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Question 1

Q: Object permanence takes place in which of Piaget’s stage of cognitive development?

Concrete operations
Sensorimotor
Formal operations
Preopenrational

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Q: There are two types of glandular systems in the body. What are they? 
Thyroid and adrenal
Exocrine and adrenal
Endocrine and exocrine
Parathyroid and endocrine

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Q: What is Karen Horney known for? 
Behavioral psychology
Psychoanalytic theory
Cognitive/behavioral theory
Cultural psychology

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Q: Which is one of Karen Horney’s three coping strategies? 
Rationalization
Sublimation
Moving against people
Moving around people

Answer 4

C

Question 5

Q: Which of the following is not considered a side effect of propranolol? 
Bradycardia
Migraine headache
Shortness of breath
Raynaud’s phenomenon

Answer 5

B

Question 6

Q:\_\_\_ suggests that people are more prone to aggression and anti-social behavior when they believe they care act anonymously. 
Milgram
Sherif
Havland
Zimbardo

Answer 6

D

Question 7

Q:\_\_\_\_ proposed a social learning theory of career development in which career path is influence by our major factors: genetic endowment; environmental conditions and events’ learning experiences; and task approach skills. 
Zimbardo
Roe 
Tiedeman
Krumboltz

Answer 7

D

Question 8

Q:\_\_\_ created a theory of cognitive development based on the idea that people increase their cognitive skill based on information taken form both the environment and biological maturation. 
Krumboltz
Skinner
Piaget
Tiedeman

Answer 8

C

Question 9

Q: what three components make up all attitudes? 
Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral
Emotional, Habitual, Disposition
Health, Physical, Mental
Nurture, Environment, Luck

Answer 9

A

Question 10

Q:Sweeny had three other actions, besides intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, to form a therapeutic relationship.
Focus on the client instead of outside people
Focus on the present instead of the past or the future
Focus on the humane traits instead of the inhumane
None of the above

Answer 10

B

Question 11

Q: In multimodal therapy, people seem to respond best to interventions that target their \_\_\_? 
Preferred modalities
Personality style
Strengths
Areas of concern

Answer 11

A

Question 12

Q: One aspect of program management involves ___ and ___.
Applying theories and techniques with personnel
Integrating teaching and counseling skills
Facilitating and planning events
None of the above

Answer 12

B

Question 13

Question ID #1057: Research on cigarette smoking has found that:
Select one:
A. only 50% of self-quitters remain abstinent for two or more days following an attempt to quit.
B. the nicotine patch and other forms of nicotine replacement therapy are beneficial only for smokers who are highly nicotine dependent.
C. on the average, men and women gain about 6 and 8 pounds, respectively, after they stop smoking.
D. the risks for coronary and lung disease fall to about the same as those for people who never smoked three to five years after a smoker quits smoking.

Answer 13

C

Question 14

Question ID #1731: The intense "sleep attack" associated with Narcolepsy is often accompanied by:
Select one:
 A. cataplexy.
 B. dyskinesia.
 C. ataxia.
 D. muscular rigidity.

Answer 14

A

Question 15

Question ID #17395: Research by Geller and associates (2004) found that five symptoms are useful for distinguishing prepubertal and early adolescent Bipolar Disorder from ADHD. Which of the following is NOT one of these five symptoms?
Select one:
 A. elation 
 B. decreased need for sleep
 C. accelerated speech
 D. flight of ideas

Answer 15

C

Question 16

Question ID #10329: Sue and Sue (2003) describe worldview - or the way that people perceive, evaluate, and react to the situations they encounter - in terms of locus of control and locus of responsibility. According to these investigators, the worldview of Caucasian middle-class therapists is characterized by an:
Select one:
 A. internal locus of control and external locus of responsibility. 
 B. internal locus of control and internal locus of responsibility.
 C. external locus of control and external locus of responsibility.
 D. external locus of control and internal locus of responsibility.

Answer 16

B

Question 17

Question ID #119471: Which of the following is an essential component of training in supervision?
Select one:
A. Knowledge of competency-based supervision models and practices
B. Understanding of the nature of the supervisory relationship
C. Ability to increase supervisees’ clinical capacity and skill
D. All of the above

Answer 17

D

Question 18

Question ID #17706: For practitioners of Minuchin’s structural family therapy, a symptom is:
Select one:
A. both the result and cause of dysfunctional communication patterns.
B. the result of a family projection process.
C. a reflection of an “impasse.”
D. a maladaptive reaction to stress.

Answer 18

D

Question 19

Question ID #1100: An examinee whose highest score on Holland's occupational themes is on the realistic scale would probably be least interested in pursuing a career as a:
Select one:
 A. farmer.
 B. bookkeeper.
 C. technical writer. 
 D. social worker.

