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Biological Psychology
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Biological Psychology explores the intricate relationship between biological processes and behavior, examining how the brain, neurotransmitters, hormones, and genetic factors influence thoughts, emotions, and actions. This course delves into the structure and function of the nervous system, sensory and motor systems, and the biological foundations of psychological phenomena such as motivation, learning, memory, and mental disorders. Through an integrated approach, students gain a deeper understanding of how physiological mechanisms underpin distinct aspects of human and animal behavior.
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Introducing Psychology Brain Person Group 4th Edition by Stephen M. Kosslyn
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology:
History and Research Methods
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Q1) Mark is receiving guidance to determine what occupation is best suited for him. Mark is most likely seeing a/an ________ psychologist.
A) clinical
B) cognitive
C) counseling
D) academic
Answer: C
Q2) If a manager is interested in whether drugs are to blame when attempting to account for an employee's erratic behavior at work, then we can say that the manager is primarily concerned with which level(s) of analysis?
A) brain
B) person
C) group and person
D) brain and group
Answer: A
Q3) What's the major difference between experimental and control groups?
Answer: The control condition serves as a comparison condition for the experimental condition. The control condition does not involve using the "treatment" or manipulation of a given independent variable.
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
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Q1) Mary put her hand on a hot stove. Which neuron is responsible for sending a pain message up her spinal column, where it would then enter into the main area of the cord?
A) motor neuron
B) interneuron
C) sensory neuron
D) reflex
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following groups of structures work together to help our bodies fight disease?
A) hippocampus, hypothalamus, and pituitary gland
B) hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenal glands
C) hippocampus, medulla, and pituitary gland
D) basal ganglia, adrenal glands, and pituitary gland
Answer: B
Q3) List in order of reception to release of chemicals four major parts of the neuron.
Answer: dendrites, cell body, axon, terminal buttons
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
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Q1) Determining that one bottle is slightly heavier than another illustrates a just-noticeable difference in action.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) When talking to her friend, Lauren says "How was your vacation," but she coughs when she says the word vacation such that the "ca" is not audible. However, Lauren's friend claims to have heard the word in its entirety. This example illustrates ________.
A) dichotic listening
B) shadowing
C) the phonemic restoration effect
D) the cocktail party phenomenon
Answer: C
Q3) The minimum intensity of physical stimulation required to produce any sensation at all in a person is the just-noticeable threshold.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US
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Q1) Discuss Köhler's two studies with Sultan, the chimpanzee, that illustrate insight learning.
Q2) List and briefly describe the terms represented by the following abbreviations: US, UR, CS, CR.
Q3) A child is wetting his or her bed. According to our textbook, punishing the child would be the best way to permanently stop this behavior. You would recommend that the child be given no food on the day after a bedwetting incident. This is because negative punishment is guaranteed to stop bad behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Classical conditioning was accidentally discovered by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov while he was studying salivation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Systematic desensitization is primarily based on principles of ________. A) behaviorism
B) classical conditioning
C) operant conditioning
D) vicarious conditioning
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Chapter 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday
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Q1) Specifically, what is a code?
A) a particular method for specifying information
B) a set of mental pictures
C) a set of mental calculations
D) memory procedures
Q2) In general, how do the memory stores differ?
Q3) Short-term memory tends to hold information for several hours.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How is it possible to tell whether different genes affect different aspects of memory?
Q5) When trying to memorize a list of words, reading over them several times before recall is an example of ________.
A) elaborative encoding
B) chunking
C) repetition priming
D) dual coding
Q6) Recognition is generally worse than recall.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What
Humans Do Best
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Q1) According to Sternberg, when you understand complex forms of literature, you're using analytic intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ability to understand the world, think rationally or logically, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges or problems are all factors that would be related to the definition of ____________.
A) divergent problem solving
B) creative thinking
C) heuristic usage
D) intelligence
Q3) What is meant by a person's "microenvironment?"
Q4) What type of thinking shares attributes with perception?
Q5) Talia is looking for her cat by methodically searching each room and then closing the door. She is using what type of problem solving strategy?
A) an algorithm
B) a heuristic
C) a means-end strategy
D) a hunch
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Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
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Q1) Which of these is the correct sequence of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs from the lowest to the highest?
A) physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem, cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization
B) esteem, aesthetic, safety, self-actualization, belongingness, cognitive, physiological
C) safety, self-actualization, belongingness, aesthetic, esteem, physiological, cognitive
D) safety, cognitive, physiological, aesthetic, esteem, belongingness, self-actualization
Q2) Which level of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy is epitomized by the U.S. Army's slogan "Be all that you can be"?
