FINAL EXAM 2004 QUESTIONS AND
ALL CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
UPDATE.
b - Answer 1. The longer an individual is exposed to a strong odor, the less aware of the odor
the individual becomes. This phenomenon is known as sensory
a. acuity.
b. adaptation.
c. awareness.
d. reception.
e. overload.
d - Answer 2. Which type of psychologist would be interested primarily in studying whether
people behave differently in groups than they do when alone?
a. Experimental
b. Cognitive
c. Developmental
d. Social
e. Clinical
a - Answer 3. The basic purpose of the DSM-IV-TR is to
a. provide a set of diagnostic categories for classifying psychological disorders.
b. provide a clear distinction between neurosis and psychosis.
c. describe the psychoanalytic approach to psychological disorders.
d. describe internal personality factors that are involved in psychological disorders.
e. identify childhood experiences that contribute to psychological disorders.
e - Answer 4. An individual survives a period of captivity and exhibits behaviors that include
anxiety, inability to concentrate, depression, edginess, and the reexperience of stressful events.
These symptoms illustrate which of the following disorders?
a. Generalized anxiety
b. Major depression
,c. Hypochondriasis
d. Histrionic
e. Posttraumatic stress
d - Answer 5. Which of the following theoretical frameworks would argue most strongly that
a healthy child will choose what is good for his or her growth?
a. Social learning theory
b. Psychoanalytic
c. Behavioral
d. Humanistic
e. Psychodynamic
a - Answer 6. The ability to choose specific stimuli to learn about, while filtering out or
ignoring other information, is called
a. selective attention.
b. subliminal perception.
c. time-sharing.
d. masking.
e. shadowing
c - Answer 7. A two-year-old child is frightened by a small dog. A few weeks later the same
child sees a cat and becomes frightened. The child's reaction is most likely an example of which
of the following?
a. Stimulus discrimination
b. Second-order conditioning
c. Stimulus generalization
d. Sensory preconditioning
e. Spontaneous recovery
c - Answer 8. A researcher asks elementary, junior high, senior high, and college students to
define the term "cheating," and analyzes differences in their definitions across age groups. This
is an example of which type of study?
a. Longitudinal
, b. Sequential
c. Cross-sectional
d. Case study
e. Observational
c - Answer 9. Rudolph spends hours painting in his studio even though he sells few pictures.
Which of the following explains Rudolph's creative productivity?
a. Functional fixedness
b. Inductive reasoning
c. Intrinsic motivation
d. Incubation
e. Heuristics
d - Answer I. Prototype matching to organize information into categories II. Maintaining
information in memory through repetition III. Differential treatment, usually negative, based on
group membership IV. Recognizing an object as distinct from its surroundings V. Learning to
respond differently to similar stimuli
10. Which is a definition of discrimination that most directly applies to perception?
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. IV
e. V
e - Answer I. Prototype matching to organize information into categories II. Maintaining
information in memory through repetition III. Differential treatment, usually negative, based on
group membership IV. Recognizing an object as distinct from its surroundings V. Learning to
respond differently to similar stimuli
11. Which is a definition of discrimination that most directly applies to classical conditioning?
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. IV
ALL CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
UPDATE.
b - Answer 1. The longer an individual is exposed to a strong odor, the less aware of the odor
the individual becomes. This phenomenon is known as sensory
a. acuity.
b. adaptation.
c. awareness.
d. reception.
e. overload.
d - Answer 2. Which type of psychologist would be interested primarily in studying whether
people behave differently in groups than they do when alone?
a. Experimental
b. Cognitive
c. Developmental
d. Social
e. Clinical
a - Answer 3. The basic purpose of the DSM-IV-TR is to
a. provide a set of diagnostic categories for classifying psychological disorders.
b. provide a clear distinction between neurosis and psychosis.
c. describe the psychoanalytic approach to psychological disorders.
d. describe internal personality factors that are involved in psychological disorders.
e. identify childhood experiences that contribute to psychological disorders.
e - Answer 4. An individual survives a period of captivity and exhibits behaviors that include
anxiety, inability to concentrate, depression, edginess, and the reexperience of stressful events.
These symptoms illustrate which of the following disorders?
a. Generalized anxiety
b. Major depression
,c. Hypochondriasis
d. Histrionic
e. Posttraumatic stress
d - Answer 5. Which of the following theoretical frameworks would argue most strongly that
a healthy child will choose what is good for his or her growth?
a. Social learning theory
b. Psychoanalytic
c. Behavioral
d. Humanistic
e. Psychodynamic
a - Answer 6. The ability to choose specific stimuli to learn about, while filtering out or
ignoring other information, is called
a. selective attention.
b. subliminal perception.
c. time-sharing.
d. masking.
e. shadowing
c - Answer 7. A two-year-old child is frightened by a small dog. A few weeks later the same
child sees a cat and becomes frightened. The child's reaction is most likely an example of which
of the following?
a. Stimulus discrimination
b. Second-order conditioning
c. Stimulus generalization
d. Sensory preconditioning
e. Spontaneous recovery
c - Answer 8. A researcher asks elementary, junior high, senior high, and college students to
define the term "cheating," and analyzes differences in their definitions across age groups. This
is an example of which type of study?
a. Longitudinal
, b. Sequential
c. Cross-sectional
d. Case study
e. Observational
c - Answer 9. Rudolph spends hours painting in his studio even though he sells few pictures.
Which of the following explains Rudolph's creative productivity?
a. Functional fixedness
b. Inductive reasoning
c. Intrinsic motivation
d. Incubation
e. Heuristics
d - Answer I. Prototype matching to organize information into categories II. Maintaining
information in memory through repetition III. Differential treatment, usually negative, based on
group membership IV. Recognizing an object as distinct from its surroundings V. Learning to
respond differently to similar stimuli
10. Which is a definition of discrimination that most directly applies to perception?
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. IV
e. V
e - Answer I. Prototype matching to organize information into categories II. Maintaining
information in memory through repetition III. Differential treatment, usually negative, based on
group membership IV. Recognizing an object as distinct from its surroundings V. Learning to
respond differently to similar stimuli
11. Which is a definition of discrimination that most directly applies to classical conditioning?
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. IV
