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Experimental Psychology explores the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes through empirical investigation and controlled experimentation. This course covers the fundamental principles, methods, and ethical considerations involved in designing and conducting psychological experiments. Students will learn how to formulate hypotheses, collect and analyze data, and interpret results within various domains of psychology, such as sensation, perception, learning, memory, and cognition. Through hands-on laboratory work and critical evaluation of research literature, participants gain practical skills in research methodology and a deeper understanding of how experimental findings contribute to the broader field of psychology.
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Psychological Science 5th Edition by Michael
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following areas has played a role in better understanding the biology of psychology?
A) advances in brain chemistry
B) advances in neuroscience
C) advances in understanding the human genome
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Workplace training and job placement would be of interest to which type of psychologist?
A) counseling
B) clinical
C) industrial/organizational
D) developmental
Answer: C
Q3) According to the structuralists,the goal of psychology is to:
A) uncover the unconscious determinants of behavior.
B) focus on observable behavior itself.
C) identify the elements of conscious experience.
D) identify the purposes of our behavior and mental processes.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) The values in a data set span from 60 to 90.If a researcher knows this,then the researcher is aware of the:
A) standard deviation.
B) median.
C) mode.
D) range.
Answer: D
Q2) According to some psychologists,Sigmund Freud's theory of the meaning of dreams was not a successful theory because:
A) it was too socially controversial.
B) he developed the theory from previous ideas.
C) it did not lead to many testable hypotheses.
D) it was based on research later shown to be invalid.
Answer: C
Q3) The range and standard deviation are examples of:
A) inferential statistics.
B) measures of central tendency.
C) types of variability.
D) correlational measures.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biology and Behavior
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Q1) The body is made ready for defensive action by the ________ division of the autonomic nervous system.
A) somatic
B) sympathetic
C) parasympathetic
D) central
Answer: B
Q2) What do we call the neurons on the receiving side of a synaptic cleft?
A) postsynaptic neurons
B) presynaptic neurons
C) interneurons
D) excitatory neurons
Answer: A
Q3) People,even from the same family,vary in intelligence.This variation suggests that intelligence is:
A) controlled by a single gene.
B) a function of personality.
C) genetically determined.
D) polygenic.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) Hypnosis,meditation,and drug use allow an individual to:
A) transcend reality.
B) achieve flow.
C) alter consciousness.
D) manifest unconscious drives.
Q2) Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A) Chronic sleep deprivation can affect attention and short-term memory.
B) Animal studies show that extended sleep deprivation may compromise the immune system and lead to death.
C) Microsleeps may occur with severe sleep deprivation.
D) The cognitive effects of sleep deprivation are most likely permanent.
Q3) In Freud's book,The Interpretation of Dreams,the symbolic meaning of a dream is referred to as:
A) latent content.
B) manifest content.
C) Freudian content.
D) ideological content.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Cognitive factors,including ________,can close the neural gate in the spinal cord that allows the signals of pain to be sent to the brain.
A) stress
B) anxiety
C) distraction
D) fear
Q2) If your leg were to become caught and squeezed in a bear trap,which sensation would you be LEAST likely to experience?
A) warmth and cold
B) stretching and steady pressure
C) pain
D) continued vibration
Q3) In a single person,gustation involves ________ taste buds,located on the ________.
A) 800 to 1,000; tongue
B) 8,000 to 10,000: tongue,throat,and mouth
C) 800 to 1,000; tongue,throat,and mouth
D) 8,000 to 10,000; tongue
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) What is believed to have happened to Little Albert?
A) Albert spent the rest of his life fearful of all white objects.
B) Albert was later diagnosed with clinical depression.
C) Albert died of meningitis at age 6.
D) Albert eventually committed suicide as a teenager.
Q2) What is an unconditioned response?
A) a learned pairing between two stimuli
B) a nervous system reflex
C) an unlearned,automatic behavior following a stimulus
D) an increase in behavior following repeated exposure to a stimulus
Q3) Imagine you are trapped in a cage.Every time you press a button,you get a drink of water.Every time you pull on a string,you get shocked.Soon,you understand that you should press the button,but leave the string alone.This example follows the theory of:
A) the law of effect.
B) effective learning.
C) the law of learning.
D) effective law.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Why is memory not a perfect record of everything we see and experience?
A) We need to remember details of events.
B) It would take up too much of our limited long-term memory storage.
C) Attention is limited.
D) Neural networks are too limited.
Q2) The idea that memory is distributed throughout the brain is called:
A) concurrent storage.
B) equity of distribution.
C) connectivity.
D) equipotentiality.
Q3) You see all of a written word simultaneously,but you hear a spoken word over time.The memory that accumulates the sound of a word until it is formed as a unit is:
A) iconic memory.
B) sensory memory.
C) working memory.
D) short-term memory.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) If you observed babies in many different cultures just as they were beginning to use language,you would find that:
A) the stages they go through in acquiring language depend on the culture in which they are being raised.
B) children use only words they have heard from other children.
C) the first words being used identify objects or are simple action words.
D) the rate at which they acquire language does not depend on the culture in which they grow up.
