General Psychology Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
General Psychology is an introductory course that explores the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. It covers foundational topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Students will examine key theories and research methods in psychology, gaining insight into how individuals think, feel, and act both independently and within groups. This course provides a broad understanding of psychological principles, laying the groundwork for further study in specialized areas of psychology.
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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) What kind of psychologist would focus on how aggressive behaviour changes as a function of age
A) social psychologist
B) behavioural psychologist
C) developmental psychologist
D) physiological psychologist
Answer: C
Q2) What is the basic goal for the approach of positive psychology
A) to have a positive impact on scientific fields outside psychology
B) to create a more positive experience for psychologists' patients
C) to treat all patients with positive or progressive methods
D) to study the positive aspects of human behaviour and experience
Answer: D
Q3) Which term refers to a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating mental disorders
A) clinician
B) psychiatrist
C) clinical psychologist
D) psychometrist
Answer: B
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Chapter 1: B: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Which phrase reflects your textbook's unifying theme of "heredity and environment jointly influence behaviour"
A) man versus nature
B) nature versus nurture
C) parent versus child
D) biology versus psychology
Answer: B
Q2) Which area of specialization in psychology is involved with the development of curricula and the training of teachers
A) school psychology
B) experimental psychology
C) industrial/organizational psychology
D) educational psychology
Answer: D
Q3) What is the largest specialization in professional psychology
A) counselling psychology
B) industrial/organizational psychology
C) clinical psychology
D) developmental psychology
Answer: C
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Chapter 1: C: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is a hypothesis for Fidan's experiment
A) If rats are given more access to high calorie treat food they will put on more weight.
B) More access to cafeteria style food causes rats to put on more weight.
C) There is a correlation between how much access a rat is given to high calorie treat food and their weight.
D) The hypothalamus of rats is associated with the consumption of high calorie treat food.
Answer: A
Q2) During the party,Jason tries to light up a candle with a match and burns his finger in front of Sam,Dean,and Cas.Which of the three friends is most likely to predict that Jason will not use another match ever again out of fear of burning his finger again
A) Sam, who is dressed up as Carl Rogers.
B) Cas, who is dressed up as B.F. Skinner.
C) Dean, who is dressed up as Sigmund Freud.
D) All three of them are equally likely to predict this.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: A: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
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Q1) As the size of a crowd increases,people are less likely to help someone who is in distress.What is the relationship between the number of people in a crowd and the likelihood of helping
A) They are negatively correlated.
B) They are indirectly correlated.
C) They are uncorrelated.
D) They are positively correlated.
Q2) What is the typical consequence of experimenter bias
A) The effects of the bias confirm the experimenter's expectations.
B) The results of the study are not statistically significant.
C) There is evidence of the placebo effect in the results of the experimental group.
D) Experimenters often doubt their results when they first see them.
Q3) Which set of concepts is NOT a closely related set
A) correlation, sample, journal
B) method, results, discussion
C) experiment, independent variable, control group
D) mean, median, mode
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Chapter 2: B: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
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Q1) In experimental research,which variable is measured because it is thought to be affected by the manipulation of another variable
A) independent variable
B) extraneous variable
C) controlled variable
D) dependent variable
Q2) Dr.Coulombe is conducting an experiment on the effect of alcohol consumption on reaction time.Half of the subjects drink alcoholic drinks and half drink non-alcoholic versions of the same drinks.Which type of research flaw should be minimized by this research design
A) experimenter expectancy
B) self-report bias
C) the placebo effect
D) sampling bias
Q3) What is the median of the following distribution of scores: 1,2,3,7,7
A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 7
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Chapter 3: A: The Biological Bases of Behaviour
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Q1) Dean is conducting a study in which he exposes rats to different amounts of noise to cause different amounts of stress.He then evaluates whether the offspring of those rats have different reactions to stress.What sort of study is Dean conducting
A) epigenetic study
B) behaviour genetic study
C) genetic mapping study
D) polygenic study
Q2) Humans' taste preferences for fatty substances would have conferred a survival advantage for our ancestors,but in our modern environment,where we have an overabundance of food,that preference can end up causing obesity and illness.What would an evolutionary psychologist say about this trend
A) It tends to occur when recessive genes mutate into dominant traits.
