Foundations of Psychology Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Foundations of Psychology provides a comprehensive introduction to the key concepts, theories, and research methods that form the basis of psychological science. This course explores the biological, cognitive, developmental, and social underpinnings of human behavior, examining how individuals perceive, think, feel, and interact with the world around them. Students will engage with classic and contemporary studies, developing a foundational understanding of major psychological perspectives and how they apply to everyday life and broader societal issues.
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The World of Psychology 7th Canadian Edition by by Samuel E. Wood
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) One advantage of collecting survey responses over the internet is:
A) the same person can respond more than once and provide even more data to the study.
B) the subjects' identity can never be discovered
C) it is a fast,expensive way to obtain large amounts offormation
D) subjects can change their answers.
Answer: C
Q2) Sandy is interested in determining how long bear cubs stay with their mother. She spends several years studying their behaviour in Yellowstone Park, noting dates of birth and time of leaving mother for several bear families. This is an example of
A) the case study method.
B) the experimental method.
C) the survey method.
D) naturalistic observation
Answer: D
Q3) Another name for psychoanalysis is "neuroscience."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Biology and Behaviour
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Q1) The lobes located just above the ears are called the ________ lobes.
A) Occipital
B) Parietal
C) Frontal
D) Temporal
Answer: D
Q2) The right hemisphere controls singing and musical ability in most right-handed people.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The bridge-like structure at the top of the medulla is called the A) brainstem.
B) cerebellum.
C) pons
D) reticular formation.
Answer: C
Q4) What are the primary functions of the cerebellum?
Answer: Its main functions are to execute smooth, skilled movements and to regulate muscle tone and posture.
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following is not a good way to control our experience of pain?
A) Large amounts of attention and sympathy from our family
B) Relaxation techniques
C) Distraction
D) Counter-irritation
Answer: A
Q2) If one object partially obscures another object in a painting, the artist has used ________ as a cue to the relative distance of the objects from the viewer.
A) interposition
B) relative size
C) linear perspective
D) convergence
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following colours has the shortest wavelength (lowest in nanometres)?
A) green
B) yellow
C) red
D) blue
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: States of Conciousness
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Q1) Psychoactive drugs are
A) all illegal.
B) substances that alter mood, perception, or thought
C) manufactured.
D) addictive.
Q2) Drugs that are illegal are called
A) illicit drugs
B) mind-altering drugs.
C) controlled substances.
D) psychoactive drugs.
Q3) Psychoactive drugs
A) damage the user.
B) alter mood, perception or thought
C) are illegal.
D) harm society.
Q4) How does cocaine affect the user?
Q5) Ecstasy is a designer drug that is a cross between a hallucinogen and an amphetamine.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Two-year-old Rick was playing with a balloon when it burst and made an extremely loud noise, causing him to cry. Now, whenever Rick sees a balloon, he becomes frightened. In this situation, the balloon is the
A) unconditioned response.
B) conditioned stimulus
C) conditioned response.
D) unconditioned stimulus.
Q2) For years, Sylvester the cat has been fed canned tuna fish that has been opened with an electric can opener. Now Sylvester races into the kitchen every time he hears the can opener. What is the unconditioned stimulus in this example?
A) The sound of the can opener
B) Sylvester's owner
C) Food other than his
D) The tuna fish
Q3) A secondary reinforce is acquired or learned.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How is shaping used to condition a response?
Q5) What is learned helplessness?
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) The process of combining separate pieces of information into large units in short-term memory is referred to as
A) the savings method.
B) acoustical storage.
C) chunking
D) reminiscence.
Q2) Which of the following is not a recommendation from the textbook about how to conduct interviews with children?
A) Useformation provided by the child to construct questions.
B) Don't use big words.
C) Do not allow the children to speak more than theterviewer
D) Ask simple questions that contain a single idea.
Q3) Compared to nondepressed people, depressed persons tend to remember
A) more sad memories
B) more pleasant memories.
C) more memories about early childhood.
D) more memories.
Q4) What are the roles of encoding, storage, and retrieval in remembering?
Q5) What are the seven causes that prompt forgetting?
Q6) What are three methods of measuring memory?
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Chapter 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) At the end of World War II, American soldiers both black and white, who were stationed in Germany, fathered thousands of children with German women. Research on random samples of these children found A) incredible difference between child with regards to IQ, along lines of nationality. B) having a white father conferred no measurable IQ advantage at all C) a difference the children, related to the IQ of their grandparents, but not their parents. D) racial differences favouring black children, which the researchers concluded was due to a more engaging environment.
Q2) Which problem-solving method offers a promising way to attack a problem and arrive at a solution, although it does not guarantee success?
A) Algorithms
B) Trial and error
C) Mental set
D) Heuristics
Q3) What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale?
Q4) What are concepts, and how are they formed?
Q5) Explain the role of divergent thinking in creativity.
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Chapter 8: Development
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Q1) Kohlberg's theory focuses on
A) moral reasoning
B) the morality of adults.
C) the morality of young children.
D) moral behaviour.
