PSY 1005

Which of the following is true regarding the accuracy and reliability of job analysis ?

It can depend on the nature of the descriptions and the source for the job analysis.

Which individual is probably not living in a culture that promotes a collectivist view of the world?

James, who lives in England

According to the _______ theory of emotion, emotional experiences arise from psychological arousal

James-Lange

Which of the following theories of emotion would suggest that polygraphs should be quite accurate at differentiating one emotion from another?

James-Lange theory

Who created the very first modern hospice?

Cicely Saunders

The ______ Concerning Blacks Test is a projective test designed to be culturally relevant to African-Americans, using images that relate to African-American lifestyles.

Contemporized-Themes

Level 4- Self-worth, accomplishment, confidence

Esteem

Rosetta is a master electrician. Often, she is the only woman at the construction site. her male coworkers frequently make sexual comments about her appearance and tape explicit pictures of women up at the worksite. She complains to the site manager, but he tells her to toughen up. What form of sexual harassment does this represent?

hostile environment

The United States is considered a _______ culture.

individualist

field in psychology that applies scientific principles to the study of work and the workplace

industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology

branch of psychology that studies job characteristics, applicant characteristics, and how to match them; also studies employee training and performance appraisal

industrial psychology

Which of the following is an example of an instinctive behavior?

infant rooting for a nipple

Isolation, a lack of job security, work overload, harassment, and bullying are all examples of factors that can lead to _______.

job stress

Which practice is an example of Theory X management

keystroke monitoring

Personality is thought to be _____.

long term, stable and not easily changed

Animal research suggests that in male rats the _______ is critical for the ability to engage in sexual behavior, but not for the motivation to do so

medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus

What is the main idea of the behavioral perspective on personality

Personality is significantly shaped by the reinforcements and consequences outside of the organism

Level 1- Food, water, shelter, warmth

Psychological

Level 2- Safety, employment, assets

Security

Level 5- Inner Fulfillment

Self-Actualization

Which of the following findings was not a result of the Kinsey study?

Sexual desire and sexual ability can be separate functions

Level 3- Family, friendship, intimacy, belonging

Social

Which statement best describes the Hawthorne effect?

The attention of researchers on subjects causes the effect the experimenter is looking for.

Which individual was one of the first psychologists to apply the science of the field to advertising, management, and personal selection?

Walter Dill Scott

Which of the following questions is illegal to ask in a job interview in the United States?

Which state were you born in?

Several influential early psychologists studied issues that today would be categorized as industrial psychology. These individuals included James Cattell, Hugo Munsterberg, and Walter Dill Scott, who were all students of _______.

Wilhelm Wundt

Brianna is 18 months old. She cries frequently, is hard to soothe, and wakes frequently during the night. According to Thomas and Chess, she would be considered ________.

a difficult baby

Amir bites his fingernails when he is nervous or anxious, and he does so without any intention or even recognition that he is doing so. This is an example of _______, a pattern of behavior in which we regularly engage.

a habit

What was the main idea behind Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development

an individual's personality develops throughout the lifespan

According to the Eysenck's theory, people who score high on neuroticism tend to be _______.

anxious

Which of the following items is not a part of KSAs?

aspiration

Which parenting style is most encouraged in modern America?

authoritative

Jude is a man who is emotionally and sexually attracted to both men and women, although he tends to date only one person at a time and prefers monogamous relationships. Jude is _____.

bisexual

_________ is characterized by episodes of binge eating followed by attempts to compensate for the excessive amount of food that was consumed

bulimia nervosa

The frontal lobes becomes fully developed ________

by 25 years old

Johanna is almost always nasty to people. She talks about others behind their backs, looks for ways to undercut classmates, and intentionally does things to impede other's success. Virtually everyone she knows eventually grows to dislike her, often citing her nastiness as the reason why they don't want to be around her. According to Allport, this negativity seems to be a(n) _________ trait for Johanna.

cardinal

domain of lifespan development that examines learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity

cognitive development

The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through the generations from our ancestors refers to _______.

collective unconscious

When development proceeds in a stepwise fashion with periods of growth interrupted by periods where growth is not occurring, we'd say that development is taking a(n) ________ trajectory

discontinuous

view that development takes place in unique stages, which happen at specific times or ages

discontinuous development

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is responsible for ______.

enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate in the hiring of employees

Self-worth, accomplishment, and confidence represent the ______ level of needs in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

esteem

Jane believes that she got a bad grade on her psychology paper because her professor doesn't like her. Jane most likely has an _______ locus of control.

external

Carl mows the yard of his elderly neighbor each week for $20. What type of motivation is this?

extrinsic

Using scissors to cut out paper shapes is an example of ________

fine motor skills

According to Jean Piaget, in which stage do children begin to use abstract thinking processes

formal operational

What does nature refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

genes and biology

What aspect of an office workstation would a human factors psychologist be concerned about?

height of the chair

_______ describes a proportion of difference among people that is attributed to genetics

heritability

Individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder have been shown to have reduced volumes of the ________.

