PSYC 2301 FINAL TEST PREP 3

#1. Young children sometimes literally interpret sentences like "Do you know where your mommy is?" by answering "Yes." They failed to understand the ________ of the question.

#2. Don tells Ray that he wants to get a new sports car. Ray immediately understands why, because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called ________.

#3. Emotion has been defined as having three elements. Please identify which choice below is NOT one of the three elements.

#4. What did Terman's groundbreaking study of gifted children accomplish?

#5. Desperate for help with her computer, Dana calls her fiancé, thinking that he will know what to do because he is a man, and men are natural fixers. Dana's thinking in this instance is an example of ________.

#6. Primary drives are caused by ________.

#7. You are walking in the forest and see a bear. According to the Cannon-Bard theory, what happens next?

#8. Which two different terms best describe Schachter and Singer's theory of emotion?

#9. What percent of the population has an intelligence quotient below 100?

#10. Drives that are learned through experience are called ________ drives.

#11. Psychology has many terms for human sexuality concepts. What is an alternative term for hermaphroditism?

#12. The ________ system is to boys as the ________ system is to girls.

#13. According to Robert Sternberg, which type of intelligence is least likely to predict success in an academic environment?

#14. Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of ________.

#15. Based on the studies of girls who were exposed to androgens before birth, which of the following statements is true?

#16.Lashley (1938) stated that the thalamus would have to be pretty sophisticated to make sense of all the possible emotions and relay them to the proper areas of the cortex and body. Which theory of emotion was Lashley criticizing?

#17. Schachter and Singer proposed that two things have to happen before emotion occurs: ________ and ________.

#18. Which of the following is a desirable characteristic of culture-fair tests?

#19. Extrinsic motivation is defined as ________.

#20. Bobby is a very active 5-year old compared to others in his class. He appears to seek a great deal of stimulation, and is very playful, curious, and explorative. Bobby's seemingly unlearned motives, which are likely to increase stimulation, are called ________.

#21. Maslow's work has had an impact on the field of ________.

#22. According to Ekman, which of the following is NOT one of the universal facial expressions?

#23. Which is the best explanation of the Cannon-Bard theory?

#24. ________ can vary from culture to culture and are socially acceptable ways of showing emotion in public settings.

#25. Which of the following statements would best be associated with Carol Dweck?

#26. Which of the following statements about gifted people is true?

#27. Alfred Binet designed the first ________ test.

#28. Paul Ekman and his colleagues gathered abundant evidence supporting the universality of ________ basic facial expressions of emotion.

#29. When men and women view erotic pictures, the ________ are more strongly activated in men than women.

#30. Obesity is defined as the condition of being at least _____ percent over the ideal body weight.

#31. Social ________ theory emphasizes the role of cognition in motivation and the importance of expectations in shaping behavior.

#32. Talia is looking for her cat by methodically searching each room and then closing the door. She is using what type of problem solving strategy?

#33. Which of the following statements is true about infants?

#34. Which of the following statements has research found to be accurate with regard to androgynous people?

#35. Traditional views of gender roles are more likely found in ________.

#36. A culture's expectation of masculine and feminine behaviors can be defined as ________.

#37. Thirst, sexual desire, and hunger are examples of ________ drives.

#38. ________ is a disorder in which the person either prefers to, or must, achieve sexual arousal and fulfillment through sexual behavior that is unusual or not socially acceptable.

#39. Which of the following is the correct order of the stages of the GTD method discussed in your chapter?

#40. Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking?

#41. Sydney said, "I don't care much about my grades as long as I'm the most popular girl in the class!" What need is this?

#42. Equipment to measure physiological activity during sexual activity was designed by ________.

#43. The concept of "comfort food" suggests that eating ________.

#44. The system of rules that governs how we assign meaning to the morphemes we use is called ________.

#45. Intrinsic motivation is one that propels a person to pursue an activity ________.

#46. Lance is in the 12th grade and is presently dating the head cheerleader, Ava. Lance is attracted to Ava, who is very feminine in her mannerisms, and Lance reports that he is attracted to girls who are petite and athletic. He and his buddies like to go "cruising for girls" on the weekends, but he has never strayed from Ava and is thinking about proposing to her after they graduate. He has never been attracted to any other boys. Lance is considered ________ in terms of his sexual orientation.

#47. Which of the following is suggested by your authors as helping to substantially improve cognitive health?

#48. According to Abraham Maslow, developing one's potential to its fullest extent results in ________.

#49. According to Carol Dweck, this type of person believes that intelligence is fixed, unchanging, and independent.

#50. In familial retardation, the degree of intellectual disability is typically ________.