Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following statements about the relationship between stress and performance is true?
  • When we are bored we look for excitement; when we are overexcited we wish for more peace.
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • As stress levels increase from low to moderate, performance also increases.
  • Individuals will obey authority to the point of potentially causing serious harm to another person.
Luis works part-time after school to earn money so he can afford a new phone. Luis is working because of ________ motivation.
  • intrinsic
  • naturalistic observation
  • extrinsic
  • teratogens
Theorists who view development as ________ believe that development takes place in unique stages.
  • inhibited.
  • social norm
  • discrimination
  • discontinuous
According to Erikson, after age 65 people are attempting to assess their lives and make sense of life and the meaning of their contributions. What is the primary developmental task of this stage?
  • concrete operational
  • object permanence
  • Stress weakens the immune system, so people with high stress levels should be more likely to get sick.
  • integrity vs. despair
Madeline is seven months old. Her mother is eating a cookie and Madeline wants some. Her mother hides the cookie under a napkin, but Madeline is not fooled. She knows the cookie is still there. What does this exemplify?
  • concrete operational
  • discrimination
  • object permanence
  • intrinsic
A developmental psychologist might use ________ to observe how children behave on a playground, at a daycare center, or in the child's own home.
  • naturalistic observation
  • extrinsic
  • concrete operational
  • fundamental attribution error
Which of the following strategies would effectively reduce prejudice between groups?
  • having groups meet under equal terms and cooperate on a task
  • Higher depression scores correlate with a higher risk of heart disease
  • teaching children to think independently and challenge social norms that promote racism
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
Which of the following is a example of experimental research?
  • Babies were given pacifiers that played a recording of the mother'svoice and of a stranger's voice. When the infants heard their mother'svoice, they sucked more strongly at the pacifier.
  • Higher depression scores correlate with a higher risk of heart disease
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • When we are bored we look for excitement; when we are overexcited we wish for more peace.
Who discussed the difference between concrete operations and formal operations?
  • Piaget
  • Naomi believes she can successfully complete law school.
  • discontinuous
  • Milgram lied to his participants, making his study potentiallyunethical.
What is a major problem with the original Milgramstudy?
  • telling someone with dyslexia she cannot learn to read, leading her to become illiterate even though she could indeed learn to read
  • discontinuous
  • Piaget
  • Milgram lied to his participants, making his study potentiallyunethical.
If you suggest that smiling can make someone feel happier, then you are relying on the:
  • others have false beliefs
  • facial feedback hypothesis
  • social norm
  • According to the James-Lange theory, emotions arise directly from physiological arousal; according to the Schachter-Singer theory, emotions include a cognitive attribution factor and a physiological factor.
Which of the following is an example of self-efficacy
  • Naomi believes she can successfully complete law school.
  • Tyler visits his aunt once a week to bring her groceries because he wants to.
  • Milgram lied to his participants, making his study potentiallyunethical.
  • Piaget
alcohol and other drugs, certain medications, and infectious agents are examples of:
  • inhibited.
  • teratogens
  • extrinsic
  • others have false beliefs
Emily is a doctoral student in psychology. She plans to use ________ to complete her doctoral paper, asking individuals questions about how their thoughts, experiences, and beliefs differ over a 10-year period.
  • surveys
  • intrinsic
  • resistant
  • Eustress
Which of the following strategies should effectively reduce racism?
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • When we are bored we look for excitement; when we are overexcited we wish for more peace.
  • teaching children to think independently and challenge social norms that promote racism
  • having groups meet under equal terms and cooperate on a task
Patients with damage to the amygdala
  • Individuals will obey authority to the point of potentially causing serious harm to another person.
  • exhibit almost no startle response.do not feel or express a normal fear responsehave difficulty recognizing fearful expressions in other people.
  • Babies were given pacifiers that played a recording of the mother'svoice and of a stranger's voice. When the infants heard their mother'svoice, they sucked more strongly at the pacifier.
  • an ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve
Which of the following is something an advocate for optimal arousal theory might observe?
  • When we are bored we look for excitement; when we are overexcited we wish for more peace.
