Foundations of Psychology Pre-Test Questions
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Foundations of Psychology introduces students to the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. This course explores key psychological concepts such as sensation, perception, learning, memory, development, motivation, emotion, personality, and social interaction. Students will examine major theoretical frameworks and research methods used in psychology, gaining insight into how psychologists investigate and understand human thought and behavior. Through case studies, experiments, and critical discussions, students will develop foundational knowledge necessary for further study in psychology and related fields.
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Psychology Themes and Variations 5th Canadian Edition by Wayne Weiten
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Chapter 1: A: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Which school of psychology suggests psychologists should study only what can be objectively observed
A) humanism
B) behaviourism
C) structuralism
D) functionalism
Answer: B
Q2) What is suggested by the word "critical" in the term "critical thinking"
A) Effective critical thinkers tend to be judgmental of others' views.
B) Thinking is essential to success in our culture.
C) Critical thinkers are vigilant about their thinking.
D) The skills of effective thinking are learned early in life.
Answer: C
Q3) Who was one of the founders of neuropsychology in Canada and was well known for her pioneering work with the patient known as H.M.
A) Mary Ainsworth
B) Brenda Milner
C) Mary Wright
D) Doreen Kimura
Answer: B
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Chapter 1: B: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Your text's two unifying themes of "our behaviour is shaped by our cultural heritage" and "heredity and environment jointly influence behaviour" both describe more specialized statements of which other theme
A) Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
B) Psychology is theoretically diverse.
C) People's experience of the world is highly subjective.
D) Behaviour is determined by multiple causes.
Answer: D
Q2) Which school of psychology stated that the task of psychology is to analyze conscious experience into its basic elements
A) functionalism
B) psychoanalysis
C) behaviourism
D) structuralism
Answer: D
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Chapter 1: C: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Arash found that regardless of whether the female participants were on a diet or not,there was a correlation of +0.70 between their reported stress level and the number of Timbits they ate.This is an example of a _____ correlation.
A) strong
B) moderate
C) weak
D) significant
Answer: A
Q2) To reduce the chance of reactivity Jordan should ________________.
A) observe the children from a distance and not interact with them
B) tell the children that she is studying something unrelated to what she is actually studying
C) get to know each child personally before she starts observing them
D) talk to the teachers in advance so she knows which students to pay more attention to
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: A: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
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Q1) Malinda is filling out a survey for a marketing agency to be eligible for a grand prize drawing.She doesn't actually read many of the questions,and simply answers "yes" to everything.What do we call this tendency
A) placebo effect
B) interaction effect
C) social desirability bias
D) response set
Q2) A researcher wants to see if a protein-enriched diet will enhance the maze-running performance of rats.One group of rats is fed the high-protein diet for the duration of the study; the other group continues to receive standard rat food.What types of groups are represented in this study
A) The high-protein group is an experimental group; the standard food group is a control group.
B) Both groups are experimental groups.
C) Both groups are control groups.
D) The high-protein group is a control group; the standard food group is an experimental group.
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Q1) Who is famous for her use of naturalistic observation as used to study the social and family life and behaviour of chimpanzees
A) Jane Goodall
B) Brenda Milner
C) Mary Ainsworth
D) Mahzarin Banaji
Q2) What research method is being used if a researcher manipulates a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observes whether any changes occur in a second variable
A) correlational method
B) descriptive method
C) experimental method
D) observational method
Q3) Theresa has conducted research on the effects listening to music has on study retention.In this case,what is "listening to music"
A) extraneous variable
B) dependent variable
C) independent variable
D) controlled variable
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Chapter 3: A: The Biological Bases of Behaviour
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Q1) Jeremy is sitting quietly when the voluntary muscles in his left leg begin to twitch.Which neurotransmitter is likely being released
A) serotonin
B) norepinephrine
C) acetylcholine
D) GABA
Q2) Milo's doctors believe he might have some specific brain damage,but before they make their final diagnosis,they want to study very high-resolution,three-dimensional images of Milo's brain structures.Which technique are the doctors most likely to use in this case
A) an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording
B) a computerized tomography (CT) scan
C) a positron emission tomography (PET) scan
D) a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan
Q3) On average,which task is performed most quickly by the right hemisphere
A) reading and naming items verbally
B) hearing and listening
C) processing visual information from the right visual field
D) locating and recognizing objects or people
Q4) Compare and contrast the nervous system and the endocrine system.
