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Psychology final exam

Frage 1 von 132

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According to research findings, the most probable explanation of malingering is captured by:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a pathogenic model

  • a criminological model

  • an adaptational model

  • an antisocial model

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Frage 2 von 132

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In general, how accurate do people tend to be when using verbal and non-verbal behaviour to detect deception (where a value of 100% indicates that they can accurately discriminate between truthful people and deceptive people all of the time)?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • under 10%

  • between 25% and 35%

  • between 45% and 65%

  • around 25%

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Frage 3 von 132

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Which nonverbal cue has consistently been found to indicate deception?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • smiling

  • gaze aversion

  • self-manipulations (e.g., fidgeting)

  • none of the above

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Frage 4 von 132

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Which of the following techniques has not been proposed as a method of detecting deception?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • ERPs

  • fMRI

  • polygraph

  • TAT

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Frage 5 von 132

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A patient who actually has schizophrenia denies his auditory hallucinations when questioned by doctors. This patient is likely exhibiting:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • defensiveness

  • Munchausen syndrome by proxy

  • factitious disorder

  • somatoform disorder

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Frage 6 von 132

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Which verbal indicator has been most strongly associated with deception?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • speech fillers

  • voice pitch

  • speech pauses

  • speech errors (e.g., slips of the tongue)

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Frage 7 von 132

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A Polygraph test may be used to:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Verify a crime has occurred (victim is asked to take a polygraph test, which is rarely done)

  • Screen pre-employment candidates for security agencies and police

  • Verify insurance claims

  • all of the above

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Frage 8 von 132

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"During the first 20 years of your life, did you ever think of seriously hurting someone?" This is an example of what type of polygraph question?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a relevant question

  • an irrelevant question

  • a concealed information question

  • a comparison question

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Frage 9 von 132

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Which of the following is true of the polygraph?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Polygraph results are regularly admitted as evidence in Canadian courts.

  • The most common polygraph method used currently is the Comparison Question Test (CQT).

  • The polygraph directly measures whether a person is lying.

  • Research indicates that physical countermeasures are largely ineffective in "beating" the polygraph.

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Frage 10 von 132

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Most polygraph examiners using the Comparison Question Test (CQT) score according to the:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • suspect's demeanour during the test

  • information from the case file

  • physiological responses

  • suspect's past criminal record

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Frage 11 von 132

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When using brain-based polygraph techniques, what does ERP stand for?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • emotional response pattern

  • event response pattern

  • event-related brain potential

  • emotional-related brain potential

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Frage 12 von 132

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You have been falsely accused of stealing a laptop computer from a professor's office. The police have requested that you take a polygraph test to prove your innocence. In light of your knowledge of the types of errors most likely to be made by different types of polygraph exams, you agree to do so only if the examiner uses the:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • comparison question test

  • relevant/irrelevant test

  • zone of comparison format of scoring

  • concealed information test

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Frage 13 von 132

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Several types of studies may be used to validate polygraph techniques. Which type of study would likely involve a comparison of the accuracy between original examiners and blind evaluators, using actual criminal suspects?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • field analogue study

  • laboratory study

  • ground truth study

  • field study

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Frage 14 von 132

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Which of the following statements is true regarding the detection of deception?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • People are generally better at detecting truth than detecting lies.

  • High-stake lies are easier to detect than low-stake lies.

  • Many professionals (e.g., police officers) are no better than detecting deception than the general population.

  • all of the above

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Frage 15 von 132

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What has been identified as a major problem particular to the Comparison Question Test (CQT)?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • high false-negative rate

  • high false-positive rate

  • the use of extra-polygraph cues by the examiner

  • falsely classifying guilty suspects as innocent

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Frage 16 von 132

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The first polygraph test was developed by:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Stephen Porter

  • William Marston

  • James Frye

  • Hugo Munsterberg

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Frage 17 von 132

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Susan gives her infant son various medications to make him appear like he is suffering from an unknown illness, and takes him regularly to doctors and the emergency room to assess these fake symptoms. This is an example of what disorder of deception?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Munchausen syndrome by proxy

  • Malingering disorder

  • Somatoform disorder

  • Non-deceptive disorder

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Frage 18 von 132

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Which of the following is not measured by the polygraph test?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • heart rate

  • galvanic skin response

  • micro facial expressions

  • breathing

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Frage 19 von 132

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Laboratory studies of polygraph techniques have limited application to real-life situations because:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Study participants have no real incentive to beat the polygraph

  • Study participants have no real fear if they fail a polygraph.

