Try your luck with the following questions. The answers are
located at the bottom of the page.
- 1. According to Piaget, secondary circular reactions first
occur during which of the following stages of cognitive
development?
- (A) Formal operational
- (B) Preoperational
- (C) Sensorimotor
- (D) Concrete operational
- (E) Conservation
- 2. PKU is caused by
- (A) high Phenobarbital levels in the blood
- (B) fetal and maternal Rh factor incompatibility
- (C) the absence of the enzyme which breaks down
phenylalanine
- (D) excessively low phenylpyruvic acid levels in the
blood
- (E) the transmission of a specific dominant gene
- 3. The "set point" for the temperature regulation system is
believed to be located in the
- (A) cortex
- (B) vascular system
- (C) septal region
- (D) amygdala
- (E) hypothalamus
- 4. Which type of memory is being tested when you take a
multiple choice test?
- (A) Loci
- (B) Recognition
- (C) Savings
- (D) Free recall
- (E) Eidetic
- 5. Which of the following is an example of the phi
phenomenon?
- (A) The moon appears larger when viewed next to a church
spire
- (B) Head movements cause the eyes to move from one stimulus
to another
- (C) Two lights flashing in rapid succession look like one
moving light
- (D) A stationary point of light in a darkened room appears
to move erratically
- (E) Telephone poles seen from a moving car appear to move
backwards
- 6. According to Sigmund Freud, the most fundamental of all
defense mechanisms is
- (A) intellectualization
- (B) sublimation
- (C) regression
- (D) fixation
- (E) repression
- 7. The technique of first pairing two neutral stimuli with
each other and then pairing one of the neutral stimuli with an
unconditioned stimulus is called
- (A) backward conditioning
- (B) trace conditioning
- (C) simultaneous conditioning
- (D) sensory preconditioning
- (E) second-order conditioning
- 8. A certain egg farm produces, on the average, 10%
extra-large eggs, 30% large eggs, 40% medium eggs, and 20%
small eggs. This year, the percentages are 14% extra-large
eggs, 36% large eggs, 35% medium eggs, and 15% small eggs.
Which of the following could a statistician employ to determine
if this year's percentages are significantly different from the
average?
- (A) T-test
- (B) Correlation coefficient
- (C) Multiple regression analysis
- (D) Chi-square test
- (E) ANOVA
- 9. In order to test for the effect of diffusion of
responsibility apart from the effect of pluralistic ignorance,
one would have to
- (A) vary the group size
- (B) isolate the bystanders from each other
- (C) ensure that the emergency is ambiguous
- (D) use passive confederates
- (E) use friends as bystanders
- 10. Rorschach and Murray are most closely associated with
the development of
- (A) early projective tests
- (B) statistical analyses of testing techniques
- (C) the first aptitude tests
- (D) educational achievement tests
- (E) tests of creativity and problem-solving ability
- Answer Key:
- 1. C
- 2. C
- 3. E
- 4. B
- 5. C
- 6. E
- 7. D
- 8. D
- 9. B
- 10. A
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