GRE ® Psychology Test Practice Book (PDF)

GRE ® Psychology Test Practice Book

This practice book contains ◾◾ one actual, full-length GRE® Psychology Test ◾◾ test-taking strategies

Become familiar with ◾◾ test structure and content ◾◾ test instructions and answering procedures

Compare your practice test results with the performance of those who took the test at a GRE administration.

www.ets.org/gre Table of Contents Overview...... 3 Test Content...... 3 Preparing for the Test...... 4 Test-Taking Strategies...... 5 What Your Scores Mean...... 5 Taking the Practice Test...... 5 Scoring the Practice Test...... 6 Evaluating Your Performance...... 6 Practice Test...... 7 Worksheet for Scoring the Practice Test...... 43 Score Conversion Table...... 45 Answer Sheet...... 46

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When you are ready to begin the test, note the who took the GRE Psychology Test in the United States. time and begin marking your answers on the answer The numbers in the column labeled “P+” on the sheet. Stop working on the test when 2 hours and 50 worksheet indicate the percentages of examinees in minutes have elapsed. this sample who answered each question correctly. You may use these numbers as a guide for evaluating your Scoring the Practice Test performance on each test question. Interpretive data based on the scores earned by a The worksheet on pages 43 and 44 lists the correct recent cohort of test takers are available on the GRE answers to the questions. The “Correct Response” website at www.ets.org/gre/subject/scores/understand. columns are provided for you to mark those questions The interpretive data show, for selected scaled score, for which you chose the correct answer. The the percentage of test takers who received lower scores. “Content” columns indicate the primary content area To compare yourself with this population, look at the to which each question contributes. percentage next to the scaled score you earned on the Mark each question that you answered correctly. practice test. Note that these interpretive data are Then, add up your correct answers and enter your updated annually and reported on GRE score reports. total number of correct answers in each space labeled Your six subscores show your relative strengths or “Total Correct” on page 44. Next, use the “Total weaknesses in the six content areas of the Psychology Score” conversion table on page 45 to find the Test. The subscores are scaled in such a way that they corresponding total scaled score. For example, suppose are related to the total scores on the test. On average, you chose the correct answers to 142 of all of the a person who has a comprehensive background in the questions on the test. The “Total Correct” entry in field can expect to have subscores equal to about one- the “Total Score” conversion table that matches 142 tenth of his or her total score. Thus, if you have a total is 142-143 and your total scaled score is 620. scaled score of 600, and your undergraduate program To calculate each subscore: enter your number of placed equal emphasis on the six areas of psychology correct answers on the questions contributing to each represented by the subscores, you would expect to have of the six content areas in the space labeled with the a scaled subscore of about 60 in each area. If, however, corresponding Questions Correct in Content Area your subscores differ by more than a few points, (1–6). (Your total number of correct answers should you may take this as an indication that your lower already be entered in each “Total Correct” space.) scaled subscore shows weakness, and you may wish to Compute each subscore by multiplying the value concentrate your review efforts on topics in that area. entered with the value provided and by adding up the It is important to realize that the conditions under products. Finally, use the “Subscores” conversion table which you tested yourself were not exactly the same as on page 45 to find the corresponding scaled subscore. those you will encounter at a test center. It is impossible For example, suppose you chose the correct answers to to predict how different test-taking conditions will 142 of all of the questions on the test, and the correct affect test performance, and this is only one factor that answers to 25 of the questions associated with content may account for differences between your practice 1 (Biological). Then your subscore 1 is: test scores and your actual test scores. By comparing (25 x 0.74) + (142 x 0.13) = 36.96. your performance on this practice test with the performance of other individuals who took the GRE The “Subscore 1” entry in the “Subscores” Psychology Test, however, you will be able to determine conversion table that matches 36.96 is 37 and thus your strengths and weaknesses and can then plan a your Biological scaled subscore is 61. program of study to prepare yourself for taking the GRE Psychology Test under standard conditions.

6 Page GRE ® Psychology Test Practice Book

GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS® PSYCHOLOGY TEST

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PSYCHOLOGY TEST Time — 170 minutes

205 Questions

Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or completions. In each case, select the one that is best and then completely fill in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1. The ability of a postsynaptic neuron to respond 4. When persuasive communications follow the

to the presence of a particular neurotransmitter peripheral route, they focus on which of the

that is released from a neighboring presynaptic following? neuron is dependent on which of the following (A) Beliefs conditions? (B) Facts (A) The storage of the neurotransmitter in the (C) Values presynaptic neuron (D) Emotions (B) The ability of the neurotransmitter to (E) Cognitions penetrate the membrane of the postsynaptic

neuron 5. Consider the sentence “The dishwasher is (C) The presence of receptors on the postsynaptic running.” Which of the following is true? neuron that have an affinity for that (A) It can have more than one surface structure. particular neurotransmitter (B) It can have more than one deep structure. (D) Whether or not the neurotransmitter (C) It is grammatically incorrect. is excitatory or inhibitory (D) It can have more than one syntax. NO TEST MATERIAL ON THIS PAGE (E) Whether or not the postsynaptic neuron (E) It violates the rules of bottom-up processing. has an axon that is myelinated

6. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical 2. Critics have argued that projective tests are too Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (A) brief (DSM-5TM), children with separation anxiety (B) concrete disorder often experience which of the following (C) quantitative symptoms in addition to excessive fear or anxiety (D) objective over separation from attachment figures? (E) subjective (A) Excessive concern about the safety and well-

being of attachment figures 3. Organizing the string of letters B-F-J-T-A-V-K-C (B) Persistent desire to develop relationships with into JFK-TV-CAB is an example of adults other than those who serve as major (A) simplifying attachment figures (B) clustering (C) Pervasive anxiety about failure in school or (C) seriating social situations (D) chunking (D) Perceptual delusions that the child’s parents (E) paraphrasing have been replaced by physically identical imposters (E) Irresistible urges to perform and repeat a certain act over and over again

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PSYCHOLOGY TEST Time — 170 minutes

205 Questions

1. The ability of a postsynaptic neuron to respond 4. When persuasive communications follow the

to the presence of a particular neurotransmitter peripheral route, they focus on which of the

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7. Patients with bilateral damage to the hippocampal 10. The bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity, and tremors Questions 13-15 refer to the information below. 13. Which of the following describes the pattern of formation are tested on motor learning tasks such that characterize Parkinson’s disease are a result findings displayed in the graph? as the Tower of Hanoi. Studies show that the of the degeneration of dopaminergic cells in the A researcher was interested in whether or not (A) Men who heard the jazz piece and women patients improve their performance with repeated jazz vocals and opera influence men’s and women’s (A) association cortex who heard the operatic piece scored higher exposures. When asked whether they have ever emotional states. She hypothesized that these types (B) cerebellum on the mood inventory than those in the seen the task, even after numerous test sessions of music influence men and women differently. In (C) hippocampus other two groups. with it, they typically report not having seen it a study investigating this hypothesis, 40 men and (D) reticular formation (B) People who heard the operatic piece scored before. Such results have led to which of the 40 women heard a jazz piece, and 40 men and (E) substantia nigra higher on the mood inventory than those following conclusions? 40 women heard an operatic piece. The jazz piece who heard the jazz piece. was sung by a man, and the operatic piece was sung (A) Patients with hippocampal injury suffer from 11. Which of the following best characterizes an (C) People who heard the jazz piece scored by a woman. Afterward, participants rated themselves confabulation similar to Korsakoff’s infant’s object concept at six months of age? higher on the mood inventory than those on an inventory measuring emotional state. Higher patients. who heard the operatic piece. (A) The infant’s visual system is too immature scores on the inventory indicate positive mood. (B) The inability to remember the Tower of (D) Men scored higher than women on the mood to enable focusing on an object in the Results of this study are represented in the graph Hanoi reflects a fundamental lesion-induced inventory regardless of the type of music visual field. below. inability to name objects. they heard. (B) The infant is unable to track moving objects (C) Although procedural memory may not rely (E) Women scored higher than men on the mood in the visual field. on normal hippocampal functioning, inventory regardless of the type of music (C) The infant is not surprised when two objects declarative memory does. they heard. are seen to occupy the same space at the (D) Hippocampal injury enhances the acquisition same time. of tasks relying on motor learning. 14. The researcher concludes from her study that (D) The infant’s understanding of object (E) Whereas procedural memory is severely jazz music positively changes men’s moods mechanics is as sophisticated as the impaired after hippocampal injury, and operatic music positively changes women’s adult’s understanding. reference memory is intact. moods. Which of the following invalidates that (E) The infant understands objects to be solid conclusion? bounded entities that take up space and 8. Which of the following is chemically similar move on continuous paths. (A) The participants were college students who to opiates, has the ability to reduce pain, and were not music majors. is blocked by the action of naloxone? 12. A 40-item vocabulary test was administered (B) Only one scale was used to measure mood. (A) Norepinephrine to a group of students. A second, similar test of (C) Men and women were randomly assigned (B) Acetylcholine vocabulary terms was administered to this same to groups. (C) Serotonin group of students approximately one week later. (D) Previous studies have shown that men are (D) Endorphin The researcher reported that the correlation less emotional than women. (E) Dopamine between these two tests was r = .90. What type (E) Men’s and women’s moods were not mea- of reliability is represented in this example? sured before exposure to the two types of 9. When stress is prolonged, the most likely result is music. (A) Test-retest

(A) generalized weakening of the immune system (B) Internal consistency 15. Which of the following is the most serious problem (B) damage to brain areas within the pons and (C) Alternate forms with the methodology of this research? medulla (D) Split-half

(C) an increase in the level of naturally produced (E) Inter-rater (A) Men and women did not listen to both types endorphins of music. (D) intensification of the effects of natural (B) The singers were not the same gender. killer cells (C) The sample size was too small to draw a valid (E) an increase in the number of T cells conclusion. (D) The participants were not musicians. (E) Only one type of music should have been used.

