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This course explores the fundamental principles and theories underlying human behavior from biological, psychological, and social perspectives. Students examine the complex interactions between genetic, environmental, cognitive, and cultural factors that shape how individuals think, feel, and act. Topics include learning and motivation, personality development, social influences, perception, emotions, and the impact of group dynamics on behavior. Through case studies, research analysis, and interactive discussions, students gain a comprehensive understanding of why people behave the way they do in various contexts, providing a solid foundation for further study in psychology, sociology, and related fields.
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Psychology 4th Canadian Edition by Carole Wade
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) The goal of Wilhelm Wundt's trained introspection volunteers was to break down behaviour into its most basic elements.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Enthusiasm for ________ did not disappear until well into the twentieth century, even though it was a classic pseudoscience.
A) introspection
B) functionalism
C) phrenology
D) behaviourism
Answer: C
Q3) ________ established the first psychological laboratory in 1879.
A) Joseph Gall
B) John Locke
C) William James
D) Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research
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Q1) Two sets of observations, assessing age and the number of hairs on a man's head, are compared. Which of the following is the most likely outcome?
A) The first variable causes the second variable.
B) The two variables will be positively correlated.
C) The two variables will be uncorrelated.
D) The two variables will be negatively correlated.
Answer: D
Q2) Double-blind studies are conducted in order to avoid the powerful influence of experimenter effects on the results of an experiment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Case studies are usually only sources of hypotheses, not tests of hypotheses. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment
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Q1) Describe three stressful family circumstances that have been associated with reduced mental ability in the child.
Answer: A good answer will include at least three of the following key points.
* Having a father who does not live with the family predicts reduced intellectual competence.
* Another factor is having a mother with a history of mental illness.
* Another factor is having parents with limited work skills.
* Having a history of stressful events, such as domestic violence, early in life is also predictive of reduced intelligence.
Q2) ________ is the founder of the field of sociobiology.
A) Charles Darwin
B) Edward O. Wilson
C) John B. Watson
D) Noam Chomsky
Answer: B
Q3) About 200 000 genes make up the human genome.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Brain: Source of Mind and Self
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Q1) Although neurons are often called the building blocks of the nervous system, in structure they are more like ________ than blocks.
A) branches of a tree
B) snowflakes
C) pebbles
D) evergreen needles
Q2) The ________ was once considered just a motor centre, but evidence has accumulated that it also plays a part in higher cognitive tasks, such as analyzing sensory information, solving problems, and understanding words.
A) pons
B) cerebellum
C) auditory cortex
D) medulla
Q3) Broca's area, which is involved in speech production, is located in the left frontal lobe.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain what happens when a neurotransmitter molecule diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds with a receptor site.
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Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States
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Q1) Although the purpose of REM sleep is still a matter of debate, the authors point out that it clearly does have a purpose because people who lose REM sleep will:
A) spend more time than usual in the REM phase.
B) spend less time than usual in the REM phase.
C) eventually begin to experience hallucinations and delusions.
D) often recall dreams that are more vivid and strange than usual.
Q2) Which of the following, according to recent research, is true?
A) Repeated use of ecstasy can cause damage to the dopamine receptors in the brain.
B) Repeated use of ecstasy can cause damage to the serotonin receptors in the brain.
C) Repeated use of methamphetamine can cause damage to the serotonin receptors in the brain.
D) Cocaine blocks brain reuptake of GABA and serotonin.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true of opiates?
A) They reduce pain.
B) They cause an intense emotional rush or euphoria.
C) They mimic endorphins.
D) They may increase anxiety.
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Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Hubel and Wiesel discovered feature detector cells the respond selectively to:
A) spots of light in different locations.
B) different colours of stimuli.
C) faces.
D) lines at different orientations.
Q2) As you take this test, it is unlikely that you are constantly aware that your legs are making contact with the legs of the chair. This is called:
A) a miss.
B) sensory threshold.
C) a correct rejection.
D) sensory adaptation.
Q3) The hair cells of the cochlea are embedded in the rubbery:
A) oval window.
B) basilar membrane.
C) semicircular canals.
D) auditory nerve.
Q4) Rods are more effective than cones in distinguishing different wavelengths of light.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning
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Q1) Learning is defined as any relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs because of experience, except for changes due to fatigue, injury, or disease.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Five-year-old Samantha is watching a storm from her window. A huge bolt of lightning is followed by a tremendous thunderclap. Startled, Samantha jumps at the noise. This happens several times. As the storm moves farther away, Samantha jumps at the sight of a lightening bolt but hears the thunder after her jump! In this example, the unconditioned stimulus is the ________ and the conditioned stimulus is the
A) jumping; lightning
B) thunder; jumping
C) thunder; lightning
D) lightning; thunder
Q3) Having a gold star placed on one's spelling quiz would be a secondary reinforcer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the distinction between primary and secondary reinforcers?
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Chapter 8: Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context
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Q1) The authors note that studies investigating deindividuation have found that it:
A) has a strong effect on men but very little influence on the behaviour of women. B) is more common in small towns than in large cities.
C) increases a person's willingness to harm a stranger.
D) makes people more combative and aggressive, and inhibits kindness.
Q2) Henry's occasional lapse is explained by his wife, Edith, as:
A) "Poor Henry is under so much pressure at work."
B) "Henry just never has been good at that."
C) Edith's response would depend on whether they are a happy or an unhappy couple.
D) "That Henry is a hopeless mama's boy."
Q3) The fundamental attribution error is especially prevalent in: A) Kenya.
B) India.
C) Britain.
D) Japan.
Q4) Describe the experimental design of the conformity studies conducted by Solomon Asch.
Q5) What is cognitive dissonance? List one example of this state of tension.