B) It is an example of an adaptation that has become a liability.
C) It is a consequence of genetic drift across several generations.
D) It represents the paradox of inclusive fitness.
Q3) Compare and contrast the nervous system and the endocrine system.
Q4) Compare and contrast lesioning and electrical stimulation of the brain.
Q5) Choose a specific neurotransmitter or class of neurotransmitters and discuss its impact on behaviour.
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Chapter 3: B: The Biological Bases of Behaviour
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Q1) Which research method allows researchers to most easily isolate the effect of both genetics and experience on specific traits
A) twin studies
B) family studies
C) survey studies
D) adoption studies
Q2) 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
Q3) An action potential has just arrived at the terminal buttons of a neuron.Which event will occur immediately
A) Neurotransmitters will be taken up by the postsynaptic neuron.
B) Neurotransmitters will be pulled back into the presynaptic neuron.
C) Neurotransmitters will be manufactured in the synaptic vesicles.
D) Neurotransmitters will be released into the synaptic cleft.
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Chapter 3: C: The Biological Basis of Behaviour
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Q1) Which part of Mirna's endocrine system was activated during the incident
A) Her ovaries
B) Her pancreas
C) Her adrenal glands
D) Her thyroid gland
Q2) Malcolm relies on his ______ to help him balance on his skates.
A) cerebellum
B) corpus callosum
C) cerebrum
D) spinal cord
Q3) Wes jokes that Cam has overactive pleasure centres.Which brain structure is Wes referring to
A) The medial forebrain bundle
B) The reticular formation
C) The prefrontal cortex
D) The pituitary gland
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Chapter 4: A: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which theorist's influence is reflected in the surrealists' exploration of the world of dreams and fantasy
A) Ernst Weber
B) David Hubel
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Gustav Fechner
Q2) Which perceptual process allows Darcy to read her notes without noticing small errors
A) linguistic adaptation
B) bottom-up processing
C) top-down processing
D) sensory adaptation
Q3) What are the direct receptors for hearing
A) hair cells
B) basilar cells
C) ossicles
D) cochleas
Q4) Using appropriate examples,show how perceptual experiences can be subjective.
Q5) Compare vision and hearing in terms of the proximal stimulus and information processing for each sense.
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Chapter 4: B: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) What does the kinesthetic system do
A) It responds to gravity and keeps you informed of your body's location in space.
B) It monitors the internal temperature of the body.
C) It monitors the positions of the various parts of the body.
D) It responds to painful stimuli.
Q2) According to signal-detection theory,what is the term for waking up to your alarm in the morning
A) hit
B) false alarm
C) miss
D) correct rejection
Q3) Which perceptual preference is strongly influenced by social processes
A) smell
B) touch
C) taste
D) vision
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Chapter 5: A: Variations in Consciousness
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Q1) Alicia is taking a prescription drug to help treat her narcolepsy.She finds that when she takes the drug she feels extremely restless and irritable,and she loses her appetite.What has Alicia's physician likely prescribed
A) stimulant
B) hallucinogen
C) sedative
D) narcotic
Q2) How are drugs that are typically used as "sleeping pills" classified A) hallucinogens
B) sedatives
C) narcotics
D) soporifics
Q3) What is a direct effect of alcohol abuse
A) increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases
B) car accidents
C) liver disease
D) unemployment
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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Chapter 5: B: Variations in Consciousness
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Q1) Which of the following are present during both meditation and stage 1 sleep
A) theta waves
B) sleep spindles
C) beta waves
D) delta waves
Q2) Which of the following is most likely about people who rarely remember their dreams
A) They experience narcolepsy.
B) They experience lucid dreams.
C) They have their last REM sleep period immediately before they awaken.