Q2) Research has demonstrated that infants:
A) do not develop a preference for sounds from their own language until they are about 1 year old.
B) show a preference for sounds from their own language by the time they are a week old.
C) cannot distinguish sounds from their own language and other languages until they start to speak.
D) cannot distinguish sounds from their own language and other languages until their vocabulary includes well over 1,000 words.
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following conditions is a disorder or syndrome that exemplifies the conflict between women's personal rights versus the effects of women's behavior on their infants?
A) Down syndrome
B) fetal alcohol syndrome
C) hemophilia
D) developmental delay
Q2) The case of Genie,discussed in your textbook,illustrates:
A) how autism can affect behavior.
B) the pervasive negative impact of social isolation on development.
C) that brain development is relatively unaffected by one's early environment.
D) that early language develops even in the absence of environmental stimulation.
Q3) The nature of an infant's attachment to its caregivers is primarily a function of:
A) its genetic inheritance.
B) parental treatment.
C) which of Piaget's stages of development it has achieved.
D) the degree of contact comfort it has experienced from noncaregivers.
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Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Need to belong theory states that the human need for interpersonal attachments is adaptive.As discussed in your text,belonging is a basic motive like hunger because NOT belonging:
A) makes people seek food.
B) can make you die of starvation.
C) has negative health consequences.
D) creates physical pain due to longing.
Q2) Makena is starting her first job as a teacher.To effectively motivate her students,she ought to develop a policy for rewards in which she:
A) rewards all activities to develop a high baseline level of motivation.
B) rewards only those activities that are not inherently interesting to her students.
C) does not use rewards,so she can develop intrinsic motivation.
D) rewards only inherently interesting activities to build interest in school.
Q3) Comparisons of sexual motivation in men and women have found that:
A) men and women have roughly equal sexual motivation.
B) women have equal sexual motivation,but are more culturally constrained.
C) men have a higher level of sexual motivation.
D) differences between men and women are culture specific.
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Chapter 11: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Who is most likely at risk for heart disease?
A) Hannah,who has a Type A personality
B) Bob,who has a Type A personality
C) Jennifer,who has a Type B personality
D) Wilkinson,who has a Type B personality
Q2) According to the general adaptation syndrome,if stress continues long enough:
A) physiological and immune systems will begin to fail.
B) the stimuli initially seen as stressful will cease to affect the organism.
C) the immune system will become overactive and threaten the organism.
D) the organism will learn new methods of dealing with the stress.
Q3) Which of the following is considered a major life stressor rather than a daily hassle stressor?
A) living in poverty
B) having a child
C) noisy environment
D) being overcrowded
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Online dating websites,like eHarmony,use personality matching to pair potential relationship partners.Their formula for pairing partners is based on:
A) proximity.
B) similarity.
C) attractiveness.
D) familiarity.
Q2) According to the mere-exposure phenomenon,greater familiarity with an item typically leads to ________ attitudes about that item.
A) more positive
B) less positive
C) more negative
D) less negative
Q3) Which of the following is the most likely to predict behavior?
A) less specific attitudes
B) personally irrelevant attitudes
C) attitudes formed through indirect experience
D) attitudes that are easily activated
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a downward comparison?
A) comparing your current self to your past self
B) comparing yourself to your boss
C) comparing yourself to the president of the United States
D) comparing your mother to your father
Q2) Anna is a college student from the United States and Michiko is a college student from Japan.Both have taken the same personality assessment as part of a psychology research study.Which of these young women is likely to score higher in neuroticism,and why?
A) Anna,because Americans tend to be more neurotic in general
B) Anna,because Americans tend to have relatively low self-esteem
C) Michiko,because the Japanese on average report higher levels of neuroticism
D) No significant difference would be expected.
Q3) Psychologists would label a tendency to act in a certain way over time and various situations as a:
A) sociability trait.
B) humanistic approach.
C) disposition.
D) defense mechanism.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Cruz tends to be a generally unhappy person.He rarely smiles or gets excited about anything.He can remember only a few times in his life when he felt genuinely happy.Given the following options,a clinical psychologist would probably diagnose Cruz with:
A) persistent depressive disorder.
B) major depression.
C) generalized anxiety disorder.
D) a hedonic personality disorder.
Q2) Imagine you have a twin who has just been diagnosed with major depression.Are your chances of showing symptoms of this disorder affected by whether he or she is an identical or a fraternal twin?
A) No; both types of twins are equally susceptible.
B) Yes; your chances are much greater if you are an identical twin.
C) It depends on whether you have additional relatives who have experienced depression.
D) It depends on whether you are male or female.
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) If Prozac did not increase the activity of ________,it would not be effective in treating depression.
A) GABA
B) glutamate
C) acetylcholine
D) serotonin
Q2) Malik,a child in intensive applied behavior analysis treatment for autism spectrum disorder,has improved in a number of ways after four years of treatment.However,the major difficulty for his parents is the:
A) the expense of the treatment,which is offered on only an inpatient basis.
B) extraordinary time commitment involved.
C) fact that even with the treatment,he will never be able to attend a normal classroom at school.
D) fact that even with intensive treatment,his intelligence will not improve significantly.
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