Emilio Aguinaldo College

COLLEGE OF CRIMINOLOGY
Manila

Name: _____________________________
General and Criminal Psychology
March 10, 2005
Quiz 5

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. ERASURES will be
considered wrong.

1. This dominant school of psychology wanted to analyze the mind and its
parts by studying conscious mental experiences.
a. Gestalt Psychology
c. Structuralism*
b. Functionalism
d. Behaviorism
2. This dominant school of psychology assumed that the conscious mind
evolved because it promoted the survival of the individual human
beings and this conscious mind help him survived and permitted to
evaluate the current circumstances.
a. Gestalt Psychology
c. Structuralism
b. Functionalism*
d. Behaviorism
3. According to this school of psychology, the whole is different from the
sum of its parts.
a. Gestalt Psychology*
c. Structuralism
b. Functionalism
d. Behaviorism
4. During pregnancy, this part of the womb allows the food to get through
and wastes to get out.
a. Placenta*
c. Uterus
b. Embryo
d. Ovary
5. This begins at conception, when the male sperm unites with the female
ovum or egg.
a. Embryonic
c. Prenatal
b. Germinal*
d. Fetal
6. At this psychosexual stage of human development, children satisfy
their sex instinct by fondling their genitals and by having an incestuous
desire for the opposite sex parent.
a. Latency
c. Genital
b. Phallic*
d. Oral

7. This refers to the rapid acceleration in height and weight that signals
the beginning of adolescence.
a. Growth Spurt*
c. Maturity
b. Senescence
d. Puberty
8. This is the other term for late adulthood stage.
a. Growth Spurt
c. Maturity
b. Senescence*
d. Puberty
9. This is the tendency of the individual to stay at a particular stage of
life.
a. Generalization
c. Confusion
b. Stagnation
d. Fixation*
10.This kind of test measure presents attainment of an individual after
fulfilling a task or goal.
a. Achievement*
c. Aptitude
b. Intelligence
d. Power
11.This psychosexual stage of human development reflects the toddlers
need for gratification along the rectal area.
a. Latency
c. Anal*
b. Phallic
d. Oral
12.During this psychosocial stage, the repertoires of motor and mental
abilities that are open to children greatly expand.
a. Identity vs. Role confusion
c.
Initiative
vs.
Guilt*
b. Industry vs. Inferiority
d. Trust vs. Mistrust
13.This means a reaching out beyond ones own immediate concern to
embrace the welfare of the society and of future generations.
a. Generativity*
c. Industry
b. Intimacy
d. Identity
14.This test attempts to predict the success of an individual in a kind of
performance not yet attained.
a. Achievement
c. Aptitude*
b. Intelligence
d. Power
15.This person has an I.Q. of 120-129.
a. Very superior
c. Superior*
b. Bright normal
d. Genius
16.This brings about a change in the individuals way of responding as a
result of practice or experience.
a. Conditioning
c. Thinking
b. Learning*
d. Feeling
17.Who is the proponent of Instrumental Conditioning?
a. Frederick Fitzgerald Skinner*
c.
Edward
Fitzgerald Skinner
b. Fitzgerald Frederick Skinner
d.
Fitzgerald
Edward Skinner
18.This refers to the stimulus that signals whether reinforcement is
available if a certain response is made.
a. Discrimination*
c. Reinforcer
b. Generalization
d. Operant

19.The automatic, unlearned reaction to the stimulus.

a. Unconditioned stimulus
c. Conditioned stimulus
b. Unconditioned response*
d. Conditioned response
20.This refers to an internal state or condition that activates behavior and
gives it direction.
a. Motivation*
c. Drive
b. Emotion
d. Need
21.This is an innate or genetically predetermined disposition to behave in
a particular way when confronted with certain stimuli.
a. Instinct*
c. Drive
b. Motive
d. Need
22.This theory of motivation proposes that moderate level of stimulation
is the most pleasant and that both higher and lower levels are
relatively aversive.
a. Incentive
c. Instinct
b. Arousal*
d. Drive
23.This is an external stimulus in the environment that pulls the organism
in certain directions.
a. Incentive*
c. Drive
b. Instinct
d. Need

