General Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
General Psychology provides a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course explores fundamental psychological concepts, including learning, memory, emotion, motivation, perception, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social interaction. Emphasizing both classic theories and modern research, students will gain insight into how psychological principles apply to everyday life and human experience. Through lectures, discussions, and assignments, this course encourages critical thinking about the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence human behavior.
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Introducing Psychology Brain Person Group 4th Edition by Stephen M. Kosslyn
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology:
History and Research Methods
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Q1) The value of surveys can be limited in that people may not provide accurate results. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following professionals might have a master's degree but not a doctoral degree?
A) An applied psychologist
B) A psychiatrist
C) A clinical psychologist
D) A counseling psychologist
Answer: A
Q3) If Eve provides psychotherapy and is trained to administer and interpret psychological tests, then what type of psychologist is she? What other job tasks might this type of psychologist have?
Answer: A clinical psychologist. She would also be responsible for providing psychotherapy and helping people to function more effectively.
Q4) What is the key idea of Freud's psychodynamic theory?
Answer: Behavior is driven by a collection of unconscious mental processes.
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
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Q1) What part of the brain acts as a relay station for incoming sensory information?
A) hypothalamus
B) thalamus
C) cerebellum
D) pituitary gland
Answer: B
Q2) As she walks out of the living room, Gloriann turns out the light. In this example, Gloriann's __________________ is active.
A) sympathetic nervous system
B) parasympathetic nervous system
C) autonomic nervous system
D) somatic nervous system
Answer: D
Q3) The forebrain includes the ________.
A) medulla
B) hippocampus
C) pons
D) reticular activating system
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
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Q1) Like visual perception, auditory perception can be divided into two main phases.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The outermost part of the human ear is called the _______________.
A) pinna
B) oval window
C) tympanic membrane
D) cochlea
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following tastes is not directly related to taste buds?
A) sweet
B) bitter
C) spicy
D) umami
Answer: C
Q4) According to the authors, visual perception relies on two phases of processing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US
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Q1) Last month Walter became sick after eating two chili dogs, so he no longer likes chili dogs. Walter has experienced ____________.
A) blocking
B) conditioned taste-aversion
C) operant taste conditioning
D) noncontingent conditioning
Q2) Generally, it is best to present the CS followed immediately by the US for conditioning to occur. One exception to this rule is illustrated by ________.
A) food aversions
B) conditioning voluntary responses
C) tactile aversions
D) conditioning eye blink responses
Q3) In Pavlov's initial classical conditioning experiment, salivation eventually becomes the________.
A) unconditioned stimulus
B) conditioned stimulus
C) conditioned response
D) unconditioned response
Q4) List and describe the three characteristics of effective punishment.
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Chapter 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday
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Q1) H. M., a famous amnesiac, gave researchers solid information that the ______________ was important in storing new long-term memories.
A) hippocampus
B) amygdala
C) frontal lobes
D) cerebellum
Q2) What effect, if any, does hypnosis have on memory?
A) It has no effect.
B) It increases people's confidence in their memories but not their accuracy.
C) It decreases people's confidence in their memories but not their accuracy.
D) It decreases their memory accuracy.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a test using recall?
A) multiple choice
B) true false
C) matching
D) fill-in-the-blank
Q4) Recency effects occur for the first few stimuli encoded.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In general, what happens in the brain to produce amnesia?
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Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What
Humans Do Best
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Q1) The system of rules for combining words and phrases to make meaningful sentences is called ____________.
A) morphology
B) phonics
C) syntax
D) semantics
Q2) Einstein's out-of-the-box thinking is characterized by ________.
A) his intellectual flexibility
B) his intellectual inflexibility
C) his years of public education
D) his leaps of logic
Q3) Why did Spearman conclude that in addition to g, there were also "specific factors" of intelligence?
Q4) Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of ____________.
A) verbal and mathematical abilities
B) crystallized and visual-motor abilities
C) general intelligence and specific abilities
D) analytical, creative, and practical intelligence
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Q5) Through studying brain damaged patients, what did Gardner conclude about intelligence and why?
Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
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Q1) The four stages of sexual activity include excitement, plateau, orgasm, and ________.
A) refraction
B) rest
C) reinforcement
D) resolution
Q2) Early in the 20th century William McDougal and others proposed that motivation was a result of ________.
A) instincts
B) incentives
C) drives
D) emotions
Q3) Arlis is 10% over her ideal body weight; she is considered obese.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements is true?
A) Fear can only occur as the result of cognitive interpretation.
B) The amygdala plays a direct role in producing the emotional "feel" of fear.
C) There are distinct biological events associated with feelings of fear.
D) Fear can only occur as the result of primary pituitary stimulation.
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Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Différence
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Q1) The field of _____________ is devoted to the study of just how much of personality is due to inherited traits.
A) behavioral genetics
B) genetic microbiology
C) genomanalysis
D) geometric heredity
Q2) Identify three neo-Freudians discussed by your textbook.
