PSY/203T Foundations Of Psychology The Latest Version A+ Study Guide **********************************************
PSY 203T Entire Course Link https://www.onlinehelp123.com/psy-203 ********************************************** PSY 203T Wk 3 – Week 3 Exam According to the approach which organizes emotions using a hierarchy, which of the following is derived from a negative emotion? Multiple Choice • Infatuation • Guilt • Contentment • Pride
According to the _____ theory of aging, people who age most successfully are those who maintain the interests, activities, and level of social interaction they experienced during middle adulthood. Multiple Choice • wear-and-tear • activity • disengagement • genetic preprogramming
Why do drive-reduction approaches fail to offer a complete account of human motivation? Multiple Choice • Drive-reduction approaches offer much better explanations of behaviors motivated by secondary drives than of behaviors motivated by primary drives. • Drive-reduction approaches are vague about what, or even how many, primary drives exist. • People are sometimes motivated to increase rather than decrease their level of stimulation. • Homeostasis does not accurately describe the mechanism by which primary drives operate.
In the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, physiological reactions _____ emotional experiences. Multiple Choice • occur simultaneously with • precede • follow • have little to do with
In the James-Lange theory of emotion, physiological responses _____ emotional experiences. Multiple Choice • occur simultaneously with • are unrelated to • follow • precede
Two weeks after conception, a developing fertilized egg is called a(n) _____. Multiple Choice • neonate • fetus • zygote • embryo •
Which of the following is true of the need for affiliation? Multiple Choice • People who have lower affiliation needs desire to be with friends more than those who have higher affiliation needs. • People who have higher affiliation needs are particularly sensitive to relationships with others. • Regardless of their affiliative orientation, male students spend significantly more time with their friends. • People who have higher affiliation needs desire to be alone more of the time than those who have lower affiliation needs.
People with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 are considered: Multiple Choice • normal. • obese. • overweight. • underweight.
Which of the following stages of development that a baby goes through is ly matched with its description or milestone? Multiple Choice • In the fetal stage, the fertilization of an egg takes place. • In the perinatal stage, the first cell is formed by the union of an egg and a sperm. • In the germinal stage, an organism grows from one cell to hundreds of cells. • In the embryonic stage, facial features become similar to those that the child will display at birth. According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, which of the following is the stage in which a person aware of his or her impending death is likely to try to think of ways to postpone death and dedicate his or her life to religion? Multiple Choice • Acceptance • Anger • Denial • Bargaining
The time at which a woman's menstrual cycle slows down and eventually stops is called: Multiple Choice • menarche. • amenorrhea. • menopause. • the zygotic period.
Girls typically experience the adolescent growth spurt _____ than do boys. Multiple Choice • 6 months earlier • 2 years earlier • 2 years later • 6 months later
Which of the following is NOT among the shortcomings of instinct approaches to motivation? Multiple Choice • Instinct theorists disagreed on the precise instincts guiding behavior. • Instinct approaches can account only for physiological motivations, not psychological ones. • Instinct theorists fail to explain why certain specific patterns of behavior have evolved in a given species. • Instinct theorists identified too many different instincts for the theory to be useful.
According to Erikson, people enter the generativity-versus-stagnation stage during _____. Multiple Choice • middle adulthood • adolescence • childhood • old age
In ________ approaches to motivation, the desirable properties of external stimuli account for a person's motivation. Multiple Choice • incentive • arousal • cognitive • drive-reduction
When does one's body start storing fat either by increasing the number of fat cells or by increasing the size of existing fat cells? Multiple Choice • Starts by the end of adolescence • Starts at birth • During adulthood • During the first year of life
The need for achievement is often assessed with the: Multiple Choice • Rorschach Inkblot Test. • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. • Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). • California Personality Inventory.
________ is the rate at which food is converted to energy and expended by the body. Multiple Choice • Metabolism • Emulsification • Neutralization • Phagocytosis
Incentive approaches to motivation are:
Multiple Choice • theories suggesting that motivation stems from the desire to attain external rewards. • theories suggesting that motivation is a product of people's thoughts, expectations, and goals. • theories suggesting that we try to maintain certain levels of stimulation and activity. • theories suggesting that a lack of some basic biological need produces a drive to push an organism to satisfy that need.
The first two theoretical approaches to motivation that attained prominence in the history of modern psychology were: Multiple Choice • the instinct approach and then the drive-reduction approach. • the drive-reduction approach and then the instinct approach. • the instinct approach and then the incentive approach. • the incentive approach and then the drive-reduction approach.
The longest part of a pregnancy, from the 8th week through to birth, is the _____ period. Multiple Choice • fetal • embryonic • zygotic • germinal
_____ are rod-shaped structures that contain all basic hereditary information. Multiple Choice • Serotonins • Norepinephrines • Chromosomes • Spleens
In the _____ stage of development, a developing individual is less than an inch long and has developed a rudimentary beating heart, a brain, an intestinal tract, and a number of other organs that are at a primitive stage of development. Multiple Choice • germinal • embryonic • neonatal • fetal
Which genetic or chromosomal abnormality below is ly described?
Multiple Choice • In Down syndrome, the brain tissues of the cortex degenerate, resulting in death. • In Tay-Sachs disease, the body starts producing abnormally shaped red blood cells. • In phenylketonuria, a child is unable to produce a critical enzyme, which results in an accumulation of poisons and in turn causes profound intellectual disabilities. • In sickle-cell anemia, a child receives an extra chromosome resulting in mental retardation.
According to the ________ theory of emotion, both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus. Multiple Choice • Maslow • Cannon-Bard • James-Lange • Schachter-Singer