Human Behavior and Psychology Review Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles of human behavior and the scientific study of psychology. Students will examine key psychological theories, concepts, and research methods used to understand how individuals think, feel, and act in various contexts. Topics include perception, learning, motivation, personality, development, mental health, social interaction, and the impact of culture and biology on behavior. Through case studies, discussions, and practical applications, learners will gain insights into the factors shaping human actions and mental processes, preparing them to analyze behavioral patterns and psychological phenomena in everyday life.
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The World of Psychology 7th Canadian Edition by by Samuel
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E. Wood
Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following occurs when researchers' expectations about a situation cause them to see what they expect to see or to make incorrect inferences about the behaviour they observe?
A) Situational bias
B) Experimenter bias
C) Inferential bias
D) Selection bias
Answer: B
Q2) The school of thought in psychology known as functionalism was aimed at analyzing the basic elements of conscious mental experience.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) A theory is a general principle or set of principles that explains how a number of separate facts are related to one another.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Biology and Behaviour
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Q1) Which of the following is not part of the brain stem?
A) Pons
B) Hypothalamus
C) Medulla
D) Reticular formation
Answer: B
Q2) The amygdala plays a critical role in balance and movement
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Aggression can be both turned on and turned off through electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) People with Broca's aphasia know what they want to say, but have trouble producing speech.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of these statements accurately describes the visual pathway?
A) information from the right half of each eye goes to the right hemisphere and from the left half to the left hemisphere
B) information from the right eye goes to the right hemisphere and from the left eye to the left hemisphere.
C) information from the right eye goes to the left hemisphere and from the left eye to the right hemisphere.
D) information from the right half of each eye goes to the left hemisphere and from the left half to the right hemisphere.
Answer: A
Q2) The process through which the senses detect sensory stimuli and transmit them to the brain is called
A) perception.
B) reception.
C) consciousness.
D) sensation
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: States of Conciousness
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Q1) What is sleep apnea?
Q2) A "short sleeper" refers to someone who needs
A) less space which to sleep.
B) little preparation to fall asleep
C) short naps during the day.
D) less than six hours of sleep per night
Q3) Valium, Librium and Xanax are
A) narcotics.
B) designer drugs.
C) barbiturates.
D) minor tranquilizers
Q4) How does a sleeper react physically during NREM sleep?
Q5) Which of the following is not a factor in how addictive a psychoactive drug is?
A) Whether a drug is legal or illegal
B) How quickly the effects of the drug are felt.
C) How pleasurable the drug's effects are.
D) How long the pleasurable effects last.
Q6) How do stimulants affect the user? Go into detail with regard to the effects of one stimulant.
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Q7) What is the difference between physical and psychological drug dependence?
Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Primary reinforcers differ from secondary reinforcers in that A) they are never negative reinforcers.
B) their value does not have to be learned C) they can be used for both humans and other animals.
D) they are always positive reinforcers.
Q2) For maximum effectiveness, when operantly conditioning a behaviour, the reinforcer should be presented ________ the target behaviour.
A) at the same time as B) several minutes after C) immediately before D) immediately after
Q3) One account of why poverty is so difficult to overcome suggests that people living in poverty have given up, perceiving that their condition is inescapable. This explanation sounds most like A) avoidance learning.
B) the consequences of punishment.
C) learned helplessness
D) the magnitude of punishment effect.
Q4) How does a discrimination stimulus affect behaviour?
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) Information at the beginning of a sequence has a fairly high probability of being recalled. This is called
A) proactive memory.
B) the recency effect.
C) the primacy effect
D) retroactive memory.
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the main methods used by researchers for measuring memory?
A) retention
B) relearning
C) recall
D) recognition
Q3) Memory distortion happens when we try to make the memory fit into A) a particular set of logic.
B) our beliefs.
C) a set of expectations
D) the facts.
Q4) Working memory is not another name for declarative memory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale contains both verbal and intuitive subĀtests, which yield separate verbal and performance IQ scores as well as an overall IQ score
A)True
B)False
Q2) Three-year-old Carrie, points to a truck and proudly announces that it is a car. Her mother corrects her by saying, "No Carrie, that is a truck." This is an example of
A) reinforcement learning action.
B) a simple mistake by a child, with little connection to language development.
C) negativestances of the concept car
D) anappropriate correction of language.
Q3) What theory of language development suggests that speech is acquired through a combination of reinforcement and imitation?
A) Learning theory
B) Cognitive theory
C) Linguistic-relativity theory
D) The nativist position
Q4) What is Binet's major contribution to psychology?
Q5) How does the nature-nurture controversy apply to intelligence?
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Chapter 8: Development
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Q1) According to research by Meltzoff, the earliest age at which babies can imitate gestures such as sticking out the tongue and opening and closing the mouth is
A) several days old.
B) less than one hour after birth
C) several weeks old.
D) six months old.
