Lies
Testing Personality
Dreams
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
100
Studies suggest that all the emotions people experience are present and distinct at birth. True or false?
What is true.
100
This is a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.
What is a trait.
100
This is classified as a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness.
What is daydreaming.
100
This mood disorder typically involves feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, guilt, and great sadness.
What is depression.
100
Schizophrenia is characterized by loss of contact with this.
What is reality.
200
Our state of this affects nearly everything we do as well as our perception of our surroundings.
What is happiness (or unhappiness).
200
This is the most widely used projective test; it seeks to identify people's feelings by analyzing their interpretations of inkblots.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test.
200
One-third of your life is spent doing this.
What is sleeping.
200
This mood disorder involves a cycle of mood changes from depression to wild elation and back again.
What is bipolar disorder.
200
People with this type of schizophrenia are are incoherent in their thought and speech and disorganized in their behavior; their hallucinations tend to be more fragmented and infrequent.
What is disorganized schizophrenia.
300
One sign of sympathetic activity of lying is lack of this (dryness of mouth).
What is saliva.
300
This is a common response to an insult or an attack; it can often make a person seem out of control.
What is anger.
300
Regular brain stimulation from this cycle of sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways.
What is the REM cycle.
300
This is extreme excitement characterized by hyperactivity and chaotic behavior.
What is mania.
300
In most cases, schizophrenic hallucinations are _______________ - voices may tell the individual what to do or comment on the individual’s behavior.
What is auditory.
400
99 percent of mothers reported that their babies showed this.
What is curiosity.
400
This is a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interest through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
What is a thematic apperception test.
400
According to Freud, this content is the remembered story line of a dream.
What is the manifest content.
400
These theorists argue that people prone to depression have learned through experience to believe that previous events in their lives were out of their control.
What are learning theorists.
400
Many people with catatonic schizophrenia may exhibit this, a condition in which other people can mold them into strange poses that they continue to hold for hours.
What is waxy flexibility.
500
The ancient Chinese believed that there are four inborn (instinctive) human emotions - what are two of them?
What are happiness, anger, sorrow, or fear.
500
Please name three of the "big five" personality traits (O-C-E-A-N).
What are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism
500
According to Freud, this content contains the underlying meaning of a dream.
What is the latent content.
500
These two neurotransmitters both play a role in mood regulation. They may at least party explain the connection between genes and mood.
What are serotonin and noradrenaline.
500
Problems in the central nervous system may involve neurotransmitters as well as brain structures; research has focused on this particular transmitter.
What is dopamine.