Human Behavior
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This course explores the various factors influencing human behavior, drawing from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Students will examine the biological, cognitive, and social foundations of behavior, including motivation, emotion, learning, and personality development. Through analysis of real-world scenarios and empirical research, the course provides insight into how individuals think, feel, and act within diverse cultural and social contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding behavioral patterns, the impact of environment and genetics, and the application of theoretical models to everyday life.
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Psychological Science 3rd Canadian Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Using principles of evolutionary science to understand why people are able to detect cheating is appropriate because:
A) cheating is immoral
B) cheating is passed on genetically and contaminates the gene pool
C) cheating is a good way of dividing resources
D) cheating may decrease the chance of survival for a group
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is the best definition of psychological science?
A) the study of the brain and its inner function
B) the study of the mind and how it processes thoughts, social interactions, and emotions
C) the study of the mind, brain, and behaviour
D) the study of the mind, the psyche, and behaviour
Answer: C
Q3) Why is studying racial attitudes difficult?
A) We are unable to peek inside the mind.
B) It is impossible to determine if an act is a racist behaviour.
C) Most people deny holding racist beliefs.
D) Racism is entirely subjective.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) The most powerful imaging technique, which documents changes in magnetic forces in the brain, is:
A) fMRI
B) MRI
C) psychophysiological assessment
D) EEG recording
Answer: B
Q2) Anam is studying the intelligence of a group of people as they progress through early adulthood to old age. Her approach should involve:
A) cross-sectional research
B) experimental research
C) random assignment
D) longitudinal research
Answer: D
Q3) The most frequently occurring score in a data set is known as the:
A) mean
B) mode
C) range
D) standard deviation
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations
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Q1) Anke is working in a laboratory and comes across a rat that is grossly overweight and seems unable to stop eating. The researcher tells Anke this rat has a brain lesion. Which part of the brain most likely has the lesion?
A) amygdala
B) hypothalamus
C) frontal lobe
D) brain stem
Answer: B
Q2) With respect to their relative functions, the endocrine and nervous systems:
A) act separately and are specialized
B) are interrelated; each system affects the other
C) are identical, but the nervous system's effects are more diffuse
D) have little to no overlap
Answer: B
Q3) Bill and his sister Ann are twins; however, they cannot be:
A) monozygotic twins
B) dizygotic twins
C) fraternal twins
D) raised apart
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Mind and Consciousness
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT typically associated with an altered state of consciousness?
A) diminished or enhanced level of self-awareness
B) disturbance of sense of personal control
C) unusual subjective experiences
D) insomnia
Q2) The definition of consciousness does NOT include which of the following?
A) moment-by-moment subjective experiences
B) focused attention
C) comatose experiences
D) voluntary experiences
Q3) Which of the following is NOT likely a purpose of sleep?
A) strengthening of neuronal connections that serve as the basis for learning
B) consolidation of information
C) maintenance and strengthening of the immune system
D) reducing the likelihood of schizophrenia
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Each eye sees more of the world on its own side of the visual field. A combination of the views from the two eyes provides humans with an adaptive advantage by creating a broader panorama of the scene. It also creates the depth cue of:
A) linear perspective
B) motion parallax
C) occlusion
D) disparity
Q2) The auditory neurons extending from the ____________ reach out with their axons to the primary auditory cortex (A1) in the ____________ lobe.
A) thalamus; parietal
B) thalamus; temporal
C) parietal; thalamus
D) temporal; thalamus
Q3) People who have great difficulty in identifying smells are at a higher risk for:
A) cognitive impairment
B) vision impairment
C) loss of complex motor skills
D) loss of hearing
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) For what area of research did Ivan Pavlov receive the Nobel Prize?
A) classical conditioning
B) animal training
C) salivary reflex and digestion
D) biological boundaries of learning
Q2) Research investigating gender differences in learning patterns have shown that:
A) women are more likely to use landmarks and memorize a series of turns when navigating through space
B) men are more likely to use landmarks and memorize a series of turns when navigating through space
C) women are more likely to keep track of cardinal directions and use landmarks
D) men are more likely to keep track of cardinal directions and use landmarks
Q3) What is an unconditioned response?
A) a learned pairing between two stimuli
B) a nervous system reflex
C) an unlearned, automatic behaviour to a stimulus
D) something that elicits an automatic behaviour
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) Damage to the frontal lobes and limbic system can cause the dissociation of a visual image from the associated emotional content. This problem is thought to be the cause of:
A) Tasack's syndrome
B) Capgras syndrome
C) Tourette's syndrome
D) Korsakoff's syndrome
Q2) Professor Smith is doing research on fish. He refuses to learn his students' names because he believes that the names take up space in his long-term memory that could be better used for fish information. He is incorrect because:
A) different types of information, such as facts about fish and names of people, are stored in different parts of memory
B) the students' names would have been stored in short-term memory
C) long-term memory can hold essentially unlimited amounts of information
D) the students' names that are preserved in long-term memory could be replaced later with different information
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) The Binet IQ test assesses the difference between which two factors?
A) analytical and emotional intelligence
B) verbal and mathematical skills
C) mental and chronological age
D) analytical and pragmatic intelligence
Q2) Cullen decided not to hire Gavin two minutes after the start of his job interview. Cullen can't explain, even to himself, why; he just had a bad feeling about Gavin. Cullen might feel less bad about making such a rapid decision if he knew that rapid decision making is:
A) automatic
B) precognitive
C) adaptive
D) analogical
Q3) The majority of people score within one standard deviation of the mean on an IQ test, which translates into scores ranging from:
A) 75 to 105
B) 89 to 109
C) 85 to 115
D) 80 to 120
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Shuchun has been in an accident and damaged his prefrontal cortex. This is likely to cause Shuchun to have a lessened ability to:
A) eat sufficiently to maintain body weight
B) avoid eating excessively
C) taste sweetness and saltiness
D) taste hot flavours
Q2) Robert becomes anxious during exams. He has found that chewing on the eraser on his pencil while he thinks helps him to calm down. According to Hull, over time Robert's pencil chewing is likely to become ____________ due to ____________.
