General Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
General Psychology offers a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Through exploring key concepts, theories, and research findings, students gain an understanding of topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, personality, development, and psychological disorders. The course also examines various approaches within psychology, including biological, cognitive, behavioral, and sociocultural perspectives, encouraging students to apply psychological principles to everyday life and to appreciate the diversity of human experience.
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Psychology An Introduction 10th Edition by Benjamin Lahey
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) A psychologist is teaching stress-management skills to a group of corporate executives.Which subspecialty is the psychologist working in?
A) educational psychology
B) school psychology
C) social psychology
D) health psychology
Answer: D
Q2) Ivan Pavlov studied ____________ before he identified the process of conditioning.
A) private mental processes
B) intelligence
C) memory
D) digestion
Answer: D
Q3) The ultimate goal of scientific observation is to control behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Private thoughts,feelings,emotions and motives are referred to as ____________.
Answer: mental processes
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Chapter 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Q1) Experimental control is important because it enables the researcher to ensure that:
A) participants are randomly assigned to groups.
B) differences in the dependent variable are explained by differences in the independent variable.
C) levels of the independent variable are consistent.
D) he or she does not know which participants are in which condition.
Answer: B
Q2) If Variable X is increasing at about the same rate as Variable Y is decreasing,what can you conclude?
A) Variable X is causing Variable Y.
B) Variable X is negatively correlated with Variable Y.
C) Variable Y is causing Variable X.
D) Variable X is positively correlated with Variable Y.
Answer: B
Q3) Animals are considered to be appropriate subjects of research when it would be considered unethical to perform the same research with ____________.
Answer: humans
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations in Behavior
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Q1) Prozac,an antidepressant,increases the effectiveness of neurotransmitter systems by:
A) reducing the reabsorption of the neurotransmitter which positively affects mood.
B) mimicking the natural neurotransmitter and stimulating receptor sites on the dendrite.
C) blocking receptor sites and inhibiting neural transmission.
D) blocking receptor sites and increasing the likelihood of neural transmission.
Answer: A
Q2) Which area of the brain is particularly involved in spatial memory and has been shown to contain more neuron cell bodies in the brains of London taxi drivers?
A) reticular formation
B) hypothalamus
C) hippocampus
D) cerebral cortex
Answer: C
Q3) The ____________ allows your eyes to track moving targets. Answer: midbrain
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Chapter 4: The Interplay of Nature and Nurture
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Q1) How does evolutionary theory explain higher levels of dominance and aggression in men?
A) Stronger,more dominant men had better access to fertile women.
B) Men with better visual-spatial abilities were more attractive to women.
C) Differences in women's emotional skills allowed them to avoid aggression.
D) Access to many sexual partners caused testosterone levels to rise.
Q2) List and describe three cognitive differences between men and women.
Q3) Compared to women,the greater relative size of the right hemisphere in men is consistent with better:
A) language skills.
B) physical coordination.
C) perceptual speed.
D) spatial abilities.
Q4) Human beings are not influenced by our social environment;they are only influenced by genetics.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to the ____________ theory of gender differences,genetic differences between men and women resulted from different pressures in the hunter-gatherer era.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) There are four membranes involved in audition: the eardrum,the oval window,the round window,and the basilar membrane.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Taste buds are bunched together into bumps called:
A) olfactory receptor cells.
B) taste cells.
C) papillae.
D) larvae.
Q3) How is the intensity of a sound transduced into neural codes?
A) As intensity increases,the slower hair cells fire.
B) As intensity increases,the closer hair cells fire near the oval window.
C) As intensity increases,the faster hair cells fire.
D) As intensity increases,the number of hair cells that fire increases.
Q4) The image of an apple is in your left visual field.This image will fall __________________ of the retina.
A) in the center
B) on the right side
C) on the left side
D) in front
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Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
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Q1) In a class preparing women for natural childbirth,mothers are instructed to sit in a comfortable position,to relax,to breathe slowly,and to focus their attention on their breathing.These techniques have much in common with:
A) hypnosis.
B) meditation.
C) REM sleep.
D) light sleep.
Q2) When people are deprived of darkness,the tendency is for their circadian rhythms to be on a ______-hour cycle.
Q3) Although hallucinogens are generally not physiologically addictive,people can become psychologically dependent on them.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Out-of-body experiences are referred to as ____________.
Q5) Xanax and Valium are ____________,a subcategory of depressants.
Q6) List and describe the five characteristics associated with the hypnotic state.
