Psyc 100 Introductory Psychology Final Examination

PSYC 100 Introductory Psychology Final Examination

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Which of the following is most likely to be an assumption of psychological

re

searchers?

(A)

Human behavior is unpredictable and random.

(B)

Behavior

follows discoverable, predictable patterns.

(C)

All explanations of behavior are

to be found in the environment.

(D)

Human behavior is the result of prede

ter

–

mined forces acting upon the individual.

____2

. Whenever Aaron, who has been involved in his school’s Theater department for

a few years, first gets a script, he practices alone, repeating his lines until they

sound realistic to him. He has noticed that his performance improves signific

–

antly whenever he participates in dress rehearsals with the other actors. Which

of the following best describes his improved

performance? (A) deindividuation;

(B) bystander intervention; (C) social facilitation; (D) groupthink.

____3

.

C

ontemporary memory researchers: (A) are no longer conducting research

on

short

–

term memory; (B) have turned to t

he study of memory for meaningful

materials; (C) have given up the goal of discovering the basic princi

ples that

underlie human memory; (D)

have concluded that there is no r

elationship be

–

tween how well

in

format

ion is learned and the difficulty we’ll have remember

–

ing it.

____4

.

Kathleen trains her dog by giving him a treat every time he obeys her and

scolding him whenever he disobeys. Her training method most closely re

–

sembles:

(A)

the law of effect;

(B)

the doctrine of specific nerve energies;

(C)

Gestalt principles of organization;

(D)

functionalism.

____5.

Psychological assessment

is often referred to as the measurement of ________,

since the majority of assessments specify how an individual compares to others

on a given dimension. (A) psychological similarities; (B) simultaneous compar

–

isons; (C)...