CLEP PSYC
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- Which of the following has been identified as correlating most closely with heart disease?
- Hostility.
- In which of the following areas does psychological research show most clearly that girls develop earlier than boys?
- Adolescent physical growth spurt.
- Developmental psychologists would most likely prefer longitudinal research designs to cross-sectional research designs because longitudinal designs
- Utilize the subjects as their own experimental controls.
- A young child breaks her cookie into a number of pieces and asserts that "now there is more to eat." In Piaget's analysis, the child's behavior is evidence of
- Preoperational thought.
- A school psychologist informs a ninth-grade teacher that Jimmy "identifies" with his twelfth-grade brother. What the psychologist means is that Jimmy tends to
- Accept is brother's values and imitate his behavior.
- According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, what is the correct order of the stages for confronting impending death?
- Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
- When insulted by a friend, Sally's first inpulse was to strike him. Instead, she yelled loudly and kicked a door several times. This means of reducing aggressive impulses exemplifies which of the following?
- Displacement.
- Carl Jung is associated with which of the following concepts?
- Collective unconscious.
- Erikson's and Freud's theories of personality developement are most similar in that they both
- Are based on stages.
- Lawrence is pessimistic, rigid, and moody. In terms of Hans eysenck's personality dimensions, Lawrence would be classified as
- Unstable-introverted
- The key distinction between personality trait and an attitude is
- Durability.
- A diagnosis of schizophrenia typically includes which of the following symptoms?
- Delusions.
- The term "etiology" refers to the study of which of the following aspects of an illness?
- Origins and causes.
- An obsession is defined as
- An unwanted thought.
- A somatization disorder is characterized chiefly by
- Physical complaints.
- Personality disorders are characterized by which of the following?
- Inflexible and maladaptive responses to stress, and problematic social relationships.
- Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy has indicated that
- There are therapeutic methodds that have been shown to be especially effective for particular psychological disorders.
- Which of the following kinds of therapy attempts to correct irrational beliefs that lead to psychological distress?
- Cognitive.
- An individual undergoing psychotherapy shows improvement due only to that person's belief in the therapy and not because of the therapy itself. This result illustrates a
- Placebo effect.
- Which of the following can be a significant side effect of electroconvulsive therapy?
- Temporary loss of memory.
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSIR's) are used primarily in the treatment of which of the following?
- Depression.
- Similarity, proximity, and familiarity are important determinants of
- Friendship Formation.
- All of the following are true about altruism EXCEPT:
- It is more likely to be inherited that is agressive behavior.
- The bystander effect has been explained by which of the following?
- Diffusion of responsibility.
- According to Robert Sternberg, love is composed of which of the following?
- Intimacy, passion, commitment.
- Job satisfaction has an inverse relationship with
- Turnover
- An attribution that focuses on an individual's ability or personality characteristics is described as
- Personal.
- Which of the following is a true statement about the relationship between test validity and test reliability?
- A test can be reliable without being valid.
- Which of the following statistics indicates the distribution with the greatest variability?
- A standard deviation of 11.2
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A person is more likely to be altruistic when not in a hurry. - True
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True / False
Altruism is more common in small towns and rural areas than in cities. - True.
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True / False
A person is more likely to perform an altruistic act when another person has modeled altruistic behavior? - True.
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True / False
A person is more likely to perform an altruistic act when another person has pointed out the need. - True.