PSY 105 Quiz 5 (5)

PSY 105 Quiz 5 (5) Recent

• Question 1

 

The visual cliff apparatus is used to study

• Question 2

 

The major difference between children in the concrete operational stage and the preoperational stage of development is that in the concrete operational stage, children

• Question 3

 

The view that language is hard-wired into our brain was proposed by

• Question 4

 

The branch of psychology that focuses on changes in a person over their lifetime is called __________ psychology.

• Question 5

 

Ralph’s characteristics include an abnormally small head, irritability, hyperactivity, retarded motor and mental development, and heart defects. During pregnancy, Ralph’s mother probably

• Question 6

 

In his studies of monkeys raised with artificial mothers, Harlow found that monkeys demonstrated an attachment to

• Question 7

 

In Piaget’s theory of development, the two processes that together control how someone deals with new experiences are

• Question 8

 

Factors in the environment that can harm the developing fetus and interfere with normal patterns of growth are called

• Question 9

 

When compared to young adults, older persons’ long-term memory is

• Question 10

 

Morality judged in terms of abstract principles and values, rather than in terms of existing laws or rules of society, is characteristic of Kohlberg’s __________ stage of moral development.

• Question 11

 

When a child understands that he or she is a boy or a girl the child has acquired

• Question 12

 

As an alternative to Piaget, the theories that focus on a child’s capacity to process, store, retrieve, and actually manipulate information as a function of age are called

• Question 13

 

A gender schema is

• Question 14

 

Facial expression, eye contact, body movements, posture, and touching are examples of

• Question 15

 

Which of the following is one of the conditions under which goal-setting theory works best?

• Question 16

 

Doing something because we are paid or forced to do it is __________ motivation; doing it just because you enjoy it is __________ motivation.

• Question 17

 

Individuals who are high in achievement motivation tend to prefer

• Question 18

 

The fact that you always get popcorn and a soda when you go to the movies regardless of the time of day can best be explained on the basis of

• Question 19

 

Research has indicated that, in the last 30 years, the percentage of people who are considered obese has

• Question 20

 

According to drive theory, behaviors will be repeated if they tend to

• Question 21

 

According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion, a key factor in determining which emotion we feel is

• Question 22

 

Being in a happy mood

• Question 23

 

__________ is the view that biological needs arise within our bodies, which create unpleasant states of arousal that push us into action.

• Question 24

 

The causes of homosexuality are

• Question 25

 

The desire to have power, food, or sex is considered a(n)

• Question 26

 

The __________ seems to be specialized for processing emotional information.