Psychology 1001 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Dr. Nsofor is a psychologist who is currently evaluating a new client. Dr. Nsofor
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would most likely refer to the _________ to assist her in diagnosing her clients
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psychological disorder. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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of Mental Disorders
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Feeling insects crawling on your skin (when none are really there) or hearing
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voices (when no one is around or no one is talking to you) would be examples of
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what symptom of schizophrenia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Hallucinations
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Trish is feeling fantastic. She is racing about, full of energy, highly talkative and
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having an intensely good time. She is full of goals and plans, her brain just races
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with grandiose ideas. When her friends bring her to an emergency room because
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she hasn't slept in days, the doctor diagnoses Trish as having
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_________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A manic episode | | | | |
Which of the following statements illustrates the thinking style of someone with
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depression? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Things are terrible, they will always be
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terrible, and it's all my fault. | | | | |
A model of mental illness that assumes that people develop a clinical disorder
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due to an interaction between biological vulnerability and environmental factors
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is ____________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The diathesis-stress model
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,Darcy is sitting at her desk in her office one day when, without warning, her heart
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|begins racing rapidly, she starts sweating profusely, and she is gripped with a
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terrifying fear that she is about to go crazy. She thinks she is having a heart
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attack. Nothing she is doing seems to have caused such an episode. Her
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symptoms most resemble ______. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a panic attack
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A compulsion is: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A behavior or thought that is used to
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reduce the distress caused by obsessions.
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In what brand of psychotherapy would a clinical psychologist attempt to uncover
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the underlying unconscious conflicts and impulses that are the cause of one's
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psychological difficulties? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
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According to Albert Ellis, many psychological problems result from: - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Catastrophic thinking about oneself or ones life conditions | | | | | | |
According to research, humans have a biological need for interpersonal
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interactions. This is called the - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-need-to-belong theory
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A flawed scientist uses all of the following when thinking about the behavior of
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others EXCEPT _____? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-conformity
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Although he and his wife earn $450,000 a year, a law professor at the University
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of Chicago defended low tax rates on the top 1% of Americans because he and his
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wife were barely able to make ends meet. When he observed the lifestyle of
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people around him--some of whom were billionaires--he felt frustrated. He and
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, his wife didn't have a plane of their own and new cars every year. They struggled
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to afford international travel, school tuition for their children, and staff to cook
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and clean their two homes. A Social Psychologist, observing this complaint, might
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understand this law professor's discontent as consistent with | | | | | | | |
_________________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-social comparison theory | | | | |
You get on an elevator. Everyone is facing to the right. You turn and also face to
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the right. This is an example of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-conformity
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The excitement was high and the crowd of fans was huge. After beating Iowa and
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taking back the Floyd the pig trophy, thousands of Gopher fans swarmed the
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field, climbing on the goal posts, yelling, screaming, and taking their clothes off.
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To social psychologists, this behavior of normally mild-mannered UM students is
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an example of __________, a loosening of self-restraints when anonymous in a
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large crowd. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-deindividuation
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Alan (an inexperienced pool player) and Ben (an experienced player) were playing
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|a game of pool at the local bar. A group of girls came over to watch them. Based
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on what Social Psychologists have learned about "social facilitation" you would
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predict that ______________ with other people watching them. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Alan's performance will get worse and Ben's performance will | | | | | | | | |
improve
In an emergency, individuals may fail to help. They may be unsure whether the
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situation is really an emergency. They may not know that they are responsible,
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especially when other people are around. This psychological phenomena is
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known as _______________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bystander Effect
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Correct Answers
Dr. Nsofor is a psychologist who is currently evaluating a new client. Dr. Nsofor
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
would most likely refer to the _________ to assist her in diagnosing her clients
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
psychological disorder. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
| | | | | | | |
of Mental Disorders
| |
Feeling insects crawling on your skin (when none are really there) or hearing
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
voices (when no one is around or no one is talking to you) would be examples of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
what symptom of schizophrenia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Hallucinations
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Trish is feeling fantastic. She is racing about, full of energy, highly talkative and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
having an intensely good time. She is full of goals and plans, her brain just races
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
with grandiose ideas. When her friends bring her to an emergency room because
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
she hasn't slept in days, the doctor diagnoses Trish as having
| | | | | | | | | | |
_________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A manic episode | | | | |
Which of the following statements illustrates the thinking style of someone with
| | | | | | | | | | | |
depression? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Things are terrible, they will always be
| | | | | | | | | |
terrible, and it's all my fault. | | | | |
A model of mental illness that assumes that people develop a clinical disorder
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
due to an interaction between biological vulnerability and environmental factors
| | | | | | | | | |
is ____________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The diathesis-stress model
| | | | | |
,Darcy is sitting at her desk in her office one day when, without warning, her heart
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|begins racing rapidly, she starts sweating profusely, and she is gripped with a
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
terrifying fear that she is about to go crazy. She thinks she is having a heart
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
attack. Nothing she is doing seems to have caused such an episode. Her
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
symptoms most resemble ______. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a panic attack
| | | | | | | |
A compulsion is: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A behavior or thought that is used to
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
reduce the distress caused by obsessions.
| | | | |
In what brand of psychotherapy would a clinical psychologist attempt to uncover
| | | | | | | | | | | |
the underlying unconscious conflicts and impulses that are the cause of one's
| | | | | | | | | | | |
psychological difficulties? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
| | | |
According to Albert Ellis, many psychological problems result from: - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Catastrophic thinking about oneself or ones life conditions | | | | | | |
According to research, humans have a biological need for interpersonal
| | | | | | | | | |
interactions. This is called the - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-need-to-belong theory
| | | | | | | |
A flawed scientist uses all of the following when thinking about the behavior of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
others EXCEPT _____? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-conformity
| | | | |
Although he and his wife earn $450,000 a year, a law professor at the University
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
of Chicago defended low tax rates on the top 1% of Americans because he and his
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
wife were barely able to make ends meet. When he observed the lifestyle of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
people around him--some of whom were billionaires--he felt frustrated. He and
| | | | | | | | | | |
, his wife didn't have a plane of their own and new cars every year. They struggled
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
to afford international travel, school tuition for their children, and staff to cook
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
and clean their two homes. A Social Psychologist, observing this complaint, might
| | | | | | | | | | | |
understand this law professor's discontent as consistent with | | | | | | | |
_________________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-social comparison theory | | | | |
You get on an elevator. Everyone is facing to the right. You turn and also face to
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
the right. This is an example of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-conformity
| | | | | | | | |
The excitement was high and the crowd of fans was huge. After beating Iowa and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
taking back the Floyd the pig trophy, thousands of Gopher fans swarmed the
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
field, climbing on the goal posts, yelling, screaming, and taking their clothes off.
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
To social psychologists, this behavior of normally mild-mannered UM students is
| | | | | | | | | | |
an example of __________, a loosening of self-restraints when anonymous in a
| | | | | | | | | | | |
large crowd. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-deindividuation
| | | |
Alan (an inexperienced pool player) and Ben (an experienced player) were playing
| | | | | | | | | | |
|a game of pool at the local bar. A group of girls came over to watch them. Based
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
on what Social Psychologists have learned about "social facilitation" you would
| | | | | | | | | | |
predict that ______________ with other people watching them. - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Alan's performance will get worse and Ben's performance will | | | | | | | | |
improve
In an emergency, individuals may fail to help. They may be unsure whether the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
situation is really an emergency. They may not know that they are responsible,
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
especially when other people are around. This psychological phenomena is
| | | | | | | | | |
known as _______________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bystander Effect
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