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1 Psychologists utilize the scientific method of research, in which hypotheses are ________, data are _________, and results are ____________.

a. interpreted, published, tested

b. published, tested, interpreted

c. tested, interpreted, published.

2. A reconstruction of a person’s life to discover the background leading to the current situation.

a. experiment

b. survey, questionnaire

c. case study

3. Psychology is a science of

a. behavior and problem –solving

b. problem –solving and cognition

c. behavior and cognition

4. The ultimate aim for psychologists is to understand _________ and help__________.

a. behavior, people

b. behavior, cognition

c. cognition, children

5. Which of the following is not one of the 4 basic goals of psychology?

a. observation

b. description

c. control

6. An event that increases the probability that the behavior which proceeds it, will be repeated.

a. shaping

b. reinforcement

c. punishment

7. Which of the major concepts represents a person’s most basic biological drives?

a. superego

b. id

c. ego

1. One of the following psychologists was not a psychoanalytic psychologist.

a. Freud

b. Cattel

c. Adler

9. Which of the following is not one of the 3 goals of personality?

a. to organize the characteristics of personality

b. to describe the normal, healthy personality

c. to put feelings and knowledge together

10. The distinctive patterns of behavior/cognition that characterize a person’s adaptation to life

a. psychology

b. personality

c. psychiatry

1. According to Yung there are two attitudes to control ego:

a. thinking and feeling

b. sensing and intuiting

c. extraversion and introversion

1. Adler saw human beings as motivated primary by a drive for ___________

a. superiority

b. identification

c. maturation

13. According to Horney there are 3 types of personality, which is not one of them?

a. the competent personality

b. the compliant personality

c. the detached personality

14. Developing trust and feeling comfortable with others is emphasized by:

a. Psychoanalytic theorists

b. Humanistic theorists.

c. Behaviorists.

15. According to that psychologist the aim of healthy personality is to achieve a kind of wholeness.

a. Freud

b. Jung

c. Adler

16.. _______people believe that if they work hard, they will be rewarded; _______ people tend to perceive that reinforcement is independent of their behavior.

a. internal, external

b. external, internal

c. both internal

17. Our memory has _________ basic components.

a. 4

b. 2

c. 3

18. According to his theory the individual strives to be a fully functioning person in the good life.

a. Rogers

b.Maslow

c. Jung

19. Who is the author of self-actualization theory?

a. Rogers

b. Maslow

c. Jung

20. The process of putting info into our memory system

a. encoding

b. storage

c. retrieval

21. The process that retains info in our memory system for some length of time

a. encoding

b. storage

c. retrieval

22. Which level of hierarchy of needs is the lowest?

a. safety needs

b. esteem needs

c. physiological needs

23. It refers to the knowledge of one’s own memory ability.

a. Semantic memory

b. Metamemory

c. Episodic memory

24. Decay appears to be a problem of

a. retrieval

b. storage

c. repression

25. When we forget, because we want to forget, we use

a. decay

b. storage

c. repression

26. Pulling info out of the memory system

a. encoding

b. storage

c. retrieval

27. The key to encoding in _______ is to organize the material and make it meaningful.

a. short term memory

b. long term memory

c. iconic memory

28. The brief persistence of auditory stimuli after the sound itself has ended – is the work of

a. iconic memory

b. retrieval memory

c. echoic memory

29. Working memory, immediate memory, active memory – are the various terms for

a. short term memory

b. long term memory

c. iconic memory

30. Which is not an example of associate learning:

a. operant conditioning

b. classical conditioning

c. cognitive learning

31. Which of the following is not a basic principle of classical conditioning?

a. stimulus generalization

b. acquisition

c. experimental tasks

32. The relatively permanent change of behavior or behavioral ability by an individual that occurs as a result of experience

a. intelligence

b. learning

c. thinking

33. Learning involves associations between the events in the _________(stimuli), and our ___________ (responses).

a. environment, behavior

b. environment, mistakes

c. behavior, environment

34. Who was the first one to set an experiment on cats by the principle of trial and error learning?

a. Skinner

b.Watson

c. Thorndike

35. ________ decreases the likelihood that the behavior preceding will be repeated.

a. aggression

b. punishment

c. cooperation

36. Insight, latent learning, observational learning – are the types of ________ learning.

a. cognitive

b. operant conditioning

c. shaping of behavior

37. Who stated the following: behavior becomes learned or operantly conditioned, only when it is regularly followed by reinforcement.

a. C. Rogers

b. B. Skinner

c. C. Jung

38. An example of basic principle of operant conditioning, generalization:

a. When a child calls all women ‘mama’

b. If you fail the exam, you may try working harder next semester

c. Reinforce the child when he calls only his/her mother ‘mama’.

39. Coming up with new unusual responses

a. convergent thinking

b. creativity

c. independent thinking

40. ___________ people tend to enjoy doing things because of internal motivation.

a. external

b. creative

c. intelligent

41. When we don’t have much information to guide us in problem solving, we often use

a. information processing

b. trial-and-error learning

c. insight

42. The sensitivity to others and honesty with self and others:

a. learning

b. maturation

c. intelligence

43. The first IQ test was designed by

a. Steinberg

b. Binet

c. Spearman

44. Intelligent tests measure ____________ thinking, creativity tests measure __________ thinking.

a. convergent, divergent

b. divergent, convergent

c. both measure divergent thinking.

45. Creative people do not

a. enjoy doing things because of internal motivation

b. need freedom to choose activities

c. tend to be codependent.

46. Coming up with single correct response is

a. convergent thinking

b. creativity

c. divergent thinking

47. Which statement does not apply to intelligence.

a. the ability to verbalize, solve problems, achieve goals

b.mental activity of manipulating symbols

c. the capacity to learn and behave adaptively.

48. Who thought of intelligence as the combination of general and specific factors in order

to achieve success?

a.Spearman

b. Skinner

c. Stenberg

49. 75 is ______ level of IQ

a. an average

b. a high

c. a low

50. The language we speak influences the way we ______ and _______ the world around us.

a. perceive, see

b.think,see

c. think, perceive