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A final exam for PSY 101, General Psychology. The exam requires the use of Respondus LockDown Browser and Webcam. It consists of 34 questions and has a time limit of 120 minutes. The questions cover various topics in psychology, including experiments, statistics, biopsychosocial model, multiple intelligences, myelination, emotion theories, reinforcement schedules, and parenting styles.
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What are two features that are essential to experiments? Your Answer: have a group of participants and elaborate a plan how to conduct the experiment. Manipulation and control In a research study, Doctor Akiva assigns some participants to drink 1 cup of coffee before doing a manual dexterity task and other participants to drink 3 cups of coffee before doing a manual dexterity task to test if caffeine affects performance. What is the dependent variable? Your Answer: performance Performance on the manual dexterity task statistics summarize data from a sample, whereas statistics allow researchers to generalize to a broader population. Your Answer: Descriptive inferential Descriptive; inferential What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics? Your Answer: Descriptive statistics summarize data from a sample, inferential generalize the results to the population. Descriptive: summarize a sample of information Inferential: generalize to a population
Paul has recently returned from active military deployment in a warzone, and is concerned that he might be experiencing PTSD. He sees a military therapist and reports that the most disturbing symptom is jumpiness… he feels like he’s responding to everything as if it’s a threat. His therapist is using the bio-psycho-social model, and identifies his heightened startle response as a issue. Your Answer: Psychological. Biological Max has been diagnosed with ADHD, and his doctor has prescribed him Adderall to help manage his symptoms. According to the biopsychosocial model, Max’s doctor is most focused on factors. Your Answer: Biological Biological A psychological researcher is interested in adolescent eating disorders and specifically investigates changes in levels of neurotransmitters that accompany eating disorders. Referring to the bio-psycho-social model, which part of the model is she most likely using? Your Answer: Biological Biological Dr. Solman is a developmental psychologist who researches the physical changes adolescents experience as they enter puberty. If she is using the bio-psycho-social model, her research would be focused on the aspect. Your Answer: Biological
Biological A psychological researcher is interested in adolescent eating disorders and thinks that the increased use of social media has changed teens’ body image, leading to an increase in eating disorders. Referring to the bio-psycho-social model, which part of the model is she most likely using? Your Answer: Social Social Using the biopsychosocial model, address the risk factors for development of anorexia nervosa. How might the risk factors be biological? Psychological? Social? Your Answer: Anorexia nervosa is a serious problem for the individual suffering with this eating disorder, we can address the risk factors using the biopsychosocial model: the biological factors can be an organic sickness like vomit, cancer, chemotherapy. Psychological factors could be depression, the individual doesn't like his body image. The social factors could be that the individual is looking for the body ideal, he/she want to be liked and loved by the others. Biological: genetic factors (close relatives with ED Psychological: perfectionism, body image dissatisfaction, anxiety disorder Social: media, body ideal, What do psychologists mean when then use the term “bio-psycho-social”? Identify a behavior you have done, and then use the bio-psycho-social model to address three types of influences on that behavior. Be sure to use all three parts of the model. Your Answer:
Bodily-kinesthetic Practical What is myelination and what does it do? Your Answer: Myelination is the substance that covers the neurones, it has a role to conduct the information. Fatty sheath the covers the neuron and speeds up neural message transfer The Facial Feedback Hypothesis supports which theory of emotion? Correct Answer James-Lange Cannon-Bard Schachter’s Two-factor Locus of control Which of the following Freudian concepts is defined as completely unconscious and involves the satisfaction of basic needs and wants?
Id Ego Super Ego Oral Current definitions of intelligence usually emphasize three components. What are they? Your Answer: Intelligence is how to solve problems, a good problem solver can use backward solution to resolve the problem, we can also face a big problem by dividing it on small portions than take care of it one by one, we may also solve problems by analogy, if we already experience similaire problems. (1) Possessing knowledge (2) Ability to apply knowledge (3) Ability to adapt to different situations Symptoms of schizophrenia can be described as positive, negative, or disorganized? What to these categories mean? What are examples of each of these types? Your Answer: Schizophrenia is psychotic disorder, the patient lose connection with the reality, he may be in one of these categories:
Primary and secondary reiforsers are both reinforcers , motivations to go forward. Primary reinforcer comes from oneself inner, they belongs to yourself, you get motivated to do something for yourself. like learning playing a guitar because you love music and you enjoy it. secondary reinforcer, the motivation is secondary, it's not necessary something that you love, so it could be money or something else. Compare: both serve to increase behavior; Contrast: primary reinforcers are biological whereas secondary reinforcers are learned (3 points). Appropriate examples need to address these definitions (2 points). Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory suggests the concept of oral fixation. Give an example of a fixation behavior. What would that behavior indicate? Your Answer: Oral fixation, the individual smoking Thumb-sucking, nail-biting, smoking, etc. Briefly identify and describe Diana Baumrind’s four parenting styles. Your Answer:
True or false: The most powerful way to cause a phase shift is bright light exposure. True False Using signal detection theory, give a personal example of how the degree of background stimulation might prevent you from sensing something. Your Answer: Example must focus on environmental distractions Maria is in the middle of planning her wedding, which is several months away. Although she’s excited, she still experiences stress about the whole event. What type of stressor is she most likely experiencing? Catastrophe Life change Daily hassle Threat
John believes that any time he is feeling negative emotions, he needs to release all those negative feelings, but this behavior appears to be damaging his marriage. Based on what you learned about the myth of catharsis, what could you tell Mary to help her save her marriage? Include at least one reason catharsis is not the best response, and at least one alternate suggestion. Your Answer: it's wrong what john is doing, when he released his negative emotions he makes more damage because he reharsh them and makes himself angier, he should calm down and cool off before talking about his negative emotions, he may write down what he thinks then strait whats wrong later, Catharsis is not a good response because: Venting anger often creates harm instead of helping; talking about negative emotions rehashes them and makes it less likely you’ll get over them (2 point). Alternate suggestions: Communicate once you have calmed down a little; privately write about your anger to explore your thoughts and feelings (2 point). Level of detail (1 point) You are a nurse trying to get a cardiac patient to make some lifestyle changes. The patient believes that his behavior doesn’t matter because when his time is up, it’s up, and there’s nothing he can do about it. Does he have an internal or an external locus of control? What could you tell him to motivate him to make some lifestyle changes? Your Answer: He has external locus of control, he should change his behavior and become helpful because more he feels happy and motivated more his life expection will be better. In the other hand if he has relatives and friends he should think about them and do his best to go back and enjoy his time with them. External (1 point). Appeal to his desire to survive, to see his grandkids, share the fact that research indicates that people who believe they can change survive longer. 2 points for a sufficiently detailed answer. What is intrinsic motivation? Describe an example of a time you were intrinsically motivated to accomplish something. Be sure to use sufficient detail. Your Answer: intrinsic motivation is when you are motivated to something for yoursleves, it comes from you.
extrinsic motivation is when somebody is pushing you, motivates you to do something , it could be parents, friends. Intrinsic motivation comes from within you (1 point). 2 points for a sufficiently detailed example. Explain the difference between nature and nurture human development and provide an example of each. Your Answer: nature is the natural developement Nature: biological / genetic influences Nurture: environmental influences Example should be detailed enough to demonstrate understanding
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