General Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
General Psychology introduces students to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course covers foundational topics such as biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development across the lifespan, personality theories, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Students will explore major psychological theories and concepts, engage with empirical research methods, and apply psychological principles to everyday life. Designed for both psychology majors and non-majors, this course provides a comprehensive overview of the field and prepares students for further study in psychology and related disciplines.
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Introduction to Psychology 11th Edition by James W. Kalat
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) What do sports psychologists do?
A)They study the effects of unconscious motivations on athletic performance.
B)They provide psychotherapy to athletes after a defeat.
C)They help other psychologists exercise and develop athletic abilities.
D)They help athletes set goals and concentrate their efforts.
Answer: D
Q2) In the mid-1900s,many psychologists studied rats in mazes.What was their goal?
A)They wanted to perfect their research methods before turning to humans.
B)They were trying to identify genes that control learning.
C)They wanted better ways to exterminate rats.
D)They expected to discover general laws of learning.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following was one of the founders of behaviorism?
A)Alfred Binet
B)John Watson
C)Sigmund Freud
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Scientific Methods in Psychology
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Q1) Why is "falsifiable" considered a desirable thing for a theory?
A)It means we have replaced it with a better theory.
B)It means the theory is sufficiently interesting to attract opposition.
C)It means that the theory makes clear, testable predictions.
D)It means the theory is highly parsimonious.
Answer: C
Q2) Before conducting research on humans,what must a researcher obtain?
A)A license from the American Psychological Association
B)Licenses from the national and local governments
C)Informed consent from each participant
D)A web page on which to post the results
Answer: C
Q3) To which of the following does an experimenter apply "random assignment"?
A)Research participants
B)Means and medians
C)Correlation coefficients
D)Survey questions
Answer: A
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Q1) If different researchers consistently get similar results,we say the results are
Answer: replicable
Q2) A definition that states how to measure something is a(n)__________ definition. Answer: operational
Q3) "It is unlikely that chance alone would produce results like this," means that "It is unlikely that chance alone did produce these results."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Consider the following set of scores on a quiz: 70,100,85,70,75.The median for this set of scores is 75.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) Other things being equal,scientists prefer the most parsimonious theory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) For most people,the left hemisphere controls which of these?
A)Speech
B)Hearing
C)Emotion
D)Vision
Q2) A similarity between adopted children and their adopted mothers could indicate high heritability.What is another likely explanation in certain cases?
A)Extrasensory perception
B)Prenatal environment
C)Survival of the fittest
D)Gene mutations
Q3) How do amphetamine and cocaine affect attention?
A)At low levels, they impair attention. At high levels, they increase it.
B)At low levels, they increase attention. At high levels, they impair it.
C)They increase attention at all levels.
D)They impair attention at all levels.
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Chapter 3: A: Biological Psychology
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Q1) When you perceive that the piano you see is also what you hear and feel,you get that perception because vision,hearing,and touch all send their information to a central point in the brain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Marijuana affects the same receptors as opiate drugs,but less strongly.
A)True
B)False
Q3) People who can indicate where something is,without consciously seeing it at all,are said to have _______.
Q4) Some people can indicate where a visual stimulus occurred even though they weren't conscious of seeing it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is meant by "epigenetics"?
Q6) Neurons that are active both when you make a movement and when you watch someone else make a similar movement are known as_______neurons.
Q7) The chemicals released by neurons at synapses are called ______.
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) What is likely to occur when we misjudge the distance to some object or objects?
A)Negative afterimages
B)Size constancy
C)Optical illusions
D)Motion parallax
Q2) What makes the electromagnetic radiation from 400 nm to 700 nm visible?
A)Those wavelengths have greater amplitude than other wavelengths.
B)Those are the only wavelengths that can travel through the air.
C)Those are the only wavelengths that reflect off objects.
D)Our visual receptors are adapted to respond to those wavelengths.
Q3) Why is it difficult to tickle yourself?
A)Tickle requires a social relationship.
B)Tickle requires surprise.
C)You cannot get your fingers into the correct position.
D)You don't move your fingers fast enough.
