Deck 2: Psychology: Sleep, Attention, Memory, Intelligence, and Personality

Question 1

Disorder involving the inability to fall asleep or to maintain sleep at once it is attained is called __________________

A)amnesia
B)insomnia
C)apathy
D)narcolepsy

Answer 1

insomnia

Question 2

Cognitive events, often vivid but disconnected that occur during sleep are ____________

A)dreams
B)hypnosis
C)consciousness
D)none of the above

Answer 2

dreams

Question 3

Our ability to pay attention to only some aspects of the world around us while largely ignoring others is called___________

A)span of attention
B)division of attention
C)distraction of attention
D)selective attention

Answer 3

selective attention

Question 4

The feeling that we can almost, but not quite, remember some information we wish to retrieve from memory is _________________

A)long-term memory
B)short-term memory
C)partial amnesia
D)tip-of-the-tongue phenomena

Question 5

The finding that the first and the last items in a series are more likely to be recalled than are intervening items is called_____________________

A)serial position effect
B)rote memorization
C)free recall
D)serial recall

Question 6

The tendency to think of wing objects only as they have been used in the past is __________

A)mental set
B)algorithms
C)functional fixedness
D)analogy

Question 7

A theory of omissions suggesting that emotion provoking events simultaneously produce subjective reactions and physiological arousal is ________________

A)james lange theory
B)cannon-bard theory
C)activation theory
D)cognitive arousal theory

Question 8

Consideration of what is practical and possible in gratifying instinctive needs characteristic of the ego is called__________________

A)defense mechanism
B)pleasure principle
C)reality principle
D)psychic structure

Question 9

Improved retention after an interval is called_______________

A)reminiscence
B)relearning
C)recognition
D)eidetic imagery

Question 10

The process requiring time during which memory trace becomes more resistant to extinction is _________________

A)consolidation
B)organization
C)retention
D)reminiscence

Question 11

In Maslow's hierarchy of motives, the most highly evolved motive is ____________

A)ambition
B)fear
C)self-actualization
D)the need to explore

Question 12

A mental category for classifying specific people, object, or experiences is a(n) _____________

A)image
B)concept
C)phoneme
D)algorithm

Question 13

The term Intelligent Quotient (IQ) was first introduced by_________________

A)binet
B)terman
C)simon
D)wechsler

Question 14

Freud believed that the Oedipal conflict took place during the ___________________

A)phallic stage
B)anal stage
C)genital stage
D)oral stage

Question 15

The intelligence model consists of _______________ dimensions.

A)three
B)four
C)six
D)ten

Question 16

Who proposed that "feeling of inferiority" is control to human behavior?

A)jung
B)sigmund freud
C)adler
D)william james

Question 17

Classifying people on the basis of body build is an example of __________ approach to personality.

A)trait
B)dynamic
C)type
D)behavioral

Question 18

_______________ tests attempt to measure general mental abilities, rather than accumulated knowledge or aptitude for a specific subject or area.

A)attitude
B)personality
C)intelligence
D)creativity

Question 19

During World War 1 _________ test was developed which was administered orally to those who could not read, later adapted for civilian use.

A)aptitude
B)army alpha
C)army beta
D)intelligence

Question 20

If a test consistently produces similar scores on different occasions, it is said to be _______________.

A)valid
B)reliable
C)true
D)standardized

Question 21

Lewis Terman's approach to measuring and defining intelligence as a single, overall IQ score was in the tradition of British psychologist ________________.

A)charles spearman
B)david wechsler
C)lazarus
D)robert woodworth