2015 psycho

Question 1

You conduct an experiment in which you gradually add sugar into a jug of water. The participant in the experiment repeatedly tastes the water. At first, the participant tastes nothing. What is the point at which the subject begins to taste water as sugary?
A) just noticeable difference 
B) absolute threshold
C) difference threshold 
D) weber's constant

Answer 1

B) absolute threshold

Question 2

Events that are controllable and predictable are less likely to be perceived as stressful. The possible reason for this observation is:
A) people become immune to stress if they know when and how it will occur
B) lack of safety period from a stressful situation
C) the ability to predict and control an event can prevent it
D) the ability to prepare physically and mentally for the event

Answer 2

D) the ability to prepare physically and mentally for the event

Question 3

A child is given 2 balls made of clay which are similar in size. then they changed one of the balls into a flattened shape, according to Piaget's theory, what did they try to measure?
A) conservation
B) irreversibility 
C) centration
D) static reasoning

Answer 3

A) conservation

Question 4

What will decrease patient compliance: 
A) to simplify information
B) to use repetition
C) to give general information
D) to follow up the consultation with additional interviews

Answer 4

C) to give general information

Question 5

Rick drives in a hurry, is hostile, impatient, and very competent. You want to reduce his risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Which of these should you address?
A) Hurriness 
B) Hostility
C) Impatience 
D) Competence
E) Nothing, he's annoying

Answer 5

B) Hostility

Question 6

Betsy, the child of a professional dancer, rolled over at 3 months of age, crawled at 7 months, walked at 1 year. What is the innately determined timetable of growth and changes her called?

Answer 6

Maturation

Question 7

Sami enjoys challenges, has high control, committed to his family and to his career as a commercial airplane pilot. What characteristics of personality is expected to Sami? 
A) Introversion
B) Mastery 
C) Hostility
D) Hardiness

Answer 7

D) Hardiness

Question 8

Rashid does not enter stage 4 NREM when sleeping
Which of the following is considered to be normal in his case?
A) he’s elderly
B) he’s an infant
C) he’s talking while sleeping
D) He keeps waking up to recall his dreams

Answer 8

A) he’s elderly

Question 9

The motivational role of the external environment is emphasized in which motivational theory?
A) Psychological 
B) Psychodynamic 
C) Incentive
D) Drive

Answer 9

C) Incentive

Question 10

What is psychology?
A) one cannot distinguish between mind and body
B) psychology only studies behaviors
C) psychology is the science of mind

Answer 10

C) psychology is the science of mind

Question 11

The facial feedback hypothesis indicates that facial expressions play a role in which of the following?
A) emotional experience
B) communicational experience

Answer 11

A) emotional experience

Question 12

If your friend changed his mobile number recently and you have been dialing the new one for a while so that you couldn’t remember the old number, what term describes what happened?
A) displacement
B) retrieval failure

Answer 12

A) displacement

Question 13

After a person reaches sexual maturity, how does his probability of death changes? 
A) increases
B) decreases
C) increases then decreases
D) nothing happens

Answer 13

A or D

not sure

Question 14

What does “B” include in the ABC’s of the rational emotive behavioral therapy? 
A) adversities
B) assumptions
C) behaviors
D) aggravation

Answer 14

B) assumptions

Question 15

If Weber’s constant for a sound intensity of 200 Hz is 1%, what is the JND of sound intensity of 500 Hz?
A) 2 
B) 2.5 
C) 4.5 
D) 5

Answer 15

D) 5

Question 16

Which term is used when a conditioned stimulus is presented alone repeatedly without pairing it with an unconditioned stimulus?
A) first orderconditioning 
B) extinction
C) acquisition
D) second order conditioning

Answer 16

B) extinction

Question 17

Which context helps perception of an ambiguous situation
A) perception is more accurate in an unfamiliar context
B) perception errors happen in a familiar context
C) perception of an ambiguous situation is regardless of context
D) perception stimuli are faster in a familiar context

Answer 17

D) perception stimuli are faster in a familiar context

Question 18

In an experiment done by Harlow, an infant monkey was placed with 2 artificial mothers, one placed with cloth and no nutrition, while the other one was placed with nutrition and wires. Which go the following is true?
A) the monkey preferred the mother with the food
B) the monkey spent more time with the cloth mother regardless whether she gave food or not

Answer 18

B) the monkey spent more time with the cloth mother regardless whether she gave food or not

Question 19

Which theory advocates that emotion is born out of Psychological arousal specific toan emotion?
A) James-Larynges theory
B) Facial feedback
C) Walter-Canon theory
D) Two factor theory

Answer 19

A) James-Larynges theory

Question 20

if put your finger in front of your eyes and closed one eye, then you open that eye and close the other one, the image in each eye will be different.
Why Is there difference in the image?

Answer 20

binocular disparity

Question 21

A baby changed from being breastfed to drinking bottled milk. What is this called?
A) Accommodation
B) Assimilation
C) Adaptation

Answer 21

B) Assimilation

Question 22

Children distress over separation from their mothers peaks at 14 to 18 months and then declines. This is observed in different cultures, what is the reason of this?
A) Memory and autonomy
B) Maturation and synchrony 
C) Memory and maturation 
D)Autonomy and maturation

Answer 22

A) Memory and autonomy

Question 23

In a study of IQ, Ahmed's score was 150 and his mental age was 18, what is his chronological age?
A) 9 
B) 12
C) 18 
D) 27

Answer 23

B) 12

Question 24

your friend informs you that last night as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a very loud buzzing sound accompanied with flashing light that couldn't be explained by his surroundings. Yourfriend is most likely experiencing:
A) narcolepsy 
B) REM sleep
C) hypnopompic hallucinations 
D) hypnagogic hallucinations

Answer 24

D) Hypnagogic hallucinations

Question 25

What is Ethology?
A) the study of animals and their natural habitat
B) the study of animals under controlled conditions

Answer 25

A) the study of animals and their natural habitat