A) safety
B) self-esteem
C) belongingness
D) self-actualization
Q3) Positive and negative emotions are not different sides of the same coin.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Différence
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Q1) Sociability, neuroticism-anxiety, impulsive sensation-seeking, activity, and aggression-hostility are the traits associated with ________.
A) Gray's BAS
B) Cattell's 16PF
C) Zukerman's alternative five
D) Eysenck's theory
Q2) According to Freud, the stage in which children develop a marked attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and become jealous of the same-sex parent is the ______.
A) anal stage
B) genital stage
C) oral stage
D) phallic stage
Q3) Sigmund Freud proposed that his patients' disorders resulted most often from psychological conflicts related to ______________.
A) sex
B) denial
C) marriage
D) depression
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Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up,
Growing Older, Growing Wiser
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Q1) Around age 40, adults ___________.
A) see a decline in sexual functioning
B) may need to wear eyeglasses
C) experience a sharpening of the senses
D) do not experience any physical changes
Q2) Describe human development during the first trimester.
Q3) A researcher who selects a sample of people of varying ages and studies them at one point in time is, by definition, using the ______ method.
A) cohort design
B) longitudinal design
C) behavior genetics design
D) cross-sectional design
Q4) A child's conscience usually develops by the age of ________ years.
A) 2
B) 3
C) 5
D) 13
Q5) Briefly state the three key problems that are particularly common among teenagers.
Q6) What are the two cognitive distortions that adolescents develop?
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Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life
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Q1) Cocaine inhibits the reuptake of which neurotransmitter(s)?
A) dopamine
B) norepinephrine
C) serotonin
D) dopamine and norepinephrine
Q2) Matt really needs money and ponders robbing a bank, but then decides not to do so due to the risks of getting arrested. However, after consuming very high levels of alcohol, he decides to rob a bank. This example illustrates ________.
A) alcohol myopia
B) inhibitory conflict
C) substance dependence
D) disinhibition
Q3) The field of psychoneuroimmunology focuses on ________.
A) the ways in which thoughts and feelings affect the immune system
B) the ways in which mental states suppress our circulatory system
C) the pattern of brain activity in normal, functioning adults
D) the pattern of responses from our brain
Q4) What are the three phases in the general adaptation syndrome?
Q5) What is the impact of stress on the immune system?
Q6) What is the relationship between self-esteem and aggression?
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Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More Than Everyday Problems
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Q1) Each axis in the DSM represents ________.
A) a different ethnic group
B) a different type of psychology
C) a different method of treatment
D) a different type of information
Q2) Excessive or unrealistic fearfulness and worry are characteristic of ______.
A) mood disorders
B) dissociative neurosis
C) anxiety disorders
D) amnesia
Q3) It is very easy to define what is abnormal in terms of behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Shreen is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She believes that she is a powerful person who can save the world. Shreen is experiencing __________.
A) delusions of persecution
B) delusions of grandeur
C) delusions of reference
D) delusions of influence
Q5) Describe a panic attack.
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Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
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Q1) Edward starts to worry about telling his therapist about his drinking. He is afraid that the therapist will get mad at him like his mother used to. Edward has started relating to his therapist as he related to his mother. Edward is experiencing ________.
A) transference
B) countertransference
C) catharsis
D) resistance
Q2) For which of these problems would systematic desensitization most likely be used?
A) Joe has been depressed for two years.
B) Ken is sexually attracted to young children.
C) As a result of schizophrenia, David does not interact with members of his family.
D) A fear of heights restricts Alice's enrollment to classes that meet on the first floor.
Q3) Exposure is a technique that has been shown to be highly ineffective with anxiety disorders.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
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Q1) The Robber's Cave experiment showed that playing athletic games, such as football and baseball, reduces us-them hostility.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When there is an inconsistency between an attitude and a behavior or two attitudes, the end result is usually ________.
A) cognitive dissonance
B) attitudinal confusion
C) persuasion
D) the mere exposure effect
Q3) "We" have all different types of personalities and lots of endearing little quirks, whereas "they" all think and act alike. This assumption would be an example of the cognitive schema called______________.
A) mindlessness
B) a stereotype
C) a fundamental attribution error
D) mental set
Q4) Suppose Pat thinks she did a bad job because she's inept. What type of attribution would this be?
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Chapter 14: Statistics Part B : How to Think About Research Studies
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Q1) Students in Dr. Friedlander's class got the following scores on their first test: 75, 77, 87, 63, 93, 77, 72, 80, 57, 68, 76. What is the mode?
A) 77
B) 75
C) 36
D) 76
Q2) Results that are not attributable to chance are referred to as ______________.
A) non chance fluctuations
B) skewed
C) statistically significant
D) variant
Q3) Your study's hypothesis will tend to be initially found in a research paper's ________ section.
A) Introduction
B) Methods
C) Results
D) Discussion
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