General Psychology
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Course Introduction
General Psychology provides a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course explores foundational topics such as the biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, emotion, motivation, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Emphasis is placed on understanding the research methods used in psychology, critical analysis of psychological concepts, and the application of psychological principles to everyday life. Students will gain insight into both historical and contemporary perspectives, preparing them for further study in psychology and related fields.
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Psychology 2nd Canadian Edition by
Saundra K. Ciccarelli
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) If you are interested in how patterns,beliefs,and customs influence behaviour,you are interested in the __________ perspective.
A)behavioural
B)sociocultural
C)psychodynamic
D)cognitive
Answer: B
Q2) In the 1800s,Franz Gall popularized a pseudoscience called ________ that claimed to understand a person's personality through the study of the bumps on their skull.
A)phrenology
B)palmistry
C)graphology
D)astrology
Answer: A
Q3) Random assignment is when each participant is assigned alphabetically to each condition.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective
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Q1) Which equipment is used to monitor brain waves?
A)CT scans
B)functional magnetic resonance imaging
C)PET scan
D)electroencephalograph
Answer: D
Q2) Former WWE Champion Chris Benoit Killed himself and his family in his Edmonton home in what officials declared a ______,which resulted from elevated levels of testosterone in his body.
A)disinhibition episode
B)"roid rage"
C)drug-induced psychotic episode
D)amygdala hijacking
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following is associated with sleep,mood,and appetite?
A)acetylcholine
B)GABA
C)serotonin
D)endorphin
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following phenomena is a function of the distribution of the rods and cones in the retina?
A)The moon looks much larger near the horizon than it looks when it is higher in the sky.
B)The light from distant stars moving rapidly away from us is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum.
C)Stars can be seen only with difficulty during the daytime.
D)A dim star viewed at night may disappear when you look directly at it but reappear when you look to one side of it.
Answer: D
Q2) Receptor cells in the retina responsible for night vision are:
A)bipolar cells.
B)ganglion cells.
C)rods.
D)cones.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs
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Q1) REM sleep is:
A)associated with short dreams about daily occurrences.
B)associated with recovery from a physically demanding day.
C)restorative sleep following a period of sleep deprivation.
D)sleep periods in which a person's eyes move rapidly.
Q2) Which of the following elements is NOT present during hypnotic induction?
A)The person is told to hum quietly while being hypnotized.
B)The person is told to relax and feel tired.
C)The person is told to let go and allow suggestions.
D)The person is told to focus on what is being said.
Q3) You are listening to a person who keeps telling you to relax,attempting to create a situation in which you are likely to follow suggestions.What treatment are you undergoing?
A)psychotherapy
B)meditation
C)autosuggestion
D)hypnosis
Q4) Mescaline in made from cactus buttons.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) The "aha!" experience is known as:
A)latent learning.
B)insight learning.
C)spontaneous learning.
D)problem-solving learning.
Q2) After graduating from college,you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist.The workers put together iPods.They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of iPods they put together in a day.You decide that you will do the latter (pay by the number of iPods put together).According to Skinner,you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first time Giorgio sees a duck,his mother tells him,"That's a duck.Can you say duck?" He repeats the word gleefully.The next day he is watching a cartoon and sees a chicken on the television.He points at the chicken and says,"Duck!" This is an example of:
A)generalization.
B)extinction.
C)spontaneous recovery.
D)discrimination.
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) In the game show Jeopardy! contestants are tested on general information.The type of memory used to answer Jeopardy! questions is:
A)procedural.
B)semantic.
C)episodic.
D)working.
Q2) Edna took sociology in the fall semester and is now taking psychology.Some of the concepts are similar,and Edna finds that she sometimes has trouble recalling some of the major sociology theorists.She keeps getting them confused with psychology theorists.Edna's problem is most likely due to:
A)encoding failure.
B)proactive interference.
C)retroactive interference.
D)none of the above
Q3) Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for implausible false events than for plausible ones.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
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Q1) If you were assessing fluency,originality,elaboration,abstractness of titles,and resistance to closure,you would be using the __________ component of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
A)Figural
B)Verbal
C)S Factor
D)Thinking Creatively with Pictures
Q2) What percentage of the population is described as gifted,according to IQ standards?
A)0.01 percent
B)1 percent
C)2 percent
D)10 percent
Q3) When adults who are speaking to infants change the pitch and rhythm in their speech,they are altering their:
A)syntax.
B)grammar.
C)morphemes.
D)intonation.
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Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) A gene that only influences the expression of a trait when paired with an identical gene is called:
A)recessive.
B)mutated.
C)recombinant.
D)dominant.
Q2) The cessation of menstruation and ovulation is called:
A)the climacteric.
B)perimenopause.
C)menopause.
D)andropause.
Q3) Which of the following terms is used to describe any substance,such as a drug,chemical,or virus that can bring about a birth defect?
