PSY 101 Straighterline Final Exam Latest Update 2024-2025 250+ Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+ A behavioral therapist may have a client watch people perform a desired behavior so that the client will learn the desired behavior or at least recognize it. This is a form of -
CORRECT ANSWER: social skills training
A bicyclist finds that she can cycle faster during competition than when she is riding
alone. This is likely to be caused by - CORRECT ANSWER: social facilitation
A person under the influence of deindividuation acts in such a way that they are ______ aware of their own behavior and ______ concerned with what others think -
CORRECT ANSWER: less; less
A person who has a terrible fear of garbage cans, with no good reason to be afraid of
garbage cans, is suffering from a(n) ________ disorder - CORRECT ANSWER: phobic
A person with ______ experiences sharp, intensely uncomfortable attacks of anxiety. -
CORRECT ANSWER: panic anxiety disorder
Andy likes Clara, but Clara does not know this. What should Andy do to increase the
chance that Clara will like him? - CORRECT ANSWER: Let Clara know he likes her
Children develop some of their own attitudes about the behavior of others through
parental modeling. This means that children - CORRECT ANSWER: may pick up the
attitudes they see in their parents
Dr. Susan is your family therapist. She believes that to adequately understand psychological problems, she must understand the role that you play in the family system. Which of the following statements supports that underlying belief? - CORRECT
ANSWER: Problems of the individual are often caused by problems in the family.
During which stage of the general adaptation syndrome does the body enter a
temporary state of shock - CORRECT ANSWER: alarm
For Freud, the obvious interpretation of the meaning of a dream is known as the
______ content. - CORRECT ANSWER: manifest
Groupthink tends to occur more often if the group is - CORRECT ANSWER: very
cohesive
How does prior experience with stress influence our ability to deal with future stress? -
CORRECT ANSWER: The more previous experience with stress, the better future
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If a manager recognizes that prejudice exists between workers of different ethnic backgrounds, what can she do to possibly reduce the prejudice? - CORRECT
ANSWER: arrange after-work informal gatherings
If after getting a C in a class that you thought you deserved a B in, you threw a little child-like temper tantrum outside your teacher's office, you exhibited the defense
mechanism of - CORRECT ANSWER: regression
If we believe that someone is acting because of some external or environmental cause,
this is a/n ______ attribution. - CORRECT ANSWER: situational
If you believe in the ______ hypothesis, then terms such as insanity and mental illness
should not be used to describe abnormal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER: continuity
If you could give someone with schizophrenia a drug that would stop them from hearing voices that were not actually present, the drug would eliminate - CORRECT ANSWER: hallucinations
If you use defense mechanisms to cope with stress, you are using a(n) _______ coping
strategy - CORRECT ANSWER: ineffective
If your best friend has sexual aversion disorder, it means that he - CORRECT
ANSWER: fears and avoids sexual contact with others
In a study of seat belt usage, simply including a sign such as "Safety belt use required in this vehicle" in taxicabs changed seat belt compliance from ______ to ______. -
CORRECT ANSWER: 35%; 70%
In attribution, people display a tendency to see their own behavior as externally caused and the behavior of others as internally caused. This tendency is known as the -
CORRECT ANSWER: fundamental attribution error
In equity theory, each person in the relationship is compared on the basis of the ratio of perceived ________ divided by perceived ________.
Select one: - CORRECT ANSWER: benefits; contributions
In social skills training, a therapist typically ________ appropriate social behaviors -
CORRECT ANSWER: models
In which type of therapy must the therapist understand a person within the context in
which she or he lives? - CORRECT ANSWER: family
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Inappropriate affective behavior, especially silliness and giggling, is characteristic of
________ schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWER: disorganized
Insanity is best characterized as a ________ term. - CORRECT ANSWER: legal
Jim was caught again trying to pawn some of his parents' antique jewelry. He skipped so much school that he will have to repeat his courses. He is also unconcerned that he has gotten two different girls pregnant in the past year. He would probably be diagnosed
as having a(n) - CORRECT ANSWER: antisocial personality disorder
Marriage seems to benefit men more than women, according to your text, because -
CORRECT ANSWER: women have more social supports outside of marriage
Married persons, compared to people who are single in their adult years - CORRECT
ANSWER: have greater health benefits
Mary has been changing doctors frequently and can't understand why none of her doctors can find anything wrong with her. She complains of nausea and tiredness and has recently started taking many different kinds of pills, hoping that something will help.Mary is displaying the characteristics of - CORRECT ANSWER: somatization disorder
Obsessions are ________, while compulsions are ________. - CORRECT ANSWER:
anxiety-provoking thoughts; irresistible urges to engage in behaviors
Social learning theorists have hypothesized that dissociative identity disorder results
from a patient's high degree of - CORRECT ANSWER: suggestibility to the idea of
hidden personality
Teaching a person to alternately tense the major muscles and then release that tension
is used in - CORRECT ANSWER: progressive relaxation
The first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical of Mental Disorder (DSM) was
published in - CORRECT ANSWER: 1952
The most common approach used in family therapy is the ________ approach. -
CORRECT ANSWER: systems
The most widely used approach within medical therapies today is - CORRECT
ANSWER: drug therapy
The procedure known as ______ uses electrical probes to destroy the cingulated
cortex of the limbic system - CORRECT ANSWER: cingulotomy
The process of ______ training teaches people to deeply relax the large muscles of the
body - CORRECT ANSWER: progressive relaxation
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