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16. The preference for a loosely knit social frame- 19. Which of the following is the best example of 21. Which of the following types of cognitive abilities 24. The sharing of information about oneself work in which individuals are responsible only the categorical perception of human speech? is LEAST likely to show a decline in late life? is referred to as for the care of their children and themselves is (A) Listeners are able to categorize speech (A) Working memory (A) social exchange known as samples in terms of the gender of the (B) Processing speed (B) experience sampling (A) collectivism speaker. (C) Fluid intelligence (C) communal sharing (B) individualism (B) Listeners are able to categorize a stream (D) Semantic memory (D) self-disclosure (C) ethnocentrism of words into a series of distinct words, (E) Episodic memory (E) authority ranking (D) egocentrism because they can identify the brief pauses (E) interactionism that appear between words. 22. Charles Scott Sherrington proposed that rapid 25. Research on children’s social behavior shows (C) When a sound is presented that is inter- stimulation of a specific synapse is likely to that relative to young adolescent boys, young 17. Over many trials a puff of air aimed at JoAnne’s mediate between the phonemes /b/ and produce a cumulative effect in the postsynaptic adolescent girls exhibit more of which type of eyes is paired with a loud noise and a subtle /p/, listeners report that they heard either cell because of aggression? smell. Afterward, it is very likely that JoAnne’s a distinct /b/ or a distinct /p/. (A) spatial summation (A) Hostile conditioned eye blink will be under the control (D) During speech perception, listeners auto- (B) temporal summation (B) Instrumental of the loud noise and not the subtle smell. This matically place phonemes into one of two (C) saltatory conduction (C) Physical phenomenon is an example of categories, vowels or consonants. (D) neuromodulation (D) Relational (E) After hearing a sentence, people process (A) overshadowing (E) spreading depression (E) Displaced each word and make decisions about the (B) conditioned suppression word’s function within that sentence. (C) generalization 23. Which of the following is an atypical 26. “I runned to the car” is an example of

(D) counterconditioning developmental pattern characterized by 20. Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess described (A) telegraphic speech (E) reinstatement stereotyped motor responses and poor three categories of infants: easy, difficult, and (B) fast mapping communication skills? slow to warm up. These are categories of (C) overregularization 18. The idea that people cope with stress by moving (A) Tardive dyskinesia (D) overextension toward people, away from people, or against (A) play (B) Autism spectrum disorder (E) holophrasing people is most consistent with the views of (B) emotions (C) Down syndrome (C) toilet training (A) Aaron Beck (D) Williams syndrome 27. The visual pathway that tells us what we (D) temperament (B) Carl Rogers (E) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are looking at is called the (E) smiles (C) Karen Horney (A) corticospinal tract (D) Erik Erikson (B) solitary tract (E) Erich Fromm (C) spinothalamic tract

(D) dorsal stream (E) ventral stream

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(D) dorsal stream (E) ventral stream

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28. Which theorist revised Sigmund Freud’s stages of 32. Rapid eye movements are most closely associated 36. All of the following statements about 39. A client sleeps sixteen hours a day. According to development, replacing Freud’s psychosexual with which of the following? psychodynamic theorists are correct EXCEPT: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental stages with psychosocial stages? Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5™), the client (A) Alpha waves (A) Karen Horney stressed the importance of most likely has which of the following sleep (A) Karen Horney (B) Delta waves social relationships between children and disorders? (B) Erik Erikson (C) Dreaming their parents. (C) Alfred Adler (D) Apnea (B) Alfred Adler claimed that childhood feelings (A) Circadian rhythm sleep-wake (D) Viktor Frankl (E) Stage II sleep of inferiority lead to striving for superiority. (B) Insomnia (E) Abraham Maslow (C) Carl Jung identified two components of the (C) Hypersomnolence 33. An investigator interested in the development of unconscious: the preconscious and the (D) Sleep arousal 29. Using a pendulum apparatus, a participant children’s attitudes toward the police assessed and formal unconscious. (E) Nightmare attempts to derive the physical laws that compared the attitudes of 250 eight year olds, (D) Erik Erikson described conflicts at different determine the rate at which a pendulum swings. 240 twelve year olds, and 245 sixteen year olds. stages of development. 40. Kyle mixes his blue paint with Jamie’s yellow The participant’s approach to solving this problem She matched the three groups with regard to (E) Sigmund Freud stressed the interaction of the paint. The resulting green color occurs because is to hold a relevant factor (X) constant and to gender and socioeconomic background. The id, the ego, and the superego. (A) equal stimulation of the blue receptors and vary a second relevant factor (Y), and then to investigator’s research design is best charac- the yellow receptors in the eyes produces reverse this procedure by holding Y constant and terized as which of the following? 37. Juanita’s classmates enjoy being with her because the sensation of green varying X. According to Jean Piaget, the she is always sociable, easygoing, and lively. On (A) A case study (B) blue wavelengths and yellow wavelengths participant’s level of cognitive functioning is most Eysenck’s basic personality dimensions, she (B) A controlled experiment add together to make green wavelengths likely would be classified as (C) Sequential (C) the blue and the yellow absorb all the other (A) preoperational (D) Cross-sectional (A) unstable introverted wavelengths except green (B) concrete operational (E) Longitudinal (B) extroverted stable (D) paints involve additive rather than subtractive (C) formal operational (C) passive-aggressive mixing (D) sensorimotor 34. If a psychological disorder has a genetic basis, (D) intrinsically motivated (E) blue wavelengths and yellow wavelengths (E) conventional one would expect to find the highest concordance (E) cyclothymic dysthymic subtract red wavelengths equally to make rate for the illness between which of the green 30. A child has just developed the ability to lie with following? 38. Annette is looking for a psychotherapist whose the intention of deceiving another person. This clinical work is rooted in object relations theory. (A) Mother and child new ability is probably based most directly on a The best match for Annette would be a therapist (B) Father and child change in the child’s who emphasizes (C) Identical twins (A) knowledge about mental representations (D) Fraternal twins (A) the use of medication (B) skill in making transitive inferences (E) Nontwin siblings (B) the here and now (C) formal operational thinking (C) cognitive distortions (D) social referencing 35. According to Sigmund Freud, a child who grabs (D) early life relationships (E) temperament food from another child because of hunger is (E) counterconditioning driven by 31. The standard deviation of a sample of test scores (A) the id is a measure of the (B) the ego (A) central tendency of scores (C) environmental reinforcers (B) variability of individual scores (D) the superego (C) concurrent validity of the test (E) cognitive schemas (D) line of best fit (E) normality of the distribution

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Questions 41-43 refer to the following passage. 44. Which of the following predictions is reasonable 46. Marc recently moved to an area that experienced a Depression is more common among people with insomnia than among those with satisfactory sleep. To determine based on Baddeley and Hitch’s theory of working large number of tornadoes, which frightened him the reasons for this relationship, investigators identified 40 people suffering from both depression and insomnia. For memory? greatly. Every time a storm containing high winds emerged, the lights in his home flickered. When each of these 40, they paired two other people of the same gender and age who were neither depressed nor suffering (A) If two tasks using the same component are the lights in his home flickered on a clear day, he from any sleep disorder. One of these was designated the “normal-sleep control,” and the other was designated the done concurrently, performance will be became quite fearful and searched for a safe place “yoked control.” All participants slept in a laboratory for one week. The normal-sleep control person slept without improved on one or both. to hide. What is the conditioned stimulus in this restrictions. During that same time, the yoked control was permitted to sleep when the depressed-insomniac person (B) If two tasks using the same component are scenario? slept, but was required to awaken whenever the depressed-insomniac person awakened. done concurrently, performance will be A valid questionnaire for measuring depression was administered at the end of the one-week study. Assume that impaired on one or both. (A) High winds higher scores on the questionnaire reflect greater depressive symptomatology. (C) If two tasks that do not use the same (B) Lights flickering component are done concurrently, (C) Hiding place performance will be improved on (D) Storms 41. What pattern of results on the depression questionnaire would justify the conclusion that sleeplessness leads to one or both. (E) Fear depression? (D) If two tasks that do not use the same component are done concurrently, 47. Which of the following learning theorists first (A) Normal sleep control < yoked control = depressed performance will be impaired on demonstrated that a neutral stimulus could (B) Normal sleep control = yoked control = depressed one or both. acquire the ability to evoke a response originally (C) Normal sleep control = yoked control < depressed (E) If two tasks are done concurrently, whether attributed to another stimulus? (D) Yoked control < normal sleep control < depressed or not they use the same component, (A) Michael Domjan (E) Yoked control < normal sleep control = depressed performance will be unchanged. (B) Ivan Pavlov

other than sleeplessness? on consonant-vowel-consonant combinations? 48. Which memory store is believed to have the (A) Normal sleep control < yoked control = depressed (A) Hermann Ebbinghaus largest capacity? (B) Normal sleep control = yoked control = depressed (B) James Mill (A) The sensory store (C) Normal sleep control = yoked control < depressed (C) John B. Watson (B) The short-term store (D) Yoked control < normal sleep control < depressed (D) Max Wertheimer (C) The long-term store (E) Yoked control < normal sleep control = depressed (E) Christian von Ehrenfels (D) The phonological loop

(E) The visuospatial sketch pad

43. Suppose that the results were consistent with the hypothesis that sleeplessness does not lead to depression. Of the following, which would be the most serious criticism of the study and its conclusion? (A) Although the questionnaire to measure depression was known to be valid, it may not have been reliable. (B) The study failed to examine other factors that might also contribute to depression. (C) The yoked-control group was unnecessary. (D) One week of sleep deprivation may have been inadequate to produce depression. (E) The normal sleep-control group was unnecessary.