D) They have their last REM sleep period a relatively long time before they awaken.
Q3) Fatima is in the middle of a dream,and she realizes that she is dreaming.As a result,she is able to control some aspects of the dream.What is this phenomenon called A) somnambulism
B) focal dreaming
C) N-REM dreaming
D) lucid dreaming
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Chapter 6: A: Learning
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Q1) What conclusion can we draw as a result of decades of research on animal models of learning
A) Research on animals examines animal behaviour and physiology, but not learning.
B) Learning in animals is instinctive and includes no cognitive intervention.
C) Many principles of learning discovered in animal research apply to humans.
D) Animal learning can be applied to humans, but only in terms of reflexive behaviour.
Q2) Which component of observational learning is heavily influenced by expectations about reinforcement,according to Albert Bandura
A) initially attending to the behaviour of another person
B) initially acquiring or learning a new behaviour
C) actually performing a behaviour that has been learned
D) accurately retaining information about a behaviour
Q3) Through which of the following is avoidance conditioning maintained
A) positive reinforcement
B) positive punishment
C) negative reinforcement
D) negative punishment
Q4) Design a self-modification program to improve your study habits.
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Chapter 6: B: Learning
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Q1) Which modification goal responds best to behaviour modification
A) a specific overt behaviour; for example, "I will walk the dog every day"
B) a specific goal; for example, "I will get a 4.00 GPA this semester"
C) a broadly defined behaviour; for example, "I will be friendlier"
D) a personality trait; for example, "I will stop being irritable"
Q2) In a fixed interval schedule,when is the reinforcement given
A) at the first response after a variable time interval has elapsed
B) at the first response after a fixed time interval has elapsed
C) after a variable number of nonreinforced responses
D) after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses
Q3) Which pair of processes are involved in the acquisition of phobias and also the tendency of phobias to show a high resistance to extinction
A) classical and operant conditioning
B) positive and negative reinforcement
C) operant conditioning and observation learning
D) reinforcement and punishment
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Chapter 6: C: Learning
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Q1) While walking home from class one day,a dog barks at Dory and almost bites her.Dory goes to file a report about the incident the next day with campus security,but cannot remember the dog's breed.What can she do to refresh her memory
A) Listen to the same song she was listening when she saw the dog.
B) Go under hypnosis to remember the event in greater detail.
C) Walk by the same spot where she was when she first saw the dog.
D) Go on the internet and look up dog breeds that are likely to attack someone.
Q2) Monica is concerned about Ross' choice of TV shows and tells him how the shows he watches affect his brain.Ross rolls his eyes and says she's being a drama queen.Which statement best summarizes this situation
A) Monica is right. Research shows Ross would show desensitization and adaptation to violent material.
B) Monica is right. Research shows Ross would show increased skin conductance in response to violent material.
C) Ross is right. What Monica said would be true only if Ross was an eyewitness to a violent act.
D) Ross is right. What Monica said would be true only if he witnessed his peers committing violent acts.
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Chapter 7: A: Human Memory
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Q1) Which error in thinking fuels overconfidence in recalling information
A) reality-monitoring errors
B) source-monitoring errors
C) fundamental attribution error
D) failure to seek disconfirming evidence
Q2) Dave is thrown from his motorcycle and suffers a severe blow to the head,resulting in loss of memory for events that occurred before the accident.What is this loss called
A) retrograde amnesia
B) anterograde amnesia
C) proactive interference
D) retroactive interference
Q3) What was achieved by Baddeley's concept of working memory
A) It recognizes the complexity of short-term memory.
B) It expands the functions and processes of long-term memory.
C) It integrates sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory into a single, complex system.
D) It takes the place of the old concept of sensory memory.
Q4) Compare and evaluate decay theory and interference theory as explanations of forgetting.