24.This kind of psychological motive tells us the many human motives

that arise when a means of an end becomes an end in itself.
a. Functional autonomy*
c. Achievement
b. Stimulus motivation
d. Affiliation
25.This refers to the tendency to define ones goal according to a standard
of excellence in the product of performance attained.
a. Achievement*
c. Affiliation
b. Dependency
d. Security
26.These are segments of cell structures called chromosomes by which
parents pass on traits to their offspring.
a. Hormones
c. Genes*
b. Blood
d. Cells
27.This consists of the conditions and factors that surround and influence
an individual.
a. Neighborhood
c. Community
b. Environment*
d. Home
28.This is the process by which behavior changes because of experience
or practice.
a. Learning*
c. Behavior
b. Character
d. Attitude
29.This behavior refers to any behavioral response or reflex exhibited by
people due to their genetic endowment or the process of natural
selection.
a. Accepted
c. Primitive
b. Inherited*
d. Learned

30.This behavior involves cognitive adaptation that enhances the human

beings ability to cope with changes in the environment and to
manipulate the environment in ways which will improve the chances
for survival.
a. Accepted
c. Primitive
b. Inherited
d. Learned*
31.This dimension dictates conditionability and is therefore the principal
factor in anti-social behavior.
a. Psychoticism
c. Neuroticism
b. Extraversion*
d. Introversion
32.This reflects an innate biological disposition to react physiologically to
stressful, or upsetting events.
a. Psychoticism
c. Neuroticism*
b. Extraversion
d. Introversion
33.It is characterized by cruelty, social insensitivity, disregard for danger,
troublesome behavior, dislike for others, and attraction towards the
unusual.
a. Psychoticism*
c. Neuroticism
b. Extraversion
d. Introversion
34.In medicine, this is the prolonged departure of the individual from his
natural mental state arising from illness.
a. Mental disorder*
c. Psychoticism
b. Schizophrenia
d. Neuroticism
35.This kind of disorder is characterized by fears, phobias and the person
suffering from this have no physical difficulty, but may experience lack
of sleep and loss of appetite and becomes emotionally unhealthy.
a. Psychosomatic illness
c. Psychoticism
b. Psychoneurosis*
d. Psychosis

36.This is a serious mental and emotional disorder that is a manifestation

of withdrawal from reality.
a. Psychosomatic illness
c. Psychoticism
b. Psychoneurosis
d. Psychosis*
37.This is a mentally disturbed person who is opposed to the principles
upon which society is based.
a. Schizophrenic
c. Anti-social*
b. Psychopath
d. Sociopath
38.This is a person who lacks any sense of social or moral responsibility
due to illness.
a. Anti-social person
c. Psychopath
b. Schizophrenic
d. Sociopath*
39.This theory of motivation states that the potential level of any
response is a joint function of the response habit, strength and the
persons level of drive.
a. Incentive
c. Instinct
b. Arousal
d. Drive*

40.This is a state involving pattern of facial and bodily changes, cognitive

appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action.
a. Frustration
c. Reaction
b. Motivation
d. Emotion*
41.This is a general feeling of insecurity, of fear, usually associated with
certain kind of situation either real or imaginary.
a. Frustration
c. Conflict
b. Anxiety*
d. Apathy
42.This occurs when goal achievement is blocked.
a. Frustration*
c. Conflict
b. Anxiety
d. Apathy
43.This type of conflict occurs when there is an attraction to an object or
state of affairs at the same time repulsion towards something
associated with it.
a. Avoidance-avoidance
c.
Approachapproach
b. Approach-avoidance*
d. Multiple
44.This is the process of excluding [from the consciousness] a thought or
feeling that causes pain, shame or guilt.
a. Identification
c. Regression
b. Repression*
d. Fixation
45.This is an attempt to disguise or cover up felt deficiencies or
undesirable traits by emphasizing a desirable type of behavior.
a. Rationalization
c. Sublimation
b. Compensation*
d. Projection
46.These are reactions where in the impulse that causes extreme anxiety
is converted into functional symptoms in organs or other parts of the
body.
a. Obsessive-compulsive
c. Conversion*
b. Dissociative
d. Depressive
47.The individual with this type of personality disorder manifests
excessive concern over conformity and rigid adherence to standard of
conscience.
a. Obsessive-compulsive*
c. Anti-social
b. Passive-aggressive
d. Explosive
48.This personality disorder is characterized by gross verbal or physical
aggressiveness and outburst rage.
a. Anti-social
c. Paranoid
b. Explosive*
d. Schizoid
49.He is the proponent of the Psychoanalytic theory.
a. Sigmound Freud
c. Sigmund Feurd
b. Sigmund Freud*
d. Sigmund Frued
50.This refers to an internal state or condition that activates behavior and
gives it direction.
a. Motivation*
c. Reaction
b. Frustration
d. Emotion
51.This is based on some deficit within the person. The deficit may be
physiological or psychological.

