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Cognitive Psychology explores the mental processes underlying human behavior, such as perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, and decision-making. This course examines how information is acquired, processed, stored, and retrieved by the mind, drawing on experimental research and theoretical perspectives. Students will learn about key cognitive functions, methodologies used in cognitive research, and how cognitive principles apply to everyday experiences. The course also discusses topics like cognitive development, intelligence, and the influence of brain structures on cognitive processes.
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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) Research with animals tends to focus on ________.
A) cognition
B) social behavior
C) understanding the brain
D) developmental milestones
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship between two variables?
A) .50
B) .25
C) -.25
D) -.75
Answer: D
Q3) Looking at psychological events from different levels of analysis ________.
A) means that it is very difficult to understand any event
B) illustrates how genes are destiny
C) helps us see how events at one level can trigger and modify events at other levels
D) implies that any other way of looking at events is wrong
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
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Q1) If you were to play a very dangerous (and somewhat gruesome) game and saw part of your skull off and look at your now well-ventilated brain in a mirror, the first structure(s) you would see under the skull will be the ________.
A) corpus callosum
B) meninges
C) ventricle
D) gyrus
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements is true, according to your authors?
A) Genes are destiny.
B) Interactions with the environment rarely alter the structure and function of the brain.
C) Genes are not simply time bombs that are set at birth and ready to explode at the proper hour.
D) The reason why some people go bald is unrelated to genes that are working throughout your life.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
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Q1) How does sensation differ from perception?
Answer: Sensation is the awareness of a given stimulus, whereas perception is the act of organizing and interpreting sensory input. Sensation is more akin to the registering of something whereas perception informs the individual what the "something" is.
Q2) Like visual perception, auditory perception can be divided into two main phases.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Categorical spatial relations are ________.
A) useful for reaching only
B) useful for navigation only
C) useful for navigation and reaching
D) useless for navigation and reaching
Answer: D
Q4) Bottom-up processing operates like a row of standing dominoes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US
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Q1) ________ was the leading psychologist who helped to develop social learning theory.
A) B. F. Skinner
B) Ivan Pavlov
C) John Watson
D) Albert Bandura
Q2) List and briefly describe the terms represented by the following abbreviations: US, UR, CS, CR.
Q3) A _____________________ reinforcer is any reward that satisfies a basic, biological need, such a hunger, thirst, or touch.
A) primary
B) negative
C) positive
D) secondary
Q4) Learning that occurs but is not immediately reflected in a behavior change is called ______.
A) insight
B) innate learning
C) vicarious learning
D) latent learning
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Chapter 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday
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Q1) Which of the following is most likely to be memorable for most people?
A) a photograph of a dead soldier
B) a photograph of a bird
C) a photograph of the earth from space
D) a random photograph
Q2) Your memory can be improved by enhancing your encoding. What type of factors will enhance encoding?
Q3) Production of noradrenaline in the brain is associated with ________.
A) experiencing the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
B) trying to consolidate information
C) diminished memory encoding
D) experiencing some emotional event
Q4) You can combine numbers and images to remember lists of words. For example, you can generate an image of the word and associate it with a numbered item on a list you already know. This is an example of ________.
A) interactive imagery
B) the method of loci
C) the pegword system
D) hierarchical organization
Q5) In general, what happens in the brain to produce amnesia?
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Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What
Humans Do Best
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Q1) The system of rules that governs how we combine words to form grammatical sentences is called ______.
A) syntax
B) semantics
C) morphology
D) phonology
Q2) If your mental age is 20 and you are 20 years old, then your IQ would be 120.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Measuring intelligence by testing is a rather new concept in the history of the world. The idea of such testing came from _____________.
A) France
B) United States
C) United Kingdom
D) Soviet Union
Q4) Binet and Simon considered children relatively slow if their ________.
A) mental age equals their chronological age
B) mental age is lower than their chronological age
C) mental age is higher than their chronological age
D) mental age does not equal their chronological age
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Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
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Q1) There are at least 20 muscles in your face that are responsible for _______.
A) causing extremes of emotion
B) varying your facial expressions
C) regulating emotions
D) facial feedback hypothesis
Q2) The lateral hypothalamus (LH) may be involved in __________________.
A) stoppage of eating
B) the onset of eating
C) processing low fats
D) food allergies
Q3) The process by which activities are started, directed, and continued so that physical or psychological needs or wants are met is called _____________.
A) motivation
B) emotion
C) achievement
D) synergy
Q4) Men and women spend comparable amounts of time in "short-term mating."
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is an emotional reflex?
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Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Différence
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Q1) Which of the following concepts is NOT found in the humanistic perspective of personality?
