PSYCH 100 EOC EXAMS 2026/2027 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of these tests has been faulted for both low validity and low reliability? -
✔✔Thematic apperception test
✔✔A psychotherapist would use the DSM-5 to - ✔✔diagnose patients
✔✔These are relatively stable personality characteristics, attributes, and motivations
that can be commonly captured in adjectives such as honest, cheerful, conscientious,
etc - ✔✔Traits
✔✔Psychological disorders that researchers believe are learned, such as phobias, are
most likely to
be treated with - ✔✔Systematic desensitization
✔✔This school of psychotherapy aims to help patients uncover the unconscious origins
of their disorder - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
✔✔In behavioral therapies, maladaptive symptoms are often considered to be -
✔✔Conditioned responses
✔✔3-year-old Peter lost his fear of rabbits when one was repeatedly presented while he
was eating his midafternoon snack. This episode best illustrated the potential
usefulness of - ✔✔Exposure therapy
✔✔Many drug studies are sponsored by pharmaceutical industries and researchers
have found that studies that show positive effects are much more likely to be submitted
for publication than those that don't show positive effects of the drug. This is known as -
✔✔Publication bias
✔✔The details of the Kitty Genovese murder in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, gave
rise to interest in this social psychological phenomenon. - ✔✔Bystander effects
✔✔The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional factors while
ignoring or underestimating the possibility situational factors is called - ✔✔Fundamental
Attribution Error
✔✔You are an ecologically conscious person and recycle all your cans and papers. But
you regularly toss cigarette butts on the ground. When challenged, you feel an internal
conflict and create rationalizations saying "one cigarrette butt is not what's destroying
our oceans." This rationalization protects you from - ✔✔Cognitive dissonance
, ✔✔While driving, you get annoyed at all the other drivers who tailgate or cut off other
drivers. But when you are late for class, you have no reservations about driving in that
same way. This reflects - ✔✔actor-observer bias
✔✔One of the most important causes of bystander effects is - ✔✔deindividuation
✔✔Females typically outperform males in solving math problems that involve -
✔✔reading comprehension
✔✔If people choose mates according to positive assortment, that means - ✔✔They
prefer mates that resemble themselves in some way
✔✔When a fetus inherits an X chromosome and a Y chromosome, it usually becomes -
✔✔Male
✔✔Though girls traditionally outperform boys on tasks requiring verbal skills, boys tend
to outperform girls on tests of - ✔✔verbal analogy
✔✔Over time, young toddlers come to acquire ideas about gender that summarize the
child's interpretations of all the information he or she has acquired about gender. This
information is formed into - ✔✔Gender schemas
✔✔Our subjective perception of the sex to which we belong or with which we identify,
and our beliefs about appropriate male and female behavior, is broadly defined as -
✔✔Gender identity
✔✔ Which Correlation Coefficient signifies the strongest relationship between two
variables? - ✔✔-0.74
✔✔Most neurons have many branching extensions that contain post-synaptic structures
and receive inputs from other neurons. These branches are called: - ✔✔Dendrites
✔✔If an experimental result shows that a group of drivers who smoked marijuana made
more driving errors than the group that did not smoke. If the difference in the numbers
of errors is statistically significant, this means that: - ✔✔The differnces found would be
very unlikely to occur by random chance
✔✔We are conducting an experiment where subjects smoke different amounts of
marijuana and then get tested in a driving simulator. It is likely that some subjects have
lots of experience with marijuana or driving while stoned, but other subjects have no
prior experience.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of these tests has been faulted for both low validity and low reliability? -
✔✔Thematic apperception test
✔✔A psychotherapist would use the DSM-5 to - ✔✔diagnose patients
✔✔These are relatively stable personality characteristics, attributes, and motivations
that can be commonly captured in adjectives such as honest, cheerful, conscientious,
etc - ✔✔Traits
✔✔Psychological disorders that researchers believe are learned, such as phobias, are
most likely to
be treated with - ✔✔Systematic desensitization
✔✔This school of psychotherapy aims to help patients uncover the unconscious origins
of their disorder - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
✔✔In behavioral therapies, maladaptive symptoms are often considered to be -
✔✔Conditioned responses
✔✔3-year-old Peter lost his fear of rabbits when one was repeatedly presented while he
was eating his midafternoon snack. This episode best illustrated the potential
usefulness of - ✔✔Exposure therapy
✔✔Many drug studies are sponsored by pharmaceutical industries and researchers
have found that studies that show positive effects are much more likely to be submitted
for publication than those that don't show positive effects of the drug. This is known as -
✔✔Publication bias
✔✔The details of the Kitty Genovese murder in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, gave
rise to interest in this social psychological phenomenon. - ✔✔Bystander effects
✔✔The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional factors while
ignoring or underestimating the possibility situational factors is called - ✔✔Fundamental
Attribution Error
✔✔You are an ecologically conscious person and recycle all your cans and papers. But
you regularly toss cigarette butts on the ground. When challenged, you feel an internal
conflict and create rationalizations saying "one cigarrette butt is not what's destroying
our oceans." This rationalization protects you from - ✔✔Cognitive dissonance
, ✔✔While driving, you get annoyed at all the other drivers who tailgate or cut off other
drivers. But when you are late for class, you have no reservations about driving in that
same way. This reflects - ✔✔actor-observer bias
✔✔One of the most important causes of bystander effects is - ✔✔deindividuation
✔✔Females typically outperform males in solving math problems that involve -
✔✔reading comprehension
✔✔If people choose mates according to positive assortment, that means - ✔✔They
prefer mates that resemble themselves in some way
✔✔When a fetus inherits an X chromosome and a Y chromosome, it usually becomes -
✔✔Male
✔✔Though girls traditionally outperform boys on tasks requiring verbal skills, boys tend
to outperform girls on tests of - ✔✔verbal analogy
✔✔Over time, young toddlers come to acquire ideas about gender that summarize the
child's interpretations of all the information he or she has acquired about gender. This
information is formed into - ✔✔Gender schemas
✔✔Our subjective perception of the sex to which we belong or with which we identify,
and our beliefs about appropriate male and female behavior, is broadly defined as -
✔✔Gender identity
✔✔ Which Correlation Coefficient signifies the strongest relationship between two
variables? - ✔✔-0.74
✔✔Most neurons have many branching extensions that contain post-synaptic structures
and receive inputs from other neurons. These branches are called: - ✔✔Dendrites
✔✔If an experimental result shows that a group of drivers who smoked marijuana made
more driving errors than the group that did not smoke. If the difference in the numbers
of errors is statistically significant, this means that: - ✔✔The differnces found would be
very unlikely to occur by random chance
✔✔We are conducting an experiment where subjects smoke different amounts of
marijuana and then get tested in a driving simulator. It is likely that some subjects have
lots of experience with marijuana or driving while stoned, but other subjects have no
prior experience.
