PSY 1
FINAL EXAM SAMPLE QUESTIONS
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1. The deviation IQ has largely replaced the
ratio IQ because:
A. one’s
IQ score shouldn’t automatically decline with age.
B. it
is fairer to disadvantaged minorities.
C.
IQ tests are now given more often in
groups.
D. of the advantages of the
information-processing approach.
2. According to psychiatrists, the number of
people who would comply fully in the Milgram
experiment was about:
A. 50
%.
B. 1-3
%.
C. 75
%.
D. 25
%.
3. Humans
would probably do fine as a species by cloning themselves if:
A.
they were happy with themselves to begin
with.
B.
they had no unhealthy genes.
C.
it eliminated sexual dimorphism.
D.
the world were unchanging.
4. Milgram's
"teacher-learner" study demonstrated that:
A. most
people have a "moral compass" that steers them despite attempts to
influence them.
B.
the barbarism of Nazi
C. only those whom
psychoanalysts judged as having "weak egos" finished the experiment.
D.
authority can make normal people conform
in ways that violate law and morality.
5. Projective tests rely upon the assumption
that:
A. one's
authenticity emerges under ambiguity.
B. the
patient's perceptions are the most important part of diagnosis.
C.
all psychopathology must be
self-diagnosed.
D. ink
blots naturally look like blood and penises.
6. According to
Piaget, a child shows "deferred imitation" when she:
A.
imitates something later in her
development than she should.
B.
can say single syllables after her
caretaker models them.
C.
imitates an action she saw the day
before.
D.
imitates another child "giving
in" after a tantrum.
7. A good outcome from the love triangle that
characterizes the Freudian Oedipal phase is that a boy:
A.
succeeds in stealing his mother's
affection for Dad.
B.
is repudiated by both parents and learns
to become an Existentialist.
C.
learns about male dominion by losing to
his father.
D.
gives up even trying to compete with
Daddy or anyone.
8. If
all "person constancy" was due to the "fundamental attribution
error," this
would imply that:
A.
there are no
such things as traits.
B.
one should never help in an emergency.
C.
morality is inborn.
D.
responsibility is always personal and
never really diffused.
9. The Rorschach and MMPI both:
A. are
projective tests.
B.
assume that
personality traits are fairly stable.
C. are structured tests.
D.
require an
empathic, attentive examiner.
10. On the Binet-Simon
Scale, a 3-year
old who gave answers like most 5-year-olds would have an IQ of:
A. 60.
B.
135.
C. 200.
D.
167.
KEY:
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. A
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. D