General Psychology
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General Psychology provides an introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course explores foundational topics such as biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and social psychology. Students will examine major theories, research methods, and applications within the field, developing an understanding of how psychological principles relate to everyday life and human experience.
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Psychology Core Concepts 7th Edition by Philip
G. Zimbardo
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Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science
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Q1) Which correlation coefficient is most likely to describe the relationship between brushing one's teeth and the number of cavities oneĀ gets?
A) -.62
B) .83
C) -.08
D) .45
E) -1.78
Answer: A
Q2) ________ is a system used for reducing bias in research.
A) Statistics
B) The scientific method
C) Checks and balances
D) The double-blind method
E) Correlation
Answer: B
Q3) Explain why pseudo-psychology could be considered harmful.
Answer: A person who follows a type of pseudo-psychology may miss out on an important benefit or may suffer harm because the practice is ineffective
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Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature
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Q1) Which of the following is true about neurons?
A) There are only about 15 basic neuron types.
B) Human neurons die only when you are very old.
C) The total number of neurons remains relatively constant once we reach adulthood.
D) Each type of neuron has its own distinct parts.
E) Humans lose approximately 100 neurons per day.
Answer: C
Q2) This is a segment of a chromosome that encodes the directions for the inherited physical and mental characteristics of an organism:
A) RNA
B) phenotype
C) genotype
D) DNA
E) gene
Answer: E
Q3) Dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine are three examples of __________ .
Answer: neurotransmitters
Q4) ________ results from an extra 21 chromosome.
Answer: Down syndrome
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) A(n) ________ refers to the smallest change in physical energy between two stimuli that is recognized as different.
A) difference threshold
B) absolute threshold
C) signal detection
D) sensorimotor threshold
E) supraliminal threshold
Answer: A
Q2) Activation of receptors by external stimuli is called
A) perception
B) sensation
C) adaptation
D) habituation
E) transduction
Answer: B
Q3) ________ are chemical substances used to communicate within a given species. Answer: Pheromones
Q4) The process of __________ associates meaning with incoming sensory stimuli. Answer: perception
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Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nurture
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Q1) Bill hates to clean up after dinner. One night, he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up. When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen, his wife has cleaned everything up for him. Which of the following statements is most likely true?
A) Bill will start cleaning up the kitchen before he bathes the dog.
B) Bill's wife has positively reinforced him for bathing the dog.
C) Bill's wife has negatively reinforced him for bathing the dog.
D) Bill will never bathe the dog again.
E) Bill's wife will never bathe the dog again.
Q2) Reinforcement is to punishment as
A) decrease is to increase.
B) increase is to decrease.
C) positive is to negative.
D) giving is to receiving.
E) bad is to good
Q3) What is insight learning?
Q4) The situation in which a CS is presented alone (no UCS) is termed __________ .
Q5) Describe the basics of a classical conditioning experiment.
Q6) Under what conditions is punishment effective in the control of behavior?
Q7) How did Garcia convince coyotes to dislike lamb?
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Chapter 5: Memory
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Q1) By looking over the chapter outline, the summary, the Key Questions, and Core Concepts, you form the impression of the overall meaning of the material. The details are later associated with this overall impression. This is known as
A) distributed learning.
B) the whole method.
C) the method of loci.
D) overlearning.
E) repression.
Q2) To remember the five Great Lakes, you might remember the word HOMES, because each of the five letters in HOMES is the first letter of one of the Great Lakes. This strategy is known as
A) the method of loci.
B) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
C) a natural language mediator.
D) a recognition task.
E) maintenance rehearsal.
Q3) Based on the principle of __________, to reduce the likelihood of transience you should study material you will be tested on in several shorter sessions, rather than in one big "cram" session.
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Chapter 6: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Scarr and Weinberg found that ________ by the time of late adolescence. A) there was no difference between black and white adoptees' IQ scores
B) White adoptees' IQ scores were higher than Black children's
C) Black adoptees' IQ scores were higher than White children's
D) White adoptees' IQ scores improved while Black adoptees' scores plummeted
E) Black and White adoptees' IQ scores decreased
Q2) The process involved in forming a new mental representation by manipulating available information is known as
A) thinking.
B) cognition.
C) intelligence.
D) schema formation.
E) conceptualizing.
Q3) When you give someone verbal directions on how to find a classroom in a building, you are using a A) prototype.
B) mental set.
C) cognitive map.
D) hierarchy.
E) hindsight bias.
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Chapter 7: Development Over the Lifespan
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Q1) Piaget's term for the knowledge that an object exists even when it is out of sight is
A) conservation
B) object permanence
C) centration
D) egocentrism
Q2) Erikson saw the major challenge of young adulthood as that of
A) intimacy versus isolation
B) generativity versus stagnation
C) identity versus role confusion
D) integrity versus despair
E) industry versus inferiority
Q3) Because Michelle has a concept of what happens in a restaurant, Piaget would say that Michelle has
A) imprinted on eating.
B) learned to assimilate food.
C) learned restaurant operations.
D) failed to develop overregularization.
E) a restaurant schema.
Q4) What changes can a person expect as they age beyond their 60s?
