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Question 1Research, biological explanations and evidence
What makes psychology a science rather than only everyday folk psychology in this curriculum framing?
- It relies only on unverified personal anecdotes
- It uses systematic, theory-guided methods to describe, explain, and predict experience and behavior Correct answer.
- It forbids any empirical observation
- It is identical to astrology
Explanation
A scientific Begriffsklärung of psychology emphasizes systematic, theory-guided description, explanation, and prediction of experience and behavior - not anecdote or pseudoscience.
Question 2Research, biological explanations and evidence
What is a defining feature of an Experiment as an empirical method?
- Reading only fiction novels without observation
- Systematic manipulation of an independent variable under controlled conditions to observe effects on a dependent variable Correct answer.
- Changing nothing and drawing no conclusions
- Asking no research question
Explanation
An experiment typically manipulates an independent variable under controlled conditions to observe effects - a core wissenschaftliche Methode named in TF3.
Question 3Research, biological explanations and evidence
In psychological testing, what do Gütekriterien (quality criteria) primarily protect?
- Only the color of the test booklet
- Only the examiner's lunch break
- The scientific usefulness of a Test - commonly objectivity, reliability, and validity Correct answer.
- The right to invent scores randomly
Explanation
TF3 requires Anforderungen an wissenschaftliche Methoden. For Tests, classic Gütekriterien are Objektivität, Reliabilität, and Validität.
Question 4Research, biological explanations and evidence
Reliability of a Test mainly means:
- That the Test measures the intended construct
- That every student must fail
- That results may be scored differently each time without rule
- Measurement consistency - similar results under similar conditions Correct answer.
Explanation
Reliabilität = consistency of measurement. Validity (whether it measures the intended construct) is related but distinct.
Question 5Research, biological explanations and evidence
Validity of a Test mainly means:
- The Test actually measures the construct it claims to measure Correct answer.
- Only that the Test is printed on thick paper
- Only that the Test is very long
- That results are always identical even if the construct changes
Explanation
Validität concerns whether the Test measures what it intends (e.g., reading skill vs. general anxiety).
Question 6Personality, motivation and social psychology
Industry vs. inferiority is most relevant when analyzing:
- Only prenatal reflexes
- Only retirement leisure
- Only infant feeding schedules
- School-age competence, mastery, and comparison with peers Correct answer.
Explanation
School age emphasizes industry-skill building and recognition-vs. feelings of inferiority if efforts are chronically devalued.
Question 7Personality, motivation and social psychology
In Erikson’s epigenetic principle, each crisis:
- Occurs in isolation with no lifelong residue
- Builds on earlier resolutions and prepares later ones Correct answer.
- Abolishes all biological maturation
- Applies only to formal operational thinkers
Explanation
Epigenesis means stage outcomes accumulate: early trust scaffolds later autonomy and initiative, informing longitudinal case analysis.
Question 8Personality, motivation and social psychology
Atkinson’s Risiko-Wahl-Modell of Leistungsmotivation predicts that a success-oriented person typically prefers tasks of:
- Extremely easy difficulty only, to guarantee success every time
- Impossible difficulty only, because failure is certain and thus non-diagnostic
- Intermediate difficulty, where success probability is moderate and incentive value is informative Correct answer.
- Random difficulty with no probability consideration
Explanation
People high in hope of success tend to choose intermediate-difficulty tasks (roughly P(success) ≈ 0.5); failure-avoiders often prefer very easy or very hard tasks.
Question 9Personality, motivation and social psychology
The Yerkes–Dodson Gesetz relating activation/arousal to Leistung states that:
- For many tasks there is an inverted-U: moderate arousal often supports peak performance, while too little or too much impairs it (with task-difficulty nuances) Correct answer.
- Performance always increases linearly forever as arousal rises
- Arousal is irrelevant to sport performance
- Only zero arousal yields optimal performance
Explanation
Yerkes–Dodson (named in Basiswissen) describes a curvilinear arousal–performance relationship; Brand links Aktivierung, Angst und Stress to Leistung.
