Random Practice Test Questions

Question 1

The proposal that emotions serve to keep humans alive long enough to reproduce and form relationships that ensure the survival of offspring was first made by ___________________.
Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Charles Darwin

Question 2

Which of the following best summarizes the current conceptualization of autism?

Answer 2

Heterogenisis disorder with biological basis

Question 3

When you get a pop quiz in your Chem class, you initially feel scared and concerned about failing. Then, you start taking deep breaths and reminding yourself that you understand Chemistry. After the initial flight or fight response, you enter the _______________ phase.

Answer 3

Resistance

Question 4

When a child understands that the number of dots in a row is the same after the dots have been spaced farther apart, the child has left Piaget’s _______________ stage.

Answer 4

Preoperational

Question 5

Which experimental task illustrates the concept of egocentrism?
Group of answer choices

Wynn paradigm

3-mountain problem

A not B task

Conservation

Answer 5

3- mountain problem

Question 6

Because Ken’s history professor was a college student during the 1970s, he has extraordinary insight and knowledge of facts concerning the Vietnam War era. This knowledge is associated with the term _______________.
Group of answer choices

multiple intelligence

general intelligence

crystallized intelligence

fluid intelligence

Answer 6

crystallized

Question 7

Kids in the __________________________ stages think in egocentric ways.
Group of answer choices

Question 8

Adrianna perceives that this exam won’t be too hard. What type of appraisal is this?
Group of answer choices

secondary appraisal

attirbution

perceived control

primary appraisal

Question 9

Which of the following is the best example of an autonomic aspect of an emotional response to an incident?

Group of answer choices

When Molly saw the flock of wild turkeys by Pioneer Hall, she smiled happily.

After his girlfriend was fired, an angry programmer hacked the company computers and trashed six months worth of sales data.

The criminal got sweaty palms during the lie detector test when he was asked about what really happened last Thursday night.

“I was terrified,” Edwina commented as she described her recent car accident to a friend.

Question 10

Luby and colleagues looked at the factors mediating the effects of poverty on brain development. Children, aged 3 to 6 years old, completed a comprehensive developmental assessment when they were in preschool and were assessed again annually for the next 5 years. At the age of 11, the children’s brains were scanned using magnetic resonance imaging to determine brain development. This study is an example of what kind of design?
Group of answer choices

Naturalistic observation

Cross-sectional study

Experiment

Longitudinal study

Question 11

Because Ken’s history professor was a college student during the 1970s, he has extraordinary insight and knowledge of facts concerning the Vietnam War era. This knowledge is associated with the term _______________.
Group of answer choices

fluid intelligence

crystallized intelligence

general intelligence

multiple intelligence

Question 12

Kids in the __________________________ stages think in egocentric ways.
concrete operational & formal operational
preoperational & formal operational
sensorimotor & preoperational
sensorimotor & concrete operational