PSY 200 (final exam) Questions and Answers
2024 Update
Unique and relatively enduring set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and motives that characterize an individual - (correct
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Disposition to behave consistently in a particular way - (correct answer) -trait
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The point at which a person moves from not having a particular response to having one - (correct answer) -behavioral
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bodily organs and systems that solve survival and reproductive problems - (correct answer) -physical mechanisms
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internal and specific cognitive, motivational, or personality systems that solve specific problems of survival and reproduction -
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(correct answer) -psychological mechanisms
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strategies for solving reproductive and survival problems - (correct answer) -personality traits
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viable alternative strategies for maximizing fitness - (correct answer) -personality differences
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are set not only by our genes (nature) but also by our mothers' experiences (nurture) - (correct answer) -temperament and
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events in the womb alter fetal development - (correct answer) -Prenatal Programing
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Big 5 - (correct answer) -Openness (imaginative, interested in new
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People from different cultural backgrounds exhibit traits of all of the following personality dimensions to varying extents -
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(correct answer) -NEO- Personality Inventory
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contains all the drives, urges, or instincts that are outside awareness but nonetheless motivate most of our speech, thoughts,
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feelings, or actions - (correct answer) -unconscious
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from birth, inherited components of
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personality: sex and aggression - (correct answer) -Id: pleasure principle
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The only part of the mind that is in direct contact with the outside world - (correct answer) -Ego: reality principal
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Evaluates actions in terms of right & wrong - (correct answer) -superego: moralistic principle
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Unconscious strategies the mind uses to protect itself from anxiety by denying and distorting reality in some way. - (correct
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,He wants to possess (sexually) his mother exclusively and get rid of his father to enable him to do so - (correct answer) -
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Irrationally, the boy thinks that if his father were to find out about all this, his father would take away what he loves the
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most: his penis. Hence the boy develops - (correct answer) -castration anxiety
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the little boy then sets out to resolve this problem by imitating, copying and joining in masculine dad-type behaviors - (correct
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The girl desires the father, but realizes that she does not have a penis. This leads to the development of _______ and the
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wish to be a boy - (correct answer) -penis envy
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when a young girl desires her father - (correct answer) -electra complex
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we strive to overcome inherent inferiorities or deficiencies - (correct answer) -striving for superiority
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some people develop an unhealthy need to dominate or upstage others as a way of compensating for feelings of inferiority -
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(correct answer) -inferiority complex
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can be nurturing of others, but they are sometimes highly critical and have a strong need to be right. - (correct answer) -first
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tend to be motivated and cooperative, but they can become overly competitive. - (correct answer) -middle child
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Youngest children can be realistically ambitious but also pampered and dependent on others. - (correct answer) -youngest
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highly developed elements of the collective unconscious - (correct answer) -archetypes
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one's dark side - (correct answer) -shadow ty ty ty ty ty ty
Scientific movement started in the late 1990s that combined Freudian ideas with neuroscientific methods - (correct answer) -
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Humans are interested in realizing their potential - (correct answer) -Humanistic-Positive Psychology Theories
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3 Requirements for Growth - (correct answer) -empathy, acceptance, genuineness
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being listened to and understood - (correct answer) -empathy
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unconditional Positive Regard vs conditional - (correct answer) -acceptance ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
being open with your feelings & self-disclosure - (correct answer) -genuineness
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"For self-actualization the person must be in a state of congruence" - (correct answer) -carl rogers
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what we think of ourselves, stems from interaction of parent and child - (correct answer) -self-worth
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who you want to be - (correct answer) -ideal self
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Focus on positive states and experiences - (correct answer) -positive psychology
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Behavior results from interaction of cognitive/emotional qualities plus the particular situation - (correct answer) -Social-
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