Practice 4

Question 1

Studies of sexually explicit movie have found that men who view them tend to rate their own sexual partners as ____ attractive

Answer 1

more

Question 2

If you receive a subpoena to testify but the pt says no, you contact the ____ who issued the subpoena

Answer 2

attorney

Question 3

Physical guidance is sometimes necessary when using ____ but you must be cautious to to aggression

Answer 3

overcorrection

Question 4

Kids with ADHD have lowest score on which of the WISC indexes?

Answer 4

processing speed

Question 5

According to Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior, a person’s ____ is directly influenced by three factors

Answer 5

behavioral intention

Question 6

a 4 year old hates string beans and thinks when they get chopped up into smaller pieces he is eating more than if they are whole. A Piagetian would say this is an example of

Answer 6

irreversibility

Question 7

According to ____, a person’s career concept can be described as linear, expert, spiral, or transitory

Answer 7

Brousea and Driver

Question 8

perseveration is linked to damage in what brain region?

Answer 8

frontal lobe

Question 9

a physician is most likely to prescribe a drug that ____ the reuptake of ____ for premature ejaculation

Answer 9

inhibits seratonin

Question 10

Under hypnosis, a person is least likely to:

a. experience alterations in memory
b. believe anything
c. do things their fundamentally opposed to
d. stop feeling pain

Answer 10

c. do things their fundamentally opposed to

Question 11

piaget’s concrete operational stage is between the ages of

Answer 11

7-11

Question 12

onset of stranger anxiety for most children is from ___ to ___ months

Answer 12

8-10 months

Question 13

when deception is used in a study, participants should be debriefed……

Answer 13

about the purpose as possible after their participation

Question 14

differences in structure between males and females of same species is referred to as

Answer 14

sexual dimorphism

Question 15

Broadbent found suppoert for his filter theory of attention with the ______ task

Answer 15

dichotic listening

Question 16

you’re asked how you liked the concert last weekend but as you try to recall, you realize your memory’s being affected by other concerts you’ve attended. Your memory for last weekend’s concert is likely being affected by?

Answer 16

your schema for concerts

Question 17

according to Carol Gilligan, adolescent girls need experiences that help them

Answer 17

stay connected to themselves and others

Question 18

PKU is an autosomal recessive disorder, which means that a person with the disorder as inherited ____ ________ allele from each parent.

Answer 18

one recessive

Question 19

A person is homozygous with regard to PKU when he has ___ _______ allele(s) for that condition

Answer 19

two recessive

Question 20

A person is heterozygous with regard to PKU when he has two _______ _______ for that condition

Answer 20

two different

Question 21

When both parents are heterozygous for PKU, ___% will have the disorder, ___% will not have and not carry it, and ___% will be carriers.

Answer 21

25, 25, 50

Question 22

When one parent is heterozygous for PKU and the other is homozygous, ___% of their offspring will be carriers and ___% will not have it

Answer 22

50 and 50

Question 23

Nicotine enhances alertness by mimicking ___ at nicotinic receptor sites

Answer 23

Ach

Question 24

Stead’s review of the literature found that ___ is the most effective form of nicotine replacement therapy

Answer 24

nicotine nasal spray

Question 25

The major disadvantage of the BARS rating scale is

Answer 25

time and effort to develop

Question 26

the three approaches to healthcare are

Answer 26

private model, beveridge model, and bismarck model

Question 27

in the context of incremental validity, the positive hit rate is calculated by

Answer 27

dividing the true positives by the total positives

Question 28

in adolescence, sibling relationships usually become ____ emotionally intense and ____ distant

Answer 28

less emotional...more distant

Question 29

the deese-roediger-mcdermott paradigm refers to

Answer 29

recalling a word that is similar in content/meaning to a list with several words, although that word was not actually there (aka the list is tired, bedtime, yawn but you recall the word sleep)

Question 30

A T score of 70 = ____ %ile

Answer 30

97th

Question 31

studies investigating the genetic contribution to major depression have found that the risk for depression is _______ for biological offspring who have either ___ or ____ parents with depression

Answer 31

one or both

Question 32

for specific phobia, blood-injection-injury type, relaxation techniques are normally ______

Answer 32

contraindicated

Question 33

Raising the cutoff score on a selection test to hire the most qualified applicants would ____ the number of ____ positives

Answer 33

reduce true positives

Question 34

cross-sectional designs are used to assess the effects of the ____ across different _____ .

Answer 34

IV across age groups

Question 35

wernicke's encephalopathy is due to

Answer 35

a thiamine deficiency

Question 36

An informed consent may or may not be required when the study is unlikely to cause harm or is exempted by legal/institutional regulations?

