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This course explores the complexities of human behavior through the lenses of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Students examine the interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors that shape individual actions and group dynamics. Key topics include motivation, emotion, perception, development, social influence, culture, and the impact of environment on behavior. The course emphasizes critical analysis of theories and research, applying concepts to real-world scenarios to foster a deeper understanding of why people think, feel, and act the way they do.
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Introduction to Psychology Gateways to Mind and Behavior 12th Edition by Dennis Coon
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Chapter 1: Introduction the Psychology
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Q1) According to the authors of your textbook, which of the following would be considered a POOR study strategy?
A)self-testing
B)overlearning
C)spaced practice
D)recopying your lecture notes
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a good test-taking suggestion for taking an essay test?
A)It is not necessary to make an elaborate outline of your answer before writing.Just jot down your ideas as they come and logically arrange them.
B)Be direct, make a point, and support it.
C)If the question asks for one example, it is better to give several examples in order to gain points.
D)Your ideas are of first importance, so look over your essay answers for errors in spelling and grammar last.
Answer: C
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Chapter 1: Extension A: Introduction to Psychology and Research Methods
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Q1) Wundt systematically observed and measured _____, which consist of physical energy that affect people and evoke a response.
A)archetypes
B)metacomponents
C)stimuli
D)precipitants
Answer: C
Q2) Patrick borrows his mother's car keys and tries to start the car as he has seen his parents do so often.Their neighbor, who is a psychologist, explained that Patrick modeled his parents' driving behavior because he had the expectation of being rewarded with the fun of driving.This explanation best fits which psychological viewpoint?
A)psychobehaviorism
B)Gestalt psychology
C)psychoanalysis
D)cognitive behaviorism
Answer: D
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Chapter 1: Extension B: Introduction to Psychology and
Research Methods
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Q1) Researchers using naturalistic observations to study an animal colony must avoid making friends with the animals to minimize the A)placebo effect.
B)problem of sampling bias.
C)effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable.
D)effects of the observer on the observed.
Answer: D
Q2) Which mental health professional's activities includes visiting patients' homes, evaluating patients and their families, and conducting group psychotherapy?
A)psychiatrist
B)psychoanalyst
C)psychiatric social worker
D)comparative psychologist
Answer: C
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Chapter 1: Extension C: Introduction to Psychology and Research Methods
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Q1) A psychologist who is ____________________ can best be described as drawing from many psychological approaches.
Q2) In an experiment to determine whether the THC in marijuana impairs memory, the participants who ate food containing the THC were the
A)independent group.
B)dependent group.
C)experimental group.
D)control group.
Q3) Psychoanalysis emphasizes free-will, self-actualization, and the self-image.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" was the motto of the behaviorists.
A)True
B)False
Q5) You want to find out if people actually throw their trash after they eat inside a fast-food restaurant.Describe the non-experimental research method that would be the BEST to use in this situation, how you would conduct this study, and list an advantage and a disadvantage of this method.
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Chapter 2: Extension A: Brain and Behavior
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Q1) Receptor sites on a neuron are primarily found on A)dendrites and soma.
B)dendrites only.
C)axons only.
D)soma and axons.
Q2) A psychiatrist does a lengthy and thorough examination of a patient in a hospital.This patient was the victim of a car accident, in which a pen that was lying on the dashboard actually pierced her skull and her brain.The psychiatrist performs physical examinations, interviews with the patient and family members, and closely observes her behavior.This technique is known as
A)a clinical study.
B)an ablation.
C)MRI scan.
D)deep lesioning.
Q3) In humans, the left side of the brain mainly controls the A)right side of the body.
B)left side of the body.
C)lower half of the body.
D)upper half of the body.
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Chapter 2: Extension B: Brain and Behavior
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Q1) Damage to Wernicke's area would lead to A)motor aphasia.
B)fluent aphasia.
C)expressive aphasia.
D)facial agnosia.
Q2) Which system within the forebrain has a major role in producing emotions and motivating behaviors, including rage, fear, sexual response, and laughter?
A)somatosensory cortex
B)endocrine system
C)limbic system
D)reticular activating system
Q3) In order to perform a split-brain operation, the _____ must be severed.
A)pons
B)cerebellum
C)corpus callosum
D)cerebral cortex
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Chapter 2: Extension C: Brain and Behavior
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Q1) Nerve gases prevent the normal breakdown and inactivation of which neurotransmitter?
A)acetylcholine
B)dopamine
C)histamine
D)serotonin
Q2) Explain why a person who is left-handed may not be right-brain dominant for language processing, and describe some behavioral clues that may point to that person's brain dominance for language skills.
Q3) Right-handed individuals who write with a straight hand and lefties who write with a hooked hand are usually
A)more intelligent than those who do not use this hand position.
B)less intelligent than those who do not use this hand position.
C)left-brain dominant for language.
D)right-brain dominant for language.
Q4) The ____________________ is the part of the forebrain that stores lasting verbal memories.
Q5) The increased size and wrinkling of the cerebral cortex in higher animals is referred to as ____________________.
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Chapter 3: Extension A: Human Development
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Q1) Both parents carry one recessive gene for sickle cell anemia, but they do not have sickle cell anemia themselves.What is the chance that their child could have sickle cell anemia?
A)one chance in two
B)one chance in three
C)one chance in four
D)no chance (zero out of four)
Q2) The identifiable patterns of parental caretaking and interaction with children are referred to as
A)parental temperament.
B)parental styles.
