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2016 psycho Flashcards

1
Q 
What term used to describe motion that is perceived by normal people when no real motion has occurred ?
a-	Absolute
b-	Relative
c-	Stereoscopic
d-	Stroboscopic
A

d- Stroboscopic

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How does instrumental response contrast with the typical response of classical conditioning?
a-	It does not have an effect
b-	It is new
c-	It is reflexive
d-	It resembles UCR
A

b- It is new

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What is one of the 3 key questions to ask yourself about your believes ?
a- Does my believe help me or hinder on the long term
b- My believe is unavailable
c- Does my belief hurt other people
d- Is my believe true

A

a- Does my believe help me or hinder on the long term

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You know that the variation of a specific personality trait determined by both genetic and environmental. Which group of paired individuals would most likely yield the highest correlation for that trait ?
a-	Fraternal twins reared apart
b-	Fraternal twins reared together
c-	Identical twins reared apart
d-	Identical twins reared together
A

b- Fraternal twins reared together

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5
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Khalid ha IQ of 150, mental age 18 , what is his chronological age ?

a. 10
b. 12
c. 14

A

b. 12

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What represents the three steps of memory processing ?
a- Encoding – retrieval – storage
b- Encoding – storage – retrieval

A

b- Encoding – storage – retrieval

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What is the restriction or inability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for human being defined as?
a- Affiliation 
b- Handicap 
c- Disability
d- Impairment
A

c- Disability

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Which decreases compliance ?
a- Repetition
b- Simplifying info
c- Being general

A

c- Being general

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What is involved in processing of many natural rewards in the brain ?
a- Dopamine
b- Renin

A

a- Dopamine

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What is the definition of a territory ?
a- Defended area that excludes animals from the same species
b- Defended area that exclude animal from the all species
c- The same as home range for animals
d- Applies for virds and animals

A

a- Defended area that excludes animals from the same species

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What is retrograde amnesia ?

A

Inability to remember anything before accident

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Some girl had car accident and the doctor wanted to check if her working memory was impaired. Which Wechsler intelligence test should be performed ?
a- Vocablury
b- Digit span

A

b- Digit span

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13
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if weber constant for a sound intensity of 200 Hz is 1% , what is the JND of sound intensity of 600Hz ?
a- 5
b- 5.5
c- 6
d- 6.5
A

c- 6

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someone rushed and entered your office , skipping people who were waiting before him. What’s your perspective on his situation if you are following fundamental attribution error ?
a- He is rude
b- He have an emergency
c- He was told by his employee

A

a- He is rude

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A number of students suffered from stress, some of them performed physical activity while others smoked and took drugs. what kind of coping done ?
A- Stress focused
B- Emotion focused
C- Behavior focused

A

B- Emotion focused

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A child learns that not all nurses are females , What type of cognitive task he developed?
a- Assimilation
b- Accommodation
c- Adaptation

A

b- Accommodation

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Stress can be reduced if we take the event as
a- Uncontrolled
b- Controlled even if you do not exercise
c- Believed to be controlled when you exercise the control

A

b- Controlled even if you do not exercise

not 100% sure

18
Q 
According to facial feedback hypothesis, in what does facial expression play a role?
a-	Experience emotion
b-	Express emption
c-	Learn emotion
d-	Communication of emotion
A

b- Express emption

19
Q

After a person reaches sexual maturity, how does the probability of death change ?
a- Increases
b- Decreases
c- Stay the same

A

a- Increases

not 100% sure

20
Q 
While using Wheschler adult intelligence test to measure the working memory, What would you measure ?
a-	Chronological age
b-	Social age
c-	Biological age
d-	Cognitive age
A

d- Cognitive age

21
Q

Between 14 and 18 months, children’s distress peaks over the separation from their parents, which two factors are associated with the onset and decline of fear ?
a- Memory and autonomy
b- Autonomy and synchrony

