WGU Academy Intro to psych final
What type of Therapeutic drug is Xanax - ✔✔ correct answer Antianxiety
Who was a key figure in the development of Psychoanalysis - ✔✔ correct answer Freud
A 50-year-old person who has not ridden a bicycle since childhood gets on a bicycle and rides
effortlessly without even thinking about it. What type of memory is being used in this situation? -
✔✔ correct answer Implicit Memory
A firefighter hears the station alarm each time a fire is reported. Later, while fighting the fire, the
firefighter's heart is racing. According to Pavlov, which learned association is most likely to develop in
this scenario? - ✔✔ correct answer The firefighter learns to react with the same emotion of the fire
as hearing the alarm
Attraction includes three psychological determinants. Physical attractiveness and repeated contact
are two. What is the third determinant? - ✔✔ correct answer Similarity
A person makes a donation to a charity because it feels good. The person also receives a thank-you
gift and positive attention from peers. What explains this person's decision to donate? - ✔✔ correct
answer Social exchange theory
A group of individuals who are moderately opposed to the death penalty meet to discuss the issue.
After two hours of discussion, most find themselves more strongly opposed to the death penalty
than they were before the meeting. Which concept is this scenario an example of? - ✔✔ correct
answer Group polarization
According to psychodynamic psychology, what is depression the result of? - ✔✔ correct answer
Suppressed aggressive drives
Which disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder?
A. Bipolar Disorder B. Alzheimer's Disease C. Social Phobia D. DID - ✔✔ correct answer C. Social
Phobia
What does the hypothalamus influence? - ✔✔ correct answer Pleasure
Which disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder?
, WGU Academy Intro to psych final
A. Bipolar Disorder B. Schizophrenia C. DID D. PTSD - ✔✔ correct answer D. PTSD
What does the hippocampus influence? - ✔✔ correct answer Memory
What is an Eysenck personality dimension that is characterized by one's emotional response to
stimuli?
A. Psychoticism B. Neuroticism C. Extraversion D. Aggression - ✔✔ correct answer B. Neuroticism
Which therapeutic approach is effectively a laboratory for improving social relationships?
A. Cognitive Therapy B. Group Therapy C. Drug Therapy D. Humanistic Therapy - ✔✔ correct answer
B. Group Therapy
A teenager asks a parent for help with calculus homework. The parent has not solved calculus
problems in more than 20 years and remembers very little about it. Which concept corresponds to
this situation?
A. Interference B. Encoding Failure C. Storage Decay D. Motivative Forgetting - ✔✔ correct answer C.
Storage Decay
A therapist seeks to increase a client's self-awareness and self-acceptance, also known as person-
centered therapy based on Carl Roger's theory. Which theoretical orientation is this?
A. Cognitive B. Psychodynamic C. Behavioral D. Humanistic - ✔✔ correct answer D. Humanistic
How would a learning theorist characterize a child not saying a curse word after witnessing a sibling's
severe punishment for saying the curse word? - ✔✔ correct answer An Observationally Learned
Behavior
A therapist is helping clients become more aware of patterns of irrational negative thinking. The
therapist is encouraging the clients to replace negative thoughts with a more balanced perspective
and asks them to practice this new approach between treatment sessions. Which theoretical
orientation does this approach represent?
A. Cognitive-Behavioral B. Humanistic C. Interpersonal D. Psychodynamic - ✔✔ correct answer A.
Cognitive-Behavioral
Phineas Gage was involved in a serious railway construction accident in 1848. A steel rod went
through his left cheek and exited through the top of his head. After he recovered, people who knew
him noticed that his personality and behavior were different. Eventually, descriptions of Gage before
What type of Therapeutic drug is Xanax - ✔✔ correct answer Antianxiety
Who was a key figure in the development of Psychoanalysis - ✔✔ correct answer Freud
A 50-year-old person who has not ridden a bicycle since childhood gets on a bicycle and rides
effortlessly without even thinking about it. What type of memory is being used in this situation? -
✔✔ correct answer Implicit Memory
A firefighter hears the station alarm each time a fire is reported. Later, while fighting the fire, the
firefighter's heart is racing. According to Pavlov, which learned association is most likely to develop in
this scenario? - ✔✔ correct answer The firefighter learns to react with the same emotion of the fire
as hearing the alarm
Attraction includes three psychological determinants. Physical attractiveness and repeated contact
are two. What is the third determinant? - ✔✔ correct answer Similarity
A person makes a donation to a charity because it feels good. The person also receives a thank-you
gift and positive attention from peers. What explains this person's decision to donate? - ✔✔ correct
answer Social exchange theory
A group of individuals who are moderately opposed to the death penalty meet to discuss the issue.
After two hours of discussion, most find themselves more strongly opposed to the death penalty
than they were before the meeting. Which concept is this scenario an example of? - ✔✔ correct
answer Group polarization
According to psychodynamic psychology, what is depression the result of? - ✔✔ correct answer
Suppressed aggressive drives
Which disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder?
A. Bipolar Disorder B. Alzheimer's Disease C. Social Phobia D. DID - ✔✔ correct answer C. Social
Phobia
What does the hypothalamus influence? - ✔✔ correct answer Pleasure
Which disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder?
, WGU Academy Intro to psych final
A. Bipolar Disorder B. Schizophrenia C. DID D. PTSD - ✔✔ correct answer D. PTSD
What does the hippocampus influence? - ✔✔ correct answer Memory
What is an Eysenck personality dimension that is characterized by one's emotional response to
stimuli?
A. Psychoticism B. Neuroticism C. Extraversion D. Aggression - ✔✔ correct answer B. Neuroticism
Which therapeutic approach is effectively a laboratory for improving social relationships?
A. Cognitive Therapy B. Group Therapy C. Drug Therapy D. Humanistic Therapy - ✔✔ correct answer
B. Group Therapy
A teenager asks a parent for help with calculus homework. The parent has not solved calculus
problems in more than 20 years and remembers very little about it. Which concept corresponds to
this situation?
A. Interference B. Encoding Failure C. Storage Decay D. Motivative Forgetting - ✔✔ correct answer C.
Storage Decay
A therapist seeks to increase a client's self-awareness and self-acceptance, also known as person-
centered therapy based on Carl Roger's theory. Which theoretical orientation is this?
A. Cognitive B. Psychodynamic C. Behavioral D. Humanistic - ✔✔ correct answer D. Humanistic
How would a learning theorist characterize a child not saying a curse word after witnessing a sibling's
severe punishment for saying the curse word? - ✔✔ correct answer An Observationally Learned
Behavior
A therapist is helping clients become more aware of patterns of irrational negative thinking. The
therapist is encouraging the clients to replace negative thoughts with a more balanced perspective
and asks them to practice this new approach between treatment sessions. Which theoretical
orientation does this approach represent?
A. Cognitive-Behavioral B. Humanistic C. Interpersonal D. Psychodynamic - ✔✔ correct answer A.
Cognitive-Behavioral
Phineas Gage was involved in a serious railway construction accident in 1848. A steel rod went
through his left cheek and exited through the top of his head. After he recovered, people who knew
him noticed that his personality and behavior were different. Eventually, descriptions of Gage before
