Psychology : Jack is an adventuresome fellow who feels most alive

Psychology : Jack is an adventuresome fellow who feels most alive

Subject: Psychology    / General Psychology
Question
QUESTION 1

Jack is an adventuresome fellow who feels most alive when he is putting his life at risk. Marvin Zuckerman would say that Jack is high in
self-actualization
impulse behavior
sensation seeking
self-monitoring

1 points

QUESTION 2

Social schemas are best defined as
patterns of social behavior one is most likely to perform
organized clusters of ideas about people or social events
tendencies to view those who are different than us in a negative way
widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group

1 points

QUESTION 3

“The Oedipal complex, of such great importance in Freud’s thinking, occurs during the __________ stage of psychosexual development.”
oral
anal
phallic
latency

1 points

QUESTION 4

“According to Seligman, what are the consequences of being a pessimist?”
greater likelihood of depression
lower acheivement
chronic illness later in life
all of the above

1 points

QUESTION 5

“Parental investment theory predicts that in comparison to women, men show __________ interest in sexual activity, and __________ willingness to engage in uncommitted sex.”
less; more
more; less
less; less
more; more

1 points

QUESTION 6

Research suggests that the synchronization of menstruation in women living in group settings may be related to
social factors
group routines
pheromones
dietary factors

1 points

QUESTION 7

Someone with latent homosexual urges strongly and loudly condemns gays. This person may well be using the defense mechanism of
repression
projection
rationalization
reaction formation

1 points

QUESTION 8

“The “”bystander effect”” is the finding that”
the probability that a witness to an emergency will help increases as the number of bystanders increases
a group of witnesses to an emergency will all tend to cooperate to provide help
the probability that a witness to an emergency will help decreases as the number of bystanders increases
bystanders’ willingness to help depends on the seriousness of the emergency

1 points

QUESTION 9

“According to Rogers, for a child to develop a healthy personality the parents must”
avoid the use of punishment
address the child’s ego needs
exhibit unconditional love toward the child
create an atmosphere of intellectual stimulation

1 points

QUESTION 10

“What need was Abraham Maslow expressing when he said that “”what a man can be, he must be””?”
the need for superiority
the need for unconditional love
the need to self-actualize
the need to achieve

1 points

QUESTION 11

How did Jane Elliot demonstrate the arbitrary nature of predjudice?
she divided a class by socioeconomic status
she divided a class by eyecolor and asserted that one group was superior
she divided a class by hair color and asserted that one group was inferior
she activated social schemas by showing racist videos

1 points

QUESTION 12

“If you tend to overemphasize internal characteristics in explaining the behavior of others, you are evidencing the”
false consensus effect
situational attributional tendency
self-serving bias
fundamental attribution error

1 points

QUESTION 13

Recent evidence suggests that the __________ plays a particularly central role in the modulation of emotion.
amygdala
thalamus
temporal lobe
pineal gland

1 points

QUESTION 14

Imagine that your house is on fire and you are afraid. Which of the following explanations best represents Schachter’s two-factor theory?
“””I’m shaking because I’m afraid.”””
“””I’m afraid because I’m shaking.”””
“””My shaking must be due to fear, since my house is on fire.”””
“””My fear is a built-in, primary reaction to a dangerous situation.”””

1 points

QUESTION 15

Which of the following statements regarding homosexuality has not been supported by empirical evidence?
Male homosexuality is linked to genetic material on the X chromosome.
There are anatomical differences in the brain between homosexual and heterosexual men.
Homosexuality is a learned preference acquired when same-sex stimuli have been paired with sexual arousal.
Identical twins of homosexual men are more likely to be homosexual than are fraternal twins of homosexual men.