  • Study participants have no real-life stress to measure.

  • All of the above

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Frage 20 von 132

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Which of the following is not a cue to malingered psychosis in criminal defendants?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • hallucinations with delusions

  • understandable motive for committing crime

  • presence of a partner in the crime

  • visual hallucinations in black and white

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Frage 21 von 132

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According to your textbook, what is the most common physiological response measured when administering the Concealed Information Test (CIT)?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • palmar sweating

  • heart rate

  • blood pressure

  • eye blinks

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Frage 22 von 132

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What disorder consists of symptoms that are not intentionally produced but cannot be explained by an underlying biological impairment?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Munchausen syndrome

  • malingering disorder

  • factitious disorder

  • somatoform disorder

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Frage 23 von 132

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What is one of the key components to malingering?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Symptoms are not intentionality produced.

  • There are only internal motivations for the production of symptoms.

  • There are external motivations for the production of symptoms.

  • Symptoms are produced in order to assume the sick role.

  • There is an absence of external incentives.

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Frage 24 von 132

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Which of the following has not been found effective as a countermeasure to "beat" the polygraph test?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • tongue-biting

  • pressing toes on the floor

  • counting backwards

  • anti-anxiety drugs

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Frage 25 von 132

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Which of the following are potential applications of the polygraph in Canada?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Polygraph testing is used to screen prospective employees in certain agencies.

  • Polygraph results are used to pressure individuals to confess to a crime.

  • A polygraph test may be administered to verify insurance claims.

  • all of the above

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Frage 26 von 132

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The Comparison Question Test has been criticized for:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • being susceptible to countermeasures

  • having a high false–positive rate

  • assuming that innocent suspects will show larger responses to the comparison questions as compared to the relevant

  • all of the above

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Frage 27 von 132

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According to the textbook, what is the primary issue surrounding the Neil v. Biggers (1972) case in relation to eyewitness accuracy?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the fact that the court stated that confidence of the witness should be seen as an indicator of accuracy

  • the fact that the witness was hypnotized and thus the information provided should not be admissible as accurate evidence in the trial

  • the fact that the witness was given a simultaneous rather than a sequential lineup

  • the fact that the witness was a child and thus the accuracy of her judgment was questionable

  • none of the above

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Frage 28 von 132

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Which of the following statements is not correct concerning the outcome of hypnosis?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • More information is recalled.

  • Participants report relatively more accurate information and less inaccurate information.

  • Participants express a high degree of confidence in their memory reports

  • It is not possible to determine which statements are erroneous and which are correct.

  • reinstating context, recalling, recognizing, and forgetting

  • Age regression can be a technique used in hypnosis.

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Frage 29 von 132

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The hypothesis that explains the cross-race effect in eyewitness testimony by suggesting that the more contact you have with other races the better you will be able to identify them is:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the interracial contact hypothesis

  • the cue-utilization hypothesis

  • the unusualness hypothesis

  • the prejudice hypothesis

  • the physiognomic homogeneity hypothesis

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Frage 30 von 132

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What is the major implication of the studies conducted on the misinformation effect in eyewitness research?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Memory is like a videotape.

  • Witnesses yield to authority

  • Memory is reconstructive.

  • Witnesses recall information accurately when under stress.

  • Memory typically gets better as witnesses get older.

