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Psych 202 Final
Covers 11-14 in Introducing Psychology by Worth Publishers
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2013

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Personality is an individual's characteristic style of_______,________,_________
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behaving, thinking, feeling
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Evocation
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unintentional effect on others
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Manipulation
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intentional effect on others
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Person Situation
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behavior is a function of a person's traits and situation
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When are personality measures most likely to predict behavior?
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Over time
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George Kelly developed the _________ construct theory
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Personal
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Barnum Effect
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a subject's tendency to give high accuracy ratings to random descriptions of their personality
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Personal Conctruct
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dimensions people use in making sense of their experience (different responses to different situations, interpret in different ways)
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outcome expectancies
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a person'a assumptions about the likely consequences of a future behavior
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The two models of personality variation are
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the existential approach and the social cognitive approach
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Questionnaires, interviews, scales, and fixed choice questions are example of what kind of measure of personality
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self-report
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locus of control
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the tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external to the environment
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Examples of a projective test
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rorschach and TAT
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The Big 5 Personality traits are
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extraversion, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness (CANOE, OCEAN)
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The Big 5 Personality traits are
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extraversion, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness (CANOE, OCEAN)
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Animal studies show which of the Big 5?
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extraversion and neuroticism
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What evidence proves the universality of the Big 5?
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twin studies
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Is suicide more common in men or women
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men
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Who attempts suicide more? men or women?
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women
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low fear in infants is correlated with what condition
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psychopathic thendencies
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what is the goal of personal construst theory
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predictability
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dopamine hypothesis
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the idea that schizophrenia involves excess of dopamine activity
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list the antidepressant drugs
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MAOI, SSRI, tricyclic, SNRI
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what part of the brain was lombotomized as a part of psychosurgery
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frontal lobe
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reaction formation
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defence mechanism that involves unconcsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with an exaggerated version of their opposite
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projection
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involves attributing one's own threatening feeling's, motives, or impulses to another person or group
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regession
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the ego deals with internal conflict and perceived threat by revering to an immature behavior or earlier stage of development
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displacement
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shifting unacceptable wishes or drives to a neutral or less threatening alternative
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sublimination
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channeling unacceptable sexual or aggressive drives into socially and culturally enhancing activites
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list the Freud's psychosexual stages
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oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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A perfect positive correlation is represented as what number
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1
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list mood stabilizers
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lithium, valporate
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to qualify as a mental disorder, thoughts, feelings, and emotions must be:
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persistent, harmful, and uncontrollable to the person experiencing them
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Altruism
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behavior that benefits another withour benefiting oneself
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who is more selective when it comes to reproduction? men or women?
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women
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the approval motive
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people are motivated to be accepted and not rejected
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the accuracy motive
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people are motivated to believe what is right and avoid believing what is wrong
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Eysenck argued that:
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extraversion and introversion might arise from different levels of alertness
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Jennifer Gray proposed that:
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extraversion and introversion are results of brain systems
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the three key theories on the benefits of self esteem are:
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social status, belongingness, security
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self-serving bias
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people tend o take credit for their success but downplay their failures
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