Answer 19

D

Question 20

Question ID #1248: A personnel director conducts a study to evaluate the criterion-related validity of a new selection test. She finds that the slope of the regression line differs for males and females. This suggests that the test may:
Select one:
 A. be "unfair."
 B. have differential validity.
 C. be lacking in incremental validity.
 D. have inadequate convergent validity.

Answer 20

B

Question 21

Question ID #17812: The major advantage of using a forced-choice method as an employee performance appraisal technique is that:
Select one:
A. it is easy to develop and use.
B. it provides specific information for employee feedback.
C. it helps alleviate leniency and other biases.
D. it provides an objective measure of job performance.

Answer 21

C

Question 22

Question ID #17814: In a study designed to evaluate the effects of rewards on productivity, employees in the experimental department receive their regular salary plus small bonuses that are contingent on their productivity, while employees in the control department receive their regular salary but no special incentives. The productivity levels of each department and the bonuses received by the experimental department are posted on a bulletin board in the company"s cafeteria. As expected, employees in the experimental department display an increase in productivity. However, an unexpected result is that employees in the control department do not maintain their performance at usual levels but, instead, exhibit a decrease in productivity. This latter result confirms the predictions of which of the following?
Select one:
 A. ERG theory
 B. equity theory
 C. the John Henry effect 
 D. social comparison theory

Answer 22

B

Question 23

Question ID #17821: Which of the following performance appraisal techniques would be most useful when a primary goal of appraisal is to provide employees with specific feedback that will help them improve their job performance?
Select one:
 A. forced-choice 
 B. forced-distribution
 C. BARS
 D. BIB

Answer 23

C

Question 24

Question ID #18052: In a study on learning and memory, participants in the experimental group learned two lists of nonsense syllables (first List A, then List B) and were then asked to recall List A. Participants in the control group also learned List A but, instead of learning List B, were asked to count backward from 10 numerous times before being asked to recall List A. Results of the study indicated that participants in the control group recalled more words from List A than did participants in the experimental group. These results are best explained by which of the following?
Select one:
 A. proactive interference 
 B. retroactive interference
 C. trace decay
 D. serial position effect

Answer 24

B

Question 25

Question ID #17911: Ron attends a rally organized to oppose gun control. When asked why he is against gun control, Ron states, "Well, the law says people have the right to own a gun, and everybody in my hometown has a gun." Kohlberg would say that Ron is at which level of moral development?
Select one:
 A. preconventional 
 B. conventional
 C. postconventional
 D. autonomous

Answer 25

B

Question 26

Question ID #17929: According to Piaget, when making moral judgments about a behavior, children in the autonomous stage:
Select one:
A. focus on the consequences of the behavior only.
B. focus on rules that are relevant to the behavior.
C. consider their own emotional reactions to the behavior.
D. consider the intentions of the actor.

Answer 26

D

Question 27

Question ID #17958: In terms of total sleep time, the proportion of Stage 4 sleep in adulthood:
Select one:
A. increases from early to late adulthood.
B. decreases until middle age (about age 45) and thereafter stabilizes.
C. remains stable until late adulthood (age 70) and thereafter increases.
D. decreases from early to late adulthood.

Answer 27

D

Question 28

Question ID #17966: As the result of a head injury sustained in a car accident, a young woman exhibits retrograde amnesia. Once her memories begin to return, which of the following is likely to be recovered first?
Select one:
A. memory for events that occurred several weeks before the accident
B. memory for events that occurred during the hour before the accident
C. memory for events related to the accident
D. memory for events that occurred after the accident

Answer 28

A

Question 29

Question ID #15059: For her dissertation research project, a graduate student administered a measure of state anxiety to a group of college students on five consecutive days before and after the students participated in a stress reduction workshop. The graduate student used which of the following research designs?
Select one:
 A. time-series
 B. Latin square
 C. static-group comparison
 D. multiple-baseline

Answer 29

A

Question 30

Question ID #18144: When using protocol analysis, an individual is asked to:
Select one:
A. brainstorm with other problem-solvers.
B. think aloud while solving a complex problem.
C. identify alternative strategies for solving the problem.
D. construct a cognitive map of a problem.

Answer 30

B

Question 31

Question ID #19269: The base rate fallacy refers to the tendency to:
Select one:
A. believe that a particular chance event is affected by the occurrence of previous events.
B. overestimate the link between two events that are unrelated or only slightly related.
C. focus on a specific case rather than general information when reaching a conclusion or making a judgment.
D. overestimate the number of people who share one’s beliefs, opinions, and attitudes

Answer 31

C

Question 32

Question ID #17809: Carl Jung’s archetypes are best conceptualized as:
Select one:
A. repressed emotion-laden material.
B. universal primordial images or patterns.
C. the primary components of the ego.
D. acquired tendencies that contribute to the personal unconscious.

