General Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
General Psychology offers a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course explores foundational topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and the biological bases of behavior. Through a blend of theory, research, and real-world applications, students will gain insight into how psychological principles shape individual and group behavior, and develop an understanding of the methods psychologists use to investigate the complexities of the human mind.
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The World of Psychology 7th Canadian Edition by by Samuel E. Wood
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) In order to examine the parenting behaviour of pandas, two psychologists spent three years observing the panda in the mountainous regions of Western China. The method used by these investigators was most likely
A) the survey method.
B) the case study method.
C) the experimental method.
D) naturalistic observation
Answer: D
Q2) ________ is to general scientific understanding as ________ is to practical problems.
A) Applied research; basic research
B) Basic research; applied research
C) Hypothesis; theory
D) Theory; hypothesis
Answer: B
Q3) To understand how one variable causes another variable the correlational method is the one preferred.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Biology and Behaviour
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Q1) After a serious blow to the head, John can no longer plan for the future. What area of his brain appears to be damaged?
A) Frontal lobe
B) Cerebellum
C) Temporal lobe
D) Thalamus
Answer: A
Q2) Martha has had a stroke. She has lost the feeling in her left leg. Which of the following sites in the brain might be damaged by the stroke?
A) The right somatosensory cortex
B) The frontal lobe.
C) The left parietal lobe.
D) Broca's area.
Answer: A
Q3) What is a synapse?
Answer: The synapse is the junction where the axon of a sending neuron communicates with a receiving neuron across the synaptic cleft. The sending neuron releases neurotransmitters into the synapse as part of the process of communicating with the receiving neuron.
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Explain the Ponzo Illusion.
Answer: Two white bars superimposed on a railway track are actually identical in length. Because A appears farther away than B, we perceive it as longer.
Q2) Illusions are a phenomenon of brain structure and occur at approximately the same rate in all cultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is not a major type of chronic pain?
A) lower back
B) arthritic
C) headache
D) chest
Answer: D
Q4) Visual and auditory information is transduced while other senses are processed directly in the brain.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 4: States of Conciousness
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Q1) Cocaine and amphetamines
A) add to the level of serotonin.
B) decrease the level of serotonin.
C) slow the reuptake of dopamine
D) release dopamine.
Q2) What is the term for an increased amount of REM sleep that occurs after REM deprivation, which is often associated with unpleasant dreams or nightmares?
A) REM rebound
B) REM reversal
C) Microsleep
D) REMtrusion
Q3) Which stimulant causes the most deaths?
A) Amphetamines
B) Cigarettes
C) Cocaine
D) Caffeine
Q4) How are sleepwalking and sleep terrors similar, and how are they different?
Q5) How does our circadian rhythm influence us and our sleep?
Q6) Compare and contrast short with long sleepers.
Q7) For what conditions has hypnosis been shown to be useful?
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Negative reinforcement is to ________ as punishment is to ________.
A) response decrease; responsecrease
B) responsecrease; responsecrease
C) response decrease; response decrease
D) responsecrease; response decrease
Q2) Extinction requires which of the following?
A) CS and UCS presentations
B) CS-only presentations
C) US-only presentations
D) Any presentations
Q3) Thus, many contemporary researchers claim that biological predispositions, or the degree to which ________ prepare(s) animals and humans to acquire or resist acquiring classically conditioned responses, are an important factor in the conditioning process.
A) mitochondria
B) neural proliferation
C) genes
D) learning passed from parent to child
Q4) How does operant conditioning explain the learning of new behaviours?
Q5) How does the Little Albert study help our understanding of the origins of fear?
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) A newspaper story that describes someone's experiences growing up in a small town is most like
A) iconic memory.
B) semantic memory.
C) nondeclarative memory.
D) episodic memory
Q2) Which of the following is not part of declarative memory?
A) Personal life events
B) Facts
C) information
D) Driving a car
Q3) Which of the following proposed that memory works like a tape recorder and that memories are stored permanently within the brain?
A) William James
B) Hermann Ebbinghaus
C) George Bartlett
D) Wilder Penfield
Q4) How are schemas involved in memory?
Q5) What is Bartlett's contribution to our understanding of memory?
Q6) What are four study habits that can aid memory?
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Chapter 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the following is one of the conclusions of the study conducted by Scarr and Weinberg regarding the IQ difference between white and African Americans?
A) Genetics governed IQ differences, but not significantly.
B) An enriched environment can have a positive impact on both IQ and achievement test scores
C) The effects of environment became irreversible at about eight years old.
D) The IQ differences reported by Arthur Jensen were the result of unfair and poorly administeredtelligence tests.
Q2) At the end of World War II, American soldiers both black and white, who were stationed in Germany, fathered thousands of children with German women. Research on random samples of these children found
A) incredible difference between child with regards to IQ, along lines of nationality.
B) having a white father conferred no measurable IQ advantage at all C) a difference the children, related to the IQ of their grandparents, but not their parents. D) racial differences favouring black children, which the researchers concluded was due to a more engaging environment.
