Semester Final

Question 1

The sociocultural perspective looks at…

Answer 1

race, culture, and ethnicity

Question 2

Freud reffered to the dynamic of a patient developing either positive or negative feelings towards their therapist as…

Answer 2

transference

Question 3

Psychotherapy techniques include…

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Play therapy, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and humanistic therapy

Question 4

in medieval times, explanations for those who were mentally ill were thought to be all of the following EXCEPT

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an inspired god

Question 5

The diathesis-stress model presumes that psychopathology results from

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vunerability and adverse experiences

Question 6

Another term for the percentage of people in the us who currently have a diagnosis of depression is

Answer 6

Prevalence

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT included in DSM-5

Answer 7

Cause of disorders

Question 8

A study based on over 9,000 US residents found that the most prevalent disorder was

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Major depressive disorder

Question 9

patterns of inner experience and behavior are thought to reflect the presence of a psychological disorder if they

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lead to significant distress and impairment in ones life

Question 10

how does positive affect differ from optimism

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Positive affect involves feeling states; optimism involves expectations

Question 11

relative to those with low levels of social support, individuals with high levels of social support

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tend to tolerate stress well

Question 12

the most lethal dimension of Type A behavior pattern seems to be

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hostility

Question 13

which of the following is NOT a dimension of job burnout

Answer 13

Hostility

Question 14

what is one major criticisms of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale

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it does not take into consideration how a person appraises an event

Question 15

According to the holmes and rahe scale, which life event requires the greatest amount of readjustment?

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death of spouse

Question 16

At which stage of Selyes general adaptation syndrome is a person especially vunerable to illness

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exhaustion

Question 17

Between 2006 and 2009, the greatest increases in stress levels were found to occur amoung

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those aged 45-64

Question 18

Negative effects of stress are most likely to be experienced when an event is perceived as

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threatening, and no clear options for dealing with it are apparent

Question 19

according to the Eysenck’s theory, people who score high on neuroticism tend to be

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Anxious

Question 20

___ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality

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Freud

Question 21

The id operates _____ principle

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pleasure

Question 22

Personality is thought to be

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long term, stable and not easily changed

Question 23

when we seek out information that supports our stereotypes, we are engaged in

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confirmation bias

Question 24

__ is an negative unfair attitude towards a member of a group; __ is negative, unfair behavior toward members of a group

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Prejudice; discrimination

Question 25

Attitudes describe our __ of people, objects, and ideas

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Evaluations

Question 26

A(n)___ is a set of group expectations for appropriate thoughts an behaviors of its members

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social norm

Question 27

Making internal attributions for your successes and naking external attributions for your failures is an example of ____

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self serving bias

Question 28

According to the constructivist theory of emotions proposed by Barett, emotions are

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predictions that are constructed based on your experience

Question 29

Maslow's hierarchy of needs: which accurately describes the relationship between the levels of needs in the pyramid

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Lower level needs must be satisfied before addressing higher level needs

Question 30

william james proposed that behavior was primarily driven by:

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A number of instincts that aid survival

Question 31

Need for___ refers to maintaining positive relationships with others

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Affiliation

Question 32

___ is/are an individual's belief in her capability to complete some task

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self-efficacy

Question 33

For the following statement, determine if it shows intrinsic or extrinsic motivation. You want good grades

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Extrinsic

Question 34

For the following statement, determine if it shows intrinsic or extrinsic motivation. You love learning

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Intrinsic

Question 35

In the CHC theory of cognitive abilities, which is characterized by specific skills and knowledge to particular tasks

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narrow abilities

Question 36

In Gardners Multiple Intelligences Theory, which is one of the intelligences recognized as a distinct type

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Emotional intelligence

Question 37

What is an event schema, also known as a cognitive script, in psychology

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A mental construct consisting of a cluster of related topics

Question 38

what is a prototype in the context of cognitive therapy

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The best example or representation of a concept

Question 39

What are concepts in psychology

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Categories/groups of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories

Question 40

what does the term "cognition" encompass in the field of psychology

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The study of thinking and related mind processes