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Frage 31 von 132

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On what four memory-retrieval techniques is the cognitive interview based?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • reinstating context, reporting everything, reversing order, and changing perspective

  • reinstating context, recalling, recognizing, and answering questions

  • encoding, short-term memory, long-term memory, and retrieving

  • encoding, storing, retrieving, and forgetting

  • reinstating context, recalling, recognizing, and forgetting

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Frage 32 von 132

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What is not an advantage of using a photo array rather than a live lineup for eyewitness identification?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Photo arrays are easier to construct than live lineups.

  • Suspect does not have the right to counsel being present with a photo array, whereas he/she does have that right with a live lineup

  • Photo arrays produce higher identification accuracy than live lineups.

  • A suspect need not be informed that he/she is being placed in a photo array, whereas with a live lineup he/she must be so informed

  • The police do not have to worry about the suspect's behaviour potentially invalidating the lineup.

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Frage 33 von 132

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Which Canadian case involving poor police techniques in collecting eyewitness evidence resulted in a set of recommendations for conducting lineup identifications?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Neil v. Biggers

  • R. v. Sophonow

  • R. v. Brooks

  • R. v. Reno

  • Brooks v. Biggers

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Frage 34 von 132

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An eyewitness is shown a picture of an individual who the police think is responsible for a recent bank robbery. No other lineup photos are shown. The eyewitness is asked to state whether the person in the photograph is the same individual seen in the bank. What sort of lineup procedure is being used here?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a showup

  • a simultaneous lineup

  • a sequential lineup

  • a walk-by

  • an elimination lineup

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Frage 35 von 132

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What type of decision is not possible with a target-present lineup?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • correct identification

  • foil identification

  • false rejection

  • false identification

  • All of the above are possible identification decisions with the target-present lineup.

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Frage 36 von 132

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Which of the following would be considered an estimator variable in eyewitness research?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • how light it was outside when the crime was witnessed

  • the room where the witness was interviewed

  • the number of police officers present during the interview

  • the time of day when the witness was interviewed

  • the type of lineup presented to the witness

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Frage 37 von 132

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Which of the following is true regarding age and eyewitness identification?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Older adults are just as likely as younger adults to make a false positive decision from a target-absent lineup

  • Generally, there are significant differences between younger and older adults' ability to make correct identifications.

  • Younger and older eyewitnesses do not differ in their correct identification rate or false positive rate.

  • Overall, older adult eyewitnesses have more difficulty than younger adult eyewitnesses in making correct rejection decisions.

  • none of the above

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Frage 38 von 132

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Susan is being questioned by police after she witnessed a man rob a convenience store. The police are asking her questions about the culprit's appearance, and she finds that all she can remember is that the man had a gun. What is the term used to describe this recall situation?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • recall obstruction hypothesis

  • retrieval impairment hypothesis

  • weapon focus

  • central superiority hypothesis

  • peripheral inferiority effect

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Frage 39 von 132

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Approximately what percentage of wrongful conviction cases (exonerated through DNA evidence) have been attributed to eyewitness identification?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • under 50%

  • 50-60%

  • 60-70%

  • about 75%

  • over 95%

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Frage 40 von 132

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Which of the following statements is true with respect to the cognitive interview and enhanced cognitive interview?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The enhanced cognitive interview incorporates all the elements of the cognitive interview.

  • Only some officers in Canada have been trained to use the cognitive interview

  • No significant differences have been found between the effectiveness of the cognitive interview and that of the enhanced cognitive interview.

  • Compared to the standard police interview, the cognitive interview and enhanced cognitive interview produce more accurate information without an increase in inaccurate information.

  • all of the above

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Frage 41 von 132

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Describing the actions of a culprit during a police interview relies on ______________, while identifying the culprit's voice from a set of voices relies on __________________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • narrative memory/refreshed memory

  • recall memory/recognition memory

  • natural memory/prompted memory

  • open-ended memory/direct question memory

  • none of the above

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Frage 42 von 132

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Which of the following would be considered a system variable in eyewitness research?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • whether the witness is intoxicated at the time of the offence

  • the age of the witness

  • the type of weapon used by the culprit

  • the interview procedure used by the police officer

  • the time at which the crime was committed

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Frage 43 von 132

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What is the difference between a suspect and a culprit?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The terms suspect and culprit can be used interchangeably; they mean the same thing.

