Applied Psychology
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Applied Psychology explores the practical implementation of psychological theories and principles to address real-world problems and improve everyday life. The course covers key areas such as clinical, educational, organizational, health, and forensic psychology, demonstrating how psychological research and methods are used to solve issues in these domains. Students will learn to assess psychological needs, design interventions, evaluate outcomes, and utilize evidence-based practices. Through case studies, projects, and experiential learning, the course emphasizes critical thinking and ethical considerations, preparing students to effectively apply psychological concepts in diverse professional settings.
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The World of Psychology 7th Canadian Edition by by
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Samuel E. Wood
Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Sigmund Freud is to psychoanalysis as ________ is to behaviourism.
A) John B. Watson
B) William James
C) Wilhelm Wundt
D) Edward Titchener
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is not a true statement?
A) The results of an experiment can befluenced by either the expectations of the subject or those of the researcher.
B) The experimental method is the only one which can be used to identify cause-effect relationships between variables.
C) Properly conducted experiments are always free offluence of a researcher's expectations
D) Ethical considerations can sometimes prevent researchers from using the experimental method even when they want to learn about cause-effect relationships.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Biology and Behaviour
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Q1) What is the spinal cord and what is its main function?
Answer: The spinal cord is an extension of the brain, reaching from the base of the brain through the neck and spinal column that transmits messages between the brain and the peripheral nervous system.
Q2) The association areas are areas in the cerebral cortex
A) that control bodily processes vital to our survival.
B) that house our memories and arevolved thought, perception and language
C) that control voluntary movement.
D) where vision, hearing, touch, pressure and temperature register the brain.
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following is an area of the brain involved in comprehending the spoken word and in formulating coherent speech and written language?
A) Wernicke's area
B) The primary auditory cortex
C) The somatosensory cortex
D) Broca's area
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The textbook calls illusions a form of hallucination
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Our joints, ligaments and muscles hold receptors for our
A) sense of balance.
B) kinesthetic sense
C) auditory needs.
D) sense of touch.
Answer: B
Q3) What is the vestibular sense, and where are its sensory receptors located?
Answer: The vestibular sense provides information about movement and our orientation in space through sensory receptors in the semicircular canals and the vestibular sacs, which detect changes in the movement and orientation of the head.
Q4) Which of the following is not true of cones?
A) They play a key role colour vision.
B) They are more numerous than rods
C) They are critical our ability to notice fine detail.
D) They function best bright light.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: States of Conciousness
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Q1) Decreased activity in the central nervous system is the chief effect of A) narcotics.
B) depressants
C) stimulants.
D) hallucinogens.
Q2) Which of the following would not be an effect of amphetamines?
A) Tocrease arousal
B) To relax and calm
C) To relieve fatigue
D) To suppress appetite
Q3) Three-year-old Adam lets out a piercing scream a few hours after he has fallen asleep. When his parents come to his room, Adam is sitting up in bed with his eyes open and in a state of panic, with a racing heart. Within 15 minutes, he has fallen back to sleep, and the next day he has no memory of the episode. Adam has experienced A) a REM rebound.
B) a sleep terror
C) an anxiety nightmare.
D) ancubus nightmare.
Q4) What are some of the benefits of meditation?
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) In Pavlov's original research, dogs heard a tone and then had meat powder placed in their mouths which caused them to salivate. After many pairings of the tone and meat powder, they would salivate when the tone was presented alone. In this case, the meat powder is an example of
A) an unconditioned response.
B) a conditioned response.
C) a conditioned stimulus.
D) an unconditioned stimulus
Q2) In Pavlov's original research, dogs heard a tone and then had meat powder placed in their mouths which caused them to salivate. After many pairings of the tone and the meat powder, they would salivate when the tone was presented alone. In this case, the conditioned response would be
A) salivating to the tone
B) the meat powder.
C) the tone.
D) the meat powder'sfluence on salivating.
Q3) How does the Little Albert study help our understanding of the origins of fear?
Q4) How does operant conditioning explain the learning of new behaviours?
Q5) How does punishment compare and contrast with negative reinforcement?
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) __________ consists of motor skills, habits and simple classically conditioned responses.
A) Non-declarative memory
B) Episodic memory
C) Semantic memory
D) Declarative memory
Q2) Long-term potentiation at the synapses is important because
A) it implies that anything that has been stored as a memory cannot be forgotten.
B) it suggests that structural changes occur when memories are formed
C) itcreases the potential of the neurons.
D) it protects against retroactiveterference.
Q3) When children learn the alphabet, they often learn "A, B, C, D," and "W, X, Y, Z," before they learn the letters "P, Q, R, S, T." This illustrates a memory phenomenon called A) the von Restorff effect.
B) the serial position effect
C) the selectiveterference effect.
D) end effects.
Q4) Describe the role of hormones in memory.
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Chapter 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) John needs a paperweight to keep open a book from which he is making notes. He does not own a paperweight. There is small red building-brick keeping his door open that would be perfect as a weight, but when John looks at it, he doesn't think of it as a paperweight. In this case, John has fallen prey to
A) item compensation.
B) a very bad heuristic.
C) algorithmic failure.
D) functional fixedness
Q2) Choose two of the following psychologists associated with research or testing of intelligence and compare and contrast their approaches (e.g., Binet, Thurstone, Wechsler, Terman, Gardner, Spearman, Guilford, Sternberg).
Q3) The primary method of study employed by behavioural geneticists is currently DNA testing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Summarize what we currently know about the nature of intelligence from twin studies.
