Psychology Study Review?

The type of disorder that is characterized by complaints of physical symptoms that have no organic cause are referred to as:

dissociative disorders

somatoform disorders

anxiety disorders

mood disorders

16.

Herbie was asked by his therapist to look at a set of inkblots and tell the therapist what he saw in them. The type of therapist that Herbie was seeing was a:

Behavioristic

Humanistic

Psychoanalytic

Cognitive

17.

The technique of severing the connections between the frontal lobe and the thalamus is called:

lobotomy

electroconvulsive therapy

Rational Emotive Therapy

phrenology

18.

Herbie has learned that a ball of clay and that same ball of clay pulled out into a long rope are the same amount of clay and just the shape has been changed. According to Piaget, Herbie is in the ___________stage of development.

Sensorimotor

formal operational

pre-operational

concrete operational

20.

The most important addition to psychology which allowed it to be considered a science was:

demonology

scientific method

DSM-4TR

asylums

21.

Herbie just took a cookie from the plate of cookies that his mother had baked. She told him to wait until they cooled but he couldn't. She was on the phone and did not see him taking the cookie so Herbie was not punished and he did not think that he did anything wrong. According to Kohlberg, Herbie is in the ____________level of moral development.

post-conventional

conventional

pre-conventional

id

22.

Mary Cover-Jones turned around Watson's work with Baby Albert and helped a child get over his fears of rabbits. Her technique for helping Peter is called:

Classical conditioning

Operant conditioning

token economy

systematic desensitization

23.

Alzheimer's disease is a serious disease that accounts for many elderly people losing their ability to function independently in society. Research has found that one of the predominant areas of the brain affected by Alzheimer's is the:

hypothalamus

hippocampus

amygdala

cerebellum

24.

ROY G. BIV is an example of a memory help called a:

set

assimilation

accommodation

mnemonic

25.

You are looking at the family album and see a picture of your sixth birthday party and you experience a bunch of memories about that party and the people that attended. You are experience which kind of memory?

procedural

semantic

episodic

echoic

26.

Inability to feel pleasure, lack of motivation and a decrease in personal hygiene are symptoms of schizophrenia that are referred to as______symptoms.

positive

negative

delusional

absent

27.

An irrational fear of spiders that brings about panic attacks when the word is even mentioned is called a

phobia

fugue

disturbance

remission

28.

Dorothea Day was an activist in the United States that advocated for:

better psychology laboratories

better schools

better treatment for the mentally ill

better treatment for animals used in research

29.

Herbie is a workaholic: sleeps little, works much and multi-tasks whenever possible. According to stress research, Herbie would be classified as a(n)

Type -B personality

anti-social personality

Type -A personality

Avoidant personality

30.

Herbie did poorly on his psychology test. He explained his poor grade as the teacher giving poor tests on things that are not important. Herbie is using the defense mechanism of:

displacement

regression

projection

rationalization

31.

Ida's mom took her to a psychologist because she is not eating. The psychologist set up a program of rewards for her to improve her eating habits and punishments for her neglectful eating habits. The type of psychologist that she is seeing would be a:

Behavioristic

Humanistic

Psychoanalytic

Cognitive