Q4) Which of the following are more likely than average to develop absolute pitch?
A)People who started preschool before age 4
B)People who had an older sister
C)People who speak tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese
D)People who were raised as vegetarians
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Q1) Gestalt psychologists pioneered the study of feature detectors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The moon at the horizon looks larger than it does high in the sky because the atmosphere distorts the light as it passes through.
A)True
B)False
Q3) We localize sounds by comparing the responses of the two ears.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The optic nerve exits from the retina at the ____________________.
Q5) How do we manage to experience so many substances as bitter,in spite of the fact that they are chemically unrelated to one another?
Q6) If two people rate the intensity of a taste as "7" on a 1-to-7 scale,can we conclude that they both had an equally intense experience? Why or why not?
Q7) Itch sensation is a mild type of pain.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) A psychologist shows equal rows of coins,spreads out one row,and asks which row has more.What concept is she probably testing?
A)Accommodation
B)Theory of mind
C)Assimilation
D)Conservation
Q2) An investigator shows two equally full beakers of water and pours one of them into a tall,thin container.The child says that the thinner container has more water.What does the child lack?
A)Conservation of volume
B)Object permanence
C)Theory of mind
D)Identity achievement
Q3) Infants who cry easily are likely to grow up to have much anxiety in adulthood.That statement must be based on which kind of study?
A)Longitudinal
B)Cross-sectional
C)Single-blind
D)Double-blind
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Q1) An investigator who compares people of different ages all at the same time,is using a ____________ design.
Q2) According to Erik Erikson,someone who has problems at one stage of development will probably continue to have difficulties at later ages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many studies have reported differences between firstborn and later-born children.What aspect of the procedure makes it difficult for us to draw conclusions from these results?
Q4) The issues that middle-aged people face in a midlife transition resemble an adolescent identity crisis.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Selective attrition is a greater problem with longitudinal research than with cross-sectional research.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In Piaget's terminology,applying an old schema to a new situation is called
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Q1) How could you produce extinction of a response established by operant conditioning?
A)Punish the response.
B)Wait a long time without offering an opportunity for response.
C)Stop providing reinforcement for the response.
D)Present the CS without the UCS.
Q2) Training a response by reinforcing successive approximations to it is known as what?
A)Classical conditioning
B)Shaping
C)Disequilibrium
D)The law of effect
Q3) A child learned to get candy by crying.What would extinguish this response?
A)Punish the child for crying.
B)Stop giving candy.
C)Give candy before the child starts crying.
D)Explain to the child why crying is inappropriate.
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Q1) Psychologists who study only observable actions,while avoiding discussion of mental processes,are called _______.
Q2) Behaviorists study the differences between conscious and unconscious thought.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The process of establishing a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations to it is known as ____________.
Q4) In conditioned taste aversion,animals learn to avoid a food because it was paired with _________.
Q5) In operant conditioning,a signal that indicates whether a response would be appropriate or inappropriate is called a ____________ stimulus.
Q6) Stimulus generalization is the extension of a conditioned response from the training stimulus to similar stimuli.
A)True
B)False
Q7) According to Thorndike,the process of increasing the future probability of the most recent response is called ___________.
Q8) Describe how classical conditioning could explain drug tolerance.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Which of these is an example of procedural memory?
A)Remembering how to ride a bicycle
B)Remembering the price of the last bicycle you bought
C)Remembering the first bicycle you had as a child
D)Remembering the names of the parts of a bicycle
Q2) Which of these general points did we learn from studies of patient H.M.?
A)All memory information funnels through a single brain area.
B)It is possible to lose much of the brain and still function normally.
C)Electrical stimulation of certain brain areas can recover a lost memory.
D)Different types of memory depend on different brain areas.
Q3) According to the principle of encoding specificity,what would help you do well on a test?
A)Study at the same place and time of day at the test.
B)Study in a wide variety of locations and times of day.
C)Repeat the material forward and then backward.
D)Do all your studying in one long session.
Q4) Remembering the time you broke your leg is which kind of memory?
