Psych Test 3 Updated Actual Questions and
Answers
1. What is most likely to interfere with creativity?
a. natural concepts
b. functional fixedness
c. divergent thinking
d. inductive reasoning - ✅✅b. functional fixedness
2. Jorge and Crystal's adult daughter, Florence, has recently moved back in with
them when she lost her job due to downsizing. Jorge and Crystal are experiencing
the ____.
a. parent trap
b. full nest
c. empty nest
d. departure phase - ✅✅b. full nest
3. Continuous schedules of reinforcement are to ____ as partial schedules of
reinforcement are to ____.
a. slower extinction rates; faster extinction rates
b. internal motivation; external motivation
c. faster extinction rates; slower extinction rates
d. classical conditioning; operant conditioning - ✅✅c. faster extinction rates;
slower extinction rates
4. The genetic tendency to learn certain responses very easily is called ____.
, a. acquisition
b. physiological cognition
c. biological conditioning
d. biological preparedness - ✅✅d. biological preparedness
5. According to Erik Erikson, an adolescent who does not successfully handle the
tasks of the identity stage will experience ____.
a. role confusion
b. stagnation
c. despair
d. inferiority - ✅✅role confusion
6. Bereavement is to ____ as grief is to ____.
a. the experience of dying; experiencing another person's death
b. the experience of losing a loved one; the emotional reaction to the loss
c. sadness; anger
d. the stage of depression in response to a terminal illness; the entire process of
dealing with death - ✅✅b. the experience of losing a loved one; the emotional
reaction to the loss
7. The dominant perspective in the nature-nurture debate today is called ____
a. genetics
b. interactionism
c. environmentalism
d. complementary functionalism - ✅✅b. interactionism
Answers
1. What is most likely to interfere with creativity?
a. natural concepts
b. functional fixedness
c. divergent thinking
d. inductive reasoning - ✅✅b. functional fixedness
2. Jorge and Crystal's adult daughter, Florence, has recently moved back in with
them when she lost her job due to downsizing. Jorge and Crystal are experiencing
the ____.
a. parent trap
b. full nest
c. empty nest
d. departure phase - ✅✅b. full nest
3. Continuous schedules of reinforcement are to ____ as partial schedules of
reinforcement are to ____.
a. slower extinction rates; faster extinction rates
b. internal motivation; external motivation
c. faster extinction rates; slower extinction rates
d. classical conditioning; operant conditioning - ✅✅c. faster extinction rates;
slower extinction rates
4. The genetic tendency to learn certain responses very easily is called ____.
, a. acquisition
b. physiological cognition
c. biological conditioning
d. biological preparedness - ✅✅d. biological preparedness
5. According to Erik Erikson, an adolescent who does not successfully handle the
tasks of the identity stage will experience ____.
a. role confusion
b. stagnation
c. despair
d. inferiority - ✅✅role confusion
6. Bereavement is to ____ as grief is to ____.
a. the experience of dying; experiencing another person's death
b. the experience of losing a loved one; the emotional reaction to the loss
c. sadness; anger
d. the stage of depression in response to a terminal illness; the entire process of
dealing with death - ✅✅b. the experience of losing a loved one; the emotional
reaction to the loss
7. The dominant perspective in the nature-nurture debate today is called ____
a. genetics
b. interactionism
c. environmentalism
d. complementary functionalism - ✅✅b. interactionism
