Name: _____________________
Psy110 Exam #4 Exam Concepts
Ch. 15 – Personality
Ch. 15 – Personality
1. Discuss Freud’s concepts of the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.
2. Discuss Freud’s concepts of Id, Ego, and Superego.
3. Discuss the ego defense mechanisms of repression, rationalization, projection and
reaction formation.
4. Discuss the following psychological tests and what each will measure: the TAT test,
the MMPI test, the Rorschach test, and the Myers-Briggs test.
5. Discuss internal locus of control, external locus of control, learned helplessness, and
the self serving bias. Please give an example of each.
Name: _____________________
Psy110 Exam #4 Exam Concepts
Ch. 16 – Psychological Disorders
Ch. 16 – Psychological Disorders
1. Discuss the DSM_IV, including what it is, the power of diagnostic labels, and the
extent to which the DSM IV is useful in explaining the causes of various psychological
disorders.
2. Discuss the three aspects of reciprocal determinism and give an example of how they
work together.
3. Discuss the following psychological disorders and their symptoms:
1. Bipolar
2. Panic attack
3. Obsessive / compulsive
4. Phobia
5. Post-traumatic stress disorder
6. Dissociative disorder
7. Schizophrenia
8. Clinical depression
9. Antisocial personality
10. Delusions
11. Hallucinations
12. Catatonia
Name: _____________________
Psy110 Exam #4 Exam Concepts
Ch. 17 – Therapy
Ch. 17 – Therapy
1. Discuss: (1) The general underlying concept of each theory, (2) what it tries to
accomplish, and (3) the type of patient who would benefit most from this particular type
of therapy.
1. Psychoanalysis
2. Client Centered Therapy
3. Desensitization Therapy
4. Aversive Conditioning
5. Token Therapy
6. Cognitive Therapy
7. Family Therapy
8. Electroconvulsive Therapy
9. Behavior Therapy
10. Antipsychotic drugs.
2. Jim went to therapy for six weeks. At the end of that time, he felt much better and
happier. Explain how some of this change may be based on “regression to the mean”.
Please include an explanation of what this term means in your answer.
3. Explain the placebo effect and how this could result in a patient feeling better even
though no therapy had taken place.
Name: _____________________
Psy110 Exam #4 Exam Concepts
Ch. 18 – Social Psychology
Ch. 18 – Social Psychology
1. Discuss the following concepts, and give an example of each.
1. The fundamental attribution error.
2. The foot-in-the-door phenomenon
3. Cognitive dissonance
4. The bystander effect
5. The reciprocity norm
6. The social exchange theory
7. The diffusion of responsibility
8. The frustration – aggression principle
2. Discuss the following studies, and what we learned from them:
1. The Zimbardo study
2. The Solomon Asch study
3. The Milgram study
3. What is the difference between the two types of love your text discusses?
4. Discuss the social roots of prejudice, particularly the scapegoat theory.