a. Conflict
c. Drive
b. Motive
d. Need*
52.This is based on needs and has the added feature of an observable
change in behavior.
a. Conflict
c. Action
b. Motive
d. Drive*
53.This refers to a drive that is directed toward or away from the goal.
a. Conflict
c. Action
b. Motive*
d. Need
54.This is an innate or genetically predetermined disposition to behave in
a particular way when confronted with certain stimuli.
a. Instinct*
c. Action
b. Arousal
d. Drive
55.This is an increase in the level of tensions or excitement.
a. Instinct
c. Action
b. Arousal*
d. Drive
56.This theory of motivation proposes that a moderate level of stimulation
is the most pleasant and that both higher and lower levels are
relatively aversive.
a. Incentive
c. Instinct
b. Arousal*
d. Drive
57.The basic assumption of this theory of motivation is that if a desirable
goal can be anticipated following the completion of a particular action,
the organism is motivated to perform that particular action.
a. Incentive*
c. Instinct
b. Arousal
d. Drive
58.This classification of motive includes those that are directly related to
the normal body functions such as air, food, water, and excretion of
waste, rest and sleep, protection from heat and cold and avoidance of
pain, etc.
a. Psychological
c. Psychosocial
b. Physiological*
d. Intellectual
59.This theory of motivation tells us the many human motives that arise
when a means to an end becomes an end in itself.
a. Functional autonomy*
c. Affiliation
b. Achievement
d. Stimulus
60.This refers to the tendency to define ones goal according to a standard
of excellence in the product of performances attained.
a. Achievement*
c. Affiliation
b. Dependency
d. Status
61.According to this person, our motives are organized in a hierarchy
arranged from the most basic to the personal and advanced.
a. David McClelland
c. Gordon Albert
b. Abraham Maslow*
d. Karl Marx

62.This is a state involving pattern of facial and bodily changes, cognitive

appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action.

a. Motivation
c. Emotion*
b. Frustration
d. Reaction
63.A bodily state of physiological arousal produced by the automatic
nervous system and endocrine glands.
a. Motivation
c. Emotion*
b. Frustration
d. Reaction
64.The aggregate observable responses of an organism to internal and
external stimuli.
a. Human behavior
c. Behavior*
b. Personality
d. Attitude
65.This refers to habitual pattern of behavior of any individual as
expressed by physical and mental activities and attitudes.
a. Human behavior
c. Behavior
b. Personality*
d. Attitude
66.The voluntary and involuntary attitude a person adopts in order to fit
societys ideas of right or wrong.
a. Human behavior*
c. Behavior
b. Personality
d. Attitude
67.The process by which behavior changes as a result of experience or
practice.
a. Actualization
c. Learning*
b. Thinking
d. Feeling
68.A field of medicine that specializes in the understanding, diagnosis,
treatment, and prevention of mental problems.
a. Psychology
c. Psychiatry*
b. Philosophy
d. Sociology
69.This type of conflict occurs when there are two desirable but mutually
exclusive goals.
a. Avoidance-avoidance
c.
Approachapproach*
b. Approach-avoidance
d. Multiple
70.This type of conflict occurs when there are two unpleasant alternatives
and one cannot be avoided without encountering the other.
a. Avoidance-avoidance*
c.
Approachapproach
b. Approach-avoidance
d. Multiple
71.This type of conflict occurs when there are two courses of action, each
of which has both pleasant and unpleasant consequences.
a. Avoidance-avoidance
c.
Approachapproach
b. Approach-avoidance
d. Multiple*
72.This response to frustration is the tendency to repetitive, stereotyped
behavior.
a. Identification
c. Repression
b. Suppression
d. Fixation*
73.This is the process of interpreting our behavior in ways more
acceptable to the SELF by using reasoning and alibis to substitute
causes.
a. Rationalization*
c. Sublimation
b. Compensation
d. Projection

