5 Written Questions

1. A projective technique utilizing ambiguous inkblots as stimuli.
2. The effect of other's presence on one's performance. Typically we perform simple or well-learned tasks better in front of others and difficult or novel tasks worse.
3. The abbreviation for probability of error in statistical results. See Type I Error. (a)
4. The tendency to over estimate the internal attributes of another person's actions.
5. Extensions of the cell body of a neuron responsible for receiving incoming neurotransmitters.

5 Matching Questions

1. Sensorimotor Stage
2. Degrees of Freedom
3. Modeling
4. Insight
5. Dissociation

1. a A separation from the self, with the most severe resulting in Dissociative Identity Disorder. Most of us experience this in very mild forms such as when we are driving long distance and lose time or find ourselves day dreaming longer than we thought.
2. b The first stage in Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development where a child's primary way of learning about the world is through the senses and movement.
3. c Learning through the imitation or observation of others.
4. d The number of individual scores that can vary without changing the sample mean. Statistically written as 'N-1' where N represents the number of subjects.
5. e The understanding of a relationship between current thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors and where these originated or how they are maintained.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A life experience considered paramount due to the feeling of unity with the world.
   1. ABAB Design
   2. Peak Experience
   3. Beta (uppercase)
   4. AB Design
2. A maladaptive and stable set of individual characteristics that cluster to form a recognized disorder.
   1. Projection
   2. Psychoanalytic Theory
   3. Personality Disorder
   4. Standard Score
3. Analysis of Variance.
   1. ANOVA
   2. MMPI-2
   3. Raw Data
   4. Amnesia
4. A subjective personality test where ambiguous pictures are shown to a subject and they are asked to tell a story related to them.
   1. Quasi-Experimental Research
   2. Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
   3. Free Association
   4. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
5. A generic term for the psychological procedures used to measure personality which rely on measurable or objective techniques such as the MMPI-2 and WAIS-III.
   1. Inductive Reasoning
   2. Objective Techniques
   3. Social Skills
   4. Acetycholine

5 True/False Question

1. Population Mean → The degree to which two or more variables a related to each other. A correlation refers to the direction that the variables move and does not necessarily represent cause and effect. (Example: height and weight are correlated. As one increases, the other tends to increase as well)
   

   True        False

2. Unconditioned Stimulus → The stimulus in a stimulus-response chain that is naturally occurring as opposed to learned.
   

   True        False

3. Temporal Lobe → One of the four lobes of the brain. Contains the auditory cortex and therefore plays a role in receptive language as well as memory and emotion.
   

   True        False

4. Reliability → The stable set of individual characteristics that make us unique.
   

   True        False

5. Placebo → Misperception of reality (e.g., the illusion of a lake in the middle of a desert).
   

   True        False