PSY 201 FINAL Questions with 100%
Correct Answers
Around Christmas time, Samantha sees her neighbor, Mr. Miller, dressed up as
Santa Claus at the mall. When she asks him, 'Are you Mr. Miller?' he responds,
'No, I'm Santa Claus!'" Which of the following questions would assess a child's
theory of mind in response to this story? Correct Answer: why does Mr. Miller say
that?
all of the following statements about brain development are true except
Correct Answer: the brain of a full-term newborn is fully developed.
A challenge to Piaget's theory of development takes issue with his argument
that: Correct Answer: individuals go through the developmental stages in the
same order
Your grandparents are increasingly focused on things that have emotional
meaning for them and have begun spending more time with a smaller circle of
friends. These developments are most consistent with: Correct Answer:
Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory.
Christie is unhappily married. She is likely to have: Correct Answer: worse
immune function than an otherwise similar, happily married woman
What is the influence of the environment on brain development? Correct
Answer: substantial; a broad range of environment factors affects brain
development
Which of the following conditions is a preventable birth defect? Correct Answer:
fetal alcohol syndrome
,John sees his aunt coming out of the hairdresser's one day. He thinks his aunt
looks really funny, because the hairdresser cut her hair much too short. When his
aunt asks him, "What do you think of my hair?" what will he respond? A child
who has achieved theory of mind will answer: Correct Answer: "it looks really
nice; I like it"
Harlow's research with infant monkeys demonstrated that: Correct Answer: fear
produces a preference for contact comfort over food
Why did Erikson emphasize that it's important to study the development that
occurs in adulthood and old age? Correct Answer: Development is continuous
and linear across all domains during this time.
Infantile amnesia refers to the observation that: Correct Answer: adults are
unable to remember things that occurred to them before about the age of 3
The research on the relationship between marriage, parenting, and happiness
can be confusing. What is the take-away message? Correct Answer: You should
do what makes you happy and not base your decision on what the research
says will make you happy.
Recent research has shown that infants have a primitive understanding of the
laws of motion. Which of the following phenomena is evidence that shows
infants understand the laws of motion? Correct Answer: newborns reach for
where the moving object will end up rather than where it started
Kelsey and Andreas are participating in the same two psychology experiments.
The first task is to listen to a list of numbers and repeat them back in the same
order. The second task is to determine how many prime numbers are on the list.
Kelsey has an IQ of 123 and Andreas has an IQ of 111. There ought to be a
________ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's performance on the
repetition task and a ________ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's
performance on the counting prime numbers task. Correct Answer: small; large
, ________ can lead to reinforcing racism or sexism. Correct Answer: schemas
You are startled when you pass an 18-wheeler driven by a woman. A woman
driver violates your ________ of a trucker. Correct Answer: schema
Which of the following concepts would Spearman agree with regarding
intelligence? Correct Answer: one intelligence factor operates in all intellectual
tasks
A black man and a white man with equal IQ scores are told that the test they
are about to take will directly measure their intelligence. If ________ becomes a
factor for the black man, he is likely to do ________ on the test than the white
man will. Correct Answer: tereotype threat; worse
The director of the school cafeteria discovers that students like chocolate chip
cookies much better than molasses cookies. To sell the molasses cookies, she
prices them at 25 cents each and continues to charge one dollar for the
chocolate chip cookies. When students keep buying far more chocolate chip
cookies, they are violating ________ theory, which is a ________ model of human
decision making. Correct Answer: expected utility; normative
You need to make a decision, but you must think quickly and don't consider all
the evidence. What type of thinking are you using? Correct Answer: heuristic
A(n) ________ is a(n) ________ of a sequence of events. Correct Answer: script;
schema
Correlations among test items that create clusters of related items have been
identified using: Correct Answer: factor analysis
Your neighbor is upset because you borrowed his car without asking him. He is
distressed because borrowing a car without asking is NOT part of our social:
Correct Answer: schema
Correct Answers
Around Christmas time, Samantha sees her neighbor, Mr. Miller, dressed up as
Santa Claus at the mall. When she asks him, 'Are you Mr. Miller?' he responds,
'No, I'm Santa Claus!'" Which of the following questions would assess a child's
theory of mind in response to this story? Correct Answer: why does Mr. Miller say
that?
all of the following statements about brain development are true except
Correct Answer: the brain of a full-term newborn is fully developed.