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Chapter 7: B: Human Memory
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Q1) What is the shallowest level of verbal information processing
A) verbal encoding
B) semantic encoding
C) structural encoding
D) phonemic encoding
Q2) If you remember the names of the Great Lakes (Huron,Ontario,Michigan,Erie,Superior)by recalling the word "HOMES" as a cue,what are you using
A) link method
B) acronym method
C) method of loci
D) acrostic method
Q3) What is NOT one of the benefits of developing and using a mnemonic device
A) organizing the information
B) increasing the capacity of your sensory memory
C) making the information more meaningful
D) engaging in a deeper level of processing
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Chapter 8: A: Language and Thought
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Q1) Corey was serving on a jury in a criminal case,and the jury reached a unanimous "not guilty" verdict.Several months later,some additional evidence came to light that strongly suggested that the defendant was,in fact,guilty of the crime in question.Corey is still not convinced by the new evidence,and claims he wouldn't have voted guilty,even if the new information had been presented during the trial.What is Corey demonstrating in this example
A) conjunction fallacy
B) mental set
C) belief perseverance
D) availability heuristic
Q2) What are people using when they overestimate the frequency of violent crimes because such crimes are repeatedly shown in the media
A) holistic decision model
B) representativeness heuristic
C) elimination by aspects strategy
D) availability heuristic
Q3) Compare and contrast the behaviourist and nativist theories of language acquisition.What is the interactionist view,and how has it arisen out of dissatisfaction with the other two approaches
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Chapter 8: B: Language and Thought
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Q1) If you know that a family has four children,and you are using the representativeness heuristic,which of the following configurations would you expect in that family
A) three boys and one girl
B) three girls and one boy
C) four children of the same sex
D) two boys and two girls
Q2) The probability of being in a subcategory (e.g.,university professors who are politicians)cannot be higher than the probability of being in the broader category (e.g.,university professors).What kind of fallacy do people routinely fall victim to as a result
A) conjunction
B) representativeness
C) heuristic
D) availability
Q3) When is the trial-and-error approach to problem solving most effective
A) when there are no time constraints on solving the problem
B) when there is a relatively large number of possible solutions
C) when a solution to the problem must be found quickly
D) when there is a relatively small number of possible solutions
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Chapter 9: A: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) When tested on the Stanford-Binet,Ada is found to have a mental age of eight.What does this mean
A) She is intellectually impaired.
B) Her performance was as good as that of an average 8-year-old.
C) Her IQ is 80.
D) Her score is 8 standard deviation units above the average score.
Q2) What is NOT one of the primary mental abilities suggested by Thurstone
A) word fluency
B) sensory discrimination
C) spatial ability
D) inductive reasoning
Q3) Based on research,and contrary to common misconceptions about the gifted,what do higher rates of IQ tend to be associated with
A) higher rates of interpersonal and emotional problems
B) higher rates of schizophrenia
C) higher rates of psychopathy
D) higher rates of drug abuse
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 type of twins show the strongest correlations between their IQ scores
A) identical twins reared together
B) fraternal twins reared apart
C) identical twins reared apart
D) fraternal twins reared together
Q2) Many researchers have noted that many of the larger minority groups in the United States (such as black,Native American,and Hispanic populations)are overrepresented in the lower class.As a consequence,how do those researchers recommend that we think about ethnic differences in IQ
A) as an interaction of governmental policies and regulations
B) as an interaction of social class and genetic differences
C) as the result of social class differences in experience
D) as the result of genetic differences between ethnic groups
Q3) In what percentage of cases can diagnosticians currently determine an organic cause for intellectual disability
A) fewer than 15 percent
B) fewer than 25 percent
C) approximately 50 percent
D) approximately 75 percent
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Chapter 9: C: Intelligence Psychological Testing
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Q1) What would you expect of Scott if Jordan is wrong and IQ tests indeed have high validity
A) He will exhibit rational thinking and effective decision-making.
B) He will get good grades and exhibit academic excellence.
C) He will get the same IQ score regardless of how many times he takes the test.
D) He will exhibit high practical, social, and verbal intelligence.