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Q1) If a trait is influenced to some degree by genetic factors,then pair should be most similar to one another
A) monozygotic twins
B) parent and child
C) dizygotic twins
D) brother and sister
Q2) Jessica is working on a large research project that follows people who have inherited a gene for a particular disorder.She wants to determine whether diet and exercise will alter the likelihood that those people will experience the symptoms of the disorder.What is Jessica's field of study
A) epigenetics
B) genetic mapping
C) evolutionary psychology
D) behaviour genetics
Q3) Which nervous system controls the heart,glands,and smooth muscles
A) visceral nervous system
B) efferent nervous system
C) somatic nervous system
D) autonomic nervous system
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Q1) Walking down the street,Diana hears beautiful music playing clearly.Strangely enough,it seems like no one else around her can hear it.Diana can hear the music because she can detect stimuli that are ____________ of the average human.
A) above the absolute threshold
B) below the absolute threshold
C) below the just noticeable difference threshold
D) above the just noticeable difference threshold
Q2) During one of their gatherings,Peter teaches his friends all about subtractive and additive mixing.In subtracting mixing,you mix ________ some wavelengths of light.
A) paint and remove
B) paint and superimpose
C) light and remove
D) light and superimpose
Q3) Which of the following is true
A) Jim has a greater mortality risk than Pam.
B) Jim has a lower mortality risk than Pam.
C) Jim has an equal mortality risk as Pam.
D) Pam has a greater mortality risk, but only if she is also depressed.
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Q1) Petra has vision problems because of a syndrome that causes her cones to be faulty.Her rods function normally.Which aspect of Petra's vision is likely to be deficient
A) colour vision
B) depth perception
C) vision in low illumination
D) peripheral vision
Q2) Which of your text's unifying themes is illustrated by the fact that many people are reluctant to try novel foods from other cultures
A) People's experience of the world is highly subjective.
B) Psychology is empirical.
C) Behaviour is shaped by our cultural heritage.
D) Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
Q3) What increases led to Darcy being startled when Darcy's brothers started yelling
A) frequency of the sound
B) amplitude of the sound
C) purity of the sound
D) timbre of the sound
Q4) Using appropriate examples,show how perceptual experiences can be subjective.
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Q1) Which of the following explains the moon illusion
A) motion parallax
B) size constancy
C) interposition
D) texture gradient
Q2) Where would you find the receptors for the sense of taste
A) chemosensory cells
B) taste buds
C) hair cells
D) taste cilia
Q3) According to gate-control theory,where may incoming pain sensations be blocked
A) location of the injury
B) spinal cord
C) thalamus
D) cortex
Q4) What is the main function of the middle ear
A) to collect sounds
B) to minimize sounds
C) to convert sounds into neural impulses
D) to amplify vibrations
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Chapter 5: A: Variations in Consciousness
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Q1) An electroencephalograph (EEG)is recording Juan's brain activity,and the recording is currently dominated by delta waves.At the same time,there are a series of beeps from one of the other machines.Which of the following is likely
A) There will be no change in the EEG, and Juan's sleep will not be interrupted.
B) There will be a sleep spindle recorded on the EEG at the time of the beeps.
C) The noise of the beeps will be incorporated into the dream Juan is currently experiencing.
D) The beeps will wake Juan from his relatively light sleep.
Q2) Kara slips into REM sleep immediately after falling asleep.What has Kara probably experienced recently
A) working a rotating shift
B) alcohol intoxication
C) NREM rebound
D) selective sleep deprivation
Q3) Compare and contrast the "role-playing" and "altered state" views of hypnosis.
