PSY 200 Midterm Exam Study Guide Questions
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Abraham Maslow was associated with which of the following schools of psychology? - (correct answer) -Humanistic
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According to Sigmund Freud, the unconscious: - (correct answer) -contains memories and urges that control behavior
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B.F. Skinner is most clearly linked with: - (correct answer) -the behaviorist view in psychology
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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are most closely associated with: - (correct answer) -humanism
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Gestalt psychologists would most likely agree with the: - (correct answer) -philosophical position known as nativism
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Immanuel Kant is most closely associated with which of the following? - (correct answer) -empiricism
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John Watson felt that: - (correct answer) -mental events cannot be publicly observed and fall outside the domain of science
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The goal in behaviorism is to: - (correct answer) -discover how changes in the environment can lead to changes in measurable
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The goal in functionalism is to: - (correct answer) -understand the purpose of immediate conscious experience
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The goal in structuralism is to: - (correct answer) -understand immediate conscious experience by breaking it down into basic
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The idea that psychological disorders are influenced by a combination of biological, cognitive, and environmental factors is
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called the: - (correct answer) -bio-psycho-social perspective
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The anxiety disorder that causes people to restrict their movements, so they typically avoid crowded or public places, is: -
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(correct answer) -agoraphobia
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The Big Five Theory of personality may prove useful in accounting for the complexity of: - (correct answer) -personality
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Rose has anorexia nervosa and is slowly starving herself to death. However, she claims that she feels fine, and she doesn't
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understand why other people don't leave her alone. In this example, Rose's eating disorder would most likely be considered:
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- (correct answer) -dysfunctional and psychologically abnormal
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder involves: - (correct answer) -persistent and uncontrollable thoughts, accompanied by the ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
compelling need to perform repetitive acts
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Insanity is a: - (correct answer) -legal term ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
When something bad happens to a person prone to depression, he or she is likely to explain it using external, unstable,
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specific attributions. - (correct answer) -False
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The delusions experienced by individuals with schizophrenia are perceptions that are not based on any external stimulation. -
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(correct answer) -True
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