Which perspective held that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies?

A) Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs
B) B.F.Skinner's behaviorism
C) Carl Rogers' person-centered perspective
D) Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages of development

The research on children's eyewitness testimonies reveals that

A) children have exceptionally accurate memories.
B) children can be induced into "remembering" things that did not happen to them.
C) children can reliably distinguish between what happened to them and what they simply heard about.
D) children do not have reliable memories until age 9 or 10.

According to B.F.Skinner,if you study "extra hard" for your first psychology midterm and earn an "A," what would you do for your next psychology midterm

A)  reduce your study time by approximately 50 percent 
B)  continue to study "extra hard" 
C)  devote all of your study time to your other courses 
D)  reduce your study time by approximately 25 percent

Which of the following is not an example of emotional competence?

A) awareness of one's emotional states
B) empathic sensitivity to others
C) lacking self-regulatory strategies that reduce the intensity or duration of emotional states
D) discerning others' emotions

Who among the following psychologists was the first to publish a social psychology textbook titled Social Psychology in the 1900s?

A) Kurt Lewin
B) Norman Triplett
C) Edward Ross
D) Max Ringelmann

Learning is said to be a relatively permanent change in behavior because ________.

A) it is thought that learning changes the nerve fiber patterns in your muscles
B) once you learn something, you will never fail to remember it or carry out the
C) it is thought that when learning occurs, some part of the brain physically changes
D) memory processes, unlike learning processes, are not permanent

Why does the text favor an eclectic approach?

A) It is the simplest approach.
B) It is the newest theoretical approach.
C) It recognizes the strengths of very different approaches.
D) All of these.

Which of the following criticisms of the Spotlight on Research study is LEAST valid? 

A) Hugging, in and of itself, may not be the mechanism at play.
B) The data collected in this study allow for causal inferences.
C) The type of hug, romantic or friendly, was not accounted for by the researchers.
D) Who was being hugged was not accounted for by the researchers.

A young boy is attacked by a large dog. He is now terribly afraid of all large dogs. His phobia of dogs is BEST explained by ________ theory.

A) behavior
B) psychoanalytic
C) psychobiological
D) humanistic