Question 10Personality, motivation and social psychology
When analyzing Trainingsmaßnahmen concerning motivational Wirksamkeit, the strongest approach is to:
- Link the measure to a specified motivation/volition model and evaluate expected mechanisms and limits Correct answer.
- Assume every popular motivational poster works equally for all athletes
- Reject all theory and rely only on anecdotes
- Use only Freudian dream interpretation
Explanation
Analyse training measures’ effectiveness using Fachmodelle-mechanisms (e.g., SDT need support vs. controlling rewards) and limits.
Question 11Personality, motivation and social psychology
Vertiefung literature in Themenbereich 1 includes Psychologie Heute pieces on Leistungsdruck. What competence does the Vertiefung bullet emphasize?
- Ignoring all mental health topics in sport
- Explaining and evaluating effects of Leistungsdruck and psychische Belastungen im Sport Correct answer.
- Replacing psychology with only biomechanics
- Proving that pressure always improves performance linearly
Explanation
Vertiefend: explain and evaluate impacts of Leistungsdruck and psychological strain (Zittlau / Otto Vertiefung texts).
Question 12Personality, motivation and social psychology
Brand Kap. 2.2 (Aktivierung, Angst und Stress) is most useful for explaining:
- How to parse Latin ablative absolutes
- Corporate tax law
- Geological stratification
- How arousal, anxiety, and stress states relate to Leistungssport performance readiness Correct answer.
Explanation
A-Heft cites Brand 2.2 (pp. 30–36) on activation, anxiety, and stress-core for linking Yerkes–Dodson and Wettkampf pressure to performance.
Question 13Personality, motivation and social psychology
Leistungsmotivation (achievement motivation) in the Zimbardo/Mietzel coverage centers on:
- Only appetite for food and water
- Striving for success/excellence and dealing with success–failure incentives Correct answer.
- Only visual Gestalt grouping
- Only lexical morphology
Explanation
Achievement motivation concerns the motive to achieve success (and avoid failure) in evaluative performance settings.
Question 14Personality, motivation and social psychology
An inverted-U arousal–performance profile implies that for a fine motor precision sport under extreme anxiety, a useful intervention direction is often to:
- Maximize arousal as high as possible at all costs
- Eliminate all activation including beneficial readiness
- Down-regulate excessive arousal/anxiety toward a more optimal zone while preserving readiness Correct answer.
- Ignore anxiety because Yerkes–Dodson denies any effect
Explanation
When arousal is past the optimum, regulation toward a moderate zone is Yerkes–Dodson-consistent-aligned with Brand’s Angst/Stress discussion.
Question 15Personality, motivation and social psychology
In a Fallbeispiel, an athlete trains joyfully until a sponsor pays per podium only. Intrinsic interest then drops. Best analysis:
- Proof that money never changes motivation
- A potential overjustification / controlling-extrinsic shift undermining intrinsic motivation Correct answer.
- Maslow’s hierarchy being inverted permanently in all humans
- Big Five Neuroticism measurement error only
Explanation
When external contingencies become the salient reason for an activity, intrinsic motivation can decline-a classic Belohnungswirksamkeit analysis.
Question 16Personality, motivation and social psychology
Which statement best captures ‘Anreiztheorien’ as positioned in Mietzel’s cited Motivation chapters?
- Only reflexes exist without incentives
- Behavior is pulled by anticipated incentives/outcomes rather than only pushed by internal deficits Correct answer.
- Incentives are identical to Big Five traits
- Incentives are irrelevant once habits form
Explanation
Incentive theories emphasize the attractive pull of expected goals/rewards (Mietzel Anreiztheorien pages cited in A-Heft).
Question 17Personality, motivation and social psychology
Which need level in Maslow’s hierarchy is most associated with recognition, status, and achievement respect?
- Esteem needs Correct answer.
- Physiological needs
- Only the need for relatedness in SDT terminology as a Maslow synonym
- Safety needs exclusively
Explanation
Esteem needs cover achievement, recognition, and respect; they sit above belonging and below self-actualization in classical Maslow ordering.
Question 18Personality, motivation and social psychology
A coach sets only extremely hard drills so athletes ‘always fail a little.’ For failure-avoidant athletes (Atkinson), this climate may:
- Perfectly match their preference for intermediate diagnostic difficulty
- Confirm threatening high-failure expectancies and encourage withdrawal or defensive task choices Correct answer.
