PSY 120 LATEST 2026 END OF COURSE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Analytic Ability - ✔✔"geek smarts"
✔✔Creative Ability - ✔✔"art smarts"
✔✔Flynn Effect - ✔✔IQ steadily increase over years passing
✔✔Gifted - ✔✔IQ > 130
✔✔Convergent Thinking - ✔✔Intelligence
✔✔Divergent Thinking - ✔✔Creativity
✔✔Confirmation Bias - ✔✔Only see evidence that confirms your theory
✔✔Practical Ability - ✔✔"street smarts"
✔✔Motivation - ✔✔Set factors that initiate and direct behavior, usually toward a goal
✔✔Emotions - ✔✔Complex events that are often associated with goal directing
behavior
✔✔Drive - ✔✔Internal state that arises in response to a need, such as hunger or thirst.
✔✔Intrinsic Motivation - ✔✔Self motivated, goal-directed behavior
✔✔Incentive Motiviation - ✔✔Behavior directed towards attaining something desirable
✔✔Achievement - ✔✔an internal drive or need for achievement that is possessed by all
individuals to varying degrees
✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔human needs are prioritized by hierarchy
✔✔Satiation Signals - ✔✔Chemical signals that reduce our desire to eat
✔✔Ghrelin - ✔✔hormone released in stomach when hungry
✔✔Glucose - ✔✔sugar required for energy production
✔✔Insulin - ✔✔help pump nutrients present in the blood into the cells
,✔✔Leptin - ✔✔rises and falls with amount of body fat, plays roll in weight loss
✔✔Set Point - ✔✔natural body weight
✔✔Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔intense fear of being overweight, extremely thin, doesn't eat
✔✔Bulimia Nervosa - ✔✔binge eating followed by purging
✔✔Sexual Scritps - ✔✔how, why and what to do in our interactions with sexual partners
✔✔Sexual Response Cycle - ✔✔1. Plateau
2. Orgasm
3. Excitement
4. Resolution
5. Refractory Period (MEN ONLY)
✔✔Physiological Response - ✔✔arousal
✔✔Expressive Reaction - ✔✔facial expression
✔✔Subjective Experience - ✔✔feeling
✔✔Facial Feedback Hypoth. - ✔✔muscles in face deliver signals to brain that are then
interpreted as a subjective emotional state
✔✔Psychodynamic - ✔✔behavior is governed by unconscious forces
✔✔ID - ✔✔inborn instinctual drives; natural urges
✔✔Superego - ✔✔act in ideal fashion; moral customs
✔✔Ego - ✔✔compromise with the external world, the ID and superego
✔✔Defense Mechanisms - ✔✔1. Denial
2. Rationalization
3. Projection
4. Reaction Formation
5. Sublimation
✔✔Stages of Psychosexual Development - ✔✔Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
✔✔Humanistic Approaches to Personality - ✔✔Focuses on peoples unique capacity for
choice, responsibility, and growth
, ✔✔Carl Rodgers Personality - ✔✔comes from self concept
✔✔Maslow Personality - ✔✔reflects where you are in a hierarchy of needs
✔✔Self-actualization - ✔✔desire to reach ones true potential
✔✔Social-Cognitive Personality - ✔✔human experience is primary cause of personality
growth and development
✔✔Locus of Control - ✔✔amount of control a person feels that he or she has over the
environment
✔✔Self-efficacy - ✔✔the beliefs we hold about our own ability to perform a task or goal
✔✔Reciprocal determinism - ✔✔beliefs, behaviors and the environment interact to
shape what is learned from experience
✔✔Conformity - ✔✔adjusting our behavior or thinking towards the same group standard
✔✔Normative Social Influence - ✔✔desire to gain approval/ avoid rejection
✔✔Informational Social Influence - ✔✔group may provide valuable info, may know
something you do not
✔✔Mindless Conformity - ✔✔using others as cues to behavior without thinking or
dreading with dilemma or perception/thoughts
✔✔Chameleon Effect - ✔✔non-conscious miming
✔✔Nonconformity - ✔✔group creates pressure toward unconformity
✔✔Obiedience - ✔✔following an authority figure even if its against your morals
✔✔Deindividuation - ✔✔robbing people of their own individualization from being part of
a group
✔✔Bystander effect - ✔✔nobody responds in a group setting
✔✔Pluralistic ignorance - ✔✔others aren't helping, you wont help
✔✔Social Inhibition - ✔✔fear of standing out
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Analytic Ability - ✔✔"geek smarts"
✔✔Creative Ability - ✔✔"art smarts"
✔✔Flynn Effect - ✔✔IQ steadily increase over years passing
✔✔Gifted - ✔✔IQ > 130
✔✔Convergent Thinking - ✔✔Intelligence
✔✔Divergent Thinking - ✔✔Creativity
✔✔Confirmation Bias - ✔✔Only see evidence that confirms your theory
✔✔Practical Ability - ✔✔"street smarts"
✔✔Motivation - ✔✔Set factors that initiate and direct behavior, usually toward a goal
✔✔Emotions - ✔✔Complex events that are often associated with goal directing
behavior
✔✔Drive - ✔✔Internal state that arises in response to a need, such as hunger or thirst.
