Personality Psychology Exam 3
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According to the humanists, fully functioning individuals do NOT:
a. Trust their feelings
b. Accept and live by the social norms instilled by good parents
c. Live each moment as it comes
d. Express their anger - ✔✔Accept and live by the social norms instilled by good
parents
Self-efficacy therapy is designed to help people _____
a. Learn to interact better with others
b. Develop their skills and natural abilities
c. Believe that they can have an impact on the environment and change problem
behaviors
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,d. Deal with the environment more efficiently - ✔✔Believe that they can have an impact
on the environment and change problem behaviors
Critics of behaviorism point out that
a. Behaviorists give too much attention to the role of heredity
b. There are limits on the usefulness and effectiveness of basic conditioning principles
c. Behaviorists need to do more research with lab animals and less with human
participants
d. Behaviorists have failed to test many of their ideas with empirical studies - ✔✔There
are limits on the usefulness and effectiveness of basic conditioning principles
According to Maslow, a man who has satisfied his physiological and safety needs will
probably become highly aware of his need for _____
a. Friends and a romantic relationship
b. Self-respect
c. Respect from his peers
d. Self-actualization - ✔✔Friends and a romantic relationship
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,Mutchnick's triangle of cognitive behaviorism suggest all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Mood affects behavior
b. Behavior affects mood
c. Thoughts can be changed
d. Thoughts are independent of mood and behavior - ✔✔Thoughts are independent of
mood and behavior
Every time a boy visited his grandfather, he would pass a house with a large dog in the
yard that would bark and scare the boy. Years later, the boy becomes anxious whenever
he visits his grandfather, even though the dog is no longer there. The boy learned to
become anxious in this situation through which process?
a. Classical conditioning
b. Operant conditioning
c. Observational learning
d. Punishment - ✔✔Classical conditioning
A person can learn a behavior without ever performing it. This concept is part of which
approach to personality?
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, a. Skinner's radical behaviorism
b. Bandura's social cognitive theory
c. Rotter's social learning theory
d. Watson's behaviorism - ✔✔Bandura's social cognitive theory
Schemas help us to do all the following except one. Which one?
a. Perceive features in our environment
b. Organize information
c. Retrieve information from memory
d. Avoid stereotyping - ✔✔Avoid stereotyping
Which of the following concepts is generally accepted by advocates of the humanistic
approach to psychology?
a. No one can know a client in therapy better than the client himself or herself
b. It is the therapist's job to explain to the client the new goals the client must set for
him- or herself
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According to the humanists, fully functioning individuals do NOT:
a. Trust their feelings
b. Accept and live by the social norms instilled by good parents
c. Live each moment as it comes
d. Express their anger - ✔✔Accept and live by the social norms instilled by good
parents
Self-efficacy therapy is designed to help people _____
a. Learn to interact better with others
b. Develop their skills and natural abilities
c. Believe that they can have an impact on the environment and change problem
behaviors
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,d. Deal with the environment more efficiently - ✔✔Believe that they can have an impact
on the environment and change problem behaviors
Critics of behaviorism point out that
a. Behaviorists give too much attention to the role of heredity
b. There are limits on the usefulness and effectiveness of basic conditioning principles
c. Behaviorists need to do more research with lab animals and less with human
participants
d. Behaviorists have failed to test many of their ideas with empirical studies - ✔✔There
are limits on the usefulness and effectiveness of basic conditioning principles
According to Maslow, a man who has satisfied his physiological and safety needs will
probably become highly aware of his need for _____
a. Friends and a romantic relationship
b. Self-respect
c. Respect from his peers
d. Self-actualization - ✔✔Friends and a romantic relationship
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,Mutchnick's triangle of cognitive behaviorism suggest all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Mood affects behavior
b. Behavior affects mood
c. Thoughts can be changed
d. Thoughts are independent of mood and behavior - ✔✔Thoughts are independent of
mood and behavior
Every time a boy visited his grandfather, he would pass a house with a large dog in the
yard that would bark and scare the boy. Years later, the boy becomes anxious whenever
he visits his grandfather, even though the dog is no longer there. The boy learned to
become anxious in this situation through which process?
a. Classical conditioning
b. Operant conditioning
c. Observational learning
d. Punishment - ✔✔Classical conditioning
A person can learn a behavior without ever performing it. This concept is part of which
approach to personality?
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, a. Skinner's radical behaviorism
b. Bandura's social cognitive theory
c. Rotter's social learning theory
d. Watson's behaviorism - ✔✔Bandura's social cognitive theory
Schemas help us to do all the following except one. Which one?
a. Perceive features in our environment
b. Organize information
c. Retrieve information from memory
d. Avoid stereotyping - ✔✔Avoid stereotyping
Which of the following concepts is generally accepted by advocates of the humanistic
approach to psychology?
a. No one can know a client in therapy better than the client himself or herself
b. It is the therapist's job to explain to the client the new goals the client must set for
him- or herself
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