A)Procedural memory
B)Implicit memory
C)Semantic memory
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Chapter 7: A: Memory
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Q1) Forgetting new material because of interference from similar old memories is known as _________ interference.
Q2) While you are reading something,taking time out to answer questions about it will improve your memory of it.
A)True B)False
Q3) Typically,people form declarative memories gradually,and procedural memories quickly.
A)True B)False
Q4) Many three-year-olds can accurately report their experiences even 6 weeks later. A)True B)False
Q5) Remembering something is like replaying a recording of it. A)True B)False
Q6) A suspect lineup is an example of testing memory by the ______ method.
Q7) Finding your own car in a large parking lot is like testing memory with the __________ method.
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Chapter 8: Cognition and Language
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Q1) Despite low overall intelligence,people with Williams syndrome do surprisingly well at what?
A)Mathematics
B)Language
C)Graphic design
D)Attention and planning
Q2) The Stroop effect refers to which phenomenon?
A)It is easier to read a word than to say the color of its ink.
B)It is easier to remember the gist of a story than to remember the details.
C)It is easier to make a decision than to explain why you made that decision.
D)It is easier to read a whole word than to read a single letter.
Q3) Athletes,computer programmers,and weather forecasters improve with practice.Psychotherapists and political decision makers show less improvement with practice.Why?
A)Practice helps people who are dealing with physical events, not mental events.
B)Practice is most important for people who are less well educated.
C)Practice helps only if you get quick feedback about success or failure.
D)Practice cannot improve performance for people already functioning at a high level.
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Q1) In making decisions,thoroughly considering every possibility to find the best one is called _____.
Q2) How fast young children progress through stages of language development depends mainly on how often they hear their parents and other people talking. A)True
B)False
Q3) An ostrich is a prototype for the category "bird." A)True
B)False
Q4) We read both during eye fixations and during the eye movements between fixations. A)True
B)False
Q5) The condition marked by surprisingly good language despite mental retardation in several other regards is _________ syndrome.
Q6) The main reason why humans have language and other species don't is that humans have larger brains. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Intelligenceintelligence
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Q1) What is one way to decrease the impact of stereotype threat?
A)Ask people to identify their ethnic group before the start of the test.
B)Use a test that alternates between easy items and difficult items.
C)Educate people about stereotype threat.
D)Administer any test in a large room with many others taking the test.
Q2) Why is the mean IQ score 100 for both boys and girls?
A)The tests balance the items boys do best with other items that girls do best.
B)On average, brain size is equal for boys and girls.
C)The test gives boys two "bonus" points to make their average equal to that of girls.
D)The test gives girls two "bonus" points to make their average equal to that of boys.
Q3) Which of these has been shown to improve intellectual performance for low-performing children?
A)Television watching
B)Extra sleep
C)Individual psychotherapy
D)Dietary supplements
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Chapter 9: A: Intelligence Intelligence
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Q1) According to Raymond Cattell,someone who is good at reasoning,using information,and quickly acquiring new skills is said to have much ________ intelligence.
Q2) According to Raymond Cattell,intelligence has two major components,fluid intelligence and _________ intelligence.
Q3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Raven's Progressive Matrices for measuring intelligence,as compared to other common IQ tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler tests?
Q4) Scores on tests of language,logic,spatial reasoning,and other cognitive abilities all correlate positively with one another.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What types of interventions have been successful for improving children's IQ scores?
Q6) Doing well on a standardized test requires specialized abilities different from those of other tests.
A)True
B)False
Q7) On a standardized IQ test,the mean score is _________.
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Chapter 10: Consciousnessconsciousness
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Q1) Which animal species,during which time,show very little need for sleep?
A)Birds while migrating
B)Hoofed animals during mating season
C)Predators during the rainy season
D)Coyotes during the dry season
Q2) Shifting to daylight saving time in spring (awakening earlier)produces temporary symptoms similar to which of the following?
A)Sleep apnea
B)Narcolepsy
C)Jet lag
D)Lucid dreaming
Q3) Why does watching television or using a computer late at night sometimes interfere with sleep?
A)Those devices emit the type of light that resets the circadian rhythm.
B)Those devices emit ultrasonic vibrations that increase heart rate.
