Human Behavior and Mental Processes Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles underlying human behavior and mental processes, offering an introduction to the scientific study of psychology. Topics include perception, cognition, emotion, motivation, learning, personality, and the biological bases of behavior. Students will examine how individuals process information, interact with their environments, and develop psychological functioning across the lifespan. Through analysis of research methods and real-world examples, the course highlights the influences of genetics, society, and culture on behavior, providing a foundation for further studies in psychology and related fields.
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Psychological Science 4th Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Your text describes a study by Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998)in which participants rated a confederate of the experimenter as warmer when they held a cup of hot coffee than when they held a cup of iced coffee.How does your text interpret this result?
A) This finding supports the role of unconscious determinants of thought and behavior.
B) This finding refutes the role of unconscious determinants of thought and behavior.
C) This finding supports a dualistic position on the mind/body problem.
D) This finding affirms the importance of "nature" in thought and behavior.
Answer: A
Q2) Using principles of evolutionary science to understand why people are able to detect cheating is appropriate because cheating is:
A) immoral
B) passed on genetically and contaminates the gene pool
C) a good way of dividing resources
D) effective at causing conflict and the destruction of a group
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) Which of the following types of studies allows the researcher to establish causality between an independent variable and a dependent variable?
A) descriptive studies
B) correlational studies
C) experiment
D) none of the above
Answer: C
Q2) Scientists conduct _____,which involves the careful and systematic collection of data.
A) hypotheses
B) replication
C) research
D) reliability
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of variables in studies?
A) A variable is something that can change but is not measured in a study.
B) A variable is something that can be measured but rarely changes.
C) A variable is that aspect of a study that is unchanging.
D) A variable is something that can change and be measured.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Biology and Behavior
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Q1) Based on the study on enriched environments,what might you predict would be the effects of a superior preschool program versus an inferior preschool program on the mental development of human children?
A) There should be no effect, as intelligence is primarily genetic in humans.
B) The inferior program should result in greater mental development because the children would have to work harder to learn, providing an enriched experience.
C) The superior program should result in greater mental development, because the children would have experienced an enriched environment during their critical period.
D) There should be no effect because both preschool programs would occur outside the critical period for mental development in children.
Answer: C
Q2) The Human Genome Project has made the surprising discovery that:
A) humans have millions of genes in common with insects
B) humans have about the same number of genes as other living creatures
C) there are single, separate genes for each human psychological characteristic
D) the genome is too complex to map at this time
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which subfield of psychology studies the relationship between physical stimuli and the psychological experiences they produce?
A) psychophysiology
B) behavioral genetics
C) behavioral neuroscience
D) psychophysics
Q2) In visual processing,ventral is to dorsal as:
A) what is to where
B) where is to what
C) superior is to inferior
D) both B and C
Q3) If you look at a sheet of white paper in a dim room and then look at it in bright sunlight,the paper will reflect more light to the eye when you are outside than inside.Yet we see the paper as having the same lightness in both situations.Why?
A) The brain adjusts for our memory of the lightness of the paper.
B) The brain makes the assumption that lightness does not change with location.
C) The brain uses the paper/surround intensity ratio in both locations.
D) The brain adjusts the perception of the lightness of the paper.
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
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Q1) According to your text,the interpreter effect refers to the:
A) propensity of the right hemisphere to construct a world that makes sense
B) propensity of the left hemisphere to construct a world that makes sense
C) ability of the right hemisphere to begin to interpret language
D) ability of the left hemisphere to interpret language for the right hemisphere
Q2) Which of the following individuals is most likely to be hypnotized easily?
A) Suzanne, who scores high on the suggestibility screening test
B) Mark, who scores low on the suggestibility screening test
C) Ann, who is easily distracted
D) Chen, who shows low imaginative skills
Q3) Why are humans typically able to remain in the bed during sleep?
A) Your brain signals the body to become paralyzed during the night so you do not move off the bed.
B) The brain is still processing information about its surroundings, thus you are aware of the boundaries of the bed.
C) You are consciously aware of the bed's boundaries at all times during sleep.
D) Most people typically fall out of bed, but because they are unaware of it they do not report it.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Token economies are an example of the ways mental hospitals and other training centers use:
A) primary punishment
B) primary reinforcement
C) continuous reinforcement
D) secondary reinforcement
Q2) Katie is afraid of clowns.She has been trying to overcome this fear by getting into a very relaxed state and then going to the circus.After months of this exposure,she is no longer afraid when she sees a clown.What anti-phobia treatment is this action similar to?
A) reconstruction theory
B) extinctive training
C) advocate theory
D) systematic desensitization
Q3) One of the earliest and strongest proponents of learning theory was:
A) John Watson
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Joseph Wolpe
D) John Garcia
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) As a friend gives you her new address over the phone,you realize that you do not have a pen to write it down.Approximately how long do you have to find a pen before her address will vanish from your short-term memory?
A) about half a minute
B) several minutes
C) less than half a second
D) less than 1 second
Q2) Posttraumatic stress disorder is an example of:
A) retrograde amnesia
B) persistence
C) anterograde amnesia
D) none of the above
Q3) Storage in this memory system is brief and represents a sensory experience:
A) short-term memory
B) long-term memory
C) sensory memory
D) all of the above
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the following questions best summarizes the modern version of the nature/nurture question about intelligence?
