PSYCH 100 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔antisocial personality disorder - ✔✔In the famous Harry Potter books, one of the
main characters is Voldemort. This individual kills at will, thinks only of his own needs,
and manipulates people into doing his bidding. He even uses magic to destroy anyone
who gets in his way! If Voldemort were seeing a psychologist, which diagnosis would be
the most appropriate?
✔✔Dissociative Identity Disorder - ✔✔What was previously known as Multiple
Personality Disorder is now known as ______.
✔✔flat affect - ✔✔Leanora recently found out that she had been awarded a scholarship
to the graduate school that was first on her list. Upon receiving the news, she did not
smile or show any emotion, and just said, "well that's good," sighed, and walked away.
This lack of emotional expression is a symptom of schizophrenia called __________.
✔✔Deduction: - ✔✔Reaching specific conclusions from general information.
If P, then Q. All X are Y. P is true. All Y are Z. Therefore, Q is true.Therefore, All X are
Z.
✔✔Induction: - ✔✔Making general conclusions from specific information.
Example- dog1, dog2, dog3, ... <DOG> conceptExample- Analogies (seeing underlying
general pattern in two apparently different situations)
✔✔Availability bias: - ✔✔Judging how likely something is by how easily it comes to
mind (how available in memory)
✔✔Confirmation bias: - ✔✔Looking for confirming evidence rather than disconfirming
✔✔Representativeness bias: - ✔✔A person or thing is judged to be a member of a
category, despite odds to the contrary.
✔✔Sir Francis Galton - ✔✔Whats his Name:
Inheritance of abilities (esp. genius)
Intelligence as an "innate" traitEarly tests of intelligence (as exceptional sensory and
perceptual skills inherited genetically)
1882: French law required public education for all kids
✔✔Binet - ✔✔Whats his name:
designed tests (tasks) to separate "retarded" from "normals"
Intelligence as an learned, academic skill1905: Developed test which had children do
tasks (follow commands, copy patterns, name objects, and put things in order).
He gave the test to Paris school children and created a standard based on his data.
Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
, ✔✔Jean Piaget - ✔✔Who is he:
Genetic Epistemology (the study of the development of knowledge)
Child as a scientist; "children are active thinkers, constantly trying to construct more
advanced understandings of the world"
Understandings = schemas(=theories)
Understanding develops in stages
✔✔Piaget's Stages - ✔✔Sensorimotor stage(ages 0-2) The child is concerned with
gaining motor control and learning about physical objects
Preoperational stage(ages 2 to 7) The child is preoccupied with verbal skills. At this
point the child can name objects and reason intuitively
Concrete operational stage(ages 7 to 12) The child begins to deal with abstract
concepts such as numbers and relationships
Formal operational stage(ages 12 to 15) The child begins to reason logically and
systematically.
✔✔Theory of mind - ✔✔People's common-sense knowledge about others and their own
mental activities
✔✔Phonemes - ✔✔any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified
language that distinguish one word from another
✔✔Morphemes - ✔✔Smallest unit that signals meaning (prefixes, suffixes, roots)
✔✔Lexemes: - ✔✔The set of all inflected forms of a word
Particular rules for combining morphemes
✔✔Syntax - ✔✔The classification of words into categories like nouns, verbs, adjectives
and so on, along with the rules for combining these.
✔✔Broca's aphasia: - ✔✔Inability to order words grammatically (no problem in
accessing appropriate words)
✔✔Wernicke's aphasia: - ✔✔Impaired word finding ability (but with intact grammar)
✔✔John Bowlby - ✔✔Who researched the theory of attachment?
✔✔Mary Ainsworth - ✔✔who created the Strange Situation Paradigm?
