FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT INTRO

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT INTRO

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Question 1: Family therapy is based on the belief that

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the family plays a key role in producing maladaptive behavior.Question 2: The observation that the difference threshold is a fixed percentage of the original stimulus is known as

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Weber's law.Question 3: A basic assumption underlying cognitive approaches to therapy is that

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abnormal behavior results from what and how the client thinks.Question 4: Which of the following combinations is related to optimism and happiness?

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self-esteem, personal control, extroversion

Question 5: Cones, unlike rods, will respond to

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both movement and color.Question 6: In Jean Piaget's theory, the order in which developmental stages occur is

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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational.Question 7: Which of the following does NOT explain the gap in IQ scores between blacks and whites?

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heredity and biologically-based differences.Question 8: Jenna is very frustrated because her cat keeps jumping up on the counter, even though she had spent a lot of time trying to train him not to do so. Which concept of learning should Jenna MOST be aware of?

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Instinctual drift

Question 9: Observational learning is often referred to as

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modeling.Question 10: Being aware of the sound presently being made in this room is an example of

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sensory memory.Question 11: Which historical figure would have been MORE sympathetic with the nurture rather than the nature position?

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John Watson Question 12: In classical conditioning, the stimulus that does NOT initially produce a conditioned response is the

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conditioned stimulus.

Question 13: Most of the changes in the body that take place during times of high emotion are controlled by the

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autonomic nervous system.Question 14: Self-help groups are effective for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT

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the insight offered by a trained therapist.Question 15: If the source of information is judged to be of low credibility, most people will

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disregard the information.Question 16: In conditioning, when a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus also elicits the conditioned response, the phenomenon is called

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stimulus generalization.

Question 17: In the Stanford-Binet test, IQ is defined as

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MA/CA x 100.Question 18: The psychodynamic approach to the treatment of psychological disorders is based on the assumption that maladaptive behavior

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is related to unresolved childhood conflicts.Question 19: A cartoonist sketches characters in brief outline, yet people recognize them. The perceptual process by which we fill in gaps in order to "see" a complete object is

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closure.Question 20: The sex hormone in females is _____ and the sex hormone in males is _____.

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estrogen; androgen

Question 21: A parent who deliberately ignores a child's temper tantrum is attempting to discourage tantrums by

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extinction.

Question 22: Messages are carried from the sense organs to the brain by

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afferent neurons.

Question 23: The speech sounds made by infants

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include speech sounds used in virtually all languages.Question 24: Compared with the number of people with schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis living in public mental health hospitals, the number living in public shelters and on the street is

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much greater.Question 25: Betty has just had a baby and wonders if her baby is sleeping too much. You could tell her that an infant sleeps as many as _____ hours a day.

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18 Question 26: If you would enjoy roaming around the world but would also enjoy the rewards of settling down, you are experiencing a(n)

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approach-approach conflict.Question 27: James is sound asleep when the sound of a creaky floorboard startles him awake to find a burglar in his home. Which part of the brain was responsible for waking him up?

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Reticular activating system