Q3) According to Eysenck, it is the environment that determines whether someone who is high in the trait psychoticism becomes creative or mentally ill.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An investigation of students' housing preferences would probably show that single rooms are preferred by _______whereas suites are preferred by _______.
A) extraverts; introverts
B) introverts; extraverts
C) good students; poor students
D) poor students; good students
Q5) List and describe the three personality structures identified in Freud's theory.
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Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up,
Growing Older, Growing Wiser
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Q1) Professor Grant is interested in studying the development of a sense of humor. She collects data from groups of 6-year-olds, 16-year-olds, 26-year-olds, and 46-year-olds. What type of research design is Professor Grant using?
A) cohort design
B) longitudinal design
C) behavior genetics design
D) cross-sectional design
Q2) Jim, who is 84, and Bill, who is 24, are primed with negative words about old age. Consequently, who would be more likely to say that they'd reject treatment for serious illness?
A) Jim
B) Bill
C) They're equally likely to accept treatment.
D) They're equally likely to reject treatment.
Q3) Briefly contrast how young versus older adults experience positive and negative emotion.
Q4) Summarize the essence of socioemotional selectivity theory.
Q5) Describe the physical characteristic of adolescents in this generation that may contribute to their earlier entry into puberty.
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Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life
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Q1) Each sleep cycle lasts for approximately 90 minutes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following illustrate the major criteria for substance abuse?
A) Staying at the bar after work and failing to show up to your child's birthday as a result.
B) Drinking at social events even though you normally do not drink.
C) Requiring more alcohol over time to get the same level of intoxication.
D) Taking a drug specifically to avoid the withdrawal effects that occur when not taking it.
Q3) If Greg is taking a depressant substance, what will be the main behavioral effects?
Q4) People with a good _________are less likely to die from illness or injuries than those without it.
A) occupation
B) camaraderie
C) income
D) social support system
Q5) When are narcissists particularly apt to show aggression?
Q6) Briefly state the three main criteria for substance abuse.
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Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More Than Everyday Problems
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Q1) The restricting type is a subtype of bulimia nervosa.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is considered to be a type of anxiety disorder?
A) phobias
B) bipolar disorder
C) pseudologica fantastica
D) dissociative identity disorder
Q3) Which of the following is one of the bodily fluids that ancient Greeks linked to abnormal behaviors?
A) ear wax
B) urine
C) black bile
D) saliva
Q4) Briefly summarize the three conditions that must be present if an individual is to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Q5) The most recent version of the DSM has 5 axes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
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Q1) Alice takes lithium to control symptoms of her mental disorder. Alice is most likely suffering from ____________.
A) schizophrenia
B) bipolar disorder
C) social phobia
D) generalized anxiety disorder
Q2) The view that depressive thoughts produce depressive feelings and behaviors is a hallmark of ________.
A) neither cognitive nor behavior therapy
B) both cognitive and behavior therapy
C) cognitive therapy but not behavior therapy
D) behavior therapy but not cognitive therapy
Q3) REBT has been utilized with a number of psychological issues. For which of the following has REBT been shown to be helpful?
A) unassertiveness
B) depression
C) sexual disorders
D) schizophrenia
Q4) Define psychoanalysis.
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
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Q1) Obedience is defined as ________.
A) conformity with an order
B) compliance with an order
C) mindless reasoning
D) becoming involved with an extremist group
Q2) Which of the following would result in cognitive dissonance?
A) Wearing glasses is dignified; a respected political leader wears glasses.
B) Dresses are feminine; Britney Spears wears dresses.
C) Pink shirts are effeminate; Bruce Willis wears pink shirts.
D) Orange juice is healthy; I love orange juice.
Q3) Which term refers to a set of characteristics believed to be shared by all members of a particular group?
A) stereotype
B) expectation
C) classification
D) categorization
Q4) Consider how you could use the results from the famous Robber's Cave study to decrease prejudice.
Q5) Why might a belief in a just world promote discrimination?
Q6) Why are norms important in a group?
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Chapter 14: Statistics Part B : How to Think About Research Studies
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Q1) In their application of the QALMRI method to studying whether mental practice can change subsequent golf putting, your text authors offer which of the following alternatives?
A) Mental practice will rarely improve putting.
B) Mental practice might not have any effect on putting.
C) Mental practice hurts putting when participants imagine successfully tapping the ball into the hole but actually improves performance when they imagine tapping the ball so that it misses the hole.
D) Mental practice is unrelated to putting because that is a physical action.
Q2) Statistical significance ______________.
A) suggests that a result would be highly probable by chance alone
B) does not necessarily have anything to do with psychological importance
C) is a likely outcome with a small sample
D) occurs when the mean, median, and mode are identical in a data set
Q3) The most usual kind of frequency distribution is the _________.
A) normal curve
B) skewed curve
C) bimodal curve
D) binomial distribution
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