Foundations of Psychology Chapter Exam Questions
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Foundations of Psychology introduces students to the core principles, theories, and empirical research that form the basis of modern psychology. The course explores fundamental topics such as biological bases of behavior, perception, learning, memory, development, personality, and social psychology. Emphasis is placed on scientific methods of inquiry, ethical considerations, and the application of psychological concepts to everyday life. Through lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how psychological processes influence individual and group behavior.
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) The psychodynamic approach to psychology contends that there are many unconscious determinants of behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The cognitive approach to psychology differs from the behavioral approach to psychology in that the cognitive approach
A)believes that people are controlled by genetic factors,whereas the behavioral approach believes that people are controlled by psychodynamic factors.
B)views the mind as an active and aware problem-solving system,whereas the behavioral approach portrays behavior as governed by external forces.
C)emphasizes that people are controlled by their environment,whereas the behavioral approach emphasizes that people's personalities are influenced by genetic factors.
D)believes that humans are purely motivated by external rewards,whereas the behavioral approach emphasizes that people are influenced by unconscious processes.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Psychologys Scientific Method
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Q1) Researchers sometimes use procedures with animals that would be unethical with humans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) One way to improve effectiveness of random assignment is to A)start with groups that have known preexisting differences.
B)start with a relatively large pool of people.
C)ensure that all participants of an experiment are similar in all respects.
D)ensure that it is used primarily for descriptive research.
Answer: B
Q3) Five adults had the following scores on a personality test: 10,10,20,30,and 50.The median of these five scores is
A)4.
B)24.
C)20.
D)120.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations of Behavior
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Q1) Some of the drugs that alleviate Alzheimer symptoms do so by compensating for the loss of the brain's supply of
A)acetylcholine.
B)benzene.
C)prolactin.
D)pepsin.
Answer: A
Q2) Carrie suffered brain damage when she was injured in a car accident.Since then,she is unable to take pleasure in the things she used to.She has also lost interest in sexual intimacy with her husband and does not enjoy the taste of her favorite foods.In this scenario,which of the following areas of the brain is most likely damaged,causing her inability to experience pleasure?
A)medulla
B)hippocampus
C)hypothalamus
D)pituitary gland
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of the retina in the eye?
A)It is transparent,disklike the structure that changes the size of the pupil.
B)It is the part of the eye that lacks receptor cells.
C)It is the white part of the eye that maintains the shape of the eye.
D)It is the light-sensitive surface that records electromagnetic energy.
Q2) The _____,located in the occipital lobe at the back of the brain,is the part of the cerebral cortex involved in sight.
A)pinna
B)visual cortex
C)cochlea
D)tectorial membrane
Q3) When Bill started working in his new office,he found the noise of the air purifier in his room distracting and felt it interfered with his ability to concentrate.After a week or so,the noise stopped bothering him,even though it was still present.Explain the concept that is most likely responsible for Bill's reaction to the noise after a week.
Q4) Describe the difference between bottom-up processing and top-down processing.Provide an example for each type of processing.
Q5) Describe the main principles of the trichromatic theory of color vision.
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Chapter 5: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Explain the concept of executive function in the context of cognitive control.
Q2) During a heated argument with his teenage daughter,Mr.Reed suddenly lapsed into a stage of REM sleep.Mr. Reed is most likely suffering from A)narcolepsy.
B)insomnia.
C)sleep apnea.
D)REM rebounD.
Q3) Jennifer has decided to go to bed early.Although her eyes are closed and she is very relaxed,she has not yet fallen asleep.An electroencephalograph (EEG)is most likely to indicate the presence of A)delta waves.
B)alpha waves.
C)sleep spindles.
D)rapid eye movements.
Q4) Caffeine,nicotine,amphetamines,and cocaine are A)hallucinogens.
B)depressants.
C)stimulants.
D)narcotics.
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Q1) In operant conditioning,_____ means responding appropriately to stimuli that signal that a behavior will or will not be reinforced.
A)generalization
B)renewal
C)discrimination
D)preparedness
Q2) In _____,the organism learns through experience with negative stimuli that it has no control over negative outcomes.
A)observational learning
B)insight learning
C)learned helplessness
D)learned optimism
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of classical conditioning?
A)It becomes operant conditioning after spontaneous recovery.
B)Immunosuppression is independent of classical conditioning.