  • As stress levels increase from low to moderate, performance also increases.
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • teaching children to think independently and challenge social norms that promote racism
Which of the following strategies would effectively reduce racism?
  • Higher depression scores correlate with a higher risk of heart disease
  • teaching children to think independently and challenge social norms that promote racism
  • having groups meet under equal terms and cooperate on a task
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
Which of the following is a way that the James-Lange theory of emotion differs from the Schachter-Singer theory of emotion?
  • facial feedback hypothesis
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • According to the James-Lange theory, emotions arise directly from physiological arousal; according to the Schachter-Singer theory, emotions include a cognitive attribution factor and a physiological factor.
  • As stress levels increase from low to moderate, performance also increases.
As defined in the text, which of the following best exemplifies prosocial behavior?
  • Naomi believes she can successfully complete law school.
  • Tyler visits his aunt once a week to bring her groceries because he wants to.
  • Stress weakens the immune system, so people with high stress levels should be more likely to get sick.
  • Piaget
One-year-old Ainsley learned the schema for trucks because his family has a truck. When Ainsley sees trucks on television, she says, "Look mommy, truck!" This exemplifies ________.
  • inhibited.
  • intrinsic
  • assimilation
  • discrimination
How can a study that involves exposing people to live viruses demonstrate a link between stress and impaired immune function?
  • integrity vs. despair
  • Stress weakens the immune system, so people with high stress levels should be more likely to get sick.
  • When we are bored we look for excitement; when we are overexcited we wish for more peace.
  • Individuals will obey authority to the point of potentially causing serious harm to another person.
Research shows that ________; performance tends to suffer ________.
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • Higher depression scores correlate with a higher risk of heart disease
  • moderate arousal is generally best; when arousal is very high or very low
  • Moderate stress can enhance recall of educational material.
During the ________ stage, children now understand events and analogies logically, and they can perform simple mathematical operations.
  • object permanence
  • naturalistic observation
  • fundamental attribution error
  • concrete operational
In a normal young subject, the presence of a friend during a demanding task
  • lessens the magnitude of cardiovascular response to this type of stress.
  • teaching children to think independently and challenge social norms that promote racism
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • Higher depression scores correlate with a higher risk of heart disease
Which is most influenced by nurture?
  • teaching children to think independently and challenge social norms that promote racism
  • being in car accident
  • others have false beliefs
  • Language a child speaks
With increased levels of stress hormones (such as cortisol), the response of the immune system to pathogens such as viruses is
  • Eustress
  • social norm
  • discrimination
  • inhibited.
Mona works at a bank. When Lois, a transgender person, arrives to drop off her paycheck Mona pretends to be busy and directs Lois to another teller. She does this whenever a person who is transgender or gender non-conforming comes to the bank. This is an example of:
  • discrimination
  • intrinsic
  • fundamental attribution error
  • assimilation
It is hard to tell how Guy's father will respond to Guy. Sometimes he is responsive to Guy's needs, but he is just as likely to ignore Guy. At 18 months old, Guy clings to his father, but he is just as likely to reject his father if his father tries to play with him. Guy becomes angry when his father leaves, and Guy is difficult to comfort even after his father returns. What kind of attachment is this?
  • resistant
  • discrimination
  • social norm
  • surveys
Brizan has just lost his job. He is proactive in trying to resolve this source of stress: He immediately uses the Internet to look up other jobs in his field and plans to eliminate non -essentials from his budget to make his savings last longer. Which type of coping approach is Brizan using?
  • bystander effect
  • discrimination
  • concrete operational
  • problem focused
What is the just-world hypothesis?
  • Individuals will obey authority to the point of potentially causing serious harm to another person.
  • an ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve
  • attending religious services because you believe it is the right thing to do
  • When we are bored we look for excitement; when we are overexcited we wish for more peace.
Suppose you are walking down a street. A woman has fallen down, but because there are so many people around it does not occur to you that you should help. You just assume someone else is about to help her and keep walking. This is an example of ________.
  • assimilation
  • bystander effect
  • challenge; threat
  • discrimination
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