  • suspect is innocent and a culprit is guilty.

  • A suspect is guilty and a culprit is innocent

  • A suspect can be guilty or innocent whereas a culprit is guilty.

  • A suspect is innocent and a culprit can be innocent or guilty.

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Frage 44 von 132

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What is the most common research method for studying eyewitness issues?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • field study

  • archival research

  • laboratory simulation study

  • recall study

  • recognition study

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Frage 45 von 132

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Overall, there is ______________ between the accuracy and the confidence of an eyewitness in the identification of a culprit.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a large positive correlation

  • a small positive correlation

  • no correlation

  • a small negative correlation

  • a large negative correlation

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Frage 46 von 132

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What typically happens when the eyewitness is told that the culprit may or may not be present in the lineup?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • False positive identifications increase.

  • False positive identifications decrease.

  • Correct identifications increase

  • Correct identifications decrease

  • These instructions have no impact on identifications.

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Frage 47 von 132

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Which of the following topics seems to be of the LEAST interest to social psychologists?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • discrimination

  • persuasion

  • personality

  • attraction

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Frage 48 von 132

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Sarah finds Charlie physically attractive. Because of _______________, she also sees him as personable and interesting.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the low-ball effect

  • a dispositional attribution

  • the halo effect

  • the matching hypothesis

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Frage 49 von 132

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Why is it that proximity is related to friendship formation?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • We usually avoid attributing negative traits to people who are close at hand.

  • We are more likely to make contact with persons who are close at hand.

  • We are usually similar to people who are close at hand

  • We tend to perceive people who are close at hand as physically attractive.

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Frage 50 von 132

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With a well-informed audience, which of the following arguments is likely to be the most persuasive?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • simplistic

  • one-sided

  • peripheral

  • two-sided

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Frage 51 von 132

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Behaviour that is aimed at helping others and requires some self-sacrifice is termed:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • altruism.

  • non-normative helping.

  • normative helping

  • prosocial sacrifice.

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Frage 52 von 132

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The compliance technique in which a person who agrees to a small request is then presented with a larger request is:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the foot-in-the-door technique

  • the bandwagon technique.

  • the skyrocket technique

  • the door-in-the-face technique.

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Frage 53 von 132

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In the classic experiment conducted by Solomon Asch, the people who provided the pressure to conform would be called the:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • experimenters.

  • naive subjects.

  • social loafers.

  • confederates.

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Frage 54 von 132

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In the classic experiment conducted by Solomon Asch, the people who provided the pressure to conform would be called the:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • experimenters.

  • naive subjects

  • social loafers.

  • confederates.

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Frage 55 von 132

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The tendency to put forth less effort when working with others on a common task than when working alone is called:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • social loafing

  • group polarization.

  • social inaction

  • social facilitation.

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Frage 56 von 132

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The mere-exposure effect is most strongly related to:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • discrimination.

  • persuasion.

  • attraction.

  • prejudice

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Frage 57 von 132

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The blocking of an impulse or interference with the attainment of a goal is defined as:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • crowding.

  • antisocial behaviour.

  • frustration.

  • aggression.

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Frage 58 von 132

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Which theory of prejudice is based on the idea that people tend to form in-groups and out-groups?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • social cognitive theory

  • us versus them theory

  • social learning theory

  • realistic conflict theory

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Frage 59 von 132

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When it comes to attraction, the concept of reciprocal liking refers to the fact that:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • people tend to be attracted to others who are at their same level of physical attractiveness.

  • people tend to like those whom they believe like them.

  • people tend to be attracted to attractive-looking people.

  • sometimes people dislike others before they start to like them.

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Frage 60 von 132

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The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo demonstrated the powerful influence of

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • poverty.

  • money.

  • social class.

  • social roles.

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Frage 61 von 132

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Because of the bystander effect,

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • people are likely to demonstrate social loafing.

  • Kitty Genovese got help when she needed it.

  • participants in Milgram’s experiment obeyed.

