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PSY 101: Exam 4
Reaction formation refers to the process by which people
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consciously express feelings that are the opposite of unacceptable unconscious impulses
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young teens are most likely to start smoking in order to
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facilitate their social acceptance
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individuals from individualist cultures are ___ likely to commit the fundamental attribution error than people of colectivistic cultures
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more |
according to the DVD, the psychopath under investigation was from what company |
canada |
mental health workers label behavior psychologically disordered when they judge it |
atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable |
a hormone that increases heart rate, BP, and blood sugar levels in times of emergency is:
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epinephrine |
the experience of multiple personalities is most likely to be characterized by: |
a massive dissociation of self from ordinary consciousness |
the general adaptation syndrome describes stages in the: |
body's responses to prolonged stress |
people tend to ___ their daily calorie intake and ___ their daily PA |
underestimate;overestimate |
the perception that one's fate is determined by luck reflects: |
an external locus of control |
the term psychotic disorders is most often used in contrast to the less debitation ___ disorders |
neurotic |
DSM-IV is widely used for |
classifying psychological disorders |
university students were observed to pull harder on a rope when they were pulling alone than when they thought three others were pulling with them on the same rope, this best illustrates |
social loafing |
broca's aphasics suffer difficulties in: |
producing speech |
as her professor distributed the math test to the class, Blair's heart started pounding and her palms began to sweat. These physiological reactions were activated by her ___nervous system |
sympathetic |
adina wants advice on how to cope with the stress of college life. She would be best advised to approach college with a sense of personal: |
control and optimism |
delusion of persecution are most common among those with ___ schizophrenia |
paranoid |
when a mild-mannered woman had an electrode implanted in her amygdala, she: |
developed more aggressive tendencies |
a generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by: |
a continuous state of tension, a apprehension, and autonomic nervous system arousal |
lymphocytes are... |
white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system |
residents of urban ghettos are especially likely to experience |
hypertension |
factor analysis has been used to identify the most basic: |
personality traits |
carl rogers suggested that the ___ is a central feature of personality
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self concept
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what percentage of individuals is Milgram's conformity experiment shocked people at the XXX level
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65% |
the university's psychology department created anew program that applies behavioral and medical knowledge to health and disease. state universy will clearly be offering a new degree in: |
behavioral medicine |
according to the social identity theory, personal self-esteem is related to: |
social identities |
kansa insists that her boyfriend's car accident resulted from carelessness. her explanation for her accident provides as ex of: |
dispositional attribution |
according to you DVD on the mind of the psychopath, how much likely is a psychopath likely to violently reoffend than a non psycho? |
four times more likley |
in the Stanford for prison experiment what job did one of the prisoners purse 14 yrs. after the experiment? |
prison psychologist |
in the stanford experiment, how long was the experiment supposed to run and how long did it actually run |
2 weeks, 6 days |
during the early psychosexual stages, the ID derives pleasure from distinct: |
erogenous zones |
according to your DVD on the mind of the psychopath normal individuals score around a 5 on the psychopath inventory; psychopaths score an excess of ___ on the same measure |
30 |
the james lange theory of emotion states that: |
an emotion - arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both physiological arousal and the subjective experience of emotion |
according the your DVD on the mind of the psychopath, dr. hade suggest that traditional therapies used in the criminal justice system to rehabilitate prisoners |
are not effetive with psychopaths |
are not effetive with psychopaths |
involvement was taken too seriously resulting in unethical behavior |
what did the prisoners nick-name the most sadistic guard? |
john wayne |
according to the medical model, psychological disorders are: |
sicknesses that need to be diagnosed and cured |
friedman and rosenman referred to the competitive, hard-driving, impatient, and easily angered individuals as ___ personalities |
type A |
scratchers theory of emotion, participants injected with epinephrine prior to spending time with either a happy or irritated person support the idea that |
our experience of emotion depends on how we interpret bodily arousal |
in the standford prison experiment, what was the reaction of one guar 2 weeks after the experiment |
they were shocked with their level or role playing |
which branch of psychology is most directly concerned with the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another? |
social psychology |
in which type of disorder is a person's speech likely to e so full of unrelated words and phrases that it could be characterized as a "world salad"
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schizophrenia |
the defense mechanism by which people disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others is called |
projection |
who suggested that we feel sorry because we cry...afraid because we tremble |
william james |
projective tests are most closely associated with the ___ prespctive |
psychoanalytic |
the foot -in-door phenomenon refers to the tendency to: |
comply with a large request if one has previously complied with a small request |
a condition in which an individual is overexcited, hyperactive, and widely optimist |
a manic episode |
a psychotherapist instructs Dane to relax, close his eyes. and state aloud whatever thought come to mind no matter how tribal or absurd. The therapists is using a technique called: |
free association |
the idea that anger is reduced through aggressive acton or fantasy is knows as |
catharsis hypotheses |
realistic group convict theory proposes |
competition is the root of prejudice and discrimination |