C)The excitement from using those devices increases production of steroid hormones.
D)The content of those devices causes dreams to start earlier than usual in the night.
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Chapter 10: A: Consciousnessconsciousness
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Q1) People traveling west suffer more serious jet lag than do people traveling east.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rhythms of wakefulness and sleepiness lasting about one day are called _______ rhythms.
Q3) Cells in your brain generate a 24-hour rhythm that affects sleepiness and other activities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A dream that occurs when the person is aware of being asleep and dreaming is called a _______ dream.
Q5) People of what age are most likely to be morning people? _____
Q6) The area of the brain known to generate the body's circadian rhythm is the ____________________.
Q7) When you are conscious of seeing or hearing something,your consciousness occurs instant by instant while the stimulus is present.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Describe the key differences between REM sleep and other stages of sleep.
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Chapter 11: Motivated Behaviorsmotivated Behaviors
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Q1) On average,what is true of men with higher levels of testosterone?
A)They have sexual activity much more often than average.
B)They have a longer than average plateau stage of sexual response.
C)They have higher than average verbal intelligence.
D)They are more likely than average to seek multiple partners.
Q2) In what way does insulin influence hunger?
A)It increases the sensitivity of the taste buds.
B)It increases the excretion of waste products.
C)It increases the frequency of stomach contractions.
D)It increases the flow of glucose into the cells.
Q3) What usually happens if someone is born with an intersex appearance and then is reared as a girl?
A)Psychologically, she develops the same as the average for other girls.
B)She is more likely than most other girls to fantasize about having children.
C)She develops more boy-typical interests than most other girls.
D)She develops a stronger than average sex drive, early in childhood.
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Q1) What causes some children to be born with an intersex anatomy?
Q2) Whether the external genitals develop looking male or female depends on one hormone,which is _____________.
Q3) Most people underestimate how long they will need to complete a major task.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The highest point on Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the need for _______
Q5) What factors influence whether someone develops a heterosexual or homosexual orientation?
Q6) In addition to physiological mechanisms of hunger,many social and cultural influences modify how much we eat.Describe several examples.
Q7) Many women have multiple consecutive orgasms.
A)True
B)False
Q8) If you have a choice of when to set deadline for a series of tasks,you should set all the deadlines as late as possible.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Part 1 Emotions,stress,and
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Q1) The trolley car dilemma and the footbridge dilemma pit two desires against each other.What are they?
A)The desire for immediate pleasure and the desire for a greater pleasure later
B)The desire for pleasure and the desire to avoid danger
C)The desire to help more people and the desire to avoid hurting one person
D)The desire to help yourself and the desire to help someone else who is in need
Q2) What are the effects of brief,moderate stress?
A)Withdrawal from activities and damage to the hippocampus
B)Impaired muscle coordination and inability to sleep
C)Memory loss and decreased activity of the immune system
D)Improved attention and increased activity of the immune system
Q3) On average,how does sadness affect decision making?
A)Sad people tend to evaluate the evidence more carefully before deciding.
B)Sad people tend to make quick, impulsive decisions that they regret later.
C)Sad people tend to prefer a large, later reward instead of a quicker, smaller reward.
D)Sad people tend to be overconfident of their decisions.
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Q1) A guilty-knowledge test is similar to a polygraph test except that the examiner asks different types of questions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the James-Lange theory,feeling an emotion leads to action.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The main evidence for the idea of "basic emotions" is that people throughout the world recognize some of the same facial expressions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Researchers measure changes in the startle reflex as an operational definition of ____________________.
Q5) People are more likely to display facial expressions when they are with other people than when they are alone.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) One woman who seems fearless in almost all situations has damage to the __________ of her brain.
Chapter 13: Social Psychologysocial Psychology
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Q1) Which of these is an example of the primacy effect in social psychology?
A)Group polarization
B)Multiculturalism
C)The sleeper effect
D)The inoculation effect
Q2) If someone tells you to expect a persuasive speech,what is the effect?
A)You pay less attention to the speech than usual.
B)You pay closer attention to the speech than usual.
