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Pregunta 1 de 39

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Wilhelm Wundt believed the focus of psychology should be

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • questioning the nature of existence

  • studying stimulus-response associations

  • determining people's unconscious motivation for behavior

  • examining people's awareness of their immediate experience

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 39

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Dr. Lee is studying pain perception using a functionalist perspective. It is most likely that Dr. Le would suggest that we can only understand the conscious experience of pain

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • if all the component parts that make up the experience of pain are understood

  • by observing the outward expression of pain in response to different stimuli

  • if we first understand the role of pain in human survival and adaptation

  • if we understand the unconscious processes that initiate the sensation of pain

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 39

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According to Sigmund Freud, and individual's personality is largely determined by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • self-actualizing tendencies

  • forces in the environment

  • striving for superiority

  • forces in the unconcious

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Pregunta 4 de 39

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Organisms tend to repeat responses that lead to positive outcomes, and they tend not to repeat responses that lead to neutral or negative outcomes. These words would most likely have been said by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Wilhelm Wundt

  • William James

  • B. F. Skinner

  • Abraham Maslow

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Pregunta 5 de 39

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Manny tends to be very passive and allows people to take advantage of him. What would a humanist be most likely to say about Manny.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Manny will find it difficult to change because he probably has deep-seated feelings of inferiority.

  • Manny can become more assertive once he begins to feel better about himself.

  • Manny simply needs to take an assertiveness training class in which he can learn and practice assertive behaviors

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 39

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Which of the following sounds LEAST like the work of an applied psychologist?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • finding ways to teach learning disabled children

  • studying basic learning processes in rats

  • treating someone with a phobia

  • looking for ways to increase efficiency in an organization

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 39

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The Human Genome Project invoves a large number of scientists who are trying to determine the biochemical nature of all the genes on each chromosome in the human body. These scientists come from a variety of areas, including, psychology. The psychologists working on this project are most likely

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • evolutionary psychologists

  • cross-cultural psychologists

  • behavioral psychologists

  • biological psychologist

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 39

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Researchers in psychology have "to see it to believe it." This orientation is most consistent with

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • empiricism

  • structuralism

  • functionalism

  • humanism

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Pregunta 9 de 39

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A biopsychosocial approach to explaining your performance in a course would most likely focus on

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • personal factors more than situational factors

  • situational factors more than personal factors

  • both personal and situational factors

  • the relationship between you and your professor

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Pregunta 10 de 39

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Nature is to nurture as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • experience is to environment

  • learning is to knowing

  • heredity is to environment

  • behavior is to doing

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Pregunta 11 de 39

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Dr. Malm predicts that if teachers ignore students who act up in class, fewer students will act up in class. Dr. Malm's prediction is an example of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • an operational definition

  • a theory

  • inferential statistics

  • a hypothesis

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Pregunta 12 de 39

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An operational definition

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • describes the actions and procedures used to measure or control a variable

  • separately defines each term used

  • provides a logical basis for each term

  • states relationships to other variables

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Pregunta 13 de 39

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The experiment is a research method in which the investigator

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • systematically observes two variables to see whether there is an association between them

  • observes behavior as it occurs in its natural environment

  • conducts an in-depth investigation of an individual subject

  • manipulates a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observes whether there are changes in a second variable as a result

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 39

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Researchers who were studying plant growth raised plants in two separate rooms. One room had taped conversations playing 24 hours a day; the other room was silent. The researchers found that the plants grew better in the room which had the conversations playing. In this study, the type of room (conversation or silence) would be

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the dependent variable

  • an extraneous variable

  • a placebo

  • the independent variable

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 39

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A group of researchers wants to determine if people are more likely to follow directions if the person giving the directions is in a uniform. Half the participants are directed to a parking spot by a uniformed security guard, the other half are directed to a parking spot by an individual wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt. In this study the dependent variable would be

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the number of participants who park in the spot they are directed to

  • the type of clothing worn by the person giving the directions

  • the gender of the person driving into the parking lot

  • The distance between the parking spot and the entrance

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 39

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Psychologists see the study of ________ as an attempt to account for the individuality of the human mind

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • personality

  • nurture

  • character

  • motivation

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 39

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The unique and relatively stable ways in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels is called _______.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • personality

  • nurture

  • a trait

  • nature

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Pregunta 18 de 39

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The question of whether people's behviors can best be predicted by individual personality traits or external circumstances is called the _______ debate

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • internalization=-externalization