  • you would be better off if only one person rather than many people witnessed you in need of help.

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Frage 62 von 132

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The matching hypothesis suggests

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • that opposites attract

  • a talkative person may seek a quiet mate who prefers to listen.

  • we are likely to end up with someone similar to ourselves in attractiveness and other assets

  • couples mismatched on attractiveness and other assets have relationships as long-lasting as other couples.

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Frage 63 von 132

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The social learning theory of aggression emphasizes all of the following except that

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • when aggressive responses are reinforced, they are more likely to continue.

  • aggressive responses are learned from the family, the subculture, and the media.

  • most aggression results from frustration.

  • aggressive responses are learned through modelling.

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Frage 64 von 132

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Audience effects and co-action effects are two concepts related to

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • obedience to authority.

  • social facilitation.

  • social loafing.

  • bystander apathy

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Frage 65 von 132

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Which of the following is an accurate statement about the primacy effect?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the primacy effect continues to influence later impressions by becoming the framework through which other information is accepted or disregarded.

  • The primacy effect only affects initial impressions and has no bearing on later information that is gathered.

  • The primacy effect is a very small effect on impression formation

  • Once the primacy effect exists, people become most interested in information that is inconsistent with this initial impression.

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Frage 66 von 132

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Social psychology is the area in psychology that focuses on

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • human growth and development through across the lifespan.

  • the influence of other people on our emotions, thoughts and behaviour.

  • inner psychological conflicts which determine our personality.

  • the study of emotion and motivation.

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Frage 67 von 132

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Which of the following kinds of attributions do we tend to make more often for our own behaviour?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • dispositional

  • internal

  • situational

  • unbiased

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Frage 68 von 132

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Which of the following statements is true of first impressions?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • They are not particularly important nor should they influence us.

  • They act as a framework to interpret later information.

  • They are usually correct and require our full awareness.

  • They cannot be changed without a new first impression.

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Frage 69 von 132

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Usually people are attracted to others who are

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • opposites of them.

  • either similar or opposite

  • intellectually similar but physically dissimilar.

  • similar to them.

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Frage 70 von 132

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After their favourite team lost an important football game, a group of fans discussed means of retribution. Ultimately, they decided to break into and vandalize the opposing team’s locker room. They were subsequently arrested for doing so. This incident occurred because of the unfortunate effect of:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the mere-exposure effect.

  • group polarization.

  • the cohesion tendency

  • groupthink.

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Frage 71 von 132

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A strategy to gain compliance by making a very attractive initial offer to get a person to agree to an action and then making the terms less favourable is the

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • door-in-the-face technique.

  • obedience technique.

  • low-ball technique.

  • foot-in-the-door technique.

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Frage 72 von 132

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Conformity is to norm as:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • group is to individual

  • change is to standards.

  • group is to culture.

  • standards are to change

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Frage 73 von 132

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When we attribute our own or another's behaviour to some external factor rather than to an internal cause, we are making a

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • dispositional attribution.

  • fundamental attribution error.

  • situational attribution.

  • false attribution

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Frage 74 von 132

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Students often report that when they work in a group, someone will not do their part to complete the group project. The person not doing enough to help the group is engaged in:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • social loafing.

  • social facilitation.

  • group polarization

  • social inaction.

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Frage 75 von 132

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The results of which study were most relevant to the contact hypothesis?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Sherif and Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment

  • Asch’s conformity experiment

  • Zimbardo’s prison study

  • Milgram’s obedience experiment

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Frage 76 von 132

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The subjects in Milgram’s classic study were told that they were participating in:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a pain-perception experiment.

  • a learning experiment

  • an attribution experiment.

