psych quiz 2
whicich of the following is most likey to process argumants on the central route
Dave, a sport fisherman, who is listening ti a politician argue that a local lake should be drained to make new housing
The terms schema, assimilation, and accommodation are most closely associated with which of the following psychologists?
Jean Piaget
What is the commonly accepted view of current psychologists regarding the nature-nurture controversy?
The interaction of these two factors determines what we become.
Personality is
a collection of characteristics that define how a person behaves in different situations.
which of the following would typically not be a particular interest of a social psychologist
a developmental stage a person experiences from birth to adulthood
making an attribution of another person and not knowing that persons perspective would most likely lead to
a fundamental attribution error
mainteance rehersal involves ______ processing and the elaborative rehersal involves ______ processing
a shallow level; a deep level
best venue for an attractive actor to persuade people
a tv ad
Postconventional moral reasoning is based on
abstract principles of morality
If a child holds a schema that hospitals are for having babies, this schema might have to be changed if the child learns that his father has to be admitted to the hospital. This change in schema is called
accommodation.
Four-year-old Bai goes to the store to buy her mother a birthday present and picks out a Barbie doll. According to Piaget, Bai is demonstrating
egocentrism.
recall is to _____, as recgonition is to _____
essay question; multiple choice question
why do students generally find essay exams to be more difficult than multiple choice
essays require recall
norms are
expectations that guide the behavior of groupe members
the greatest dfference between computers and the human mind is the minds ability to....
experience consciecousness
Which of the following represents the correct sequence of prenatal development?
germinal, embryonic, fetal
The Electra complex refers to a young
girl's desire to bond with her father
if a new memory has made it to the short term stage it has deffinatly been...
given a great amount of attention
The physical activities involved in playing soccer would mostly include ____ motor skills.
gross
the challanger space shuttle disaster occured when someone didnt say anything and created
group think
If your psychology teacher subscribes more to trait theory than to other personality theories, she is likely to believe that personality
has a strong biological basis.
When an adult has an unhealthy personality,
her ego has become overwhelmed by the id or superego.
Tomas is going through puberty. Which of the following changes will he not experience?
hip broadening
Which of the following represents the correct sequence of development for the three components of personality according to Freud?
id, ego, superego
If in the middle of class you suddenly had the urge to yell out that you were bored, Freud would say that the impulse comes from your
id.
frika is washing the dishes and automatically puts the forks in the side drawer despite the fact that she moved them to somewhere else. Frika's error is most likely due to ____ memory
implicit
when you tie your shoes you are most likely making use of your
implicit memory
Manuel is taking computers at school. He really seems to take a great deal of pride in his skills. He works hard at it and believes that he is good at it. Manuel is most likely in Erikson's stage of ____.
industry vs. inferiority
A four-year-old child who ambitiously seeks to discover his environment and its expectations of him, would be in Erikson's stage of
initiative vs. guilt.
At pre-school, Morgan (age 3) often volunteers to help clean-up the play area. Morgan seems to be successfully mastering Erikson's crisis of
initiative vs. guilt.
storting an echo of somthing your professor said and not processing it into short term memory can result in
it being lost forever
research on stereotypes suggestcs that
it can have definate effects on members of that sterytotypes groupe
which of the follwoing people would feel the greatest dissonance
jonathon a doctor who owns stock in fast food
episodic memory is
memory from ones life events
According to Erik Erikson, an infant whose needs are not met by its caregivers is likely to develop
mistrust.
When your teacher announces that you are going to be discussing the theories and research of Lawrence Kohlberg, you can expect that you will be talking about ____ development.
moral
Dr. Cortez believes that heredity influences development more so than one's environment. Dr. Cortez is emphasizing ____ over ____.
nature/nurture
facing the front while in an elevator wit other people is an example of a
norm
usuing maintenance rehersal to prepare for a test will most likely resuly in you
not doing well
If your 4-month-old infant appears to quickly lose interest in a pacifier that you have just hidden under a blanket, Piaget would say that the infant lacks an understanding of
object permanence.
retrograde amnesia is to _______ as anterograde amnesia is to ____
past; future
how to memorzy the phone number to your local pizza place into your short term memory
pay attention to it
going to schoool in florida and hearing a california politican speak about somehting. The processing routes here is the ___ route
peripheral
A child who does not yet understand object permanence is most likely in Piaget's ____ stage.
sensorimotor
the duration of short term memory is about
30 seconds
randa just failed her history exam bc she didnt study. she blames her bf and is engaging in the
self serving bias
The superego is
your moral conscience
on exam day, as you attempt to answer the questions, you are primarily engaging in the ______ of memory traces
retrieval
when you momentairly forget a friends name what function of memory has faild
retrieval
making an attribution ab your oen behavior and understanding your own context will most likely lead to
actor-observer bias
a stereotyoe can
all of the ablove
when a person is faced eith a state of cognative dissonace, ehich of the following outcomes will lead to a state of consance
all of the ablove
Yan has never seen a zebra. While watching a television show on animals, a zebra is shown and Yan says, "Look at the horse." According to Piaget, Yan is engaging in
assimilation.