C)childrearing methods.
D)discipline methods.
Q3) You go to a movie and leave your child with the babysitter.When you return, your child gets near you but resists touching you.Your child's behavior is suggestive of which type of attachment?
A)securely attached
B)secure-avoidant
C)insecure-avoidant
D)insecure-ambivalent
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Chapter 3: Extension B: Human Development
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Q1) According to Chomsky, language patterns must be _____ since children around the world use a limited number of patterns in their first sentences.
A)inborn
B)learned very early
C)related to the intelligence of the child
D)prelinguistic
Q2) Lawrence Kohlberg is known for his research in the area of _____ development.
A)language
B)physical
C)moral
D)motor
Q3) Recent research on infant cognition suggests that infants appear to know that objects are solid and do not disappear when out of view
A)as young as 3 months of age.
B)only after a lengthy sensorimotor stage.
C)only after speech has progressed beyond its earliest stages.
D)around 18 months of age.
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Chapter 3: Extension C: Human Development
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Q1) Edward and Jane are a young married couple who not only care deeply for each other but also consider each other their best friend.Erikson would say that Edward and Jane are exhibiting A)generativity.
B)intimacy.
C)integrity.
D)dependency.
Q2) The preconventional level of moral development is most characteristic of A)adults.
B)adolescents.
C)young children and delinquents.
D)young adults.
Q3) After reviewing many studies, psychologist Elizabeth Gershoff concluded that parents
A)should minimize spanking or avoid it entirely.
B)use spanking in combination with the withdrawal of love technique.
C)use spanking only with children under the age of 12.
D)use spanking as one's main discipline approach.
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Chapter 3: Extension D: Human Development
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Q1) Adolescence is the same as the developmental period known as puberty. A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Gould, around the age of 30 many people experience a minor life crisis in which they tend to ask themselves, "Is this it?" in regards to their previous life choices. A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Piaget, when a person uses existing mental patterns in new situations, this person is using the process of ____________________.
Q4) Explain how parents and teachers can utilize Vygotsky's ideas to help children to become more skillful learners.
Q5) ____________________ refers to the sum of all external conditions that affect a person. or or
Q6) ____________________ psychologists are interested in changes in behavior that occur from conception to death.
Q7) Substances capable of causing birth defects are known as
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Chapter 4: Extension A: Sensation and Reality
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Q1) A frog's eyes are highly sensitive to small, dark, moving spots.Thus, the frog's eyes act as _____ since they are attuned to this specific stimuli.
A)feature detectors
B)sensory amplifiers
C)perceptual transducers
D)phosphenes
Q2) Simultaneous color contrast refers to
A)how the apparent color of an object is influenced by the colors of nearby objects.
B)the trichromatic theory where vision is based on three types of cones.
C)the three-opponent theory.
D)the primary stage theory.
Q3) Visual acuity refers to
A)sharpness.
B)brightness.
C)color distinctions.
D)depth perception.
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Chapter 4: Extension B: Sensation and Reality
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Q1) Regarding the sense of touch, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)If one lost the sense of touch below the neck, he or she would be unable to tell which position his or her body was in without seeing it.
B)Skin receptors produce at least five different sensations, including light touch, pressure, pain, cold, and warmth.
C)The skin has more nerve endings for temperature than for touch and pressure or for pain.
D)Receptors with particular shapes appear to specialize in various sensations.
Q2) Sound vibrations make waves in the fluid inside the cochlea.These waves in the fluid are detected by _____ within the cochlea.
A)ossicles
B)hair cells
C)pinnas
D)umami cells
Q3) Regarding supertasters, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)Supertasters tend to prefer eating sweets and fatty foods.
B)Women are more often supertasters.
C)Superstasters tend to have stronger tastes for irritants, such as alcohol.
D)Superstasters tend to have stronger tastes for bitter.
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Chapter 5: Extension A: Perceiving the World
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Q1) If you are riding in a car and are running low on gas, your attention will shift to gas stations.This is an example of how _____ affects one's attention.
A)habituation
B)divided perception
C)motives
D)inattentional blindness
Q2) The fact that we can walk and chew gum at the same time illustrates that A)our attention depends on different motor systems.
B)we use selective attention.
C)we use divided attention.
D)we use sequential attention.
Q3) Five-year-old Jay drew a picture of an Easter bunny hiding eggs.He drew a small bunny at the top of the page as if the bunny is hopping away from the large multicolored egg at the bottom of the page.Jay has used which two pictorial cues?
A)light and shadow and relative size
B)relative size and height in the picture plan
C)the motion parallax and aerial perspective
D)aerial perspective and interposition
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Chapter 5: Extension B: Perceiving the World
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Q1) Personal objectivity requires _____ to maintain.
A)frequent reality testing
B)empathic responding
C)confidence and high self-esteem
D)being open to suggestion
Q2) In a tilted mystery house at an amusement park, objects appear to roll uphill.This effect is most likely related to
A)perceptual habits.
B)impossible figures.
C)stroboscopic movement.
D)the Müller-Lyer illusion.
Q3) For a person who wants to become a better "eyewitness" to life, which of the following suggestions would be considered good advice?
A)Engage in reality testing and try taking the other person's perspective.
B)Break perceptual habits and interrupt habituation.
C)Seek out-of-the ordinary experiences.
D)All of these suggestions are good advice.
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Chapter 6: Extension A: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Larry is having trouble going to sleep.Which food would NOT be recommended for him to eat or drink if he wanted to increase his intake of tryptophan?