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(C) Albert Bandura 45. Which of the following was the first to (D) B. F. Skinner systematically and empirically study memory (E) E. L. Thorndike 42. What pattern of results on the depression questionnaire would one expect if depression were to arise for reasons by developing an innovative approach based other than sleeplessness? on consonant-vowel-consonant combinations? 48. Which memory store is believed to have the (A) Normal sleep control < yoked control = depressed (A) Hermann Ebbinghaus largest capacity? (B) Normal sleep control = yoked control = depressed (B) James Mill (A) The sensory store (C) Normal sleep control = yoked control < depressed (C) John B. Watson (B) The short-term store (D) Yoked control < normal sleep control < depressed (D) Max Wertheimer (C) The long-term store (E) Yoked control < normal sleep control = depressed (E) Christian von Ehrenfels (D) The phonological loop

(E) The visuospatial sketch pad

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49. The use of polite words such as “please” and 54. According to the theory of cognitive development 58. According to the evolutionary principle of 62. Young children form rudimentary sentences that “thank you” in everyday speech is called proposed by Lev Vygotsky, children learn best kin selection, people are more likely to help resemble telegrams even though they have never by working someone who heard anyone make such utterances before. This is (A) morphology evidence of (B) syntax (A) independently (A) is physically attractive (C) semantics (B) with adults and advanced peers (B) shares their genes (A) reinforcement theory (D) pragmatics (C) with less advanced peers (C) will return the favor (B) a universal grammar (E) phonetics (D) with visually simple objects (D) is a potential mate (C) pragmatics (E) with visually complex objects (E) is of higher status (D) semantics 50. Which of the following factors would best (E) morphology explain why monozygotic twins, raised together, 55. According to Jean Piaget, young infants are in 59. Manic episodes are a defining feature of which of nevertheless develop different personalities? which stage of development? the following disorders? 63. A fixed action pattern is defined as a response to a (A) Shared genetic material (A) Proximal (A) Major depressive (A) secondary reinforcer (B) Non-shared genetic material (B) Psychosocial (B) Autism spectrum (B) generalization gradient (C) Shared environments (C) Attachment (C) Posttraumatic stress (C) conditioned stimulus (D) Non-shared environments (D) Sensorimotor (D) Bipolar (D) drop in reticular activity (E) Shared histories (E) Preoperational (E) Schizophrenia spectrum (E) sign stimulus

51. Which of the following visual experiences 56. Which of the following predictions is the best 60. Newlyweds Layla and Keith both have normal 64. Based on research by Mary Ainsworth, which of most attracts a newborn’s gaze? example of context-dependent memory? color vision, but Layla carries a recessive gene the following best describes how an infant who for color deficiency. Which of the following best has formed a secure maternal attachment would (A) The color beige (A) Concrete words are easier to recall than describes the probabilities of color deficiency in be expected to respond to the mother’s leaving (B) The color black abstract words. their children? and/or returning? (C) The color white (B) Auditory encoding is superior to visual (D) A black-and-white pattern encoding. (A) Half of their daughters will be color- (A) Upon the mother’s return, the infant will be (E) A beige-and-white pattern (C) Information is better recalled when learning deficient, but none of their sons will. pleased to see her and will go to her to be and testing occur in the same room. (B) Half of their sons will be color-deficient, held. 52. Edmundo got into an argument with the grocery (D) Information is better recalled when it is but none of their daughters will. (B) Upon the mother’s return, the infant will cry clerk. When he returned to his car after shopping, deeply encoded. (C) All of their sons and half of their daughters and will cling to her. he discovered that he received a parking ticket. (E) In a list of words, those in bold are easier to will be color-deficient. (C) Upon the mother’s return, the infant will Edmundo furiously crumpled up the ticket and recall. (D) All of their daughters and half of their sons actively avoid her. threw it on the ground. When his friend Terri will be color-deficient. (D) The infant will not be upset by the mother’s told him to calm down, he screamed at her to 57. Fred was keenly interested in a new science (E) None of their children will be color-deficient. leaving and will not go to the mother upon mind her own business. Which of the following fiction film and therefore was surprised when he her return. theories best accounts for Edmundo’s behavior? arrived at the theater on opening night and found 61. An individual suffering from damage to (E) The infant will cry and cling to the mother only a few people there. Fred’s mistaken Wernicke’s area would most likely exhibit as she leaves and will continue to cry (A) Excitation transfer judgment of the popularity of the film illustrates which of the following behaviors? throughout the mother’s absence. (B) Social identity

(C) Correspondent inference (A) the self-serving bias (A) Impaired comprehension of language 65. Damaging the suprachiasmatic nucleus (D) Distraction-conflict (B) self-handicapping (B) An inability to determine what is socially of the hypothalamus in rats will (E) Normative focus (C) pluralistic ignorance acceptable behavior (D) the actor-observer effect (C) An explosive temper with even slight (A) impair the ability to acquire spatial 53. Cleotha finds out that her roommate Leontyne is (E) the false consensus effect provocation information a better pool player than she is. However, Cleotha (D) An inability to form new memories (B) reduce the threshold for pain resulting reminds herself that she can play poker better than (E) An uncontrollable tremor of the hands from injury to the limbs Leontyne. Cleotha is engaging in which of the (C) promote the development of maternal following? behavior in males (D) interfere with the biological clock that (A) Self-verification is synchronized with light (B) Self-efficacy (E) decrease aggressive behavior directed (C) Self-affirmation at rats of the same sex (D) Self-monitoring

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66. Which of the following increases the power 70. According to evolutionary psychologists, which 74. Free will plays the greatest role in which of the 77. What term is best used to describe the smallest of a statistical test? of the following is the primary reason that men following? meaningful unit of a language? tend to prefer as mates younger and more attrac- (A) Changing alpha from .05 to .01 (A) Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory (A) Phone tive women? (B) Changing alpha from .10 to .01 (B) B. F. Skinner’s behaviorism (B) Phoneme (C) Changing from a two-tailed to (A) These characteristics signal good health and (C) Carl Rogers’ humanistic psychology (C) Morpheme a one-tailed test ability to bear children. (D) Hans Eysenck’s trait model (D) Syntax (D) Using a smaller critical area in the (B) Modern societies all evolved from a single (E) William Sheldon’s theory of somatotypes and (E) Semantic distribution of sample means ancient culture in which the importance of temperament (E) Decreasing the sample size from these characteristics was noted. 78. According to Johnston and Heinz’s multimode N = 100 to N = 75 (C) The belief that younger and attractive women theory of attention, why is it dangerous to drive tend to be especially attentive mothers is an automobile while talking on a cell phone? 67. Aunt Sybil paid her first visit to her niece Angela characteristic of many cultures. (A) Driving is an automatic task, but talking when the baby was 3 months old. Aunt Sybil (D) Young, attractive women arouse parental or requires attentional resources. enjoyed holding and playing with the baby. caretaking impulses. (B) Talking on the phone results in the filtering Aunt Sybil visited again when Angela was (E) Men’s preferences have been heavily shaped of all other stimuli, including those relevant 9 months old. She was dismayed when the little by images in the mass media. to driving. girl took one look at her and burst into tears. (C) People can both talk and drive effectively, Angela was exhibiting a normal emotional 71. Georgia sees a sign in the bathroom stall but they will not be able to remember reaction called that says, “Do not write on the walls under anything about either the phone any circumstances!” Georgia takes out her 75. The figure above illustrates (A) separation anxiety conversation or events related to driving. pen and begins to write all over the walls. (B) avoidant attachment (A) a boundary extension (D) Both talking and driving require attentional According to social psychologists, Georgia (C) ambivalent attachment (B) a geon resources, and adequate attentional is experiencing (D) emotional regulation (C) an illusory contour resources may not be allocated to driving. (E) stranger anxiety (A) selective avoidance (D) a mach band (E) Talking is an automatic task, but attentional (B) trivialization (E) a texture gradient resources need to be allocated to driving. 68. Which of the following therapeutic techniques can (C) reactance be explained by classical conditioning principles? (D) symbolic self-awareness 76. When studying moral development, 79. The transformation of energy into electrical (E) jeer pressure Lawrence Kohlberg used moral dilemmas such impulses is (A) Modeling and implosion as the Heinz dilemma, in which a husband must (B) Modeling and systematic desensitization (A) neural processing 72. Eric is frustrated with one of his coworkers who decide whether to steal a drug to prolong his (C) Modeling and token economies (B) transduction displays no regard for the rights of others, no wife’s life because they cannot afford the drug. (D) Systematic desensitization and flooding (C) sensation remorse when he abuses others, and a repeated A child who is in the conventional level of (E) Systematic desensitization and token (D) a difference threshold pattern of stealing equipment and petty cash. Kohlberg’s theory will use which reasoning economies (E) an energy current It is most likely that this coworker has which when faced with the Heinz dilemma?

of the following personality disorders? 69. Joe’s therapist frequently exhibits genuineness (A) It is against the law to steal, so the husband 80. As a color blindness test, Hector and his friends and empathy toward Joe. These elements are (A) Antisocial should not steal the drug. are asked to judge whether or not a red jelly bean defining features of which of the following (B) Paranoid (B) It is up to the husband to decide what he is similar to the blue and green jelly beans in a jar. therapeutic approaches? (C) Narcissistic wants to do. If it is worth risking his life, Hector’s friends all state that the red jelly bean is (D) Histrionic he will steal the drug. similar to the blue and green ones. Hector knows (A) Existential (E) Borderline (C) The husband should not steal the drug this is not true, but he gives the same answer. (B) Psychoanalytic because then he will have to go to jail. Hector’s behavior here is an example of which (C) Behavioral 73. The tendency to attribute your successes to (D) The husband should steal the drug because of the following concepts? (D) Cognitive dispositional factors and your failures to the value of human life outweighs the (E) Client-centered (A) Private conformity situational factors is called the economic cost of the drug. (E) The husband should steal the drug to avoid (B) Private self-consciousness (A) autokinetic effect feeling bad. (C) Public conformity (B) hostile attribution bias (D) Public self-consciousness (C) self-serving bias (E) Public goods dilemma (D) self-fulfilling prophecy (E) fundamental attribution error