A

a- Memory and autonomy

22
Q 
While you were walking at night you heard footsteps behind you, you heart started beating faster, and you started to sweat, you realized these physical changes, and started to feel afraid. Which of the following best explains how you developed this emotion?
a-	James-Lang theory
b-	Cannon theory
c-	Two factor theory
d-	Facial expression theory
A

a- James-Lang theory

23
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A child was given two balls made of clay, which are similar in size, then they changed one of the balls into a flattened  shape, according to Piagets theory, what did they try to measure?
a-	Conservation
b-	Centration
c-	Static reasoning
d-     Irreversibility
A

a- Conservation

24
Q

In an experiment done by Harlow, an infant monkey was placed with two artificial mothers, one placed with cloths and no nutrition, while the other was placed with nutrition and wires. Which of the following is true?
a- The monkey preferred the mother with food
b- The monkey spent more time with the clothed mother regardless which gave food

A

b- The monkey spent more time with the clothed mother regardless which gave food

25
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Ahmad’s parents got a salary raise and now they work for longer times and don’t have time to watch Ahmad, as a result Ahmad started smoking. According to urie bronfenbrenner’s ecological model, what system is represented here?
a- Exosystem
b- Microsystem
c- Macrosystem

A

a- Exosystem

26
Q 
Which term is used when a conditioned stimulus is presented alone repeatedly without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus?
a-	Acquisition
b-	Extinction
c-	First order conditioning
d-	Second order conditioning
A

b- Extinction

27
Q 
Naif is depressed as he has suffered a family member loss in the last six months, which has left him bedridden in the morning, as a doctor your are focusing on his serotonin levels to treat him or not, what approach are you using?
a-	Behavioural
b-	Cognitive
c-	Psychiatric
d-	Psychoanalysis
A

c- Psychiatric

28
Q

A child rolled over at 3 , crawled at 7 , walked at 12 months. What is the innately determined timetable of growth and change called ?
a- Maturation
b- Development
c- growth

A

a- Maturation

29
Q

An EEG recording showed that Rashid does not enter stage 4 nREM sleep. What characterizes him ?
a- He is a sleep walker
b- He is an eldery
c- He wakes up periodically trying to recall his dream
d- He is an infant less than a year of age

A

b- He is an eldery

30
Q

What is B of the ABC model ?
a- Assumptions
b- Behaviors

A

a- Assumptions

31
Q 
What is the weakest light that can be reliably discriminated from darkness ?
a-	Absolute threshold
b-	Difference threshold
c-	Just noticeable difference
d-	Weber constant
A

a- Absolute threshold

32
Q 
What best characterizes cephalocaudal development ?
a-	Learn to talk before read
b-	Walk before kick
c-	Lift head before chest
d-	Use arms before fine hand adjustment
A

c- Lift head before chest

33
Q

Two people seeing same picture but with different meaning?
a- Perception
b- Visualization

A

a- Perception

34
Q

What is the placebo effect?
a- Psychological
b- Physiological
c- biochemical

A

a- Psychological

35
Q

A kid was bitten by a dog, so when he sees a dog similar to the one that bit him, he gets scared. but when he saw a poodle at his grandmother’s house, he didn’t get scared.What characteristic of learning is described?
a-stimulus generalization
b-stimulus discrimination
c-spontaneous recovery

A

a-stimulus generalization

36
Q 
A solider dresses in dark splotchy "camouflage" clothing while hiding in terrain of the same color trying to make it harder for the enemy to see. Camouflage interferes with which of Gestalt perceptual theory?
a-Closure 
b-Figure-ground	
c-Proximity 
d-Similarity
A

b-Figure-ground

37
Q 
A 16-year-old Ahmed continuously changes his clothes before he gets of the house to make sure he looks presentable. This is an example of what aspect of adolescence egocentrism?
a-Invincibility fable
b-Personal fable
c-Social anxiety	
d-Imaginary audience
A

d-Imaginary audience

38
Q

What is catharsis?

A

Purging an emotion by experiencing intensely

39
Q

Nora wants to be an elementary teacher like her mother and grandmother. she didn’t explore the major. she wants to follow her mother and other women in her family. Which identity path is she following?
a- identity foreclosure
b- identity diffusion
c- identity moratorium

A

a- identity foreclosure

40
Q 
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. Your friend is most likely experiencing: 
a-narcolepsy	
b- REM sleep
c- Hypnopompic hallucinations
d- Hypnagogic hallucinations
A

d- Hypnagogic hallucinations

41
Q

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

A

a-displacement

42
Q

The motivational effect of external events is emphasized in which theory of motivation?
a- incentive
b- drive
c- physiological

A

a- incentive

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