A) Is intelligence primarily determined by genetics?
B) Is intelligence primarily determined by the environment?
C) To what extent do genes and the environment overlap in their effects?
D) What roles do genes and the environment play in intelligence?
Q2) _____ can lead to reinforcing racism or sexism.
A) Exemplars
B) Schemas
C) Reasoning
D) Cognition
Q3) Correlations among test items that create clusters of related items have been identified using:
A) factor analysis
B) qualitative research
C) controlled experiments
D) regression analysis
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) According to Kohlberg,in which stage of moral reasoning are moral judgments based on how well they conform to rules of law and order or focus on others' disapproval?
A) preconventional
B) conventional
C) postconventional
D) concrete operational
Q2) Studies have shown that when infants begin to crawl,they:
A) begin to lose interest in their caregivers
B) display signs of being more interested in age peers than in caregivers
C) play happily even when the caregiver leaves
D) show signs of distress when separated from caregivers
Q3) Which of the following items are considered potential teratogens?
A) drugs
B) bacteria
C) viruses
D) all of the above
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Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Mohini and her boyfriend are arguing a lot.She finds that when she becomes angry at him,it helps to relieve her anger if she goes out running.According to Hull,Mohini's increased likelihood of running when she is angry will be due to a(n):
A) incentive
B) drive
C) habit
D) both B and C
Q2) Many college students spend a year studying in another country.The country where they are studying will often have different attitudes and practices concerning sex.A female student's sexuality is likely to be _____.A male student's sexuality is likely to be _____.
A) changed by any other culture; unchanged by any other culture
B) unchanged by any other culture; changed by any other culture
C) changed by a more conservative culture; changed by a less conservative culture
D) changed by a less conservative culture; changed by a less conservative culture
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Chapter 11: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) What is the name of the field that studies the immune system response to psychological factors?
A) psychophysiology
B) psychoimmunology
C) psychoneuroimmunology
D) psychoneuropharmacology
Q2) When men and women are placed under equivalent levels of stress:
A) both appear equally motivated to seek out social support
B) women are more likely than men to seek out social support
C) men are more prone to seek social support than women are
D) both men and women are equally motivated, but women prefer support from men, whereas men seek support from both sexes
Q3) Miryam and her boyfriend were together for 10 years,and then he broke up with her.The breakup was extremely distressing to her.Which of the following responses will Miryam almost certainly experience?
A) anticipatory coping
B) the eustress response
C) the allostatic release response
D) HPA activation
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) In terms of how they explain their partner's behavior,the happiest couples:
A) explain each other's behavior in very realistic terms
B) criticize bad behavior
C) make partner-enhancing attributions
D) completely ignore bad behavior
Q2) Just before an election,a political candidate wants to create a positive image that will persuade voters who are still undecided to vote for her.She should:
A) give a long speech on TV, making logical arguments for her positions
B) run ads with endorsements from a wide array of well-liked celebrities
C) debate her opponent on the night before the election
D) take ads in the paper that show her detailed positions on the issues
Q3) The notion of kin selection argues that we are:
A) altruistic to people who give evidence of the best genes
B) most altruistic toward those who share our genes
C) most altruistic to relatives because we expect reciprocity
D) altruistic to our kin group to avoid being ostracized
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Freud used the term libido to refer to:
A) unrestrained sexual behavior
B) unconscious motives
C) the motive to punish or harm others, particularly parents
D) an energy that promotes pleasure seeking
Q2) In terms of gender differences in personality:
A) women and men are most similar in personality in industrialized countries such as the United States
B) women tend to be more agreeable and more neurotic than men
C) women tend to be more extraverted and more open to experience than men
D) more data has been collected on men, so it is difficult to compare personalities across genders
Q3) In terms of the similarities in their personalities over time,what happens to identical twins?
A) The similarity between the twins remains constant.
B) They become more different from one another as they experience different environments.
C) They become more similar to one another.
D) They become less similar once they escape the direct influence of their parents.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Borderline personality disorder is associated with:
A) disturbances in identity and impulse control
B) low IQ and lack of remorse
C) overly strong sense of self and aggression
D) strong hedonistic tendencies and aggression
Q2) You would most likely be diagnosed with _____ if you displayed negative mood,sleep disturbances,difficulty concentrating,and thoughts of suicide.
A) anxiety disorder
B) major depression
C) dysthymia
D) bipolar disorder
Q3) What characteristic makes a psychopathology different from an everyday problem?
A) severity
B) causes
C) treatment options
D) none of the above
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Freud arranged his therapy room so that his patient could not see him.In his view,this physical arrangement:
A) allowed him to focus on his own feelings
B) increased the sense of mystery experienced by his patient
C) caused the patient to feel more vulnerable and thus to express his or her sickness more
D) reduced inhibitions the patient might feel about revealing unconscious thoughts and wishes
Q2) Individuals with schizophrenia may be helped by _____ in addition to pharmacological treatment.
A) social skills training
B) job skills training
C) time management training
D) etiquette training
Q3) The use of tranquilizers to control anxiety disorders:
A) is problematic because many of these drugs are addictive
B) is ideal because most of these drugs are not addictive
C) increases the presence of an excitatory neurotransmitter
D) is most effective for phobias
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