1. 1. Lewis Terman's study of gifted children best illus- trates which of the following types of research? A) Longitudinal B) Cross-sectional C) Experimental D) Quasi-experimental E) Qualitative 2. 2. According to the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, minor brain abnormalities begin early in life, pro...
1 1 lewis termans study of gifted children best illus trates which of the following types of research a longitudinal b cross sectional c experimental d quasi experimental e qualitative 2
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1. 1. Lewis Terman's study of gifted children best
A) Longitudinal
illus- trates which of the following types of
research?
A) Longitudinal
B) Cross-sectional
C) Experimental
D) Quasi-experimental
E) Qualitative
2. 2. According to the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, B) Schizophrenia
minor brain abnormalities begin early in life,
probably at or before birth, and are associated with
which of the following disorders?
A) Depression
B) Schizophrenia
C) Panic disorder
D) Anorexia nervosa
E) Dissociative identity disorder
3. 3. Research indicates that ratings of personality A) implicit
traits tend to intercorrelate in consistent ways, even theories of
when persons rate others whom they scarcely know. personality
This finding provides direct evidence for
A) implicit theories of personality
B) the five-factor theory of personality structure
C) social facilitation
D) the longitudinal stability of personality traits
E) delayed impression formation
4. 4. Most people follow an approximately 24-hour
schedule of wakefulness and sleepiness, even D) cycles of ac-
under constant lighting and temperature, because of tivity
A) sensitivity to cosmic rays and other radiation generated in
that vary on a 24-hour basis the
B) sensitivity to fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic hypothalamus
field of the brain
C) learned habits of activity and inactivity
D) cycles of activity generated in the hypothalamus
of the brain
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E) a feedback cycle between pituitary hormones
and adrenal hormones
5. 5. The test item "Getting what I want has little or E) locus of contro
nothing to do with luck" is most likely to be from
a measure of
A) authoritarianism
B) manifest anxiety
C) social loafing
D) addictive personality
E) locus of control
6. 6. The approach to studying personality that E) ideographic
focuses on intra-individual tendencies and their
organization is called
A) nomothetic
B) factor analytic
C) transactional
D) situational
E) idiographic
7. 7. The term "receptive field" refers to
D) the portion
A) those aspects of speech that are spared after of a sensory
le- sions of Wernicke's area field to which
B) slow, graded potentials associated with
a cell re-
dendritic activity
sponds
C) The range of stimulus values that can be
encoded by a given cell
D) the portion of a sensory field to which a cell re-
sponds
E) the area of postsynaptic uptake of a
neurotransmit- ter
8. 8. Which of the following is the best example of
a placebo effect?
D) Improvement
in a condition
fol-
A) Recovery from a disorder as the result of the mere lowing treatment
passage of time B) A drug-
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induced change in the pathognomonic, but not in with a
the accessory, symptoms of a disorder pharmaco-
C) The primary prevention of a disorder by a drug logically inert
sub- stance
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D) Improvement in a condition following 12.12. When a
treatment with a pharmacologically inert conditioned
substance response is
E) Spontaneous recovery from a disorder in the measured on
ab- sence of any intervention the first
extinction
9. 9. An individual having which of the following dis- trial, what is
orders would be LEAST likely to experience guilt the usual
or remorse? result?
A) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
B) Generalized anxiety disorder
C) Antisocial personality disorder
D) Schizophrenia
E) Depression
10.10. The Schizophrenia scale (Sc) of the MMPI was
initially developed by contrasting the item
responses of patients diagnosed as schizophrenic
with the item responses of which of the following
groups?
A) Adolescent nonpsychiatric medical patients
B) Patients with a variety of organic mental
disorders
C) Students from a university counseling center
D) A random sample of medical personnel
E) Adults believed to have no psychiatric disorders
11.11. In an experiment, Maria, a college senior, is
asked to evaluate the first-year performance of
several col- lege freshmen and then to decide
whether or not they merit financial aid. AS a basis
for comparison, Maria recalls her own GPA at the
end of her freshman year and then compares the
performance of the students to her own performance
at the time. This situation best illustrates
A) Einstelling
B) anchoring
C) vividness
D) alignment
E) simulation
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