Question 1

What is the therapeutic approach developed by Rogers?

Accepted Answer

A)  Client-centered approach 
B)  Cognitive-psychology approach 
C)  Constructive approach 
D)  Social-biology approach

Question 2

Like Rogers, tried to understand children from the inside-out.

Accepted Answer

A)  Piaget 
B)  Freud 
C)  Ellis 
D)  Kelly

Question 3

Piaget's "teleonomic" can be described as

Accepted Answer

A)  forward-leaning. 
B)  goal-oriented. 
C)  Both A and B 
D)  Neither A nor B

Question 4

What is Gestalt psychology's most famous assertion?

Accepted Answer

A)  The sum is greater than the whole of its parts. 
B)  The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 
C)  The sum and the whole are equal. 
D)  The whole and the sum are unequal.

Question 5

Assimilation and accommodation balance each other to achieve a steady state known as

Accepted Answer

A)  adaptation. 
B)  conservation. 
C)  equilibration. 
D)  circumspection.

Question 6

A construct that covers a broad range of meanings and that tends to become blurry or indistinct is known as

Accepted Answer

A)  tight. 
B)  preverbal. 
C)  superordinate. 
D)  loose.

Question 7

Which concept encompasses what is common among several different and analogous actions?

Accepted Answer

A)  Structure 
B)  Pattern 
C)  Scheme 
D)  System

Question 8

Kelly, Ellis, and Piaget were all considered

Accepted Answer

A)  Behaviorists. 
B)  Humanists. 
C)  Existentialists. 
D)  Constructivists.

Question 9

The ability to retain a mental image of an object when it is not directly in one's vision is known as

Accepted Answer

A)  object imaging. 
B)  object permanence. 
C)  object retention. 
D)  symbolic play.

Question 10

Gestalt psychology can be defined as

Accepted Answer

A)  cousin of zeitgeist therapy. 
B)  the creation of Gestalt after having been through WWII. 
C)  a perspective that emphasizes patterns, configurations, and wholeness as opposed to a reductionistic focus on basic elements or essential ingredients. 
D)  None of the above

Question 11

What is the branch of philosophy that studies the sources and logic of knowledge?

Accepted Answer

A)  Gestalt psychology 
B)  Epistemology 
C)  Schemes 
D)  Existentialism

Question 12

Judy gets mad at her mother for not allowing her to eat candy in the store. She then starts to imagine that her mother is dead and on the way home they have a minor accident. Judy thinks that by thinking about it, she has caused her mother injury. This is called

Accepted Answer

A)  wishful thinking. 
B)  revengeful thinking. 
C)  magical thinking. 
D)  animistic thinking.

Question 13

The process by which assimilation and accommodation balance each other is known as

Accepted Answer

A)  disequilibrium. 
B)  equilibration. 
C)  adaptation. 
D)  teleonomic.

Question 14

Who has had the greatest heuristic influence on developmental psychology of any theorist?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ellis 
B)  Kelly 
C)  Piaget 
D)  Freud

Question 15

In contrast to Freud's anatomy-is-destiny theories, Piaget emphasized

Accepted Answer

A)  dispositions and traits. 
B)  self-construction. 
C)  conflicting forces. 
D)  social-construction.

Question 16

This process is taking places when a baby learns to suck its thumb.

Accepted Answer

A)  Accommodation 
B)  Adaptation 
C)  Assimilation 
D)  Both A and C

Question 17

Kelly's therapy is called , while Ellis's therapy is called .

Accepted Answer

A)  Fixed-Role Therapy; Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy 
B)  Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy; Fixed-Role Therapy 
C)  Role Construct Repertory Therapy; Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy 
D)  Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy; Role Construct Repertory Therapy

Question 18

Epistemology is the study of

Accepted Answer

A)  what there is in common among several different actions. 
B)  combinations of simple patterns. 
C)  how we think about what we know. 
D)  the goal-oriented nature of development.

Question 19

When an infant is shown a stimulus until they no longer respond with eye contact and accompanying signs of curiosity or excitement, they are demonstrating what response?

Accepted Answer

A)  Curiosity 
B)  Habituation 
C)  Inhibituation 
D)  Animism

Exam 10: Self As Constructor