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81. The action potential is triggered at which 86. A neuron that receives excitation from other 91. Cohorts born in different decades have been found 92. “Of several responses made to the same situation, of the following parts of a neuron? neurons and conducts impulses from its soma to differ in their personality characteristics during those which are accompanied or closely followed in the spinal cord to muscle or gland cells is adolescence. Such findings most directly suggest by satisfaction to the animal will, other things (A) Dendrite called a that personality development being equal, be more firmly connected with the (B) Soma situation . . . ; those which are accompanied or (C) Terminal button (A) sensory neuron (A) follows a different course for males and for closely followed by discomfort to the animal will, (D) Axon hillock (B) motor neuron females during late childhood other things being equal, have their connections (E) Spine (C) neuroglia (B) is influenced primarily by hormonal factors with that situation weakened.” (D) oligodendrocyte (C) is based on experience during a critical period 82. What function is served by the white myelin (E) Schwann cell in early childhood The statement above was written by sheath that may cover an axon? (D) is influenced by the historical context in (A) Albert Bandura 87. The inability to recognize a once-familiar face, which it occurs (A) It protects the axon from overheating. (B) Edwin Guthrie while still being able to accurately describe (E) is influenced more by peers than by parents (B) It protects the axon from microorganisms. (C) Ivan Pavlov elements of the face, is a characteristic during adolescence (C) It increases the speed of the electrical (D) B. F. Skinner symptom of impulses. (E) Edward Thorndike

(D) It provides the axon with nutrients. (A) amnesia

(E) It prohibits the axon from carrying impulses. (B) blindsight (C) prosopagnosia 83. Which of the following is the name given to the (D) sensory neglect process of differentiating oneself from others by (E) transcortical aphasia emphasizing one’s uniqueness? 88. When Latoya was younger, she decided which (A) Personality ice cream cone was bigger by always picking the (B) Impression formation taller one. Now that she’s eight years old, she (C) Deindividuation makes more-accurate choices by considering the (D) Individuation width and depth of the cone as well as its height. (E) Social categorization Latoya has learned to

84. Gonadal hormones can act early in life to (A) assimilate irreversibly determine a rat’s mate selection (B) use seriation through effects referred to as (C) show formal operations (D) display class inclusion (A) activational (E) decenter (B) distributional

and difficulty perceiving visual motion? 85. Which of the following theories places the greatest emphasis on the effects of early (A) Different kinds of dietary deficiencies childhood experiences on personality? (B) Inadequate development through different Piagetian stages (A) Psychodynamic (C) Fixation at different Freudian stages (B) Humanistic (D) Damage to different areas of the brain (C) Trait (E) Deficits of different neurotransmitters (D) Social cognitive

(E) Behavioral 90. Ability derived directly from previous experience

is known as (A) crystallized intelligence (B) fluid intelligence (C) formal operations (D) concrete operations (E) prospective memory

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(D) It provides the axon with nutrients. (A) amnesia

(C) initiating 89. Of the following, which is the most plausible (D) organizational source of deficits such as inability to recognize (E) triggering faces, tendency to ignore the left half of the body, and difficulty perceiving visual motion? 85. Which of the following theories places the greatest emphasis on the effects of early (A) Different kinds of dietary deficiencies childhood experiences on personality? (B) Inadequate development through different Piagetian stages (A) Psychodynamic (C) Fixation at different Freudian stages (B) Humanistic (D) Damage to different areas of the brain (C) Trait (E) Deficits of different neurotransmitters (D) Social cognitive

(E) Behavioral 90. Ability derived directly from previous experience is known as (A) crystallized intelligence (B) fluid intelligence (C) formal operations (D) concrete operations (E) prospective memory

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action, Michael insisted that he heard his mother’s (B) a somatic delusion 98. Which of the following approaches to assessment voice over the loudspeaker telling him to hurt the (C) a gustatory hallucination of intelligence is most consistent with the theories cashier. (D) a command hallucination of both Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg? (E) magical thinking (A) Using biological indexes of intelligence 93. Which of the following best represents Michael’s mental disorder according to the diathesis-stress model? 96. Which section of a report would most likely instead of the Stanford-Binet IQ test Diathesis Stress include a description of Michael’s life experiences (B) Narrowing the definition of intelligence that are relevant to his mental disorder? to include fewer key skill areas (A) Genetic history of schizophrenia Death of his mother (C) Increasing the reliability of IQ tests (B) Death of his mother Genetic history of schizophrenia (A) Diagnosis (D) Increasing the emphasis on measuring (C) Genetic history of schizophrenia Paranoid beliefs (B) Mental status g rather than specific abilities (D) Death of his mother Paranoid beliefs (C) General assessment of functioning (E) Increasing the emphasis on measuring (E) Dropping out of college Death of his mother (D) Treatment plan specific abilities rather than g (E) Psychosocial history

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Questions 93-97 refer to the passage below. Shortly after the death of his mother, Michael quit 94. Michael’s false belief that the cashiers were 97. In the case of Michael, which of the following college, terminated all his social relationships and plotting against him is an example of statements is true regarding the positive and When Dr. Elkin interviewed Michael, she found began an unhealthy diet consisting exclusively of negative symptoms of schizophrenia? (A) a hallucination that his behavior was very strange and his thinking sweetened cereals and water. Last year, Michael’s (B) a delusion (A) Hearing voices is a positive symptom. seemed paranoid and bizarre. Michael seemed to be father had taken him to see a psychiatrist, who (C) a cognitive distortion (B) The fact that Michael’s grandfather had having a conversation with his mother, who he diagnosed Michael as having schizophrenia, and (D) an attribution error schizophrenia is a positive symptom. insisted was sitting in the room with him, although recommended psychotherapy and antipsychotic (E) a dysfunctional attitude (C) The perception of his mother instructing him she had died two years earlier. When Michael spoke medication, but Michael vehemently refused both. to harm the cashier is a negative symptom. to Dr. Elkin, he told her that the cashiers at the local Michael’s father indicated that Michael’s grandfather 95. Michael reported that he harmed the cashier in (D) Michael’s vehement refusal to take grocery store were intentionally contaminating the also had been classified as exhibiting schizophrenia. response to an instruction from his dead mother. medication is a negative symptom. cereals and bottled water he customarily purchased. This phenomenon is called (E) Michael’s unhealthy diet is a negative On one occasion he harmed a cashier as she picked up symptom. the telephone to do a price check. In explaining his (A) a delusion of reference action, Michael insisted that he heard his mother’s (B) a somatic delusion 98. Which of the following approaches to assessment voice over the loudspeaker telling him to hurt the (C) a gustatory hallucination of intelligence is most consistent with the theories cashier. (D) a command hallucination of both Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg? (E) magical thinking (A) Using biological indexes of intelligence 93. Which of the following best represents Michael’s mental disorder according to the diathesis-stress model? 96. Which section of a report would most likely instead of the Stanford-Binet IQ test Diathesis Stress include a description of Michael’s life experiences (B) Narrowing the definition of intelligence that are relevant to his mental disorder? to include fewer key skill areas (A) Genetic history of schizophrenia Death of his mother (C) Increasing the reliability of IQ tests (B) Death of his mother Genetic history of schizophrenia (A) Diagnosis (D) Increasing the emphasis on measuring (C) Genetic history of schizophrenia Paranoid beliefs (B) Mental status g rather than specific abilities (D) Death of his mother Paranoid beliefs (C) General assessment of functioning (E) Increasing the emphasis on measuring (E) Dropping out of college Death of his mother (D) Treatment plan specific abilities rather than g (E) Psychosocial history

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patterns Participants watched one of four video recordings (B) Social comparison and hypochondria

(D) Unexplained physical symptoms depicting the eyewitness and rated the credibility of (C) Social anxiety (C) extraversion, agreeableness, (E) Extreme alternations in mood the eyewitness. (D) Social learning conscientiousness, emotional stability, (E) Social validation and openness to experience 100. Which of the following are two competing 102. What type of design was used in this study? (D) obedience, self-control, astuteness, tension, theories of color vision that describe events (A) Between-subjects 106. Damage to which area of the brain leads to and self-criticism that take place at different levels of the nervous (B) Within-subjects a decrease in physically aggressive behavior (E) emotional stability, apprehension, social system? (C) Between- and within-subjects and social rank? awareness, independence, and avoidance

(A) Frequency versus place (D) Multivariate correlational (A) Lateral hypothalamus 109. Mel is doing very well academically in college, (B) Trichromatic versus opponent-process (E) Longitudinal (B) Hippocampus but feels academically incompetent. His therapist (C) Specificity versus pattern (C) Amygdala has instructed him to explain in writing how his (D) Frequency versus pattern 103. In order to determine whether gender, as a (D) Basal ganglia hard work and personal abilities contributed to (E) Trichromatic versus specificity specific variable, had an effect on perceived cred- (E) Medial geniculate each of the good grades he received during the ibility of the eyewitness, which of the following previous semester. This activity is characteristic 101. Smokers were randomly assigned to one of two must be significant? 107. Consider the following version of an interference of which of the following therapeutic approaches? groups. Those in the experimental group were told (A) The main effect of gender task. that they would be listening to tapes with sublim- (A) Psychoanalytic (B) A post hoc analysis of gender As fast as possible, say how many items are in inal messages urging them to quit smoking. Those (B) Cognitive (C) The main effect of status each row for set 1 and for set 2. in the control group did not listen to the tapes, nor (C) Biomedical (D) A post hoc analysis of status were they told about them. A week after listening (E) The interaction between gender and status (D) Behavioral to the tapes, members of the experimental group Set 1 Set 2 (E) Gestalt had decreased their smoking significantly more $$$ 222 than members of the control group. The inves- 110. The Flynn effect is the phenomenon of tigator concluded that listening to the subliminal # 5 104. Correlations of IQ scores are highest for which of (A) the gradual increase in IQ scores over the last messages reduces smoking. Which of the fol- the following pairs? ** 44 century lowing, if true, casts the greatest doubt on the (A) Mother and child, when the child is reared by (B) higher IQ scores among children who were investigator’s conclusion? &&&& 3333 both birth parents breast-fed (A) During the week, some participants in the (B) Father and child, when the child is reared by If participants can say how many items are in (C) higher IQ scores among people with higher control group read articles on the hazards of both birth parents set 1 faster than they can say how many are in levels of education smoking. (C) Siblings reared together in a birth family set 2, the result is most consistent with (D) a stronger correlation between the IQ scores (B) During the week, only a few of the experi- (D) Monozygotic twins reared apart in adoptive of monozygotic twins than between those of mental participants reduced their smoking families (A) task-general resources dizygotic twins appreciably. (E) Dizygotic twins reared together in a birth (B) the pop-out effect (E) a stronger correlation between the IQ scores (C) Participants in the experimental group were family (C) context-dependent memory of siblings reared together than between influenced by their expectations of the (D) the Stroop effect those of siblings reared apart tapes’ effects. (E) task-specific resources (D) The two groups had similar initial (baseline) smoking rates. (E) The two groups were both quite large, but unequal in size.

