Concerns with meeting standards of excellence and accomplishing difficult tasks refer to need fo
a) Affiliation
b) Achievement
c) Power
d) Apperception
Psychology
The body’s natural tendency to maintain a state of internal balance or equilibrium is called
a) Arousal
b) Opponent process
c) Homeostasis
d) Instinct
e) None of these
Advertisers place beautiful people or likeable places and objects with the products they are trying to sell because these items
a) Distract from the disadvantages of the products
b) Cause pleasant feelings to be evoked
c) Are part of the products’ basic qualities
d) Are just elements of scenery
e) None of these
What can occur if a person believes that a connection exists between an act and its consequences when there is no relationship between the two
a) Classical conditioning
b) Superstitious behavior
c) Shaping
d) Sequential learning
e) None of these
Which of the following phenomena was studied by parlor
a) Maturation
b) Animal cognition
c) Operant conditioning
d) Classical conditioning
e) None of these
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The most fundamental principle of perceptual organization is called the
a) Figure-ground relationship
b) Volley principle
c) Dark adaptation phenomenon
d) Law of closure
e) None of these
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The autonomic nervous system differs from the somatic nervous system in that its operation is largely
a) Involuntary
b) Voluntary
c) Controlled by the brain
d) Controlled by the spinal chord
e) None of these
The junction where the axon of a sending neuron communicates with a receiving neuron is called the
a) Reuptake site
b) Receptor site
c) Synapse
d) Axon terminal
e) None of these
The triachric theory of intelligence suggests that there are
a) Four components
b) Six components
c) Three components
d) None of these
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The ability to deal with new problems and encounters is technically called as
a) Crystallized intelligence
b) G or g-factor of intelligence
c) Fluid intelligence
d) None of these
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