Deck 3: Psychology and Language

Question 1

People with different body types have different personalities has been:

A)supported by research
B)discredited
C)shown to be accurate for thin people but not overweight people
D)shown to be accurate for women but not for men

Answer 1

supported by research

Question 2

Which of the following is not a defence mechanism?

A)projection
B)regression
C)ingratiation
D)sublimation

Answer 2

sublimation

Question 3

Rohan is self-disciplined, focused on achievement and keen to do his duty.He would beexpected to score highly on:

A)neuroticism
B)agreeableness
C)extraversion
D)conscientiousness

Answer 3

conscientiousness

Question 4

________ are the basic biological units that transmit characteristics from one generation to the next:

A)genes
B)neurons
C)glia
D)instincts

Question 5

Which of the following would NOT be useful to a behavioural geneticist?

A)family studies
B)case studies
C)adoption studies
D)twin studies

Question 6

Thinking oneself very different is…..

A)superego
B)self motivation
C)pleasure
D)reality,

Question 7

Lana is friendly, always willing to help others and compassionate. We would expect Lana to score highly on:

A)extraversion
B)agreeableness
C)neuroticism
D)openness to experience

Question 8

Most people categorize most rapidly at the _____ level of hierarchy

A)hyperordinate
B)superordinate
C)subordinate
D)basic

Question 9

Humans think using

A)emotions and feelings
B)emotions and images
C)mental images and concept
D)feelings and concept

Question 10

Which of the following is the smallest unit within a language system?

A)sentence
B)grapheme
C)morpheme
D)phoneme

Question 11

What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according to the strong version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?

A)there is two directional interaction between language and thought
B)language interacts with thought
C)thought is required for language
D)language determines thought

Question 12

What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according to the weak version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?

A)there is two directional interaction between language and thought
B)language only interacts with thought
C)there is two directional interaction between language and thought.
D)language determines thought

Question 13

Damage to which area of brain can impair general planning ability according to Owen?

A)hippocampus
B)cerebellum
C)prefrontal cortex
D)hypothalamus

Question 14

All of the following represent components of natural language use except

A)syntax
B)pragmatics
C)mnemonics
D)semantics

Question 15

When related sentences are put together to make a sensible message, this is referred to as

A)context
B)semantics
C)pragmatics
D)discourse

Question 16

The common term used to describe all types of language loss is

A)dyslexia
B)aphasia
C)dysphasia
D)lexphasia

Question 17

Which of the following is an example of people's reliance on the representativeness heuristics to make decisions or judgements?

A)people report that they did more than 50% of the work in domestic situations
B)people tend top overestimate car accidents
C)people are more likely to attribute a case of heartburn to spicy food than bland food
D)people tend to underestimate death from diabetes

Question 18

All of the following qualities describe reasoning by intuition except

A)occurs automatically
B)fast analysis of information
C)strong feeling of conviction
D)logical analysis

Question 19

The temporary inability to retrieve a word that is well known to us is referred to as

A)recency effect
B)tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
C)wernicke\s aphasia
D)broca\s aphasia

Question 20

Availability heuristic is not

A)influenced by imagination
B)influenced by information stored in memory
C)subject to hindsight bias
D)influenced by the underlying possibilities

Question 21

Chomsky proposed that children learn a language

A)because they possess learnt words
B)because they possess an innate language acquisition device
C)language and thought are separate and independent processess
D)one\s thought determines the nature of one\s language

Question 22

A student taking multiple choice test by reading the stem of each item, generating the correct response closest to the answer is using

A)vicarious problem solving
B)semantics
C)heuristics
D)ideal solution