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Introduction to Psychology

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_____ is a heightened awareness of the present moment, which can be applied to events in one’s environment and events in one’s own mind.
  • Mindfulness Correct
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_______ pertains to the ability to grapple with the big questions of human existence, such as meaning of life and death, with special sensitivity to issues of spirituality.
  • Existentialist Correct
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_________ emphasizes that personality is primarily unconscious or is beyond awareness, thus enduring patterns that make up personality are largely unavailable to out conscious awareness and they powerfully shape our behaviors.
  • Psychodynamic Perspective Correct
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_________ is a method of measuring personality characteristics that directly asks people whether specific items describe their personality traits.
  • Objective Test Correct
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_________ is a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts and emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
  • Personality Correct
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___________ is defined as the minimum intensity of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time.
  • Absolute Threshold Correct
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___________ memory is the conscious recollection of information such as specific facts and events and at least in humans, information that can be verbally communicated.
  • declarative Correct
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____________ is a heightened awareness of the present moment, which can be applied to events in one’s environment and events in one’s own mind.
  • Mindfulness Correct
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____________ produces mild hallucinations as well as physiological arousal and sometimes called the “love drug” because it produces feelings of euphoria, warmth, and connectedness with others.
  • Ecstasy Correct
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_____________ in depth perception require both eyes to allow us to perceive depth.
  • Binocular Cues Correct
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_____________ includes automatic processing that requires little attention?
  • Lower-Level Consciousness Correct
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_____________ occurs when someone is either physically or psychologically reliant on a drug’s effect.
  • Substance dependence Correct
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A biological theory of aging that argues that aging in the body's hormonal system can lower resistance to stress and increase the likelihood of the disease.
  • Hormonal Stress Theory Correct
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A classic research by Yerkes and Dodson which states that we function in accordance to a certain level.
  • Optimal Arousal Model Correct
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A condition when individual forgets something because it is so painful or anxiety laden that remembering is intolerable
  • Motivated Forgetting Correct
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A defense mechanism that is a special form of displacement in which the person expresses an unconscious wish in a socially valued way.
  • Sublimation Correct
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A defense mechanism wherein stress is reduced by returning to an earlier pattern of behavior.
  • Regression Correct
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A defense mechanism wherein the emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times by reducing it with the help of logic.
  • Intellectualization Correct
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A disorder that involves a sudden loss of memory or change of identity.
  • Dissociative disorders Correct
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A factor of personality characterized by being more likely than others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude, strong sense of meaning in life, and are more forgiving.
  • Extraversion Correct
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A form of learning in which the consequences of behavior lead to changes in the probability of its occurrence.
  • Operant conditioning Correct
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A form of mental training that can be used to calm the mind, stabilize concentration, or enhance awareness of the present moment.
  • Meditation Correct
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A form of psychotherapy that focuses on the accurate identification and communication of feelings and the improvement of current social relationships
  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy Correct
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A kind of conflict that requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain both positive and negative consequences.
  • Multiple approach-avoidance conflict Correct
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A method developed by Freud in which the symbols of the manifest content of dreams that are recalled by the patient are interpreted to reveal their latent content.
  • . Dream Interpretation Correct
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A normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. This results from appraisal of demands of a situation as exceeding our ability to cope with or manage those demands.
  • Stress Correct
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A part of the inner ear that is characterized as a coiled, fluid-filled tube about 1.4 inches long that resembles a snail. This is where the sound waves are turned into neutral impulses
  • Cochlea Correct
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A part of the inner ear that is characterized as a coiled, fluid-filled tube about 1.4 inches long that resembles a snail. This is where the sound waves are turned into neutral impulses.
  • Cochlea Correct
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A preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people to organize and interpret information
  • Schema Correct
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A preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people to organize and interpret information.
  • Schema Correct
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A psychoactive drug that stimulates the brain by blocking neurotransmitters that slow down our nervous system and cause sleep.
  • caffeine Correct
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A response is an organism's reaction to a stimulus.
  • True Correct
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A response is an organism’s reaction to a stimulus.
  • True Correct
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A sleep disorder in which a person falls asleep during alert times of the day.
  • Narcolepsy Correct
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A sleep disorder in which a person stops breathing while asleep.
  • Sleep Apnea Correct
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A term in classical conditioning wherein a response is elicited by the conditioned stimulus.The shape of the lens of the eye must change to focus the visual image on the retina from stimuli that are different distances from the eye.
