IT's All About Psychology Quiz
43 Questions
| Total Attempts: 523
These are questions from various Psychology chapters. This quiz is created to help me study for my final exam. This is the True and False section.
Questions and Answers
- 1.PSYCHOLOGY is considered a field that scientifically studies humans.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 2.Of the two basic kinds of psychologists, those that treat patients and clients are APPLIED PSYCHOLOGISTS.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 3.The COGNITIVE APPROACH says that learning is the main cause of humans behaving as they do.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 4.According to the BIOPSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH, the physical system is considered to be the main cause of behavior.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 5.B.F. SKINNER was famous behaviorist who focused on observable behavior.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 6.Advanced language development is difficult to achieve beyond a certain critical period.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 7.Older parents are more likely to abuse their children than teenage parents.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 8.All children have the same maturation rate.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 9.Humans have the longest developmental period of any creature.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 10.Girls have a more steady growth cycle than boys.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 11.Each parenting style has fairly predictable effects on children.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 12.Most ninth and tenth graders are in the period of middle adolescence.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 13.puberty is influenced by the adrenal glands.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 14.the gonads and pituitary glands do not influence sexual maturation.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 15.hormones are glands that have an effect on sexual maturation.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 16.early and late maturers are both about one and one-half years or more off of the average maturer.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 17.anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder which involves excessive dieting.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 18.in a social contract, people agree to something because they believe it is in everyone’s best interest.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 19.generally, a father’s behavior contributes more to a child’s tendency to be delinquent than the behavior of the mother.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 20.There is a strong relationship between lack of achievement in school and delinquent behavior.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 21.being an early or late maturer can increase conflicts with parents.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 22.Lawrence Kohlberg felt everyone operates on the formal operation level.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 23.people who live by their own principles, no matter what the consequences, are operating on the conventional level of moral reasoning.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 24.both sexes experience puberty at the same time.
- A.
TRUE
- B.
FALSE
- 25.cognitive abilities affect moral reasoning.
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TRUE
- B.
FALSE
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