- Guarantee intrinsic motivation under SDT without need support
- Eliminate all attribution processes
Explanation
Chronic impossible standards raise failure expectancy and can entrench avoidance-not the intermediate diagnostic sweet spot.
Question 19Personality, motivation and social psychology
Critical judgment of Leistungsdruck (Vertiefung) should recognize that:
- High pressure can impair well-being and performance quality, requiring differentiated evaluation of costs/benefits and support measures Correct answer.
- Pressure always equals productive arousal with no health costs
- Athletes never experience psychische Belastungen
- Only biomechanics textbooks may discuss pressure
Explanation
Vertiefung expects explaining/evaluating Leistungsdruck and psychische Belastungen-not denying strain or claiming pressure is always productive.
Question 20Personality, motivation and social psychology
Kuhl’s Selbst framework (Basis-Literatur) discusses Regression and Progression. Progression best refers to:
- Collapse into earlier, less integrated reaction patterns under load
- Movement toward more integrated, flexible self-regulated responding Correct answer.
- Only measuring skull bumps
- Only listing Big Five facet labels without process
Explanation
Progression denotes advancing toward integrated self-regulation; regression denotes falling back to earlier/less integrated Erstreaktion patterns under demand.
Question 21Personality, motivation and social psychology
‘Verstand vs. Unbewusstes’ in Themenbereich 2 Basiswissen points to:
- Ignoring all nonconscious processes
- Only explicit vocabulary drills
- Only stoichiometry balancing
- Comparing conscious reasoning with less conscious affective/implicit processes in personality functioning (including Vertiefung such as Roth) Correct answer.
Explanation
Pupils describe paradigms including conscious vs unconscious influences; Vertiefung Roth addresses complicated relations of thinking and feeling.
Question 22Personality, motivation and social psychology
High Neuroticism (Big Five) is most associated with:
- Emotional stability and calm under all stressors
- Tendencies toward negative emotionality, anxiety, and stress reactivity Correct answer.
- Maximum agreeableness as hostility
- Maximum conscientiousness as chaos
Explanation
Neuroticism indexes vulnerability to negative affect and stress reactivity; its low pole is emotional stability.
Question 23Personality, motivation and social psychology
Kuhl’s Erst- und Zweitreaktion idea (gekürzte Fassung cited) helps explain:
- Why Big Five Openness equals VO2max
- Why Atkinson forbids personality talk
- Why first impulsive reactions under load may need a second, more integrated self-regulated response Correct answer.
- Why Hilfsmittel include Taschenrechner in Psychology
Explanation
Erstreaktion vs Zweitreaktion frames how initial under-load responses can be succeeded by more integrated self-controlled responding.
Question 24Personality, motivation and social psychology
Which Vertiefung item is listed for Themenbereich 2?
- Loyola Productions video „Sieben Stufen zur Freiheit …“ (Prof. Dr. Julius Kuhl) among Vertiefung options Correct answer.
- Otto „Hoher Druck im Leistungssport“ only as the sole Vertiefung
- Zimbardo Shaping chapter as Persönlichkeit Vertiefung
- Brand Kap. 2.1 as Persönlichkeit Vertiefung
Explanation
Vertiefung includes the Kuhl YouTube video (and Roth). Otto/Zittlau are Themenbereich 1 Vertiefung; Brand/Zimbardo shaping support Motivation.
Question 25Personality, motivation and social psychology
Roth Vertiefung on Denken, Fühlen, Handeln most usefully supports discussion of:
- Only Hamburg Deutsch literary eras
- Only chemical equilibrium constants
- Complex interplay of reasoning and affective processes in guiding action Correct answer.
- Only Olympic host voting
Explanation
Roth Vertiefung: complicated relationship of Verstand and Gefühlen-supports Verstand vs Unbewusstes / feeling–thinking action links.
Question 26Personality, motivation and social psychology
Schwerpunkt 2 frames youth socialization as a tension between:
- Only infant trust and mistrust
- Streben nach Autonomie and Übernahme sozialer Verantwortung Correct answer.