C)The human body's internal organ systems can be classically conditioned.
D)It is a special form of negative punishment in which a behavior decreases when a stimulus is removeD.
Q4) Differentiate between latent learning and insight learning.
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Q1) As Mitch walks through the conference hall before his conference,he greets approximately 50 new people. Based on his short-term association with these people,Mitch will most likely remember the names of _____ individuals.
A)50
B)20
C)15 ± 2
D)7 ± 2
Q2) In the context of memory processes,which of the following scenarios best illustrates the process of encoding information?
A)Alex,a five-year-old boy,is reciting his alphabets.
B)Deborah is watching a movie in the theater.
C)Daniel is writing an essay on the dinosaurs he learned about last week.
D)Mike is painting a picture of a woman he used to know.
Q3) Which of the following is true of long-term memory?
A)It is a temporary type of memory.
B)It consists of echoic memory and iconic memory.
C)It has a storage capacity that is virtually unlimited.
D)It is an active memory encoding system.
Q4) Differentiate between anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
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Q1) Heather is a singer.Whenever she performs,she never charges a performance fee.She is passionate about her singing and feels inspired by other creative artists who also sing for joy rather than for fame or money.Which of the following characteristics is Heather demonstrating?
A)social loafing
B)risk avoidance
C)groupthink
D)inner motivation
Q2) The availability heuristic is one reason people seem to have a difficult time believing that violent crime rates have declined.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of heritability?
A)Heritability has no meaning when applied to a single case.
B)Heritability is a statistic that provides information about a single individual.
C)Heritability estimates remain constant over time and across different groups.
D)Even if the heritability of a characteristic is very high,the environment seldom matters.
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Q1) Hormonal stress theory states that aging in a body's hormonal system can increase resistance to stress and reduce the likelihood of disease.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jerome,an infant,hardly uses his mother or his caregivers as a base to explore his surroundings.He hardly notices his mother when she leaves him alone.He also never reacts with rage when his mother returns.In this case,Jerome is displaying the _____ style of attachment.
A)secure
B)avoidant
C)anxious
D)ambivalent
Q3) In the context of prenatal development,which of the following is true of the embryonic period?
A)The rate of cell differentiation intensifies.
B)The fetus grows by three pounds or more.
C)The intestinal tracts disappear.
D)The fetus becomes fully formeD.
Q4) Discuss two common criticisms of Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
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Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Which of the following is associated with anorexia nervosa?
A)high blood pressure
B)thickening of bones and hair
C)binge-and-purge eating pattern
D)severe constipation
Q2) Loggerhead turtles lay their eggs underground,in sandy beaches.As soon as the eggs hatch,the infant turtles crawl out of their nests and move toward the sea.Which of following best describes this pattern of behavior?
A)motivation
B)drive
C)instinct
D)desire
Q3) The goal of the drive reduction theory is
A)overlearning.
B)self-regulation.
C)self-actualization.
D)homeostasis.
Q4) Intrinsic motivation involves incentives such as rewards and punishers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
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Q1) Identify a feature of pedophilic disorder.
A)It is more common in men than in women.
B)It is associated with people who have high self-esteem.
C)It is associated with people who have high social skills.
D)It is a physiological disorder where the genitals of children are atypical.
Q2) According to the evolutionary psychology approach to gender development
A)organisms with the fittest genes are most likely to survive and reproduce.
B)the differences between contemporary men and women can be explained by the environmental challenges they face.
C)competition ruins the chance for species to evolve naturally.
D)choice has no role to play in the evolution of the human species.
Q3) Jessica is a 15-year-old girl who has always felt and acted like a boy.She hates dressing in girl's clothes and loves to play with cars.She always engages in masculine sports and has only male friends.In spite of her parents' concern with her behavior,Jessica insists on acting like a boy.She has even forced her parents to refer to her as a boy and call her Jeff.In the context of gender,identify and give a brief account of the phenomenon related to Jessica's behavior.
Q4) In the context of the psychology of gender differences,what is the significance of the gender similarities hypothesis?
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Chapter 12: Personality
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Q1) George's cubicle at work is spotless.Every item on his desk is arranged according to how frequently he needs it.He gets agitated if something is moved or rearranged.A proponent of Freud's psychoanalytic theory might argue that George is fixated at the _____ stage of psychosexual development.