A)a baked potato
B)pasta
C)orange juice
D)cookies
Q2) We cannot know the first-person experience of
A)lower animals, like bats or cats.
B)primates other than humans.
C)other humans.
D)any of these organisms.
Q3) The symptoms of a temporary sleep-deprivation psychosis include
A)sudden, irresistible, daytime sleep attacks.
B)hallucinations, delusions, and disorientation.
C)episodes of sleep walking and sleep talking.
D)all of these.
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Chapter 6: Extension B: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Which of the following CANNOT be obtained through hypnosis?
A)amnesia
B)pain relief
C)superhuman strength
D)sensory changes
Q2) Kira spent an hour in a flotation tank that will restrict sensory stimuli and will likely produce
A)REM rebound.
B)hallucinations, delusions, and other psychotic symptoms.
C)a large drop in blood pressure and muscle tension.
D)increased numbers of beta waves.
Q3) If you are hypnotized, you might experience feelings
A)of floating or sinking.
B)of anesthesia or separation from your body.
C)that your actions are automatic.
D)of any or all of these.
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Chapter 6: Extension C: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Regarding marijuana and THC, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)IQ scores and other cognitive measures rebound in about a month after a person quits using marijuana.
B)THC accumulates int he body's fatty tissues, especially in the brain and reproductive organs.
C)Marijuana smoke contains less cancer-causing hydrocarbons and less tar than tobacco smoke.
D)Marijuana is classified as a mild hallucinogen.
Q2) After years of studying the harmfulness of marijuana, scientists have concluded that frequent marijuana use can
A)lower sperm production in men with users producing more abnormal sperm.
B)cause some loss of coordination and concentration.
C)increase the risk of prostate and cervical cancer.
D)cause all of these effects.
Q3) Which combination of drugs is most likely to produce a lethal drug interaction?
A)alcohol and nicotine
B)barbiturate and alcohol
C)hallucinogen and amphetamine
D)barbiturate and amphetamine
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Chapter 6: Extension D: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Eating starchy foods tends to decrease one's levels of tryptophan, thus, increasing one's tendency toward insomnia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ____________________ theory proposes that dreams reflect everyday waking thoughts and emotions.
Q3) ____________________ consists of all the sensations, perceptions, memories, and feelings you are aware of at any instant.
Q4) ____________________ refers to excessive daytime sleepiness and can result from depression, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and drug abuse.
Q5) The reduction in the body's response to a drug which may accompany drug use is called ____________________.
Q6) If you go without sleep for 32 hours, you will need to then sleep 32 hours straight to recover completely.
A)True
B)False
Q7) ____________________ is drug made by mixing degreasing solvent and drain cleaner.
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Chapter 7: Extension A: Conditioning and Learning
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Q1) In operant conditioning, learning
A)is based on the consequences of making a response.
B)occurs when a response that is followed by a reinforcer is repeated.
C)occurs when a response that is followed by a punisher is not repeated.
D)involves all of these.
Q2) The learning of an emotional response to stimuli or situations portrayed in a movie would have to take place through
A)vicarious conditioning.
B)operant conditioning.
C)spontaneous recovery.
D)response shaping.
Q3) Classical conditioning tends to involve
A)reflexive-type behaviors.
B)a learning by immediate consequences.
C)rewards more than punishments.
D)punishments more than rewards.
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Chapter 7: Extension B: Conditioning and Learning
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Q1) What do positive and negative reinforcement have in common?
A)They both have aversive qualities.
B)They both have pleasant qualities.
C)They both lead to a decrease in response frequencies.
D)They both lead to an increase in response frequencies.
Q2) A reinforced response tends to be made again when similar antecedents are present.This is referred to as
A)operant reinforcement control.
B)operant stimulus generalization.
C)operant stimulus disinhibition.
D)spontaneous recovery.
Q3) Jimmy's mother slaps his hand when he reaches for his third before-dinner cookie.Later, Jimmy's behavior will probably A)increase.
B)disappear.
C)reappear.
D)become displaced.
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Chapter 7: Extension C: Conditioning and Learning
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Q1) Regarding the findings on modeled aggression, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
A)Repeated exposure to violence desensitizes individuals, making them less likely to react negatively to violence and, hence, more prone to engage in it.
B)Canada, Norway, and Switzerland have restricted the amount of permissible violence on television.
C)Children and young adults who play violent video games were much more likely to show aggression toward others.
D)All of these statements are true.
Q2) Self-recording is important in managing your own behavior because
A)you cannot learn anything without rewards.
B)simply knowing that you are reaching a goal is rewarding.
C)you need to know when you are over-rewarding yourself.
D)you need to apply the Premack principle.
Q3) Tommy's mother slaps his hand as punishment when he tries to sneak his third before-dinner cookie.We can expect Tommy's cookie-sneaking to completely disappear.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Extension A: Memory
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Q1) You and your husband go to the movies.About 20 minutes into the movie, he asks you who that actress is that just came on the screen and if she is on some television show you watch.You know that you know her name but you just cannot recall it.This illustrates
A)the savings score.
B)suppression state.
C)encoding failure.
D)the tip-of-the tongue state.
Q2) You have gone for the first time to one of the campus computer labs to work on your psychology assignments.However, you forgot your first-day handout, which has the psychology website listed.You spot a person from your class, and he tells you the website.You walk back to your computer and type in the website.In the process of working through the assignment, you accidentally exit completely out of the system.You cannot remember the psychology website.This illustrates how _____ operates.
