PSS120: Exam Prep | QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
ANSWERS // LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025 |100% PASS
In order to move away from egocentrism and toward the ability to represent another
person's mind in one's own, an individual must develop an implicit set of ideas about the
existence of mental states, such as beliefs and feelings, in oneself and others, known
as? - ✅✅Theory of mind.
Proximity plays an important role in attraction because? - ✅✅It allows people to get to
know one another and sets the stage for familiarity.
In negative reinforcement, an increase in behaviour follows? - ✅✅Removal of
something aversive.
Drive reduction theory argues that motivation is a function of? - ✅✅Drive and
reinforcement.
Lee's research is a classic example of a discipline that focuses on the influence of social
processes on the way people think, feel, and behave. Which discipline is this? -
✅✅Social psychology.
Which practice did the government endorse to replace protection and segregation? -
✅✅Assimilation.
Measurement is? - ✅✅A concrete way of assessing a variable.
What best states the results of the Harlow study, mentioned in your textbook that sets
out to explain how infant monkeys become emotionally attached to their mothers? -
✅✅The infants are drawn to their mothers by the security and comfort their mothers
provide.
In his classic series of experiments using rhesus monkeys, Harry Harlow observed that
the crucial element in forming attachment relationships in primates is? - ✅✅Contact
Comfort.
On the WAIS-III, the average IQ score ranges between? - ✅✅85-115.
,Insight is? - ✅✅The sudden understanding of the relationship between a problem and
a solution.
Learning a second language is? - ✅✅Easier for a child than an adult.
In the study of the impact of mood on memory mentioned in your textbook, Bower
hypnotised participants to feel either happy or sad. In this study, happiness and
sadness are the two? - ✅✅Conditions of the independent variable.
It is not uncommon to hear a current supermodel state that s/he was rarely asked out on
a date as an adolescent. According to your text, this is because? - ✅✅People tend to
choose partners they perceive to be of equal attractiveness to themselves.
Research shows that speed of processing correlates with? - ✅✅Academic
achievement.
Good psychological research should be? - ✅✅Grounded in theory and use
standardised procedures.
One of the limitations of the experimental method is? - ✅✅Difficulty in establishing
external validity.
Case studies are? - ✅✅Subject to more researcher bias than other approaches.
Although most studies conducted regarding the importance of physical attractiveness
imply that appearance is the most important criteria to almost everyone, this conclusion
is erroneous because? - ✅✅Most of these studies were conducted with university
students who tend to put a greater emphasis on appearance than do people in their
later twenties or older.
What is the importance of random sampling in survey research? - ✅✅To ensure that
survey results accurately reflect the population as a whole without introducing
systematic bias.
A researcher investigating dyslexia looks at various factors in the lives of dyslexic
children and finds the following correlations: +.25 correlation between degree of
dyslexia and number of relatives with dyslexia; +.15 correlation between degree of
dyslexia and parental alcoholism; -.35 correlation between degree of dyslexia and family
, income; 0 correlation between degree of dyslexia and number of siblings. Which of
these exhibits the strongest correlation with dyslexia? - ✅✅Family income.
In your textbook, the author discusses a study that investigates the kinds of boys who
are popular. The researchers hypothesised some popular kids are actually aggressive
kids who impress others with their 'toughness'. The dependent variable(s) in this study
is/are? - ✅✅Popularity and aggressiveness.
When using the term "Ailan Kaston", people from the Tiwi Islands are referring to? -
✅✅Island custom.
Severe intellectual disability reflect? - ✅✅Mostly reflects some biological anomaly.
In a positive co-relationship, the distribution of data points will? - ✅✅Move from lower
left to upper right.
Modern neuroimaging techniques use? - ✅✅Computer programs to transform data
from brain scans into images.
Cross-cultural studies is? - ✅✅Frequently use naturalistic observation methods.
You have an encyclopaedic knowledge of animal behaviour. In which culture are you
likely to reside? - ✅✅The Kalahari desert.
What emotion appears to be neither a positive nor a negative affect? - ✅✅Anger.
When is deception permitted? - ✅✅Only if the study is important enough to warrant it.
Ethics in research with animals: - ✅✅Balances the costs to the animal against the
benefits to humanity.
Your text mentions a study in which infants gaze into the faces of individuals rated as
"attractive" longer than into the faces of those rates as "unattractive." This study
provides evidence for? - ✅✅The assertion that there are some facial features that are
considered beautiful cross-culturally.
Testing hypotheses empirically is the context of? - ✅✅Justification.
Although it was not developed for this purpose, the IQ has become synonymous with? -
✅✅Being smart.
The process of operationalisation refers to? - ✅✅Turning an abstract concept into a
concrete variable.
