PSYCH 100 UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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✔✔What is meant by the term "egocentrism?"
Answers:
a. A child lacks the ability to consider perspectives other than his or her own.
b. A child is extremely arrogant and feels that he or she is better than others.
c. A child is very selfish and refuses to share his or her possessions with others.
d. A child lacks the motivation do things for him- or herself and expects them to be done
by others. - ✔✔A child lacks the ability to consider perspectives other than his or her
own.
✔✔Recent findings associated with aging and cognitive functioning show that older
adults outscore younger adults on
Answers:
a. vocabulary tests.
b. memory tests.
c. visual tests.
d. auditory tests. - ✔✔vocabulary tests
✔✔Research investigating the causes of gender differences in behavior suggests that
Answers:
a. during infancy there are not gender differences between the toy preferences of boys
and girls.
b. no gender differences have been found between the toy preferences of boy and girl
monkeys.
c. females exposed to excessive levels of testosterone during birth tend to dislike rough-
and-tumble play.
d. females exposed to excessive levels of testosterone during birth tend to enjoy rough-
and-tumble play. - ✔✔females exposed to excessive levels of testosterone during birth
tend to enjoy rough-and-tumble play.
✔✔Responses to moral dilemmas are only moderately correlated with actual behavior.
Which of the following may be seen to increase the strength of correlations between
hypothetical responses and actual behavior?
Answers:
a. Posing dilemmas focused on abstract situations not likely to be faced by respondents
b. Posing dilemmas focused on life-or-death decisions that will lead to more honest
responding
c. Posing dilemmas focused on lighthearted subjects that will put respondents more at
ease
d. Posing dilemmas focused on realistic situations that are likely to be faced on a
regular basis - ✔✔Posing dilemmas focused on realistic situations that are likely to be
faced on a regular basis
, ✔✔According to Piaget, egocentrism and a lack of conservation ability are both qualities
that are seen in the ________ stage of development.
Answers:
a. sensorimotor
b. preoperational
c. concrete operations
d. formal operations - ✔✔preoperational
✔✔Piaget suggested that in some cases two children of the same age may be at
different skill levels in a specific domain of cognitive ability. This claim makes it very
difficult, if not impossible, to provide an argument against the developmental schedule
forwarded by Piaget's theory. This is a major issue related to the principle of
Answers:
a. Occam's Razor.
b. ruling out rival hypotheses.
c. replicability.
d. falsifiability. - ✔✔falsifiability.
✔✔Research exploring infantile temperament has found that there are generally three
different temperaments. They are
Answers:
a. anxious, responsive, and relaxed
b. sensorimotor, preoperational, and operational.
c. secure, insecure, and disorganized.
d. easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up. - ✔✔easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up.
✔✔A key theme that has emerged from the memory research literature is that
Answers:
a. active reconstruction of events alters our memory of the important and unimportant
events of our lives.
b. all explicit and implicit memories are stored in the hippocampus.
c. memory illusions are evidence of serious memory problems such as Alzheimer's
disease or amnesia.
d. the passage of time has little or no effect on the accuracy of our memories. -
✔✔active reconstruction of events alters our memory of the important and unimportant
events of our lives.
✔✔Which of the following provides the best explanation for why your history teacher
can remember 14 random historic dates, while you can only recall about 7?
Answers:
a. Retroactive interference
b. Magic Number
c. Chunking
d. Limited short-term memory capacity - ✔✔Chunking
GRADED A+
✔✔What is meant by the term "egocentrism?"
Answers:
a. A child lacks the ability to consider perspectives other than his or her own.
b. A child is extremely arrogant and feels that he or she is better than others.
c. A child is very selfish and refuses to share his or her possessions with others.
d. A child lacks the motivation do things for him- or herself and expects them to be done
by others. - ✔✔A child lacks the ability to consider perspectives other than his or her
own.
✔✔Recent findings associated with aging and cognitive functioning show that older
adults outscore younger adults on
Answers:
a. vocabulary tests.
b. memory tests.
c. visual tests.
d. auditory tests. - ✔✔vocabulary tests
✔✔Research investigating the causes of gender differences in behavior suggests that
Answers:
a. during infancy there are not gender differences between the toy preferences of boys
and girls.
b. no gender differences have been found between the toy preferences of boy and girl
monkeys.
c. females exposed to excessive levels of testosterone during birth tend to dislike rough-
and-tumble play.
d. females exposed to excessive levels of testosterone during birth tend to enjoy rough-
and-tumble play. - ✔✔females exposed to excessive levels of testosterone during birth
tend to enjoy rough-and-tumble play.
✔✔Responses to moral dilemmas are only moderately correlated with actual behavior.
Which of the following may be seen to increase the strength of correlations between
hypothetical responses and actual behavior?
Answers:
a. Posing dilemmas focused on abstract situations not likely to be faced by respondents
b. Posing dilemmas focused on life-or-death decisions that will lead to more honest
responding
c. Posing dilemmas focused on lighthearted subjects that will put respondents more at
ease
d. Posing dilemmas focused on realistic situations that are likely to be faced on a
regular basis - ✔✔Posing dilemmas focused on realistic situations that are likely to be
faced on a regular basis
, ✔✔According to Piaget, egocentrism and a lack of conservation ability are both qualities
that are seen in the ________ stage of development.
Answers:
a. sensorimotor
b. preoperational
c. concrete operations
d. formal operations - ✔✔preoperational
✔✔Piaget suggested that in some cases two children of the same age may be at
different skill levels in a specific domain of cognitive ability. This claim makes it very
difficult, if not impossible, to provide an argument against the developmental schedule
forwarded by Piaget's theory. This is a major issue related to the principle of
Answers:
a. Occam's Razor.
b. ruling out rival hypotheses.
c. replicability.
d. falsifiability. - ✔✔falsifiability.
✔✔Research exploring infantile temperament has found that there are generally three
different temperaments. They are
Answers:
a. anxious, responsive, and relaxed
b. sensorimotor, preoperational, and operational.
c. secure, insecure, and disorganized.
d. easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up. - ✔✔easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up.
✔✔A key theme that has emerged from the memory research literature is that
Answers:
a. active reconstruction of events alters our memory of the important and unimportant
events of our lives.
b. all explicit and implicit memories are stored in the hippocampus.
c. memory illusions are evidence of serious memory problems such as Alzheimer's
disease or amnesia.
d. the passage of time has little or no effect on the accuracy of our memories. -
✔✔active reconstruction of events alters our memory of the important and unimportant
events of our lives.
✔✔Which of the following provides the best explanation for why your history teacher
can remember 14 random historic dates, while you can only recall about 7?
Answers:
a. Retroactive interference
b. Magic Number
c. Chunking
d. Limited short-term memory capacity - ✔✔Chunking
