General Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
General Psychology offers a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Through the exploration of key concepts such as perception, learning, memory, development, emotion, personality, and psychological disorders, students gain insight into how individuals think, feel, and act. The course covers foundational theories, research methods, and real-world applications, providing students with an understanding of both classic and contemporary topics in psychology. By engaging with case studies, experiments, and critical discussions, learners develop skills to analyze psychological phenomena and apply psychological principles to everyday life.
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PSYCH 3rd Edition by Spencer A. Rathus
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) The purpose of the use of a placebo is to control for the __________ of research participants.
A)suspicions
B)expectations/beliefs
C)fears
D)cooperation
Answer: B
Q2) The __________ method uses interviews and questionnaires to collect information from large numbers of people.
A)case study
B)scientific
C)experimental
D)survey
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is likely to be reported as a positive correlation?
A)salary and years of education
B)age and incidence of illness
C)studying and GPA
D)all of these
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Biology and Psychology
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Q1) Jerry and his nephew exhibit the same musical talent, yet Jerry's brother (the child's father) does not demonstrate this skill. Why is this possible from a genetic standpoint?
A)Parents and children only share 50% overlap in genetic endowment.
B)Aunts and uncles and their nieces and nephews, related by blood have a 25% overlap in genetic endowment.
C)Both a and b.
D)None of these are applicable.
Answer: C
Q2) Behavior geneticists are attempting to sort out the relative importance of heredity and __________.
A)environmental influences
B)nature
C)nutrition
D)behavior
Answer: A
Q3) Fraternal twins are otherwise known as monozygotic twins.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) All of the following are psychological factors that can influence our reaction to pain <b>EXCEPT</b>
A)other senses such as vision.
B)emotional responses and how one handles stress.
C)the amount of perceived control over the pain.
D)an individual's pain tolerance.
Answer: D
Q2) The image of a cat from 20 feet away occupies about the same amount of space on your retina as an inch-long piece of candy in your hand. Yet you still perceive the cat as larger than the piece of candy because of ______________.
A)shape constancy
B)retinal disparity
C)size constancy
D)brightness constancy
Answer: C
Q3) Different animals can sense things that people can't.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) Neal Miller administered shocks to the pleasure centers of a rat's hypothalamus when the animal's heart rate changed. What is this an example of?
A)biofeedback training
B)pleasure training
C)classical reinforcement
D)negative reinforcement
Q2) According to response set theory, positive responses to each suggestion create a response set. As a result the hypnotized subject
A)is more likely to follow further suggestions.
B)is less likely to follow further suggestions.
C)will not remember what has happened.
D)is not capable of being hypnotized.
Q3) What group of stimulants was first used by soldiers in World War II?
A)opiates
B)barbiturates
C)amphetamines
D)crack
Q4) Tiffany exhibits attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Her doctor may prescribe _____________ to help her concentrate.
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) In operant conditioning, a stimulus that indicates that reinforcement is available is called a discriminative stimulus.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After the bell became an effective CS, Pavlov then paired it with a light. Eventually, the light was able to elicit the response of salivation. What is this an example of?
A)response hierarchy
B)higher-order conditioning
C)generalization
D)stimulus-response hierarchy
Q3) In Pavlov's original experiments, the bell was at first a(n) _______ stimulus.
A)novel
B)unconditioned
C)conditioned
D)neutral
Q4) There is nothing parents and teachers can do about the inevitable exposure of children to media violence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Memory: Remembrance of Things Past--And Future
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Q1) In the Atkinson and Shiffrin stages of memory, the progress of information through these stages
A)determines the vividness of perception.
B)increases the opportunity for eidetic imagery to be produced.
C)determines whether and how long information is retained.
D)all of these.
Q2) Visual stimuli are most commonly retained in short-term memory by
A)continuing to look at the stimulus until an icon of the image appears.
B)forming an eidetic image of the stimulus.
C)slowing saccadic eye movements to one or two per second.
D)encoding visual stimuli as sounds that can be rehearsed.
Q3) What is the memory that enables one to hold information for a limited time in one's mind called?
A)short-term memory
B)working memory
C)both a and b
D)none of these
Q4) The automatic ejection of painful memories and unacceptable urges from conscious awareness is called __________.
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Q5) The two types of interference are __________ and _________ interference.
Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) In contrast to learning theory, the nativist theory of language development proposes that __________ factors account for the acquisition of language.
A)environmental
B)social
C)early experience
D)inborn
Q2) Moderate correlations are generally found between the IQ scores of A)siblings.
B)parents and their children.
C)fraternal (dizygotic) twins.
D)all of these
Q3) One's ability to share our past and talk about our future goals involves the _________ capacity of language.
A)infinite generativity
B)semanticity
C)plurality
D)displacement
Q4) The tendency to respond to a new problem with the same approach that helped solve similar problems is termed a(n) ________ _________.