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Chapter 8: States of Consciousness
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Q1) A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's
A) deep content.
B) latent content.
C) manifest content.
D) subliminal content.
E) supraliminal content.
Q2) Patients who take opiates under medical supervision for pain relief
A) tend not to become highly addicted.
B) are susceptible to addiction.
C) have particularly severe withdrawal symptoms.
D) experience pleasurable sensations during treatment.
E) often die from overdosing.
Q3) How do opiates suppress pain?
Q4) Contrast the sleep disorders of insomnia, sleep apnea, and narcolepsy with regard to key symptoms, known causes, and treatments for each.
Q5) _________ is a sleep disorder featuring sudden daytime sleep attacks.
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Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) _______ can vary from culture to culture and are socially acceptable ways of showing emotion in public settings.
A) Phonemes
B) Facial grids
C) Display rules
D) Expressional norms
E) Emotional morphemes
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of a culture where children are encouraged to express their emotions?
A) China
B) United States
C) Japan
D) Sri Lanka
E) North Korea
Q3) Which statement is most consistent with the James-Lange theory of emotion?
A) "I run because I'm afraid."
B) "I'm happy because I laugh."
C) "I'm crying because I'm sad."
D) "I'm anxious because I perspire."
E) "I'm hitting because I'm angry."
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Chapter 10: Personality: Theories of the Whole Person
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Q1) The emphasis of modern personality theories is on
A) individuals with psychological problems.
B) commonalities between the unconscious and conscious self.
C) case studies.
D) individualistic societies.
E) diversity and group processes.
Q2) The observation that a smaller number of infants are shy in contrast to the 40% of shy college students suggests that
A) shyness is an inherited temperament.
B) babies are adept at hiding their shyness.
C) shyness is mostly consistent over the lifetime of a person.
D) adult shyness may reflect inherited and learned influences.
E) the experience of college elicits shyness.
Q3) Freud is to sexuality as Jung is to
A) the ego.
B) the id.
C) spirituality.
D) the unconscious.
E) attachment.
Q4) Describe the rationale for a projective test.
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Chapter 11: Social Psychology
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Q1) Your friend took a security guard position to help defray the costs of tuition. When you stopped by to visit him on the job you found he was acting differently. He was more serious and professional. Your friend was using ________ to guide his actions as a guard, which were likely learned from film or literature depictions of security guards.
A) their instincts
B) personal history
C) media-produced stereotypes
D) scripts
E) inventories
Q2) Obedience to an authority figure in a Milgram study was most likely when A) they are the only ones obeying.
B) the victim is nearby.
C) the authority figure has low status.
D) they have psychological problems.
E) the authority figure is nearby to the Teacher.
Q3) Describe Sternberg's triangular theory of love.
Q4) This is the perceived motion of a stationary dot of light in a totally dark room that was used to study the formation of group norms by Sherif:
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Schizophrenia and related disorders occur on a spectrum that ranges from mild to sever. All involve abnormalities on one or more of the five dimensions. What are the five dimensions?
Q2) Ted runs from the biology laboratory straight to his therapist's office. He is sweating and fear is etched on his face. He asks the therapist to apologize to his teacher and says he hopes she will understand that his arachnophobia made it difficult for him to
A) speak in class.
B) dissect a cat.
C) look at a spider .
D) take a blood sample.
E) sit in a dark room.
Q3) False sensory perceptions that often take the form of hearing voices are called A) delusions.
B) hallucinations.
C) obsessions.
D) compulsions.
E) avolitions.
Q4) Defend the position that schizophrenia has a biological basis.
Q5) Describe the five indicators of abnormality.
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Chapter 13: Therapies for Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Willamina is interested in helping her client get a clearer understanding of his motives and actions. She is most likely to be a/an
A) behavior therapist.
B) insight therapist.
C) biomedical therapist.
D) relationship therapist.
E) family therapist.
Q2) Bob has been under a physician's care for bipolar disorder. Bob's doctor is most likely to prescribe which of the following to treat Bob's disorder?
A) Ritalin
B) tricyclics
C) lithium
D) Prozac
E) Xanax
Q3) What drugs are commonly prescribed to treat bipolar disorder?
Q4) Name the three tasks of the therapeutic process.
Q5) What is the common element of all therapies?
Q6) What strategy is used today to minimize the side-effects of electroconvulsive therapy?
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Chapter 14: From Stress to Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Mary has been in an abusive relationship for the last three years. She has a child with the man who abuses her. At first she fought back, but she has now just taken the numerous beatings that have been occurring more frequently. Mary's behavior is an example of
A) Type A personality.
B) Type B personality.
C) Type D personality.
D) learned helplessness.
E) learned abusiveness.
Q2) Prolonged stress has been shown to ________ cancer. A) decrease vulnerability to B) be unrelated to one's vulnerability to C) increase vulnerability to D) cause E) increase the metastasis of
Q3) Explain how chronic stress can produce disease.
Q4) Discuss in detail the Type A personality type and the effect of stress on this type of personality. Include any research that has been done to back up your answer.
Q5) Name the three characteristics of hardiness.
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