hippocampus

Age-specific approximations of when a certain skill or ability should first occur in normal development are called developmental ________.

milestones

Otto is so driven to become a school psychologist that he spends every night studying. This sentence describes the wants or need that direct toward a goal, also called _______.

motivation

The idea that even if something is out of sight, it still exists is called ________

object permanence

Carissa's parents let her stay up as late as she wants. She is allowed to pick out her own clothes and decide when and what she wants to eat. Her parents act more like her friends then authority figures. What kinds of parenting style is this?

permissive

The Oedipus complex occurs in the ______ stage of psychosexual development

phallic

An early science that tried to correlate personality with measurements of parts of a person's skull is known as _______.

phrenology

The id operates on the _________ principle

pleasure

A personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing unconscious feelings, impulses, and desires _________.

protective test

Developmental psychologists study the human growth and development across three domains. Which of the following is not one of these domains

psychological

According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion, emotions consist of two factors: ________.

psychological and cognitive

process proposed by Freud in which pleasure-seeking urge focus on different erogenous zones of the body as humans move through five stages of life

psychosexual development

process proposed by Erikson in which social tasks are mastered as humans move through eight stages of life from infancy to adulthood

psychosocial development

What is the name of what occurs when a supervisor offers a work-related reward in exchange for a sexual favor?

quid pro quo

According to Carl Rogers, a healthy personality would result from congruence between one's _____self and their ______ self

real; ideal

Which of the following is the time immediately following an orgasm, during which and individual is incapable of experiencing another orgasm?

refractory period

According to Edwin Locke, job ______ is the state of feeling resulting from appraising one's job experiences, and a more modern definition includes the extent to which a person enjoys their job.

satisfaction

The child uses the parent as a base from which to explore her world in which attachment style?

secure

The concept that people choose to move to places that are compatible with their personalities and needs is known as _______.

selective migration

our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

self-concept

Someone's level of confidence in their own abilities

self-efficacy

_______ is an individual's belief in her capability to complete some task.

self-efficacy

During Jean Piaget's _______ stage, the world is experienced through what we can tale in through our perceptual systems and how we can move our bodies

sensorimotor

What is the most common reason for invoking a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) as a defense against an employer accused of discrimination?

sex

Which is one effect of the team halo effect

teams appear to work better than they do

how a person reacts to the world, including their activity level, starting when they are very young

temperament

According to the findings of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, identical twins, whether raised together or apart have ______ personalities.

very similar

Self-regulation is also known as _______.

will power

Which of the following is the most strongly predictive factor of overall job satisfaction?

work content

Which of the following is the correct order of prenatal development

zygote, embryo, fetus

Who was the first theorist to explore the idea that the way we appraise a situation would influence the type of emotion that we'd experience in response to that event?

Magda Arnold

Max's behavior and self-presentation is relaxed and informational with his friends. When he goes on a job interview he projects professionalism and formality with his attire and language. What would Carl Jung suggest about Max?

Max adopted a professional persona for his job interview

Which personality assessment employs a series of true/false questions?

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Victoria has learned that she has metastatic breast cancer and hos only a few months l live. She immediately goes to church and prays that she will "change her ways" and will become a model Christian id God will just heal her illness. Victoria is at the _______ stage of grieving

bargaining

Dr. Korkolos is a surgeon who conducts procedures that modify a patient's gastrointestinal system so that they can only eat or absorb a limited amount of food. Dr. Korkolos's expertise is in _______ surgery.

bariatric

______ is a state of being in which out thoughts about our real and ideal selves are very similar.

congruence

state of being in which our thoughts about our real and ideal selves are very similar

congruence

view that development is a cumulative process: gradually improving on existing skills

continuous development

The goal of hospice care is to provide

death with dignity and pain management in a humane and comfortable setting

Which of the following is the order of stages in Kubler-Ross's five stage model of grief?

denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

Empty stomachs contract, causing both hunger pangs and the secretion of chemical messages that travel to the brain to serve as a signal to initiate feeding behavior. This is an example of _______.

how physiological mechanisms serve as the basis for hunger

Ted conducts a study regarding how walking on a treadmill instead of sitting at a desk impacts worker productivity. Ted's study is within the industrial-organizational specialty area of ______ psychology.

human factors

branch of psychology that studies how workers interact with the tools of work and how to design those tools to optimize workers' productivity, safety, and health

human factors psychology

Adolescents (ages 12-18) experiment with and develop a sense of who they are and what roles they want to play. Erik Erikson would argue that during this period adolescents face the ________ task of development

identity vs. confusion

Dr. Smyth conducts research that examines how stress, disease, and disorders can impact individuals in the workplace. She is working in the area of ________ psychology.

occupational health

According to your reading, nearly _______ of the adult population in the United States can be classified as obese

one third

According to Sigmund Freud, an adult who smokes, drinks, overeats, or bites her nails is fixated in the ________ stage of her psychosexual development

oral

Which area of I-O psychology measures job satisfaction?

organizational psychology

branch of psychology that studies the interactions between people working in organizations and the effects of those interactions on productivity

organizational psychology