Q7) Describe the effects of stimulants,and provide examples of two stimulants that are illegal and two that are legal.
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Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Learning
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Q1) In classical conditioning,the strength of the association between the two stimuli depends on all of the following EXCEPT:
A) the consistency of the pairing of the stimuli.
B) the timing of the pairing of the stimuli.
C) the behavior of the individual being conditioned.
D) the frequency of the pairing of the two stimuli.
Q2) Ethan is severely afraid of dogs.Because a big black dog lives down the street,he walks three blocks out of his way to go to and from school each day.Ethan's behavior is being reinforced through:
A) punishment.
B) escape conditioning.
C) avoidance conditioning.
D) positive reinforcement.
Q3) The tendency for similar stimuli to elicit the same response is referred to as:
A) stimulus generalization.
B) response generalization.
C) stimulus discrimination.
D) response discrimination.
Q4) In Pavlov's classic experiments,the laboratory attendant became a ____________.
Q5) Secondary reinforcers are ____________ through classical conditioning.
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Which of the following is the best example of procedural memory?
A) fondly recalling sitting on your grandmother's lap
B) remembering when the neighbor's house was on fire
C) remembering how to use a fork and a knife
D) recalling the night your family went to the basement because of a tornado
Q2) When using short-term memory,which of the following brain areas is active?
A) hippocampus
B) auditory cortex
C) frontal lobes
D) hypothalamus
Q3) Of the following,which level of arousal is most likely to enhance memory?
A) severely negative
B) strongly positive
C) mildly negative
D) neutral
Q4) What happens when we try to remember something in long-term memory?
A) We examine every item in long-term memory.
B) It usually just "comes to us."
C) We use cues.
D) This speeds up our memory loss.
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Chapter 9: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) In a normal distribution curve,the largest percentage of individuals will have IQ scores of:
A) 115.
B) 110.
C) 100.
D) 90.
Q2) Twin studies of intelligence have found that the IQ scores of:
A) monozygotic and dyzogotic twins are similar.
B) monozygotic twins are more similar than the IQ scores of dyzogotic twins.
C) dyzogotic twins are more similar than the IQ scores of monozygotic twins.
D) monozygotic and dyzogotic twins are largely unrelated.
Q3) In Terman's longitudinal study of 1,500 gifted children,Terman observed that,compared with average individuals,gifted individuals:
A) had high-paying jobs but were lonely and unhappy. B) were no more successful but were happier.
C) were no different than average individuals. D) were more successful and healthier.
Q4) An intelligence score that is based on comparisons with other individuals' scores is called a ____________.
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Chapter 10: Developmental Psychology
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Q1) The automatic response in which an infant turns its head toward stimulation of the cheek is called the ____________.
Q2) As children develop,they progress from solitary play to ____________ play,in which children play near one another in similar activities.
Q3) Of the following,which is a primary sex characteristic?
A) breast development
B) ovulation
C) the growth of pubic hair
D) the redistribution of fat
Q4) Stage theorists believe that the changes from one stage to the next are ____________.
Q5) Climacteric is a term used to describe:
A) erectile dysfunction.
B) the gradual loss of sexual desire.
C) female menopause and male reproductive decline.
D) female menopause.
Q6) In Kohlberg's ____________ level of moral development,children make moral decisions based on what persons in authority will think of them.
Q7) List and briefly describe Kubler-Ross's stages of grief.
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) According to Maslow,when self-esteem needs are met,people are motivated to pursue:
A) biological needs.
B) love and belongingness needs.
C) safety needs.
D) self-actualization needs.
Q2) The expanded frustration-aggression theory would predict higher than average rates of aggression in all of the following conditions EXCEPT:
A) in a crowded subway.
B) after coming off of a roller coaster ride.
C) when experiencing a very bad headache.
D) on a very hot day.
Q3) Explain the relevance of the facial feedback hypothesis to the James-Lange theory.
Q4) In contrast to the male orgasmic response,females:
A) experience a refractory period.
B) do not experience as intense an orgasm.
C) can experience orgasm in any phase of the response cycle.
D) display a variety of orgasmic response patterns.
Q5) ____________can begin with a miscommunication between dating persons.
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Chapter 12: Personality Theories and Assessment
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Q1) Carl Jung is credited with the idea of the collective unconscious.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the personality theory of Alfred Adler and discuss how his theory differs from classic Freudian theory.
