2026 International Practice Exam MCQ Review – Complete
Study Guide & Answers
Analytical intelligence - ✔✔critical thinking and problem solving
Crystallized intelligence - ✔✔facts
Locus of control - ✔✔tendency to see events as either under one's personal control or subject
to outside factors
Reciprocal determinism - ✔✔mutual influence of external stimuli and cognitive processes in
regulating behavior
Set-point theory - ✔✔theory that body has a natural "set point" weight range to which it
prefers, in order to operate and function optimally
Flynn effect - ✔✔a secular increase in population intelligence quotient (IQ) observed
throughout the 20th century
Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) - ✔✔a confrontational cognitive therapy that
vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
Ventromedial hypothalamus - ✔✔associated with satiation
Lateral hypothalamus - ✔✔associated with promoting eating behavior
Thalamus - ✔✔sensory relay station of the brain
Study Guide & Answers
Analytical intelligence - ✔✔critical thinking and problem solving
Crystallized intelligence - ✔✔facts
Locus of control - ✔✔tendency to see events as either under one's personal control or subject
to outside factors
Reciprocal determinism - ✔✔mutual influence of external stimuli and cognitive processes in
regulating behavior
Set-point theory - ✔✔theory that body has a natural "set point" weight range to which it
prefers, in order to operate and function optimally
Flynn effect - ✔✔a secular increase in population intelligence quotient (IQ) observed
throughout the 20th century
Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) - ✔✔a confrontational cognitive therapy that
vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
Ventromedial hypothalamus - ✔✔associated with satiation
Lateral hypothalamus - ✔✔associated with promoting eating behavior
Thalamus - ✔✔sensory relay station of the brain
