Psychology 121 Final Exam- Missouri
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The idea that human behavior is influenced by unconscious forces that are outside of a person's
awareness (particularly sexual and aggressive forces) is advocated by which area of psychology:
A. behaviorism
B. structuralism
C. humanism
D. cognitive psychology
E. psychoanalysis - Answer-E. psychoanalysis
Which of the following correlation coefficients expresses the strongest relationship between levels of
stress and likelihood of cancer?
A. -.79
B. .60
C. .32
D. .10
,E. .90 - Answer-E. .90
The only research method that can be used to draw a cause and effect relationship between two
variables is:
A. Correlation
B. Case study
C. Experiment
D. Naturalistic observation
E. Survey - Answer-C. Experiment
A researcher examines the effects of type of class on learning. He randomly assigns students to either
a blended class or a traditional class. At the end of the semester, he compared their performance on a
measure of learning. Which of the following is the independent variable?
A. The learning measure
B. The type of class
C. The control group
D. The traditional class
E. The blended class - Answer-B. The type of class
Often the easiest way for a person to cope with the unpleasant state associated with cognitive
dissonance is to
A. Change his or her attitudes
B. Lie about his or her
,behaviors
C. Engage in groupthink
D. Continue the discrepant
behavior - Answer-A. Change his or her attitudes
When people explain the behavior of others, there is a tendency to overestimate the role of personal
factors and underestimate the role of the situation. This bias is called the
A. Fundamental attribution error
B. Central route to persuasion
C. Peripheral route to
persuasion
D. Self-serving bias - Answer-A. Fundamental attribution error
Following his initial experiment, Stanley Milgram manipulated several factors in his study of obedience.
Obedience levels dropped when
A. The experimenter was replaced
with an ordinary person
B. He moved the study to the
prestigious campus of Yale
University
C. The experimenter issued his
commands in person
D. Research participants were in a
separate room away from the
, learner. - Answer-A. The experimenter was replaced with an ordinary person
This temporary storage system holds seven or so items of information for about twenty seconds. Which
memory is it?
A. Sensory
B. Long-term
C. Short-term
D. Iconic - Answer-C. Short-term
Knowledge of who the first person to walk on the moon was is probably stored in:
A. episodic memory.
B. semantic memory.
C. implicit memory.
D. procedural memory.
E. short term memory - Answer-B. Semantic memory
Which of the following is NOT an example of recall?
A. Answering an essay question on
an English test
B. Remembering a friend's name
when asked by another person
C. Answering a question on a
multiple choice test correctly
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The idea that human behavior is influenced by unconscious forces that are outside of a person's
awareness (particularly sexual and aggressive forces) is advocated by which area of psychology:
A. behaviorism
B. structuralism
C. humanism
D. cognitive psychology
E. psychoanalysis - Answer-E. psychoanalysis
Which of the following correlation coefficients expresses the strongest relationship between levels of
stress and likelihood of cancer?
A. -.79
B. .60
C. .32
D. .10
,E. .90 - Answer-E. .90
The only research method that can be used to draw a cause and effect relationship between two
variables is:
A. Correlation
B. Case study
C. Experiment
D. Naturalistic observation
E. Survey - Answer-C. Experiment
A researcher examines the effects of type of class on learning. He randomly assigns students to either
a blended class or a traditional class. At the end of the semester, he compared their performance on a
measure of learning. Which of the following is the independent variable?
A. The learning measure
B. The type of class
C. The control group
D. The traditional class
E. The blended class - Answer-B. The type of class
Often the easiest way for a person to cope with the unpleasant state associated with cognitive
dissonance is to
A. Change his or her attitudes
B. Lie about his or her
,behaviors
C. Engage in groupthink
D. Continue the discrepant
behavior - Answer-A. Change his or her attitudes
When people explain the behavior of others, there is a tendency to overestimate the role of personal
factors and underestimate the role of the situation. This bias is called the
A. Fundamental attribution error
B. Central route to persuasion
C. Peripheral route to
persuasion
D. Self-serving bias - Answer-A. Fundamental attribution error
Following his initial experiment, Stanley Milgram manipulated several factors in his study of obedience.
Obedience levels dropped when
A. The experimenter was replaced
with an ordinary person
B. He moved the study to the
prestigious campus of Yale
University
C. The experimenter issued his
commands in person
D. Research participants were in a
separate room away from the
, learner. - Answer-A. The experimenter was replaced with an ordinary person
This temporary storage system holds seven or so items of information for about twenty seconds. Which
memory is it?
A. Sensory
B. Long-term
C. Short-term
D. Iconic - Answer-C. Short-term
Knowledge of who the first person to walk on the moon was is probably stored in:
A. episodic memory.
B. semantic memory.
C. implicit memory.
D. procedural memory.
E. short term memory - Answer-B. Semantic memory
Which of the following is NOT an example of recall?
A. Answering an essay question on
an English test
B. Remembering a friend's name
when asked by another person
C. Answering a question on a
multiple choice test correctly
