Major Field Test UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A child with an IQ of 63 would most likely be diagnosed with
A. Mild mental retardation
B. Severe mental retardation
C. Profound mental retardation
D. Moderate mental retardation
E. Borderline mental retardation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
A phenomenological view of personality asserts that type theory neglects the
A. superego
B. self
C. supernatural
D. proprium
E. id - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B
Which of the following is one of the sixteen major diagnostic categories used in the DSM-IV
A. borderline disorders
B. paranoid disorders
C. obsessive-compulsive disorders
D. factious disorders
E. panic disorders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D
What is the key distinction between classical conditioning and operant conditioning
A. operant conditioning attempts to pair an unrelated stimulus and response, whereas
classical condition attempts to extinguish such pairings
B. operant conditioning focuses on rewards, whereas classical conditioning focuses on
punishment
C. operant conditioning attempts to pair an unrelated S and R, whereas classical conditioning
underscores the consequences of behavior
,D. operant conditioning emphasizes the consequences of behavior, whereas classical
conditioning emphasizes the association between stimuli
E. operant conditioning is used in human therapy, whereas classical conditioning is used only
with other animals - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D
A child in Piaget's pre-operational stage is given a toy and attempts to eat it. This child is
demonstrating
A. generalization
B. accommodation
C. assimilation
D. transition
E. overextension - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C
Which of the following is NOT true of systematic desensitization
A. the technique is attributed to Joseph Wolpe
B. it is a highly effective treatment for phobias
C. it employs counterconditioning principles
D. it reduces anxiety
E. it employs operant conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- E
If the GRE Psychology Subject Test had a standard error of zero, then a test taker that took
the test two times would necessarily receive
A. a score equivalent to a z-score of 1 each time
B. the same score on each test
C. two scores that correlated perfectly with the test takers aptitude
D. two scores that were above the mean
E. two perfect scores - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B
Deutsch used the "prisoners dilemma" to study what social phenomenon
A. conformity vs reactance
B. attribution
, C. cooperation vs competition
D. stereotypes
E. bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C
A brooding herring gull is presented with various eggs of differing size and coloration. She
can only incubate one. The egg that she chooses will most likely be
A. closest to her nest
B. an exact replica of a herring gull egg
C. a supernormal sign stimulus
D. extremely small in size
E. not colored - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C
Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure
of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the
A. innate surface structure ability
B. innate capability index
C. prosody index
D. language acquisition device
E. collective endowment device - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D
Two major dimensions of personality hypothesized by Hans Eysenck are
A. stability and introversion
B. masculinity and femininity
C. stability and masculinity
D. internal control and external control
E. extraversion and repression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
According to Erik Erikson, a young adult would me most concerned with which of the
following issues
A. identity
B. sex-typed behavior
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A child with an IQ of 63 would most likely be diagnosed with
A. Mild mental retardation
B. Severe mental retardation
C. Profound mental retardation
D. Moderate mental retardation
E. Borderline mental retardation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
A phenomenological view of personality asserts that type theory neglects the
A. superego
B. self
C. supernatural
D. proprium
E. id - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B
Which of the following is one of the sixteen major diagnostic categories used in the DSM-IV
A. borderline disorders
B. paranoid disorders
C. obsessive-compulsive disorders
D. factious disorders
E. panic disorders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D
What is the key distinction between classical conditioning and operant conditioning
A. operant conditioning attempts to pair an unrelated stimulus and response, whereas
classical condition attempts to extinguish such pairings
B. operant conditioning focuses on rewards, whereas classical conditioning focuses on
punishment
C. operant conditioning attempts to pair an unrelated S and R, whereas classical conditioning
underscores the consequences of behavior
,D. operant conditioning emphasizes the consequences of behavior, whereas classical
conditioning emphasizes the association between stimuli
E. operant conditioning is used in human therapy, whereas classical conditioning is used only
with other animals - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D
A child in Piaget's pre-operational stage is given a toy and attempts to eat it. This child is
demonstrating
A. generalization
B. accommodation
C. assimilation
D. transition
E. overextension - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C
Which of the following is NOT true of systematic desensitization
A. the technique is attributed to Joseph Wolpe
B. it is a highly effective treatment for phobias
C. it employs counterconditioning principles
D. it reduces anxiety
E. it employs operant conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- E
If the GRE Psychology Subject Test had a standard error of zero, then a test taker that took
the test two times would necessarily receive
A. a score equivalent to a z-score of 1 each time
B. the same score on each test
C. two scores that correlated perfectly with the test takers aptitude
D. two scores that were above the mean
E. two perfect scores - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B
Deutsch used the "prisoners dilemma" to study what social phenomenon
A. conformity vs reactance
B. attribution
, C. cooperation vs competition
D. stereotypes
E. bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C
A brooding herring gull is presented with various eggs of differing size and coloration. She
can only incubate one. The egg that she chooses will most likely be
A. closest to her nest
B. an exact replica of a herring gull egg
C. a supernormal sign stimulus
D. extremely small in size
E. not colored - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C
Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure
of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the
A. innate surface structure ability
B. innate capability index
C. prosody index
D. language acquisition device
E. collective endowment device - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D
Two major dimensions of personality hypothesized by Hans Eysenck are
A. stability and introversion
B. masculinity and femininity
C. stability and masculinity
D. internal control and external control
E. extraversion and repression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
According to Erik Erikson, a young adult would me most concerned with which of the
following issues
A. identity
B. sex-typed behavior
