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PSY 395 Examination 1

Question 1

1.Which of the following completes the quote by Tony Kushner; “The smallest individual human unit is":

Select one:

a. Brother and sister.

b. The individual

c. Two people

d. Friends

e. Mother, father and child

Question 2

The first to urge scientists to identify the laws that govern mate selection was

Select one:

a. Skinner

b. James

c. Masters and Johnson.

d. Freud.

e. Darwin

Question 3

From the moment of conception, the person we become most dependent is our mother.

Select one:

True

False

Question 4

Interestingly, the gestation period for humans is one of the shortest of all species.

Select one:

True

False

Question 5

The text has shown that the substances a mother ingests during pregnancy don’t really affect the fetus.

Select one:

True

False

Question 6

According to the test, which best describes “dependency?”

Select one:

a. the degree to which we are affected by another’s behavior.

b. Needing, not wanting another person.

c. Survival by means of another person.

d. The notion that without another person, we cannot live for long.

Question 7

Which of the following best describes China’s “Dying Rooms?”

Select one:

a. Abortion .

b. Denial from the orphanage that the baby ever existed.

c. Adults dying because of disease.

d. Babies dying through lethal injection

Question 8

Unlike many other animals, the infant needs someone to care for it or it will likely die.

Select one:

True

False

Question 9

According James Baldwin, “social inheritance =____.”

Select one:

a. Social heredity

b. Cognitive desention.

c. Parental infrastructure

d. Hierarchy of needs.

e. economy and wealth.

Question 10

Impoverished children are no more likely to be at risk for problems than the well off children.

Select one:

True

False

Question 11

__ percent of poor mothers report that they have suffered severe violence at the hands of they childhood caretaker.

Select one:

a. One-third

b. Two-thirds.

c. Three-quarters.

d. half.

e. Ninty

Question 12

__ of poor mothers report that they have been sexually molested in their childhood.

Select one:

a. Three-quarters

b. One hundred

c. Two-thirds

d. One-third

e. Half.

Question 13

Regarding poor mothers; studies have shown that their children are more likely to be sexually molested then well to do children.

Select one:

True

False

Question 14

Dyads=

Select one:

a. Two friends.

b. Brother and sister.

c. three person groups.

d. Mother, father and child.

e. Two sisters.

Question 15

According to Baumeister and Leary: how many criteria are needed to fulfill our need to belong?

Select one:

a. two.

b. None

c. One.

d. Three.

e. Four

Question 16

Which of the following is not one of the criteria proposed by Baumeister and Leary to fulfill “our need to belong?”

Select one:

a. We must interact with others.

b. There must be concern for anothers well being.

c. We must have sexual relations with another.

Question 17

Which best describes “innate behavioral response systems?”

Select one:

a. quiting a job after a divorce

b. learned response sets.

c. Present at birth and thus unlearned.

d. Conditions set-forth by parents.

e. Learned emotions toward others.

Question 18

Harry Harlow=

Select one:

a. Studies on survival with only food and water.

b. Studies on death and dying.

c. studies on hate.

d. Studies on love.

e. studies on suicide

Question 19

Harlow did his studies on/with:

Select one:

a. Rats

b. children.

c. Monkeys.

d. Women only.

e. Adults.

Question 20

Bowlby=

Select one:

a. cognitive learning theory.

b. Attachment theory.

c. Nutrition and health.

d. Education and well-being.

e. Cognitive dissonance

Question 21

One difference between infant animals and infant children is that the animals rarely possess an innate proximity attachment mechanism.

Select one:

True

False

Question 22

Mary Ainsworth found that:

Select one:

a. Race has a great deal to do with "love."

b. Young children typically do not like being around their parents.

c. Young children are more comfortable when their caregiver is around

d. Dying adults need less love than healthy adults

e. Older adults need to be around young children to be happy.

Question 23

Bowlby’s finding have shown great consistency with Freud’s theory regarding the individuals early relationships and the importance they have.

Select one:

True

False

Question 24

“Temperament” refers to:

Select one:

a. Influence by inherited biology.

b. all of the above or below answers are correct.

c. Differences in brain neurochemistry

d. stable, differentiating emotional quality in childhood.

Question 25

According to the text, personality traits generally are believed to be acquired patterns of thought and behavior.