A)sensory memory
B)iconic memory
C)short-term memory
D)procedural memory
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Chapter 8: Extension B: Memory
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Q1) Regarding research on where different types of long-term memories are stored in the brain, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
A)Declarative long-term memories appear to be stored in the cortex of the brain.
B)Long-term procedural memories appear to be stored in the cerebellum.
C)Episodic memories are stored in the front of the cortex, while semantic memories are stored in the back area of the cortex.
D)All of these statements are true.
Q2) People who are having memories of abuse can try to verify the memories through
A)others who were there or may have witnessed it.
B)analysis from a self-help book.
C)a psychoanalytically trained therapist.
D)age regression, hypnosis, and dream analysis.
Q3) When prior learning facilitates or interferes with later learning, we say that _____ has occurred.
A)reminiscence
B)transition
C)feedback
D)transfer
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Chapter 8: Extension C: Memory
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Q1) In the film clip, the teacher was using _____ to help the children to list the northeastern states.
A)rote rehearsal
B)associations between the states
C)chunking
D)an acronym
Q2) To remember the Spanish word pajaro means "bird," you can link it to a word in English that it sounds like, such as "parked car-o." Therefore, you might visualize a parked car jam-packed full of birds.You have just used the _____ method.
A)keyword
B)consolidation
C)acronym
D)eidetic
Q3) ____________________ memory, also called fact memory, is that part of long-term memory containing information, such as the definition of mammals and the names of your pets.
Q4) Discuss the four basic principles of mnemonics, and explain how they are able to improve your memory.
Q5) ____________________ refers to summarizing aloud while you are learning.
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Chapter 9: Extension A: Cognition, Language, Creativity, and Intelligence
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Q1) Regarding animal communication, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A)Animals exhibit varied cries, gestures, and mating calls, but even these communications are often not understood by other animals of the same species.
B)Although animal communication is limited, they can learn to use human language with ease and eventually attain the communication skills of the average high school sophomore.
C)Animal communication can truly be called a language because it consists of symbols, grammar, and, most importantly, it is productive.
D)While psychologists do not doubt that animals communicate, there is disagreement as to whether or not animals can actually be taught a language.
Q2) Chomsky believes that we do not learn all the sentences we might ever say, but rather we actively create them by applying _____ rules.
A)functional
B)transformation
C)disjunctive
D)generative
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Chapter 9: Extension B: Cognition, Language, Creativity, and Intelligence
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Q1) Humanistic psychologist _____ believed that we must live honestly and creatively to make full use of our potentials.
A)Rollo May
B)Abraham Maslow
C)Carl Rogers
D)Victor Frankl
Q2) Measuring a person's score on an intelligence test relative to others taking the same test is called a
A)multiple IQ.
B)mental age.
C)deviation IQ.
D)chronological IQ.
Q3) If one ignores the base rate when making a decision, it usually leads to
A)a valid syllogism.
B)mental flexibility.
C)a correct intuition.
D)an error in judgment.
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Chapter 9: Extension C: Cognition, Language, Creativity, and Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the following kinds of skills is measured by traditional IQ tests as well as being a part of Gardner's multiple intelligences?
A)interpersonal skills
B)musical skills
C)bodily-kinesthetic skills
D)spatial skills
Q2) Which of the following subtests would be found on the performance section of the WAIS-III?
A)picture completion
B)face recognition
C)vocabulary
D)logic word puzzles
Q3) Which of the following provides strong evidence for an environmental view of intelligence?
A)identical twins reared together
B)families with one adopted and one biological child
C)identical twins reared apart
D)the Bell Curve studies
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Chapter 9: Extension D: Cognition, Language, Creativity, and Intelligence
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Q1) Sarita is four years old, but she enjoys talking with older children and with adults.She shows kindness to people, is cooperative, has an excellent memory, and has been talking in complete sentences since she was two.Sarita is showing early signs of ____________________.
Q2) The study of the meaning of words is called ____________________.
Q3) If 98 out of 100 people respond "oak tree" when asked to name what tree best represents the concept of "tree," then "oak tree" would be called a(n)____________________.
Q4) If you take an IQ test today, the test examiner will convert your relative standing on this test for your age group to a(n) ____________________ IQ.
Q5) Describe and give an example of each of the four barriers to problem-solving.
Q6) Beliefs, such as "fantasy and playfulness are only for children," can interfere with problem-solving and are called ____________________ barriers to thinking.
Q7) A child who says, "I goed to the store" is using ____________________ rules to generate this sentence.
Q8) A(n) ____________________ intellectual disability occurs most often in very poor households where nutrition, intellectual stimulation, medical care, and emotional support are inadequate.
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A)Your hunger drive would be as strong as your need for food.
B)Your need for food would be stronger than your hunger drive.
C)Your hunger drive would be stronger than your need for food.
D)Your need for food would be weaker than your hunger drive.
Q2) Stimulus motives differ from primary motives in that
A)stimulus motives are innate and necessary for survival.
B)stimulus motives appear to be innate, but are not necessary for survival.
C)stimulus motives are acquired through various forms of conditioning and learning.
D)stimulus motives include needs for security, status, approval, and achievement.
Q3) If you were to travel across five time zones, you would feel best if you
A)preadapted yourself to the new schedule.
B)went to sleep immediately on arriving to catch up.
C)travel from west to east.
D)fly late in the day if you are flying east.
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A)adaptable and make better decisions.
