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The humanistic theorist who emphasized the need for self-actualization and the hierarchical organization of needs was


A) J.B. Watson.
B) F. Skinner.
C) Alfred Adler.
D) Abraham Maslow.

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According to Freud, the decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle is called the


A) id.
B) ego.
C) superego.
D) preconscious.

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Behaviorists have provided the most thorough account of why people


A) are only moderately consistent in their behavior.
B) become fixated at particular stages of development.
C) are not influenced by the consequences of their behavior.
D) tend to react with aggression when they are frustrated.

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Distinguish between how people generally describe punishment and B.F. Skinner's description of the concept of punishment.

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One of the chief goals of terror management theory is to explain why people need


A) death anxiety.
B) self-esteem.
C) contact comfort.
D) defense mechanisms.

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Most psychological tests can be placed in one of two broad categories:


A) IQ tests and attitude tests.
B) aptitude tests and achievement tests.
C) mental ability tests and personality tests.
D) projective tests and standardized tests.

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It has been theorized that reactions to a terrorist attack cause people to


A) be more likely to help others
B) reaffirm their faith
C) have less tolerance for differing views
D) all of these

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Humanistic psychologists' major charge against the behaviorist and psychodynamic theories was that these models were


A) based on personal growth.
B) unscientific.
C) dehumanizing.
D) too optimistic.

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Carl Jung proposed that the unconscious consists of two layers, the ____ and the ____.


A) preconscious; subconscious
B) personal unconscious; collective unconscious
C) personal unconscious; universal preconscious
D) individual archetype; collective archetype

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The vast majority of personality tests take the form of


A) self-report inventories.
B) projective techniques.
C) attitude inventories.
D) achievement tests.

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A witness to a brutal murder has trouble remembering any details of the crime. According to Freud, which defense mechanism is at work in this example?


A) projection
B) reaction formation
C) regression
D) repression

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Working hard to sell the most widgets for your employer in order to earn a bonus and paid vacation is behavior that is shaped by the prospect of


A) primary reinforcement.
B) negative reinforcement.
C) positive reinforcement.
D) secondary reinforcement.

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The idea that people are active participants in their learning is the core of


A) learning reinforcement.
B) respondent learning.
C) social learning.
D) accidental learning.

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Albert Bandura differed from other behaviorists in that he gave an important role to ____ in influencing human behavior.


A) reflexes
B) cognition
C) consequences
D) punishments

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One criticism of the behavioral approach in the past is that


A) cognition is not directly observable behavior.
B) it focused too much on the unconscious.
C) there was no scientific basis.
D) there was too much research on people instead of other animals.

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Abraham Maslow argued that humans have an innate drive toward


A) superiority.
B) personal growth.
C) Oedipal resolution.
D) reproductive fitness.

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According to Freud, a newborn baby is in the ____ stage of psychosexual development.


A) anal
B) latency
C) oral
D) phallic

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According to Freud, in order to achieve healthy development, a child in the phallic stage must resolve the Oedipal complex and learn to ____ the same sex parent.


A) annoy
B) be fearful of
C) deceive
D) identify with

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In classical conditioning, responses are said to be


A) emitted.
B) evoked.
C) spontaneous.
D) extinguished.

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Critics have described the psychodynamic perspective as:


A) biased against females, empirically testable, and overemphasizing unconscious desires
B) empirically untestable, but not biased against females
C) biased against females and empirically untestable
D) biased against females, empirically untestable, and overemphasizing unconscious desires

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