Psy 101-Chapter 5

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Psychology 101 Quiz on Psy 101-Chapter 5, created by Emily Fox on 28/09/2017.
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Question 1

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In Piaget’s stage of concrete operational intelligence, the child acquires an understanding of the principle of
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  • Conservation
  • Deduction
  • Attachment
  • Object permanence

Question 2

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Piaget held that egocentrism is characteristic of the...
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  • Sensorimotor stage
  • Preoperational stage
  • Concrete operational stage
  • Formal operational stage

Question 3

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Through natural selection, the traits that are most likely to be passed on to succeeding generations are those that contribute to...
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  • Temperament
  • Survival and reproduction
  • Aggressiveness
  • Social power

Question 4

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The Harlow’s studies of attachment in monkeys showed that...
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  • Provision of nourishment was the single most important factor motivating attachment
  • A cloth mother produced the greatest attachment response
  • Whether a cloth or wire mother was present mattered less than the presence or absence of other infants
  • Attachment in monkeys is based on imprinting

Question 5

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According to Erikson, the central psychological challenges pertaining to adolescence, young adulthood, and middle age, respectively, are...
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  • Intimacy; identity formation; generativity
  • Generativity; intimacy; identity formation
  • Identity formation; intimacy; generativity
  • Intimacy; generativity; identity formation

Question 6

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Anxious-ambivalent (aka, pre-occupied) attached infants who are left by their mothers in an unfamiliar setting often will...
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  • Display intense, prolonged distress, hold fast and cling to their mothers on their return
  • Display distress, but then quickly calm down and again explore the new surroundings confidently
  • Be indifferent toward their mothers on their return
  • Display little emotion at any time

Question 7

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After their grown children have left home, most married couples experience...
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  • The distress of the empty nest syndrome
  • Increased strain in their marital relationship
  • The intense need and desire to have their children visit often
  • Greater happiness and enjoyment in their marital relationship

Question 8

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A child can be born a drug addict because...
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  • Drugs used by the mother will be passed into the child’s bloodstream
  • Drugs used by the mother create genetic defects in her chromosomes
  • Addiction is an inherited personality trait
  • The fetus’ blood has not yet developed a resistance to drugs

Question 9

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Newborns vigorously root for a nipple when...
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  • Their foot is tickled
  • They hear a loud noise
  • Their cheek is touched
  • They make eye contact with their caregiver

Question 10

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In terms of incidence, susceptibility to short-term illnesses _____ with age and susceptibility to long-term ailments ______ with age.
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  • Decreases; increases
  • Increases; decreases
  • Increases; increases
  • Decreases; decreases

Question 11

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The average age of one’s earliest conscious memory is...
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  • 3.5 years
  • 6.5 years
  • 1.5 years
  • 6 months

Question 12

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The cognitive ability that has been shown to decline for many during adulthood is the ability to...
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  • Recall new information
  • Recognize new information
  • Learn meaningful new material
  • None of the above

Question 13

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Compared to when he was younger, 4-year-old Antonio is better able to empathize with his friend’s feelings. This growing ability to take another’s perspective indicates that Antonio is acquiring a...
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  • Self-concept
  • Schema
  • Temperament
  • Theory of mind

Question 14

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Underlying Alzheimer’s disease is a deterioration in neurons that produce...
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  • Epinephrine
  • Morphine
  • Serotonin
  • Acetylcholine

Question 15

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In a 1998 movie, a young girl finds that a flock of geese follows her wherever she goes because she was the first “object” they saw after they were born. This is an example of...
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  • Conservation
  • Imprinting
  • Egocentrism
  • Generativity
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