Q2) According to Piaget's theory, which statement is not true of children in the preoperational stage?
A) They show animistic thinking.
B) Their thinking is governed by perception rather than logic.
C) They show egocentrism thinking.
D) They show reversibility thinking
Q3) The idea that severe punishment will reduce the use of drugs in Canada implies that drug users operate at which of Kohlberg's levels of moral development?
A) Conventional
B) Pre-operational
C) Pre-conventional
D) Post-conventional
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Which theory suggests that our feeling of emotion and our physiological response to an emotional situation occur at about the same time?
A) Schachter-Singer theory
B) Arousal theory
C) Cannon-Bard theory
D) James-Lange theory
Q2) According to the set-point theory, when people gain weight, their
A) fat-cell countcreases.
B) appetite decreases
C) metabolic ratecreases.
D) set point changes either up or down.
Q3) The idea that a happy, sad or angry face can actually trigger the physiological response and feeling associated with the emotion is called the
A) facial expression theory.
B) facial-feedback hypothesis
C) emotion production theory.
D) emotion control theory.
Q4) What are some factors that account for variations in body weight?
Q5) What is Murray's contribution to the study of motivation?
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) Aggression in response to frustration is almost always aimed at the cause of the frustration.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to social learning theory, aggressive behaviour is caused by poor social conditions, like excessive heat, crowding, and loud noise.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Generally, the more often we are exposed to a stimulus, the more we
A) like the stimulus
B) ignore the stimulus.
C) try to avoid the stimulus.
D) dislike the stimulus.
Q4) When group polarization occurs following group discussion, the group will decide to take a less risky position
A) if group members were leaning different directions to begin with.
B) if group members were leaning a cautious direction to begin with
C) regardless of theitial position of the group.
D) if group members were leaning a risky direction to begin with.
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Chapter 11: Personality Theory and Assessment
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Q1) Jamil has a great fear of dentists. He makes an appointment with his dentist, but although he marks the date and time on his calendar and in his date book, he still forgets to go. Freud would say that Jamil practiced the defence mechanism of A) exclusion.
B) repression
C) projection.
D) repulsion.
Q2) Id is to ego as
A) desire is to conscience.
B) desire is to reason
C) conscience is to desire.
D) reason is to desire.
Q3) Michel recently quit smoking, and now he constantly talks about how disgusting and dangerous smoking is. What defence mechanism might Michel be using?
A) Reaction formation
B) Displacement
C) Regression
D) Sublimation
Q4) Describe self-efficacy.
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Chapter 12: Health and Stress
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Q1) Which of the following was associated with the general adaptation syndrome?
A) David Holmes
B) Hans Selye
C) Walter Cannon
D) Richard Lazarus
Q2) The biopsychosocial model emphasizes
A) the social rather the biological.
B) illness rather than wellness.
C) the biological rather than the sociological.
D) health and wellness
Q3) Which of the following would be the best advice to give someone who is trying to cope with a very stressful, yet changeable situation?
A) Use primarily problem-focused coping along with some emotion-focused coping
B) Use only problem-focused coping.
C) Use only emotion-focused coping.
D) Use primarily emotion-focused coping along with some problem-focused coping.
Q4) Predictable stressors are often more difficult to cope with than unpredictable ones.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Psychology Disorders
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Q1) The primary symptom of dissociative amnesia is
A) the suddenability to recall personalformation
B) repeated out-of-body experiences.
C) anability to remember facts andformation learned school.
D) loss of well-practiced motor skills.
Q2) Compulsions include all of the following except
A) fear of crowds
B) excessive ordering.
C) cleanliness.
D) hoarding.
Q3) Which of the following causes of mental disorders is not consistent with the biological perspective?
A) Geneticheritance
B) Biochemical imbalances or abnormalities
C) Structural abnormalities within the brain
D) Symptoms symbolizing psychological problems
Q4) Compare and contrast the causes of abnormal behaviour according to the biological, psychodynamic, learning, humanistic, and cognitive perspectives.
Q5) Discuss biological and cognitive models of the cause of depression.
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Chapter 14: Therapies
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Q1) A behaviour therapist would be most likely to define the problem of a person who stutters as
A) cognitive dissonance.
B) the stuttering itself
C) low self-esteem.
D) an unresolved conflict.
Q2) What is meant by "non-directive therapy"?
A) The direction and focus of the therapy is determined by the client
B) The therapy is without any focus.
C) The therapist receives as much from the encounter as the client.
D) The therapy has been unsuccessful.
Q3) In order for Lily to engage in successful free association, it is essential that she
A) keep from developingtense feelings of love or hate toward the therapist.
B) have some knowledge of dream symbolism.
C) say whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or irrelevant it seems
D) restrict the discussion to her thoughts that seem most relevant to his problem.
Q4) Discuss the use and present status of electroconvulsive therapy.
Q5) How does participant modelling help people overcome fears?
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