PSY 101 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
What is a likely symptom of schizophrenia?
Losing touch with reality
For what is The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used?
It is used by the psychiatric community to identify mental illness.
What is a likely symptom of a dissociative disorder?
Disturbances in perception
Which term refers to the abilities to recognize and to manage emotions?
Emotional intelligence
What nervous system gets you ready to fight or flee
Sympathetic
What nervous system acts to calm the body.
Parasympathetic
According to Paul Ekman, what are the basic
emotions?
Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise
Anti-psychotic medications are used to treat which symptoms of schizophrenia?
Positive and Negative
The psychological patients who are the least likely to get better tend to do what and what?
Think negatively and act hostile
Identify which of the following are valid types of therapy.
, Group
family
Relationship
Which of the following is an example of a
descriptive study?
A psychologist surveys a group of 200 military veterans to document the proportion of them
affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. ..which information is collected without changing the
environment (i.e., nothing is manipulated
If the results of an experiment are statistically significant then....
they can be used to support or reject hypotheses
Descriptive, correlational and experimental are the three types of what
confounds
Which example demonstrates shaping?
reinforcement (repeated) of each successive step. When learning to walk, a child learns to pull
itself up, to stand, and finally walk through reinforcement of each successive step.
What is a fixed interval
reinforcement schedule and a example?
set amount of time between occurrences of something like a reward, result, or review. Receiving
$5 in allowance each week for completing all assigned chores.
Taste aversion is an example that demonstrates how (what)
influence can limit conditioning.
Biological
Consider the stages of psychosexual development. Name the stage of infant development in
which a baby is ruled almost entirely by the id, but learns delayed gratification during the
weaning process.
Oral stage
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
What is a likely symptom of schizophrenia?
Losing touch with reality
For what is The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used?
It is used by the psychiatric community to identify mental illness.
What is a likely symptom of a dissociative disorder?
Disturbances in perception
Which term refers to the abilities to recognize and to manage emotions?
Emotional intelligence
What nervous system gets you ready to fight or flee
Sympathetic
What nervous system acts to calm the body.
Parasympathetic
According to Paul Ekman, what are the basic
emotions?
Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise
Anti-psychotic medications are used to treat which symptoms of schizophrenia?
Positive and Negative
The psychological patients who are the least likely to get better tend to do what and what?
Think negatively and act hostile
Identify which of the following are valid types of therapy.
, Group
family
Relationship
Which of the following is an example of a
descriptive study?
A psychologist surveys a group of 200 military veterans to document the proportion of them
affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. ..which information is collected without changing the
environment (i.e., nothing is manipulated
If the results of an experiment are statistically significant then....
they can be used to support or reject hypotheses
Descriptive, correlational and experimental are the three types of what
confounds
Which example demonstrates shaping?
reinforcement (repeated) of each successive step. When learning to walk, a child learns to pull
itself up, to stand, and finally walk through reinforcement of each successive step.
What is a fixed interval
reinforcement schedule and a example?
set amount of time between occurrences of something like a reward, result, or review. Receiving
$5 in allowance each week for completing all assigned chores.
Taste aversion is an example that demonstrates how (what)
influence can limit conditioning.
Biological
Consider the stages of psychosexual development. Name the stage of infant development in
which a baby is ruled almost entirely by the id, but learns delayed gratification during the
weaning process.
Oral stage