Q4) What do people tend to dream about,and what theories have been proposed to explain why people dream at all
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Q1) While serving as a subject in a laboratory sleep study for several nights,Steve was awakened whenever he entered slow-wave sleep.When first allowed an uninterrupted night's sleep,what would Steve do
A) sleep for a longer amount of time than normal
B) spend less time in slow-wave sleep than normal
C) sleep for a shorter amount of time than normal
D) spend more time in slow-wave sleep than normal
Q2) Compared to young adults,how do infants sleep
A) for a shorter time, but with a greater proportion of REM sleep
B) for a shorter time and with minimal REM sleep
C) for a longer time, but less time in REM sleep
D) for a longer time, and with a greater proportion of REM sleep
Q3) Which category of psychoactive drugs is NOT associated with a high risk of a lethal overdose
A) hallucinogens
B) alcohol
C) sedatives
D) narcotics
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Chapter 6: A: Learning
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Q1) Jerome is training to be a vacuum cleaner salesperson.Initially,he got paid for each customer he called on,even if the customer did not ask for a demonstration.Currently,he gets paid for only demonstrating the product.Eventually,he will get paid only for closing a sale.Which process is illustrated in this example
A) classical conditioning
B) modelling
C) negative reinforcement
D) shaping
Q2) Which term refers to changes in the liking of a stimulus that result from pairing that stimulus with other positive or negative stimuli
A) evaluative conditioning
B) recognition conditioning
C) reinforcement conditioning
D) operant conditioning
Q3) What does the cumulative recorder do in a Skinner box
A) It delivers the reinforcers.
B) It creates a graphic record of operant responding across time.
C) It permits the experimenter to control the reinforcement contingencies.
D) It provides a complete record of everything the animal does.
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Chapter 6: B: Learning
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Q1) Which psychological concept refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience
A) development
B) learning
C) operant conditioning
D) classical conditioning
Q2) Which behaviour would be most appropriate to change using operant conditioning
A) allergic responses to the sight of cats
B) frequency of studying
C) heart rate
D) a phobic response to airplanes
Q3) What is true of secondary reinforcers
A) They satisfy biological needs.
B) We have to learn to find them reinforcing.
C) They are less effective and salient compared to primary reinforcers.
D) They are often used as punishment.
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Chapter 6: C: Learning
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Q1) Magnus starts wagging his tail and salivating when he hears Alec say the word "sit" because of __________.
A) operant conditioning
B) positive reinforcement
C) classical conditioning
D) stimulus generalization
Q2) Tessa has compiled a list with definitions of all the terms that are likely to be on her biology midterm.There are a few terms that she has particular difficulty remembering.What should Tessa do to enhance her recall of those terms
A) Place them in the middle of the list.
B) Place them at the beginning or the end of the list.
C) Place them directly after the terms that are the easiest to remember.
D) Place them directly before the terms that are the easiest to remember.
Q3) Patricia is cross-examining an eyewitness who seems overconfident in his story.What could Patricia do to reduce his overconfidence
A) Ask him to list reasons on why his story may not be 100% accurate.
B) Be very aggressive towards him when asking him questions.
C) Insult the eyewitness and question his memory.
D) Ask him to rate his confidence and explain why he feels so confident.
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Chapter 7: A: Human Memory
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Q1) Which sequence represents progressively deeper levels of processing
A) phonemic, semantic, structural
B) structural, phonemic, semantic
C) semantic, phonemic, structural
D) structural, semantic, phonemic
Q2) Which of the following is an example of phonemic encoding
A) memorizing lines from a poem
B) remembering a grocery list by visualizing the cake you will make with the ingredients
C) thinking of definitions for each word you must remember
D) thinking of rhyming words for each item on your shopping list
Q3) Leah is surprised to receive a second notice regarding her electric bill.She is sure that she paid it.As a matter of fact,she can picture herself paying the bill through online banking.However,when she goes through her banking records,she cannot find evidence that she paid her electric bill.What likely happened to Leah in this example
A) She experienced proactive interference.
