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(A) high academic self-efficacy

(B) an internal locus of control

(C) an external locus of control

(D) high achievement motivation

(E) achieved self-actualization

70. Which of the following is NOT an anxiety disorder?

(A) panic disorder

(B) hypochondriasis

(C) agoraphobia

(D) post-traumatic stress disorder

(E) obsessive-compulsive disorder

71. Which of the following is not considered a primary facial expression?

(A) surprise

(B) disgust

(C) anger

(D) love

(E) fear

72. The most common form of Down syndrome results during sex cell formation and fertilization from

(A) three copies of chromosome 19

(B) three copies of chromosome 21

(C) loss of a chromosome

(D) failure of the separation of XX

(E) failure of the separation of XY

73. In time-out, a disruptive child who wants to stay with his/her class is removed from the classroom. This exemplifies

(A) positive reinforcement

(B) negative reinforcement

(C) positive punishment

(D) omission training

(E) classical conditioning

74. According to activation-synthesis theory,

(A) the brain counteracts a strong positive emotion by evoking a negative emotion

(B) dreams result from the mind’s attempt to make sense of random neural activity from the brainstem

(C) happiness depends on comparing one’s present circumstances with one’s past circumstances

(D) particular facial expressions induce particular emotional experiences

(E) hypnosis induces a dissociated state of consciousness

75. According to the opponent process theory of emotions,

(A) red emotions are followed by green emotions

(B) happiness and unhappiness combine to keep someone relatively stable over a lifetime

(C) repetitions of an emotion-arousing event strengthen the opposing emotion

(D) opposing emotions after a primary emotion are always weaker than the primary one

(E) judgments of emotions are relative to a neutral level defined by prior experience

76. After dealing kindly with several customers who acted very rudely toward her, the clerk was impatient with her next customer. The tendency of that customer to think that the clerk is a very impatient person rather than just having a bad day exemplifies

(A) stereotyping

(B) the fundamental attribution error

(C) the mere exposure effect

(D) the reciprocity norm

(E) groupthink

77. Abnormal behavior can be defined as maladaptive behavior according to

(A) biologists

(B) behaviorists

(C) psychoanalysts

(D) humanists

(E) cognitivists

78. Use of brainstorming to solve a problem best encourages which of the following?

(A) divergent thinking

(B) convergent thinking

(C) deductive reasoning

(D) groupthink

(E) conformity

79. According to trait theorists, such as Hans Eysenck, the basis for personality is

(A) conflicting sources of psychic energy

(B) the distinctive human ability to act purposefully and to shape our own destiny

(C) the interactions between thought and the environment, which influence behavior

(D) stable sources of individual differences that characterize an individual, based on an interaction of nature and nurture

(E) evolutionary adaptation

80. In response to a column printed in newspapers throughout the United States, an advice columnist received over 28,000 responses. Over 75% of respondents said that if they had it to do over again, they would not have children. The columnist concludes that most parents are sorry that they had children. For which of the following reasons is her conclusion not valid?

(A) Her participants were not randomly assigned in her study.

(B) The number of respondents from across the country was too small.

(C) The study was not replicated.

(D) Her sample may not have been representative of the population.

(E) The study should have been a double-blind study.

81. According to social learning theory, gender identity results primarily from

(A) chromosomal differences in the sex chromosomes and hormones