Psychology 101:01 Spring 2025 Final Exam Practice Questions

Social Psychology

  • Mere Exposure Effect: The tendency to feel positively towards people simply because we have seen them many times.
  • Pluralistic Ignorance: Hotch's decision not to intervene when seeing a student stumbling is due to assuming others' inaction means the situation is not an emergency.
  • Catharsis Effect: JJ playing Wii boxing to release aggressive feelings is likely to increase, not decrease, those feelings.
  • Bystander Effect/Diffusion of Responsibility: To maximize the likelihood of getting help when passing out in a mall, you'd want only one person present, reducing diffusion of responsibility.

Psychological Principles

  • Psychological Determinism: All behaviors, including slips of the tongue, have meaningful causes.

Social Psychology and Group Dynamics

  • Jigsaw Classroom: Each student in a group gets unique information to share, promoting cooperation.

Psychological Disorders

  • Compulsion: Stewie’s door frame-knocking to reduce anxiety.
  • Rosenhan's Study: Investigated the treatment of patients in mental institutions by infiltrating one with colleagues.

Humanistic Psychology

  • Rogers’ Humanistic Theory: Emphasized unconditional positive regard.

Personality

  • Personality Traits: Zuko, who doesn't get upset easily and is easy to get along with, has low neuroticism and high agreeableness.

Anxiety Disorders

  • Panic Disorder: Sokka’s periods of extreme fear with physical symptoms indicate panic disorder.
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Katara's constant fear and heightened sympathetic nervous system arousal disrupting sleep and concentration suggest generalized anxiety disorder.

Mood Disorders

  • Bipolar Disorder: Kan experiences deep sadness alternating with energetic, elated moods, indicating bipolar disorder.

Psychotic Disorders

  • Delusion and Hallucination: Frank's false belief about being an FBI agent is a delusion, while his visions are hallucinations.

Personality Disorders

  • Borderline Personality Disorder: Tegan's feelings of worthlessness alternating with feelings of importance, and her relationships being either very loving or very hateful indicate borderline personality disorder.

Therapeutic Approaches

  • Cognitive Therapy: Dr. Ryan helps clients see their irrational thinking.
  • Systematic Desensitization: Dr. Ryan uses relaxation techniques and gradual exposure to social situations to help her client overcome fear.

Stress and Health

  • Life Change Measures: A measure of life change is least likely to contain getting a parking ticket.
  • Stress and Health Outcomes: Life events, daily hassles, and perceived stress are related to poor health outcomes.
  • Daily Hassles Scale: A measure of daily hassles are most likely to contain getting stuck in traffic.
  • Langer and Rodin (1977): Found that control had significant effects on health and mortality when manipulated between floors at a nursing home.

Physiological Responses to Stress

  • Sympathetic Nervous System: Sympathetic nervous system arousal is characteristic of Cannon’s fight-or-flight response and Selye’s general adaptation syndrome.

Personality and Behavior

  • Type A Personality: Bill, who is competitive, hurried, and prone to hostility, has a Type A personality.