  • unidirctional-bidirctional

  • nature-nurture

  • person-situation

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Pregunta 19 de 39

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Freud believed that the _____ was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • id

  • preconscious mind

  • manifest awareness

  • unconscious mind

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Pregunta 20 de 39

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Jay is an executive with a large financial firm. Any time his investments do poorly, he throws temper tantrums and breaks things. The he starts barking orders at hes secretary. Which personality structure would Freud say is exerting control?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • id

  • superego

  • ego

  • preconscious

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 39

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You are quite hungry but don't have any money. If you were described as "all id and only id" what would you do?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • distract yourself with images of food

  • steal a hotdog from the vendor on the corner

  • run all the way home to get something to eat as soon as possible

  • use the defense mechanism of denial to thwart the hunger pangs until an appropriate meal can be obtained

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 39

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There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical and cunning. Hermione was rule oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Ron was mostly ______.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • id

  • ego

  • superego

  • libido

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 39

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In the metaphor the angel, the devil, and me, the angel is the _______.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • id

  • ego

  • superego

  • unconscious

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 39

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A personality that consisted of only the go and the id would be completely______.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • illogical

  • selfless

  • rational

  • amoral

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 39

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The job of the ______ is to find practical ways for the _____ to get its pleasure needs met without offending the morality of the ______.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • id; ego; superego

  • ego; id; superego

  • ego; superego; id

  • superego; id; ego

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 39

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Many have compared Freud's idea of the mind to an iceberg. If that were the case and you were standing on the deck of a ship in Alaska, what part of the mind would you see above the water?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ego

  • superego

  • id

  • preconscious

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 39

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Carolyn took home some printer paper from the office. Later, she felt guilty for stealing it so she brought some paper to work to replace what she took. Freud would suggest that Carolyn's ________ was responsible for making her feel bad over what she did

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • id

  • unconscious mind

  • ego

  • superego

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 39

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Jeromy has been having an affair with anther woman. On afternoon his wife cam home later that usual and Jeromy became angry, accusing his wife of infidelity. Which defense mechanism is behind Jeromy's accusations?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • denial

  • projection

  • rationalization

  • reaction formation

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 39

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What is the correct sequence of Freud's psychosexual stage?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • latency, anal, oral, genital, phalic

  • oral, genital, latency, phallic, anal

  • anal, oral, latency, phallic, genital

  • oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 39

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Carl Jung's term for the part of our personality that Freud referred to as the unconscious was the ________

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • personal unconscious

  • archetype

  • collective unconscious

  • animus

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Pregunta 31 de 39

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The neo-Freudian, Carl Jung, suggested the existence of a collective unconscious that contains images shared by all people. These images are what he called _______.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • schemas

  • paradigms

  • archetypes

  • prototypes

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Pregunta 32 de 39

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The _________ perspective of personality was a direct reaction against the negative view that the psychoanalytic perspective had of human beings.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • humanistic

  • trait

  • projective

  • inventory

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 39

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Jerod has saved plenty of money and has a lucrative business that he enjoys. He likes to volunteer his time in the community and enjoys the company of other- but still saves time to be alone. One of his favorite things to do in the evening is sit outside and watch the sunset. Maslow might suggest that Jerod is ________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • retired

  • experiencing a superiority conplex

  • self-actualizing

  • emotionally conditioned

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 39

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According to Carl Rogers, anxiety and distress occur when ________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a person has low self-esteem

  • there is matching between the actual self and ideal self

  • there is a descrepancy between the real self and ideal self

  • the individual receives to much unconditional positive regard

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 39

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According to Rogers, which of the following people is MOST likely to become a fully functioning person?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • someone with a strongly developed superego

  • someone with an extraverted personality

  • someone brought up with conditional positive regard

  • someone brought up with unconditional positive regard

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 39

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What is Albert Bandura's term for the relationship among the three factors that influence personality?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • feedback loops

  • learned responses

  • reciprocal determinism

  • external expectancies

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 39

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What are the Big Five personality traits?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, extroversion, dominance

  • openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

  • sensation seeking, conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, dominance

  • neuroticism, psychoticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 39

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Ted is friendly, loves to tell jokes at parties, and is perceived by others as warm and considerate. On which two of the Big Five traits would you expect Ted to obtain high scores?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • agreeableness and extraversion

  • extraversion and conscientiousness

  • neuroticism and openness to experience

  • openness to experience and concientiousness

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 39

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One limitation of the trait perspective compared to the other perspectives is there is not much _________

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • description

  • research

  • material

  • explanation

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