Memory
Motivation
Emotion
Social Psych 1
Social Psych 2
100
Memory researchers define forgetting as the:
a) inability to retrieve information from long-term memory.
b) inability to retain information in working memory long enough to make use of it.
c) sudden loss of information after head trauma.
d) process by which information is lost in transit from short-term memory to long-term memory.
What is a) inability to retrieve information from long-term memory
100
Which of the following needs in Maslow's need hierarchy has to be satisfied before attention is paid to the others?
a)self-esteem
a)love
c)safety
d)self-actualization
What is c) safety
100
Which of the following is NOT a kind of non-verbal communication?
a) facial expression
b) crying
c) swearing
d) tone of voice
What is c) swearing
100
Prejudice is to ________ as discrimination is to ________.
a) feelings; behavior
b) thoughts; feelings
c) feelings; thoughts
d) behavior; feelings
What is a) feelings; behavior
100
In teamwork individuals tend to put in less individual effort. This is known as ______.
a) social loafing.
b) laziness.
c) being a social slob.
d) social laziness
What is a) social loafing.
200
The susceptibility of our memories to include false details that fit in with real details of an event is called the:
a) priming effect.
b) interference effect.
c) tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
d) misinformation effect.
What is d) misinformation effect
200
The cognitive approach's concept of ___________ is very similar to incentives.
a)intrinsic motivation
b)extrinsic motivation
c)deficiency motivation
d)growth motivation
What is b) extrinsic motivation
200
Both the slow and fast emotional pathways are controlled by the:
a) thalamus
b) hypothalamus
c) frontal cortex
d) amygdala
What is a) thalamus
200
In Asch’s study the participant made judgements that were incorrect after other group members made incorrect judgements. This suggests that ______.
a) the participant was influenced by the other group members’ responses
b) the participant had no opinion of their own.
c) the task was really hard
d) all of these.
What is a) the participant was influenced by the other group members’ responses
200
Which of the following was the most impactful ethical issue with the Tuskegee, Alabama, study?
a) The researchers created fraudulent data.
b) Participants were not informed of potential harm nor offered alternatives.
c) Data were not stored securely.
d) Neither confidentiality nor anonymity was maintained.
What is b) Participants were not informed of potential harm nor offered alternatives.
300
Psychologists use the term _______ to describe memory for information that is able to be articulated, while _______ describes memory for information that aids performance of tasks.
a) declarative; nondeclarative
b) nondeclarative; episodic
c) episodic; semantic
d) nondeclarative; declarative
What is a) declarative; nondeclarative
300
Which of the following is NOT an example of an intrinsically motivated activity?
a) eating a pie because you like pie
b) playing with a toy for the fun of it
c) studying for an exam to get a good grade
d) reading a book because you enjoy the story
What is c) studying for an exam to get a good grade
300
According to the James-Lange theory of emotion:
a) emotional experience and physiological arousal occur at the same time
b) emotional experience precedes physiological arousal
c) physiological arousal precedes emotional experience
d) we cannot experience different emotions
What is c) physiological arousal precedes emotional experience
300
When we make the "fundamental attribution error" we blame somebody's misfortunes on...
a) historical factors
b) a charismatic leader
c) their personal qualities
d) factors beyond their control
What is c) their personal qualities
300
Zimbardo interpreted the results of his simulated prison study as an indication of the:
a) powerful influence of roles on people
b) tendency to show compassion to people in need
c) weakness of social pressure in some situations
d) tendency to displace aggression
What is a) powerful influence of roles on people
400
Which situation describes the phenomenon of retroactive interference?
a) Samantha can’t recall what day of the week it is.
b) James keeps entering his old PIN with his new ATM card.
c) Darnell keeps referring to his old VCR as a Blu-ray player.
d) Frieda often calls her new boyfriend by her old boyfriend’s name.
What is c) Darnell keeps referring to his old VCR as a Blu-ray player
400
Which of the following does NOT influence our feelings of hunger?
a) insulin
b) ghrelin
c) septin
d) leptin
What is c) septin
400
The phenomenon of misattribution of arousal (e.g. thinking you are in love when really
you are just scared) is best explained by which theory of emotion?
a) the James-Lange theory
b) the two-factor theory
c) the Cannon-Bard theory
d) the wishful thinking theory
What is b) the two-factor theory
400
When Harry met Sally, she had just gotten fired and was in a really bad mood. As a result, Harry found her to be rude and abrasive. Even though she was very upbeat and kind after that, Harry continued to see her in a negative light, which illustrates
a)the proximity effect.
b)perception theory.
c)reciprocal determinism.
d)the primacy effect.
What is d) the primacy effect.
400
A panel of psychiatrists surveyed by Stanley Milgram prior to his obedience study stated that they thought fewer than five percent of the research participants would administer the maximum level of shock. How accurate was their prediction?
a)It was totally inaccurate because 65 percent of the participants administered the highest level of shock.
b)It was totally inaccurate because 50 percent of the participants administered the highest level of shock.
c)It was amazingly accurate because slightly over 5 percent of the participants administered the highest level of shock.
d)It was somewhat inaccurate because 25 percent of the participants administered the highest level of shock.
What is a) it was totally inaccurate because 65 percent of the participants administered the highest level of shock.
500
Jerome is shown pictures of five objects: a truck, a skyscraper, a cake, a lizard, and a pond. In which scenario is priming then utilized?
a) He is asked to list the photos he looked at, and he remembers only the cake, the lizard, and the pond.
b) He is told to remember the pictures, and he imagines a truck with a cake in the seat being driven by a lizard out of a pond and up the side of a skyscraper.
c) He is asked to describe something that people eat for dessert, and he describes a chocolate cake.
d) He is asked to list the cards in the order in which he looked at them, and he remembers only the truck, the skyscraper, and the lizard.
What is c) He is asked to describe something that people eat for dessert, and he describes a chocolate cake.
500
What, according to Hull, is reinforcing?
a) drive reduction
b) drive induction
c) incentive reduction
d) incentive deduction
What is a) drive reduction
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Research on the facial feedback hypothesis provides support for which theory of emotion?
a)James-Lange theory
b)Cannon-Bard theory
c)two-factor theory
d)cognitive theory
What is a) James-Lange theory
500
The classic cognitive dissonance study conducted by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) involved participants who performed a boring task and were then paid either $1 or $20 to lie about enjoying it. The results showed that participants who were paid $1:
a) Experienced less dissonance than those paid $20
b) Experienced more dissonance than those paid $20
c) Reported lower levels of enjoyment for the task
d) Did not experience any dissonance
What is b) experienced more dissonance than those paid $20
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!
According to Kurt Lewin's heuristic formula, behavior can be viewed as a function of the:
a) physical and emotional
b) person and emotions
c) person and environment
d) principles and environment
What is c) person and environment