A)oral
B)anal
C)phallic
D)genital
Q2) Which of the following concepts is associated with Albert Bandura?
A)conditions of worth
B)observational learning
C)reinforcement sensitivity
D)birth order
Q3) Walter Mischel's view of situationism implies that
A)personality consists of traits that are consistent across situations.
B)personality varies considerably from one context to another.
C)personality is determined primarily by biological factors.
D)personality is almost entirely determined by the unconscious minD.
Q4) Discuss the behavioral activation and inhibition systems proposed by Jeffrey Gray.
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Q1) June is usually very quiet,but she recently discovered a different side of herself.She was at the Mardi Gras and found herself swept up in the festivities,doing things that the other partygoers were doing.These were not behaviors that she would have ever considered engaging in on her own.Social psychologists would most likely attribute June's behavior to
A)inoculation.
B)social loafing.
C)deindividuation.
D)the bystander effect.
Q2) The _____ effect refers to individuals overestimating the degree to which other individuals think or act the way they do.
A)mere exposure
B)bystander
C)group polarization
D)false consensus
Q3) Which of the following behaviors is an example of aggression?
A)Billy kicks Shana in the shin.
B)Sally shouts at Franco.
C)Hillary calls Minnie a bad name.
D)All of these.
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Chapter 14: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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Q1) Kevin is a project lead at Prizm Corp.He entrusts his subordinates with important projects and seeks their advice on major product decisions.In the context of approaches to management,Kevin exhibits the characteristics of _____ in this scenario.
A)authoritarian leaders
B)dictatorial leaders
C)Theory X managers
D)Theory Y managers
Q2) Pay is the strongest predictor of job satisfaction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Job crafting is associated with decreased work evaluations,especially when the crafting involves extending one's responsibilities to do a bit more.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The human relations approach to management lays emphasis on
A)the significance of factors such as morale,attitudes,and values.
B)the psychological characteristics of workers and managers.
C)the workplace as an important social system.
D)all of these.
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Q1) _____ refer to psychological disorders that involve a sudden loss of memory or change in identity due to the separation of an individual's conscious awareness from previous memories and thoughts.
A)Anxiety disorders
B)Dissociative disorders
C)Personality disorders
D)Depressive disorders
Q2) People suffering from schizoid personality disorder are
A)dependent on others for emotional and physical needs,and they perceive themselves as childlike and helpless.
B)always on the lookout for danger and the slightest social mistreatment.
C)attention-seeking,dramatic,lively,and flirtatious.
D)emotionally cold and apathetic,and they are generally detached from interpersonal life.
Q3) Suicide has been linked with low levels of the neurotransmitter
A)prolactin
B)gastrin
C)pepsin
D)serotonin
Q4) What are the major criticisms associated with DSM-5?
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Q1) Electroconvulsive therapy has replaced deep brain stimulation as the choice of treatment for severe depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following indicates the view of a cognitive therapist regarding the cause of psychological problems?
A)They occur as a result of resistance and neurosis.
B)They occur as a result of inappropriate thoughts.
C)They occur as a result of the client's low self-worth.
D)They occur as a result of learned maladaptive behaviors.
Q3) Which of the following class of drugs is used to treat agoraphobia?
A)selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
B)neuroleptics
C)tetracyclic drugs
D)tricyclic drugs
Q4) Humanistic therapies have become the standard treatment for autism spectrum disorders.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Health Psychology
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Q1) Gerald wants to wake up early every day so that he can go for a morning walk.He requests his friends to help him wake up.His friends call and wake him up at 7 a.m.following which he goes for his walk.He feels that he can never wake up early on his own if his friends don't call.Which of the following components of the theory of planned behavior is missing in Gerald's plan to wake up early?
A)specific intentions
B)positive attitude
C)social support
D)health behavior
Q2) Which of the following is a criticism of the stages of change model?
A)It promotes change rather than readiness to change.
B)It refers more to attitudes that change than to behaviors.
C)It doesn't capture the ways individuals make positive life changes.
D)It is relevant only to individuals trying to quit smoking or lose weight.
Q3) Describe emotion-focused coping,and give an example.
Q4) Aerobic exercise is defined as
A)a form of physical activity that increases the production of CRH.
B)any weight-bearing activity.
C)physical activity that requires minimal movement.
D)sustained exercise that stimulates heart and lung activity.
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