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Psychology is a scientific study of the many ways in which the brain works – whether that be in the form of thought, behaviour, mind, conscious experience and unconscious experience. How much do you know about psychology?
- 1.All of the folowing tradtions strongly contributed to the understanding of personality processes EXCEPT
- A.
The phenomenological approach
- B.
Social learning theory
- C.
Psychoanalysis
- D.
Empirically based test construction methods
- 2.Which of the following is NOT one of the basic stages of emotion?
- A.
Appraisal
- B.
Motives
- C.
Facial expressions
- D.
Scripts
- 3.Personal projects are similar to the concept of life tasks
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Bicultural individuals often have difficulty quickly switching cultural frames of reference
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.According to the set point model of happiness, levels of happiness are genetically determined
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.What goal-related term describes the ongoing motivation that persists in the mind until the goal is either attained or abandoned?
- A.
Current concerns
- B.
Personal projects
- C.
Judgment goals
- D.
Personal strivings
- 7.It has been suggested that chronic anxiety is the result of
- A.
Repeated pairing a common stimulus with an unpleasant response
- B.
The law of effect
- C.
Repeated exposure to averse stimuli that are unpredictable and random
- D.
Second-order conditioning and stimulus generalization
- 8.The idea that, in time, you can get used to almost anything is associated with which learning mechanisms?
- A.
Habituation
- B.
Classical conditioning
- C.
Operant condtioning
- D.
Respondent conditioning
- 9.The attempt to determine how behavior is connected to the environment is called
- A.
Behavioral linking
- B.
Empiricism
- C.
Associationism
- D.
Functional analysis
- 10.Behaviorism is concerned with ________, whereas Rotter’s social learning perspective is concerned with ________.
- A.
Actual rewards and punishments; believes about reward and punishment
- B.
Operant conditioning; respondent conditioning
- C.
General behavioral tendencies; specific learned motivational tendencies
- D.
Classical conditioning; observational learning
- 11.Which theorist had a substantial intellectual influence on Mischel's ideas about the cognitive-affective personality system?
- A.
George Kelly
- B.
Gordon Allport
- C.
Sigmund Freud
- D.
Hands Eysenck
- 12.Behaviorists believe that personality differences can be entirely explained by
- A.
Learning
- B.
Behavioral traits
- C.
Phenomenological processes
- D.
IQ
- 13.John Locke’s conception of the newborn mind as a tabula rasa (blank slate) is closely associated with the idea of
- A.
Associationism
- B.
Empiricism
- C.
Rationalism
- D.
Existenianlism
- 14.According to principles of hedonism, the objective is to seek pleasure even if it involves some pain
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.An individual with an internal locus of control typically tends to have low generalized expectanices
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.From the perspective of expectancy value theory, your belief about how likely a behavior is to attain a certain goal is called your
- A.
Behavior potential
- B.
Expectancy
- C.
Reinforcement value
- D.
General self-efficacy
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