B) She made a source-monitoring error.
C) She made a misinformation error.
D) She made a reality-monitoring error.
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Chapter 7: B: Human Memory
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Q1) Nick was a witness to a robbery in a convenience store where the thief jumped over the counter,grabbed a handful of money and left very quickly.When a police officer interviewed Nick and the cashier,Nick told the police officer that he did not see a weapon of any kind.The cashier said that she saw a gun.Later,when Nick was telling his friends about the robbery,he recalled seeing a gun.According to Loftus,what changed Nick's memory for the event
A) misinformation effect
B) post-context effect
C) reconstruction effect
D) source-monitoring effect
Q2) Suzi remembers items on a shopping list by imagining the items placed at certain locations along the route she normally drives through her neighbourhood.What method is she using
A) the method of loci
B) narrative story method
C) the link method
D) acronym method
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Chapter 8: A: Language and Thought
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Q1) How many morphemes are in the word "unchangeable"
A) one morpheme, for the entire word
B) four morphemes, one for each syllable
C) nine morphemes, one for each letter of the alphabet used
D) three morphemes, one for each unit of meaning
Q2) Vivian has forgotten the last digit of her locker combination.She carefully tries every number in order until she finds the one that works.What is Vivian using in this case
A) functional fixedness
B) an algorithm
C) framing
D) a heuristic
Q3) Which term refers to the approach to problem solving which is best used when whether you solve the problem hinges on how you envision it
A) changing the representation of the problem
B) taking a break
C) incubation
D) changing the analogy of the problem
Q4) How does risky decision making differ from making decisions about preferences How do people generally make each type of decision
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Q1) People often find it difficult to solve a problem by using a familiar object in a novel way.What is this called
A) a mental set
B) unnecessary constraints
C) irrelevant information
D) functional fixedness
Q2) Which field of study examines the effect of actual decision-making processes on economic decisions
A) behavioural economics
B) behavioural psychology
C) psychological economics
D) psychological marketing
Q3) What is typically included in telegraphic speech
A) nouns and verbs
B) nouns, verbs, and articles
C) only nouns
D) only verbs
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Chapter 9: A: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) In which case is the correlation between IQ scores the lowest
A) non-twin siblings reared together
B) fraternal twins reared together
C) adoptive siblings reared together
D) non-twin siblings reared apart
Q2) Which perspective on the investigation of intelligence focuses on the mental processes associated with intelligence rather than the amount of intelligence people possess
A) psychoanalytic
B) testing
C) behavioural
D) cognitive
Q3) How did Charles Spearman conceptualize intelligence
A) It is made up of a "core factor" common to all intellectual abilities.
B) It is seen only in certain "school-type" problems.
C) It can change from time to time.
D) It is a series of unrelated factors.
Q4) In what ways do you think sociohistorical context may have influenced the investigation of intelligence,as well as our views of intelligence theories
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Chapter 9: B: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) Which unifying theme in psychology does your text's discussion of ethnic differences in average IQ reflect
A) Behaviour is shaped by cultural factors.
B) People's experience of the world is highly subjective.
C) Heredity and environment jointly influence behaviour.
D) Psychology is theoretically diverse.
Q2) If Marc is being tested for his ability to apply his knowledge to a new situation,what type of intelligence is being tested
A) practical intelligence
B) verbal intelligence
C) crystallized intelligence
D) fluid intelligence
Q3) You recently took the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and just learned that your IQ is 100.What does this score mean
A) Your score is average.
B) You are twice as intelligent as someone who has an IQ of 50.
C) You answered 100 percent of the test questions correctly.
D) You answered 100 of the test questions correctly.