  • an obedience experiment

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Frage 77 von 132

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Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) share many of the same features. However, APD places more emphasis on:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • antisocial behaviours

  • emotional deficits

  • gender

  • cognitive skills

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Frage 78 von 132

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Robert's parents feel he exhibits reckless behaviour, irresponsibility, and lack of remorse. Robert has been this way since birth, and his parents feel he has a difficult temperament. Robert might have:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • psychopathy

  • avoidant personality disorder

  • affective disorder

  • borderline personality disorder

  • psychosis

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Frage 79 von 132

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The terms "psychopathy" and "sociopathy" are:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the same

  • completely unrelated

  • always used interchangeably

  • related but distinct concepts

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Frage 80 von 132

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According to Hare (1993) we are more likely to _____________ than be murdered by a psychopath.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • lose our life savings to a psychopath

  • fall in love with a psychopath

  • work with a psychopath

  • be tricked by a psychopath

  • become friends with a psychopath

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Frage 81 von 132

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A diagnosis of psychopathy does fulfill the disease of the mind requirement but it has never fulfilled the second requirement of:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • knowing the victim

  • not appreciating the nature or quality of the act

  • previously having been committed in a psychiatric institute

  • having spent a night in a psychiatric facility

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Frage 82 von 132

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Psychopaths differ from other offenders in what way?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • They begin their criminal careers younger.

  • They persist longer.

  • Their use of violence lacks an emotional aspect.

  • They commit a greater variety of violent offenses.

  • all of the above

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Frage 83 von 132

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Psychopathic rapists are more likely to be:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • emotionally driven

  • anxious

  • opportunistic and vindictive

  • disorganized

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Frage 84 von 132

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In the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, _________ of offenders scoring10 or more on the PCL:SV had been convicted of an offense

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 5%

  • 27%

  • 57%

  • 97%

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Frage 85 von 132

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In a study examining treatment outcomes in youth with high scores on the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version, the youth who received treatment in a correctional centre had:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • lower reoffending rates than youth treated in a treatment centre

  • lower violent reoffending rates than youth treated in a treatment centre

  • twice the reoffending rates of youth treated in a treatment centre

  • twice the violent reoffending rates of youth treated in a treatment centre

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Frage 86 von 132

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_____ of offenders can be classified as psychopaths

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1%–10%

  • 10%–25%

  • 30%–35%

  • 40%–50%

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Frage 87 von 132

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The best research design to determine the extent to which family experiences influence the development of psychopathic traits is:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • prospective longitudinal studies

  • retrospective studies

  • cross-sectional studies

  • experimental

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Frage 88 von 132

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Hervey Cleckley's book ____________________ provided one of the most extensive clinical descriptions of psychopaths.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The Psychopath

  • Evil People

  • The Mask of Sanity

  • Master Manipulator

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Frage 89 von 132

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Which Canadian researcher developed the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Olson

  • Cleckley

  • Patrick

  • Hare

  • Hart

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Frage 90 von 132

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Psychopathic traits in youth are related to __________ but not _____________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • depression and anxiety; IQ scores and education

  • IQ scores and education; depression and anxiety

  • depression and anxiety; violence and aggression

  • delinquency and aggression; depression and anxiety

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Frage 91 von 132

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Factor 2 is most strongly related to reoffending, substance abuse, lack of education, and:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Emotional processing deficits

  • Predatory violence

  • Poor treatment response

  • Poor family background

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Frage 92 von 132

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The relatively small number of psychopaths account for:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • relatively small amount of crime

  • relatively small amount of violent crime

  • proportionate amount of crime

  • disproportionately large amount of crime

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Frage 93 von 132

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If an individual scored between 20 and 30 on the PCL-R, what would we classify them?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • psychopath

  • mixed group

  • nonpsychopath

  • average

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Frage 94 von 132

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Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is given when there is evidence of conduct disorder before the age of 15 and:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights of others since age 2

  • a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights of others since age 15

  • a chronic pattern of rule violation since age 2

  • a chronic pattern of rule violation since age 15

  • none of the above

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Frage 95 von 132

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The two theories of psychopathy are:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Response modulation deficit; affective theory

  • Startle-blink response; affective theory

  • Response modulation deficit; startle-blink response

  • Antisocial process screening; startle-blink response

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Frage 96 von 132

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In an experiment measuring cheating behaviours and psychopathy, the best predictor of cheating was:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • low scores on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