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99. Personality disorders are characterized by which Questions 102-103 refer to the following 105. Melody exclaims, “I got a C- on the statistics 108. Researchers using a variety of methods, peoples, specific symptoms? information. exam, and I was miserable until I thought and cultures have concluded that five major how terrible it must be for those who got F’s.” personality traits exist. The traits are (A) Permanent severe deficits of cognitive Melody’s attitude is an example of which of functioning A researcher conducted a study to determine the (A) sociability, suspiciousness, practicality, the following? (B) Loss of contact with reality effects of gender and status on the perceived dependency, and shyness (C) Long-term maladaptive traits and behavior credibility of an eyewitness testifying in a trial. (A) Social facilitation (B) enthusiasm, calmness, adventure, docility, patterns Participants watched one of four video recordings (B) Social comparison and hypochondria (D) Unexplained physical symptoms depicting the eyewitness and rated the credibility of (C) Social anxiety (C) extraversion, agreeableness, (E) Extreme alternations in mood the eyewitness. (D) Social learning conscientiousness, emotional stability, (E) Social validation and openness to experience 100. Which of the following are two competing 102. What type of design was used in this study? (D) obedience, self-control, astuteness, tension, theories of color vision that describe events (A) Between-subjects 106. Damage to which area of the brain leads to and self-criticism that take place at different levels of the nervous (B) Within-subjects a decrease in physically aggressive behavior (E) emotional stability, apprehension, social system? (C) Between- and within-subjects and social rank? awareness, independence, and avoidance

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111. In which of the following cognitive tasks 115. A patient is administered the Minnesota 118. Which of the following techniques of studying the 123. When asked to name all of the states in the United do the performances of older adults show Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-RF® brain involves the use of x-rays? States, Steven mentally pictures a map and starts the greatest difference compared to the (MMPI-2-RF®) by an experienced clinician. naming states from west to east. Steven’s strategy (A) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scores of young adults? The clinician concludes that the patient has is useful during the process of (B) Computed tomography (CT) schizophrenia. The clinician’s diagnosis best (A) Divided attention task (C) Electroencephalography (EEG) (A) retrieval supports which of the following additional (B) Recognition memory of narrative (D) Immunohistochemistry (B) encoding conclusions? (C) Recognition memory of word list (E) Microiontophoresis (C) storage (D) Semantic memory test (A) The patient’s pattern of responses to the (D) flashbulb memory (E) Implicit memory test MMPI-2-RF® resembles that of people who 119. Damage to the lateral hypothalamus of rats is (E) selective attention are known to have schizophrenia. known to produce deficits in regulation of 112. Sertraline (Zoloft®) and fluoxetine (Prozac) are (B) A brief interview with the patient would reveal 124. Albert recently noticed that he has difficulty (A) respiration designed to treat depression by that the patient harbors delusions of hearing people at crowded parties even though (B) pupillary reflexes grandeur. his hearing seems fine in quiet surroundings. (A) altering genetic factors (C) sleep (C) The clinician’s interpretation of the He most likely has damage to his (B) increasing production of norepinephrine ® (D) eating and drinking MMPI-2-RF findings is based on (C) increasing metabolism of epinephrine (E) oxytocin levels (A) pinna knowledge of projective testing. (D) decreasing levels of dopamine in the synapse (B) eardrum (D) The patient received a low score on the (E) decreasing reuptake of serotonin ® 120. According to a current model, learned (C) stapes lie scale of the MMPI-2-RF . helplessness in humans is determined by (D) oval window (E) The patient received a high score on the 113. According to current conceptions, working ® causal explanations of prior uncontrollable (E) hair cells lie scale of the MMPI-2-RF . memory is characterized by events. These causal explanations are

referred to as 125. John recently moved to a large city and (A) stress on episodic rather than semantic 116. Some students were informed by their teacher that experienced an increase in the level of noise. memory they had scored high on their aptitude tests and (A) aggregation His new home was located adjacent to a (B) its unitary nature had strong potential for academic achievement. (B) attributions railroad track. The rail service was frequent (C) maintenance of information in current use Consequently, those students started participating (C) circular reasoning and maintained a consistent schedule. John was (D) greater importance for procedural than for more in class and studying longer hours to (D) personal constructs awakened frequently each night as trains passed declarative memory achieve high grades. This is an example of what (E) valuations his home. However, after several months he was (E) required use of mnemonics social construct? not awakened and he became less aware of the 121. Amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (A) Fundamental attribution error trains passing by his home. What mechanism 114. Before taking an exam, Sinead imagines that she are most often characteristic of (B) Elaboration likelihood model accounts for John’s adaptation to his will get the worst grade in the class, even though (C) Cognitive dissonance (A) substance-induced persisting amnestic environment? she usually performs very well. Imagining the (D) Norm crystallization disorder worst seems to help her deal with the anxiety (A) Orienting response (E) Self-fulfilling prophecy (B) Alzheimer’s disease associated with the exam. What term best (B) Sensitization (C) Parkinson’s disease describes Sinead’s strategy? (C) Habituation 117. Between eight and ten months of age, babies will (D) bipolar disorder (D) Conditioned response (A) Intrinsic motivation watch a parent’s face in a new situation before (E) schizophrenia (E) Conditioned stimulus (B) Defensive pessimism responding to the situation themselves. This

(C) Self-handicapping monitoring of adults’ emotional reactions is called 122. Participants in an experiment are asked to look at 126. Which of the following tests measures ability, (D) Self-monitoring a display and to find the one straight line among a (A) temperament intellect, and knowledge? (E) Self-regulation number of circles. The participants are able to find (B) behavioral inhibition the line just as quickly among twenty circles as (A) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality (C) social referencing ® ® they are among five circles. These results suggest Inventory-2-RF (MMPI-2-RF ) (D) synchrony that finding the straight line depends on (B) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) (E) emotional display (C) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Fourth (A) a preattentive process ® Edition (WAIS –IV) (B) serial processing ® ® (D) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI ) (C) shape constancy ® (E) Strong Interest Inventory (D) size constancy

(E) habituation

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127. Which of the following is a chronic condition that 131. Cephalocaudal development refers to 135. According to Carl Jung, there are tendencies that 139. According to Edward Tolman, behavior is best can cause anterograde amnesia in some people? development that proceeds from shape human behavior and can be represented by understood as terms such as “the hero” or “the shadow.” Such (A) Alcoholism (A) the trunk outward (A) molar and purposive tendencies are known as (B) Fibromyalgia (B) head to tail (B) a collection of S-R connections (C) Muscular dystrophy (C) bottom to top (A) personas (C) a series of associated muscle twitches (D) Panic disorder (D) the perimeter toward the center (B) traits (D) a consequence of trial-and-error learning (E) Bipolar disorder (E) the general to the specific (C) schemas (E) the expression of underlying psychodynamic (D) archetypes conflicts 128. Lo is an advocate of personal construct theory. 132. Which of the following best states the major (E) complexes Which of the following processes does Lo believe shortcomings of the place and the frequency- 140. Research by Solomon Asch supports which of the are most important in the study of personality? matching (volley) theories of audition? 136. If a student hears a list of words such as night, following? bed, pillow, blanket, dream, and snore, she is (A) Biological (A) Neither theory can be studied empirically. (A) Conformity increases as group size increases likely to later remember the word sleep even (B) Unconscious (B) Initial evidence in support of these theories from two people to four or five people. though it was never presented. This can best (C) Cultural cannot be replicated. (B) The presence of one dissenter in a group is be explained by (D) Emotional (C) Neither theory can account for auditory dis- not strong enough to reduce conformity. (E) Cognitive orders that are caused by structural defects (A) the activation of schematic knowledge (C) Higher levels of conformity are found in in the temporal lobe. (B) high sensitivity in a signal detection individualistic societies than in collectivist 129. According to Albert Bandura’s approach to (D) Place theory applies primarily to loud sounds, model societies. observational learning, which of the following whereas frequency-matching theory applies (C) appropriate use of rote recall (D) A person’s behavior changes when that is the best example of vicarious punishment? primarily to barely audible sounds. (D) a failure of the encoding specificity person plays a role as a prisoner or prison (E) Place theory does not explain the coding of mechanism guard in an experiment. (A) A child stops throwing pencils after watching very low frequencies, whereas frequency- (E) too much retroactive interference (E) Individuals will follow orders to shock a teacher scold another child for throwing a matching theory does not explain the coding innocent strangers. pencil across the room. of very high frequencies. 137. Which of the following statements about (B) A child watches a teacher say to another subliminal messages is most accurate? 141. Which of the following is most commonly child, “You did so well on that homework 133. Which of the following represents the correct associated with creative thinking? that you do not need to take the test (A) Visual messages are more effective than order of stages in Bibb Latané and John Darley’s tomorrow.” auditory messages in influencing attitude (A) Convergent thinking model of helping? (C) A child acquires a schema about the and behavior change. (B) Divergent thinking difference between socially punished I. Interpretation (B) There is evidence they can influence short- (C) Representativeness heuristic behavior and socially rewarded behavior. II. Knowing how to help term attitude change. (D) Availability heuristic (D) A child escapes punishment by cleaning up III. Noticing (C) They are one of the most common techniques (E) Functional fixedness a mess before anyone notices it. IV. Perception of responsibility used by advertisers to influence attitude and (E) A child is punished on a variable ratio V. Deciding to help behavior change. 142. In which of Erik Erikson’s psychosocial stages schedule, rather than being punished every (D) They are more effective than personal of development is the central task to develop (A) I, III, V, IV, II time a mistake is made. testimonial advertising campaigns in and exercise self-control and independence? (B) III, I, IV, II, V influencing attitude and behavior change. (C) III, IV, I, II, V (A) Trust versus mistrust 130. A psychologist who studies aggression from a (E) They are consciously perceived by (D) III, IV, II, V, I (B) Autonomy versus shame and doubt social-cognitive theoretical perspective would participants nearly 100% of the time. (E) III, IV, I, V, II (C) Initiative versus guilt be most interested in (D) Industry versus inferiority 138. Brain imaging techniques have shown that (A) differences in aggressive and nonaggressive 134. What is a limitation of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s (E) Generativity versus stagnation compared to unaffected individuals, individuals children’s attributions of hostile motives stages of coping with death (denial, anger, diagnosed with schizophrenia have to other people’s behavior bargaining, depression, and acceptance) ? 143. A recent article in an educational journal (B) the adaptive value of the aggression (A) enlarged ventricles and a reduction of the described a university at which the average age (A) The stages are not relevant to terminally ill (C) the relation between children’s level prefrontal cortex is 26. This article also mentioned that 38 percent patients. of aggression and parents’ negative (B) reduced ventricles and a reduction of the of the students are over 25 years of age. What can (B) The stages are based on a study with fewer reinforcement of children’s coercive parietal cortex be concluded from this information? than twenty individuals. behaviors (C) an enlarged parietal cortex and a reduction (C) Not all people experience every stage. (A) The median age must be greater than the (D) the link between testosterone levels of the hypothalamus (D) Few people in Western cultures experience mean age. and frequencies of aggressive episodes (D) lesions in the parietal lobe and increased cells the depression stage. (B) The standard deviation must be relatively in adolescent males in the orbital frontal cortex (E) The stages are generally not relevant to small. (E) changes over time in the incidence of (E) lesions in the temporal lobe and increased younger adults. (C) The mode must be either 25 or 26. diagnoses of conduct disorders cells in the prefrontal cortex (D) The distribution must be skewed.