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Chapter 9: C: Intelligence Psychological Testing
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Q1) Based on the case study,Adrian's motivation to train for the triathlon is considered
A) intrinsic, biological motivation
B) extrinsic, biological motivation
C) extrinsic, social motivation
D) intrinsic, social motivation
Q2) According to the results of the Capilano Bridge Experiment,it is most likely that after this incident,Nicola and Emil will each perceive the other as being _______ to them than before.
A) more interesting
B) more attractive
C) less competent
D) less emotional
Q3) Scott's IQ test score is _____ the mean,so Scott falls into the ____ percentile.
A) 1 standard deviation above; 84th
B) 1 standard deviation below; 50th
C) 1 standard deviation above; 50th
D) 1 standard deviation below; 84th
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Chapter 10: A: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Which statement does NOT accurately describe the role of insulin in hunger
A) Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas.
B) Insulin is secreted primarily when the stomach is full.
C) Increased insulin secretion causes increased hunger.
D) Insulin must be present for cells to utilize glucose.
Q2) Which piece of evidence led to a rejection of Cannon's hypothesis that stomach contractions cause hunger
A) People experience hunger even when their stomachs have been surgically removed.
B) People experience stomach contractions when they are sleeping.
C) People experience hunger in dreams.
D) People experience hunger in response to external rather than internal cues.
Q3) Evolutionary theorists propose that there are only a few innate primary emotions.What do they use to explain the great variety of emotions that people describe
A) suppressing natural reactions to stimuli
B) forming new associations to original cues
C) blends of primary emotions and variations in intensity
D) learning new reactions later in life
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Q1) Which component of emotion includes the subjective conscious experience of an emotion
A) cognitive component
B) behavioural component
C) perceptual component
D) physiological component
Q2) Bob is overweight and a chronic dieter.According to the dietary restraint proposal,how is Bob likely to be characterized
A) a restrained eater
B) a variable set-point individual
C) a fixed set-point individual
D) physically inactive
Q3) A rapid-response pathway that quickly results in physiological responses associated with emotion begins with the thalamus.Where does it go from there
A) medulla
B) amygdala
C) cerebellum
D) cerebral cortex
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Chapter 11: A: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) Mrs.Tabak looks out her kitchen window and is upset to see that her 6-year-old son,Ryan,is picking all the tomatoes from her garden,setting them on his T-ball stand,and smashing them with his bat.Which of Piaget's processes is illustrated by Ryan's substitution of tomatoes for his regular red T-ball
A) assimilation
B) object permanence
C) accommodation
D) centration
Q2) What do nativists do,with respect to cognitive abilities
A) They strive to understand the adaptive significance of abilities that appear to be prewired.
B) They attempt to find out which abilities are prewired, without making any assumptions about why these abilities might be innate.
C) They assert that abilities that are prewired will be less prone to habituation or dishabituation.
D) They suggest that infants attend more to novel events because these events require more time for perceptual processing.
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the main aspects of temperament outlined in your text
A) mood
B) activity level
C) emotional reactivity
D) intellect
Q2) What is the likelihood that a fetus will survive if born at 26 weeks of gestation
A) 0 percent
B) 10-20 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent
Q3) Which stage of prenatal development lasts from two months after conception through birth
A) zygote stage
B) fetal stage
C) embryonic stage
D) germinal stage
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Q1) Lorant knows he is a basketball player who is good at math and who makes friends easily.These facts likely contribute to the development of his ________________.
A) culture
B) self-concept
C) self-esteem
D) role confusion
Q2) What does Adam's father attribute his behaviour to
A) Observational learning
B) Reciprocal determinism
C) Operant conditioning
D) Incongruence
Q3) Imagine Alaina gives the gymnast a high score like the other judges did.This will likely cause _________ so she is likely to ______________.
