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33 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following has been identified as correlating most closely with heart disease?
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Hostility.
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In which of the following areas does psychological research show most clearly that girls develop earlier than boys?
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Adolescent physical growth spurt.
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Developmental psychologists would most likely prefer longitudinal research designs to cross-sectional research designs because longitudinal designs
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Utilize the subjects as their own experimental controls.
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A young child breaks her cookie into a number of pieces and asserts that "now there is more to eat." In Piaget's analysis, the child's behavior is evidence of
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Preoperational thought.
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A school psychologist informs a ninth-grade teacher that Jimmy "identifies" with his twelfth-grade brother. What the psychologist means is that Jimmy tends to
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Accept is brother's values and imitate his behavior.
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According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, what is the correct order of the stages for confronting impending death?
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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
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When insulted by a friend, Sally's first inpulse was to strike him. Instead, she yelled loudly and kicked a door several times. This means of reducing aggressive impulses exemplifies which of the following?
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Displacement.
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Carl Jung is associated with which of the following concepts?
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Collective unconscious.
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Erikson's and Freud's theories of personality developement are most similar in that they both
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Are based on stages.
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Lawrence is pessimistic, rigid, and moody. In terms of Hans eysenck's personality dimensions, Lawrence would be classified as
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Unstable-introverted
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The key distinction between personality trait and an attitude is
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Durability.
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A diagnosis of schizophrenia typically includes which of the following symptoms?
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Delusions.
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The term "etiology" refers to the study of which of the following aspects of an illness?
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Origins and causes.
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An obsession is defined as
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An unwanted thought.
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A somatization disorder is characterized chiefly by
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Physical complaints.
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Personality disorders are characterized by which of the following?
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Inflexible and maladaptive responses to stress, and problematic social relationships.
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Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy has indicated that
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There are therapeutic methodds that have been shown to be especially effective for particular psychological disorders.
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Which of the following kinds of therapy attempts to correct irrational beliefs that lead to psychological distress?
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Cognitive.
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An individual undergoing psychotherapy shows improvement due only to that person's belief in the therapy and not because of the therapy itself. This result illustrates a
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Placebo effect.
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Which of the following can be a significant side effect of electroconvulsive therapy?
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Temporary loss of memory.
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSIR's) are used primarily in the treatment of which of the following?
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Depression.
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Similarity, proximity, and familiarity are important determinants of
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Friendship Formation.
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All of the following are true about altruism EXCEPT:
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It is more likely to be inherited that is agressive behavior.
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The bystander effect has been explained by which of the following?
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Diffusion of responsibility.
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According to Robert Sternberg, love is composed of which of the following?
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Intimacy, passion, commitment.
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Job satisfaction has an inverse relationship with
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Turnover
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An attribution that focuses on an individual's ability or personality characteristics is described as
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Personal.
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Which of the following is a true statement about the relationship between test validity and test reliability?
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A test can be reliable without being valid.
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Which of the following statistics indicates the distribution with the greatest variability?
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A standard deviation of 11.2
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True / False
A person is more likely to be altruistic when not in a hurry. |
True
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True / False
Altruism is more common in small towns and rural areas than in cities. |
True.
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True / False
A person is more likely to perform an altruistic act when another person has modeled altruistic behavior? |
True.
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True / False
A person is more likely to perform an altruistic act when another person has pointed out the need. |
True.
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