Clinical Psychology
Name 2 of the 5 anxiety related disorders
panic disorder
specific phobia
GAD
social anxiety
OCD
Which one of the following is NOT a stage of Piaget's cognitive developmental theory?
A sensorimotor
B formal operational
C perceptual
D preoperational
C perceptual
Define neuroticism
Being prone to being easily emotionally aroused, sometimes uncontrollable negative emotions
Which of the following is a participant(s) of the Milgram's obedience study
A. Experimenter
B. Teacher (native participant)
C. Learner (confederant)
D. All of the above
D
What is a control group?
A. A group who receives the experimental treatment.
B. A group who receives the alternative experimental treatment.
C. A group who does not receive the experimental treatment.
D. A group who are receive the experimental treatment in a replication study.
C. A group who does not receive the experimental treatment.
Which of the following is not a component of Corrigan's Model of self stigma?
A.Awareness
B.Agreement
C.Application to self
D. Damage to self
E. Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation E
Which of the following is not one of Piaget's four stages of Cognitive development?
A. Preoperational
B. Concrete operational
C. Sensorimotor
D. Neurocognitive
D
Which type of stress is noted as potentially required for some specific dietheses?
A. traumatic experiences
B major life changes
C accumulation of 'hassles'
D all of the above
D all the above
James catches the same bus every morning. When the usual driver is replaced with a new man with a beard, he finds he doesn't like the new driver as much. What is the correct term for this phenomenon?
A. He is racist
B. Think slicing
C. The beauty is good stereotype
D. The mere exposure effect
D. The mere exposure effect
Which of these is NOT a strength of the repeated measures design
A. Participants control for their own individual differences
B. Requires fewer participants
C. Participants will find it hard to guess the purpose of the study
D. It helps us track change over time
C. Participants will find it hard to guess the purpose of the study
What is an example of a clinically significant mental health disorder?
A. Feeling sad after losing a loved one (grief) for 3 months
B. Mood swings after using a substance for a couple of days
C. Depressive symptoms for a week after you are diagnosed with hyperthyroidism
D. Difficulty controlling worry about work and school more days than not for 6 months
D. Difficulty controlling worry about work and school more days than not for 6 months.
Which developmental theory of intelligence is represented by a non-changing number
A. Two-dimensional (crystalized and fluid)
B. One-dimensional (IQ)
C. Many dimensions (Caroll's 3-stratum model)
D. A few dimensions (Thurstone 7, Gardner 7)
E. Many dimensions (crystilaized and fluid)
B. One-dimensional (IQ)
Name the big 5 personality traits?
Extraversion/introversion,
openness to experience,
neuroticism/stability,
conscientiousness,
agreeableness
What are 2 reasons why people obeyed in Milgram's electric shock experiment?
reasons include:
the authority figure has a high status,
people believed the authority figure was responsible for their actions rather than the participant,
the situation escalated gradually
What would be the null hypothesis for an independent samples t-test?
A. The sample mean will not be significantly different from the population mean.
B. One population mean will be significantly lower than the other.
C. There will be no significant change over time.
D. There will be no significant difference between the population means.
D. There will be no significant difference between the population means.
State and define three components of the cognitive-behavioural paradigm?
What is a weakness of Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
doesn't consider social or cultural aspects of development, doesn't talk about mechanisms, stages are not nuanced enough, underestimate abilities of some children
What are the 3 different types of studies used to investigate the influences of genetics on personalities?
Family, twin, adoption
Which of the following best describes the "door-in-the-face" method?
A. People are asked to engage in behaviour they would normally avoid, resulting in long-term attitude change
B. An individual asks for a larger, more demanding commitment then follow up with a more modest favour
C. An individual is offered something unwanted to make the desired outcome seem more appealing
D. An individual asks for something small and then follow up with a larger request.
B. An individual ask's for a larger, more demanding commitment then follow up with a more modest favour
What is pearson’s r:
A. A measure of the number of values that are free to vary in a sample.
B. A measure of variance.
C. Another name for a repeated measures t-test.
D. A measure of correlation in a sample.
D. A measure of correlation in a sample.
Which is comsidered a biopsychosocial precipitating risk factor for mental illness?
A. Increased use of substances
B. Family medical illness
C. Separation from fiance
A. Increased use of subtances
What are the four components of emotional intelligence?
A. Perceiving Emotion
B. Using Emotion
C. Understanding Emotion
D. Managing Emotion
Aidan sees that most of the students in his class are wearing black sneakers while he is wearing blue sneakers. He asks his parents to buy him black sneakers so he will fit in
This is an example of which of the following concepts?
A. Normative influence
B. Informational influence
C. Emotion-based persuasion
D. Reason-based persuasion
E. Informational persuasion
A. Normative influence
What are 5 things that should be included in a hypothesis?
Sample
IV
DV
Relationship between IV and DV
Both sides of a comparison