A) self-actualization
B) self-concept
C) free will
D) self-efficacy
Q2) How does temperament differ from personality?
Q3) Jeffrey Gray emphasized the ________ basis of personality.
A) psychological
B) social
C) biological
D) societal
Q4) 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
Q5) What are the three levels of personality that were proposed by Freud?
Q6) List and describe the three personality structures identified in Freud's theory.
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Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up,
Growing Older, Growing Wiser
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Q1) Dr. Smith believes people who are very aggressive have become so because of their life experiences. Dr. Goldberg believes people are more or less aggressive from birth because of genetic factors. Which of the following terms best describes an issue in human development that is highlighted by their disagreement?
A) nature versus nurture
B) cognition versus emotion
C) classical versus operant conditioning
D) cross-sectional studies versus longitudinal studies
Q2) The cessation of menstruation and ovulation is called ______.
A) the climacteric
B) perimenopause
C) menopause
D) andropause
Q3) Which of the following language milestones is the latest to occur?
A) subtle pragmatics
B) knowing about 10,000 words
C) telegraphic speech
D) understanding the rules of grammar
Q4) Name and describe the four attachment styles.
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Q5) 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) Trying not to think about something emotionally arousing is known as ________.
A) thought repression
B) thought suppression
C) working through an event
D) inverse venting
Q2) The activation-synthesis hypothesis states that ________.
A) dreams occur as a function of wish fulfillment
B) dreams arise from random bursts of nerve cell activity
C) there is no logical explanation for why dreams occur
D) we only dream when we are dealing or coping with threat in our life
Q3) Summarize the main effects of alcohol on the central nervous system and corresponding effects on behavior.
Q4) High doses of what drug may cause the sufferer to exhibit symptoms similar to that of a person with paranoid schizophrenia?
A) amphetamines
B) valium
C) "downers"
D) narcotics
Q5) What is the relationship between self-esteem and aggression?
Q6) Briefly state the three main criteria for substance abuse.
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Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More Than Everyday Problems
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Q1) At the level of the person, research has found that depressed people who live in ________ countries tend to ruminate more about their symptoms than people who live in ________ countries.
A) Roman Catholic; Atheistic
B) developed; non-developed
C) individualistic; collectivist
D) Eastern; Western
Q2) If you had an experience where you almost fell from a high place, being far off the ground in the future could elicit strong feelings of fear and turn into a phobia. This would explain a mental illness using _________ conditioning.
A) operant
B) vicarious
C) observational
D) classical
Q3) Which of the following is true concerning panic disorder?
A) People with panic disorder rarely worry about having more attacks.
B) People with panic disorder rarely quit their job to avoid more panic attacks.
C) Panic attacks usually occur in response to a specific trigger.
D) Panic attacks can lead to another psychological disorder called agoraphobia.
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Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
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Q1) The view that depressive thoughts produce depressive feelings and behaviors is a hallmark of ________.
A) neither cognitive nor behavior therapy
B) both cognitive and behavior therapy
C) cognitive therapy but not behavior therapy
D) behavior therapy but not cognitive therapy
Q2) ________ are drugs that treat depression by impacting both the serotonin and norepinephrine systems.
A) SNRIs
B) SSRIs
C) TCAs
D) MAOIs
Q3) Client-centered therapy is a type of ______ therapy.
A) insight
B) behavior
C) cognitive
D) reality
Q4) Based on the research presented in the chapter, is transcranial magnetic stimulation considered an acceptable course of treatment?
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
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Q1) In Festinger and Carlsmith's (1959) famous study on cognitive dissonance, participants who received $20 (versus $1) enjoyed the study more.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A social group of people viewed as competitors, enemies, or different and unworthy of respect is an example of a(n) ______.
A) pariah
B) ingroup
C) threat-group
D) outgroup
Q3) Ralph, a white student who grew up in Maine, is about to enter the University of Southern California on an athletic scholarship. He is aware that many of his teammates will be black and assumes that they will dislike him and ostracize him. Ralph's attitude is best described as an example of______.
A) prejudice
B) ambiguity
C) nonconformity
D) discrimination
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Chapter 14: Statistics Part B : How to Think About Research Studies
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Q1) Psychologists want to be able to do two things with the data they collect. The first is to summarize the information from a study or experiment. To do this, they use
A) descriptive statistics
B) inferential statistics
C) univariate statistics
D) multivariate statistics
Q2) What is another name for a bell-shaped curve?
A) bimodal distribution
B) counterpointal distribution
C) Durkheimian distribution
D) normal distribution
Q3) Which correlation coefficient indicates a positive relationship?
A) +1.2
B) 0.8
C) -0.8
D) 1.96
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