Practice Questions

Front 1

T/F: Human Languages all use the same phonemes, but different morphemes

Back 1

False

Front 2

When something desirable is presented upon the occurrence of a behavior, and as a result that behavior increases, ______ has happened.

Back 2

Positive reinforcement

Front 3

Cala loves the vegetable cauliflower, and simply assumes that most other people must love it as well because it's so delicious. Cara is demonstrating:

Back 3

False consensus bias

Front 4

When Brian hits the snooze button , the outcome is that it temporarily removes the super annoying sound of his alarm. If that causes Brian to hit the snooze button more often, this is an example of:

Back 4

Negative reinforcement

Front 5

The bobo doll experiment showed that:

Back 5

learning can occur without directly reinforcing or punishing a behavior

Front 6

Michael constantly hears a demon telling him to do evil things. He screams in order to block out the sound, but the devil's voice cannot be silenced. He hears the voice everywhere. Michael is experiencing:

Back 6

a hallucination

Front 7

according to Piaget's stages of cognitive development, a child who knows that the amount of something does not change just because the appearance changes is in what stage?

Back 7

Concrete operational

Front 8

every time Fido the dog whines, his owners give him a doggie treat to calm him down. As a result of his clueless owners, Fido has become a very whiney dog, illustrating the power of:

Back 8

operant conditioning

Front 9

T/F: Phobias can be successfully treated with behavioral therapy.

Back 9

True

Front 10

Today the most commonly used antidepressants are the class of drugs known as:

Back 10

SSRIs

Front 11

T/F: When discrimination is high, generalization is also high.

Back 11

False

Front 12

T/F: If you attribute a basketball players great game solely to his home court advantage rather than his own skill, that is an example of the fundamental attribution error.

Back 12

False

Front 13

What is the smallest unit of sound in a spoken language which is still recognizable as speech sounds?

Back 13

Phonemes

Front 14

For someone with ____, an action must be performed in order to alleviate worry associated with a recurring thought.

Back 14

OCD

Front 15

A 4 month old baby loves playing with her rattle, but when the rattle falls out of her crib and onto the floor, she acts as if she doesn't even realize the rattle is gone. According to Piaget, this baby has not developed:

Back 15

object permanence

Front 16

Little Albert was conditioned to fear a white rar: the experimenters made a loud, scary noise each time the rat was put near Albert. Afterward, the experimenters realized that Albert was afraid of many other white objects. This result is an example of:

Back 16

generalization

Front 17

Comorbidity refers to:

Back 17

when someone has more than one disorder

Front 18

Which of the following is NOT recognized as a type of anxiety disorder in the DSM-5?

Back 18

Schizophrenia

Front 19

Which two-week stage of development begins at conception?

Back 19

Germinal

Front 20

T/F: Larger groups provide less opportunity for deindividuation and diffusion of responsibility

Back 20

False

Front 21

If someone makes a meaningless nonsense sentence that is nonetheless grammatically valid it has ____ but not ____.

Back 21

Syntax: semantics

Front 22

The tendency to believe your knowledge of others surpasses their knowledge of you is:

Back 22

the illusion of asymmetric insight

Front 23

The ____ is the classification system of psychological disorders currently used for diagnosis in the U.S

Back 23

DSM-5

Front 24

Extinction of a CR involves

Back 24

Repeated preRepeated presentations of the CS withouth the US

Front 25

A father is having trouble with the conduct of his teenage son. The son does not study or perform his assigned household chores. The family therapist suggests that the father identify activities that his son enjoys, such as playing video games, and only provide access to those activities as a reinforce upon completion of the homework and chores. The therapist is implementing a ____ therapy.

Back 25

behavioral

Front 26

T/F: Infants only develop the ability to imitate facial expressions about 8 weeks after birth.

Back 26

Fase

Front 27

A person with sever schizophrenia whose symptom profile included hearing scary voices in her head would likely be prescribed what medication?

Back 27

an antipsychotic

Front 28

A parent spanked a child for misbehaving, and the misbehavior stopped. By definition, the spanking served as a ____ for misbehavior

Back 28

positive punPositive punisher

Front 29

Of the following, who can prescribe medication for psychological disorders

Back 29

a psychiatrist

Front 30

An infant who is almost always distressed when their mother leaves the room, but stays unhappy or angry even after mother returns is said to have what type of attachment style?

Back 30

Ambivalent

Front 31

Over time, Heather has begun to feel a strong emotional attachment to her psychodynamic therapist, treating him like a father figure. The psychodynamic therapist would say this represents the process of:

Back 31

Transference

Front 32

T/F: A word can be made up of a single morpheme.

Back 32

true

Front 33

T/F: When babies are first learning language, production of sentences comes first, then comprehension of sentences.

Back 33

False

Front 34

One of the most common treatments of depression is to use SSRIs, which work by:

Back 34

blocking the reuptake of serotonin in the brain

Front 35

T/F: The DSM-5 is the only diagnostic manual for psychological disorder, used in all developed nations.

Back 35

False

Front 36

T/F: Human babies are born able to distinguish the phonemes of any language.

Back 36

true