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Introduction
General Psychology offers a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course explores key concepts, theories, and research findings across major areas of psychology, including biological foundations, perception, learning, memory, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Emphasis is placed on understanding the methods psychologists use to study the mind and behavior, as well as the application of psychological principles to everyday life. By the end of the course, students will gain foundational knowledge that prepares them for more advanced studies in psychology and related fields.
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Psychology An Introduction 10th Edition by Benjamin Lahey
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) The ____________ approach is concerned with the relationship between the structures of the brain and psychological processes.
A) sociocultural
B) behavioral
C) neuroscientific
D) humanistic
Answer: C
Q2) Dr.Vance tests young children's abilities to comprehend abstract metaphors.Dr.Vance is probably a:
A) psychoanalyst.
B) behaviorist.
C) cognitive psychologist.
D) humanistic psychologist.
Answer: C
Q3) The first research article published by an African American in a journal of the American Psychological Association was written by ____________.
Answer: J Henry Alston
Q4) Private thoughts,feelings,emotions and motives are referred to as ____________. Answer: mental processes
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Chapter 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the ethical principles set forth by the American Psychological Association?
A) informed consent
B) limited deception
C) confidentiality
D) adequate reimbursement
Answer: D
Q2) A researcher is interested in the relationship between early childhood sexual abuse and teenage chemical dependency.Since the researcher cannot ethically expose individuals to sexual abuse,which research strategy would be BEST?
A) The researcher should do a correlational study.
B) The researcher really only has one option: naturalistic observation.
C) The researcher should do a clinical case study.
D) The researcher could conduct a formal experiment in a carefully controlled laboratory environment.
Answer: A
Q3) ____________ is a research method based on recording behavior as it occurs in real-life settings.
Answer: Naturalistic observation
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations in Behavior
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Q1) A nerve is a bundle of many long neurons located outside the brain and spinal cord.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) When blind individuals read Braille,they show activation in the:
A) parietal lobes.
B) somatosensory cortex.
C) visual cortex.
D) motor areas.
Answer: C
Q3) The cerebellum is located at the rear base of the skull and controls breathing and heart rate.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The amygdala plays an important role in aggression.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Interplay of Nature and Nurture
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Q1) According to evolutionary theory,men who were nurturing and good providers had better access to fertile women.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Ethnic identity refers to an individual's:
A) sense of belonging to a particular ethnic group.
B) race.
C) culture.
D) country of origin.
Q3) Heredity and experiences always work together to influence our psychological characteristics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Social-role theory states that differences in the genes of men and women resulted from differential evolutionary pressures.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The ____________ theory suggests that gender identity results from reinforcement for gender-typical behavior.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) When a stimulus is presented to a sense organ continuously or in short intervals,the sense organ:
A) becomes more sensitive to the stimulus.
B) becomes more adept at transduction.
C) still detects the stimulus,but transduction is slower.
D) becomes less sensitive to the stimulus.
Q2) The ear's receptor cells are sitting on the: A) auditory canal. B) cochlea.
C) organ of Corti.
D) basilar membrane.
Q3) On their way to the visual hemispheres,messages from the inside fields of the retinas cross over at the ____________.
Q4) The intensity of a light wave determines the psychological characteristic of color. A)True B)False
Q5) A sexually aroused male is more likely to perceive females as being physically attractive than a nonaroused male.This is an example of the effect of motivation on
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Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT typical of an altered state of consciousness?
A) a sense of unique individuality
B) perceptual distortions
C) indescribable experiences
D) self-evident reality
Q2) Out-of-body experiences are referred to as ____________.
Q3) The first systematic study of dreams was conducted by:
A) Mary Whiton Calkins.
B) Sigmund Freud.
C) William James.
D) Rip Van Winkle.
Q4) My son claims he can do his homework better when watching TV.If he were truly paying attention to both the TV and his homework,then would be proficient at using:
A) daydreaming.
B) altered awareness.
C) divided consciousness.
D) waking consciousness.
Q5) Freud referred to the literal content of a dream as its ____________ content.
Q6) List and describe the five characteristics associated with the hypnotic state.
