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If Lawrence Kohlberg were to present you with a moral dilemma, what…
If Lawrence Kohlberg were to present you with a moral dilemma, what would he be most interested in?
Question 1 options:
your judgment of right and wrong in this situation
what you would do in this situation
any inconsistency between your behaviour and your moral judgment
your reasons for whatever moral judgment you had about the situation
Question 2 (1 point)
Which system modulates the fight or flight response?
Question 2 options:
The parasympathetic nervous system
The autonomic nervous system
The paraventricular system
The circulatory system
Question 3 (1 point)
What is an important risk factor for suicide among First Nations youth in Canada?
Question 3 options:
age of puberty
cultural discontinuity
isolation of community
access to mass media
Question 4 (1 point)
When people’s experiences improve (e.g., increased income), they tend to adapt and often their baseline moves upward and the improvements end up providing no real boost to subjective well-being. What is this progressive shift in baseline called?
Question 4 options:
eudaimonia
subjective well-being
subjective baseline
hedonic treadmill
Question 5 (1 point)
Research has linked maternal malnutrition to:
Question 5 options:
Decreased IQ
Increased rates of addiction in adulthood
Psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia
Vulnerability to heart attack and stroke
Question 6 (1 point)
Eloise is still quite young and determines what behaviours are “right” and “wrong” based solely on how her parents reward or punish her for a given behavior. Eloise is in what stage of moral reasoning?
Question 6 options:
preconventional
conventional
postconventional
unconventional
Question 7 (1 point)
With respect to neural development, the prefrontal cortex:
Question 7 options:
Is the first part to the brain to fully mature
Is the executive control centre for cognitive development and emotion regulation
Decreases in size as a child progresses through their teenage years into adulthood
Becomes less myelinated throughout adolescence
Question 8 (1 point)
Who believed that attachment behavior in infants was a function of natural selection?
Question 8 options:
Harlow
Bowlby
Ainsworth
Thurstone
Question 9 (1 point)
Which effect describes the trend, where all over the developed world, IQ scores increase from one generation to the next?
Question 9 options:
Inter-generational learning
The heritability effect
The Flynn effect
The nutritional
Question 10 (1 point)
In Erikson’s theory, which psychosocial crisis occurs during adolescence?
Question 10 options:
identity versus confusion
generativity versus self-absorption
industry versus inferiority
intimacy versus isolation
Question 11 (1 point)
If the heritability estimate of a trait is 50%, what does that mean?
Question 11 options:
Half of the variance in a group’s scores for that trait is due to genetic influences.
Identical twins will have the same score for that trait half of the time.
An individual’s score for that trait is equally influenced by genes and environment.
People’s scores for that trait may vary by 50% across the lifespan.
Question 12 (1 point)
What does the galvanic skin response measure?
Question 12 options:
blood flow through the skin
muscle tension of the skin
electrical conductivity of the skin
two-point difference threshold of the skin
Question 13 (1 point)
Intelligence is a hypothetical, abstract construct and tends to be routinely treated as if it were a tangible commodity. What kind of mental trap does this statement refer to?
Question 13 options:
willful ignorance
habeus addendum
reification
the Flynn effect
Question 14 (1 point)
“Who am I and where am I going?” is the fundamental question confronted in which of Erikson’s proposed stages?
Question 14 options:
Stage 2
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 8
Question 15 (1 point)
In contrast to drive theories, what is the primary focus of incentive theories of motivation?
Question 15 options:
internal rather than external cues
environmental rather than biological factors
social rather than personal goals
long-term rather than short-term reinforcement
Question 16 (1 point)
The typical cut-off for identifying gifted children is an IQ score of:
Question 16 options:
100
115
125
130
Question 17 (1 point)
The consistency of the procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test is known as:
Question 17 options:
Standardization
Validity
Systematic administration
Reliability
Question 18 (1 point)
Research conducted by David Buss found that females place more emphasis on potential partners’ financial prospects than males do. He also found that this trend:
Question 18 options:
Became more pronounced as females aged
Was consistent across cultures
Only occurred in Western countries
Was less pronounced among women who had older brothers
Question 19 (1 point)
According to the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, how do we experience emotion?
Question 19 options:
Our experience of emotion depends on autonomic arousal and our cognitive interpretation of that arousal.
Different patterns of autonomic activation lead to our experience of different emotions.
We experience emotion when the thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex and to the autonomic nervous system.
We experience each emotion as a unique physical sensation, regardless of what we label it.
Question 20 (1 point)
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon devised the first intelligence test in 1905. What was their main goal?
Question 20 options:
to predict future life success
to provide support for the belief that intelligence is genetically determined
to provide support for the belief that intelligence is environmentally determined
to predict the school performance of children
