PSYCHOLOGY TEST #3 example #48204

Which of the following techniques did Freud use to discover the latent content of his patients' dreams?

Freud suggested that the remembered events and images in our dreams were a censored expression of the dream's

According to Freud, the part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the

The defense mechanism in which self-justifying explanations replace the real, unconscious reasons for actions is:

Which neo-Freudian theorist emphasized the influence of the collective unconscious in personality development?

Abraham Maslow suggested that those who fulfill their potential have satisfied the need for:

Self-actualized people, as described by Maslow, are least likely to be highly:

Carl Rogers suggested that the ________ is a central feature of personality.

Maslow most clearly interjected his own personal values into his study of self-actualized individuals by:

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator labels a person who is sympathetic, appreciative, and tactful as a(n) ________ type.

People respond to stress with greater anxiety if they have:

Assessing an individual's standing on the Big five has the advantage of providing a(n) ________ personality description

Randy's substandard academic performance is both a result and a cause of his feelings of academic inferiority. This best illustrates the importance of:

Personality is fruitfully studied at multiple levels of analysis because people are best understood as:

A person whose self-esteem is momentarily threatened is especially likely to:

Athletes often attribute their losses to bad officiating. This best illustrates:

Contemporary psychodynamic theorists are most likely to disagree with Freud's assumption that:

The famous test introduced by Hermann Rorschach asks test-takers to respond to:

Research participants came to anticipate the movements of the numeral 6 on a computer screen even though they were unable to identify the rule governing its movements. This best illustrates:

Although Rolf frequently cheats on classroom tests, he justifies his behavior by erroneously thinking that most other students cheat even more than he does. His mistaken belief best illustrates:

The ability to simultaneously monitor the shape as well as the color of an object best illustrates the value of:

After flying from California to New York, Arthur experienced a restless, sleepless night. His problem was most likely caused by a disruption of his normal:

Bedwetting is most likely to occur at the end of ________ sleep.

During the course of a full night's sleep, people are most likely to spend more time in:

During a REM dream, people who experience ________ are likely to wonder whether they are, in fact, dreaming.

Evidence suggests that we consolidate our memories of recent life events through:

Hypnosis involves a state of:

Twenty-eight-year-old Theodore has an irrational fear of dogs. His therapist hypnotizes him and asks him to mentally relive his earliest childhood experience with a dog. The therapist is making use of:

Just prior to awakening Chinua from a hypnotic state, the therapist told him that during the next few days he would feel nauseated whenever he reached for a cigarette. Chinua's therapist was attempting to make use of:

The claim that hypnotic phenomena are regulated by normal conscious control processes is associated with the theory that hypnosis involves:

In Hilgard's studies of pain sensitivity, the hidden observer reported experiences typically associated with:

Chemical substances that alter perceptions and moods are called ________ drugs.

After a stressful day at the office, Arthur has five or six drinks at a local bar before going home for dinner. Research suggests that Arthur's heavy drinking will have the most adverse effect on his ability to remember:

The use of barbiturates ________ anxiety and ________ sympathetic nervous system activity.

Soon after taking a psychoactive drug, Zachary experienced a diminished appetite, an increased pulse rate, dilated pupils, and feelings of self-confidence and euphoria. Zachary most likely experienced the effects of:

One of the immediate effects of Ecstasy is:

After ingesting a small dose of a psychoactive drug, Laqueta experienced vivid visual hallucinations and felt as if she were separated from her own body. Laqueta most likely experienced the effects of:

The belief that death involves the liberation of the soul from a bodily prison illustrates

Sensory experiences that occur without a sensory stimulus are called:

While soundly asleep people cannot:

The subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to the prevention and treatment of illness is known as:

As you are waiting to be interviewed for a job, your heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate begin to increase. These physiological changes are produced by activation of the ________ nervous system.

The general adaptation syndrome describes stages in the:

Aging women who had experienced prolonged stress as caregivers for children with serious disorders experienced a premature decrease in the size of their

In the three weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, two-thirds of Americans responding to a University of Michigan survey reported:

Mr. Wilson often misinterprets his normal feelings of hunger as indicative of stomach cancer. Mr. Wilson's experience is most indicative of:

Wild animals placed in zoos sometimes die shortly thereafter. These deaths are likely to result from a(n) ________ in the animals' production of ________.

Using emotional, behavioral, or cognitive methods to alleviate stress is known as:

British civil service workers in executive positions live longer than those in clerical positions. This best illustrates the value of:

In a simulated confessional, volunteers disclosed a trivial upsetting event to a hidden experimenter before they divulged a more troubling event. The volunteers were physically ________ while discussing the trivial event and ________ while disclosing the more troubling event.

The genes in muscle cells that are not activated by exercise produce lower quantities of proteins, which leaves us susceptible to:

Aviad, a 50-year-old banking executive and Type A personality, recently suffered a serious heart attack. To prevent a recurrence, Aviad would probably benefit most from:

Whether a health care treatment is mainstream medicine or an alternative medicine depends on whether the treatment has been:

In North America, which of the following is most likely to cause premature death?

Those who plan to stop smoking are best advised to:

New research has linked women's obesity to their risk of late-life:

When people's images on a video monitor are widened to make them look fatter, observers perceive them as:

Although John has been obese for as long as he can remember, he is determined to lose excess weight with a special low-calorie diet. John is likely to have difficulty losing weight while dieting because:

Obesity in mice has been traced to a gene for producing:

Having lost weight, formerly obese individuals have ________ fat cells and ________ metabolism rates.