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Course Introduction
General Psychology provides an introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course covers foundational concepts such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Emphasis is placed on understanding how psychological principles apply to everyday life and on the methodologies used in psychological research. By exploring both classic studies and recent advances, students gain insights into how humans think, feel, and behave, and how these processes are influenced by biological, psychological, and environmental factors.
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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) ______________________ is an experiment in which participants do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group,but the experimenters do know which participants are part of which group.
A)The double-blind study
B)A placebo effect study
C)The single-blind study
D)A randomized study
Answer: C
Q2) The question "What is happening?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?
A)description
B)explanation
C)prediction
D)control
Answer: A
Q3) The first step in a psychological experiment is developing a method.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective
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Q1) The cortex is divided into two sections referred to as:
A)cerebral hemispheres.
B)cerebellums.
C)corpus callosums.
D)neurotransmitters.
Answer: A
Q2) The point at which the sensory nerves from the left side of the body cross over into the right side of the brain,and vice versa,is the:
A)reticular formation.
B)pons.
C)medulla.
D)cerebellum.
Answer: C
Q3) ______ plays a critical role as a neurotransmitter that stimulates muscles to contract.
A)Acetylcholine
B)GABA
C)Dopamine
D)Endorphin
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) According to sensory adaptation theory,you would think that if you stared at a picture for a long period of time,the image you see would eventually:
A)blend into the background.
B)disappear.
C)change colours.
D)fuse with hearing.
Answer: B
Q2) Closure is the tendency to:
A)perceive objects,or figures,on some background.
B)complete figures that are incomplete.
C)perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping.
D)perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex,broken-up pattern.
Answer: B
Q3) The term just noticeable difference is synonymous with ______ threshold.
A)sensation
B)response
C)difference
D)absolute
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs
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Q1) Which statement is correct concerning how much sleep people need?
A)Most people need at least 10 hours.
B)Men need more sleep than women.
C)Most people need between 7 to 8 hours of sleep.
D)Women need more sleep than men.
Q2) Which dream theory states that dreams are simply the brain's way of explaining random neural activity while sleeping?
A)Freudian dream theory
B)dreams for survival theory
C)activation-synthesis hypothesis
D)Hall's dreams as reflections of everyday life
Q3) What are two signs of physical dependency?
A)drug tolerance and psychological cravings
B)psychological cravings and withdrawal
C)drug tolerance and withdrawal
D)psychological cravings and nausea
Q4) Microsleeps pose no serious risks and are helpful in recovering from sleep deprivation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) 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
Q2) In Pavlov's experiment,if one presented the conditioned stimulus (such as a bell)after the presentation of the unconditional stimulus (the food),little or no classical conditioning would occur.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Thorndike's experiment used _____ and a ______ in his study of operant conditioning.
A)rats; maze
B)cats; puzzle box
C)chimpanzees; crates
D)pigeons; Skinner box
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) A mnemonist is a person with exceptional memory ability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the semantic network model,it would take less time to answer "true" to which sentence?
A)"A salmon is an animal."
B)"A salmon is a fish."
C)"A canary is an animal."
D)They would all take the same amount of time.
Q3) Iconic memory allows the eye to fuse the images from each tiny movement of the eye into a smooth,continuous pattern.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why did Hermann Ebbinghaus use nonsense syllables as stimuli in his memory research?
A)They were unique,making them more memorable.
B)The stimuli had no previous associations.
C)They were short and therefore easy to remember.
D)The stimuli had been used successfully in previous research.
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Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
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Q1) A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point.The person is engaging in ______ thinking.
A)functional
B)expansive
C)convergent
D)divergent
Q2) A group of psychologists reviews the literature on the heritability of intelligence.They conclude that most of the estimates indicate that _______percent of intelligence is due to genetics.
A)20
B)30
C)50
D)80
Q3) Each of the following is a sleep disorder EXCEPT: A)narcolepsy.
B)REM rebound.
C)insomnia.
D)night terrors.
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Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) A characteristic that first shows up in the formal operational stage is:
A)irreversibility.
B)egocentrism.
C)abstract thinking.
D)logical thinking.
Q2) Which of the following abilities decline during adulthood?
A)intellectual abilities
B)speed of processing
C)wisdom
D)verbal ability
Q3) The period of 5 to 10 years during which a woman's reproductive system begins to decline is called:
A)climacteric.
B)perimenopause.
C)menopause.
D)postmenopause.
Q4) The wear-and-tear theory of aging suggests that unstable oxygen molecules cause damage to the structure of cells,increasing with age.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Which is NOT a finding that supports a biological contribution to sexual orientation?