Q2) Considering what you know about Adrian and Kevin,if both were told by their doctors that they should begin a low-calorie diet at the beginning of the next week,it is likely that
A) Adrian would binge eat before next Monday
B) Kevin would binge eat before next Monday
C) neither would binge eat before next Monday
D) both would binge before next Monday
Q3) The store decides to begin paying employees based on commission (i.e.,their salary is based on their sales totals).This will likely ___________ Siobhan's motivation.
A) not affect
B) increase
C) decrease
D) only slightly increase
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Chapter 10: A: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Which emotion is NOT easily identified from facial cues in photographs,according to research by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen
A) anger
B) happiness
C) sympathy
D) fear
Q2) What has research shown is NOT very important in determining one's happiness
A) work
B) personality
C) money
D) love and marriage
Q3) Patrick ate a large breakfast.When he arrived for his 8:00 a.m. class, the student next to him offered Patrick a large raisin muffin. Even though Patrick was still quite full from breakfast, he ate the muffin that he was offered. Which theory of motivation best explains Patrick's behaviour in this instance?
A) instinctive
B) drive
C) incentive
D) self-awareness
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Q1) PsychDate is a new online dating website that allows psychology majors to find and date other psychology majors.On this website,you have the opportunity to view a variety of different profiles and pictures of people you may wish to date.You may also send and receive messages with other users.Based on parental investment theory,what should you predict about the behaviour of female users of the website
A) They will be choosier than males about who they are willing to respond to.
B) They will send more flirtatious messages than males do.
C) They will prefer choosing multiple dates rather than trying to find one ideal date.
D) They will be more focused on the appearance of potential dates than on other characteristics.
Q2) Which component of emotion includes the subjective conscious experience of an emotion
A) cognitive component
B) behavioural component
C) perceptual component
D) physiological component
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Chapter 11: A: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) In the middle childhood years,what tends to be associated with the children who have the best social skills and the richest friendship networks
A) They have no same-sex siblings.
B) They had secure attachments during infancy.
C) They had several siblings close to their own age.
D) They started full-time daycare before the age of two.
Q2) How do psychologists define development
A) the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from birth to adulthood
B) the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from conception to death
C) changes across the life span that result due to learning and socialization
D) maturity associated with adulthood
Q3) You ask a 3-year-old why the sky is blue; she says it is because blue is her favourite colour.What would Piaget call this type of thinking
A) egocentric
B) irreversible
C) animistic
D) operational
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Chapter 11: B: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) What is considered to be one weakness of Kohlberg's stage theory
A) Research has shown that people move through the stages of moral reasoning in the order Kohlberg proposed.
B) It is usual for people to display more than one level of moral reasoning at a particular point in development and this mixing of stages is conceptually problematic.
C) The theory is not reflective enough of individualistic ideology.
D) The theory is applicable across cultures and genders.
Q2) According to Jean Piaget's theory,when do children first show or develop object permanence
A) formal operational stage
B) sensorimotor stage
C) preoperational stage
D) concrete operational stage
Q3) Which type of study is most sensitive to developmental changes
A) cross-sectional
B) naturalistic observation
C) case study
D) longitudinal
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Chapter 11: C: Human Development Across the Lifespan
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Q1) Sunil's younger sister often misses curfew and has been coming home at all hours of the night.Arjun is worried about her.He wants to ground her so she cannot go out after school at all,but also wants to allow her the flexibility of making her own choices.Arjun wants his child-rearing style to be ___________ and not too ____________.
A) authoritarian; authoritative
B) authoritarian; permissive
C) authoritative; authoritarian
D) permissive; authoritarian
Q2) Even though they have been dating for three years,why might Samira not be upset if Tyler tells Anabelle he loves her
A) She believes Tyler has companionate love for Anabelle.
B) Samira was avoidantly attached to her parents growing up.
C) She believes Tyler has fatuous love for Anabelle.
D) Samira was securely attached to her parents growing up.