Bill believes that children need physical punishment, and are usually not competent enough to make their own decisions or be involved in family decisions. Diana Baumrind would characterize his parenting style as
authoritarian.
Trey wants to play basketball in a local league. He and his mom sit down and discuss what grades he will have to maintain in order to play on the basketball team. They also agree on what the consequences will be if Trey does not maintain his grades. Trey's mom is most likely a(n) ____ parent.
authoritative
Melissa is overprotective of her two-year-old son, Lance. She is so fearful that he will harm himself that she does everything for him and does not allow him to try and master simple tasks such as putting his toys away. It is likely that Lance may have difficulty resolving Erikson's crisis of ____.
autonomy vs. shame and doubt
if we dont pay attention to sensory memories then they will most likely
be forgotten
cognative dissonace theory states that a person who willingly preformes an act that carries a large cost, will mostlikey
begin to value that trait more
Which of the following best represents moral reasoning at the conventional level?
being in favor of capital punishment because that is the law in your state
whcih of the following would most likley creat a state of cognative dissonance
believeing that honesty is the best policy and then cheating on a test
According to Gordon Allport, if a person is very assertive in most situations, assertiveness would be considered a ____ of that person.
central trait.
the use of critical analysis and logic in reponse to a persuasive appeal is most closley associated witth
cerntal route persuasion
the nine digits of a persons social security number will exceed the capasity of short term memory, but for most people the ss # actualy becomes 3 bits of info through a process called....
chunking
semantic memory is
conceptual memory
A child who consistently uses logical thinking to solve conservation problems is likely in Piaget's ____ stage.
concrete operations
In Freud's iceberg analogy, the tip of the iceberg represents a person's
conscious.
operant conditoning can influence attitudesthrough the power of ____ classical conditing can influence atitudes through______
consequences; association
rick sees himself as athletic, he works out eats right etc,,,, according to diffonace theory rick is in a state of
consonace
Kamal believes that abortion is wrong as many of his friends and his parents also believe. Kamal is most likely at which of Kohlberg's moral reasoning?
conventional
cognative consistency theories refer to the
degree of similarites between attitude and behavior
Jean Piaget would have been most interested in the
differences between the thought processes of children and adolescents.
The Oedipus complex and the Electra complex occur in the ____ stage of psychosexual development.
phallic
classical conditioning most often explains th ee ____ aspect of attitude
physiological
The principle that drives the instincts of the id is the ____ principle.
pleasure
Before reading this question you probably weren't thinking of the events surrounding your last birthday. If you can now remember your last birthday, Freud would most likely say that its memories existed in your
preconscious.
An automobile driver who justifies speeding as long you don't have to pay a fine, is most likely reasoning at the ____ level of moral development.
preconventional
research on the learning of prejudice suggects that
prejudice is learned from a combination of souces, including parents, peers, and others
jenny was recently married and took her husbands last name but her friends still call her by her maiden name. jennys friends are suffering from...
proactive interference
If you are doing a research paper on the theories of Erik Erikson, your topic will most likely focus on ____ development.
psychosocial
The ego is to ____, as the id is to ____.
reality; pleasure
if you were explainging the 3 stages model of memory you would say that the first stage of memory is
sensory memory
short term memory usues a dual coding system for storing memories. this means that
short term memories are usually stored either acoustically or visually
When examining nature's contribution to personality, twin studies have
shown more similarities between the personalities of identical twins than between the personalities of fraternal twins.
short term memory is best described as
small in capisity but short in duration
info in your longterm memory about all the groupls of people who attend your school is organized in the form of
stereotypes
Which of the following is not a perspective of personality described in the textbook?
structuralist
short term memory is to ______ ans long term memory is to ________
tempory; perminent
explicit memory is
th conscious use of memory
Freud believed that personality is a product of
the interaction between conscious and unconscious forces.
which of the following memories is most likey to remain accessable over a long period of time
the memory of how to drive stick shift
implicit memory is
the unconscious use of memory
you see a woman yelling at her kid and assume she is a bad mom. in this instance you are making a ____ attribution
trait
According to Freud, which part of a person's personality is the largest?
unconscious
Freud believed that a person's ____ has the greatest influence on personality.
unconscious
A sexually promiscuous teenage girl may not realize that her motivations stem from conflicting emotions surrounding growing up without a father. Freud would most likely say that her motivations are arising from her
unconscious.
Assimilation is to ____, as accommodation is to ____.
use of existing schema; creation of new schema
iconic memory is to ______, as echoic memory is to ______
visual sensory memory; auditory sensory memory
according to the 3 stages model of memory...
we keep all perminent memories in our long term memory
under which of the following situations would you expact prejudice against a minority to be at its worst
when unemployment is high
which of the following audience characteristics is associated with greater vulnerability to persuasuion
young age