Section 5 Practice Exam

Which of the following would a social learning theorist be most likely to propose as a cause for a fear of flying?

A person observed someone else's fear of flying.

During a political debate, Candidate A expresses detailed facts on an important issue. Candidate B responds with an emotional appeal on the same issue. Which method of persuasion is each of the candidates using?

Candidate A is using the central route, and Candidate B is using the peripheral route

Which of the following is true about gender roles in children?

Children often develop traditional gender roles despite parents discouragement of such roles.

Maria was never afraid of spiders until a spider bit her when she was eight. Today, even the sight of a plastic spider upsets her. Which of the following learning processes best explains Maria's fear of spiders?

Classical conditioning

Which of the following concepts was advanced by social psychologists to help explain why people who are part of a crowd sometimes commit aggressive, antisocial acts that they would not commit if they were alone?

Deindividuation

A person with damage to Broca's area would most likely demonstrate which of the following symptoms?

Difficulty with speech production

Which of the following has been most effective in the treatment of schizophrenia?

Drug therapy that blocks neurotransmitter sites

Research on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has shown that it is most effective for treating which of the following disorders?

Major depressive

Of the following students, who is most clearly demonstrating an internal attribution?

Martin, who says he earned a spot on the football team through his hard work

In right-handed individuals, which of the following abilities is predominantly a function of the right hemisphere of the brain?

Spatial reasoning

A test author most interested in ensuring that individuals receive similar scores on a personality test every time they take it is attempting to increase which of the following?

Reliability

Which of the following terms is used to describe an infant's individual style of interacting with the world?

Temperament

Which of the following types of test is designed to measure an individual's knowledge of a subject?

achievement

A test that is labeled an achievement test is most likely to be given to

allow a student to be exempted from a college course

When the stimuli in a task occur in highly predictable ways, an individual is often able to attend to both that task and another one at the same time. When this occurs, the processing of the first task is

automatic

The intelligence quotient (IQ) has traditionally been based on the relationship between an individual's mental age and his or her

chronological age

A normally functioning 65-year-old who cannot solve abstract logic puzzles as quickly as he did when he was younger is experiencing a

decrease in his fluid intelligence

Barbara is a talented architect. On which type of intelligence will she most heavily rely to complete her next building design?

spatial

A research psychologist generalizes from a particular sample to an entire population. This is an example of

statistical inference

Abnormalities in calcium regulation are most likely to arise from problems with

the parathyroid gland