General Psychology 200 Test 3
According to Jung, which of the following refers to the primitive images contained in the collective unconscious?
Archetypes
________ are regularly occurring experiences that can harm our well-being, even our sex lives.
daily hassles
_____individuals are people who are sexually aroused by, and interested in forming romantic relationships with, people of the other gender.
heterosexual
A(n)_________rat is characterized by excessive eating.
hyperphagic
_________are the arousal producing effects of sex hormones that increase the likelihood of sexual behavior.
Activating Effects
_____ developed the psychodynamic theory called analytical psychology
Carl Jung
Overtime work, assembly line labor, and exposure to conflicting demands can all contribute to _________.
Coronary Heart Disease
The drive-reduction theory of Hull states that:
Hunger and pain trigger arousal and activate behavior
_________ refers to the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish one person from another.
Personality
Skinner believed that the effects of _________ on behavior should be emphasized.
Reinforcement
Which of the following is NOT one of Selye's three stages in the general adaptation syndrome?
Resilience Phase
_________is the swelling of the genital tissues with blood, causing erection of the penis and swelling of the area surrounding the vaginal opening.
Vasocongestion
According to the different types of social support, _________ involves helping people interpret, or "make sense of," what has happened to them.
appraisal
In _________, each of two goals is desirable, and both are within reach.
approach-approach conflict
When is the id first present in the mind?
at birth
_________ such as pathogens, injuries, age, gender, and a family history of disease may strike us as the most obvious causes of illness.
biological factors
To _________ is to interpret negative events as being disastrous or to "blow out of proportion.
catastrophize
_________ is the feeling of being pulled in two or more directions by opposing motives.
conflict
According to the five-factor model, the five basic personality factors are extraversion, neuroticism, _________, agreeableness, and openness to experience.
conscientiousness
A(n) _____ is a condition of arousal in an organism that is associated with a need.
drive
According to Erikson, which of the following is the goal of adolescence?
ego identity
A(n) _____ is a state of feeling that has cognitive, physiological, and behavioral components.
emotion
According to the different kinds of social support, _________ involves listening to people's problems and expressing feelings of sympathy, caring, understanding, and reassurance.
emotional concern
_________ is the periodic sexual excitement of many female mammals.
estrus
When an individual can no longer cope with ongoing stress and becomes ill, he or she has reached the _________ of the general adaptation syndrome.
exhaustion stage
Who among the following perceives the ability to attain reinforcements as being largely outside themselves?
externals
Which of the following is the final stage in Freud's stages of psychosexual development?
genital stage
_____ individuals are people who are sexually aroused by, and interested in forming romantic relationships with, people of the same gender.
homosexual
The _________ is an area at the side of the hypothalamus that appears to function as a start-eating center.
lateral hypothalamus
The immune system is able to fight off foreign substances like pathogens because of the functioning of white blood cells called _________.
leukocytes
In the context of the sexual response cycle, _____ is muscle tension, which causes grimaces, spasms in the hands and feet, and the spasms of orgasm.
myotonia
_________ is a state of deprivation.
need
Which of the following represents the correct developmental sequence of Sigmund Freud's stages of psychosexual development?
oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital
The height of sexual excitement involving involuntary muscle contractions and release of sexual tensions is termed as a(n)_________.
orgasm
The _________ is the branch of the autonomic nervous system that is most active during processes that restore reserves of energy to the body.
parasympathetic system
_____ is an example of a psychological need.
power
Many health problems are affected by _________, such as attitudes, emotions, and behavior.
psychological factors
_________ is a cluster of traits that buffer stress and are characterized by commitment, challenge, and control.
psychological hardiness
According to the general adaptation syndrome, the levels of endocrine and sympathetic activity in the _________ are lower than the levels in the alarm reaction but still higher than normal.
resistance stage
_________ is the state of being satisfied.
satiety
Striving to become what you are capable of being is termed as _____.
self-actualization
The belief that we can bring about desired changes through our own efforts is called _________.
self-efficacy expectations
_________ are beliefs that we can accomplish certain things.
self-efficacy expectations
_________ is a process in psychological testing that checks out the scores, validity, and reliability of a test with people of various ages and from various groups.
standardization
_____ is a demand made on an organism to adapt, cope, or adjust.
stress
The _________ functions according to the moral principle.
superego
The _________ is the branch of the autonomic nervous system that is most active during processes that spend body energy from stored reserves.
sympathetic nervous system
Parents can help children develop self-esteem when they show them _________ regard, or when they accept them as having intrinsic merit regardless of their behavior at the moment.
unconditional positive
The _________ mind contains primitive instincts such as sex and aggression.
unconscious
The _________ is a central area on the underside of the hypothalamus that appears to function as a stop-eating center.
ventromedial nucleus
