GVSU Psy 101 Prof Galen quizzes 7, 8, 10,11 latest updated questions bank with 100% accurate solutions

(quiz 7) According to the video on facial attractiveness, symmetrical faces may have universal appeal because they signal?

Health due to absence of disease or mutations during development.

(quiz 7) According to downward comparison, our threatened self-esteem can be boosted by comparing ourselves to?

Others perceived as inferior.

(quiz 7) Social contagion theory explains things like mess hysteria or bystander intervention by predicting that?

In ambiguous situations we often look to others to know what we should do.

(quiz 7) In the Asch study, which factor reduced the tendency for participants to conform to (incorrect) group norms?

Having one other person in the group who also did not conform.

(quiz 7) Zimbardo concluded from his Stanford prison study that prisoners and guards adopted their designated roles more easily than anyone might have imagined because of?

Deindividuation.

(quiz 8) Charlotte sees a man slumped on the sidewalk. She sees others walking past, not paying attention. She concludes that this must be the correct thing to do and decides to do the same thing. This is?

Pluralistic ignorance.

(quiz 8) Sam felt an unpleasant state of tension after he littered by dropping a wrapper on the ground because he remembered telling his friends that he was an environmentalist. He is experiencing?

Cognitive dissonance.

(quiz 8) The most important variable in the classic Good Samaritan study of bystanders helping in terms of its effect on who stopped for the victim was?

Whether or not the participant was rushed and in a hurry vs. not in a hurry.

The trait of ____ includes a preference for society to be organized around obedience and conformity rather than autonomy and diversity?

Authoritarianism.

(quiz 8) The ______ is the claim that our attributions and behaviors are shaped by a belief that people always get what they deserve and what goes around comes around?

just-world hypothesis.

(quiz 10) When behavior does not allow a person to function within the everyday demands of life, this is one criteria for a mental disorder or "abnormal" because it creates_____________

Distress/ Impairment

(quiz 10) The primary purpose of the DSM-5 is to ________

Help psychological professional reliably diagnose psychological disorders.

(quiz 10) Dr. Galen was using the DMS-5 to diagnose his patients but he found that several diagnoses seemed to occur at the same time; thar his patient's symptoms could qualify them for more than one diagnosis. This phenomenon is called_________

Comorbidity.

( quiz 10) Bill thought he was having symptoms of a heart attack but his test results were negative. Rather, it is likely he was experiencing symptoms of which disorder?

Panic attacks.

(quiz 10) Victims of assault may experience intense anxiety and flashbacks (e.g., reminders of being attacked). If these become frequent intense, and debilitating the person may be diagnosed as suffering from ____ disorder?

Posttraumatic stress.

(quiz 11) What disorder consist of alterations between periods of extremely high and extremely low levels of activity?

Bipolar.

(quiz 11) According to the data, the single best predictor of suicide is?

A previous attempt.

(quiz 11) Luke held on to his false beliefs about people from the government following him even though there was no evidence to support this. Such beliefs are known as _______

Delusions.

(quiz 11) Which of these disorders includes disruptions in one's sense of identity, consciousness, and/or memory?

Dissociative disorders.

(quiz 11) The DSM disorder that shows the closest relationship or overlap the concept if Psychopathy is?

Antisocial personality.