Sample test questions – Exam 3

Psychology 101

A teratogen is

a. a sex-linked genetic trait

b. a test that samples amniotic fluid to detect abnormalities in a fetus

c. a biological or chemical agent than can cause birth defects

d. an ultrasound procedure that produce an image of a fetus

Which of the following is one of Erik Erikson’s psychosocial crisis stages?

a. the anal stage

b. the stage of concrete operations

c. automony versus shame and doubt

d. the Oedipal stage

The first of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, in which children learn about their environment through direct sight, hearing, and touch and through moving in the environment is

a. the sensorimotory stage

b. the preoperational stage

c. the concrete operational stage

d. the stage of formal operations

According to LeDoux’s theory about “quick” and “slow” brain pathways for processing emotional information, the quick pathway takes information from the thalamus directly to the

a. cortex

b. hypothalamus

c. amygdala

d. corpus callosum

Which of the following traits is not one of the “Big Five” traits?

a. extraversion

b. openness to experience

c. psychoticism

d. neuroticism

The tendency for group discussion to make preexisting attitudes more extreme is called

a. groupthing

b. deindividuation

c. social facilitation

d. group polarization

One way to get someone to comply with a large request is to get them first to comply with a smaller initial request. This phenomenon is known as

a. social facilitation

b. the foot-in-the-door

c. deinviduation

d. attribution

According to Schachter and Singer’s theory of emotion, the subjective experience of emotion

a. results from the perception of bodily arousal

b. depends on bodily arousal and labeling that arousal, often based on situational information

c. serves to motivate quick responses to unexpected events

d. results from natural selection

In Schachter and Singer’s classic experiment, subjects who received shots of adrenaline and were correctly informed of the side effects of the shot

a. experienced little emotion, because they were not aroused

b. experienced little emotion, because they already had an explanation for their arousal

c. experienced strong emotion, because they labeled their arousal as being due to either anger or euphoria

d. experienced strong emotion, because they were terrified of the injection procedure

What approach to personality agues for internal factors, in part caused by experience and in part caused by genetic factors, which directly influence our behavior? These internal factors lead to consistencies in our behavior, both over time and across situations.

a. trait theories

b. social learning theories

c. Freudian theory

d. Social psychological theories

________ is a defense mechanism that is characterized by denying bad sexual and aggressive impulses in yourself, but seeing these impulses in other people.

a. repression

b. denial

c. projection

d. reaction formation