A)the work of Simon LeVay
B)twin studies
C)loci on the X chromosome common in homosexual brothers
D)size differences in the right brain hemispheres in homosexuals as compared to heterosexuals
Q2) The Janus Report surveyed:
A)people from 48 states.
B)3000 people.
C)people aged 18 to 65.
D)All of the choices are correct.
Q3) Homeostasis refers to an imbalanced state of need that requires behaviour.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following behaviours is NOT an example of drive-reduction theory?
A)getting some food when you are hungry
B)going to sleep when you are tired
C)getting something to drink when you are thirsty
D)going jogging when you are bored
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Chapter 10: Stress and Health
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT true regarding the research on post-traumatic stress disorder?
A)Women seem to be more vulnerable than men.
B)Men seem to be more vulnerable than women.
C)The likelihood of the disorder increases if the traumatic experience took place before a woman was 15 years old.
D)Women's lives have changed over the last several decades,making them more vulnerable to stress disorders.
Q2) In a/an __________conflict,a person must choose between two desirable goals.
A)approach-avoidance
B)avoidance-avoidance
C)approach-approach
D)double approach-avoidance
Q3) Coping with stress in the Vietnamese culture typically includes which of the following?
A)eating certain foods
B)using biofeedback
C)exercising
D)engaging in a hobby
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Chapter 11: Theories of Personality
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Q1) Personality assessments conducted by behaviourists rely primarily on:
A)projective tests.
B)observation.
C)detailed analysis of dreams.
D)interviews.
Q2) The Big Five personality dimensions are in direct competition with Hofstede's cultural dimensions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Carl Jung believed that the most important thing during the early years was sexual awareness.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Freud's ___________model divided the mind into three levels.
A)trait
B)structural
C)topographic
D)executive
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Which situation would be LEAST likely to result in a decrease of prejudice?
A)asking people to work on separate projects but in the same room
B)asking people to work on a common task
C)giving each person a piece of information to share with the others to solve a problem
D)having people of various backgrounds help rescue others from a flood
Q2) The "jigsaw classroom" refers to an experiment aimed at reducing prejudice by forcing people from different ethnic backgrounds to work on a jigsaw puzzle together.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A bank loan officer thinks people who speak with an accent are lazy; consequently,he refuses to grant them loans.The loan officer's belief is an example of _____.His refusal to grant them loans is an example of _____.
A)discrimination; prejudice
B)stereotyping; attribution
C)attribution; stereotyping
D)prejudice; discrimination
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Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Disorders in which there is a break in conscious awareness,memory,the sense of identity,or some combination are called:
A)paraphilias.
B)anxiety disorders.
C)somatoform disorders.
D)dissociative disorders.
Q2) Deriving sexual pleasure from touching or having sexual relations with prepubescent (not sexually mature)children and/or fantasizing about such content is called:
A)paraphilia.
B)voyeurism.
C)pedophilia.
D)frotteurism.
Q3) Which Canadian is most likely to develop depression in life?
A)Paige,who had a normal childhood and now works as an engineer
B)Sabrina,who was neglected as a child and is unemployed
C)Frank,who had a normal childhood and is unemployed
D)Bill,who was neglected as a child and now works as an engineer
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Chapter 14: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) Azdah's teenage son fails his mathematics exam due to lack of studying.She immediately assumes that it is her fault.Azdah is engaging in:
A)arbitrary inference.
B)selective thinking.
C)personalization.
D)minimization.
Q2) Which of the following is an advantage of self-help groups?
A)They provide access to needed medications.
B)They are free.
C)They are facilitated by an experienced therapist who is familiar with the group members' problems.
D)They are facilitated by a person who is not familiar with the members' problems.
Q3) An advantage to group therapy is that groups:
A)are a source of social support.
B)allow countertransference to occur.
C)bestow unconditional approval on group members.
D)allow an extremely shy person to feel more comfortable speaking up.
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Chapter 15: Psychology and Human Development
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Q1) People who are attempting to become extremely thin by refusing to eat suffer from:
A)bulimia nervosa.
B)obesity phobia.
C)anorexia nervosa.
D)dissociation.
Q2) _________ occurs when people experience unpleasant stressors.
A)Acute stress
B)Eustress
C)Distress
D)Catastrophic stress
Q3) According to Hofstede's dimensions of cultural personality,cultures that are __________ are assertive and competitive.
A)collectivistic
B)masculine
C)high in power distance
D)high in uncertainty avoidance
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