Q5) What are concepts, and how are they formed?
Q6) How did Gardner and Sternberg change our understanding of intelligence?
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Chapter 8: Development
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Q1) Newborns can discriminate among different odours and tastes and can show preferences for specific odours and tastes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Piaget, a child between the ages of 7 and 11 can reason or apply logical principles to
A) questions of social justice.
B) abstractions and concrete examples.
C) abstractions.
D) concrete and specific examples
Q3) According to Piaget, infants gain an understanding of the world through A) primitive logic.
B) their senses and body activities
C) their mouths.
D) imitation.
Q4) What are the three stages of prenatal development? Describe each stage.
Q5) Both males and females have a recognizable onset of puberty called menarche. A)True B)False
Q6) How are hereditary traits transmitted?
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) According to fat-cell theory, when Jan loses weight, she
A) both reduces her number of fat cells and the size of the remaining fat cells.
B) reduces the size of her fat cells
C) can reduce neither the number of fat cells nor their sizes.
D) reduces her number of fat cells.
Q2) The James-Lange theory says that physiological changes occur ________ emotional feelings; the Cannon-Bard theory says that physiological changes occur ________ emotional feelings.
A) before; at the same time as
B) at the same time as; before
C) at the same time as; after
D) at the same time as; at the same time as
Q3) In most societies boys are better able to hide disappointment than girls. A)True
B)False
Q4) In terms of promoting high achievement needs in children, some experts believe A) the values the home are an important factor
B) that heredity must not be overlooked.
C) experience with continual success is the most importantfluence.
D) parent should push their children to develop many different skills.
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following would create the most cognitive dissonance?
A) I believe I am a nice person. I open doors for others.
B) I see myself as smart. I have good grades.
C) I like Helene. I don't enjoy myself with Helene
D) I like hip-hop music. I listen to country rock.
Q2) Horace just received the Gurlman Award for Creativity. It was a very tough competition, during which he thought he would not win. During his acceptance speech he stressed how his hard work, special skills, and intelligence made him the winner. He did not thank the design or manufacturing teams who worked on the project with him. What kind of attribution error did Horace probably make during his speech?
A) Actor-observer bias
B) Self-serving bias
C) Ambitious attribution error
D) Fundamental attribution error
Q3) The matching hypothesis suggests that we are more likely to end up with someone similar to ourselves in attractiveness and other assets.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
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Chapter 11: Personality Theory and Assessment
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Q1) Neil enjoys going to parties and on outings with his friends. Often he will take charge of a group and suggest what they do. Based on this information, Neil would be best described in terms of the five-factor theory as
A) high on the conscientiousness dimension.
B) high on the extraversion dimension
C) low on the extraversion dimension.
D) low on the openness to experience dimension.
Q2) During which of the following stages of development does an individual's sense of pleasure become focused on the mouth?
A) Oedipal stage
B) Oral stage
C) Latency stage
D) Phallic stage
Q3) During an interview, interviewers consider not only a person's answers but also their A) genes.
B) projective test responses.
C) inventory test scores.
D) tone of voice
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Chapter 12: Health and Stress
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Q1) How does lifestyle (healthy and unhealthy) influence illness and disease?
Q2) The sympathetic nervous system controls the A) soma-sensory response.
B) fight-or-flight response
C) aggression- or-social response.
D) reflexive escape response.
Q3) It is not a good idea to combine emotion-focused with problem-focused coping in the face of traumatic events.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Holmes and Rahe, the greater the number and severity of stressful life events a person experiences in a year, the more likely the person is to
A) adapt to such changes the future.
B) succeed simple tasks but fail complex ones.
C) suffer major health problems within the next two years
D) commit errors performance requiring concentrated attention.
Q5) How do approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, and approach-avoidance conflicts differ?
Q6) Discuss the psychological model of stress proposed by Lazarus and Folkman.
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Chapter 13: Psychology Disorders
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Q1) Floyd, a hospital intern, forgot his whole identity, wandered to a different city, and is now a hospital orderly with the name of Gordon. Gordon is most likely suffering from
A) dissociative amnesia.
B) dissociative fugue
C) localized amnesia.
D) generalized amnesia.
Q2) Compare and contrast the causes of abnormal behaviour according to the biological, psychodynamic, learning, humanistic, and cognitive perspectives.
Q3) One significant contributing factor to schizophrenia appears to be that people who suffer from schizophrenia are particularly
A) invulnerable to stress.
B) sensitive to anxiety.
C) insensitive to anxiety.
D) vulnerable to stress
Q4) What are the symptoms of a bipolar disorder?
Q5) Describe and compare Cluster A, Cluster B, and Cluster C personality disorders.
Q6) Describe dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue?
Q7) What makes anxiety healthy or unhealthy?
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Chapter 14: Therapies
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Q1) Which of the following is not a case of applying operant conditioning principles to therapy?
A) Token economies
B) Reinforcement for desirable behaviour
C) Aversive conditioning
D) Time out
Q2) Which of the following is not part of the application of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
A) Focusing on the therapist's fingers
B) Focusing on a past or present traumatic experience
C) Deep breathing and relaxation techniques
D) Controlled eye movements while the patient follows the visual stimulus
Q3) Which therapy discussed in the text emphasizes the importance of clients fully experiencing, in the present moment, their feelings, thoughts, and actions, and then taking responsibility for both their feelings and their behaviour.
A) interpersonal therapy
B) Group therapy
C) Person-Centred therapy
D) Gestalt therapy
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