Psych theories film exam 1

What is true of people with a more reactive than average amygdala?

They report many unpleasant experiences and they react strongly to stress.

The part of personality development where one seems to have no evidence of exploration and also does not have a clear identity is

identity diffusion

What is anterograde amnesia?

inability to form new long-term memories

What is a mirror neuron?

type of neuron that fires both when an action is performed, but also when you see someone do the same action.

A slow but steady rate of responding is most characteristic of behavior reinforced on a __________ schedule.

variable interval

You enjoy getting e-mail messages, so you occasionally check your e-mail to find out if you have any new messages. Which schedule of reinforcement is present in this case?

variable interval

According to Freud, which stage focuses on the sexual gratification on the mouth, lips, and tongue?

. Oral

The hallmark of neuroticism is ____

. variability of moods over time

What therapist stereotype does Sean illustrate in "Good Will Hunting"?

Dr. Wonderful

What are the four categories of hope theory?

Goals, pathways to the goals, agency and overcoming barriers

The stereotype of the "Narcissistic Parasite" is characterized by:

Outpatients who seek psychotherapy as self-obsessed, over-privileged attention-seekers.

The Schizophrenogenic parent myth presumes:

Parents (mother) are most often responsible for serious mental illness in their children

Which event represents the Hero's departure in "The Dark Knight"?

The Joker stirring up trouble in Gotham with bouts of crime

During the Oedipal Conflict, according to Freud, what do boys want from their mothers?

a sexual relationship

A person who is good natured and cooperative would score high on the trait of

agreeableness

Which of the five-factors would the Joker score low on in "The Dark Knight"?

agreeableness

Thondike described "reinforcer" as

an event that "stamps in" a response and makes it more likely.

A baby being measured for attachment using Ainsworth's Strange-situation procedure appears to be extremely clinging and attached to the mother's side when she comes back into the room. This baby would be classified as

anxious

What type of parenting did Teddy most likely experience in "Stand by Me"?

anxious-ambivalent

Deactivation of the attachment system is associated with

attachment avoidance

Parents who set firm rules for their children, without explaining why those rules are good, and who tend to be cold and distant to their children, are known as __________ parents.

authoritarian

The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems make up the __________ nervous system.

autonomic

Suppose your alarm made a slight clicking sound just before the alarm goes off. Even though you didn't wake up to the clicking sound initially, now you do, due to classical conditioning. In this example, the clicking is a/an

conditioned stimulus

Individuals who are open to experience tend to be

creative

expect the worst to happen before the event even occurs in order to avoid anxiety.

defensive pessimists

Activity of the parasympathetic nervous system leads to an increase in

digestion.

A defining characteristic of traits is that they are

enduring.

In "The Shawshank Redemption", Red says -"Forty years I been asking permission to piss." He says, "I can't squeeze a drop without say-so." What is the unconditioned stimulus?

feeling of a full bladder

Suppose you decide to reward yourself by going out for a snack every time you finish reading a chapter in your text. This is an example of which type of schedule of reinforcement?

fixed ratio

_____ involves letting one's mind wander and saying everything that comes to mind without censorship.

free association

One difference between long-term memory and short-term memory is that

long-term memory can hold a vast amount of information and short-term memory can hold only about seven items

What is retrograde amnesia?

loss of memories that formed before a certain event

The wise old man archetype represents

meaning and wisdom

In "Memento", why does Leonard argue that his condition has no real impact on his ability to discover truth?

memories are reconstructive and unreliable

What do the "Islands of personality" represent in "Inside Out"?

mental self schemas

Individuals who are neurotic tend to be

mentally ill

The preference for introversion can be described as:

needing less stimulation from the environment than extroverts

The hero archetype

often has a tragic flaw, is sometimes part god, fights to conquer evil. , may be represented by comic book characters such as Superman.

You are given a list of grocery items to remember to purchase on your trip to the store. These items are; apples, bread, celery, lettuce, grapes, and onions. According to the recency effect, what item are you most likely to remember?

onions

For the purposes of the Five factor theory, conscientiousness would be described in terms of

orderliness and self-discipline

A student says that she did not complete her sociology report because the questions were simplistic and infantile is using the defense mechanism called _____.

rationalization

What is the psychological theme of the anal stage?

self-control

When you remember how a clock works, what type of memory is that?

semantic

Someone asks you what time it is. You check your watch and answer. A few seconds later, after you have been distracted, someone asks what time you said it was. You have forgotten. According to the traditional information-processing view, what type of memory was this?

short term

Erik Erikson's stages of development deal with

social development

A trait approach to personality is primarily focused on

the characteristics of the person.

According to Jung, a mental storehouse for unconscious ideas and images shared by all humans is

the collective unconscious.

Which one is not a stereotype of the mentally ill in film?

the geek

In the following scenario, what is the conditioned stimulus? "Miles is an extremely smart dog. His owner always feeds him dog food from a can, which the owner opens using an electric can-opener. Whenever Miles hears the sound of the electric can opener, he runs into the kitchen and over to his food bowl."

the sound of the can opener

the more lottery tickets you buy, the greater your chances of winning. However, you have no way of knowing how many tickets you will have to buy before you win. It might be fewer than ten; it might be more than a million. This is an example of which type of schedule of reinforcement?

variable ratio