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148. Which of the following is an example of a 152. In a lexical decision task, two groups of self-conscious emotion? participants are instructed to make a fast decision on whether each item is or is not an English word. (A) Joy The first group of participants is presented with (B) Fear the word “robin,” followed by the word “bird.” (C) Guilt The second group is presented with the word (D) Sadness “chair,” followed by the word “bird.” The first (E) Disgust group’s responses to “bird” will most likely be

149. A behavioral approach to personality would argue (A) slower because of Stroop-like interference that the root of pathology lies in (B) slower because of lateral inhibition (C) slower because of a sequence effect (A) unrealistic beliefs (D) faster because of semantic priming 144. Which of the following concepts does the figure above illustrate? (B) maladaptive learned-response patterns (E) faster because of response bias (C) disordered functioning of construct systems (A) The general adaptation syndrome (D) fixation and regression (B) An intermittent schedule of reinforcement 153. The antianxiety effects of benzodiazepines (E) incongruence (C) A continuous schedule of reinforcement such as diazepam result from their binding

(D) The diathesis-stress model with the receptor for which of the following 150. Five randomly selected groups of participants (E) Signal detection theory neurotransmitters found in the amygdala? are shown a list of words, one word at a time.

Each group of participants is assigned a different (A) Serotonin

task to perform on each word on the list. After (B) Acetylcholine

completing the list, the participants are given a (C) Substance P 145. When people first sense a new stimulus, only 147. An experimenter predicts that bright colors surprise test for recall of the words. Which of the (D) Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) temporary changes in neurons take place, but enhance creativity. She provides brightly following assigned tasks is most likely to result in (E) Norepinephrine eventually more permanent changes occur. colored crayons to the first 15 children who the best recall? This is called show up for an experiment and muted colored 154. The fact that Laura still knows how to ride crayons for the remaining 15. She then examines (A) Counting the number of vowels in each of (A) consolidation a bicycle even though she has not ridden one their drawings and judges the brightly colored the words (B) transduction in ten years best exemplifies which of the drawings to be more creative. The study is (B) Indicating whether each of the words (C) a reverberating circuit following types of memory? flawed because it lacks contains the letter “t” (D) confabulation (C) Producing a rhyme for each of the words (A) Procedural (E) rehearsal (A) a double-blind procedure and an independent (D) Saying each of the words three times in rapid (B) Propositional variable succession (C) Semantic 146. If adjacent lights flash on and off in sequence, (B) an independent variable and demand (E) Producing a synonym for each of the words (D) Episodic individuals will often perceive apparent motion characteristics (E) Iconic even though there is no motion. This experience (C) demand characteristics and a dependent 151. Participants are asked to look at a picnic scene is referred to as variable and to indicate several ways that the people in 155. A persistent, unreasonable, and unwanted thought (D) a dependent variable and random assignment (A) linear perspective the scene might deal with a sudden rainstorm. is known as (E) random assignment and a double-blind (B) texture gradient One of the objects in the scene is a picnic basket. procedure (A) a negative symptom (C) motion parallax However, most of the participants fail to notice (B) a hallucination (D) the phi phenomenon that the basket could be used as a protection (C) a compulsion (E) the Ponzo illusion from the rain. This failure is most likely a (D) an obsession manifestation of (E) a fugue (A) the Purkinje effect (B) the availability heuristic 156. Which of the following distinguishes experts from (C) the law of common fate novices in many fields of endeavor? (D) functional fixedness (A) More social connections (E) illusory correlation (B) Speed in recognizing relevant complex

patterns

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task to perform on each word on the list. After (B) Acetylcholine

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157. Randy is exceptionally organized. For example, 160. Who is reported to be the first researcher 164. Which of the following hormones is responsible 169. The neural hub of the central executive portion of he color codes all his bills and alphabetizes the to utilize a twin studies methodology in for preparing the uterus for the implantation of an working memory is thought to be located in the groceries in his cupboards. According to Freud’s attempting to resolve the nature-nurture ovum that has been fertilized? (A) prefrontal cortex theory, Randy is most likely fixated at which controversy? (A) Progesterone (B) somatosensory cortex stage of psychosexual development? (A) Sigmund Freud (B) Melatonin (C) brainstem (A) Oral (B) Francis Galton (C) Oxytocin (D) temporal lobe (B) Anal (C) Carl Jung (D) Vasopressin (E) occipital lobe (C) Phallic (D) James Watson (E) Aldosterone (D) Latent (E) Wilhelm Wundt 170. In an experimental procedure, an animal receives (E) Genital 165. An adolescent who says, “I won’t become ill a half second of foot shock, then a half second of 161. Eliciting sympathy in order to create a positive from smoking; I never get sick,” is most likely no stimulus, and then a tone. In a later presentation 158. Which of the following psychological schools of impression is consistent with which of the operating under which aspect of egocentrism? of the tone, the animal displays a fear response. thought was heavily influenced by pragmatism? following self-presentation strategies? This result most likely indicates the occurrence of (A) Personal fable (A) Structuralism (A) Modesty (B) Imaginary audience (A) backward conditioning (B) Functionalism (B) Intimidation (C) Deductive reasoning (B) forward conditioning (C) Gestalt (C) Exemplification (D) Immanent justice (C) delayed conditioning (D) Evolutionary (D) Supplication (E) Hypothetical reasoning (D) simultaneous conditioning (E) Humanistic (E) Conformity (E) operant conditioning 166. Alfred Adler developed his theory of individual 162. Which of the following statements describes psychology as a result of his disagreement with 171. In what way does delirium differ from dementia? normative influence? which of the following? (A) Delirium is a permanent state, whereas (A) The process by which we come to evaluate (A) Carl Roger’s belief that human growth is dementia is a temporary state. and know others dependent on unconditional positive regard (B) Delirium is a temporary state, whereas (B) The tendency for impressions of others (B) Sigmund Freud’s emphasis on universal dementia is a permanent state. to be heavily influenced by information biological forces in the personality (C) Delirium can result from the use of gathered early in an interaction (C) Albert Bandura’s focus on reciprocal substances, whereas dementia cannot (C) A set of theories describing how people determinism as a key factor in shaping result from the use of substances. explain causes of behavior personality (D) Delirium is sometimes associated with (D) Conformity motivated by a fear of social (D) Gordon Allport’s belief that personality is Alzheimer’s disease, whereas dementia rejection made up of individual fundamental traits is never associated with Alzheimer’s (E) Conformity motivated by the belief that (E) Abraham Maslow’s emphasis on a hierarchy disease. 159. Consider the diagram above in which the others are correct of needs in creating motivation (E) Delirium affects younger people, whereas outcomes for two people (Joanne and Malik) are dementia affects older people. represented as a series of numbers, depending on 163. A group of researchers was interested in learning 167. Which school of psychology rejected the concept their own behavior and the behavior of the other whether a newly developed exam would be useful of consciousness and defined psychology as an 172. The full Moon looks much larger when it is on the person. A scientist uses these outcomes to predict in determining whether a student will be success objective natural science? horizon than when it is high in the sky. Which of the likely behavior of each of the individuals. ful in college. The researchers designed a study the following is the best explanation for this The scientist is most likely studying which of (A) Structuralism in which students took the new exam prior to phenomenon? the following? (B) Functionalism entering college. At the conclusion of the first (C) Behaviorism (A) More rods are stimulated by the Moon when (A) Self-perception year of college, the students took another exam, (D) Humanistic psychology it is just above the horizon than when it is (B) Cognitive heuristics which was designed to measure how much infor (E) Gestalt psychology high in the sky. (C) The self-fulfilling prophecy mation they had learned during their first year. (B) Size judgment is based on visual cues (D) Attribution theory The score on this exam was then correlated with 168. Which of the following is a memory store that is between the viewer and the image of the (E) Social exchange the student’s score on the newly developed exam. highly sensitive to masking stimuli presented Moon. What type of validity was being evaluated in the within 200–300 milliseconds of the presentation (C) Brightness constancy cues are disrupted by study? of an array of letters? interfering stimulation.