C)The speech will influence your opinions less than usual.
D)The speech will influence your opinions more than usual.
Q3) An airline that canceled your flight offers you an alternative flight that will reach your destination 14 hours later than your original flight.Then the agent discovers a better flight that will get you there only 8 hours later,and you feel delighted.What persuasion technique is this?
A)Reciprocation
B)Foot in the door
C)Contrast effect
D)Social norms
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Q1) A policy of accepting,recognizing,and enjoying the differences among people and groups and the unique contributions each person can offer is known as
Q2) Altruistic behavior toward nonrelatives is widespread in the animal kingdom.
A)True
B)False
Q3) People in Western societies tend to assume that people voluntarily chose to act as they did,even when the situation required that action.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One method of measuring prejudices or other attitudes that people don't want to admit is the __________ association test.
Q5) If someone you don't respect suggests an idea,you might have more agreement with the idea later than you do at first.
A)True
B)False
Q6) If you intentionally put yourself at a disadvantage to provide an excuse for failure,you are engaged in a self-_______ strategy.
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Chapter 14: Personalitypersonality
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Q1) A politician distressed about his own secret history of taking bribes proposes strict penalties against offering bribes.His behavior is a possible example of which Freudian defense mechanism?
A)Projection
B)Reaction formation
C)Regression
D)Displacement
Q2) What was Freud's goal in psychoanalysis?
A)To bring unconscious thoughts and memories into consciousness
B)To help the person establish a style of life with more healthful goals
C)To help the person achieve self-actualization
D)To establish more effective behavior patterns through reinforcements
Q3) Do any personality traits correlate significantly with job success?
A)No, none of them correlates significantly for more than a few jobs.
B)Agreeableness and conscientiousness correlate significantly for a wide variety of jobs.
C)Openness to experience correlates significantly for a wide variety of jobs.
D)Extreme extraversion is a powerful predictor of success on almost any job.
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Q1) In humanistic psychology,the complete,unqualified acceptance of another person as he or she is,is called ________ positive regard.
Q2) The approach to the study of individual differences that seeks general laws about how some aspect of personality affect behavior is the ____________________ approach.
Q3) Psychologists derived the Big Five personality model from extensive observations of people's behavior in different cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If 95 percent of people with a rare disorder give a particular pattern of answers on a personality test,and only 5 percent of other people give that pattern,then the results of the test provide a valid basis for diagnosing that disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did researchers evaluate the accuracy of criminal profiling,and what results did they get?
Q6) According to Freud,the rational,decision-making aspect of the personality is called the _____.
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Chapter 15: Part 1 Abnormal Psychology: Disorders and
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Q1) In the treatment of depression,which treatment is more expensive and which produces more lasting benefits?
A)Psychotherapy is more expensive and produces more lasting benefits.
B)Antidepressant drugs are more expensive and produce more lasting benefits.
C)Antidepressant drugs are more expensive. Psychotherapy produces more lasting benefits.
D)Psychotherapy is more expensive. Antidepressant drugs produce more lasting benefits.
Q2) Which disorder is generally detected during infancy or early childhood?
A)Autism spectrum disorder
B)Panic disorder
C)Generalized anxiety disorder
D)Bipolar disorder
Q3) If you say,"I hold my liquor well," meaning,"I don't quickly show signs of intoxication," which of these is true?
A)You do not metabolize alcohol quickly.
B)You will have a severe hangover.
C)You are more likely than average to develop alcohol abuse.
D)You are less likely than average to develop alcohol abuse.
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Q1) The process of removing patients from large mental hospitals is called
Q2) Someone who has deteriorated in daily life and who shows hallucinations,delusions,and thought disorder would be diagnosed as having
Q3) Antipsychotic drugs help relieve schizophrenia by blocking the reuptake of serotonin.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Humanistic therapists listen sympathetically and encourage people to make their own decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Of three types of treatment for depression-antidepressant drugs,psychotherapy,and electroconvulsive therapy-the one likely to produce the most long-lasting improvement is ___________.
Q6) The causes of autism probably include both genetics and prenatal environment.
A)True
B)False
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