PSYC 341 Quiz 1 | Complete Solution

Liberty University PSYC 341 Quiz 1 | Complete Solution

Attempt Score

50 out of 50 points  

• Question 1

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Which of the following statements is true about theory?

• Question 2

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What is the relationship between a useful theory and research data?

• Question 3

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• Question 4

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A researcher uses the number of times a person smiles at others as a measure of friendliness. This an example of

• Question 5

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The personalities, cognitive processes, developmental histories, and social experiences of personality theorists help shape their theories. The discipline that deals with these factors is called

• Question 6

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Which of the following theories emphasizes that what people think, feel, and do is always an interaction between nature and nurture?

• Question 7

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_____ assume that not only are people driven by a search for meaning, but also that negative experiences such as failure, awareness of death, death of a loved one, and anxiety, are part of the human condition and can foster psychological growth.

• Question 8

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A test that can accurately divide extraverts from introverts is said to have

• Question 9

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Which of the following statements is true about descriptive research?

• Question 10

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Which of the following terms is defined as an educated guess or prediction scientific enough for its validity to be tested through the use of the scientific method?

• Question 11

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A useful theory must be falsifiable, which means that

• Question 12

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A theory may be set aside when it

• Question 13

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Which of the following statements is true about psychodynamic theories?

• Question 14

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Which of the following statements highlights the role of theory within science?

• Question 15

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 Which of the following statements is true about a reliable test?

• Question 16

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The extent that a test predicts some future behavior is referred to as

• Question 17

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Which of the following statements best characterizes the relationship between a theory and a hypothesis?

• Question 18

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Which of the following is not a dimension used by the authors to assess a theorist’s concept of humanity?

• Question 19

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The _____ perspective argues that how one thinks about oneself and other people, as well as the assumptions one makes and the strategies one uses for solving problems, are the keys to understanding differences between people.

• Question 20

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Statements formed in an if-then framework are most likely

• Question 21

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_____ focused on the importance of early childhood experience and on relationships with parents as guiding forces that shape personality development.

• Question 22

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A set of related assumptions that allows scientists to use logical deductive reasoning to formulate testable hypotheses is

• Question 23

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Which of the following statements is true about humanistic-existential theories?

• Question 24

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Which of the following statements is true about personality theories?

• Question 25

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Part of the internal consistency of a theory is

• Question 26

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Freud believed that instincts are characterized by all of the following except

• Question 27

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Since early in his adolescence, Freud had a strong desire to

• Question 28

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According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following is the object of sexual instinct?

• Question 29

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Dreams of patients suffering from traumatic neuroses, or posttraumatic stress disorder, follow the Freudian principle of

• Question 30

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Freud’s notion of the Oedipus complex is compounded, or made more complicated, by the

• Question 31

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Freud believed that a little girl’s Oedipal wish for a baby is a substitute for the

• Question 32

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According to Sigmund Freud, whenever the ego is threatened by undesirable id impulses, it protects itself by _____ those impulses; that is, it forces threatening feelings into the unconscious.

• Question 33

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Freud believed that boys and girls have different psychosexual development because of

• Question 34

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From a Freudian perspective, psychological maturity might be characterized by

• Question 35

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Which of the following terms is defined as a defense mechanism whereby a person returns to an earlier stage to protect the ego against anxiety?

• Question 36

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Which of the following statements is true about the ego?

• Question 37

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Freud’s three levels of mental life are

• Question 38

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According to Sigmund Freud, areas of the body especially capable of producing sexual pleasure are called

• Question 39

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Freud held that ideas in the preconscious originate from.

• Question 40

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Which of the following is an example of Sigmund Freud’s notion of projection?

• Question 41

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Freud claimed that pleasure-seeking people with no thought of what is reasonable or proper are dominated by the

• Question 42

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Freud saw himself primarily as a

• Question 43

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The transformation of instinctual drives into socially productive forces such as art, science, and religion is what Freud called

• Question 44

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According to Freud, the ego is

• Question 45

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Freud claimed that during the Oedipal period, a boy

• Question 46

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Trained psychoanalysts can interpret dreams

• Question 47

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Which of the following is the most basic Freudian defense mechanism?

• Question 48

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According to Freud, dreams have meaning on two levels. The more important level concerns the

• Question 49

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Seeing deficiencies in others that one unconsciously feels within oneself is an example of which Freudian defense mechanism?

• Question 50

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According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following statements is true about condensation and displacement?