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Chapter 8: Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements is not true of the adolescent growth spurt?
A) It marks the end of puberty
B) It is a period of rapid physical growth.
C) It peaks boys at about age 14.
D) It peaks girls at about age 12.
Q2) When individuals are operating at Kohlberg's preconventional level of moral reasoning, moral judgments of right and wrong are based on A) conscience.
B) personal values.
C) the anticipation of social approval.
D) the anticipation of reward and punishment
Q3) Which of the following occurs first?
A) The neonate lifts his or her head up
B) The neonate rolls over.
C) The neonate walks, holding on.
D) The neonate sits propped up.
Q4) How did Erikson's view human development?
Q5) What is the relationship between dominant or recessive genes?
Q6) What are fraternal twins?
Q7) What is Piaget's sensorimotor stage?
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Josh spends countless hours surfing the internet. Which of the following theories would best explain his motivation to engage in this behaviour?
A) Extrinsic motivation theory
B) instinct theory
C) Arousal theory
D) Drive-reduction theory
Q2) According to the text, research indicates that prolonged sensory deprivation leads to
A) decreased motor abilities andcreased cognitive abilities.
B) improved abilities to focus attention.
C) irritability andability to concentrate
D) pleasant emotions.
Q3) Both the James-Lange theory and the Cannon-Bard theory differed from the Schachter-Singer theory in that they ignored the
A) cultural aspects of emotions.
B) evolutionary aspects of emotions.
C) cognitive aspects of emotions
D) social aspects of emotions.
Q4) What are some non-biological factors that influence what and how much we eat?
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) Taking personal credit for our successes and blaming our failures on external or situational causes describes the
A) self-serving bias
B) false consensus effect.
C) availability heuristic.
D) fundamental attribution error.
Q2) According to Berkowitz, anger and aggression can result from
A) an automatic response to frustration.
B) aversive events and unpleasant emotions
C) an aggressivestinct.
D) genetic causes.
Q3) When Jana saw the smoke pouring from the house across the street, she decided that someone had already called the fire department. Then Jana remembered the research on ________ and hurried to the phone to report the fire.
A) the sleeper effects
B) altruistic acts
C) the bystander effect
D) personal space
Q4) Identify four qualities both men and women across cultures look for in a mate.
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Chapter 11: Personality Theory and Assessment
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Q1) According to the textbook the most important environmental influences involve the ________ among children in the same family
A) shared
B) divergent
C) none-shared environment
D) common
Q2) Compare and contrast the three methods of personality assessment, pointing out strengths and limitations, and provide examples and descriptions of each of the methods.
Q3) According to Freud, which of the following would not reside at the level of the unconscious?
A) Shameful experiences
B) Accessible memories
C) Immoral urges
D) Untamed passions
Q4) Jung theorized that sometimes inferiority feelings are so strong that they prevent personal development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Health and Stress
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Q1) The biomedical model approaches health and illness by focusing upon the biological factors that contribute to a disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following sets of factors of illness and health does the biopsychosocial model emphasize?
A) Psychological, genetic, and sociological
B) Psychological and genetic
C) Biological, psychological, and social
D) Sociological and biomedical
Q3) Research has indicated that control over the cause of stress reduces stress
A) to the extent that the stress is predictable.
B) only if the control is exercised.
C) even if the control is not exercised
D) to the extent that the control is real.
Q4) Eustress is to ________ stress as distress is to ________ stress.
A) neutral; negative
B) unpleasant; damaging
C) good; damaging
D) neutral; unpleasant
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Chapter 13: Psychology Disorders
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Q1) What is the severe disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality, delusions, hallucinations, disturbance of thinking, and/or other bizarre behaviour?
A) Somatoform disorder
B) Schizophrenia
C) Dissociative disorder
D) Dissociative identity disorder
Q2) The biological perspective on panic attacks has been supported by which of the following?
A) PET scans reveal that panic-disorder patients show a greatlycreased blood flow to parts of the right hemisphere of the limbic system
B) MRI scans have shown that different electrical activity occurs the brains of panic-disorder patients.
C) PET scans reveal that panic-disorder patients show a greatly decreased blood flow to the right parietal lobe, associated with the secretion of calming hormones.
D) MRI scans have revealed significant brain size differences between the brains of panic-disorder and phobic patients.
Q3) Describe the DSM-IV-TR and its uses?
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Chapter 14: Therapies
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Q1) Relaxation training is a preliminary procedure for a client who is to undergo
A) therapy based on operant conditioning.
B) aversive conditioning.
C) systematic desensitization
D) Gestalt therapy.
Q2) Compare and contrast the following types of mental health professionals: clinical and counselling psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychiatric social workers.
Q3) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is based, in large part, on information-processing theory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What do psychoanalysts suspect is occurring when patients change the subject, become angry, or miss appointments?
A) Revelation
B) Working through
C) Resistance
D) Transference
Q5) What behaviour therapies are based on classical conditioning?
Q6) What is the debate surrounding the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
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