A 10-year-old child is very interested in school and is proud of his athletic achievements. Peers are very important to him but he also gets along with his parents. Under stress he tends to become overfocused on details and slightly obsessive. At what stage is he, according to Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychosexual development

A 70-year-old woman has had three face-lifts and never leaves the house without makeup. She forbids her grandchildren to address her as “grandmother” and lies about her age. Which stage of development, according to Erikson, is she having difficulty mastering

In psychoanalytic theory, the superego a. Is totally unconscious

A 29-month-old boy plays with a ball, which rolls under a couch. The boy promptly crawls under the couch to retrieve the ball. According to Piaget’s theories of cognitive development, this behavior is characteristic of a thinking process called

A healthy 9-month-old girl, previously very friendly with everyone, now bursts into tears when she is approached by an unfamiliar adult. Her behavior is most likely due to

A healthy 9-month-old girl, previously very friendly with everyone, now bursts into tears when she is approached by an unfamiliar adult. This behavior is

Erikson’s developmental theories differ from Freud’s in that Erikson placed greater emphasis on

which of the following theories was not proposed by Sigmund Freud

all of the following are functions of the ego EXCEPT

Which of the following is not a mature defense mechanism

Which of the following is NOT a projective test

A boy recognies that the amount of water remains the same when transferred from a tall narrow glass to a wide mouthed glass. Which stage of piaget’s developmental model is likely to have attained

Which of the following theorists primarily focused on the importance of early interpersonal experiences in the development of a cohesive and stable sense of self

Extrinsic motivation stems from

Which of the following is a primary motive

A part of the nervous system that prepares the body for emergencies is the __________division.

The part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for restoring the body and conserving energy is the

A competitive diver approaches the end of the board with rapidly beating heart and a dry mouth, a result of increased

If the ventromedial hypothalamus is destroyed, a rat will

Which theory claims that emotions are organized in the brain and that emotional feelings and bodily expressions occur simultaneously

Which theory of emotion holds the view that bodily changes PRECEDE emotion and that we experience an emotion AFTER our body reacts

Sensory distortions and disturbed thinking reported by people who have undergone sensory deprivation support the __________ theory of motivation

The employees at a factory were excellent workers until a week before when news spread that economic conditions would force the managers to close the factory . The quality and quantity of work declined. Maslow would say that these workers were motivated by

The employees at a factory were excellent workers until a week before when news spread that economic conditions would force the managers to close the factory . The quality and quantity of work declined. Maslow would say that these workers were motivated by

According to Maslow's theory, the basic needs include

At the top of Maslow's hierarchy of motives are

---------------involve a mixture of physiological arousal, behavior, and thought

Emotions differ from moods in that emotions

If you see a lion in your living room, you will experience extreme arousal; if you see the same lion at the zoo, no such panic occurs. This illustrates

Cognitive appraisals are largely responsible for what aspect of emotions

Theorists differ in their views about patterns of physiological arousal and the differentiation of emotion. William James and Carl lange would argue that the patterns are ... for different emotions, schachter and Singer would argue that they are .....

The theory of William James differs from more recent theories of emotion, such as that of Schachter and Singer, in that James ignored the ________ aspect of emotion.

If you run up several flights of stairs and are then provoked, you are likely to respond more aggressively than if you had not just run up the stairs. These data support what aspect of emotions

The minimalist appraisal theories all reduce our emotional appraisals to

Which of the following statements about cognitive appraisals of emotions is correct

Imagine that as a child you had to undergo a series of painful treatments in a physician's office. Now as an adult, you return for a visit with the same physician and experience terrible fear while sitting in her waiting room. This is an example of

Positive emotional appraisals lead to what kind of tendencies in life

When we experience .... and .... skin temperature may be reduced

How are the physiological responses to the negative emotions different from the responses to positive emotions

According to the James-Lange theory of emotions, you know you are afraid of snakes because

A freshman student exclaimed, "I know I'm afraid of Dr. Jones because every time I enter his class I break out in a sweat and the muscles in my forehead tense up in a very special way." This statement best illustrates ________ theory of emotion