Q3) How would Adam score on the five-factor model of personality
A) High on agreeableness and low on extraversion
B) Low on agreeableness and low on extraversion
C) High on neuroticism and low on extraversion
D) Low on neuroticism and high on extraversion
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Chapter 12: A: Personality: Theory, Research, and Assessment
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Q1) What leads a person to overcompensate,according to Alfred Adler
A) fixation at one of the psychosexual stages
B) a superiority complex
C) failure in the use of defence mechanisms
D) an inferiority complex
Q2) Jordan has taken a job that is extremely dangerous,but which pays him enough so that he is sure he will have enough to eat,and he will be able to sleep in a warm place each night.What is Jordan's primary motivation according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs
A) cognitive needs
B) need for self-actualization
C) safety and security needs
D) physiological needs
Q3) 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
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Q1) What term did Abraham Maslow use for the need to fulfill one's potential A) achievement
B) self-determinism
C) affiliation
D) self-actualization
Q2) Jamaal just sat down to work on his term paper when his friends called and invited him to a party.If Jamaal decides he will go to the party only after he finishes outlining the term paper,which personality component does his decision reflect A) his id
B) his preconscious
C) his superego
D) his ego
Q3) According to Abraham Maslow,after people satisfy their needs for knowledge and achievement,what will they next become concerned with A) self-actualization needs
B) aesthetic needs
C) esteem needs
D) belongingness and love needs
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Chapter 13: A: Social Behaviour
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Q1) According to the elaboration likelihood model,which type of messages are more likely to produce lasting attitude change
A) messages that choose the generic path
B) messages that activate the parasympathetic route
C) messages that take the peripheral route
D) messages that take the central route
Q2) Which social psychology topic focuses on how we form impressions of other people
A) person perception
B) fundamental attribution
C) conformity
D) prejudice
Q3) Marsha believes that all news reporters are cynical,doubting individuals who would do anything for an exclusive story.In this case,what do Marsha's beliefs reflect
A) the fundamental attribution error
B) a confirmation bias
C) a stereotype
D) the matching hypothesis
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Q1) Which type of love is characterized by a couple's complete absorption in one another and includes strong emotions and tender sexual feelings
A) committed love
B) intimate love
C) companionate love
D) passionate love
Q2) A group of six university students observe a fellow student stumble and fall down a flight of stairs.No one goes to check if the student needs help.Which statement best illustrates this diffusion of responsibility
A) "I didn't want to embarrass the student who fell by making a big deal about it."
B) "I was pretty far away when it happened."
C) "I don't know first aid."
D) "I thought someone else would help."
Q3) Which of the following best exemplifies interpersonal attraction
A) Birds of a feather flock together.
B) Opposites attract.
C) He who hesitates is lost.
D) To know me is to love me.
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Chapter 14: A: Stress, Coping, and Health
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Q1) Pete is the lead prosecution attorney in a murder case.So far the case has not been going well for him,and the defence attorneys have presented effective rebuttals for most of the points he has raised.The judge adjourned the case for the weekend,and Pete will have to present his closing arguments first thing Monday morning.While he is trying to write his closing statement,he daydreams about a surprise eyewitness to the crime suddenly stepping forward and clinching the case for him.Which processes are illustrated by this example
A) He is experiencing conflict, and he is using undoing to deal with the anxiety the conflict has generated.
B) He is experiencing frustration, and he is using fantasy to deal with the anxiety the frustration has generated.
C) He is experiencing frustration, and he is using intellectualization to deal with the anxiety the frustration has generated.
D) He is experiencing conflict, and he is using overcompensation to deal with the anxiety the conflict has generated.
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Q1) Under which condition would knowledge of base rates assist your decision-making
A) You need to decide between two forms of treatment for a disorder.
B) You need to determine whether there is a causal relationship between a risk factor and a disease.
C) You need to determine whether a statistically significant risk is meaningful.
D) You need to determine whether your diagnosis is accurate.