A) cognitive dissonance; minimize the gymnast's mistakes in her mind
B) self-monitoring; minimize the gymnast's mistakes in her mind
C) cognitive dissonance; argue for the beliefs she has about the gymnast
D) self-monitoring; argue for the beliefs she has about the gymnast
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Chapter 12: A: Personality: Theory, Research, and Assessment
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Q1) Who contends that personality is determined to a large extent by a person's genes
A) B.F. Skinner
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Hans Eysenck
D) Abraham Maslow
Q2) Which criticism can be levelled against both the psychoanalytic approach and the humanistic approach to personality
A) They provide a fragmented view of personality.
B) They overemphasize the influence of early childhood experiences.
C) They are too deterministic.
D) They are difficult to test.
Q3) What is a personality trait
A) a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations
B) a consistent pattern of behaviour that is entirely inflexible across situations
C) a flexible tendency to alter behaviour in a variety of situations
D) a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a particular situation
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Q1) What was the focus of the major theoretical disagreement that Carl Jung and Alfred Adler had with Freud
A) conflict
B) sexuality
C) childhood experiences
D) the unconscious
Q2) Benjamin is friendly and outgoing and tells a lot of jokes.He feels very comfortable at parties or whenever he meets new people.According to B.F.Skinner,what mechanism is responsible for Benjamin's personality
A) He is sublimating his unconscious fears of rejection.
B) He has experienced reinforcement for friendly behaviour.
C) He has a strong superego.
D) He is overcompensating for his feelings of inferiority.
Q3) Matthew has been unsuccessful in using compensation to master life's challenges.According to Alfred Adler's theory,what might Matthew exhibit
A) an Oedipal complex
B) an archetype
C) a superiority complex
D) an inferiority complex
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Q1) Maria has strong feelings about a new bylaw because it affects her personally.What aspect of an attitude does this example reflect
A) distinctiveness
B) vested interest
C) ambivalence
D) accessibility
Q2) In trying to understand why some ethnic neighbourhoods are dominated by poverty,people often infer that the residents are lazy and unmotivated.What does this type of inference illustrate
A) stable global attribution
B) inverse discrimination
C) stable external attribution
D) fundamental attribution error
Q3) When Stoner compared the average decision of a group's individual members against their group decision generated through group discussion,what did he find
A) The longer the discussion continued, the riskier the group's decisions.
B) Groups arrived at riskier decisions than individuals.
C) Individuals arrived at riskier decisions than groups.
D) Group members ignored the discussion and maintained their original decision.
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Q1) What was the topic of Stanley Milgram's famous "shock" studies
A) the bystander effect
B) obedience
C) conformity
D) group polarization
Q2) What is demonstrated by an individual who has a tendency to blame victims for their misfortune,so that the individual feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way
A) a rationalization attribution
B) the self-serving bias
C) the self-effacing bias
D) a defensive attribution
Q3) Which component of attitudes is most directly associated with the application of classical conditioning principles
A) perceptual component
B) affective component
C) negative component
D) cognitive component
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a component of Lambert and Lambert's concept of hardiness
A) commitment
B) control
C) challenge
D) continuity
Q2) Ted is very agitated about an upcoming presentation that he must give.His roommate doesn't understand why Ted is nervous because presentations are no big deal.Which statement does this example illustrate
A) When it comes to stress, humans tend not to feel empathy.
B) Our appraisals of stressful events are highly subjective.
C) Strong-minded persons are better able to handle stressful events than weak-minded ones.
D) Our appraisals of stressful events are basically objective.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT among the advantages of regular exercise
A) reduced cancer risk
B) lowered physiological reactivity to stress
C) reduced risk of bacterial infection
D) enhanced cardiovascular fitness
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Q1) Today is the day your younger sister's first choice for university said she would get her acceptance (or rejection)letter in the mail.It's 3:00 p.m.and the mail,which usually comes by noon,still hasn't been delivered.What type of stress is your sister likely experiencing
A) frustration
B) change
C) conflict
D) pressure
Q2) Arne and Ben each got a small raise last week.Arne feels insulted,because his boss clearly doesn't value him.Ben feels contented,because the economy is tight,and he feels that any raise is a good thing.According to Albert Ellis,what differs most dramatically between Arne and Ben
A) their activating events
B) their belief systems
C) their hardiness
D) their personality types
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Q1) Throughout these stressful events,Darius shows that he is able to stay positive and optimistic.According to much of the research on optimism,this means he will likely
A) become more religious later in life
B) have a Type B personality
C) have a diverse social network
D) live longer with a high quality of life
Q2) A few months after she starts her new job Laura enrols herself in mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural therapy.This is because Laura _______________.
