Formula sheets, the key method steps for every topic and 8 practice problems, with full solutions at the back.
The serial position effect predicts that items in a list are recalled best when they are:
A patient can recognise a car, a cup and a dog but cannot recognise the faces of close family members, identifying them by voice instead. This is:
A toddler watches another child have a tantrum and copies it the next day. Piaget saw this deferred imitation as evidence of:
On a visual cliff set to a moderate drop, most infants crossed when their mother smiled but few crossed when she showed fear. This shows:
Only Jo laughs at a comedian, Jo laughs at every comedian, and Jo always laughs at this one. Using Kelley's model, people will most likely explain the laughter by:
Milgram moved his study from Yale University to a run-down office building. What happened to obedience?
The therapeutic alliance refers to:
A chronic heavy drinker develops confusion, an unsteady gait and abnormal eye movements. Which deficiency must be treated urgently?
Answer: B · At the beginning and end of the list
Early items benefit from rehearsal into long-term memory (primacy), and the last items are still in short-term memory (recency).
Answer: B · Prosopagnosia
Prosopagnosia is a selective impairment of face recognition, often after damage to the fusiform area, supporting specialised processing for faces.
Answer: A · Mental representation
Imitating an absent model requires an internal representation of the action. Piaget placed this at the end of the sensorimotor stage.
Answer: A · Social referencing: using a caregiver's emotion to guide behaviour
Sorce and colleagues showed that in ambiguous situations infants look to caregivers' emotional expressions and adjust their actions accordingly.
Answer: C · Something about Jo
Low consensus and low distinctiveness with high consistency lead to an internal (person) attribution: Jo simply laughs a lot.
Answer: C · It fell somewhat but remained substantial
Obedience dropped (to just under half) without Yale's prestige, but many still obeyed, suggesting the authority of the experimenter mattered more than the institution.
Answer: B · The collaborative bond and agreement on goals and tasks between therapist and client
The therapeutic alliance consistently predicts therapy outcome across different approaches, which supports the importance of common factors in psychotherapy.
Answer: C · Thiamine (vitamin B1)
Wernicke's encephalopathy results from thiamine deficiency and presents with confusion, ataxia and eye signs. Untreated, it can progress to Korsakoff syndrome with severe amnesia and confabulation.
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