ANSWERS // LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025 |100% PASS
In order to move away from egocentrism and toward the ability to represent another
person's mind in one's own, an individual must develop an implicit set of ideas about the
existence of mental states, such as beliefs and feelings, in oneself and others, known
as? - ✅✅Theory of mind.
Proximity plays an important role in attraction because? - ✅✅It allows people to get to
know one another and sets the stage for familiarity.
In negative reinforcement, an increase in behaviour follows? - ✅✅Removal of
something aversive.
Drive reduction theory argues that motivation is a function of? - ✅✅Drive and
reinforcement.
Lee's research is a classic example of a discipline that focuses on the influence of social
processes on the way people think, feel, and behave. Which discipline is this? -
✅✅Social psychology.
Which practice did the government endorse to replace protection and segregation? -
✅✅Assimilation.
Measurement is? - ✅✅A concrete way of assessing a variable.
What best states the results of the Harlow study, mentioned in your textbook that sets
out to explain how infant monkeys become emotionally attached to their mothers? -
✅✅The infants are drawn to their mothers by the security and comfort their mothers
provide.
In his classic series of experiments using rhesus monkeys, Harry Harlow observed that
the crucial element in forming attachment relationships in primates is? - ✅✅Contact
Comfort.
On the WAIS-III, the average IQ score ranges between? - ✅✅85-115.
,Insight is? - ✅✅The sudden understanding of the relationship between a problem and
a solution.
Learning a second language is? - ✅✅Easier for a child than an adult.
In the study of the impact of mood on memory mentioned in your textbook, Bower
hypnotised participants to feel either happy or sad. In this study, happiness and
sadness are the two? - ✅✅Conditions of the independent variable.
It is not uncommon to hear a current supermodel state that s/he was rarely asked out on
a date as an adolescent. According to your text, this is because? - ✅✅People tend to
choose partners they perceive to be of equal attractiveness to themselves.
Research shows that speed of processing correlates with? - ✅✅Academic
achievement.
Good psychological research should be? - ✅✅Grounded in theory and use
standardised procedures.
One of the limitations of the experimental method is? - ✅✅Difficulty in establishing
external validity.
Case studies are? - ✅✅Subject to more researcher bias than other approaches.
Although most studies conducted regarding the importance of physical attractiveness
imply that appearance is the most important criteria to almost everyone, this conclusion
is erroneous because? - ✅✅Most of these studies were conducted with university
students who tend to put a greater emphasis on appearance than do people in their
later twenties or older.
What is the importance of random sampling in survey research? - ✅✅To ensure that
survey results accurately reflect the population as a whole without introducing
systematic bias.
A researcher investigating dyslexia looks at various factors in the lives of dyslexic
children and finds the following correlations: +.25 correlation between degree of
dyslexia and number of relatives with dyslexia; +.15 correlation between degree of
dyslexia and parental alcoholism; -.35 correlation between degree of dyslexia and family
, income; 0 correlation between degree of dyslexia and number of siblings. Which of
these exhibits the strongest correlation with dyslexia? - ✅✅Family income.
In your textbook, the author discusses a study that investigates the kinds of boys who
are popular. The researchers hypothesised some popular kids are actually aggressive
kids who impress others with their 'toughness'. The dependent variable(s) in this study
is/are? - ✅✅Popularity and aggressiveness.
When using the term "Ailan Kaston", people from the Tiwi Islands are referring to? -
✅✅Island custom.
Severe intellectual disability reflect? - ✅✅Mostly reflects some biological anomaly.
In a positive co-relationship, the distribution of data points will? - ✅✅Move from lower
left to upper right.
Modern neuroimaging techniques use? - ✅✅Computer programs to transform data
from brain scans into images.
Cross-cultural studies is? - ✅✅Frequently use naturalistic observation methods.
You have an encyclopaedic knowledge of animal behaviour. In which culture are you
likely to reside? - ✅✅The Kalahari desert.
What emotion appears to be neither a positive nor a negative affect? - ✅✅Anger.
When is deception permitted? - ✅✅Only if the study is important enough to warrant it.
Ethics in research with animals: - ✅✅Balances the costs to the animal against the
benefits to humanity.
Your text mentions a study in which infants gaze into the faces of individuals rated as
"attractive" longer than into the faces of those rates as "unattractive." This study
provides evidence for? - ✅✅The assertion that there are some facial features that are
considered beautiful cross-culturally.
Testing hypotheses empirically is the context of? - ✅✅Justification.
Although it was not developed for this purpose, the IQ has become synonymous with? -
✅✅Being smart.
The process of operationalisation refers to? - ✅✅Turning an abstract concept into a
concrete variable.
