304 ❯ STEP 5. Build Your Test-Taking Confidence- Joan strongly believes in capital punishment.
After discussing capital punishment with only
other people who believe in capital punishment
in a chat room, Joan is most likely to
(A) believe more strongly in capital punishment
(B) believe less strongly in capital punishment
(C) not have changed her views at all
(D) want more information about capital punish-
ment before deciding how strongly she
supports capital punishment
(E) not want to discuss capital punishment any
more- Answering multiple-choice questions is often
easier than answering fill-in or completion ques-
tions, because multiple-choice questions
(A) provide more retrieval cues
(B) enhance retention of information
(C) check memorization rather than critical
thinking
(D) are definitional rather than conceptual
(E) are easier to encode than completion questions- A neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned
stimulus begins to produce a response that
anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned
stimulus during
(A) acquisition trials
(B) generalization
(C) extinction trials
(D) spontaneous recovery
(E) operant conditioning- According to Jean Piaget, egocentrism, animism,
and trial-and-error learning are characteristic of
the stage of development known as
(A) preoperational
(B) sensorimotor
(C) concrete operational
(D) adolescence
(E) formal operational- Blinking, sneezing, flinching, and coughing are
examples of the type of behavior called
(A) instinct
(B) reflex
(C) habit
(D) thought
(E) arc- Stephen is going through his second divorce. He
thinks that no woman will ever love him again.
His therapist points out to Stephen that his
thinking is irrational and faulty. Which of the
following therapies is the therapist employing?
(A) psychoanalysis
(B) systematic desensitization
(C) flooding
(D) rational emotive
(E) client-centered- Delia was accepted to both Harvard University
and Yale University and is having difficulty
choosing which school to attend. With which of
the following conflicts is she faced?
(A) frustration-aggression
(B) intrinsic-extrinsic
(C) approach-avoidance
(D) approach-approach
(E) avoidance-avoidance- EEGs that consist primarily of alpha and beta
waves are characteristic of
(A) consciousness
(B) stage 1 sleep
(C) stage 2 sleep
(D) stage 3 sleep
(E) stage 4 sleep- A psychologist focusing on whether develop-
ment occurs in stages is most interested in which
of the following controversies?
(A) nature versus nurture
(B) continuity versus discontinuity
(C) stability versus change
(D) subjectivity versus objectivity
(E) individualism versus collectivism- Collective unconscious, archetypes, and indi-
viduation are personality concepts most closely
associated with
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Carl Jung
(C) B. F. Skinner
(D) Karen Horney
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