Q2) What is the term Piaget used to refer to the ability to recognize that matter can be rearranged or changed in appearance but remains the same in quantity if nothing has been added or taken away?
A) Enumeration
B) invariance
C) Conservation
D) decentration
Q3) Infants raised with adequate physical care but without the attention of a close personal care giver
A) will grow and gain weight but may have social and emotional problems.
B) will show normal motor development but be retarded mental development.
C) may fail to grow normally and be retarded on motor and mental development
D) will grow and gain weight but may be retarded their mental development.
Q4) What are the physical changes associated with middle age?
Q5) Describe Kohlberg's three levels of moral reasoning?
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Consistent with the facial-feedback hypothesis, it has been suggested that
A) we often display a facial expression first, and this produces our emotional experience
B) we often label our emotions first and then display an appropriate facial expression.
C) we usually experience the emotion and display the appropriate expression simultaneously.
D) there is no connection between the emotions we experience and our facial expression.
Q2) Sternberg's triangular theory of love is based on three components-intimacy, passion and commitment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How does the set point affect body weight?
Q4) The fact that organisms often engage in behaviours that increase rather than reduce tension contradicts
A) achievement theory.
B) arousal theory.
C) drive-reduction theory
D) expectancy theory.
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following attitudes would be the best predictors of behaviour?
A) Objective, less emotional attitudes
B) Highly specific attitudes
C) Broad, general attitudes
D) Most attitudes are fairly good predictors of behaviour.
Q2) Scapegoating is a type of
A) social loafing.
B) social facilitation.
C) displaced aggression
D) groupthink.
Q3) The Robber's Cave experiment indicates that if we want to stop prejudice and discrimination, we should do which of the following things?
A) Have quiet and peaceful areas for groups to come together andteract.
B) Realize that we need each other to solve the problems facing our world
C) Convert one side each tension area to the beliefs of the other side.
D) Create separate housing and work areas for people of different groups.
Q4) How are the initial attitudes of the group likely to affect group decision making?
Q5) How did Milgram explore the idea of obedience and what did he find?
Q6) Why are first impressions so important and enduring?
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Chapter 11: Personality Theory and Assessment
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Q1) Describe an inferiority complex according to Adler.
Q2) Lianna, who is overly dependent, optimistic and gullible, may have experienced too much gratification and become fixated at the A) phallic stage.
B) genital stage.
C) oral stage
D) anal stage.
Q3) Compare and contrast Allport and Cattell on their classification of traits.
Q4) In the five-factor theory, the dimension that differentiates people who are dependable, organized, reliable and responsible from people who are undependable, impulsive and careless is called A) conscientiousness
B) neuroticism.
C) agreeableness.
D) openness to experience.
Q5) Karen Horney agreed with Freud that A) parent-child relationships are significant
B) sexual impulses are more important than social relationships.
C) there are eight stages of psychosexual development.
D) some women suffer penis envy.
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Chapter 12: Health and Stress
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Q1) Uplifts may actually neutralize hassles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Unlike smoking, with its passive effects, the only risk for health in alcoholism is to the drinker.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The order of stages in the general adaptation syndrome is resistance, alarm, and exhaustion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In a primary appraisal, an event may be judged as negative if it is seen as A) involving damage to someone else.
B) an opportunity to grow or to gain.
C) within the person's ability to manage.
D) involving a potential harm or loss
Q5) Unlike heroin and alcohol, chronic smoking is not considered a true addiction. A)True
B)False
Q6) What are some benefits of regular aerobic exercise?
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Chapter 13: Psychology Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is not true of people suffering from a psychosis?
A) They have seriously impaired functioning everyday life.
B) They rarely lose contact with reality
C) They sometimes require hospitalization for their disorder.
D) They may have delusions or hallucinations.
Q2) Monteil has periods in which he is so depressed that he becomes suicidal. At other times, he is energetic and euphoric. He would probably receive the diagnosis of A) major depressive disorder.
B) seasonal mood disorder.
C) dysthymia.
D) bipolar disorder
Q3) A person with the sexual deviation called pedophilia derives sexual satisfaction from A) objects that have sexual significance to him.
B) exposing his genitals to females.
C) inflicting pain on a sexual partner.
D) sexual contact with children
Q4) Describe the major positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Q5) What are the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
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Chapter 14: Therapies
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Q1) Interpersonal therapy approaches a person who has experienced an unusual or severe response to the death of a loved one by
A) telling them how to express themselves, and then giving them the opportunity to do it.
B) helping them to focus on other parts of life and move away from their feelings of pain.
C) helping them release strong negative feelings
D) flooding them with images of the deceased, to push them through the blocked grief.
Q2) The climate of a person-centred therapy session needs to be
A) judgmental and directive.
B) intellectually stimulating and critical.
C) neutral and unbiased.
D) warm and accepting
Q3) Antidepressants are prescribed for depression and anxiety disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How does lithium help patients with bipolar disorder and what are the dangers of taking it.?
Q5) How does aversion therapy rid people of a harmful or undesirable behaviour?
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