Behavioral Sciences 6-10

Question 1

What is the difference between self-concept and identity?

Question 2

List 3 factors that contribute to a person’s ethnic identity. How are these factors different from those that determine national identity?

Question 3

High school student fails history test. What might a student with an internal locus of control interpret this event? What about a student with an external locus of control?

Question 4

Individual person has failed in completing one of the theorist’s developmental stages.
What would Freud say is the most likely outcome for this person?

Question 5

Individual person has failed in completing one of the theorist’s developmental stages.
What would Erikson say is the most likely outcome for this person?

Question 6

Individual person has failed in completing one of the theorist’s developmental stages.
What would Kohlberg say is the most likely outcome for this person?

Question 7

Describe the three major phases of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development.

Question 8

How could Vygotsky’s concept of zone proximal development be applied to standardized test preparation.

Question 9

How would psychoanalytic define personality?

Question 10

How would humanistic define personality?

Question 11

How would type define personality?

Question 12

How would trait define personality?

Question 13

How would behaviorist define personality?

Question 14

How would social cognitive define personality?

Question 15

How would biological define personality?

Question 16

What are the roles of the id, ego, and superego according to the psychoanalytic perspective?

Question 17

What are the traits described by the Eysenck’s’ PEN theory and what des each describe?

Question 18

What are the Big Five personality traits?

Question 19

What is the difference between the biomedical and biopsychosocial models of psychological disorders?

Question 20

Name three psychological disorders with greater than 2% one year prevalence in the US (affecting more that 1 in 50 people per year.

Question 21

A schizophrenic patient is started on the atypical antipsychotic risperidone, which is effective for treatment of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, but not the negative symptoms. Which of the patient’s symptoms are like to improve, and which are not?

Question 22

What are the features of a major depressive episode?

Question 23

What are the features of a manic episode?

Question 24

For each of the following disorders, briefly describe their makeup with respect to depressive episodes, manic episodes, and other mood disturbances.
1. Major depressive disorder
2. Bipolar I disorder
3. Bipolar II disorder
4. Cyclothymic disorder.

Question 25

Patient with OCD believes that the latch on the apartment door must be checked five times before it is okay to go to bed. Without checking the latch five times, patient cannot sleep for fear that someone will break into the apartment.

Identify patient’s obsession, compulsion, and how that are related to OCD.

Question 26

Describe cluster A features and the personality disorders which fall into the cluster.

Question 27

Describe cluster B features and the personality disorders which fall into the cluster.

Question 28

Describe cluster C features and the personality disorders which fall into the cluster.

Question 29

Which hormone and neurotransmitter concentrations are elevated in depression?

Question 30

Which hormone and neurotransmitter concentrations are reduced in depression?

Question 31

Provide an example of a genetic factor that appears to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Question 32

How are dopamine levels related in schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease?

Question 33

What is social facilitation?

Question 34

What is deindividuation?

Question 35

What is the bystander effect?

Question 36

What is social loafing?

Question 37

What is peer pressure?

Question 38

What are the similarities and differences between group polarization and groupthink?

Question 39

What are the differences between assimilation and multiculturalism?

Question 40

What is the difference between primary and secondary socialization?

Question 41

What are conformity, compliance, and obedience?

Question 42

What is foot in the door?

Question 43

What is door in the face?

Question 44

What is lowball?

Question 45

What is that’s not all?

Question 46

What are the three components of attitude?

Question 47

What are the four functional areas of the functional attitudes theory?

Question 48

What are the routs of processing used to explain the elaboration likelihood model? What is associated with high elaboration?

Question 49

What are the three interactive factors of Bandura’s triadic reciprocal causation?