Select one:

True

False

Question 26

Meta-analysis:

Select one:

a. Many studies are combined to reach a more reliable conclusion.

b. both qualitative and quantitative

c. One study is compared to another.

d. a qualitative procedure.

e. a quantitative procedure.

Question 27

What did "Binta Jua” do that was remarkable in the structure of living systems.

Select one:

a. She killed her own 12 month child.

b. None of the above or below items are correct.

c. She provided day-care for hundreds of children.

d. She Developoed a children’s self-help test.

e. She cradled and cared for a fallen boy.

Question 28

Who is/was “Binta Jua?”

Select one:

a. no items here are correct

b. a doctor.

c. a high-school teacher.

d. An author.

e. A gorilla

Question 29

An individual’s “social network” is composed of his or her adversaries and enemies; ones that we rarely interact.

Select one:

True

False

Question 30

This is the term used to examine relational patterns within a group.

Select one:

a. None of the above or below is correct.

b. Mediating variable.

c. social networking.

d. Arrival theory.

e. In-grouping.

Question 31

According to the text, ____ is support a person believes they have given others.

Select one:

a. Voluntary support.

b. Haleoperidol support.

c. perceived support.

d. Differential support.

e. Enacted support.

Question 32

___ is support that we believe we have been given.

Select one:

a. Voluntary support.

b. Influx support.

c. perceived support.

d. Enacted support.

e. Indifferentated support.

Question 33

This is support that is given outside the individual’s awareness.

Select one:

a. Direct social support.

b. Indirect social support.

c. Absent social support.

d. invisible social support.

e. None of the above or below is correct.

Question 34

Here we have a focus on others to the exclusion of the self.

Select one:

a. Mitigated social support.

b. no items here are correct

c. Unmitigated communion.

d. Off-occasion social support.

e. provider theory.

Question 35

According to the text, our minds do affect our physical health.

Select one:

True

False

Question 36

Which of the following is someone experiencing “fight or flight” response not likely to experience?

Select one:

a. increased blood-pressure

b. A flushed face.

c. Increased adrenaline

d. Increased heart-rate.

e. A state of peaceful relaxation

Question 37

Stress is to process as stressor is to ____.

Select one:

a. Event.

b. Linking.

c. infrastructure.

d. Balance.

e. no items here are correct

Question 38

Which of the following best describes “psychosomatic medicine?”

Select one:

a. The interaction between family and income.

b. The interaction between drugs and the body.

c. The interaction between health and income.

d. the interaction between the mind and physical health.

Question 39

Chronic strssors=

Select one:

a. short-term.

b. Long-term.

Question 40

This term best describes the notion of “homeostasis.”

Select one:

a. Equilibrium.

b. General anxiety.

c. immersion.

d. Adaptation.

e. trans-term conditioning..

Question 41

Allostasis:

Select one:

a. Stability through change.

b. dying at a young age and changes in blood-pressure.

c. Changes in blood-pressure.

d. Wealth and happiness.

e. dying at a young age.

Question 42

The National Violence Survey now puts the yearly percentage of marital violence at __ percent.

Select one:

a. 50

b. 10

c. 76

d. 16

e. 25.

Question 43

The concept of “social undermining “ does not involve specific behaviors but an increase in love………..often called “love-overdose.”

Select one:

True

False

Question 44

Disenfranchised grief=

Select one:

a. Grief that is not commonly recognized by society.

b. Loss which make the person happy.

c. Loss that is brought on to help another person.

d. grief that is easily recognized.

e. no items here are correct

Question 45

This quote is found in the text: “Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.” It means:

Select one:

a. Live today and prosper.

b. Love me, love my dog.

c. live and let live.

d. no items here are correct

e. Love me or leave me.

Question 46

Finding have shown that single people are just as happy as coupled people.

Select one:

True

False

Question 47

Trait loneliness is enduring but not cross-situational.

Select one:

True

False

Question 48

State-loneliness is associated with time-limited situations.

Select one:

True

False

Question 49

The Rochester Interaction Record:

Select one:

a. no items here are correct.

b. Interactions that never develope.

c. A diary method

d. prison interactions lasting more than one year.

Question 50

Some close relationships are great sources of stress and physical problems.

Select one:

True

False