• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

(A) frequency

(B) timbre

(C) amplitude

(D) overtones

(E) saturation

25. Shannon forgot her pillow when she went camping, so she complained about having to sleep with her head flat the whole night. Her failure to fold up her jeans and sweater to use as a pillow-substitute best illustrates the effects of

(A) the availability heuristic

(B) functional fixedness

(C) confirmation bias

(D) the representativeness heuristic

(E) belief perseverance

26. According to Abraham Maslow, esteem needs must at least be partially met before one is prompted to satisfy

(A) belongingness needs

(B) physiological needs

(C) self-actualization needs

(D) love needs

(E) safety needs

27. The most widely used self-report inventory for personality assessment is the

(A) MMPI-2

(B) TAT

(C) WAIS-R

(D) Rorschach

(E) PSAT

28. Behavioral therapy typically alters the patterns of responding of clients by

(A) helping patients identify a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences

(B) vigorously challenging clients’ illogical ways of thinking

(C) influencing patients by controlling the consequences of their actions

(D) repeating or rephrasing what a client says during the course of therapy

(E) focusing attention on clients’ positive and negative feelings toward their therapists.

29. Scott tried to unscramble the letters NEBOTYA for 20 minutes to spell a word, but was not successful. While walking to class, the answer suddenly came to him that the word was BAYONET. This exemplifies

(A) classical conditioning

(B) operant conditioning

(C) the law of effect

(D) insight

(E) observational learning

30. A disorder characterized by delusions of persecution, hallucinations, and disordered thinking is

(A) paranoid schizophrenia

(B) anorexia nervosa

(C) conversion disorder

(D) hypochondriasis

(E) organic mental disorder

31. Jyoti notes the behavior of people as they wait in line for tickets to rock concerts. Which of the following research methods is she using?

(A) naturalistic observation

(B) survey

(C) controlled experiment

(D) quasi-experiment

(E) case study

32. In daylight, objects that reflect all wavelengths of light appear

(A) black

(B) white

(C) dull

(D) ultraviolet

(E) infrared

33. The Intelligence Quotient is defined as the

(A) chronological age/mental age × 100

(B) performance score/verbal score × 100

(C) mental age/chronological age × 100

(D) verbal score/performance score × 100

(E) range/standard deviation × 100

34. According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the first reaction of a person faced with a terminal illness is

(A) acceptance

(B) anger

(C) bargaining

(D) denial

(E) depression

35. When Jared saw shadows of people on the walls of his bedroom, his blood pressure increased and his breathing rate sped up. These physical reactions were most directly regulated by his

(A) sensorimotor system

(B) somatic nervous system

(C) sympathetic nervous system

(D) pineal gland

(E) parasympathetic nervous system

36. Which psychoactive drugs are most frequently prescribed to relieve pain?

(A) stimulants

(B) depressants

(C) antidepressants

(D) antipsychotics

(E) narcotics

37. During the manic phase of a bipolar disorder, individuals are most likely to experience

(A) high self-esteem

(B) delusions of persecution

(C) uncontrollable grief and despair

(D) visual hallucinations

(E) extreme sleepiness

38. Dan read a list of 30 vocabulary words only once. If he is typical and shows the serial position effect, we would expect that the words he remembers two days later are

(A) at the beginning of the list

(B) in the middle of the list

(C) at the end of the list

(D) distributed throughout the list

(E) unpredictable

39. Tony got accepted to the college he wants to attend, is going to the prom with a girl he really admires, and was hired for the summer job he sought. He has high

(A) self-efficacy

(B) self-doubt

(C) self-handicapping