PSY 550 MIDTERM EXAM 2026 PRACTICE TEST
SHEET FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
PREPARATION SET
◉ Disposition to behave consistently in a particular way.
Answer: trait
◉ The point at which a person moves from not having a particular
response to having one.
Answer: behavioral thresholds
◉ bodily organs and systems that solve survival and reproductive
problems.
Answer: physical mechanisms
◉ internal and specific cognitive, motivational, or personality
systems that solve specific problems of survival and reproduction.
Answer: psychological mechanisms
◉ strategies for solving reproductive and survival problems.
Answer: personality traits
,◉ viable alternative strategies for maximizing fitness.
Answer: personality differences
◉ are set not only by our genes (nature) but also by our mothers'
experiences (nurture).
Answer: temperament and stress
◉ events in the womb alter fetal development.
Answer: Prenatal Programing
◉ Big 5.
Answer: Openness (imaginative, interested in new
experiences)
Conscientiousness (orderly, hardworking)
Extraversion (sociable, outgoing)
Agreeableness (good-natured, trusting)
Neuroticism (anxious, emotional)
◉ People from different cultural backgrounds exhibit traits of all of
the following personality dimensions to varying extents.
Answer: NEO- Personality Inventory
, ◉ contains all the drives, urges, or instincts that are outside
awareness but nonetheless motivate most of our speech, thoughts,
feelings, or actions.
Answer: unconscious
◉ from birth, inherited components of
personality: sex and aggression.
Answer: Id: pleasure principle
◉ The only part of the mind that is in direct contact with the outside
world.
Answer: Ego: reality principal
◉ Evaluates actions in terms of right & wrong.
Answer: superego: moralistic principle
◉ Unconscious strategies the mind uses to protect itself from
anxiety by denying and distorting reality in some way..
Answer: defense mechanism
◉ He wants to possess (sexually) his mother exclusively and get rid
of his father to enable him to do so.
Answer: oedipus complex
SHEET FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
PREPARATION SET
◉ Disposition to behave consistently in a particular way.
Answer: trait
◉ The point at which a person moves from not having a particular
response to having one.
Answer: behavioral thresholds
◉ bodily organs and systems that solve survival and reproductive
problems.
Answer: physical mechanisms
◉ internal and specific cognitive, motivational, or personality
systems that solve specific problems of survival and reproduction.
Answer: psychological mechanisms
◉ strategies for solving reproductive and survival problems.
Answer: personality traits
,◉ viable alternative strategies for maximizing fitness.
Answer: personality differences
◉ are set not only by our genes (nature) but also by our mothers'
experiences (nurture).
Answer: temperament and stress
◉ events in the womb alter fetal development.
Answer: Prenatal Programing
◉ Big 5.
Answer: Openness (imaginative, interested in new
experiences)
Conscientiousness (orderly, hardworking)
Extraversion (sociable, outgoing)
Agreeableness (good-natured, trusting)
Neuroticism (anxious, emotional)
◉ People from different cultural backgrounds exhibit traits of all of
the following personality dimensions to varying extents.
Answer: NEO- Personality Inventory
, ◉ contains all the drives, urges, or instincts that are outside
awareness but nonetheless motivate most of our speech, thoughts,
feelings, or actions.
Answer: unconscious
◉ from birth, inherited components of
personality: sex and aggression.
Answer: Id: pleasure principle
◉ The only part of the mind that is in direct contact with the outside
world.
Answer: Ego: reality principal
◉ Evaluates actions in terms of right & wrong.
Answer: superego: moralistic principle
◉ Unconscious strategies the mind uses to protect itself from
anxiety by denying and distorting reality in some way..
Answer: defense mechanism
◉ He wants to possess (sexually) his mother exclusively and get rid
of his father to enable him to do so.
Answer: oedipus complex