  • low scores on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised

  • high scores on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

  • high scores on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

  • high scores on both the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale and the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

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Frage 97 von 132

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In a study examining the use of instrumental motives, psychopaths engaged in instrumental murder in ______ of cases:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 93%

  • 77%

  • 50%

  • 34%

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Frage 98 von 132

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Olver and Wong (2009) found that psychopathic offenders who remained in treatment were:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • more likely to violently reoffend

  • more likely to manipulate prison staff

  • less likely to violently reoffend

  • likely not to show any treatment gains

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Frage 99 von 132

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The most widely used self-report questionnaire to assess psychopathy are:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised

  • Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised and the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised and the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

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Frage 100 von 132

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Which of the following is not a function of the amygdala?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • memory

  • decision making

  • language

  • defence reactions

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Frage 101 von 132

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In a study measuring psychopathy in a sample of community members ____ of these individuals scored zero on the PCL-SV.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 10%

  • 19%

  • 44%

  • 71%

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Frage 102 von 132

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The "faint hope clause" allows offenders convicted of murder to:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • be released from prison after serving 5 years of their sentence

  • apply for parole before their eligibility date

  • apply for appeals

  • make special dietary request in prison

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Frage 103 von 132

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At least one major study has suggested that the higher rate of depression in women is largely due to:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • social and cultural factors

  • genetic predisposition

  • chemical imbalances.

  • men suppressing their own depression.

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Frage 104 von 132

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Experts believe that most phobias are caused by

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • learning or observation of others

  • generalized anxiety.

  • psychodynamic conflict.

  • conformity to social expectations

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Frage 105 von 132

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____________________ disorders provide a mental escape from intolerable circumstances.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Somatoform

  • Anxiety

  • Dissociative

  • Post-traumatic stress

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Frage 106 von 132

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Although the term neurosis has not been used officially since 1980, it applied to people who

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • suffered from personal discomfort and distress and some impairment in functioning

  • lost touch with reality.

  • violated important social norms.

  • were more disturbed than those suffering from a psychosis

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Frage 107 von 132

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Delusions of grandeur and persecution are symptoms of:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • dissociation disorder

  • anxiety disorder.

  • schizophrenic disorder.

  • panic disorder.

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Frage 108 von 132

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“Positive” symptoms of schizophrenia are so-called because they are:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • present.

  • easy to treat.

  • diagnostic of the disorder.

  • desirable.

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Frage 109 von 132

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Which of the following does not describe people with antisocial personality disorder?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • They fear punishment.

  • They are irresponsible.

  • They seldom feel guilt

  • They are selfish.

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Frage 110 von 132

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Connie adopts ritualistic behaviours to help reduce anxiety that occurs when unwanted thoughts intrude into her awareness. Connie is displaying symptoms of

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  • dissociative disorder.

  • histrionic personality disorder.

  • conversion disorder.

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Frage 111 von 132

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The two major types of mood disorders are:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • seasonal affective disorders and negative symptom disorders

  • manic disorders and depressive disorders.

  • depressive disorders and bipolar disorders.

  • major depressive disorders and secondary mood disorders.

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Frage 112 von 132

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Brigit is afraid to leave her house. She rarely goes outside, even just to check her mail. Her sister needs to drive her to the local supermarket for shopping, but even with this assistance, Brigit is very uncomfortable. Given these symptoms, it appears that Brigit suffers from

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • panic attacks

  • major depression.

  • social phobia.

  • agoraphobia.

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Frage 113 von 132

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Obsessions involve a

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • persistent, irresistible, irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly.

  • generalized feeling of apprehension, fear, or tension that may be associated with a particular object or situation.

  • sudden loss of conscious and a failure to recall what took place during the episode.

  • persistent recurring involuntary thought, image, or impulse that invades consciousness and causes great distress.

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Frage 114 von 132

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Which of the following is not true of people suffering from a psychosis?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • They have seriously impaired functioning in everyday life.

  • They rarely lose contact with reality.

  • They sometimes require hospitalization for their disorder.

