PSYC 1000 – Rollins Tulane Final Exam 2026 – Study Guide and
Practice Questions
A psychotherapy - correct answer ✔✔ therapist uses psychological techniques
Biomedical therapies - correct answer ✔✔ medication or medical procedure
Eclectic approach - correct answer ✔✔ using a blend of therapies
psychoanalysis - correct answer ✔✔ Make person aware of repressed, unconscious conflicts
and impulses, today focuses on social relationships
humanistic psychotherapy - correct answer ✔✔ Make person aware of repressed, unconscious
conflicts and impulses, today focuses on social relationships
Roger's Client-Centered Therapy - correct answer ✔✔ provides support and can make a person
aware of repressed unconscious conflicts and impulses, today focuses on social relationships
Behavior Therapy - correct answer ✔✔ see problems as learned behaviors
flooding - correct answer ✔✔ exposure with response prevention, learn that situation is
harmless
systematic desensitization - correct answer ✔✔ replace fear with relaxation, exposure to
increasingly anxiety- provoking versions of feared stimulus while relaxing, fear/desensitization
hierarchy, relaxation techniques
,cognitive therapies - correct answer ✔✔ Identify cognitive distortions and correct irrational
thinking
self-statement modification - correct answer ✔✔ cognitive therapy where your replace negative
thoughts with positive ones
electroconvulsive shock therapy - correct answer ✔✔ Electric current applied to scalp to cause
convulsions, used on severe depression, is only effective in select circumstances.
psychosurgery - correct answer ✔✔ removal/destruction of brain tissue
prefrontal lobotomy - correct answer ✔✔ cut connections between frontal lobes and limbic
areas
Freeman's transorbital lobotomy - correct answer ✔✔ shocked the patients into
unconsciousness and ice picked the eye
neuroleptics/ antipsychotics - correct answer ✔✔ dopamine agonists that help treat
schizophrenia
tardive dyskinesia - correct answer ✔✔ side effect where patients have a syndrome of
uncontrollable, repetitive movements
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors - correct answer ✔✔ earliest class of anti depressants, serious
side effects
tricyclic antidepressants - correct answer ✔✔ middle class of anti depressants deadly
interaction with alcohol
,SSRIs - correct answer ✔✔ modern class of anti depressants today, increase serotonin
mood stabilizers - correct answer ✔✔ lithium, for bipolar disorder, antidepressants
anxiolytics - correct answer ✔✔ tranquilizers or anti-anxiety drug
benzodiazepine - correct answer ✔✔ GABA agonists
intelligence - correct answer ✔✔ multiple definitions, possession of knowledge and ability to
use adaptively in different environments
*Problem solving skills, adaption, and learning
collectivist culture - correct answer ✔✔ needs of group > needs of individual
individualist culture - correct answer ✔✔ needs of individual > needs of group
general intelligence - correct answer ✔✔ intelligence is one general ability
multiple intelligences - correct answer ✔✔ many dimensions of intelligence that are relatively
unrelated to one another
Alfred Binet - correct answer ✔✔ French psychologist who invented the first practical
intelligence test
Mental age - correct answer ✔✔ On the Binet-Simon scale, level of performance associated
with a particular chronological age
, This scale tested reasoning, thinking, and problem solving skills
Louis Terman - correct answer ✔✔ A Stanford professor who brought the Binet-Simon test to
America. Developed it into an adult intelligence test.
Original Stanford- Binet - correct answer ✔✔ mental age/ chronological age *100, extremely
culturally biased
Wechsler scales - correct answer ✔✔ IQ tests commonly used today, 3 different tests for
different age groups
Average IQ - correct answer ✔✔ 100
Learning disability - correct answer ✔✔ a condition giving rise to difficulties in acquiring
knowledge and skills to the level expected of those of the same age, especially when not
associated with a physical handicap.
Mental retardation - correct answer ✔✔ condition diagnosed before age 18, usually in infancy
or prior to birth, that includes below-average general intellectual function, and a lack of the
skills necessary for daily living.
