PSYC 140 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
EXAMPREP 2026 MODULE 7 AND 8 FULL
QUESTION SET WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ Accordin to Festinger's social comparison theor, people often form
jusdments. According to to this theory, this process is most likely to
occur when: Answer: people have no objective standard by which to
judge themselves
⩥ What is one of the most important differences between correlational
and experimental designs? Answer: experiments use random assignment
⩥ Alex's neighbor, a little boy, loves practicing his saxophone loudly and
annoyingly According to the overjustification effect, if Alex wants to
get him to quit playing, she should. Answer: pay him money to practice
his saxophone for a few weeks and then stop paying him
⩥ Research on the contingencies of self-worth suggests that a person's
self evaluations: Answer: depend on success and failure in various life
domains
⩥ Consider the following finding from a study that asked children to
describe themselves: "Fourty four percent of children who were born
outside of the United States mentioned this biological fact when
describing themselves, where as only 7 percent of those born in the
, United States mentioned their place of birth." This finding best supports
the idea of: Answer: solo status
⩥ One implication of Tesser's self-evaluation maintenance model is
that:. Answer: we should choose friends whom we outperform in
domains relevant to our self concept but who are talented in domains
that are not relevant to the self
⩥ Jim has been trying to lose weight and spend all day ignoring the
entire bowl of candy bars on his coworkers desk. When Jim gets home
that evening, he feels exhausted and eats an entire container of ice
cream. According to te research on self-regulation, Jim is probably
experiencing. Answer: ego depletion
⩥ According to Leary's sociometer theory:. Answer: self esteem is a
reaction to which people feel included or excluded by others
⩥ A researcher finds a substantial negative correlation between a
measure of anxiety and a measure of life satisfaction. How should we
interpret the relationship between these two variables?. Answer: the
higher a person scores on anxiety, the lower they score on life
satisfaction
⩥ _________________refers to the judgment that an experimental
finding can be generalized across people, time, and settings, while
_________________ refers to the judgment that an independent variable
EXAMPREP 2026 MODULE 7 AND 8 FULL
QUESTION SET WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ Accordin to Festinger's social comparison theor, people often form
jusdments. According to to this theory, this process is most likely to
occur when: Answer: people have no objective standard by which to
judge themselves
⩥ What is one of the most important differences between correlational
and experimental designs? Answer: experiments use random assignment
⩥ Alex's neighbor, a little boy, loves practicing his saxophone loudly and
annoyingly According to the overjustification effect, if Alex wants to
get him to quit playing, she should. Answer: pay him money to practice
his saxophone for a few weeks and then stop paying him
⩥ Research on the contingencies of self-worth suggests that a person's
self evaluations: Answer: depend on success and failure in various life
domains
⩥ Consider the following finding from a study that asked children to
describe themselves: "Fourty four percent of children who were born
outside of the United States mentioned this biological fact when
describing themselves, where as only 7 percent of those born in the
, United States mentioned their place of birth." This finding best supports
the idea of: Answer: solo status
⩥ One implication of Tesser's self-evaluation maintenance model is
that:. Answer: we should choose friends whom we outperform in
domains relevant to our self concept but who are talented in domains
that are not relevant to the self
⩥ Jim has been trying to lose weight and spend all day ignoring the
entire bowl of candy bars on his coworkers desk. When Jim gets home
that evening, he feels exhausted and eats an entire container of ice
cream. According to te research on self-regulation, Jim is probably
experiencing. Answer: ego depletion
⩥ According to Leary's sociometer theory:. Answer: self esteem is a
reaction to which people feel included or excluded by others
⩥ A researcher finds a substantial negative correlation between a
measure of anxiety and a measure of life satisfaction. How should we
interpret the relationship between these two variables?. Answer: the
higher a person scores on anxiety, the lower they score on life
satisfaction
⩥ _________________refers to the judgment that an experimental
finding can be generalized across people, time, and settings, while
_________________ refers to the judgment that an independent variable
