Psychology 110 - Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Sexual Orientation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the direction of a person's
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emotional and erotic attraction towards members of the opposite sex,
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the same sex, or both sexes
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Gender - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the cultural, social, and psychological
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meanings that are associated with masculinity or femininity
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Gender Roles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the behaviors, attitudes, and
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personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine
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Gender Identity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a person's psychological sense
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of being male or female
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Social Learning Theory of Gender-Role Development - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-the theory that gender roles are acquired through the | | | | | | | | |
basic processes of learning, including reinforcement, punishment, and
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modeling
,Gender Schema Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the theory that
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gender-role development is influenced by the formation of schemas, or
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mental representations, of masculinity and femininity
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Personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-an individual's unique and
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relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
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Personality Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a theory that attempts to
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describe and explain similarities and differences in people's patterns of
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thinking, feeling, and behaving | | |
Psychoanalysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Sigmund Freud's theory of | | | | | | |
personality, which emphasizes unconscious determinants of behavior,
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sexual and aggressive instinctual drives, and the enduring effects of
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early childhood experiences on later personality development
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Free Association - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a psychoanalytical technique
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in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings, and
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mental images as they come to mind
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Unconscious - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-in Freud's theory, a term used to
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describe thoughts, feelings, wishes, and drives that are operating below
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the level of conscious awareness
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, Id - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Latin for "the it;" in Freud's theory, the
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completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks
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immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives; ruled by the
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pleasure principle |
Eros - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the self-preservation or life instinct,
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reflected in the expression of basic biological urges that perpetuate the
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existence of the individual and the species | | | | | |
Libido - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the psychological and emotional energy
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associated with expressions of sexuality; the sex drive
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Thanatos - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the death instinct, reflected in
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aggressive, destructive, and self-destructive actions | | | |
Pleasure Principal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the motive to obtain
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pleasure and avoid tension or discomfort; the most fundamental human
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motive and the guiding principle of the id
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Ego - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Latin for "I;" in Freud's theory, the partly
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conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts
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and behavior, and is most in touch with the demands of the external
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world
Correct Answers
Sexual Orientation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the direction of a person's
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emotional and erotic attraction towards members of the opposite sex,
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the same sex, or both sexes
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Gender - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the cultural, social, and psychological
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meanings that are associated with masculinity or femininity
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Gender Roles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the behaviors, attitudes, and
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personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine
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Gender Identity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a person's psychological sense
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of being male or female
| | | |
Social Learning Theory of Gender-Role Development - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-the theory that gender roles are acquired through the | | | | | | | | |
basic processes of learning, including reinforcement, punishment, and
| | | | | | | |
modeling
,Gender Schema Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the theory that
| | | | | | | |
gender-role development is influenced by the formation of schemas, or
| | | | | | | | | |
mental representations, of masculinity and femininity
| | | | |
Personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-an individual's unique and
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relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
| | | | | | |
Personality Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a theory that attempts to
| | | | | | | | |
describe and explain similarities and differences in people's patterns of
| | | | | | | | | |
thinking, feeling, and behaving | | |
Psychoanalysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Sigmund Freud's theory of | | | | | | |
personality, which emphasizes unconscious determinants of behavior,
| | | | | | |
sexual and aggressive instinctual drives, and the enduring effects of
| | | | | | | | | |
early childhood experiences on later personality development
| | | | | |
Free Association - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a psychoanalytical technique
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in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings, and
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mental images as they come to mind
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Unconscious - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-in Freud's theory, a term used to
| | | | | | | | | |
describe thoughts, feelings, wishes, and drives that are operating below
| | | | | | | | | |
the level of conscious awareness
| | | |
, Id - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Latin for "the it;" in Freud's theory, the
| | | | | | | | | | |
completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks
| | | | | | | |
immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives; ruled by the
| | | | | | | | | |
pleasure principle |
Eros - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the self-preservation or life instinct,
| | | | | | | |
reflected in the expression of basic biological urges that perpetuate the
| | | | | | | | | | |
existence of the individual and the species | | | | | |
Libido - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the psychological and emotional energy
| | | | | | | |
associated with expressions of sexuality; the sex drive
| | | | | | |
Thanatos - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the death instinct, reflected in
| | | | | | | |
aggressive, destructive, and self-destructive actions | | | |
Pleasure Principal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the motive to obtain
| | | | | | | |
pleasure and avoid tension or discomfort; the most fundamental human
| | | | | | | | |
motive and the guiding principle of the id
| | | | | | | |
Ego - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Latin for "I;" in Freud's theory, the partly
| | | | | | | | | | |
conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts
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and behavior, and is most in touch with the demands of the external
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world