Answer 32

B

Question 33

Question ID #18628: Miracle, exception, and scaling questions are strategies used by practitioners of:
Select one:
 A. solution-focused therapy.
 B. interpersonal psychotherapy.
 C. motivational interviewing.
 D. reality therapy.

Answer 33

A

Question 34

Question ID #656: In terms of item response theory, the slope (steepness) of the item characteristic curve indicates the item’s:
Select one:
A. level of difficulty.
Incorrect
B. ability to discriminate between examinees.
C. internal consistency reliability.
D. criterion-related validity.

Answer 34

B

Question 35

Question ID #18634: The James-Lange theory of emotions emphasizes which of the following?
Select one:
A. cognitive appraisal of the situation.
Incorrect
B. perceptions of bodily reactions to stimuli.
C. social comparisons.
D. the activity of the endocrine system.

Answer 35

B

Question 36

Question ID #1974: When the heterotrait-monomethod coefficient is large, this indicates:
Select one:
 A. a lack of differential validity. 
 B. a lack of discriminant validity.
 C. adequate convergent validity.
 D. adequate concurrent validity.

Answer 36

B

Question 37

Question ID #18647: The "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon is believed to be due to which of the following?
Select one:
 A. trace decay
 B. inadequate retrieval cues
 C. retroactive interference 
 D. attention deficits

Answer 37

B

Question 38

Question ID #18562: Dr. Melba Morrison, a licensed psychologist, conducts research and teaches several classes at a large university. In her social psychology classes, she usually covers only material that is consistent with the results of her own research. In terms of the ethical guidelines, this practice is:
Select one:
A. ethical since it is up to Dr. Morrison to decide what to cover in her classes.
B. ethical as long as Dr. Morrison provides information about her policy in the class syllabus.
C. ethically questionable but not addressed by ethical guidelines.
D. clearly unethical.

Answer 38

D

Question 39

Question ID #18626: Longitudinal studies of children who attended Head Start programs have found that:
Select one:
A. early IQ gains and improvements in academic achievement persist into adolescence and early adulthood.
B. early IQ gains decline but improvements in academic achievement persist into adolescence.
C. early improvements in academic achievement decline by adolescence but initial IQ gains persist into adulthood.
D. attendees are indistinguishable from nonattendees on measures of IQ and academic achievement by adolescence.

Answer 39

B

Question 40

Question ID #18629: Which of the following therapeutic approaches is based on the assumption that people have five basic needs (survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun) that act as the primary source of motivation?
Select one:
 A. Adler's Individual Psychology
 B. Glasser's Reality Therapy
 C. Roger's Person-Centered Therapy
 D. Kelly's Personal Construct Therapy

Answer 40

B

Question 41

Question ID #18151: The keyword method is most useful for:
Select one:
A. remembering word pairs.
B. remembering a long list of unrelated words.
C. recalling the order of mathematical operations.
D. mastering spatial relationships.

Answer 41

A

Question 42

Question ID #18564: Which of the following techniques would be most useful for evaluating the impact of an intervention on patients' quality of life?
Select one:
 A. cost-feasibility analysis 
 B. cost-minimization analysis
 C. cost-utility analysis
 D. cost-benefit analysis

Answer 42

C

Question 43

Question ID #19128: To assess the reading, spelling, and arithmetic skills of an elementary-school child who may have a learning disability, you would use which of the following?
Select one:
 A. WRAT
 B. DAT 
 C. PPVT
 D. CAS

Answer 43

A

Question 44

Question ID #603: An \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ intervention focuses on changing environmental conditions so that they better accommodate the characteristics of the individual.
Select one:
 A. emic
 B. etic 
 C. alloplastic
 D. autoplastic

Answer 44

C

Question 45

Question ID #19127: A "general representative sample" was used to develop which of the following Strong Interest Inventory scales?
Select one:
 A. General Occupational Themes 
 B. Basic Interest Scales
 C. Occupational Scales
 D. College Major Scales

Answer 45

C

Question 46

Question ID #8961: A researcher would use which of the following techniques when her goal is to evaluate the cause-and-effect or predictive relationships between measured variables and latent factors?
Select one:
 A. meta-analysis
 B. multitrait-multimethod matrix 
 C. discriminant function analysis
 D. structural equation modeling
Feedback

Answer 46

D

Question 47

Question ID #8961: A researcher would use which of the following techniques when her goal is to evaluate the cause-and-effect or predictive relationships between measured variables and latent factors?
Select one:
 A. meta-analysis
 B. multitrait-multimethod matrix 
 C. discriminant function analysis
 D. structural equation modeling
Feedback

Answer 47

D

Question 48

Question ID #17908: Which of the following selection techniques is the most accurate predictor of job performance across different jobs and job settings?
Select one:
 A. situational interviews 
 B. general mental ability tests
 C. interest tests
 D. work sample tests

Answer 48

B