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Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Learning
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Q1) In a taste aversion,the food that makes you ill is the unconditioned stimulus.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Tolman believed that rats develop mental representations of mazes they have explored.He called this phenomenon:
A) behavior schema building.
B) insight learning.
C) latent learning.
D) cognitive mapping.
Q3) The tendency for similar stimuli to elicit the same response is referred to as:
A) stimulus generalization.
B) response generalization.
C) stimulus discrimination.
D) response discrimination.
Q4) The sudden realization of previously unseen relationships is called ____________ learning.
Q5) Your 2-year-old son calls all animals with four legs "doggies." Your child is using ____________.
Q6) A(n)____________ stimulus is a stimulus that elicits a response with no prior learning.
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) The serial position effect states that memory for a list of items will be worst for those items at the:
A) beginning of the list.
B) end of the list.
C) middle of the list.
D) middle and end of the list.
Q2) Summarize the research findings that support a biological basis for memory.
Q3) You suffered a head injury in a car accident.You can remember past events easily,but struggle with remembering events that have occurred since the accident.You are experiencing:
A) Korsakoff's syndrome.
B) retrograde amnesia.
C) repression.
D) anterograde amnesia.
Q4) What happens when we try to remember something in long-term memory?
A) We examine every item in long-term memory.
B) It usually just "comes to us."
C) We use cues.
D) This speeds up our memory loss.
Q5) Compare and contrast anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia.
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Chapter 9: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement about the impact of environment on IQ scores?
A) Intelligence is purely the result of environment.
B) Both genetics and environment significantly influence intelligence.
C) Because intelligence is largely innate,environment has only a small impact.
D) Intelligence is purely innate,and the environment has no impact
Q2) Correctly answering the question,"What is the definition of an algorithm?" requires:
A) convergent thinking.
B) incubation.
C) divergent thinking.
D) heuristic thinking.
Q3) ____________ concepts are defined by the presence of one common characteristic,or another one,or both.
Q4) Thurstone suggested that intelligence is made up of ______ different abilities.
Q5) By themselves,____________ are basically meaningless.
A) morphemes
B) sound bytes
C) phonemes
D) semantics
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Chapter 10: Developmental Psychology
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Q1) "I don't believe in the death penalty,as it is not morally right to take the life of another." This statement BEST exemplifies which level of Kohlberg's moral development?
A) premoral
B) conventional
C) postmoral
D) principled
Q2) In terms of vision,newborns:
A) can only distinguish light from dark.
B) have remarkably well-developed near and far vision.
C) can see outlines of objects both near and far but cannot distinguish details.
D) have fairly good vision up to about 12 inches from their eyes.
Q3) Levinson believed that at approximately age 30,shortly after people marry and settle down,they begin to:
A) feel lost and hopeless.
B) become overconfident and involved in impractical projects.
C) feel a sense of peace and security.
D) reevaluate the direction of their lives.
Q4) List and briefly describe Kubler-Ross's stages of grief.
Q5) Summarize the physical changes associated with puberty for males and females.
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Of the following pairs of emotions,which two emotions are closest together on Watson and Tellegen's emotion map?
A) sad and sluggish
B) fearful and angry
C) surprised and elated
D) happy and relaxed
Q2) Which of the following behaviors is most likely motivated by a homeostatic need?
A) feeling full but eating a slice of pie because it looks so good
B) drinking four glasses of water on a hot summer day
C) placing scented candles around your house because the smells make you happy
D) taking a hot bubble bath to relax
Q3) The Greek philosopher Epictetus stated,"People are not affected by events,but by their interpretations of them." This statement is most consistent with the:
A) James-Lange theory of emotion.
B) cognitive theory of emotion.
C) Cannon-Bard theory of emotion.
D) frustration-aggression hypothesis.
Q4) Summarize the findings of Elliot and Church in their studies of college students and achievement motivation.
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Chapter 12: Personality Theories and Assessment
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Q1) One's personality is:
A) relatively predictable.
B) relatively fluid.
C) defined by academic experiences.
D) defined by the opinions of others.
Q2) Jung's research on the collective unconscious stems largely from:
A) statistical analyses of personality traits.
B) clinical observations of patients with unusual psychological symptoms.
C) naturalistic observations between parents and children.