B)in a good mood, even if you have missed a night of sleep.
C)more helpful, efficient, creative, and better at problem-solving.
D)all of these.
Q2) When Jeremy first tried heroin, he felt a "rush" of pleasure.However, as the drug wore off, discomfort and craving occurred, so he began using heroin more often.Now that Jeremy is addicted to heroin, he finds that the drug has stopped producing pleasure, but it will end the withdrawal symptoms he now suffers, at least for a while.Jeremy's experience is best explained by the _____ theory.
A)drive reduction
B)opponent-process
C)Yerkes-Dodson
D)Cannon-Bard
Q3) Success, achievement, competition, status, and power are
A)considered social motives or goals.
B)classified as learned or secondary motives.
C)acquired through socialization and cultural conditioning.
D)all of these.
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Q1) In Hans Selye's experiment, when the lateral area of the rat's hypothalamus was stimulated, the rat _____; and when the stimulation stopped, the rat _____.
A)started eating; stopped eating
B)stopped eating; started eating
C)went to sleep; awakened
D)awakened; went back to sleep
Q2) Which theory of emotion holds the view that bodily changes PRECEDE emotion and that we experience an emotion only AFTER our body reacts?
A)the common sense approach
B)the Cannon-Bard theory
C)attribution theory
D)the James-Lange theory
Q3) The most universally recognized facial expression is
A)pursed lips.
B)smiling.
C)sticking out your tongue.
D)raising your eyebrows.
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Q1) The ____________________ theory explains how skydiving, rock climbing, ski jumping, and other hazardous pursuits become reinforcing. or
Q2) Explain the difference between individuals with a high need for achievement and those with a high need for power.
Q3) The maintenance of steady states of temperature and blood pressure are examples of ____________________.
Q4) "Yo-yo dieting" can dramatically raise the body's metabolic rate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When parents try to break up the romance of a son or daughter, they tend to add anger, frustration, and fear to the situation and inadvertently intensify the couple's feelings of "love." This situation is best explained by the attribution theory of emotion.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ____________________ refers to the dynamics of behavior, that is, the ways in which our actions are initiated, directed, sustained, and terminated.
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A)Gender role stereotypes are simplified beliefs about what men and women are actually like.
B)Gender role stereotypes reflect real biological differences.
C)Gender role stereotypes are true reflections of what men and women actually do.
D)Gender role stereotypes are almost always accurate.
Q2) Regarding sexual orientation, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
A)Sexual behavior and romantic relationships are strongly influenced by a person's sexual orientation.
B)Sexual orientation is a very deep part of personal identity.
C)Sexual orientation is a very stable personal characteristic.
D)All of these are true.
Q3) Researcher Sandra Bem describes persons who had high scores in both masculine and feminine traits as
A)schizophrenic.
B)asexual.
C)bisexual.
D)androgynous.
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Q1) Gaining sexual pleasure by inflicting pain during the sexual act is referred to as A)fetishism.
B)sexual sadism.
C)sexual masochism.
D)frotteurism.
Q2) Two of the most common paraphilias are
A)voyeurism and transsexuality.
B)exhibitionism and pedophilia.
C)frotteurism and bisexuality.
D)dyspareunia and vaginismus.
Q3) Ferral has been convicted of child molestation.He has which paraphilia?
A)sexual masochism
B)voyeurism
C)pedophilia
D)bisexuality
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A)mounting a character attack.
B)exhibiting the "big freeze."
C)whining.
D)gunnysacking.
Q2) Large doses of alcohol suppress orgasm in women and erections in men.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the text, which of the following is part of the guidelines for maintaining a healthy emotional relationship with someone?
A)Try to see things through your partner's eyes.
B)Do not try to win a fight, but resolve differences.
C)Recognize that anger can be appropriate.
D)All of these are part of the guidelines for a healthy relationship.
Q4) Sensate focus
A)is used to treat erectile disorders in men.
B)involves both the man and his sexual partner.
C)directs attention to natural sensations of pleasure.
D)involves all of these.
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Q1) Delaying action until it is appropriate describes the ego's use of the A)pleasure principle.
B)morality principle.
C)ego ideal.
D)reality principle.
Q2) Jasmine is a college student, who is self-conscious and anxious in social situations and who tends to be a bit too trusting and tender-hearted when it comes to loaning money and clothing to her roommates.She constantly worries about her school work and job, although she is an excellent student and employee.Jasmine would probably be rated
A)low on agreeableness.
B)low on conscientiousness.
C)high on neuroticism.
D)low on openness to experience.
Q3) According to Freud, the _____ sets one's goals and aspirations that result in feelings of pride when they are met.
A)ego
B)conscience
C)id
D)ego ideal
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A)seek peak experiences
B)take responsibility
C)be willing to change
D)try to live up to what others think you should be
Q2) Which of the following aspects of Freud's theory has been challenged by new research?
A)the identification of feeding, toilet training, and early sexual experiences as critical events in personality formation
B)his proposition that development proceeds through a series of stages
C)his idea that the first years of life help shape adult personality
D)his portrayal of the elementary school years as free from sexuality and unimportant for personality development
Q3) Abraham Maslow developed the concept of self-actualization by initially studying
A)the maze-learning abilities of rats with sub-cortical lesions.
B)his own patients.
C)how children reacted to viewing aggressive role models on television.
D)people who lived unusually effective lives.