A) wants to gain a greater understanding of herself and her anxiety
B) needs help accepting her genuine self in order to grow as a person
C) needs help recovering from her maladaptive unconscious conflict
D) wants to avoid relapsing and to eliminate her maladaptive cognitions
Q3) Is Marino's behaviour considered to be medically abnormal
A) Yes, it is personally distressful.
B) No, it is not deviant nor maladaptive.
C) No, it is not maladaptive.
D) Yes, it is deviant, maladaptive, and personally distressful.
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Q1) Charlotte is in a heightened emotional state and hasn't been sleeping much lately.Additionally,she is making plans to solve the world's hunger problem while simultaneously composing music (even though she's never had musical training).Which disorder is most consistent with Charlotte's symptoms
A) antisocial personality disorder
B) seasonal affective disorder
C) bipolar disorder
D) dissociative identity disorder
Q2) Tak feels like he has been worrying constantly for the past four months.He is worried about making his car payments,losing his job,and how his children are doing in school.He has also started to experience dizziness and occasional heart palpitations.Which disorder is most consistent with these symptoms
A) panic disorder
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder
C) generalized anxiety disorder
D) hypochondriasis
Q3) How are concussions and depression related
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Q1) Jack is very depressed,and as a result he is not eating properly,bathing,or going to work.Which criterion for abnormality has been met
A) incompetence
B) maladaptiveness
C) personal distress
D) deviance
Q2) According to recent research on the prevalence of psychological disorders,what can be said about the lifetime prevalence of psychological disorders
A) They are lower in modern times than in the 19th or early 20th centuries.
B) They are more common than most people realize.
C) They are dramatically higher for men than for women.
D) They are less common than most people realize.
Q3) Rick believes that his dog is really his sister who was given up for adoption by his mother 30 years ago.What is the term for Rick's belief
A) hallucination
B) faulty perception
C) delusion
D) illusion
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Q1) Claude has been seeing a therapist in an attempt to finally stop smoking.The therapist has described a number of specific techniques using reward and punishment that Claude might try to eliminate his behaviour of smoking.Which type of therapy is most consistent with this example
A) biomedical
B) insight
C) psychoanalysis
D) behaviour
Q2) With regard to psychological disorders,what does spontaneous remission refer to
A) failure to recover despite extensive treatment
B) recovery from a disorder that occurs because of formal treatment
C) sudden recurrence of a disorder in a client who had apparently been cured
D) recovery from a disorder that occurs without formal treatment
Q3) In treating an abnormal behaviour,what is a psychoanalyst trying to discover
A) the unconscious conflict that led to the behaviour
B) inappropriate thought patterns that underlie the behaviour
C) ways in which the behaviour keeps the client from becoming self-actualized
D) the environmental conditions that are maintaining the behaviour
Q4) Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic and humanistic brands of insight therapy.
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A) to act as a "control group" so that Jarett's therapist can determine how severe his symptoms are
B) to learn how the whole family interacts and to be aware of their influence on each other
C) to learn how to provide Jarett with his medication and enforce his treatment program
D) to provide positive role models so that Jarett can pattern his behaviour after them
Q2) Compared to traditional antipsychotic drugs,which statement best describes atypical antipsychotics
A) They have less risk of cardiovascular problems.
B) They have more unpleasant side effects.
C) They have less risk of tardive dyskinesia.
D) They are less effective.
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