✔✔SECURE (65%): - ✔✔Explores freely when moms there, but are stressed when
mom leaves; Warmly greets and contacts mom at first reunion; Outgoing w/ strangers
when mom is present; Clear preference for mother
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔antisocial personality disorder - ✔✔In the famous Harry Potter books, one of the
main characters is Voldemort. This individual kills at will, thinks only of his own needs,
and manipulates people into doing his bidding. He even uses magic to destroy anyone
who gets in his way! If Voldemort were seeing a psychologist, which diagnosis would be
the most appropriate?
✔✔Dissociative Identity Disorder - ✔✔What was previously known as Multiple
Personality Disorder is now known as ______.
✔✔flat affect - ✔✔Leanora recently found out that she had been awarded a scholarship
to the graduate school that was first on her list. Upon receiving the news, she did not
smile or show any emotion, and just said, "well that's good," sighed, and walked away.
This lack of emotional expression is a symptom of schizophrenia called __________.
✔✔Deduction: - ✔✔Reaching specific conclusions from general information.
If P, then Q. All X are Y. P is true. All Y are Z. Therefore, Q is true.Therefore, All X are
Z.
✔✔Induction: - ✔✔Making general conclusions from specific information.
Example- dog1, dog2, dog3, ... <DOG> conceptExample- Analogies (seeing underlying
general pattern in two apparently different situations)
✔✔Availability bias: - ✔✔Judging how likely something is by how easily it comes to
mind (how available in memory)
✔✔Confirmation bias: - ✔✔Looking for confirming evidence rather than disconfirming
✔✔Representativeness bias: - ✔✔A person or thing is judged to be a member of a
category, despite odds to the contrary.
✔✔Sir Francis Galton - ✔✔Whats his Name:
Inheritance of abilities (esp. genius)
Intelligence as an "innate" traitEarly tests of intelligence (as exceptional sensory and
perceptual skills inherited genetically)
1882: French law required public education for all kids
✔✔Binet - ✔✔Whats his name:
designed tests (tasks) to separate "retarded" from "normals"
Intelligence as an learned, academic skill1905: Developed test which had children do
tasks (follow commands, copy patterns, name objects, and put things in order).
He gave the test to Paris school children and created a standard based on his data.
Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
, ✔✔Jean Piaget - ✔✔Who is he:
Genetic Epistemology (the study of the development of knowledge)
Child as a scientist; "children are active thinkers, constantly trying to construct more
advanced understandings of the world"
Understandings = schemas(=theories)
Understanding develops in stages
✔✔Piaget's Stages - ✔✔Sensorimotor stage(ages 0-2) The child is concerned with
gaining motor control and learning about physical objects
Preoperational stage(ages 2 to 7) The child is preoccupied with verbal skills. At this
point the child can name objects and reason intuitively
Concrete operational stage(ages 7 to 12) The child begins to deal with abstract
concepts such as numbers and relationships
Formal operational stage(ages 12 to 15) The child begins to reason logically and
systematically.
✔✔Theory of mind - ✔✔People's common-sense knowledge about others and their own
mental activities
✔✔Phonemes - ✔✔any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified
language that distinguish one word from another
✔✔Morphemes - ✔✔Smallest unit that signals meaning (prefixes, suffixes, roots)
✔✔Lexemes: - ✔✔The set of all inflected forms of a word
Particular rules for combining morphemes
✔✔Syntax - ✔✔The classification of words into categories like nouns, verbs, adjectives
and so on, along with the rules for combining these.
✔✔Broca's aphasia: - ✔✔Inability to order words grammatically (no problem in
accessing appropriate words)
✔✔Wernicke's aphasia: - ✔✔Impaired word finding ability (but with intact grammar)
✔✔John Bowlby - ✔✔Who researched the theory of attachment?
✔✔Mary Ainsworth - ✔✔who created the Strange Situation Paradigm?
✔✔SECURE (65%): - ✔✔Explores freely when moms there, but are stressed when
mom leaves; Warmly greets and contacts mom at first reunion; Outgoing w/ strangers
when mom is present; Clear preference for mother
