Deck 7: Psychology and Human Motivation

Question 1

With which theory is conditioned response associated?

A) Psychoanalytic
B) Behaviorist
C) Humanistic
D) Bio-psychology
E) none of the above

Answer 1

Behaviorist

Question 2

The Psychoanalytical school emerged from carefully controlled laboratory conditions based on scientific methods.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which theoretical school in psychology borrowed extensively from biology's laboratory studies of animals?

A) Psychoanalysis
B) Behaviorism
C) Humanistic psychology
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 3

Behaviorism

Question 4

Villainous communists lit up Hollywood movies most often in the:

A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) early-1980s
D) late-1980s
E) early-1990s

Question 5

De-humanization is most important to which process?

A) selective perception
B) nuclear numbing
C) enemy making
D) alliance formation
E) conditioned response

Question 6

Identify the theory most compatible with the idea of social engineering:

A) Psychoanalytic
B) Behaviorist
C) Humanistic
D) Bio-psychology
E) none of the above

Question 7

Which is NOT one of psychology's applied specialties:

A) clinical psychology .
B) industrial psychology
C) historical psychology
D) sports psychology
E) consumer psychology

Question 8

What sort of a position did the United States take in the 1968 Czechoslovakian crisis?

A) military intervention
B) laissez-faire
C) regional sphere of influence
D) sovereignty as a principle of international law
E) proxy war

Question 9

Behaviorism is highly deterministic, while Humanistic psychologies tend to emphasize free will to a greater extent.

Question 10

The case study involving David Lee Rice related to which levels) of analysis?

A) micro-level
B) macro-level
C) subconscious-level
D) micro and macro-levels
E) none of the above

Question 11

The case of Japanese and U.S. textbook spin best illustrates which point?

A) selective perception
B) the role of the subconscious
C) nuclear numbing
D) paranoia
E) narcissism

Question 12

Stimulus and response represent the key observable variables emphasized in the Freudian Psychoanalytic school.

Question 13

Whose research first challenged the belief that humans share universal psychological tendencies---regardless of culture?

A) Donald Brown
B) Margaret Mead
C) Sam Keen
D) Blema Steinberg
E) Wilhelm Wundt
True-False Questions:

Question 14

Which element in the Freudian system of analysis comes closest to what laymen commonly refer to as the conscience?

A) id
B) ego
C) superego
D) subconscious
E) psychosexual stages

Question 15

Which phrase was most abhorrent to members of U.S. Militia movements in the 1990s?

A) cultural mythology
B) cultural relativism
C) the new world order
D) the old world order
E) regional spheres of influence

Question 16

Roughly 90 percent of licensed psychologists today practice the Freudian approach to their discipline.

Question 17

The Turner Diaries contains much:

A) racism and violence
B) racism and nudity
C) violence and nudity
D) Branch Davidian Biblical interpretation
E) biblical interpretation based on David Koresh

Question 18

The phenomenon of selective perception seems to affect:

A) mainly paranoid personalities
B) only narcissistic personalities
C) communists
D) no educated people
E) nearly everyone to some extent

Question 19

The first psychology course and the first laboratory for psychological research were both developed in the United States.

Question 20

Who among the following is classified in this chapter as practicing Bio-psychology?

A) Steven Pinker
B) Vilayanur Ramachandran
C) Terrence Deacon
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 21

The great similarities between the Semai people of Malaysia and the Yanomamo people of Brazil create a compelling case study supporting the idea of universal psychological characteristics among humans in all hunting and gathering societies.

Question 22

Psychology is a larger discipline with more different sub-fields in comparison to geography.

Question 23

More than 75 percent of international terrorists examined by psychologists have been declared to be clinically insane.

Question 24

FBI data show that the number of bombings occurring in the U.S. increased more than three-fold between 1983 and 1993.

Question 25

The majority of psychology's 45 divisions listed on the APA Website include international or foreign content in this age of globalization.

Question 26

The narcissistic personality often tries to atone for feeling of shame and humiliation by seeking success and fame to compensate for affection missed in childhood.

Question 27

Anxiety and depression are generally being treated more successfully in clinical practice today by Bio-psychology than by Psychoanalysis or Behaviorism.

Question 28

Scientist Terrence Deacon claims that his research results suggest that human psychological evolution has resulted principally from brain chemistry and that those scholars who believe that language and symbol-making played a big role in shaping our development seem to be incorrect.

Question 29

In modern psychology the age-old issue of nature versus nurture has been resolved by extensive research which answers this traditional concern of the discipline.