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66. If the scores on a particular test fit the normal bell shaped curve distribution, what percentage of scores should fall between +2 and - 2 standard deviations from the mean?
  1. Less than 50%
  2. About 68%
  3. About 95%
  4. More than 99%
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67. All of the students in Dr. Wright’s psychology class had to conduct their own research study and prepare a report describing it. The instructor, after carefully reading all of the papers, gave one of the following students an A. The remaining three students all got lower grades. Based solely on the information given here, who was the happy student who got an A?
  1. Danielle, whose study with 16 ethnically diverse students confirmed her hypothesis.
  2. Janelle, whose study with 60 private school students on the relationship between IQ and grade point average confirmed her hypothesis.
  3. Lydell, whose report included an in-depth discussion of the methodological flaws which might have contributed to the non-confirmation of his hypothesis.
  4. Tyrell, whose paper was seven pages long, in comparison to the other students’ papers which were at least twice that length.
  5. Not enough information to determine.
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68. Wilhelm Wundt, considered the father of experimental psychology, developed many concepts that became the foundation of structuralism. In 1893, he presented his tridimensional theory of feeling. Which of the following pairs of feelings is NOT part of his theory?
  1. Excited/depressed
  2. Tense/relaxed
  3. Pleasant/unpleasant
  4. Anxious/content
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69. Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), developed by Ellis, is based on the belief that irrational beliefs are the cause of emotional disturbances. This method of therapy is based on the ABC model (activating events, beliefs about events, and consequences of events). Ellis suggests three main insights of REBT. Which of the following statements does NOT belong to one of those insights?
  1. Insight alone rarely enables individuals to resolve emotional disturbance.
  2. Irrational beliefs are the main source of emotional disturbance and consequences.
  3. Individuals will continue to hold onto irrational beliefs as long as they are disturbed.
  4. Confronting and changing irrational beliefs can result in solving emotional disturbances and avoiding them in the future.
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70. Client-centered therapy, a humanistic method developed by Carl Rogers, is based on the idea that all people have the innate capacity to develop into positive, healthy beings. What does this model attribute pathology and behavioral problems to?
  1. Negative environmental circumstances
  2. Lack of opportunity to learn positive traits
  3. Incongruence between true feelings and experience
  4. Incongruence between true feelings and the external world
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