Question 1

An anxiety disorder characterized by frequent panic attacks that affect the persons ability to function in day-to-day living is called?

Accepted Answer

Panic disorder

Question 2

In Carl Roger\'s theory, our perception of our abilities, behaviors, and characteristics is known as _______

Accepted Answer

Self-concept

Question 3

People who are attempting to become extremely thin by refusing to eat suffer from what?

Accepted Answer

Anorexia nervosa

Question 4

Raymond Cattle originally proposed that there are __________ personality source traits

Accepted Answer

16

Question 5

A disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with sympathy of anxiety, nightmares, poor sleep, relieving the event, and concentration problems, lasting more than one month, is called ________

Accepted Answer

PTSD

Question 6

Four-year old Larry squeezes between his mommy and daddy as they sit together on the couch. He cuddles with mommy and pushes daddy away. This illustrates which Freudian concept?

Accepted Answer

Oedipus complex

Question 7

Any pattern of behavior that uses people significant distress, causes harm to others, or harms their ability to function in daily life, is called ________

Accepted Answer

A psychological disorder

Question 8

Each day, while Sid is sitting at his desk at work, he continually think about germs. Each times this occurs, he washes his hands. Sid probably suffers from what?

Accepted Answer

OCD

Question 9

The social or environmental setting of a person\'s behavior is reffered to as _______

Accepted Answer

The situational context

Question 10

\"If it feels good, do it\" best describes the _________

Accepted Answer

ID

Question 11

__________ is used to help psychological professionals diagnose psychological disorders

Accepted Answer

The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM)

Question 12

Sigmund Freud\'s theory came at a time in history when the predominant attitude toward sex was ___________

Accepted Answer

Repressed

Question 13

Which theory of personality was direct against the psychoanalytic and behaviorist perspective?

Accepted Answer

Humanistic perspective

Question 14

Carl Rogers emphasized accepting people for what they are, not for what you would like them to be. This acceptance is termed _________

Accepted Answer

Unconditional positive regard

Question 15

There were three friends. Maybe you\'ve heard of them!! Harry was rational, logical and cunning. Hermione was rule-oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found is hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to freud, harry was mostly ________

Accepted Answer

Ego

Question 16

The _______ model of mental illness explains that disorders such as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia are caused by chemical imbalances, genetic problems, brain damage or dysfunction, or some combination of those causes.

Accepted Answer

Biological

Question 17

What is the primary difficulty with applying the criterion of \"social norm deviance\" to define abnormal behavior?

Accepted Answer

Behavior that is considered disordered in one culture may be acceptable in another

Question 18

What did Sigmund Freud believe could happen is our needs were delayed at a particular psychosexual stage?

Accepted Answer

We could have become fixated at that stage

Question 19

The television talks to Heidi. it tells her the police are out to get her. Because Heidi has schizophrenia, she is most likely experiencing a(n) _______

Accepted Answer

Hallucination

Question 20

Manny has such an intense fear of flying insects that he hardly ever goes outside his house during the summer months. He probably is suffering from ________

Accepted Answer

Phobia

Question 21

When a patient arrives in the emergency room, he is restless and irritable with unlimited energy and a rapid rate of speech. The attending psychiatrist believes the patient has taken cocaine or amphetamines and admits him for observation. The next day, the symptoms are the same. What condition with symptoms that are similar to those associated with amphetamine use might the psychiatrist now consider as a condition that is relevant to the diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

Mania

Question 22

A behavioral therapist is working with a depressed client. Which of the following causes is the most likely focus of this therapists intervention?

Accepted Answer

Learned behaviors of depression

Question 23

Severe depression that comes on suddenly or seems to have no external cause is called _______

Accepted Answer

Major depressive disorder

Question 24

Many have compared Freud\'s idea of the mind to an iceberg.If that were the case, and you were standing on the deck of a ship in Alaska, what part of the mind would you see above the water?

Accepted Answer

Ego

Question 25

Disorders in which there is a break in conscious awareness, memory, the sense of identity, or some combination are called ________

Accepted Answer

Dissociative disorder

Question 26

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) seems to be related to _________

Accepted Answer

Low levels of sunlight

Question 27

Someone who was interested in measuring a personals source traits, as described by Raymond Cattle, would use the ________

Accepted Answer

sixteen personality factors questionnaire (16PF)

Question 28

The unique and relatively stable ways in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels is called _________

Accepted Answer

Personality

Question 29

What us Freud\'s term for the unconscious efforts by the ego to deny or stairs reality for the purposed of protecting itself when conflict becomes too intense?