A challenge to Piaget's theory of development takes issue with his argument
that: Correct Answer: individuals go through the developmental stages in the
same order
Your grandparents are increasingly focused on things that have emotional
meaning for them and have begun spending more time with a smaller circle of
friends. These developments are most consistent with: Correct Answer:
Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory.
Christie is unhappily married. She is likely to have: Correct Answer: worse
immune function than an otherwise similar, happily married woman
What is the influence of the environment on brain development? Correct
Answer: substantial; a broad range of environment factors affects brain
development
Which of the following conditions is a preventable birth defect? Correct Answer:
fetal alcohol syndrome
,John sees his aunt coming out of the hairdresser's one day. He thinks his aunt
looks really funny, because the hairdresser cut her hair much too short. When his
aunt asks him, "What do you think of my hair?" what will he respond? A child
who has achieved theory of mind will answer: Correct Answer: "it looks really
nice; I like it"
Harlow's research with infant monkeys demonstrated that: Correct Answer: fear
produces a preference for contact comfort over food
Why did Erikson emphasize that it's important to study the development that
occurs in adulthood and old age? Correct Answer: Development is continuous
and linear across all domains during this time.
Infantile amnesia refers to the observation that: Correct Answer: adults are
unable to remember things that occurred to them before about the age of 3
The research on the relationship between marriage, parenting, and happiness
can be confusing. What is the take-away message? Correct Answer: You should
do what makes you happy and not base your decision on what the research
says will make you happy.
Recent research has shown that infants have a primitive understanding of the
laws of motion. Which of the following phenomena is evidence that shows
infants understand the laws of motion? Correct Answer: newborns reach for
where the moving object will end up rather than where it started
Kelsey and Andreas are participating in the same two psychology experiments.
The first task is to listen to a list of numbers and repeat them back in the same
order. The second task is to determine how many prime numbers are on the list.
Kelsey has an IQ of 123 and Andreas has an IQ of 111. There ought to be a
________ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's performance on the
repetition task and a ________ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's
performance on the counting prime numbers task. Correct Answer: small; large
, ________ can lead to reinforcing racism or sexism. Correct Answer: schemas
You are startled when you pass an 18-wheeler driven by a woman. A woman
driver violates your ________ of a trucker. Correct Answer: schema
Which of the following concepts would Spearman agree with regarding
intelligence? Correct Answer: one intelligence factor operates in all intellectual
tasks
A black man and a white man with equal IQ scores are told that the test they
are about to take will directly measure their intelligence. If ________ becomes a
factor for the black man, he is likely to do ________ on the test than the white
man will. Correct Answer: tereotype threat; worse
The director of the school cafeteria discovers that students like chocolate chip
cookies much better than molasses cookies. To sell the molasses cookies, she
prices them at 25 cents each and continues to charge one dollar for the
chocolate chip cookies. When students keep buying far more chocolate chip
cookies, they are violating ________ theory, which is a ________ model of human
decision making. Correct Answer: expected utility; normative
You need to make a decision, but you must think quickly and don't consider all
the evidence. What type of thinking are you using? Correct Answer: heuristic
A(n) ________ is a(n) ________ of a sequence of events. Correct Answer: script;
schema
Correlations among test items that create clusters of related items have been
identified using: Correct Answer: factor analysis
Your neighbor is upset because you borrowed his car without asking him. He is
distressed because borrowing a car without asking is NOT part of our social:
Correct Answer: schema
