Psych/Soc · 7A

Personality, motivation, and disorders

Content category 7A. 28 questions in 6 sets, each with reasoning for every answer choice.

Set 1 · Attitudes

  1. Cognitive dissonance: insufficient justificationmedium
  2. When attitudes predict behaviormedium
  3. Post-decision dissonancehard
  4. Self-perception theory and foot-in-the-doorhard
  5. Maslow's hierarchy of needseasy

Set 2 · Motivation

  1. Drive-reduction vs. incentive vs. arousal theoryeasy
  2. Yerkes–Dodson law and task difficultymedium
  3. Overjustification effectmedium
  4. Self-determination theorymedium
  5. Alzheimer's disease pathologymedium

Set 3 · Personality

  1. Big Five personality traits: neuroticismeasy
  2. Defense mechanisms: displacement vs. projection vs. sublimationeasy
  3. Reaction formation vs. repression vs. rationalizationmedium
  4. Reciprocal determinism (Bandura)medium
  5. Rogers: incongruence of real and ideal selfmedium

Set 4 · Psychological disorders

  1. Schizophrenia: positive vs. negative symptomseasy
  2. Dissociative identity disorder vs. schizophreniaeasy
  3. Panic disorder vs. generalized anxiety disordereasy
  4. Dopamine hypothesis of schizophreniamedium
  5. Personality disorders: antisocial vs. avoidant vs. schizoidmedium

Set 5 · Psychological disorders

  1. Persistent depressive disorder vs. major depressionmedium
  2. Bipolar I vs. bipolar IImedium
  3. OCD vs. obsessive-compulsive personality disordermedium
  4. Acute stress disorder vs. PTSDmedium
  5. Conversion (functional neurological symptom) disordermedium

Set 6 · Psychological disorders

  1. Why SSRIs take weeks to workmedium
  2. Brain imaging findings in schizophreniamedium
  3. Antipsychotics and movement side effectshard