Accepted Answer

A psychological defense mechanism

Question 30

Which theories are less concerned with the explanation of personality development and changing personality than they are with

Accepted Answer

Trait theories

Question 31

What do Abraham Maslow\'s and Carl Roger\'s theories have in common?

Accepted Answer

The believe that each human is free to choose his or her own destiny

Question 32

You are quite hungry but don\'t have any money. If you were described as \"all id and only id\" what would you do?

Accepted Answer

Steal a hot dog from the vendor on the corner

Question 33

For the behaviorist, personality is a set of learned responses or ______

Accepted Answer

Habits

Question 34

According to Freud, personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages. During infancy, the psychosexual stage is called the ______

Accepted Answer

Oral stage

Question 35

Which of these is an acronym that could help you remember the Big Five traits?

Accepted Answer

OCEAN

Question 36

Carl rogers believed that people question themselves and experience negative effects on their self-concept when they receive _______

Accepted Answer

Conditional positive regard

Question 37

A baseball player\'s son is quite talented; he has received lots of awards over the years. When he gets up to bat, he expects to get a hit, and when he is in the field, he expects to make every catch. According to Bandura, what characteristic does this young man seem to have?

Accepted Answer

Self-efficiency

Question 38

You are a psychologist who is evaluating the behavior of a new client. The client tells you that he does not like to wear clothing and that he walks around nude most of the time. In addition, he  tells you that he lives in a society in which clothing is required and nudity is seen as abnormal. Which of the following is NOT a criterion by which you evaluate your client\'s behavior as abnormal?

Accepted Answer

Subjective discomfort

Question 39

Skinner and Watson believed that personality is the result of:

Accepted Answer

classical and operant conditioning and observational learning

Question 40

Sigmund Freud proposed that little boys\' fears that their fathers may retaliate against them for forbidden sexual and aggressive impulses may lead to ________.

Accepted Answer

Castration anxiety

Question 41

Albert Bandura\'s notion that people are affected by their environment, but can also influence that environment, is known as __________.

Accepted Answer

Reciprocal determinism

Question 42

Excessive or unrealistic fearfulness and worry are characteristic of _________

Accepted Answer

Anxiety disorders

Question 43

What is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the study of abnormal behavior?

Accepted Answer

Psychopathology

Question 44

Dave\'s wife suggests that he talk to a doctor because of his inability to cope with criticism. The doctor suggests that Dave\'s problem represents the expression of a repressed, unresolved, internal conflict buried in his unconscious mind that has its roots in Dave\'s childhood. This view is typical of the ______ model of abnormality.

Accepted Answer

psychodynamic

Question 45

Darcy is sitting at her desk in her office one day when, without warning, her heart begins racing rapidly, she has a sensation of being \"out of her body,\" and she experiences dulled vision and hearing, rapid breathing, and sweating. She thinks she is having a heart attack. Nothing she is doing seems to have caused such an episode. Her symptoms MOST resemble ______.

Accepted Answer

panic attack

Question 46

Jarod has saved plenty of money and has a lucrative business that he enjoys. He likes to volunteer his time in the community and enjoys the company of othersâbut still saves time to be alone. One of his favorite things to do in the evening is sit outside and watch the sunset. Carl Rogers might suggest that Jerod is ________.

Accepted Answer

self-actualizing

Question 47

Antisocial, paranoid, and schizoid are all types of ________ disorders.

Accepted Answer

personality

Question 48

A relatively consistent characteristic that exists across situations is called ________.

Accepted Answer

a personality trait

Question 49

Young Bart says to his friend \"What do you want to play at recess today, war or forts?\" His comrade, Yevgeni, replies \"Why don\'t we try something different today and play with the girls?\" Completely aghast, Bart yells back \"Are you crazy?? Girls have COOTIES!\" Which stage of personality development is Bart likely in, according to Freud?

Accepted Answer

latency

Question 50

Freud believed that the _____________ was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality.

Accepted Answer

unconscious mind

Question 51

The _____________ theory of personality has its basis in the theories of learning, and focuses on the effects of environment on one\'s personal characteristics and actions.

Accepted Answer

behaviorist

Question 52

Toilet training takes place during which of Freud\'s psychosexual stages?

Accepted Answer

anal

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