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PSY 203T Wk 3 – Week 3 Exam
According to the approach which organizes emotions using a hierarchy, which of the following is derived from a negative emotion?
Multiple Choice
- Infatuation
- Guilt
- Contentment
- Pride
According to the _____ theory of aging, people who age most successfully are those who maintain the interests, activities, and level of social interaction they experienced during middle adulthood.
Multiple Choice
- wear-and-tear
- activity
- disengagement
- genetic preprogramming
Why do drive-reduction approaches fail to offer a complete account of human motivation?
Multiple Choice
- Drive-reduction approaches offer much better explanations of behaviors motivated by secondary drives than of behaviors motivated by primary drives.
- Drive-reduction approaches are vague about what, or even how many, primary drives exist.
- People are sometimes motivated to increase rather than decrease their level of stimulation.
- Homeostasis does not accurately describe the mechanism by which primary drives operate.
In the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, physiological reactions _____ emotional experiences.
Multiple Choice
- occur simultaneously with
- precede
- follow
- have little to do with
In the James-Lange theory of emotion, physiological responses _____ emotional experiences.
Multiple Choice
- occur simultaneously with
- are unrelated to
- follow
- precede
Two weeks after conception, a developing fertilized egg is called a(n) _____.
Multiple Choice
- neonate
- fetus
- zygote
- embryo
Which of the following is true of the need for affiliation?
Multiple Choice
- People who have lower affiliation needs desire to be with friends more than those who have higher affiliation needs.
- People who have higher affiliation needs are particularly sensitive to relationships with others.
- Regardless of their affiliative orientation, male students spend significantly more time with their friends.
- People who have higher affiliation needs desire to be alone more of the time than those who have lower affiliation needs.
People with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 are considered:
Multiple Choice
- normal.
- obese.
- overweight.
- underweight.
Which of the following stages of development that a baby goes through is ly matched with its description or milestone?
Multiple Choice
- In the fetal stage, the fertilization of an egg takes place.
- In the perinatal stage, the first cell is formed by the union of an egg and a sperm.
- In the germinal stage, an organism grows from one cell to hundreds of cells.
- In the embryonic stage, facial features become similar to those that the child will display at birth.
According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, which of the following is the stage in which a person aware of his or her impending death is likely to try to think of ways to postpone death and dedicate his or her life to religion?
Multiple Choice
- Acceptance
- Anger
- Denial
- Bargaining
The time at which a woman’s menstrual cycle slows down and eventually stops is called:
Multiple Choice
- menarche.
- amenorrhea.
- menopause.
- the zygotic period.
Girls typically experience the adolescent growth spurt _____ than do boys.
Multiple Choice
- 6 months earlier
- 2 years earlier
- 2 years later
- 6 months later
Which of the following is NOT among the shortcomings of instinct approaches to motivation?
Multiple Choice
- Instinct theorists disagreed on the precise instincts guiding behavior.
- Instinct approaches can account only for physiological motivations, not psychological ones.
- Instinct theorists fail to explain why certain specific patterns of behavior have evolved in a given species.
- Instinct theorists identified too many different instincts for the theory to be useful.
According to Erikson, people enter the generativity-versus-stagnation stage during _____.
Multiple Choice
- middle adulthood
- adolescence
- childhood
- old age
In ________ approaches to motivation, the desirable properties of external stimuli account for a person’s motivation.
Multiple Choice
- incentive
- arousal
- cognitive
- drive-reduction
When does one’s body start storing fat either by increasing the number of fat cells or by increasing the size of existing fat cells?
Multiple Choice
- Starts by the end of adolescence
- Starts at birth
- During adulthood
- During the first year of life
The need for achievement is often assessed with the:
Multiple Choice
- Rorschach Inkblot Test.
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
- Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).
- California Personality Inventory.
________ is the rate at which food is converted to energy and expended by the body.
Multiple Choice
- Metabolism
- Emulsification
- Neutralization
- Phagocytosis
Incentive approaches to motivation are:
Multiple Choice
- theories suggesting that motivation stems from the desire to attain external rewards.
- theories suggesting that motivation is a product of people’s thoughts, expectations, and goals.
- theories suggesting that we try to maintain certain levels of stimulation and activity.
- theories suggesting that a lack of some basic biological need produces a drive to push an organism to satisfy that need.
The first two theoretical approaches to motivation that attained prominence in the history of modern psychology were:
Multiple Choice
- the instinct approach and then the drive-reduction approach.
- the drive-reduction approach and then the instinct approach.
- the instinct approach and then the incentive approach.
- the incentive approach and then the drive-reduction approach.
The longest part of a pregnancy, from the 8th week through to birth, is the _____ period.
Multiple Choice
- fetal
- embryonic
- zygotic
- germinal
_____ are rod-shaped structures that contain all basic hereditary information.
Multiple Choice
- Serotonins
- Norepinephrines
- Chromosomes
- Spleens
In the _____ stage of development, a developing individual is less than an inch long and has developed a rudimentary beating heart, a brain, an intestinal tract, and a number of other organs that are at a primitive stage of development.
Multiple Choice
- germinal
- embryonic
- neonatal
- fetal
Which genetic or chromosomal abnormality below is ly described?
Multiple Choice
- In Down syndrome, the brain tissues of the cortex degenerate, resulting in death.
- In Tay-Sachs disease, the body starts producing abnormally shaped red blood cells.
- In phenylketonuria, a child is unable to produce a critical enzyme, which results in an accumulation of poisons and in turn causes profound intellectual disabilities.
- In sickle-cell anemia, a child receives an extra chromosome resulting in mental retardation.
According to the ________ theory of emotion, both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus.
Multiple Choice
- Maslow
- Cannon-Bard
- James-Lange
- Schachter-Singer