Psychology Questions - All Grades

Which need within Maslow's hierarchy is the highest-level need?

1. an esteem need
2. a safety need
3. a physical need
4. the need for self-actualization

Once a theory has been proven multiple times, it becomes a

1. affiliation.
2. principle.
3. archetype.
4. concept.

The two parts of real communication...

1. speaking and listening
2. listening and yelling
3. speaking and acting out what is being spoke about
4. listening and hand motions

You are a doctor. One of your patients, whom you have diagnosed as HIV positive, is about to receive a blood transfusion prior to being released from the hospital. He has told you, in the confidence of your doctor-patient relationship, that after he gets his transfusion, and his medicine from you, he intends to infect as many people as possible with HIV starting that evening.

Because you are bound by doctor-patient confidentiality, there is no legal way to stop this man from carrying out his plan. Even if you warned the police, they would not be able to arrest him, since his medical information is protected.

You know that you could change his blood-type in the hospital's computer which would result in his receiving the wrong blood-type.

Is it appropriate for you to change this man's blood-type in the computer, thereby killing him, in order to prevent him from spreading HIV?

1. Yes
2. No

You can know for certain you are not dreaming.

1. True
2. False

Thoughts or desires about which we can have no direct knowledge.

1. morality
2. unconscious
3. conscious
4. dreams

A decline in responding with prolonged or continuous stimulation is called

1. Transduction
2. Adaptation
3. Sensing
4. Experiencing

Which of the following is NOT a type of meditation?

1. Transcendental
2. Breathing
3. Subliminal
4. Mindfulness

Children who are confident and able to make their own decisions likely have parents who are

1. Democratic/authoritative
2. uninvolved
3. authoriatarian
4. permissive/laissez-faire

According to Freud, the      id      contains a person's instinctual and biological urges

The process by which a sense organ changes physical stimuli into impulses as it is termed

1. Transduction
2. Adaptation
3. Sensing
4. Experiencing

The approach that uses free association to learn more about a person's unconscious thoughts and feelings is called                  Psychoanalytic                  psychology.

The function of the cochlea is to

1. Turn vibrations into nerve impulses
2. Move fluid forward toward the oval window
3. House a hammer, anvil, and stirrup
4. House the band of fibers called the auditory nerve

           Superego           the part of the personality that according to Freud is the source of conscience

In bright light, the iris __________ and the pupil __________ to control the amount of light entering the eye.

1. expands; constricts
2. constricts; expands
3. focuses; constricts
4. constricts; focuses

Carl Jung believed that everyone's mind has a(n)             archetype             that contains common inherited instincts, urges, and memories of the entire human species.

You are part of a four-person mining expedition. There is a cave-in and the four of you are trapped in the mine. A rock has crushed the legs of one of your crew members and he will die without medical attention. You've established radio contact with the rescue team and learned it will be 36 hours before the first drill can reach the space you are trapped in.

You are able to calculate that this space has just enough oxygen for three people to survive for 36 hours, but definitely not enough for four people. The only way to save the other crew members is to shoot the injured crew member so that there will be just enough oxygen for the rest of the crew to survive

Is it morally appropriate to kill the the injured crew member in order to save the lives of the remaining crew members?

1. Yes
2. No

                     Self-actualization                     realizing one's unique potential

Which of the following statements are true?

1. Schizoids do not secretly wish to be more socially outgoing
2. Schizotypal personalities are characterized by odd forms of thought, perception and beliefs
3. Paranoid Personality Disorder is a disorder characterized by an extreme level of distrust and suspiciousness of others
4. All of the above

Which of the following research methods in psychology allows the experimenter to make inferences about cause and effect?

1. Case Study method
2. Naturalistic Observation
3. Correlational Research
4. Experimental Research Method