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Q1) Parents who help their children to understand and deal effectively with emotions, such as anger and jealousy, while giving their children unconditional positive regard are more likely to have children who grow up to A)use organismic valuing.
B)use conditions of worth.
C)be incongruent.
D)be fixated.
Q2) Rogers believed that positive and negative evaluations by others, especially the parents, cause children to develop internal standards of evaluation called A)organismic valuing.
B)ego ideals.
C)conditions of worth.
D)possible selves.
Q3) A person taking a(n) _____ is asked to describe ambiguous stimuli or make up stories about them.
A)situational test
B)honesty test
C)projective test
D)behavioral assessment
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Q2) ____________________ is the process by which a person is making full use of his or her potentials. or
Q3) According to studies of the influence of heredity and environment on personality traits, heredity appears to be responsible for less than ten percent of the variation in most personality traits.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Lee, Zimbardo, and Bertholf, ____________________ tend to be shy and restrained, kill in furious, frenzied attacks, and may have amnesia for their violent actions.
Q5) Rogers described mismatches between one's self-image and one's ideal self as a state of ____________________.
Q6) A(n) ____________________ is a shy, reserved person whose attention is focused inward, while a(n) ____________________ is a bold, outgoing person whose attention is directed outward.
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Q1) Margo, a young nurse, realizes with dismay that she has "lost all patience with her patients" and wishes they would "go somewhere else to be sick." Margo's feelings are a clear sign of _____, a condition in which workers are physically, mentally, and emotionally drained.
A)job stress.
B)burnout.
C)career cares.
D)job jeopardy.
Q2) Which of the following would be the WORST type of stress for a person?
A)one that is unpredictable and cannot be controlled
B)one that is unpredictable and can be controlled
C)one that is predictable and cannot be controlled
D)one that is predictable and can be controlled
Q3) Regarding stress and control, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A)Direct control over the stressor increases the stress reaction.
B)Perceived control over the stressor increases the stress reaction.
C)A perceived lack of control is just as threatening as an actual lack of control.
D)A sense of control is unimportant regarding the stress reaction.
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Q1) Although Larry never went out for any sport at his high school, he could be seen in the stands of every game wearing the school's colors and cheering wildly for his team.When they won, he felt exhilarated and would tell people, "We won! I knew we could do it," as if he had played the whole game himself.Larry is exhibiting which defense mechanism?
A)identification
B)rationalization
C)intellectualization
D)sublimation
Q2) Lindsey is a "stay-at-home" mother who applied for her first job in ten years.The interviewer tells Lindsey that she did not get the job because of her lack of computer skills.Lindsey decides not to apply for anymore business positions, although she could take a computer short-course at the local community college to attain these skills.In regards to attaining a position at a company, Lindsey
A)is exhibiting reaction formation.
B)is exhibiting compensation.
C)has created a real barrier.
D)has created an imagined barrier.
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A)has transient depressive episodes.
B)sees life as a series of challenges.
C)uses prescription medication to alleviate the signs of stress. D)does all of these.
Q2) Microstressors tend to affect one's day-to-day emotional and physical health. A)True
B)False
Q3) A person who is unusually resistant to the effects of stress would be described by psychologists as A)a hardy personality. B)detached.
C)vulnerable.
D)a Type C personality.
Q4) ____________________ is a method of managing bodily reactions to stress by visualizing peaceful scenes.
Q5) A stressful condition that occurs when a person must respond at or near maximum capacity for long time periods is known as ____________________.
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A)neurosis
B)insanity
C)psychosis
D)homosexuality
Q2) Which of the following disorders is characterized by the person being socially withdrawn and unable to control his or her thoughts or actions and by the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations?
A)neurotic disorders
B)dissociative disorders
C)somatoform disorders
D)psychotic disorders
Q3) Two major types of psychosis are
A)multiple personalities and conversion disorders.
B)delusional disorders and schizophrenia.
C)obsessive-compulsive disorder and multiple personalities.
D)schizophrenia and the schizoid personality disorder.
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Q1) The four major subtypes of schizophrenia are
A)borderline, histrionic, paranoid, and atypical.
B)disorganized, catatonic, paranoid, and undifferentiated.
C)depressive, manic, dysthymic, and cyclothymic.
D)stuporous, agitated, acute, and chronic.
Q2) Paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by
A)delusions of grandeur and persecution.
B)severe depression.
C)silliness and bizarre behavior.
D)mutism.
Q3) When a person has a(n) _____, she has an intense, irrational fear of being observed, evaluated, embarrassed, or humiliated by others in everyday situations, which leads them to avoid such activities as eating, writing, using the rest room, or speaking in public.
A)social phobia
B)generalized anxiety disorder
C)obsessive-compulsive disorder
D)acute stress disorder
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Q1) Behaviorists would say that self-defeating behaviors are maintained by immediate reinforcement in the form of
A)relief from anxiety.
B)ego defense mechanisms.
C)protection for one's self-image.
D)avoiding existential anxiety.
Q2) In a typical "catch 22" situation, women who are independent, aggressive, and unemotional may be considered "unhealthy" even though women who are vain, emotional, dependent and irrational (all "feminine" traits in our culture) may be classified as having a histrionic or dependent personality disorder.This example of the gender bias in judging normality
A)occurs because women are genetically predisposed to emotional dysfunction more so than are men.
B)occurs because the standards we set for males are higher than those for females.
C)occurs because the standards for judging normality tend to be based on males.
D)occurred in the 1950s but does not occur today.