Answer 36

may not be required

Question 37

Approximately __ to __% of left-handed people are left-hemisphere dominant for language

Answer 37

50-60

Question 38

a communality is the proportion of variance accounted for by one or various factors in how many variables?

Answer 38

multiple factors in a single variable

Question 39

Treating depression by having the pt keep a record of positive experiences would be consisted with ___ theory of Self-control

Answer 39

Rehm's

Question 40

if scores on 2 tests are correlated, multiplying each score in one set of test scores will _____the magnitude of the Pearson r

Answer 40

have no effect on

Question 41

Savin-Williams' study on the sexual identity trajectory among sexual minority youth found that adolescent _____ had an earlier onset of all milestones except ___ disclosure of sexual orientation to another person

Answer 41

males, first

Question 42

stepwise multiple regression would be used to identify the ____ number of predictors needed to account for ____ validity

Answer 42

fewest, criterion

Question 43

Project match found what regarding the effects of CBT, TSF, and MET on alcoholism

Answer 43

all had similar effects

Question 44

Carl Jung identified what as the source of psychic energy?

Answer 44

libido

Question 45

score transformations that alter the rank order and relative size of the distance between scores are referred to as _____ transformations

Answer 45

nonlinear

Question 46

score transformations that preserve the rank order and relative size of the distance between scores are referred to as _____ transformations

Answer 46

linear

Question 47

ex post facto research is distinguished from true experimental research by

Answer 47

an inability to manipulate the IVs

Question 48

what do you use to analyze unidirectional and bidirectional causal relationships between measured and latent variables?

Answer 48

LISREL aka linear structural equation analysis

Question 49

what do you use to analyze unidirectional causal relationships between observed variables only?

Answer 49

path analysis

Question 50

a confluent paranoiac exhibits ____ cultural and ____ functional paranoia

Answer 50

high both

Question 51

Piaget's concept of animistic thinking is the ____ stage and attributed it to ___

Answer 51

preoperational...egocentrism

Question 52

Neurons in the ____ respond to take, smell, and sight of food

Answer 52

orbitofrontal cortex

Question 53

Which brain region controls circadian rhythm

Answer 53

suprachiasmatic nuclues

Question 54

brain region for wakfeulness, arousal, and consciousness

Answer 54

reticular activating system

Question 55

brain region involved in the consolidation of long-term declarative memories

Answer 55

hippocampus

Question 56

a test's criterion-related validity coefficient cannot _____ the square root of its _____ coefficient

Answer 56

exceed....reliability

Question 57

when a predictor's reliability coefficient is .75, its criterion-related validity coefficient can be

Answer 57

no greater than the square root of .75

Question 58

yalom was against seeing the same pt in individual and group therapy because

Answer 58

it may decrease his participation and involvement in group therapy

Question 59

the pygmalion effect is another name for the

Answer 59

rosenthal effect

Question 60

the correspondence bias is another name for

Answer 60

the fundamental attribution bias

Question 61

cues in the research situation that communicate to subjects what behaviors are expected of them

Answer 61

demand characteristics

Question 62

double checking results that conflict with your hypothesis more than those that confirm it is an example of

Answer 62

experimenter expectancy effect

Question 63

in crowded situations, females use ___ effective coping strategies than males

Answer 63

less

Question 64

Medications slow down memory loss in Alzheimer's by ____the breakdown of _____

Answer 64

preventing breakdown of Ach

Question 65

classical conditioning involves which brain region

Answer 65

cerebellum

Question 66

implicit memory's brain region explicit memory's brain region

Answer 66

``` implicit = cerebellum explicit = hippocampus ```

Question 67

A ___ dose of an SSRI is usually required when treating OCD than when treating ____

Answer 67

higher, depression

Question 68

job enrichment is a concept in ___ theory, and would most likely be opposed by ____ theory. because it says that workers are motivated by ____ rewards

Answer 68

two-factor, scientific management-external

Question 69

_____ theory says that energy expenditure and performance are positively related to _____. So enriched jobs provide this which increases activation aka _______

Answer 69

activation theory, stimulus variability, motivation

Question 70

A person-centered therapist would probably respond to a client's transference by _______ it

Answer 70

disregarding

Question 71

regarding child adjustment to parent remarriage, ____ age at the time of remarriage and ___ gender have fewer problems adjusting to a stepparent

Answer 71

younger, female

Question 72

the loss of memory for personal info limited to a circumscribed time

Answer 72

localized amnesia

Question 73

issues related to attachment, safety, and security would be of interest to a practitioner of of

Answer 73

object relations

Question 74

the reciprocal teaching method was influenced by

Answer 74

vygotsky