PSY 1010 Exam 3 University of Utah Questions With
Perfect Solutions
A child learns that when you pull on objects, they come closer. So, the child
pulls on the cat's tail, which results in the cat shrieking and running away. The
child then adjusts their schema to "only inanimate objects come closer when I
pull on them, not animate objects." Correct Answer - accommodation
Agreeableness Correct Answer - A person scoring high with this
personality trait is softhearted, trusting, helpful, uncooperative, a person who
scores low on this personality is ruthless and suspiscious
Aging Correct Answer - Longitudinal study shows that there is a
significant decline in performance but not so much in verbal. Speed of
processing and short-term memory decline as well. People lose one skill at a
time
Ambivalent attachment style Correct Answer - When a caregiver leaves a
child, the child is distressed, often crying and throwing tantrums but when the
caregiver returns the child responds negatively. This is a result of
unpredictable caregiver. 15% of children are like this
Amygdala Correct Answer - Part of the brain heavily involved with
emotion and production of emotional responses
Animism Correct Answer - The belief that inanimate objects (not living)
have feelings, thoughts, and have the mental characteristics and qualities of
living things
Assimilation Correct Answer - The child who used accommodation about
pulling an animate and inanimate object applies this same thing to a novel
stimulus like a ball or rattle.
Attachment Correct Answer - Strong enduring affectional tie between
infants and caregivers that is specific to and discriminating among different
caregivers
, Attention and Self Concept Correct Answer - A person pays attention to
themselves and the things they do, resulting in them building up knowledge of
their own behaviors, traits and other personal characteristics.
Avoidant attachment style Correct Answer - A baby has no change in
behavior and does not show distress once the caregiver leaves, who is either
consistently intrusive or overstimulating or consistently disinterested, and
ignores the caregiver when they return
Biological bases of Personality Correct Answer - Each of the Big Five is
heritable to a degree, with extraversion being the highest and agreeableness
the lowest, and temperament is visible early on. Evidence of change in
personality from TBI, separated twins just as similar as twins raised together
Bowlby Correct Answer - Ethological theory: regulation of emotions
through attachment promotes survival.
Attachment styles:
Secure - separation distress, settled at reunion
Avoidant - no distress, slow reunion
Ambivalent - hard to comfort, separation distress
Disorganized - inconsistent
Cannon-Bard Correct Answer - Students of James-Lange proposed
emotion works by having a stimulus, then emotion is experienced, which is
followed by a specific physiological state
Cognitive Development Correct Answer - Resulted from studys by Jean
Piaget, it is the process by which children and infants gain the ability to think
and understand
Concrete operations Correct Answer - Stage of cognitive development that
begins at about 6 years and ends at about 11 years, during which children
learn about how actions, or operations, can transform the concrete objects of
the physical world.
conflict resolution Correct Answer - Repair is most important thing about
conflict resolution
Perfect Solutions
A child learns that when you pull on objects, they come closer. So, the child
pulls on the cat's tail, which results in the cat shrieking and running away. The
child then adjusts their schema to "only inanimate objects come closer when I
pull on them, not animate objects." Correct Answer - accommodation
Agreeableness Correct Answer - A person scoring high with this
personality trait is softhearted, trusting, helpful, uncooperative, a person who
scores low on this personality is ruthless and suspiscious
Aging Correct Answer - Longitudinal study shows that there is a
significant decline in performance but not so much in verbal. Speed of
processing and short-term memory decline as well. People lose one skill at a
time
Ambivalent attachment style Correct Answer - When a caregiver leaves a
child, the child is distressed, often crying and throwing tantrums but when the
caregiver returns the child responds negatively. This is a result of
unpredictable caregiver. 15% of children are like this
Amygdala Correct Answer - Part of the brain heavily involved with
emotion and production of emotional responses
Animism Correct Answer - The belief that inanimate objects (not living)
have feelings, thoughts, and have the mental characteristics and qualities of
living things
Assimilation Correct Answer - The child who used accommodation about
pulling an animate and inanimate object applies this same thing to a novel
stimulus like a ball or rattle.
Attachment Correct Answer - Strong enduring affectional tie between
infants and caregivers that is specific to and discriminating among different
caregivers
, Attention and Self Concept Correct Answer - A person pays attention to
themselves and the things they do, resulting in them building up knowledge of
their own behaviors, traits and other personal characteristics.
Avoidant attachment style Correct Answer - A baby has no change in
behavior and does not show distress once the caregiver leaves, who is either
consistently intrusive or overstimulating or consistently disinterested, and
ignores the caregiver when they return
Biological bases of Personality Correct Answer - Each of the Big Five is
heritable to a degree, with extraversion being the highest and agreeableness
the lowest, and temperament is visible early on. Evidence of change in
personality from TBI, separated twins just as similar as twins raised together
Bowlby Correct Answer - Ethological theory: regulation of emotions
through attachment promotes survival.
Attachment styles:
Secure - separation distress, settled at reunion
Avoidant - no distress, slow reunion
Ambivalent - hard to comfort, separation distress
Disorganized - inconsistent
Cannon-Bard Correct Answer - Students of James-Lange proposed
emotion works by having a stimulus, then emotion is experienced, which is
followed by a specific physiological state
Cognitive Development Correct Answer - Resulted from studys by Jean
Piaget, it is the process by which children and infants gain the ability to think
and understand
Concrete operations Correct Answer - Stage of cognitive development that
begins at about 6 years and ends at about 11 years, during which children
learn about how actions, or operations, can transform the concrete objects of
the physical world.
conflict resolution Correct Answer - Repair is most important thing about
conflict resolution