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A)True
B)False
Q2) John views a cough as a sign of pneumonia and a little indigestion as an ulcer.John most likely has the somatoform disorder known as ____________________.
Q3) The clinical judgment that a person's behavior is abnormal is usually made on the basis of the two core features that the behavior is socially non-conforming and is annoying to a majority of the population.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Many self-styled reformers, crank letter writers, conspiracy theorists, and "UFO abductees" suffer from the delusional disorder known as paranoid psychosis.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to the textbook, the closest match for "nervous breakdown" would be a(n) _____________________ disorder.
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Q1) An existential therapist helps people
A)to develop adequate defense mechanisms.
B)uncover a "true self" hidden behind a screen of defenses.
C)discover self-imposed limitations to personal identity.
D)confront irrational beliefs that make their thinking maladaptive.
Q2) Client-centered therapy is based on the work of
A)Albert Ellis.
B)Carl Rogers.
C)Sigmund Freud.
D)B.F.Skinner.
Q3) A young man dreams of pulling a pistol from his waistband and aiming at a target, while his wife watches.The pistol repeatedly fails to discharge, and the man's wife laughs at him.A Freudian psychoanalyst might see the symbolic, or _____ content of this dream to mean that the young man is suffering from repressed feelings of sexual impotence.
A)transference
B)lucid
C)manifest
D)latent
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Q1) _____ is a technique for reducing fear or anxiety that is based on holding upsetting thoughts in mind while rapidly moving the eyes from side to side.
A)The tension-release method
B)REBT
C)EMDR
D)Covert sensitization
Q2) George is going to a therapist who has asked him to keep a journal of his thoughts in order to assess the basis for his negative outlook and then help him change these self-defeating thought patterns.George is probably seeing a _____ therapist.
A)cognitive
B)psychoanalytic
C)behavioral
D)non-directive
Q3) Nonreward and time-out are typically used to bring about the A)extinction of maladaptive responses.
B)aversive conditioning of undesirable behaviors.
C)positive reinforcement of target behaviors.
D)negative reinforcement of specific behaviors.
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A)Although high quality care is available in almost every community, a lack of money prevents large numbers of people from getting the help they need.
B)One in five of the two million Americans who are in jail or prison are mentally ill.
C)Many former mental patients have joined the ranks of the homeless.
D)All of these statements are true.
Q2) Modern practices in the treatment of psychological disorders avoid long-term hospitalization and its chief negative side-effect, which is often
A)self-destructive behaviors.
B)physical disability.
C)chronic depression.
D)life-long dependency.
Q3) An effective therapist
A)is an enthusiastic learner and values complexity and ambiguity.
B)is mentally healthy and mature and nurtures their own emotional well-being.
C)have strong social skills and expertly use these skills in therapy.
D)is characterized by all of these.
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Q1) ____________________ is the reduced use of full-time commitment to mental institutions that has resulted in many former patients being homeless or repeatedly jailed.
Q2) Regarding family therapy, the therapist meets with the entire family at each session.
A)True
B)False
Q3) You place a rubber band around your wrist.Every time you catch yourself engaging in negative self-talk, "pop" the rubber band as mild punishment.This technique is known as _____________________.
Q4) Sigmund Freud developed the psychotherapy known as psychoanalysis, which viewed emotional problems, like "hysteria," as originating from unconscious conflicts.
A)True
B)False
Q5) During self-directed desensitization, when one reaches a card that cannot be visualized without becoming tense in three attempts, one skips this card and proceeds to the next one.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Cognitive dissonance theory is based on the human need for A)self-actualization.
B)self-esteem.
C)social approval.
D)consistency.
Q2) The success or failure of attempted persuasion can usually be understood by considering the characteristics of the
A)communicator, group, and target behavior.
B)communicator, message, and audience.
C)messenger, attitude, and group.
D)informer, message, and target behavior.
Q3) Which of the following would be an internal cause for making a good grade on the psychology test?
A)"The teacher likes me."
B)"The test items were easy."
C)"I'm smart."
D)"Boy, was I lucky at guessing."
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A)is contagious.
B)occurs in large diverse groups.
C)disrupts coordinated efforts at group problem solving.
D)leads to a suspension of critical thinking.
Q2) Your church does not have a Sunday School teacher for the preschool class.They ask you to teach it for the whole upcoming year.You explain why this will not be possible.So, they ask if you will teach it for a month, while they look for someone else.Your agreement is testament to the
A)highball technique.
B)lowball technique.
C)foot-in-the-door effect.
D)door-in-the-face effect.
Q3) The range of four to 12 feet in which impersonal business and casual social gatherings take place is known as one's
A)social distance.
B)acquaintance space.
C)public distance.
D)commercial space.
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A)Nonassertive people are seldom successful in achieving their intended goals.
B)Nonassertive people are usually patient to a fault.
C)Sometimes nonassertive people's pent-up anger explodes with unexpected fury, which can damage relationships.
D)All of these statements are true.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a technique likely to improve self-assertion?
A)learning to ignore the feelings of others
B)rehearsal and role playing
C)overlearning
D)the "broken record"
Q3) Missy is a college student attending a college thousands of miles from her hometown.She has made few friends at the college and has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend back home.According to Margaret Singer, Missy would be extremely susceptible to A)just world beliefs.
B)brainwashing.
C)cult conversion.
D)an empathy-helping relationship.
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Q4) ____________________ is the process of making inferences about behavior.