  • Accommodation Correct
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A theoretical approach to psychological disorders that implies that these are influenced by biological factors such as genes, psychological factors such as childhood experiences and sociocultural factors such as gender.
  • Biopsychosocial model Correct
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A theory of dreaming that rests on the idea that dreams are essentially subconscious cognitive processing.
  • Cognitive Correct
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A tool used by Freud in which the patient is encouraged to talk about whatever comes to mind, allowing contents of the unconscious mind to slip past the censorship of the ego.
  • Free Association Correct
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A type of effortful retrieval that occurs when we are confident that we know something but cannot quite pull it out of memory
  • Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon Correct
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A type of effortful retrieval that occurs when we are confident that we know something but cannot quite pull it out of memory.
  • Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon Correct
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A type of reinforcement that is learned by association, usually via classical conditioning like money, grades, and peer approval.
  • Secondary reinforcers Correct
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A type of reinforcement that is learned by association, usually via classical conditioning like money, grades, and peer approval.Things that are close together are usually perceived as belonging together.
  • Proximity Correct
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According ___________self-actualization is the motivation to develop one’s full potential as human being. A person at this optimal level of existence would be tolerant of others, have a gentle sense of humor, and be likely to pursue the greater good.
  • Abraham Maslow Correct
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According to _____________, pitch perception occurs when the brain notices which portions of the basilar membrane are being most excited by incoming sound waves.
  • Place Theory Correct
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According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the dream’s true meaning
  • Manifest Content Correct
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According to Freud, this refers to the dream’s hidden content; it unconscious and true meaning.
  • Latent Content Correct
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According to_____________, the amount of the change in a stimulus needed to be detected half the time is in direct proportion to the intensity of the original stimulus.
  • Weber’s law Correct
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American Psychologists Martin Seligman and Ed Diener introduced behaviorism.
  • False - Positive psychology Correct
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An American psychologist who formulated the “law of effect”.
  • Edward Thorndike Correct
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An eclectic approach integrates or combines several perspectives to provide a more complete picture of behavior
  • True Correct
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An eclectic approach integrates or combines several perspectives to provide a more complete picture of behavior.
  • True Correct
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An example of concept is __________________.
  • A vegetable Correct
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Any changeable phenomenon that a scientist studies is called ______________.
  • Variable Correct
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Any form of patient opposition to the process of psychoanalysis.
  • Interpretation of Resistance Correct
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are culturally determined guidelines that tell people what behavior is expected of them
  • Social roles Correct
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At this stage (2 – 7 years), the child is capable of symbolic thought – however, this thinking is still quite different from that of adults. It is often “illogical” in ways that reveal the unique nature of preoperational cognition
  • Preoperational Stage Correct
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behavior interferes with everyday functioning and occasionally can be a risk to oneself or others.
  • Dysfunctional Correct
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behavior leads to real discomfort or anguish, either in the person directly or in others
  • Distressing Correct
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behavior leads to real discomfort or anguish, either in the person directly or in others.
  • Distressing Correct
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Categories by which the mind groups things, events, and characteristics are called_____.
  • Concepts Correct
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Clinical psychology applies findings in all areas of psychology in the workplace.
  • False Correct
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Clinicalpsychology applies findings in all areas of psychology in the workplace.
  • Industrial and Organization Correct
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Closer objects tend to be partially in front of, or partially cover up, more distant objects.
  • Superposition Correct
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Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with psychological problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of delivering such services as outreach programs
  • True Correct
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Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with psychological problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of delivering such services as outreach programs.
  • True Correct
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Cones are concentrated in the ___________.
  • Fovea Correct
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Conflict in which achieving a positive goal will produce a negative outcome as well.
  • . Approach-avoidance conflict Correct
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Conflict in which an individual must choose between two negative outcomes of approximately equal value.
  • Avoidance-avoidance conflict Correct
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Conflict in which the individual must choose between two positive goals of approximately equal value
  • . Approach-approach conflict Correct
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Conflicts over dangerous motives or feelings are avoided by unconsciously transforming them into the opposite desire
  • Reaction formation Correct
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Critical thinking involves two mental habits such as _______and ______.
  • Mindfulness and open-mindedness Correct
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Darwin’s theory speculated that certain behaviors or traits that enhance survival are naturally selected
  • True Correct
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Darwin’s theory speculated that certain behaviors or traits that enhance survival are naturally selected.
  • True Correct
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Deductive reasoning starts at _________and goes to _____________.
  • The general; the specific Correct
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