Studies of people attemting to identify emotional reactions in photographs of individuals from other cultures have shown that

You are joining the Peace Corps and are being given special training in the local customs, religion, and language of your host country. You would require the least training to properly understand which of the following

The learned aspects of emotional expression are called ________

Why might two individuals from widely different cultures be unable to recognize the expression of emotions in the same manner

Research indicates that facial expression may exert its influence on emotional experience

Your aunt Susan always tells you smile when ever you are sad What effect would this have on your emotions

What aspect of the emotions would be less susceptible to the effects of gender and culture

what aspect of the emotions would be most susceptible to the effects of gender and culture

Which of the following is the correct sequence for the motivational process

The employees at a factory were excellent workers until a week before Christmas when a rumor spread that economic conditions would force the plant to close in four days. The quality and quantity of work took a down turn as the workers spent time discussing among themselves the plausibility of the rumor and what they would do if it were true. Maslow would say that these workers were motivated by

Which theory of emotion holds the view that bodily changes PRECEDE emotion and that we experience an emotion AFTER our body reacts

Motivation is the process of initiating, __________, and directing activities of the organism

Which of the following statements about the sex drive is TRUE

Which theory claims that emotions are organized in the brain and that emotional feeling and bodily expressions occur simultaneously

If your body is dehydrated, but you are not thirsty, we would say that you have

Secondary motives are

The most common basis for differentiating between emotion and motivation assumes that the emotion is aroused by ________ and that motivation is aroused by ________

When traveling in a car, near objects seem to move past you faster than distant objects. This is called

The fact that objects that are near each other tend to be grouped together is known as

The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color, or form is known as

As a door opens toward you, you perceive it as a rectangular door rather than going through actual image changes on the retina (from rectangular to trapezoid). This is an example of

The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called

You observe two cars of identical make and model. Although one roars away and its image on your retina is changed, you still perceive the cars as identical. This phenomenon is

Decreased perceptual response to a repeated stimulus is called

A white shirt reflects more light outdoors than in a dimly lit room; however, it is seen as being equally bright in both places. This demonstrates the role of __________ in perception.

An ability to "read" another person's mind is termed

Sensations are organized into meaningful perceptions by

An imaginary perception, such as seeing, hearing, or smelling something that does not exist in the external world is called a(n)

Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as

Illusions are

As a door opens toward you, you perceive it as a rectangular door rather than going through actual image changes on the retina (from rectangular to trapezoid). This is an example of

The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called

Decreased perceptual response to a repeated stimulus is called

Sensations are organized into meaningful perceptions by

Television ads that are in black and white are just trying to take advantage of which attention getting technique

External stressors include the following except

Internal stressors include the following except

Distress includes the following except

Which of the following questions is an example of an artificial concept

An event schema is also known as cognitive______

_______ provides general principles for organizing words into meaningful sentences

______ are the smallest unit of language that carry meaning.

The meaning of words and phrases is determined by applying the rules of _____

______ is(are) the basic sound units of a spoken language

A specific formula for solving a problem is called ______

A mental shortcut in the form of a general problem-solving framework is called _____

Which of the following is not one of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

Which theorist put forth the triarchic theory of intelligence

When you are examining data to look for trends, which type of intelligence are you using most

he mean score for a person with an average IQ is ____

Who developed the IQ test most widely used today

The (A.P.A.2013) now uses _____ as a diagnostic label for what was once referred to as mental retardation.

A 4 year-old child is unable to consider another child’s ideas about playing house. This situation is an example of which concept of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development

The statement “Growth involves resolution of critical tasks through the eight stages of the life cycle” is a concept of which therapeutic model

Which scenario describes an individual in Erikson’s developmental stage of “old age” exhibiting a negative outcome of despair

Which is an example of an individual successfully completing Erikson’s “school age” stage of development

Which initial information gathered by the medical student is most important when assessing Erikson’s stages of development

According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which of the following individual actions would be considered most basic