Psychology

Which of the following is a cognitive symptom of stress?

A. overeating
B. anxiety
C. frequent cold
D. memory problems

which of these diseases is more likely to occur in societies that encourage individualism as opposed to group cooperation and conformity?

A. tuberculosis
B. pneumonia
C. Influenza
D. cancer

Whose name is associated with the General Adaptation Syndrome?

A. Hans Selye
B. Niel Miller
C. Carl Rogers
D. Sigmund Freud

the fight-or-flight response is associated with which stage of the general adaptation syndrome?

A. alarm
B. termination
C. resistance
D. exhaustion

while going sky diving for the first time, someone first experiences anxiety, but immediately after wants to do it again. whay type of stress is the latter?

A. ego stress
B. eustress
C. constructive stress
D. distress

Holmes and Rahe developed the Social readjustment rating scale to measure changes due to?

A. major life events
B. man-made disasters
C. social difficulties
D. natural disasters

experiencing intense fear whle reliving a shocking even in one's dreams, falshbacks or intrusive recollections describes?

A. general adaptation syndrome
B. posttraumatic stress disorder
C. typical irritation
D. a major life event

lazarus and folkman believe that the first response when faced with a potential stressor, is to determine whether we are in imminent danger. this is termed?

A. primary appraisal
B. stress-related decision
C. secondary appraisal
D. hassle-related decision

which conditions are believed to result from overactivity of the immune system?

A. heart disease & parkinson's disease
B. AIDS & anorexia nervosa
C. common cold & cancer
D. allergies & arthritis

which term describes a set of beliefs about members of a particular group?

A. expectation
B. categorization
C. classification
D. stereotype

the tendency to assume a person has mostly positive or negative traits as a result of seeing one major positive or negative trait is called?

A. proximity effect
B. matching hypothesis
C. mere-exposure effect
D. halo effect

which one of sternbergs types of love has all three elements of intimacy, passion & commitment?

A. fatuous love
B. companionate love
C. consummate love
D. romantic love

the kitty genovese murder is an example of which phenomenon?

A. altruism
B. aggressive displacement
C. bystander effect
D. both A & C

what occurs when in a group, when people try less, if contributions will not be evaluated individually?

A. social idleness
B. social facilitation
C. social loafing
D. goof-off phenomenon

when someone gives into another persons wish or request they are demonstrating?

A. social facilitation
B. the halo effect
C. compliance
D. obedience

which term describes what happens when compliance with an initial small request is followed by a larger request?

A. door-in-the-face request
B. risky shift
C. foot-in-the-door effect
D. polarization phenomenon

you get a free cereal in the mail. the company hopes you will try it and feel obligated to buy it. what ter is used to describe this reaction?

A. group polarization
B. reciprocity
C. deindividuation
D. social facilitation

your text cities the iraq and bay of pigs invasions and sinking of the titanic as examples of which social psychological phenomena

A. social facilitation
B. social loafing
C. brainstorming
D. groupthink

which researcher conducted the experiment on obedience in which participants believed they were shocking a fellow participant with up to 400 volts for giving wrong answers?

A. Stanley Milgram
B. Robert Cialdini
C. Gordon Allport
D. Solomon Asch

what is the root of the word "personality"?

A. from the greek for "individual"
B. from the latin for "mask"
C. from the greek for "distinct"
D. from the latin for "self"

rather than focusing on traits, walter mischel encouraged psycholgists to investigate:

A. body types
B. effects of neural conduction
C. heritability
D. the influence of situations on behavior

the predisposition to respond in a particular way is described as a:

A. aggregate
B. trait
C. projective
D. state

william sheldon believed personality could be related to:

A. humors
B. body types
C. skull elevations
D. neurotransmitters

sigmund freud proposed that his patients disorders resulted most often from psychoological conflicts related to:

A. marriage
B. sex
C. depression
D. denial

what is freud's term from the primitive, biological side of personality?

A. ego
B. superego
C. preconsciousness
D. id

the reality principle is associated with which side of personality?

A. ego
B. preconscious
C. id
D. superego

which defense mechanism is demonstrated by a person with aggressive tendencies, who channels his energies into becoming a surgeon?

A. projection
B. repression
C. sublimation
D. reaction formation

bandura's idea that people are affected by their environment but they can also influence their environment, is known as:

A. locus of control
B. reciprocal determinism
C. self-efficacy
D. phenomenology

carl rogers emphasized accepting people for what they are, not for what others wold like the person to be. this acceptance is called:

A. conditional esteem
B. unconditional positive regard
C. unconditional esteem
D. conditional positive regard

in most states, a successful insanity defense plea means a person is not held legally responsible if he/she is:

A. unaware of the law
B. diagnosed with an acquired psychological disorder
C. diagnosed with an inherited psychological disorder
D. unable to distinguish between right and wrong at the time of the crime

which approach to abnormality suggests that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and often cured?

A. sociocultural
B. behavioral
C. medical
D. biopsychosocial

your aunt would rather stay in her home, avoid public places and social situations. she would be diagnosed as:

A. cynophobia
B. agoraphobia
C. ailurophobia
D. specific phobia

which disorder is often accompanied by what has been called "free-floating" anxiety?

A. generalized anxiety disorder
B. panic attack
C. obsessive-compulsive disorder
D. acrophobia

most cases of dissociative identity disorder are associated with:

A. neurotransmitter imbalances
B. brain damage
C. inherited neurological defects
D. abuse during childhood

what form of depression occurs during the fall and winter?

A. seasonal affective disorder
B. seasonal melancholy
C. winter depressive disorder
D. seasonal despondency

a person who suffers from bipolar disorder alternates between:

A. depression & mania
B. depression & schizophrenia
C. mania & schizophrenia
D. anxiety & mania

what term describes disorders in which severely disturbed individuals lose contact with reality and may require hospitalization?

A. neurosis
B. psychosis
C. regression
D. conversion

the belief that you are a special agent for the intergalactic supernova is an example of a:

A. delusion
B. negative symptom
C. neologism
D. loose association

which disorder is associated with problem levels of the neurotransmitter dipamine?

A. dissociateive fungue
B. agoraphobia
C. schizophrenia
D. bipolar disorder

define stress

what are stressors?

types of stress are:

distress:

eustress

how people think about stressors, determines how stressful the situation will be is considered as:

cognitive appraisal approach has two sub-categories:

primary appraisal

secondary appraisal

catastrophe

posttraumatic stress disorder

everyday sources of stress include:

affects of frustration can include:

the body uses which part of its nervous system to respond to stress?

the sympathetic nervous system is used in:

parasympathetic nervious system is used to:

there are how many stages to the bodys reaction to stress in the General adaptation symdrome?

general adaptation syndrome was introduced by:

defense mechanisms:

psychological defense mechanisms:

denial

repression

rationalization

projection

reaction formation

regression

identification

compensation

sublimation

social psychology

social influence

conformity

groupthink

consumer psychology

compliance

foot-in-the-door technique is a way to gain compliance by:

door-in-the-face technique is a way of gaining compliance by:

a reaction of the door-in-the-face technique is:

lowball technique is a way of gaining compliance by:

thats-not-all technique is a way of gaining compliance by:

Obedience

Milgram Study

stanley milgrams experement focused on what?

social facilitation

social loafing

cognitive dissonance