D) evidence that common symbols are found in art and architecture throughout the world.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of the "big-five" personality factors?
A) sense of humor
B) neuroticism
C) agreeableness
D) conscientiousness
Q4) According to Maslow,self-actualized individuals are uninterested in social relationships and would prefer to spend time alone.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Stress and Health
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Q1) Which of the following is an effective way of coping?
A) self-medication
B) withdrawal
C) aggression
D) removing stress
Q2) One major reason that our dietary behavior is unhealthy is that we lack knowledge of healthy eating habits.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true about sociocultural factors involved in women's health?
A) Lesbian women are at a higher risk of breast cancer than are heterosexual women.
B) When African American women have breast cancer,their survival rates are higher than non-Hispanic white women.
C) Lesbian women are at a higher risk of skin cancer than are heterosexual women.
D) African American women have a higher risk of breast cancer than do non-Hispanic white women.
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Chapter 14: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Emotional numbing,recurrent nightmares,and flashbacks are the hallmarks of ____________ disorder.
Q2) Cole is in court today after being charged with two counts of forgery.He appears dressed in leather with gold chains wrapping his arms and neck,and he sports a large nose ring.When asked if he would like to speak in his defense,he states,"So I stole the checks from my father,but I wouldn't'a had to if he and the government wouldn't'a deprived me of the college education I deserve.I would have been a brilliant surgeon.It ain't right that they can take away what they owe me." Of the following,Cole's behavior is MOST consistent with:
A) dependent personality disorder.
B) histrionic personality disorder.
C) paranoid personality disorder.
D) narcissistic personality disorder.
Q3) Which of the following does NOT increase the likelihood of depression?
A) an understanding that one cannot be perfect
B) a belief that one can only be happy when in a close relationship
C) a negative interpretation of the things that happen
D) an accurate view of oneself
Q4) A ____________ is a strange false belief.
Q5) An obsession is an unwanted,distressing,and recurring ____________.
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) Describe three of the six fundamental concepts of feminist psychotherapy,and explain whether you think feminist psychotherapy is an important therapeutic method.
Q2) List the four kinds of problems that interpersonal therapists believe lead to depression,and describe three of the seven goals interpersonal therapists attempt to reach.
Q3) According to the research on psychotherapy cited in your text,compared to whites with mental disorders,African Americans with mental disorders are more likely to:
A) receive free outpatient treatment.
B) be dismissed as not needing any help.
C) be committed to psychiatric hospitals.
D) be charged excessively for mental health services.
Q4) Relating external events to yourself when there is no logical reason for doing so is considered to be which of the following by Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck?
A) personalization
B) overgeneralization
C) arbitrary inference
D) selective abstraction
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement about prejudice?
A) Only immoral people are prejudiced.
B) Only members of majority groups tend to be prejudiced.
C) Showing people evidence that their stereotypes are false has the power to completely eliminate prejudice.
D) Even people who believe they are not prejudiced do exhibit some automatic prejudicial responses.
Q2) The Price Waterhouse sex discrimination lawsuit involved a dispute over:
A) discriminatory hiring practices.
B) discriminatory promotion practices.
C) sexual harassment.
D) slander based on sexual stereotyping.
Q3) According to cognitive dissonance theory,which of the following will result in a sense of discomfort?
A) having an authority figure order you around
B) having attitudes that do not match your behavior
C) all of these
D) feeling constrained by social norms
Q4) Describe three theories as to how stereotypes and prejudice develop.
Q5) The importance of first impressions has been termed the ____________.
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Chapter 17: Psychology Applied to Business and Other Professions
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Q1) Which statement about criterion-referenced tests is accurate?
A) Criterion-referenced tests are interpreted in terms of grade level.
B) Criterion-referenced tests determine how far above or below the average a student is.
C) Criterion-referenced tests are standardized using an average sample.
D) It is possible for every student in a class to fail a criterion-referenced test.
Q2) In participative management,employees are given specific goals but also considerable freedom in how to achieve those goals.
A)True B)False
Q3) Most psychologists who work in business can be found working in the: A) research and development division. B) sales division.
C) marketing division.
D) personnel department.
Q4) In the office landscape design,employees tend to interact more and cooperate more.
A)True B)False
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