✔✔Intrinsic Motivation - ✔✔Self motivated, goal-directed behavior
✔✔Incentive Motiviation - ✔✔Behavior directed towards attaining something desirable
✔✔Achievement - ✔✔an internal drive or need for achievement that is possessed by all
individuals to varying degrees
✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔human needs are prioritized by hierarchy
✔✔Satiation Signals - ✔✔Chemical signals that reduce our desire to eat
✔✔Ghrelin - ✔✔hormone released in stomach when hungry
✔✔Glucose - ✔✔sugar required for energy production
✔✔Insulin - ✔✔help pump nutrients present in the blood into the cells
,✔✔Leptin - ✔✔rises and falls with amount of body fat, plays roll in weight loss
✔✔Set Point - ✔✔natural body weight
✔✔Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔intense fear of being overweight, extremely thin, doesn't eat
✔✔Bulimia Nervosa - ✔✔binge eating followed by purging
✔✔Sexual Scritps - ✔✔how, why and what to do in our interactions with sexual partners
✔✔Sexual Response Cycle - ✔✔1. Plateau
2. Orgasm
3. Excitement
4. Resolution
5. Refractory Period (MEN ONLY)
✔✔Physiological Response - ✔✔arousal
✔✔Expressive Reaction - ✔✔facial expression
✔✔Subjective Experience - ✔✔feeling
✔✔Facial Feedback Hypoth. - ✔✔muscles in face deliver signals to brain that are then
interpreted as a subjective emotional state
✔✔Psychodynamic - ✔✔behavior is governed by unconscious forces
✔✔ID - ✔✔inborn instinctual drives; natural urges
✔✔Superego - ✔✔act in ideal fashion; moral customs
✔✔Ego - ✔✔compromise with the external world, the ID and superego
✔✔Defense Mechanisms - ✔✔1. Denial
2. Rationalization
3. Projection
4. Reaction Formation
5. Sublimation
✔✔Stages of Psychosexual Development - ✔✔Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
✔✔Humanistic Approaches to Personality - ✔✔Focuses on peoples unique capacity for
choice, responsibility, and growth
, ✔✔Carl Rodgers Personality - ✔✔comes from self concept
✔✔Maslow Personality - ✔✔reflects where you are in a hierarchy of needs
✔✔Self-actualization - ✔✔desire to reach ones true potential
✔✔Social-Cognitive Personality - ✔✔human experience is primary cause of personality
growth and development
✔✔Locus of Control - ✔✔amount of control a person feels that he or she has over the
environment
✔✔Self-efficacy - ✔✔the beliefs we hold about our own ability to perform a task or goal
✔✔Reciprocal determinism - ✔✔beliefs, behaviors and the environment interact to
shape what is learned from experience
✔✔Conformity - ✔✔adjusting our behavior or thinking towards the same group standard
✔✔Normative Social Influence - ✔✔desire to gain approval/ avoid rejection
✔✔Informational Social Influence - ✔✔group may provide valuable info, may know
something you do not
✔✔Mindless Conformity - ✔✔using others as cues to behavior without thinking or
dreading with dilemma or perception/thoughts
✔✔Chameleon Effect - ✔✔non-conscious miming
✔✔Nonconformity - ✔✔group creates pressure toward unconformity
✔✔Obiedience - ✔✔following an authority figure even if its against your morals
✔✔Deindividuation - ✔✔robbing people of their own individualization from being part of
a group
✔✔Bystander effect - ✔✔nobody responds in a group setting
✔✔Pluralistic ignorance - ✔✔others aren't helping, you wont help
✔✔Social Inhibition - ✔✔fear of standing out