Reliability - correct answer ✔✔ Tests the stability of scores over time whereas validity refers to
whether a test is a true or authentic measure
Content validity - correct answer ✔✔ tests whether a test measures all aspects of a construct
(makes a reasonable conclusion)
Practice Questions
A psychotherapy - correct answer ✔✔ therapist uses psychological techniques
Biomedical therapies - correct answer ✔✔ medication or medical procedure
Eclectic approach - correct answer ✔✔ using a blend of therapies
psychoanalysis - correct answer ✔✔ Make person aware of repressed, unconscious conflicts
and impulses, today focuses on social relationships
humanistic psychotherapy - correct answer ✔✔ Make person aware of repressed, unconscious
conflicts and impulses, today focuses on social relationships
Roger's Client-Centered Therapy - correct answer ✔✔ provides support and can make a person
aware of repressed unconscious conflicts and impulses, today focuses on social relationships
Behavior Therapy - correct answer ✔✔ see problems as learned behaviors
flooding - correct answer ✔✔ exposure with response prevention, learn that situation is
harmless
systematic desensitization - correct answer ✔✔ replace fear with relaxation, exposure to
increasingly anxiety- provoking versions of feared stimulus while relaxing, fear/desensitization
hierarchy, relaxation techniques
,cognitive therapies - correct answer ✔✔ Identify cognitive distortions and correct irrational
thinking
self-statement modification - correct answer ✔✔ cognitive therapy where your replace negative
thoughts with positive ones
electroconvulsive shock therapy - correct answer ✔✔ Electric current applied to scalp to cause
convulsions, used on severe depression, is only effective in select circumstances.
psychosurgery - correct answer ✔✔ removal/destruction of brain tissue
prefrontal lobotomy - correct answer ✔✔ cut connections between frontal lobes and limbic
areas
Freeman's transorbital lobotomy - correct answer ✔✔ shocked the patients into
unconsciousness and ice picked the eye
neuroleptics/ antipsychotics - correct answer ✔✔ dopamine agonists that help treat
schizophrenia
tardive dyskinesia - correct answer ✔✔ side effect where patients have a syndrome of
uncontrollable, repetitive movements
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors - correct answer ✔✔ earliest class of anti depressants, serious
side effects
tricyclic antidepressants - correct answer ✔✔ middle class of anti depressants deadly
interaction with alcohol
,SSRIs - correct answer ✔✔ modern class of anti depressants today, increase serotonin
mood stabilizers - correct answer ✔✔ lithium, for bipolar disorder, antidepressants
anxiolytics - correct answer ✔✔ tranquilizers or anti-anxiety drug
benzodiazepine - correct answer ✔✔ GABA agonists
intelligence - correct answer ✔✔ multiple definitions, possession of knowledge and ability to
use adaptively in different environments
*Problem solving skills, adaption, and learning
collectivist culture - correct answer ✔✔ needs of group > needs of individual
individualist culture - correct answer ✔✔ needs of individual > needs of group
general intelligence - correct answer ✔✔ intelligence is one general ability
multiple intelligences - correct answer ✔✔ many dimensions of intelligence that are relatively
unrelated to one another
Alfred Binet - correct answer ✔✔ French psychologist who invented the first practical
intelligence test
Mental age - correct answer ✔✔ On the Binet-Simon scale, level of performance associated
with a particular chronological age
, This scale tested reasoning, thinking, and problem solving skills
Louis Terman - correct answer ✔✔ A Stanford professor who brought the Binet-Simon test to
America. Developed it into an adult intelligence test.
Original Stanford- Binet - correct answer ✔✔ mental age/ chronological age *100, extremely
culturally biased
Wechsler scales - correct answer ✔✔ IQ tests commonly used today, 3 different tests for
different age groups
Average IQ - correct answer ✔✔ 100
Learning disability - correct answer ✔✔ a condition giving rise to difficulties in acquiring
knowledge and skills to the level expected of those of the same age, especially when not
associated with a physical handicap.
Mental retardation - correct answer ✔✔ condition diagnosed before age 18, usually in infancy
or prior to birth, that includes below-average general intellectual function, and a lack of the
skills necessary for daily living.
Reliability - correct answer ✔✔ Tests the stability of scores over time whereas validity refers to
whether a test is a true or authentic measure
Content validity - correct answer ✔✔ tests whether a test measures all aspects of a construct
(makes a reasonable conclusion)