(A) Concurrent (D) The image of the Moon high in the sky (A) Sensory memory (B) Predictive exceeds the difference threshold. (B) Short-term memory (C) Face (E) Judgment is based on the Gestalt principle (C) Working memory (D) Discriminant of proximity. (D) Implicit memory (E) Content (E) Semantic memory

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157. Randy is exceptionally organized. For example, 160. Who is reported to be the first researcher 164. Which of the following hormones is responsible 169. The neural hub of the central executive portion of he color codes all his bills and alphabetizes the to utilize a twin studies methodology in for preparing the uterus for the implantation of an working memory is thought to be located in the groceries in his cupboards. According to Freud’s attempting to resolve the nature-nurture ovum that has been fertilized? (A) prefrontal cortex theory, Randy is most likely fixated at which controversy? (A) Progesterone (B) somatosensory cortex stage of psychosexual development? (A) Sigmund Freud (B) Melatonin (C) brainstem (A) Oral (B) Francis Galton (C) Oxytocin (D) temporal lobe (B) Anal (C) Carl Jung (D) Vasopressin (E) occipital lobe (C) Phallic (D) James Watson (E) Aldosterone (D) Latent (E) Wilhelm Wundt 170. In an experimental procedure, an animal receives (E) Genital 165. An adolescent who says, “I won’t become ill a half second of foot shock, then a half second of 161. Eliciting sympathy in order to create a positive from smoking; I never get sick,” is most likely no stimulus, and then a tone. In a later presentation 158. Which of the following psychological schools of impression is consistent with which of the operating under which aspect of egocentrism? of the tone, the animal displays a fear response. thought was heavily influenced by pragmatism? following self-presentation strategies? This result most likely indicates the occurrence of (A) Personal fable (A) Structuralism (A) Modesty (B) Imaginary audience (A) backward conditioning (B) Functionalism (B) Intimidation (C) Deductive reasoning (B) forward conditioning (C) Gestalt (C) Exemplification (D) Immanent justice (C) delayed conditioning (D) Evolutionary (D) Supplication (E) Hypothetical reasoning (D) simultaneous conditioning (E) Humanistic (E) Conformity (E) operant conditioning 166. Alfred Adler developed his theory of individual 162. Which of the following statements describes psychology as a result of his disagreement with 171. In what way does delirium differ from dementia? normative influence? which of the following? (A) Delirium is a permanent state, whereas (A) The process by which we come to evaluate (A) Carl Roger’s belief that human growth is dementia is a temporary state. and know others dependent on unconditional positive regard (B) Delirium is a temporary state, whereas (B) The tendency for impressions of others (B) Sigmund Freud’s emphasis on universal dementia is a permanent state. to be heavily influenced by information biological forces in the personality (C) Delirium can result from the use of gathered early in an interaction (C) Albert Bandura’s focus on reciprocal substances, whereas dementia cannot (C) A set of theories describing how people determinism as a key factor in shaping result from the use of substances. explain causes of behavior personality (D) Delirium is sometimes associated with (D) Conformity motivated by a fear of social (D) Gordon Allport’s belief that personality is Alzheimer’s disease, whereas dementia rejection made up of individual fundamental traits is never associated with Alzheimer’s (E) Conformity motivated by the belief that (E) Abraham Maslow’s emphasis on a hierarchy disease. 159. Consider the diagram above in which the others are correct of needs in creating motivation (E) Delirium affects younger people, whereas outcomes for two people (Joanne and Malik) are dementia affects older people. represented as a series of numbers, depending on 163. A group of researchers was interested in learning 167. Which school of psychology rejected the concept their own behavior and the behavior of the other whether a newly developed exam would be useful of consciousness and defined psychology as an 172. The full Moon looks much larger when it is on the person. A scientist uses these outcomes to predict in determining whether a student will be success- objective natural science? horizon than when it is high in the sky. Which of the likely behavior of each of the individuals. ful in college. The researchers designed a study the following is the best explanation for this The scientist is most likely studying which of (A) Structuralism in which students took the new exam prior to phenomenon? the following? (B) Functionalism entering college. At the conclusion of the first (C) Behaviorism (A) More rods are stimulated by the Moon when (A) Self-perception year of college, the students took another exam, (D) Humanistic psychology it is just above the horizon than when it is (B) Cognitive heuristics which was designed to measure how much infor- (E) Gestalt psychology high in the sky. (C) The self-fulfilling prophecy mation they had learned during their first year. (B) Size judgment is based on visual cues (D) Attribution theory The score on this exam was then correlated with 168. Which of the following is a memory store that is between the viewer and the image of the (E) Social exchange the student’s score on the newly developed exam. highly sensitive to masking stimuli presented Moon. What type of validity was being evaluated in the within 200–300 milliseconds of the presentation (C) Brightness constancy cues are disrupted by study? of an array of letters? interfering stimulation.

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173. When newborn baby Yasmin’s cheek is stroked, 178. Volunteers are trying to get people to donate 182. The confirmation bias leads people to draw 186. The Premack principle states that she turns her head in the direction of the stimulus. money to a charity. Which of the following is incorrect conclusions because they (A) a more frequent behavior will reinforce Which reflex is Yasmin demonstrating? an example of the foot-in-the-door principle? (A) use algorithms when they should use a less frequent behavior (A) Moro (A) Ask people to donate ten dollars. If they heuristics (B) intrinsic motivation is reduced when it is (B) Babinski refuse, ask if they would consider (B) use deductive reasoning when they should overused (C) Palmar donating one dollar. use inductive reasoning (C) there is a contingent relationship between (D) Tonic neck (B) Ask people to donate only one dollar. If (C) do not seek evidence that would disprove stimulus and response (E) Rooting they accept, ask them to donate ten dollars. their hypotheses (D) reinforcement is illusory when it is (C) Ask people to donate ten dollars. If they (D) do not consider alternative uses for a well- noncontingent 174. Which of the following philosophers insisted refuse, immediately ask them again. known object (E) reinforcement increases expectation and that the mind at birth is like a blank slate devoid (D) Ask people to donate ten dollars during (E) mistakenly attribute the causes of other motivation of character or ideas? a popular sporting event when arousal people’s behavior to internal factors is high. 187. Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues ask students (A) François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (E) Ask people to donate ten dollars when 183. Dr. Wang is a theorist who is interested in how to talk about various events that have occurred in (B) James Mill they are relaxing at home. a given behavior increases an organism’s chance their lives, including one that never occurred. If (C) John Stuart Mill of reproductive success and perpetuates the the students have trouble remembering, the (D) David Hume 179. Which of the following is the correct sequence species. Dr. Wang is most likely researchers provide cues. They record whether the (E) John Locke of stages of prenatal development? students remember the events that never occurred (A) an evolutionary psychologist and how confident the students are in these false 175. On his first date with Sue, Bill walks into a party, (A) Embryo, gestation, neonate (B) a neuropsychologist memories. Which of the following best describes trips coming through the doorway, and falls flat (B) Gestation, embryo, fertilized ovum (C) a cognitive theorist the findings? on the floor. Bill thinks that the floor must have (C) Embryo, fertilized ovum, fetus (D) a sociologist been uneven, thus making him trip, while Sue (D) Fertilized ovum, embryo, fetus (E) a learning theorist (A) About 25% of the students remember the thinks Bill is probably clumsy. Their different (E) Fetus, embryo, fertilized ovum false event, and many are quite confident attributions represent 184. In his study of schizophrenia, Dr. Perez collects in it. 180. Participants in a social psychological experiment data on the number of new cases of this diagnosis (B) Students almost never remember false events, (A) the discounting principle observe through a one-way glass as two students in the United States in the past year. This statistic although they remember about 80% of the (B) the actor-observer bias take an oral quiz. The situation is arranged is known as the real events. (C) self-handicapping such that both Arthur and Sheri get 15 of the (C) About 80% of the students remember the (D) the foot-in-the-door technique (A) prevalence 25 questions correct, but Arthur gets each of the false event, but their confidence is (E) the covariation principle (B) incidence first 5 questions correct, while Sheri gets none of uniformly low. (C) base rate the first 5 correct. Most participant observers (D) Students almost never remember false events, 176. The overjustification effect states which of the (D) correlation would likely conclude that and their memory for the actual events is following? (E) sample also quite low. (A) Arthur is a better student than Sheri (A) Positive reinforcement is consistently (E) False memories can be implanted in about (B) Sheri is a better student than Arthur 185. A security screener in an airport checks by hand more effective than negative reinforcement. 40% of the students, but these memories are (C) Arthur and Sheri are approximately everything that seems suspicious. It is critical that (B) Extrinsic rewards can diminish children’s forgotten within about a week. equally able students she never let any potentially dangerous item intrinsic motivation to learn. (D) the experiment does not provide any through her security checkpoint. In terms of signal (C) Extrinsic rewards are best when used with 188. Melvin has a set of Von Frey hairs of different information about the ability of detection theory, this screener is likely to make intrinsically motivated students. diameters. He starts by pressing a thin hair against Arthur or Sheri (D) Academic grades increase students’ intrinsic (A) a large number of misses and a small number a participant’s toe and continues with increasingly (E) Arthur and Sheri are confederates motivation to learn. of hits thicker hairs until the participant feels pressure. in the experiment (E) Behavior modification improves internal (B) a large number of hits and a large number Melvin then starts with a thick hair and uses

motivation in large classrooms. of false alarms increasingly thinner hairs until the participant 181. Which of the following is a characteristic (C) a large number of misses and a large number does not feel pressure. Melvin is using the of the authoritarian personality? 177. The belief that differences among spoken of false alarms method of languages cause differences in the thinking and (A) Liberal religious attitude (D) a small number of hits and a small number (A) limits problem-solving styles of speakers is called (B) Hostility toward outgroups of false alarms (B) adjustment (C) Challenge of rules (E) a large number of correct rejections and (A) taxonomic bias (C) constant stimuli (D) A high need for cognition a large number of false alarms (B) whole-object bias (D) magnitude estimation (E) A firm but warm parental style (C) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (E) loci