- Only concrete operational conservation
- Only BSFB fee schedules
Explanation
The official title centers Jugendsozialisation im Spannungsverhältnis von Streben nach Autonomie und Übernahme sozialer Verantwortung.
Question 27Personality, motivation and social psychology
Hurrelmann’s socialization theory (often with Bauer in Hamburg references) emphasizes adolescents as:
- Passive clay shaped with zero agency
- Organisms without social environments
- Only formal operational philosophers with no peers
- Productive processors of reality who actively cope with developmental tasks Correct answer.
Explanation
Produktive Realitätsverarbeitung casts youth as active agents balancing personal and social demands-key for autonomy/responsibility analysis.
Question 28Personality, motivation and social psychology
Developmental tasks (Entwicklungsaufgaben) in the Hurrelmann tradition are best understood as:
- Age-typical challenges (e.g., peer relations, education/vocation, identity, intimate relationships) that adolescents must actively manage Correct answer.
- Random trivia unrelated to growing up
- Only infant motor milestones
- Only Abitur fee payment
Explanation
Entwicklungsaufgaben structure analysis of what youth must cope with while seeking autonomy and social responsibility.
Question 29Personality, motivation and social psychology
A Fallbeispiel teen seeks independence while refusing all family/school duties. Schwerpunkt-2 analysis should highlight:
- Perfect balance already achieved
- Imbalance: autonomy claims without commensurate social responsibility Correct answer.
- That autonomy is illegal
- That responsibility forbids any autonomy
Explanation
The Schwerpunkt’s Spannungsverhältnis is exactly autonomy striving vs. taking on social responsibility-imbalance is analytically productive.
Question 30Personality, motivation and social psychology
A Theorievergleich between Erikson and Hurrelmann on adolescence should note that:
- They are word-for-word identical theories
- Neither mentions social environment
- Both address active identity/coping in social context, but Erikson stages crises epigenetically while Hurrelmann stresses ongoing productive processing of developmental tasks Correct answer.
- Hurrelmann replaces all developmental thinking with genetics only
Explanation
Compare Menschenbild and mechanism: epigenetic crises vs. productive coping with Entwicklungsaufgaben-then draw shared pedagogical implications.
Question 31Personality, motivation and social psychology
Mediatized environments intensify youth developmental tasks because:
- Online spaces never affect identity
- Schools ban all discussion of media by A-Heft rule
- Piaget forbids mentioning media
- Self-presentation, peer feedback, and role performances expand across digital arenas Correct answer.
Explanation
A-Heft Schwerpunkt 2 highlights challenges of Rollenhandeln in a mediatisierten Umwelt-digital arenas multiply identity performances.
Question 32Personality, motivation and social psychology
Personale Identität in Krappmann’s sense emphasizes:
- Only the set of social roles with no individuality
- The individual’s biographical uniqueness and self-definition Correct answer.
- Genetic code alone
- Exam fee receipts
Explanation
Personal identity concerns uniqueness and continuity of the self; social identity concerns recognition in roles and memberships.
Question 33Personality, motivation and social psychology
Compared with Erikson’s identity vs. role confusion, Krappmann adds sharper tools for analyzing:
- Infant breastfeeding only
- Only formal operational algebra proofs
- Ongoing balancing of personal uniqueness and social role recognition in interaction Correct answer.
- Only concrete liquid conservation
Explanation
Erikson stages the identity crisis; Krappmann unpacks interactional identity work between personale and soziale Identität.
Question 34Personality, motivation and social psychology
In Freud’s Instanzenmodell as emphasized for Schwerpunkt I, which instance mediates between instinctual wishes, reality, and moral standards?
- Es (id)
- Ich (ego) Correct answer.
- Über-Ich (superego)
- Vorbewusstes as a fourth independent instance
Explanation
The Ich negotiates among Es drives, external reality, and Über-Ich demands; Rahmenplan S2.1 highlights Instanzenmodell dynamics including ICH-Stärke/ICH-Schwäche.