Q2) Which type of conflict tends to be least stressful
A) approach-approach conflict
B) attractive-attractive conflict
C) avoidance-avoidance conflict
D) approach-avoidance conflict
Q3) Among people with Type A personalities,what is associated with their tendency toward anger and hostility
A) burnout
B) PTSD
C) heart disease
D) migraine headaches
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Chapter 14: C: Stress, Coping Health
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Q1) Amelie has an upcoming exam.According to Albert Ellis,if she tells herself ___________,then she will be ______ stressed.
A) "I might fail this exam, and that is okay"; more
B) "This exam might be tough, but exams are not stressful"; more
C) "I refuse to fail this exam. I will do well"; less
D) "This exam might be tough, but I studied hard"; less
Q2) If Darius tells himself "You were chosen for this position for a reason,you are a good player who will get the job done." What is this an example of
A) Darius is reaffirming his self-efficacy.
B) Darius is using relaxation to reduce arousal.
C) Darius is shifting his cognitive appraisal.
D) Darius is challenging the consequences of his belief system.
Q3) When Marino receives a diagnosis,his doctor provides him with a prescription.By doing this,his doctor is trying to address the ___________.
A) medical etiology
B) biopsychosocial etiology
C) increased risk of comorbidity
D) increased risk of diathesis
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Chapter 15: A: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which term best describes Angela's intrusive thoughts
A) hallucination
B) delusion
C) obsession
D) phobia
Q2) Enos and Amir are both currently 30 years old.Enos's biological mother has schizophrenia,but neither of his adoptive parents have the disorder.In contrast,neither of Amir's biological parents have schizophrenia; however,his adoptive mother has schizophrenia.What should you predict based on research that has investigated the role of genetic vulnerability in schizophrenic disorders
A) Enos and Amir are both at high risk for developing schizophrenia.
B) Neither Enos nor Amir is likely to develop schizophrenia.
C) Amir is unlikely to develop schizophrenia, but Enos has an increased risk of developing schizophrenia.
D) Enos is unlikely to develop schizophrenia, but Amir has an increased risk of developing schizophrenia.
Q3) How are concussions and depression related
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Q1) Heather is constantly cleaning her house and is often worried about dirt and germs.Karen can't throw things away,and as a result her house is dangerously full of junk.Which category of disorders includes both types of symptoms
A) psychotic disorders
B) mood disorders
C) anxiety disorders
D) obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
Q2) Prior to the 18th century,which of the following was NOT one of the popular explanations for abnormal behaviour
A) demon possession
B) physical illness
C) witchcraft
D) divine punishment through affliction
Q3) Which trait is NOT associated with the development of anorexia nervosa
A) perfectionism
B) rigidity
C) obsessiveness
D) high self-esteem
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Q1) Which statement best describes electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
A) It is used primarily for the treatment of schizophrenia.
B) It is a useful method of inducing compliance.
C) It is one of the key components in aversion therapy.
D) It produces a cortical seizure.
Q2) A major difference between insight therapies and behaviour therapies is in their position about whether it's necessary or useful to seek out the origin of psychological difficulties.A compromise position might be that this kind of information is important for patients with some disorders,but not for patients with other disorders.Explain why this kind of information might be more helpful for some kinds of patients than for others.
Q3) Josie has been in therapy for five years.Her therapist analyzes the symbolism in her dreams and other comments,and helps Josie understand the unconscious conflicts that underlie the dreams.In this case,which approach does Josie's therapist use
A) psychoanalysis
B) client-centred approach
C) biofeedback therapy
D) rational-emotive therapy
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A) aversion therapy and cognitive therapy
B) social skills training and systematic desensitization
C) aversion therapy and systematic desensitization
D) social skills training and cognitive therapy
Q2) What accounts for the tendency for people who score extremely high or low on some trait to score closer to average when they are measured a second time
A) the law of averages
B) reaction formation
C) regression toward the mean
D) the placebo effect
Q3) What therapeutic drugs are used to control bipolar disorder
A) mood stabilizers
B) antianxiety drugs
C) antipsychotics
D) antidepressants
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