A)teratogen
B)critical period
C)carcinogen
D)biohazard
Q4) Genes are made up of rodlike structures called chromosomes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Jell-O uses the slogan,"There's always room for Jell-O." To which theory of motivation is this slogan most relevant?
A)instinctive
B)incentive
C)drive reduction
D)optimum level
Q2) According to Abraham Maslow's hierarchy,self-actualization is the need that must be met first.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Drives serve to activate responses that are aimed at reducing the drive,thereby returning the body to a more normal state called:
A)stability.
B)equilibrium.
C)homeostasis.
D)physiological balance.
Q4) Physiologically based drives that are unlearned are called primary drives.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Stress and Health
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Q1) The stress resulting from the need to change and adapt to the dominant,or majority,culture is called:
A)acculturative stress.
B)acculturation.
C)integration.
D)assimilation.
Q2) The relatively new field of ______ studies the effects of psychological factors such as stress,emotions,thinking,and behaviour on the immune system.
A)social psychology
B)organic medicine
C)psychoneuroimmunology
D)interactive psychology
Q3) Which of the following is a fact about suicide?
A)Men attempt suicide more than women.
B)More people die from suicide than from homicide.
C)The most common method of committing suicide is with pills.
D)Suicide is a spontaneous act.
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Chapter 11: Theories of Personality
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Q1) When Anna looks at some modern artwork at the museum,she often thinks she sees human figures or faces and likes to make up stories about them.When she tells the stories to her friend,her friend says that the stories reflect Anna's unconscious thoughts.In psychological terms,what Anna does is most similar to:
A)classical conditioning.
B)a projective test.
C)behaviour sampling.
D)an objective test.
Q2) What is Freud's term for the unconscious efforts by the ego to deny or distort reality for the purpose of protecting itself when conflict becomes too intense?
A)false cognitions
B)coping techniques
C)disordered thinking
D)defence mechanisms
Q3) According to Carl Rogers,maladjustment occurs when:
A)a person has low self-esteem.
B)there is congruence between the real self and ideal self.
C)there is a discrepancy between the real self and ideal self.
D)the individual receives too much unconditional positive regard.
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) "Look,officer,I didn't see the stop sign back there because the sun was in my eyes." The police officer responds,"You were not paying attention." How would a social psychologist describe this situation?
A)Both individuals were making fundamental attribution errors.
B)Both individuals were making situational attributions.
C)The driver was making a dispositional attribution; the officer was making a situational attribution.
D)The driver was making a situational attribution; the officer was making a dispositional attribution.
Q2) ____________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses,organizes and alters information as it stores it away,and then retrieves the information from storage.
A)Working memory
B)Short-term memory
C)Episodic memory
D)Memory
Q3) Stereotypes overestimate the differences among people in other groups.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is not a correct match?
A)Axis V-Global Assessment of Functioning
B)Axis I-Personality Disorders
C)Axis III-General Medical Conditions
D)Axis IV-Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
Q2) Today,trepanning is done to:
A)relieve pressure in the lower back.
B)release demons from the possessed victim.
C)relieve pressure from fluids on the brain.
D)facilitate exorcisms.
Q3) Darcy is sitting at her desk in her office one day when,without warning,her heart begins racing rapidly,she has a sensation of being "out of her body," and she experiences dulled vision and hearing,rapid breathing,and sweating.She thinks she is having a heart attack.Nothing she is doing seems to have caused such an episode.Her symptoms MOST resemble:
A)phobic disorder.
B)a panic attack.
C)post-traumatic stress.
D)affective disorder.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) Which of the following is a limitation of humanistic therapy?
A)Clients do not need to be verbal.
B)There is not enough empirical research to support its basic ideas.
C)It cannot be used in a variety of contexts.
D)The therapist runs the risk of having his or her words misinterpreted by the client.
Q2) Therapies directed at changing the disordered behaviour are referred to as:
A)action therapies.
B)insight therapies.
C)biomedical therapies.
D)relationship therapies.
Q3) When people are asked to answer how many windows they have in their home,they are most likely to use _______ to calculate the number of windows.
A)an estimate or approximate number
B)window size in descending order (largest to smallest)
C)bottom up processing,basement to attic,
D)mental images and a mental "walk through" of their home
Q4) The primary goal of the person-centred therapist is to facilitate transference.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Psychology and Human Development
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Q1) According to Freud,the ___________ of the dream refers to the client's memory of the things,people,and events in the dream.
A)manifest content
B)free association
C)latent content
D)resistance
Q2) Adoption studies focusing on the heritability of traits have:
A)disputed the findings of twin studies.
B)been attacked for ethical reasons.
C)confirmed what twin studies have shown.
D)shown that twin studies have methods that need to be re-examined.
Q3) Freud's ___________model divided the mind into three levels.
A)trait
B)structural
C)topographic
D)executive
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