Question 35Personality, motivation and social psychology
In Freud’s Schichtenmodell, content that is not currently conscious but can be brought into awareness with effort belongs primarily to which layer?
- Unbewusst (unconscious)
- Nur bewusst (conscious only, with no other layer)
- Vorbewusst (preconscious) Correct answer.
- Über-Ich exclusively
Explanation
The Schichtenmodell distinguishes bewusst, vorbewusst, and unbewusst; preconscious material can become conscious, unlike dynamically repressed unconscious content.
Question 36Personality, motivation and social psychology
In Freud’s model, the Latenzphase is best characterized as:
- A period of relatively reduced overt sexual interest after the phallic phase, with energy redirected into learning and socialization Correct answer.
- The first oral stage of nursing
- The adult genital organization present from birth
- The stage when the Über-Ich has not yet begun to form
Explanation
Latency (phase 4) follows the phallic period; sexual urges are relatively quieted and sublimated into school, play, and social skills-explicitly required in A-Heft 2026.
Question 37Personality, motivation and social psychology
In Freud’s Triebtheorie relevant to Schwerpunkt I, drives are best described as:
- Only voluntary goals set by the Über-Ich
- Identical to Bandura’s outcome expectations
- Internal motivational forces arising from somatic sources that press for psychic representation and satisfaction Correct answer.
- Purely cognitive schemas with no affective component
Explanation
Drive theory (Triebtheorie)-highlighted as besonders bedeutsam in A-Heft-posits somatic-sourced psychic energies seeking discharge/satisfaction, interacting with the instances.
Question 38Personality, motivation and social psychology
Which Persönlichkeitsbegriff features does Rahmenplan S2.1 list that candidates should be able to discuss for S2.1?
- Only IQ score and reaction time
- Only Big-Five labels without Freudian content
- Relative Konstanz, Veränderbarkeit, Einzigartigkeit, Ausprägung, and Struktur Correct answer.
- Only stereotype threat outcomes
Explanation
Rahmenplan S2.1 Persönlichkeitsbegriff lists relative constancy, changeability, uniqueness, expression, and structure-alongside the Freudian model for Schwerpunkt I.
Question 39Personality, motivation and social psychology
In the classic Freudian oral phase (Rahmenplan phases 1–3), the primary erogenous focus is:
- Bowel control and cleanliness training only
- Genital primacy exclusive to adulthood with no childhood analogue
- Latency-stage academic competition
- The mouth and oral activities (sucking, biting) Correct answer.
Explanation
Phase 1 (oral) centers oral zones and feeding-related activities; A-Heft expects the full Freudian phase logic including later phases 4–5.
Question 40Personality, motivation and social psychology
Freud’s anal phase is most associated with which developmental themes?
- Control, retention/expulsion, and early autonomy conflicts around toilet training Correct answer.
- Exclusive Oedipal rivalry with no control themes
- Adult romantic pair-bonding only
- Inattentional blindness in visual search
Explanation
Phase 2 (anal) links erogenous focus on the anal zone with issues of control, order, and autonomy-Rahmenplan phases 1–3 content.
Question 41Personality, motivation and social psychology
In Freudian theory, the phallic phase is most closely linked to:
- Exclusive oral dependency with no parental rivalry
- Focus on genitals and the Oedipus/Elektra conflict constellation leading toward Über-Ich formation Correct answer.
- Complete absence of sexual curiosity
- Only social priming without psychic conflict
Explanation
Phase 3 (phallisch) involves genital focus and Oedipal dynamics; resolution contributes to conscience/Über-Ich development-core S2.1 Freud content.
Question 42Personality, motivation and social psychology
Sublimierung, listed in Rahmenplan S2.1 Freudian defenses, means:
- Forgetting a trauma with no psychic residue
- Attributing one’s anger to a rival
- Returning to thumb-sucking under stress
- Redirecting drive energy into socially valued activities (e.g. art, science, work) Correct answer.
Explanation
Sublimierung transforms drive energy into culturally accepted outlets-Rahmenplan S2.1 defense content alongside Verdrängung and Verschiebung.
Question 43Personality, motivation and social psychology
Verschiebung (displacement) in Freudian defense theory typically involves:
- Redirecting an impulse from a threatening target onto a safer substitute Correct answer.