  • They may have delusions or hallucinations

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Frage 115 von 132

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Lenora tends to perceive every event as negative. If the phone rings, she thinks it’s a salesperson trying to bother her. If it doesn’t ring, she thinks no one cares about her. These negative interpretations are at the root of her depression, according to the

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • psychodynamic perspective

  • social perspective

  • cognitive perspective

  • learning perspective.

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Frage 116 von 132

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Panic disorder, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder are types of

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • somatoform disorders

  • anxiety disorders.

  • dissociative disorders.

  • mood disorders.

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Frage 117 von 132

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People suffering from a(n) _________________ disorder lack normal empathic responses.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • antisocial personality

  • phobic

  • sleep

  • eating

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Frage 118 von 132

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The facial expressions, tone of voice, and gestures of people who suffer from schizophrenia often do not fit the situation. This is called

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • negative symptoms.

  • flatness of affect.

  • inappropriate affect.

  • delusional behaviour.

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Frage 119 von 132

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Pamela suffers from a rare disorder in which two distinct personalities exist, each dominating at particular times. The condition Pamela is suffering is called

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • conversion disorder.

  • dissociative identity disorder.

  • dissociative amnesia.

  • schizophrenia.

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Frage 120 von 132

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Low levels of serotonin and norepinephrine are believed to be connected to:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • depression.

  • panic attacks.

  • paraphilias.

  • delusions

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Frage 121 von 132

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People who are convinced that every mole is skin cancer and every heart palpitation is a heart attack are most likely suffering from:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • hypochondriasis

  • agoraphobia.

  • panic attacks

  • dysthymia

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Frage 122 von 132

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Which of the following perspectives suggests that faulty thinking or distorted perceptions contribute to some types of psychological disorders

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The learning perspective

  • The biological perspective

  • The cognitive perspective

  • The humanistic perspective

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Frage 123 von 132

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People who experience excessive anxiety or worries that they find difficult to control are suffering from a:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • panic attack

  • generalized anxiety disorder.

  • phobia.

  • compulsive disorder.

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Frage 124 von 132

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A disorder characterized by periods of extreme depression or mania is a ______________ disorder.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • dissociative

  • mood

  • personality

  • somatoform

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Frage 125 von 132

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Personality disorders from cluster B (including borderline and narcissistic) involve:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • erratic, overly dramatic behaviour.

  • anxious, fearful behaviour.

  • odd behaviour.

  • depressed, withdrawn behaviour.

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Frage 126 von 132

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Personality disorders from cluster B (including borderline and narcissistic) involve

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • erratic, overly dramatic behaviour.

  • anxious, fearful behaviour.

  • odd behaviour.

  • depressed, withdrawn behaviour.

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Frage 127 von 132

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According to the criteria for defining abnormal behaviour, when a behaviour interferes with the quality of a person’s life, then it is considered:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • dangerous to the person or to other people

  • a symptom of insanity.

  • maladaptive.

  • unusual in all cultures around the world.

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Frage 128 von 132

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What is the term for an irrational fear and avoidance of situations in which people believe they might embarrass or humiliate themselves by appearing clumsy, foolish, or incompetent?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Social phobia

  • Specific phobia

  • Agoraphobia

  • Complex phobia

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Frage 129 von 132

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The view that schizophrenia develops from both genetic predisposition and excessive stress is called

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the dopamine activity model.

  • the causal model of schizophrenia.

  • the diathesis-stress model.

  • the socio-cultural model.

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Frage 130 von 132

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Which perspective emphasizes the role of the id, ego, and superego in defining psychological abnormality?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the cognitive perspective

  • the psychodynamic perspective

  • the learning perspective

  • the biological perspective

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Frage 131 von 132

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Compulsion is to ________ as obsession is to _________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • anxiety; depression

  • negative symptom; positive symptom

  • neurosis; psychosis

  • behaviour; thought

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Frage 132 von 132

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Paranoid, narcissistic, and histrionic are three types of:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • dissociation disorders

  • paraphilias.

  • personality disorders.

  • schizophrenias

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