

What neurotransmitter is primarily dedicated to pain reduction?

Endorphins

Sarah wants to do well in class because she is earning credit toward graduation. Joe wants to do well in class because he gets pleasure from learning new material. Sarah is influenced by _______ motivation. Joe is influenced by _______ motivation.

Extrinsic; Intrinsic

Maya finds her customer service job to be frustrating and stressful. She tells her friend Jeff about her negative experience at work, and he tells her to force herself to smile while she is at work, an idea he learned in his psychology class. When Maya tries smiling at work, she finds her job less frustrating and even begins to enjoy it some days. The idea that Jeff shared with Maya is most likely the:

Facial-Feedback Hypothesis

When explaining other people's behavior, the tendency to overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situational factors is referred to as:

Fundamental Attribution Error

Jonah experiences nearly constant anxiety that is not associated with any specific thing. Jonah is most like to be diagnosed with _____.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

What is the sense of taste called?

Gustation

Mauricio suffers from a calcium imbalance and sometimes feels the urge to eat chalk to replenish the calcium in his system. This urge is an example of a drive to maintain ______.

Homeostasis

Our ability to fulfill our potential through greater self-understanding is part of the _____ approach to personality.

Humanistic

When attitudes influence feelings and behavior on an unconscious level, they are called ______ attitudes.

Implicit

Depression is sometimes referred to as "the common cold of psychological disorders" because ____.

It is the most prevalent psychological disorder, affecting millions of people

In the cognitive model of classical conditioning, the strength of the association between the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus is determined by how _______ the ________ stimulus is/

Likely; Conditioned

Short-term storage has a(n):

Limited Capacity

Vincent is a brilliant artist and is very satisfied with his achievements. However, he has little to eat, lives in poverty, and spends most of his time alone working on his art. Vincent's life would be problematic according to Maslow's need hierarchy because the hierarchy holds that:

Lower needs must be met before higher needs

What hormone is involved in regulating our sleep/wake cycle?

Melatonin

Terri is a matchmaker. She tells her clients that they will form romantic connection if their first dates involve athletic activities or exciting places. Terri knows that if her clients feel their hearts racing as a result of excitement or exertion, they may attribute it to a romantic connection with their new partners. When her clients follow her advice, they are more likely to report a strong romantic connection on their first dats. What psychological concept is Terri relying on when she gives this advice?

Misattribution of Arousal

Which of the following is an example of an incentive that can motivate behavior?

Money

Elaborative rehearsal is a more effective memory strategy than maintenance rehearsal because the information is processed ________.

More deeply

Jerome's boat sank in cold water and his body temperature is dangerously low, so he starts swimming to raise his body temperature. According to motivational theory, Jerome's low body temperature created a deficient state called a(n) ______, which in turn created a motivating state called a(n) _____ to increase his temperature.

Need; Drive

In operant conditioning, removing a stimulus to increase a behavior in the future is called ________.

Negative Reinforcement

According to the idea that information is held in long-term storage in networks associations, each unit of information in the network is a(n):

Node

Research has found that the cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder may be linked to all of the following except _____.

Observational Learning

While you are driving, a car pulls out in front of you and forces you to slam on the brakes. You think that the driver of the car cannot drive. You have just made a(n) _______ attribution for the other driver's behavior.

Personal

An active and conscious effort to change another person's attitude by sending a message is referred to as:

Persuasion

Which of the following areas of development relates to changes in levels of hormones and growth of the body, including the brain?

Physical Development

Ben was deployed to Afghanistan as a soldier in the Army. Now, back home, Ben's heart races and he begins to sweat when he hears helicopters or cars backfiring. These physiological responses likely reflect ____.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Joffrey's wife asked him to go to the store and buy milk, bacon, apples, juice, butter, and cereal. Joffrey did not write down the items and ended up only remembering to buy milk and bacon at the store. This demonstrates the ____ effect.

Primacy

Which of the following is associated with the development of sexually mature reproductive organs and genital?

Primary Sex Characteristics

Remembering how to ice skate is most likely an example of _______ memory.

Procedural

The Rorschach inkblot test is an example of a(n) _____ measure of personality.

Projective

Delia lives far from her family and rarely visits them. On a recent trip home, Delia realizes that her nephews do not know who she is. This makes Delia feel remorseful. Because remorse is a blend of sadness and anger, Delia is experiencing a(n) ______ emotion.

Secondary

Our memories, beliefs, and generalizations about the self are integrated to make up our _____.

Self-Schema

The sense organs detection of external physical stimuli is called _________, whereas further processing, organizing, and interpreting of those stimuli in the brain is called ________.

Sensation; Perception

Elena is working on a team project for her computer science class. Although the entire team is responsible for the project, some people do not feel personally responsible for contributing to it. Because of this, some team members do not complete their assigned tasks. This is most likely due to:

Social Loafing

Changes in how we understand ourselves, interact with others, and experience and regulate emotions are part of the ________ area of the development.

Socio-Emotional

What is a conditioned stimulus?

Something that causes a response after learning takes place.

As you read your textbook, you can help your brain retain the information you are learning by taking notes. Note taking aids your memory by enhancing the process of ____.

Storage

After transduction, the neural signals of vision, hearing, taste, and touch all pass through the _______.

Thalamus

Research has shown that schizophrenia is influenced by biological factors. Specifically, brain-imaging studies have shown that, in people with schizophrenia _____.

The amount of overall brain tissue is reduced

By age 4, children understand that someone with hurt feelings might like a hug. This shows the development of _____.

Theory of Mind

When sensory receptors change physical stimuli into signals that brain can understand, this is called _________.

Transduction

What is the same of the time during which a neuron is less responsive to incoming stimulation?

Transmission Phase

A deviation from clear awareness of the external wona and your inner thoughts and feelings.

Unconscious

According to _______, culture dictates what people need to learn and the sorts of skills they need to develop.

Vygotsky

Visible light consists of waves that are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. What are the two main physical qualities of energy in the electromagnetic spectrum?

Wavelength and Amplitude

After you finish a big meal, the level of glucose in your bloodstream increases. What happens next in order for your body to process the glucose?

Your pancreas produces insulin to manage the glucose

Behaving in a way that confirms your own or other people's expectations is referred to as:

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Selena thinks that all computer programmers are antisocial and boring. Even before meeting Mark, a computer programmer, Selena decides that she will not like him. Selena's beliefs are _____, and not liking Mark is _____.

A Stereotype; Prejudice

Borderline personality disorder is primarily associated with ______.

A history of trauma

According to the diathesis-stress model, psychological disorders are caused by bother _____ and stress.

A predisposition to mental illness

According to the biopsychosocial model, which of the following is a psychological factor that could influence the development of a psychological disorder?

Abnormal Thoughts

Studies on identical twins have found that differences in genes explain _____ of the variability in personality traits.

About Half

Which of the following life periods makes up most of our life span?

Adulthood

An enduring emotional connection is called ___________.

Attachment

_________ are short, frequent, irregular electrical signals most closely associated with a normal waking state.

Beta Waves

What area of the brain is thought to contribute to speech production?

Broca's Area