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A)Social comparison
B)Mutual exchange
C)Interpersonal attraction
D)Temperament
Q2) Regarding male and female friendships in the North American culture, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
A)Although men do know something about the private thoughts and feelings of their friends, most contemporary men do not form close friendships with other men.
B)For women, friendship is a matter of talking about shared concerns and intimate matters.
C)Male friendships are activity based with men tending to do things together, a pattern that provides companionship without closeness.
D)All of these statements are true.
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Q1) Regarding media violence, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
A)Young children spend about 35 hours a week in front of TV or computer screens.
B)By the end of elementary school, children will have seen about 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts depicted on TV.
C)Eighty percent of popular video games contain violent content.
D)All of these statements are true.
Q2) Qualities known to be characteristic of the authoritarian personality are measured by the
A)ethnic scale.
B)F-scale.
C)Type A scale.
D)power scale.
Q3) Aronson's "jigsaw" classroom created
A)friendly competition between the students.
B)superordinate goals for the students.
C)status inequalities among the students.
D)individuating information for the students to assimilate.
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Chapter 17: Extension C: Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) When looking at the concept of "race," it is impossible to biologically determine a given person's race.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Intergroup conflict between two groups of boys at a summer camp was most efficiently reduced by emergencies that required the cooperation of both groups.
A)True B)False
Q3) Cues for aggression can be external cues, such as gestures, or internal cues, such as angry thoughts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) With regard to romantic love, the nearly exclusive attention lovers give to one another is called ____________________.
Q5) Describe the factors that affect interpersonal attraction.
Q6) According to Sternberg, the form of love that is more common among couples who have been together a long time and includes only the elements of intimacy and commitment is ____________________ love.
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Chapter 18: Extension A: Applied Psychology
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Q1) A company that focuses on psychological efficiency is likely to
A)have good morale among workers.
B)have productive workers.
C)believe workers are willing to accept responsibility.
D)be characterized by all of these.
Q2) Most people expect men to be _____ and women to be _____.
A)agentic; communal
B)androgynous; agentic
C)communal; agentic
D)communal; androgynous
Q3) Giving employees greater freedom, responsibility, choice, and authority is characteristic of
A)job enrichment.
B)scientific management.
C)the vocational interest approach.
D)Theory X management styles.
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Chapter 18: Extension B: Applied Psychology
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Q1) Regarding sports psychology and coaching, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
A)Before the advent of sports psychology, it was debatable whether athletes improved because of "homespun" coaching methods or in spite of them.
B)In early studies of volleyball and gymnastics, it became clear that people teaching these sports had very little knowledge of crucial underlying skills.
C)In coaching children, competition and criticism should be minimized.
D)All of these statements are true.
Q2) Which of the following is common during a flow or peak experience?
A)draining of power
B)a feeling that time is racing by
C)a lack of concentration
D)detachment
Q3) All of the following topics are relevant to psychology of law EXCEPT
A)conflict resolution.
B)forensic hypnosis.
C)proxemic analysis.
D)insanity plea.
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Q1) Describe the goal of ergonomics, and explain what is meant by a design that is natural, uses metaphors, and provides feedback and give an example of each of these concepts.
Q2) Describe the activities utilized by personnel psychologists in selecting employees.
Q3) Gary loves to play and compose music, while his sister Gretchen loves to write poems and short stories.Both of their vocational interests lie within the ____________________ theme.
Q4) Describe five problems that occur in jury deliberations.
Q5) Jo Lynn is a loan officer.She would be considered a knowledge worker.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The challenges of living in space include all of the following EXCEPT
A)restricted physical movement.
B)confinement in close quarters.
C)constant changes in sensory input.
D)the need for privacy.
Q7) Explain what is meant by organizational culture and organizational citizenship.
Q8) Situations that arise in a job, with which a competent worker must be able to cope are known as ____________________.
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Chapter 19: Appendix A: Behavioral Statistics
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Q1) Vertical bars are used to indicate frequencies in a A)frequency polygon.
B)scatter diagram.
C)normal distribution.
D)histogram.
Q2) What percent of all cases are found between an SD of +3 and an SD of -3 on a normal curve?
A)50
B)68
C)95
D)99
Q3) Of the standard deviations listed, the largest percentage of scores would fall between _____ SD on a normal curve.
A)0 and +1
B)+1 and -1
C)+2 and +3
D)-3 and -2
Q4) Given these scores 40, 40, 30, 50, 30, 20, 40, 20, 50, 40, the mode is 30.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Explain the purpose of tests of statistical significance, how the results of these tests are stated, and what is considered significant for most psychological experiments.
Q2) Given these scores 22, 44, 33, 55, 33, 22, 44, 22, 55, 22, the mode is _____.
Q3) Correlations allow us to make _____, while experiments allow us to show _____.
Q4) For the numbers 10, 17, 2, 9, and 15, the range is _____.
Q5) Describe a frequency distribution, what it is used for, how it is constructed, and two ways that it can be shown graphically.
Q6) A(n) _____ is used to graphically visualize a correlation.
Q7) Describe a normal curve, and explain the relationship of the standard deviation to this curve.
Q8) Professor Waters calculated the mean, median, and mode of the scores made on the midterm exam.These descriptive statistics are known as the measures of _____.
Q9) You are a teacher.In one of your classes, the students achieved the following raw scores on a ten-question quiz: 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2 2.Calculate each of the measures of central tendency for these scores.
Q10) Explain the difference in descriptive and inferential statistics.
Q11) What is the percent of variance, and how is it calculated?
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