Psychology Answers Part 6

A) B) C) D) asked freshmen in an introductory psychology 204. class, ÒWhat is necessary for you to be happy?Ó According to a study cited in the text, the students are likely to attribute happiness to money. autonomy. close satisfying relationships. sex. A) B) C) D) A deep sense of well-being results when our 205. need for relatedness is satisfied in balance with our psychological need for autonomy. survival affiliation. social isolation. A) B) C) D) Jackie has a strong sense of competence and autonomy, both in her personal life and 206. professionally. Thus, Jackie is also likely to have a high level of self-esteem. ostracism. narcissism. chain migration. A) B) C) D) Foolish conformity to peer pressure is most likely to be motivated by ________ needs. safety belongingness achievement competence A) B) Children who are neglected or who grow up 208. in institutions without a sense of belonging are especially at risk for developing chain migration. becoming narcissistic. 207. having difficulty developing deep attachments. developing autonomy. C) D) 209. A) B) C) D) To avoid placing individual refugee families in communities where they are likely to feel socially isolated, U.S. policies today encourage ostracism. autonomy. chain migration. competence. A) B) C) D) The likely outcome of an increase in a 210. person's feelings of acceptance and connection is an increase in self-esteem. positive feelings. physical health. all of these things. A) B) C) D) When asked to describe personal episodes that made them feel particularly bad about 211. themselves, about four times in five, people describe a(n) sexual dysfunction. academic failure. relationship difficulty. physical illness. 212. A) B) C) D) Our need to belong is most clearly threatened by chain migration. self-esteem. ostracism. autonomy. A) B) C) D) her and they purposely exclude her from 213. participation in any of their after-school social events. Their treatment of Alison most clearly illustrates ostracism. narcissism. autonomy needs. chain migration. A) B) C) D) Ten-year-old Haley tells her mom that she feels bad and lonely because she does not have a ÒbestÓ friend in school. Haley is not having her need for ________ met at school. affiliation autonomy competence ostracism A) B) C) D) Eight-year-old Tommy has been acting up in class and so will not be allowed to go to 215. recess and play with his classmates. The negative feeling Tommy has about the punishment is due to narcissism. self-esteem. ostracism. chain migration. 214. 216. A) B) C) D) A) B) Which of the following is most clearly a form of ostracism? autonomy social networking chain migration solitary confinement Researchers have discovered that being 217. unfriended or having a text message ignored elicits increased activity in the anterior commissure. pancreas. C) D) anterior cingulate cortex. arcuate nucleus. A) B) C) D) In a series of studies, research participants were informed that personality test results indicated they were the type likely to end up alone later in life. As a result, they became 218. ________ likely to underperform on aptitude tests and ________ likely to become aggressive toward those who had excluded them. more; less less; more more; more less; less A) B) C) D) Compared with non-Internet users, today's online social networkers are likely to 219. experience ________ relationships with their existing friends and are ________ likely to know their real-world neighbors. strengthened; more weakened; less strengthened; less weakened; more A) B) C) D) Online social networking tends to ________ 220. self-disclosure, and Facebook profiles appear to be closer to people's ________. encourage; actual personalities than to their ideal personalities discourage; actual personalities than to their ideal personalities encourage; ideal personalities than to their actual personalities discourage; ideal personalities than to their actual personalities 221. Narcissism refers to feeling A) B) C) D) happy. overweight. ostracized. self-important. A) B) C) D) Some college students were randomly assigned to edit and explain their Facebook 222. page rather than to study and explain a Google Maps routing. These students subsequently scored higher on a measure of empathy. narcissism. self-disclosure autonomy. A) B) C) D) Howard is preoccupied with accumulating new Facebook friends because he loves the attention it gives him. On his Facebook page 223. he posts daily photos of himself that are designed to show off his good looks and body build. Howard best illustrates characteristics of self-disclosure. narcissism. ostracism. autonomy. A) B) C) D) Those who engage in excess Internet socializing during work hours should be 224. reminded that electronic message alerts, Facebook postings, and Internet pop-ups hijack ostracism. self-disclosure. attention. narcissism. A) B) C) D) dropped a letter grade or more. Jonah signs a 225. contract with his parents to reduce his social networking time so that he spends more time studying and socializing with his family. According to the text, which of the following should NOT be placed in the contract? limits on the amount of time spent online turning off his mobile phone when he is at home in the evening logging his time on the phone and computer to make sure he is meeting his time limits being denied all access to the phone and computer for an entire semester or until his grades improve A) B) C) D) Jeff, who is 14, engages in rigorous tennis drills or competitive play at least four hours every day because he wants to master the 226. sport and play on one of the best university teams in the country. His goal and behavior best illustrate the concept of narcissism. self-disclosure. ostracism. achievement motivation. A) B) C) D) The desire for significant accomplishment; for 227. mastery of skills or ideas; for control; and for attaining a high standard is called need to belong. affiliation achievement motivation. social isolation A) When researchers monitored the professional accomplishments of more than 1500 highly intelligent individuals, they found that the 228. most successful were more ambitious, energetic, and persistent. This best illustrates the importance of high intelligence. B) C) D) narcissism. achievement motivation. self-disclosure. 229. A) B) C) D) 230. A) B) C) D) A) B) C) D) Which of the following is an important component of grit? self-disclosure. narcissism. self-discipline. social networking. 231. Grit can best be described as the need to belong. the need for affiliation a lowered awareness of self and time. passionate dedication to an ambitious goal. 232. A) B) C) D) 233. A) B) C) In studies of both secondary school and university students, ________ has been a better predictor of school performance than intelligence test scores have been. social leadership self-discipline social networking self-esteem Those who demonstrate grit are especially likely to have a high level of affiliation. social networking. achievement motivation. chain migration. Unlike intelligence scores, achievement scores do NOT follow the pattern of social networking. self-disclosure. increasing with age. D) autonomy. 234. A) B) C) D) Psychologists use the term ________ to refer to human resilience under stress. narcissism self-esteem ostracism hardiness