A) more effective; positive reinforcement
B) less effective; extinction
C) permanent; positive reinforcement
D) habitual; negative reinforcement
Q3) Evolutionary forces have led us to seek out rewarding stimuli. This is a dilemma in modern society because:
A) many reinforcing things are also dangerous
B) we tend not to do things that are punishing but necessary
C) different stimuli are reinforcing in modern life
D) competition for limited reinforcement is intense
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Mohamed is experiencing a large amount of work stress lately, but his co-workers are helping him cope with the stress by encouraging him and telling him how much they appreciate his hard work. This is a good example of:
A) hardy friendships
B) the social networking hypothesis
C) positive stress
D) the buffering hypothesis
Q2) Dieting as a method of controlling weight has proved ineffective in part because:
A) the diet causes metabolism to increase such that the body becomes highly efficient in using the calories that are available
B) weight gain occurs more rapidly after each episode of dieting is terminated
C) the body lacks a set-point for regulating weight
D) most people have a set-point that is set too high
Q3) Two ways that hostility can affect the body are through stress on the heart and:
A) increased pulmonary function
B) reduced pulmonary function
C) decreased inflammation
D) increased lymphocyte activity
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Chapter 11: Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT true of imprinting?
A) There is a critical period in which imprinting must occur.
B) Imprinting occurs most commonly in humans.
C) Imprinting is a biological behaviour.
D) If the mother bird is not available, the baby bird can imprint on any available female of that species.
Q2) Which of the following has the greatest impact on parent-child interactions?
A) family norms and values
B) the biologically based temperament of the child
C) the temperament the child learns from his or her parents
D) parental frustration with the child's temperament
Q3) If a child is using telegraphic speech, he or she is most likely:
A) about 2 years old
B) at least 4 years old
C) under 1 year old
D) 12 to 15 months old
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a reason that stereotypes tend to be maintained?
A) People pay more attention to stereotype-consistent information.
B) People remember stereotype-consistent information better.
C) People have more stereotype-consistent experiences.
D) People make stereotype-consistent attributions.
Q2) Relationships are damaged by conflict in which the couple ____________ and strengthened by conflict in which the couple ____________.
A) attacks each other; sees each other's point of view
B) withdraws emotionally; suppresses disagreements
C) suppresses disagreements; expresses mutual concern during the conflict
D) insults each other; stays calm and rational
Q3) The major factor which determines whether the presence of other people produces social facilitation or social loafing is:
A) interpersonal compatibility
B) personal responsibility
C) task difficulty
D) potential rewards
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Charles is a 75-year-old male. His family has recently told him that he has changed as he has aged. If Charles is typical of aging people, which of these changes in Charles's personality is most likely?
A) Charles is more neurotic than he used to be.
B) Charles is less conscientious than he used to be.
C) Charles is more agreeable than he used to be.
D) Charles is more extroverted than he used to be.
Q2) How does infant temperament relate to adult personality?
A) It affects the general structure of personality but does not predict specific behaviour patterns.
B) Temperament changes so much over early development that no consistent relationships have been documented.
C) It correlates with both the general structure of adult personality and with specific behavioural patterns shown by adults.
D) It predicts negative but not positive behaviours.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) A woman says, "The eagle takes flight at three o'clock and flies here from General Electric. I get my check from the eagle; he goes from the mailbox to make a payment. He's a secret spy for my husband and makes a shotgun sound." This woman is clearly displaying:
A) a negative symptom of schizophrenia
B) a positive symptom of schizophrenia
C) a negative symptom of bipolar disorder
D) a positive symptom of bipolar disorder
Q2) Aliyah has difficulty falling asleep and tosses and turns all night. Her insomnia may be a symptom of:
A) mania
B) depression
C) either depression or mania
D) neither depression nor mania
Q3) Because of its/their high prevalence, __________ is/are sometimes called the common cold of mental disorders.
A) depression
B) social phobias
C) panic attacks
D) schizophrenia
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) In some cultures it is more acceptable to say, "Than is not feeling well" than to say "Than is feeling depressed." Based on the discussion in the textbook, you would be correct if you assumed that cultures which use ____________ probably have
A) more words for psychological disorders; a low degree of cultural acceptance for those disorders
B) more words for psychological disorders; more people with serious psychological disorders
C) fewer words for psychological disorders; better resources to deal with those disorders in the community
D) fewer words for psychological disorders; some cultural stigma attached to those disorders
Q2) A person you meet at a party has a degree in counselling psychology. Your best guess is that she:
A) does talk therapy with mentally ill persons
B) works in a hospital for the mentally ill
C) counsels people with adjustment and stress problems
D) She could be doing all of the above.
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Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology
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Q1) British-born Muslims of Pakistani descent who support the Taliban may be victims of:
A) Gulf War syndrome
B) historical circumstance
C) a self-fulfilling prophecy
D) culture shock
Q2) A study showed that European American children preferred to play a computer game when:
A) they could make choices affecting the outcome
B) they could make choices that did not affect the outcome
C) their classmates made choices that did not affect the outcome
D) when an "outgroup" made choices that did not affect the outcome
Q3) A cultural environment is:
A) less inclusive than a social environment
B) more inclusive than a social environment
C) equivalent to a social environment
D) less stable than a social environment
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