(D) the typicality effect

(E) the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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189. Long-term potentiation is widely assumed to be 193. Which of the following is a type of glial cell that Questions 197-199 refer to the following 197. Which of the following effects is the most serious the physiological mechanism of is responsible for producing the myelin sheaths information. limitation of this study? that cover axons? (A) attention (A) Selection (B) learning (A) Oligodendrocyte In a study of a new psychopharmacological treat- (B) Ceiling (C) epilepsy (B) Astrocyte ment for clinical depression, 40 participants diag- (C) Sleeper (D) emotion (C) Microglia nosed with depression each received four different (D) Cohort (E) sexuality (D) Monocyte amounts of a new medication called Deplow. The (E) Carryover (E) Endothelial cell first week, they were given a placebo. During the 190. A psychologist wishes to compare the second week of the study, they took 1 mg of Deplow 198. What type of design was used in this study? performances of an experimental group and a 194. Roberta lives on the first floor of her dorm. each day. During the third week, they took 3 mg of (A) Single factor between subjects control group on a continuous measure. Which of She notices that she has made more friends with Deplow each day, and during the fourth week, they (B) Single factor within subjects the following would be the most typical way to others who live on her floor than with others on took 5 mg of Deplow each day. Although the (C) Multifactor between subjects make this comparison? other floors. This is an example of participants took different amounts of the medication each week, they were not informed about the amount (D) Multifactor within subjects (A) Computing a single correlation coefficient (A) self-reference they were taking. The participants also completed a (E) Cross-sectional (B) Computing a multiple correlation (B) perseverance depression symptom checklist at the end of each (C) Showing that both groups are normally (C) propinquity week. Results are presented below. The score on the 199. Which of the following would make it difficult distributed on the dependent variable (D) overjustification checklist could range from 0 to 30, with 0 indicating to conclude that any decrease in depressive (D) Conducting a chi-square test (E) bystander no depression and 30 indicating severe depression. symptoms is due to Deplow and not to other (E) Conducting a t test on the two means Assume statistical significance for differences greater aspects of the study? 195. Some researchers believe that people acquire a than 3.0. (A) The increasing doses of Deplow 191. We process information relevant to the self second language better if they learn it prior to (B) The lack of a control group more efficiently than we process other types adolescence, whereas other researchers believe Week of Study Treatment Mean Depression Score (C) The low sample size of information. This phenomenon is called the that people can easily learn most aspects of (D) The lack of comparison with an established a second language, even if they are beyond 1 Placebo 22.5 (A) perseverance effect antipsychotic medication adolescence. However, based on the most (B) self-reference effect 2 1 mg 23.2 (E) The lack of comparison with participants frequently observed limitation in second language (C) slime effect diagnosed with mania use, both groups would expect to observe less 3 3 mg 19.9 (D) halo effect than native-like competence after adolescence in (E) mood-congruence effect 4 5 mg 14.5 which of the following?

192. Every time he hears the name of his favorite (A) Syntax restaurant, Jacob begins to salivate. In Pavlovian (B) Pronunciation terms, the restaurant’s name is serving as (C) Fluency of speech production (D) Discourse comprehension (A) a conditioned stimulus (E) Semantics (B) a conditioned response

(C) an unconditioned stimulus 196. The legal requirement that professionals notify (D) an unconditioned response appropriate authorities about suspected child (E) a neutral stimulus abuse is known as

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200. Conducting a study by analyzing United States 203. Which of the following best describes the role of census data from previous years is an example arousal in the proposed diagram depicting causal of using which of the following research relationships among viewing violent television, approaches? arousal, and aggressive behavior? (A) Experimentation Violent Television → Arousal → Aggressive (B) Case history Behavior (C) Naturalistic observation (A) Predictor variable (D) Surveys (B) Mediating variable (E) Archival analysis (C) Spurious variable

(D) Extraneous variable 201. Dr. Chen is interested in feminist attitudes (E) Alpha variable of young adult women in the United States.

Consequently, she administered a feminist attitude 204. An action that a person does for no external questionnaire to a total of 100 young adult women reward that intentionally benefits another person from three universities. The 100 women tested is an example of which of the following concepts? and the number of young adult women in the

United States are which of the following, (A) Pure altruism respectively? (B) Social facilitation (C) Genuineness (A) Effect size and population (D) Empathic concern (B) Meta-analysis and effect size (E) Reactance (C) Sample and population

(D) Random assignment and random selection 205. Which of the following best supports the all-or (E) Independent variable and dependent variable none principle of neural impulses?

202. Which of the following are the two individuals (A) A neuron will fire a complete action potential credited with the founding of psychology, once the threshold is reached. as indicated by the formation of psychology (B) During the absolute refractory period, NO TEST MATERIAL ON THIS PAGE laboratories in the 1870s? a neuron cannot fire again. (C) An impulse loses strength the further it (A) Mary Calkins and Wilhelm Wundt travels along an axon. (B) Ernst Weber and Gustav Fechner (D) Drugs affect neurons by causing them to (C) Gustav Fechner and E. B. Titchener release all stored neurotransmitters. (D) Wilhelm Wundt and William James (E) A neuron is at its resting potential when only (E) William James and Sigmund Freud positive ions are inside its membrane.

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QUESTION P+ CORRECT CONTENT QUESTION P+ CORRECT CONTENT Number Answer RESPONSE 1 2 3 4 5 6 Number Answer RESPONSE 1 2 3 4 5 6 111 A 39 • 159 E 75 • 112 E 81 • 160 B 53 • 113 C 83 • 161 D 49 • 114 B 58 • 162 D 31 • 115 A 77 • 163 B 72 • 116 E 89 • 164 A 82 • 117 C 91 • 165 A 57 • 118 B 49 • 166 B 57 • 119 D 65 • 167 C 66 • 120 B 61 • 168 A 57 • 121 B 65 • 169 A 65 • 122 A 15 • 170 A 53 • 123 A 91 • 171 B 80 • 124 E 29 • 172 B 71 • 125 C 86 • 173 E 68 • 126 C 90 • 174 E 82 • 127 A 72 • 175 B 91 • 128 E 56 • 176 B 76 • 129 A 92 • 177 E 73 • 130 A 75 • 178 B 86 • 131 B 53 • 179 D 88 • 132 E 35 • 180 A 79 • 133 B 70 • 181 B 61 • 134 C 89 • 182 C 83 • 135 D 76 • 183 A 96 • 136 A 93 • 184 B 60 • 137 B 37 • 185 B 49 • 138 A 65 • 186 A 36 • 139 A 19 • 187 A 58 • 140 A 74 • 188 A 32 • 141 B 88 • 189 B 60 • 142 B 73 • 190 E 58 • 143 D 64 • 191 B 87 • 144 A 45 • 192 A 87 • 145 A 53 • 193 A 49 • 146 D 42 • 194 C 72 • 147 E 70 • 195 B 30 • 148 C 87 • 196 A 60 • 149 B 91 • 197 E 56 • 150 E 41 • 198 B 45 • 151 D 85 • 199 B 82 • 152 D 87 • 200 E 83 • 153 D 56 • 201 C 94 • 154 A 91 • 202 D 74 • 155 D 77 • 203 B 63 • 156 B 71 • 204 A 90 • 157 B 77 • 205 A 81 • 158 B 43 •

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Total Scaled Total Scaled SUBSCORE SCALED SUBSCORE SCALED Correct Score Correct Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 SUBSCORE 1 2 3 4 5 6 SUBSCORE 122-123 540 57 89 32 35 36 35 54 119-121 530 56 88 31 34 32 31 35 34 53 204-205 870 117-118 520 53 59 87 31 30 34 33 52 201-203 860 114-116 510 199-200 850 112-113 500 55 58 53 58 86 30 33 51 54 57 52 85 29 32 30 29 33 32 50

196-198 840 109-111 490 194-195 830 107-108 480 53 52 51 57 57 84 28 31 29 28 32 31 49 191-193 820 104-106 470 56 51 56 56 83 30 48 189-190 810 102-103 460 52 55 50 55 82 27 30 28 27 31 47 186-188 800 99-101 450 51 54 50 49 55 81 26 29 26 30 29 46 49 54 54 80 27 29 28 45 184-185 790 97-98 440 182-183 780 94-96 430 50 53 48 53 53 79 25 28 26 25 27 44 179-181 770 92-93 420 49 52 48 47 52 78 24 27 28 43 177-178 760 89-91 410 48 47 52 77 23 26 25 24 27 26 42 174-176 750 87-88 400 51 46 51 51 76 24 23 25 41 47 50 46 45 50 75 22 25 26 24 40 172-173 740 84-86 390 169-171 730 82-83 380 46 49 45 50 74 21 24 23 22 25 39 167-168 720 79-81 370 44 49 49 73 20 22 21 23 38 164-166 710 77-78 360 45 48 44 43 48 72 23 24 22 37 162-163 700 75-76 350 44 47 48 47 71 19 22 21 20 23 21 36 43 43 42 47 70 18 21 19 22 35 159-161 690 72-74 340 157-158 680 70-71 330 46 42 41 46 46 69 20 20 34 154-156 670 67-69 320 42 45 45 68 17 20 19 18 21 19 33 152-153 660 65-66 310 41 44 41 40 45 44 67 16 19 17 20 32 149-151 650 62-64 300 40 44 66 15 18 18 31 40 43 39 43 65 18 17 16 19 17 30 147-148 640 60-61 290 144-146 630 57-59 280 39 42 39 38 43 42 64 14 17 15 18 16 29 142-143 620 55-56 270 38 38 42 41 63 13 16 16 17 28 139-141 610 53-54 260 41 37 41 62 15 14 15 27 137-138 600 50-52 250 37 40 37 36 40 61 12 15 13 16 14 26 36 39 40 39 60 11 14 14 15 13 25 134-136 590 48-49 240 132-133 580 45-47 230 36 35 39 38 59 10 13 13 12 24 129-131 570 43-44 220 35 38 35 34 58 11 14 12 23 127-128 560 40-42 210 34 37 38 37 57 9 12 12 13 11 22 124-126 550 0-39 200 33 36 34 33 37 36 56 8 11 10 12 10 21 33 32 55 0-7 0-10 0-11 0-9 0-11 0-9 20

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