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Psychology CLEP Practice Test
1) Which of the following conducted the Baby Monkey experiment?
A) Harry Harlow
B) Mary Ainsworth
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Jean Piaget
E) Lawrence Kohlberg
2) Visual sensory memory is called
A) Iconic memory
B) Echoic memory
C) Short-term memory
D) Chunking
E) Encoding
3) Alcohol is which of the following?
A) Sedative
B) Narcotic
C) Stimulant
D) Hallucinogen
E) Cannabis
4) What is the school of thought that studies and observes behavior?
A) Cognitive
B) Behavioral
C) Biological
D) Psychoanalytical
E) Humanistic
5) Which area is the largest part of the brain?
A) Occipital lobe
B) Temporal lobe
C) Frontal lobe
D) Hypothalamus
E) Cerebral cortex
6) In Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs if you are in the third stage you are experiencing which need?
A) Safety
B) Food
C) Respect from others
D) Love
E) Realized full potential
7) Which of the following was a psychoanalyst?
A) Harry Harlow
B) Mary Ainsworth
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Jean Piaget
E) Lawrence Kohlberg
8) Which is a surgical procedure which removes the nerve tracts in the frontal lobes?
A) Chemical castration
B) Effort effect
C) MRI
D) Lobotomy
E) None of the above
9) Which of the following conducted the famous Bobo doll study, showing that children do not need negative nor positive reinforcement to learn?
A) Alfred Adler
B) Albert Bandura
C) Alfred Binet
D) Abraham Maslow
E) Lewis Terman
10) What is it called when a person has a fear of enclosed spaces, such as elevators?
A) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
B) Depression
C) Arachnophobia
D) Claustrophobia
E) Mania

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