FINAL EXAM PSYCHOLOGY QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
GRE (General Test) - CORRECT ANSWER -The Graduate Record Exam is a standardized test you
must take in order to apply to most graduate school programs. The GRE General Test measures
the skills that you have acquired over the high school and college years. While the GRE is only
one of several criteria that graduate schools use to evaluate your application, it is one of the
most important. The GRE General Test contains sections that measure verbal, quantitative, and
analytical writing skills.
CV - CORRECT ANSWER -A curriculum vitae (CV) provides a summary of one's experience and
skills. Typically CVs are longer than resumes (at least two or three pages). Within the United
States, people in academia and medicine tend to use CVs rather than resumes. CVs include
information on one's academic background, including relevant courses completed, teaching
experience, degrees, research, awards, publications, presentations, and other achievements.
Theoretical Allegiance - CORRECT ANSWER -the degree of a researcher's loyalty to a specific
theory of behavior change
Most common theoretical categories include dynamic, cognitive, behavioral, and
pharmacological
Industry Allegiance - CORRECT ANSWER -in medical research - high correlations between the
industry sponsor of research and the pro-industry outcome of this research
Emil Kraepelin - CORRECT ANSWER -argued that physical factors, such as fatigue, are responsible
for mental dysfunction. He constructed the first modern system for classifying abnormal
behavior identifying various syndromes (clusters of symptoms), listing their physical causes,
discussing their expected course, and even measuring the effects of various drugs on abnormal
behavior.
Somatogenic perspective
, Somatogenic perspective - CORRECT ANSWER -the view that abnormal psychological
functioning has physical causes
Psychogenic perspective - CORRECT ANSWER -the view that the main causes of abnormal
functioning are psychological
Josef Breuer - CORRECT ANSWER -discovered that his patients sometimes awoke free of
hysterical symptoms after speaking candidly under hypnosis about past upsetting events.
•Breuer's work was joined by Freud's work which eventually led Freud to develop the theory of
psychoanalysis
Psychogenic perspective
Psychotropic medications - CORRECT ANSWER -drugs that primarily affect the brain and
alleviate many symptoms of mental dysfunction
Deinstiutionalization - CORRECT ANSWER -the releasing of hundreds of thousands of patients
from public mental hospitals
Tardive dyskinesia - CORRECT ANSWER -side effect of antipsychotic drugs - motor effects include
involuntary movements, especially involving the face, mouth, lips, and tongue - some show
twisting and sudden jerking movements of the arms or legs
Least restrictive care - CORRECT ANSWER -Today when severely impaired people do need
institutionalization, they are usually given short-term hospitalization, then ideally given
outpatient psychotherapy and medication in outpatient community programs.
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
GRE (General Test) - CORRECT ANSWER -The Graduate Record Exam is a standardized test you
must take in order to apply to most graduate school programs. The GRE General Test measures
the skills that you have acquired over the high school and college years. While the GRE is only
one of several criteria that graduate schools use to evaluate your application, it is one of the
most important. The GRE General Test contains sections that measure verbal, quantitative, and
analytical writing skills.
CV - CORRECT ANSWER -A curriculum vitae (CV) provides a summary of one's experience and
skills. Typically CVs are longer than resumes (at least two or three pages). Within the United
States, people in academia and medicine tend to use CVs rather than resumes. CVs include
information on one's academic background, including relevant courses completed, teaching
experience, degrees, research, awards, publications, presentations, and other achievements.
Theoretical Allegiance - CORRECT ANSWER -the degree of a researcher's loyalty to a specific
theory of behavior change
Most common theoretical categories include dynamic, cognitive, behavioral, and
pharmacological
Industry Allegiance - CORRECT ANSWER -in medical research - high correlations between the
industry sponsor of research and the pro-industry outcome of this research
Emil Kraepelin - CORRECT ANSWER -argued that physical factors, such as fatigue, are responsible
for mental dysfunction. He constructed the first modern system for classifying abnormal
behavior identifying various syndromes (clusters of symptoms), listing their physical causes,
discussing their expected course, and even measuring the effects of various drugs on abnormal
behavior.
Somatogenic perspective
, Somatogenic perspective - CORRECT ANSWER -the view that abnormal psychological
functioning has physical causes
Psychogenic perspective - CORRECT ANSWER -the view that the main causes of abnormal
functioning are psychological
Josef Breuer - CORRECT ANSWER -discovered that his patients sometimes awoke free of
hysterical symptoms after speaking candidly under hypnosis about past upsetting events.
•Breuer's work was joined by Freud's work which eventually led Freud to develop the theory of
psychoanalysis
Psychogenic perspective
Psychotropic medications - CORRECT ANSWER -drugs that primarily affect the brain and
alleviate many symptoms of mental dysfunction
Deinstiutionalization - CORRECT ANSWER -the releasing of hundreds of thousands of patients
from public mental hospitals
Tardive dyskinesia - CORRECT ANSWER -side effect of antipsychotic drugs - motor effects include
involuntary movements, especially involving the face, mouth, lips, and tongue - some show
twisting and sudden jerking movements of the arms or legs
Least restrictive care - CORRECT ANSWER -Today when severely impaired people do need
institutionalization, they are usually given short-term hospitalization, then ideally given
outpatient psychotherapy and medication in outpatient community programs.
