Untitled Flashcards Set

Lucinda notices that her retirement fund has lost half of its value based on the investments that she chose. She tells herself "it's just a down market, and the money will come back." She does not speak with her financial advisor and ignores the seriousness of her poor financial decisions. Which defense mechanism is being demonstrated? 

DENIAL 

Research suggests that the Big Five personality traits are ___________. 

Fairly consistent across all cultures 

Which of these is an acronym that could help you remember the Big Five traits? 

OCEAN 

Dawn is afraid of flying. Her therapist has begun a 10-week treatment involving talking about the fears of flying, rating her fear, talking about different types of planes, looking at pictures of planes, watching planes at the airport, using imagery, and eventually going on a trip. This therapy technique is known as 

Systematic desensitization 

After being passed up for a promotion and then getting into a heated argument with his son, a man disappears. He shows up two weeks later in another town with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He appears to be suffering from __________. 

A dissaociative disorder 

Which of the following is NOT an anxiety disorder?   

Conversion disorder 

Someone with “stage fright” might have a(n) 

Social phobia 

Which of the following is the most common form of hallucinations that people with schizophrenia often experience? 

Auditory 

People who have __________ are afraid of being evaluated in some negative way by others, so they tend to avoid situations that can be embarrassing. 

Social anxiety disorder 

Following brain damage, Theresa cannot process sensory input from her ears. She probably suffered damage to which portion of the brain? 

Temporal lobe 

Jimmy went out last night and had too many alcoholic beverages.  Now he is on the way to take his Psychology exam, and he has a headache, nausea, and feels tired.  If Jimmy tells himself “I am not hungover” which of Freud’s defense mechanisms is Jimmy demonstrating? 

Denial 

Stewie has been seeing Dr. Freud because he developed strong feelings for his mother and views his father as a rival for her attention.  Dr. Freud points out that Stewie clearly has __________  in the __________  psychosexual stage. 

Oedipus complex; phallic 

Oscar redirects his aggressive urges to beat up and dominate others into a lucrative career as a professional boxer. This is an example of what Freudian defense mechanism? 

Sublimation 

Dikeshia is giving a presentation in her abnormal psychology class on the prevalence of psychological disorders. If you were a student in that class, what general category of disorders would you expect her to mention as one of the most prevalent psychological disorder families? 

anxiety disorders 

Martha vacuums the carpet in her living room 15 times a day.  It is very likely that she is suffering from which of the following disorders? 

obsessive-compulsive 

During the day, Barb suffers from frequent, unwanted thoughts that she has left her front door unlocked and recurrent images that all her belongings have been taken. These thoughts and images are what psychologists refer to as 

Obsessions. 

Mr. Carpenter is constantly afraid that he is going to oversleep and be late for work. As a result, he spends at least two hours each night making certain that his alarm clock is correctly set and saying "It's set, it's set, it's set" each of the times he checks it. This repetitive action is what psychologists refer to as a(n) 

Compulsion. 

Shelby is concerned that she is spending too much of her day worrying about things that are out of her control. She often experiences disturbances in sleep and often feels tense, even in situations where there is nothing that is directly threatening her safety. If you were a clinical psychologist, you would be trying to determine if Shelby meets the criteria for __________. 

generalized anxiety disorder 

The function of the dendrites is to… 

receive incoming signals from other neurons. 

In the experiments conducted by Solomon Asch, what was the main task that subjects had to perform? 

Selecting line sizes 

The difference between conformity and obedience is 

conformity is influence from peers or colleagues and obedience is influence from authority. 

Most people who know Rhonda would say that she is very mild mannered and reserved. Many of her friends were surprised to find out that Rhonda was one of the people responsible for smashing all the pumpkins at the Halloween party this year.  Rhonda engaged in atypical behavior when stripped of her usual identity, and this is known phenomenon is known as ________________. 

_{Deindividuation} 

According to the fundamental attribution error, when we assign causes to other people’s behavior we tend to 

Point to dispositional influences and overlook situational influences 

What percent of subjects in Milgram’s classic experiment on obedience actually administered the whole series of shocks, up to “XXX DANGER”? 

_{approximately 65%} 

When their friend Vincent was walking down the hall after a pleasant conversation, Neil and Makayla watched as he suddenly tripped and fell to the floor, scattering his schoolbooks all over the hallway. They ran over to him, helped him pick up his books, and commented, “I didn’t know that the floor was so slippery in this part of the hall!” Neil and Makayla have made a __________ attribution to explain why Vincent fell over. 

situational 

The murder of Kitty Genovese demonstrated… 

_{the bystander effect} 

Which of the following statement are true about the size of a group affecting conformity? 

The size of the group makes a difference, but only up to about five or six subjects. 

The experimenter who recruited college students to portray either guards or prisoners in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford was…. 

Philip Zimbardo 

For what sort of tasks does social disruption occur? 

challenging and new tasks 

Which of the following likely uses Barnum statements? 

_{all of these} 

The Freudian idea of “psychic determinism” implies that __________. 

_{all psychological events have an underlying cause} 

In the demonic model of mental disorders, the cause was viewed as ________________, and a common treatment was ________________. 

_{evil sprits in the body; exorcism} 

What is the definition of agoraphobia? 

_{The fear of being in a place or situation where escape is difficult or where help would be unavailable} 

The _______ approach to psychological disorders explains mental illness in much the same way that we today explain physical illnesses. 

_Medical 

According to the authors of your textbook, schizophrenia is most often confused with which other psychological disorder? 

_{dissociative identity disorder} 

Nick is admitted to a mental institution because he hears voices talking to him that no one else can hear, and he sees demons attacking him, though no one else can see anything near him. Nick’s symptoms are known as __________.   

_{Hallucinations}  

Systematic desensitization involves: 

_{Associating a pleasant, relaxed state with anxiety-arousing stimuli} 

In Pavlov’s experiments on salivary conditioning of dogs, the unconditioned stimulus (US) was: 

_{the food}