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50Q PSYCHOLOGY - FINAL EXAM 2025

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Intro to Psychology (1 semester course for 11th and 12th graders) Final Exam
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Question 1
1.

Match the psychologist with their key contribution to developmental psychology.

  • Abraham Maslow
  • Jean Piaget
  • Lev Vygotsky
  • Hierarchy of Needs
  • Theory of Cognitive Development
  • The Zone of Proximal Development
Question 2
2.

Which theory addresses the following concepts or stages?

  • Kohlberg's Moral Development Theory
  • Erikson's Psychosocial Theory
  • Piaget's Cognitive Theory
  • Preconventional Level
  • Integrity vs Despair
  • Sensorimotor and Preoperational Stages
Question 3
3.

Associate the term with the appropriate developmental stage according to Erikson's theory.

  • School Age
  • Young Adulthood
  • Adolescence
  • Infancy
  • Industry vs Inferiority
  • Intimacy vs Isolation
  • Identity vs Role Confusion
  • Trust vs Mistrust
Question 4
4.

Refers to the process by which a child learns to interact with others around him

Question 5
5.

Taking in new information and fitting it into existing schemas

Question 6
6.

The emergence of personal and behavioral characteristics through growth processes is known as

Question 7
7.

Because Pedro see everthing that happens around him from his own point of view, his thinking is

Question 8
8.

A time in development when specific skills or abilities are most easily learned is called what?

Question 9
9.

Which part of the eye is responsible for peripheral vision?

Question 10
10.

Classify these experiences as either a sensation or a perception.

  • Understanding the taste as salty
  • Tasting salty fries
  • Feeling the texture of a cat's fur
  • Recognizing a dog's bark
  • Perception
  • Sensation
Question 11
11.

Which perception theory can explain these examples?

  • Ignoring the sound of AC while focusing on studying
  • Hearing your name at a loud party
  • Perceiving a face in the clouds
  • Judging the distance of a parked car
  • Selective Attention Theory
  • Signal Detection Theory
  • Gestalt Theory
  • Depth Perception Theory
Question 12
12.

Classify these phenomena as either physiological or psychological.

  • Experiencing Deja vu
  • Tasting sweet
  • Feeling cold
  • Perceiving danger
  • Psychological Senses
  • Physiological Senses
Question 13
13.

Which sense is primarily responsible for detecting sound waves?

Question 14
14.

The reason that you probably stopped feeling the pressure of your clothes on your skin within a few minutes of dressing this morning was due to:

Question 15
15.

Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation

Question 16
16.

Perceptions can be affected by our beliefs, values, prejudices, expectations, and life experiences

Question 17
17.

Leah is a good player whose performance seems to improve as the crowd watching her gets larger. The best explanation for this phenomenon is

Question 18
18.

An individual bystander is most likely to help an injured person under which of the following circumstances?

Question 19
19.

Pedro walks into art class and is overwhelmed by the smell of paint. However, the longer he stays in the room, the less noticeable the smell becomes. Which of the following appears to be operating in this instance?

Question 20
20.

Olivia, a high school student strongly opposed to video game use, is researching the topic for a speech she will deliver to her English class. Rather than searching for “the effects of video games,” Olivia searches for “the dangers of video games” and finds hundreds of Web sites with information she can use to argue her position. Her behavior is an example of

Question 21
21.

Melany is in a hotel room with a cake that needs slicing, but she does not have a knife. She goes to the bathroom and comes back with a long strand of dental floss, which she uses to cut the cake. Melany has overcome which barrier to problem solving?

Question 22
22.

Which of the following types of intelligence would be most important in answering trivia questions?

Question 23
23.

Which of the following examples best represents altruism?

Question 24
24.

Approaches.

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cognitive
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behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
psychodynamic
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behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
socio-cultural
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natural selection of traits has promoted survival skills
evolutionary
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how we encode, process, store and receive information
Question 25
25.

Nerve impulses travel through the neuron in this order.

Question 26
26.

The purpose of the marshmallow experiment was to show the relationship between ___________________ and success later in life.

Question 27
27.

In which of the 10 unbelievable experiments were electric shocks given to show that people would follow orders that hurt others just as Nazi soldiers did?

Question 28
28.

The four main goals of psychology are to

Question 29
29.

The modern definition of psychology is the science of ___________ and mental processes.

Question 30
30.

A general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized is known as the

Question 31
31.

A person with a fixed mindset would

Question 32
32.

A growth mindset person would most likely

Question 33
33.

What is the junction between two nerve cells is the

Question 34
34.

This part of the body secretes hormones that trigger “fight or flight” responses

Question 35
35.

The placebo effect is when a fake pill is given to an unknowing participant in a study to see the difference in effect between that participant and a participant receiving the real medicine.

Question 36
36.

The part of the brain responsible for vision processing, analyzing shapes, colors and movement is the

Question 37
37.

Substances that carry information between neurons and target cells are known as

Question 38
38.

In order to determine cause and effect relations between two variables, a researcher would

Question 39
39.

Which of the psychologists below gets credit for this "Hierarchy of Needs" diagram which is part of the Humanistic Approach?

Question 40
40.

Latent learning is when we learn without reinforcement and punishment and we're unaware that learning has taken place.

Question 41
41.

How are classical conditioning and operant conditioning different?

Question 42
42.

Classify these figures from their contribution to the study of conditioning:

  • John B. Watson
  • B.F. Skinner
  • Albert Bandura
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • Founder of Classical Conditioning
  • Contributor to Behaviorism
  • Proponent of Observational Learning
  • Proponent of Operant Conditioning
Question 43
43.

Match the following types of memory to their definitions.

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Episodic Memory
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Specific events, situations, or experiences
Procedural Memory
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Skills and tasks that are performed automatically
Semantic Memory
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General factual knowledge about the world
Question 44
44.

Match these memory-bias terms with their definitions.

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Misinformation Effect
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Seeing past events as more predictable than they were
Confirmation Bias
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Recalling an event differently due to misleading information
Hindsight Bias
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Favoring information that confirms your existing beliefs
Question 45
45.

Match the stages of memory to their descriptions.

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Retrieval
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Initial process of recording information
Storage
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Process of reclaiming information stored in memory
Encoding
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Maintaining information over time
Question 46
46.

Match the sleep stage with its characteristic description.

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REM Sleep
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Vivid dreaming often occurs.
Stage 1 Sleep
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Transition between sleep and wakefulness.
Stage 3 Sleep
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Deep and restorative sleep.
Question 47
47.

Match the following sleep disorders with their symptoms.

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Narcolepsy
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Sudden uncontrollable episodes of sleep.
Sleep Apnea
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Breathing repeatedly stops and starts.
Insomnia
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Difficulty falling or staying asleep.
Question 48
48.

How does the cocktail party effect give us evidence about selective attention?

Question 49
49.

What is consciousness in psychology?

Question 50
50.

What does the term 'subconscious' refer to?