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Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) a general intellectual ability assumed by many theorists to underlie specific mental abilities and talents
A)intelligence
B)reasoning
C)psychometrics
D)"g factor"
E)meta-cognition
Q2) a process in which opposing facts or ideas are weighed and compared, with a view to determining the best solution or resolving differences
A)inductive reasoning
B)dialectal reasoning
C)implicit learning
D)tacit knowledge
E)deductive reasoning
Q3) How do psychometric and cognitive approaches to intelligence compare?
Q4) Our textbook points out that not all mental processing is conscious. Describe an activity that once took your conscious attention to perform but now can be done "without thinking."
Q5) Binet's method of figuring IQ had two serious flaws. Describe these flaws.
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Chapter 10: Memory
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Q1) Maintenance rehearsal is defined as:
A) associating new material to be learned with information maintained in long-term memory.
B) processing the physical features of the stimulus to be remembered.
C) analyzing new material in order to make it memorable.
D) the rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.
Q2) The process by which a long-term memory becomes durable and stable.
A)Maintenance rehearsal
B)Elaborative rehearsal
C)Short-term memory
D)Working memory
E)Consolidation
F)Sensory memory
G)Procedural memory
H)Episodic memory
I)Semantic memory
J)Deep processing
Q3) Why is short-term memory sometimes called a "leaky bucket"?
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Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health
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Q1) Samantha jumps with fear as she feels a hand on her shoulder while walking on a deserted path across campus. What brain structure played a key role in Samantha's swift reaction?
A) hippocampus
B) medulla
C) cerebral cortex
D) amygdala
Q2) Many North Americans assume that by their very nature, men are less emotional than women. But one of the critical thinking guidelines leads us to question this assumption. In Chapter 1, we learned that it was important to "Analyze Assumptions and Biases." Explain how cultural rules have a powerful influence on how men and women express their feelings. Integrate your knowledge of Chapter 11 (Emotion, Stress, and Health) with this critical thinking guideline.
Q3) "I may have had damage to my car from the hurricane, but other people lost their homes."
A)cultivating a sense of humour
B)learning from the experience
C)making social comparisons
D)reappraising the situation
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Chapter 12: Motivation
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Q1) Which underlying motive emphasizes having sex for spiritual ascendance?
A) insecurity
B) peer approval
C) partner approval
D) intimacy
Q2) Women and men differ in the ways that they express love, with women using words and men expressing feelings through actions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The only "real love" is romantic love, and if a relationship begins to lose its passion, it never was true love.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Physiological arousal and orgasm were studied in a laboratory setting by Masters and Johnson. What conclusions did they reach as a result of their research? What limitations have been noted regarding their work?
Q5) How do people acquire their attachment styles of love?
Q6) How did the study of embryonic development shed light on the biology of arousal and orgasm?
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Chapter 13: Development Over the Life Span
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Q1) A child in Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development will be able to:
A) judge liquid by its quantity rather than by changes in its appearance.
B) understand that 2 × 6 = 12 is the reverse operation of 12 ÷ 2 = 6.
C) reason that the number of pennies stays the same whether spread out or stacked.
D) pretend to drink juice out of toy buckets in the sandbox.
Q2) Preschoolers are not as egocentric as Piaget thought. In fact, most three- and four-year-olds can take another person's perspective.
A)True
B)False
Q3) They rapidly acquire new words in the context in which they hear them.
A)6 months to 1 year
B)18 to 24 months
C)4 to 6 months
D)end of first year
E)2 to 6 years
Q4) List three kinds of problems that are more common during adolescence than during childhood or adulthood.
Q5) Why has there been public concern about the exposure of pregnant women to lead?
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Chapter 14: Theories of Personality
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Q1) A ________ is a habitual way of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
A) temperament
B) personality
C) trait
D) personality type
Q2) In collectivist cultures, more weight is given to an individual's preferences than to group norms as explanations of behaviour.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jessie becomes furious when her favourite hockey player is intentionally hurt by an opponent. According to Freud's model of the mind, her "id" would unconsciously feel:
A) "I'm so angry I could kill that player."
B) "Thou shalt not kill."
C) "I'm going to tear this program in half!"
D) "What, me angry? I never get angry."
Q4) If you do not want to be taken in by the Barnum effect, beware of your selective perceptions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a problem with the DSM?
A) the likelihood of misdiagnosis
B) the power of diagnostic labels
C) the illusion of objectivity and universality
D) the danger of overdiagnosis
Q2) The primary purpose of the DSM is to:
A) keep the number of diagnostic categories of mental disorders to a minimum.
B) help psychologists assess normal, as well as abnormal, behaviour.
C) describe the causes of common psychological disorders.
D) provide descriptive criteria for diagnosing mental disorders.
Q3) Researchers are trying to track down the single gene they believe is responsible for the specific symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations, flat emotions, and impoverished speech.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are typical symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder?
Q5) Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorders may have brain abnormalities such that their "alarm signal" doesn't turn off.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
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Q1) In client-centred therapy, the therapist's role is to:
A) help the client reach understanding and insight regarding the reason for his or her unhappiness and problems.
B) listen to the client's needs in an accepting, nonjudgmental way and offer unconditional positive regard.
C) help clients keep records of when their unwanted habits occur and of what positive consequences keep these habits continuing.
D) listen attentively as clients cope with the inescapable realities of life and death, and struggle to live a meaningful life.
Q2) Which of the following drugs are most often prescribed by physicians in general practice for patients who complain of depressed mood, panic, or anxiety?
A) antidepressants
B) lithium carbonate
C) antipsychotic drugs
D) tranquilizers
Q3) How does a salt, lithium carbonate, seem to produce its effects? For what disorder is this drug effective? What concerns are expressed regarding the dosage of lithium?
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