- Consciously deciding to postpone a goal using Rubikon planning
- Matching Gestalt continuity in a line drawing
- Scoring high on an IAT without awareness
Explanation
Displacement shifts affective impulse from an original object to a less threatening one-Rahmenplan S2.1 lists Verschiebung with Verdrängung and Sublimierung.
Question 44Personality, motivation and social psychology
ICH-Stärke versus ICH-Schwäche in the Instanzenmodell primarily concerns:
- Whether the person scores high on extraversion
- Whether bottom-up sensory data dominate top-down expectations
- How effectively the ego mediates drives, reality, and conscience without being overwhelmed Correct answer.
- Whether priming was semantic or affective
Explanation
Rahmenplan S2.1 flags Dynamik der Instanzen (ICH-Stärke/ICH-Schwäche)-ego strength as capacity to manage Es and Über-Ich pressures in reality.
Question 45Personality, motivation and social psychology
Although Schwerpunkt I centers Freud, Rahmenplan S2.1 also includes Sozialkognitive Lerntheorie (Bandura). Reciprocal determinism means:
- Only the Es determines all behavior
- Environment never affects cognition
- Personality is fixed at birth with no learning
- Person, behavior, and environment continuously influence one another Correct answer.
Explanation
S2.1 Bandura content includes reziproker Determinismus (Person, Verhalten, Umwelt)-useful module literacy even though A-Heft Schwerpunkt title is Freud.
Question 46Personality, motivation and social psychology
A Klausur material describes a patient who repeatedly sabotages intimacy yet claims partners are always “too clingy.” Which analysis best fits Schwerpunkt I expectations?
- Only a failure of Gestalt proximity
- Only Stroop interference
- Only autokinetic conformity
- Possible projection of dependency/abandonment conflict plus Ich–Über-Ich dynamics around intimacy Correct answer.
Explanation
Schwerpunkt I rewards applying Freudian instance/defense concepts to case material-here projection of unwanted dependency feelings onto partners.
Question 47Personality, motivation and social psychology
Which research-methods contrast appears in Rahmenplan S2.1 Entwicklungs-/Persönlichkeitspsychologie methods literacy?
- Längsschnitt- versus Querschnittmethode (and retrospective methods) Correct answer.
- Only double-slit physics experiments
- Only GDP time-series from PGW
- Only Latin morphology drills
Explanation
S2.1 Forschungsmethoden include longitudinal, cross-sectional, and retrospective approaches-candidates should distinguish designs when interpreting developmental claims.
Question 48Personality, motivation and social psychology
In Freudian terms, a harsh, punitive conscience that generates intense guilt most implicates which instance?
- Es only
- Sensory receptors only
- Über-Ich Correct answer.
- Figure–ground segregation only
Explanation
The Über-Ich embodies internalized parental/societal standards and can generate guilt/shame when the Ich/Es violate them.
Question 49Personality, motivation and social psychology
How should a candidate treat “Alltagspsychologie” versus scientific Psychology when judging Freudian claims (U-competence from Rahmenplan)?
- Distinguish everyday/pop explanations from theory- and evidence-based scientific Psychology, then evaluate Freud accordingly Correct answer.
- Treat every folk saying as equal to peer-reviewed findings
- Ignore paradigms entirely
- Use only vocational sport-psychology slogans
Explanation
Rahmenplan Urteilskompetenz asks pupils to evaluate interpretations against differences among Alltags-, Populär-, and wissenschaftlicher Psychologie-essential for beurteilen/erörtern tasks on Freud.
Question 50Personality, motivation and social psychology
A mixed Aufgabe linking Freud’s projection to biased person perception is legitimate exam literacy because:
- A-Heft forbids any cross-topic thinking
- Only vocational sport motivation may be mixed
- Schwerpunkte I and II can appear across the three Aufgaben; transfer between depth psychology and social perception is assessable Correct answer.
- Projection is not in A-Heft
Explanation
Three Aufgaben address two Schwerpunkte; strong responses often relate concepts carefully. Projection is A-Heft-listed; person perception is S4.2.