SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Elementary Psychology
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
psychology
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
Stress as a Transaction
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Stress
2. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Door in the Face
Behavior: Extinction Method
Factors that predict relationship success
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
3. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Transformation of Motivation
achievement test
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Industry vs Inferiority
4. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
object permanence
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Cooperation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
5. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Rosenhan Experiment
Eustress
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
difference between piaget and vygotsky
6. No response to leaving or returning
preoperational
Perceptual Organization
latency stage
insecure-avoidant attachment
7. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
Realistic Conflict
Dysfunction
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
8. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Eustress
Public Conformity
Rational Emotive Therapy
Internalized Standard
9. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
Theory of Parental Investment
Eustress
10. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
Emotional Distress
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Industry vs Inferiority
11. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Interdependence Theory
HPA axis
preoperational
12. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Perceptual Organization
MMPI
Stress as a Transaction
13. Most common/successful intelligence test
insecure-anxious attachment
Emotional Distress
WAIS
anal stage
14. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
lexical hypothesis
Cialdini's Compliance
Internalized Standard
Pygmalion effect
15. Inconsistent behavior/confused
DSM-IV-TR
disorganized attachment
Token Economy
conservation
16. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Integrity vs Despair
Internalized Standard
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
17. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
External Attribution
DSM Axes
aptitude test
Stanley Milgram Study
18. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
concrete operational
Cognitive Dissonance
Cialdini's Compliance
External Attribution
19. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Obedience
General Adaptation Syndrome
Integrity vs Despair
20. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
TAT
projective tests
Kelley's Covariation Model
boy phallic stage
21. Sexually desire their mother
Cultural Deviance
oedipus complex
WAIS
projective tests
22. Change behavior - change attitude
Emotional Distress
To Reduce Dissonance...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Superego
23. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stress
Rational Emotive Therapy
Stress as a Transaction
24. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
aptitude test
Dysfunction
Factors that predict relationship success
Identity vs Role Confusion
25. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
26. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
DSM Axes
object permanence
conservation
sensorimotor
27. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Cognitive Therapy
Ego
anxiety
disorganized attachment
28. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Dependence
Causes of Schizophrenia
phallic stage
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
29. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Sheridan & King Study
attachment
Attitude
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
30. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Stanford Prison Study
Schizophrenia
Transformation of Motivation
Fundamental Attribution Error
31. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Behavior Therapy
Trust vs Mistrust
MMPI
castration complex
32. Ask for a small favor first - followed up with a larger request - if you say yes once - you are more likely to say yes later
Behavior: Extinction Method
Verbal Comprehension
Dependence
Foot in the Door
33. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
Conformity
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Basic Cognitive Therapy
34. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Social Roles
lexical hypothesis
Discrimination
35. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Cattell's Source Traits
projective tests
aptitude test
36. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
disorganized attachment
TriPartite Model: Behavior
latency stage
secure attachment
37. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Social Roles
Factors that predict relationship success
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
38. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
disorganized attachment
Autonomy vs Doubt
Integrity vs Despair
Cognitive Therapy
39. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Causes for Phobias
Factors that predict relationship success
Stress
Psychopathology
40. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Flynn Effect
conservation
girl phallic stage
Integrity vs Despair
41. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Working Memory
Theory of Parental Investment
castration complex
Shaping
42. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Attributions
Things that can influence IQ scores
secure attachment
Cognitive Therapy
43. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Shaping
Obedience
insecure-avoidant attachment
internalization
44. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
secure attachment
Normative Influence
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Psychology
45. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Things that can influence IQ scores
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Trust vs Mistrust
disorganized attachment
46. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
achievement test
Identity vs Role Confusion
Things that can influence IQ scores
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
47. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Normative Influence
Id
Intimacy vs Isolation
48. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Trust vs Mistrust
egocentrism
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Working Memory
49. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Theory of Parental Investment
zone of proximal development
Internal Attribution
castration complex
50. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Causes of Schizophrenia
Internal Attribution
The Big Five
TriPartite Model: Behavior