Q3) According to Freud,the resolution of the Oedipal complex involves:
A) sublimation of the mother.
B) identification with the father.
C) the development of castration anxiety.
D) the channeling of sexual energies into appropriate sexual behavior.
Q4) In the ____________ stage of psychosexual development,the primary accomplishment is the delay of gratification.
Q5) An assumption shared by both Allport's trait theory and the five-factor trait theory is that:
A) people can be adequately described by over 50 core traits.
B) traits are relatively stable across the life span.
C) most traits are genetically determined.
D) traits are not inherited but are learned through experience.
Q6) Relate id,ego,and superego development to Freud's psychosexual stages.
Q7) In Freudian theory,the executive of personality is the ____________.
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Chapter 13: Stress and Health
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Q1) In the resistance stage of the ____________,the body's resources are fully mobilized.
Q2) With approach-avoidance conflict,as the individual gets closer in time to the stressful event,the motive to approach the event increases ____________,and the motive to avoid the event increases ____________.
A) slowly;slowly
B) slowly;quickly
C) quickly;slowly
D) quickly;quickly
Q3) Which specialty area in psychology is specifically concerned with reducing the impact of stress on the well-being of the body?
A) clinical psychology
B) physiological psychology
C) health psychology
D) developmental psychology
Q4) The current theory of the influences on health is referred to as the ____________ model of health.
Q5) When events or circumstances strain an individual's coping abilities,____________ is present.
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Chapter 14: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Transsexualism refers to:
A) gender role.
B) gender identity.
C) sexual orientation.
D) sexual behavior.
Q2) What is generally forgotten in dissociative fugue?
A) everything after a stressful event
B) everything before a stressful event
C) everything before a stressful event and the stressful event
D) the stressful event
Q3) Individuals with ____________ personality disorder are quite sociable and can be exceptionally charming and persuasive,but frequently violate social rules and laws without any feelings of guilt.
Q4) Many people having near death experiences report "steeping out of their body and looking at it from the outside." This experience can best be classified as:
A) a dissociative fugue state.
B) depersonalization.
C) schizotypal behavior.
D) dissociative identity disorder.
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) When used today,electroconvulsive therapy is used to treat ____________.
Q2) A great deal of research has supported the effectiveness of which of the following therapies for the treatment of anxiety and depression?
A) psychoanalysis
B) social skills training
C) cognitive restructuring
D) electroconvulsive therapy
Q3) Your therapist is listening to you make the following statement,"I am so irritated with my sister.She constantly feels the need to interfere in my life and always tells me that I'm not capable." Your therapist replies,"It sounds like your sister makes you feel angry?" You reply,"Not angry,exactly ...she makes me feel worthless ...like an insignificant bug." Your therapist responds,"So you feel small and insignificant,like maybe you're almost not worth considering ..." This brief exchange is MOST similar to:
A) psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
B) cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.
C) client-centered psychotherapy.
D) Gestalt psychotherapy.
Q4) Gestalt therapy was developed by ____________.
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology
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Q1) Attitudes can be created through:
A) classically conditioned experiences.
B) modeling.
C) reinforcement.
D) all of these.
Q2) In Milgram's shock experiments,which factor caused the GREATEST drop in a participant's willingness to administer shocks?
A) when the experimenter was perceived as an expert
B) when two confederates refused to administer the shocks in the presence of the research participant
C) when the instructions were given by phone instead of in person
D) when the prestige of the experimenter was reduced
Q3) In Asch's line judgment study,what percentage of participants conformed to the group at least part of the time?
A) 14%
B) 24%
C) 54%
D) 74%
Q4) Describe three theories as to how stereotypes and prejudice develop.
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Chapter 17: Psychology Applied to Business and Other Professions
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Q1) How many businesses in the United States have instituted some type of program to increase employee fitness?
A) about 10,000
B) about 18,000
C) about 35,000
D) about 50,000
Q2) According to the text,measures used in job selection must be valid to ensure that:
A) hiring practices are fair.
B) gender discrimination does not occur.
C) employees will be productive in their jobs.
D) employees and employers know where the other stands.
Q3) Which research question would MOST interest a human factors engineer?
A) How can we minimize the number of mistakes cashiers make when checking out merchandise?
B) What is the most valid criterion for hiring police officers?
C) Under what conditions would an increase in job satisfaction result in poorer job performance?
D) What characteristic makes a juror more likely to render a verdict of guilt?
Q4) Benjamin Bloom was known for creating his educational concept of
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