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Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) A man leaves a secure job and decides to start his own business. He looks forward to the challenge of taking calculated risks to make a success of his company. This man most likely is A)bored.
B)high in need for aggression.
C)low in need for affiliation.
D)high in need for achievement.
Q2) ___________ ___________ refers to the organization or direction of one's erotic interests.
Q3) The eating behavior of the hyperphagic rat suggests there is A)anorexia in rats.
B)satiety in rats.
C)an "off" center in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus.
D)an "off" center in the lateral hypothalamus.
Q4) There are specific patterns of bodily responses which accurately pinpoint lying on polygraph exams.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The _________ _________ acts as a "stop-eating" center in rats.
Q6) ___________ ___________ helped pioneer the assessment of achievement motivation.
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Chapter 9: The Voyage Through the Life Span
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Q1) The embryonic stage lasts from __________ until the eighth week of development.
A)fertilization
B)the period of the ovum
C)germination
D)implantation
Q2) The prenatal life support system includes the A)amniotic sac.
B)placenta.
C)umbilical cord.
D)all of these.
Q3) Tom is a high school senior who has been accepted to a pre-med program. He spent each of his summers during high school volunteering at a local hospital. Tom is looking forward to a career in medicine. According to Erickson, Tom has achieved _____.
A)ego integrity
B)ego balance
C)maturity
D)ego identity
Q4) According to Jean Piaget, human intelligence involves two fundamental processes, called _____ and_____.
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Chapter 10: Personality: Theory and Measurement
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Q1) What is Carl Jung's psychoanalytic theory called?
A)analytical psychology
B)archetype psychology
C)psychosexual theory
D)none of these
Q2) How do Eysenck's personality dimensions and Hippocrates personality types relate to each other?
Q3) Aside from Freud, who are the other psychoanalytic theorists described in the textbook? In what ways do they differ from Freud?
Q4) Gender-typing is the process by which males and females come to display behavior patterns consistent with stereotypical masculine and feminine gender roles.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________ has been shown to be connected with patterns of acculturation among immigrants.
A)Self-actualization
B)Self-efficacy
C)Self-esteem
D)none of these
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Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Coping
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Q1) _____ _____ consists of three characteristics: commitment, challenge, and control.
Q2) Greg is attempting to decide whether he should stay home or exercise at the gym. He wants to stay home because he likes to relax, but then he will feel guilty that he is not exercising. If he were to go to the gym, he would be glad that he is exercising but unhappy because he does not enjoy the exercise itself. This is __________ conflict.
A)multiple approach-approach
B)avoidance-avoidance
C)approach-avoidance
D)multiple approach-avoidance
Q3) Maureen has been under continuing stress, and she is exhausted. This continued stress could lead to
A)diseases of adaptation.
B)the leukocyte-erythrocyte reaction.
C)the neutrophil-leukocyte reaction.
D)acute erythrocyte adaptation.
Q4) Stress and pathogens interact to influence the immune system.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) People with __________ personality disorder are typically in conflict with society and predatory in their relationships with other people.
A)avoidant
B)antisocial
C)paranoid
D)schizotypal
Q2) Your adolescent child has no interest in a social life, never receives phone calls from friends, and spends most of his free time alone. Because this behavior is __________, you wonder whether your child is having psychological problems.
A)dangerous
B)harmful to self or others
C)bizarre
D)rare or unusual in a teenager
Q3) Personality disorders are temporary patterns of maladaptive behavior that are sources of distress to the individual or others.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _____ _____ disorder was formerly called multiple personality disorder.
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Chapter 13: Methods of Therapy
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Q1) The hierarchy used to overcome phobias with systematic desensitization is based on the principle of
A)modeling.
B)token economy.
C)self-monitoring.
D)successive approximations.
Q2) Client-centered therapy focuses on how childhood experiences create __________ which adversely affect the client's current functioning.
A)positive regard
B)self-efficacy
C)self-actualization
D)denial of self
Q3) Therapies that influence physiological processes are called __________ approaches.
A)clinical
B)biological
C)psychological
D)formal
Q4) _____ _____ groups are less likely to seek therapy than European Americans.
Q5) Describe common drug therapies. In what cases are drug therapies best utilized?
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) In the Watergate or Iran-Contra scandals, the President's men believed that they were beyond the reach of the law. In terms of groupthink, they were experiencing A)feelings of invulnerability.
B)pressure to conform.
C)stereotyping of members of the outgroup.
D)reciprocity norms.
Q2) People tend to attribute others' behaviors to dispositional factors such as personality traits. At the same time, we tend to attribute our own behavior to A)personality traits.
B)dispositional factors.
C)human foibles.
D)situational influences.
Q3) The area of social psychology that studies the ways in which people alter the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of others is A)social influence.
B)social facilitation.
C)social pressure.
D)social demand.
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