74.This is the region of the mind in which the perception of the individual
whether within or outside is brought into awareness.
a. Semi-conscious
c. Unconscious
b. Subconscious
d. Conscious*

75.This is the region of the mind the materials of which one is not aware
of but with the effort maybe brought to the consciousness.
a. Semi-conscious
c. Unconscious
b. Subconscious*
d. Conscious
76.This is the region of the mind the individual is not aware of.
a. Semi-conscious
c. Unconscious*
b. Subconscious
d. Conscious
77.This part of the psychic structure is the source of instinctive energy,
occupies the unconscious region, reservoir of libido, habit tendencies,
pleasure principle region, immoral, illogical, no unity of purpose and
the repressed materials join it.
a. Id*
c. Superego
b. Ego
d. Alter ego
78.This part of the psychic structures, which merges with the id, is mostly
conscious and partly unconscious.
a. Id
c. Superego
b. Ego*
d. Alter ego
79.This is an outgrowth modification of the ego. It is generally
unconscious and partly conscious.
a. Id
c. Superego*
b. Ego
d. Alter ego
80.This is the persistent inability to adapt oneself to the ordinary
environment and the individuals loss of power to regulate his actions
and conduct according to the rules of society.
a. Inadequate personality
c. Mental disorder*
b. Feeble mindedness
d. Abnormality
81.This is a false interpretation of an external stimulus.
a. Hallucination
c. Delusion
b. Compulsion
d. Illusion*
82.This is a form of mental disorder resulting from the degeneration or
disorder of the brain characterized by general mental weakness,
forgetfulness, and loss of coherence and total inability to reason.
a. Melancholia
c. Amnesia
b. Dementia*
d. Apathy
83.A false or erroneous belief in something which is not a fact.
a. Hallucination
c. Delusion*
b. Compulsion
d. Illusion
84.This is a state of excitement accompanied by exaltation or a feeling of
well being which is out of harmony with the surrounding circumstances
of the patient.
a. Melancholia
c. Phobia
b. Exaltation
d. Mania*

85.This is an excessive, irrational and uncontrollable fear of a perfectly

natural situation or object.
a. Melancholia
c. Phobia*
b. Exaltation
d. Mania
86.This is a sudden and irresistible force compelling a person to the
conscious performance of some action without motive or forethought.
a. Compulsion
c. Impulsion*
b. Obsession
d. Delusion
87.This is an abnormal mental condition whereby a person performs an
act while sleeping.
a. Somnambulism*
c. Mesmerism
b. Somnolencia
d. Delirium
88.This is an act wherein a person is compelled to perform some actions
against his free will, and with duress as a result of external factors.
a. Compulsion*
c. Impulsion
b. Obsession
d. Delusion
89.A person is in this state when he is half asleep or in a condition
between sleeping and being awake.
a. Somnambulism
c. Mesmerism
b. Somnolencia*
d. Delirium
90.A sexual act that is forbidden by law, or crimes involving expression of
sexual urges.
a. Crime against chastity
c. Sexual deviation
b. Act of lasciviousness
d. Sexual offense*
91.This is the impairment in desire for sexual gratification in the male or
an inability to achieve it.
a. Nymphomania
c. Satyriasis
b. Impotence*
d. Frigidity
92.This act of a man has an indication of intense and almost continuous
sexual desire and the person almost center his life on sexual activity.
a. Nymphomania
c. Impotence
b. Prostitution
d. Satyriasis*
93.In this act, sexual pleasure is achieved through exposure of the
genitals in public or semi-public places, usually to members of the
opposite sex or to children.
a. Exhibitionism*
c. Fetishism
b. Voyeurism
d. Bestiality
94.This is the sexual excitation and gratification through viewing or
actually having sexual intercourse with a female corpse.
a. Homosexuality
c. Pedophilia
b. Necrophilia*
d. Bestiality
95.The individual attains sexual pleasure through having pain inflicted on
him/her.
a. Masochism*
c. Fetishism
b. Voyeurism
d. Sadism