Human Behavior Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the fundamental principles and concepts underlying human behavior. Students will study psychological, biological, and social factors that influence individual and group actions, examining major theories from fields such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Topics include motivation, emotion, learning, personality, social influence, and the interplay between genetics and environment. By analyzing real-world scenarios and case studies, students will gain a holistic understanding of why humans think, feel, and act as they do, preparing them to apply this knowledge in diverse academic and professional contexts.
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Psychology An Introduction 10th Edition by Benjamin Lahey
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Plato received his training in philosophical methods from Aristotle.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In the school of structuralism,Edward Titchener's mentor was ____________.
Answer: Wilhelm Wundt
Q3) According to the humanistic approach,a person's behavior is determined by:
A) rewards and punishments.
B) cognitive processes such as memory and thinking.
C) unconscious instincts.
D) conscious decisions.
Answer: D
Q4) If you present research subjects with a series of numbers paired with different colors,you are using the ____________ method developed by Mary Whiton Calkins. Answer: paired associates
Q5) ____________ studied digestion in dogs prior to identifying the process he termed conditioning.
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
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Chapter 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Q1) Professor Jacobs believes that sleep deprivation is related to conflicts between roommates.He collects data on the number of hours of sleep and the number of roommate conflicts for a group of college students over the course of a month.He obtains a correlation coefficient of -0.75.What can he conclude?
A) 75 percent of the roommate conflicts he investigated were not related to sleep deprivation.
B) With fewer hours of sleep there were fewer conflicts.
C) With fewer hours of sleep there were more conflicts.
D) Hours of sleep and conflicts were not related.
Answer: C
Q2) Statistical significance means that:
A) a research finding was unlikely to have occurred by chance.
B) the mean,median,and mode are all equal.
C) there was no experimenter bias.
D) there is a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables.
Answer: A
Q3) In formal experiments,the group that does not receive the active condition of the variable of interest is the ____________ group.
Answer: control
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations in Behavior
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Q1) The pituitary gland secretes hormones that help regulate the activity of:
A) the hypothalamus.
B) blood sugar.
C) other glands in the endocrine system.
D) sleep/wake cycles.
Answer: C
Q2) Neurogenesis is most likely to play a role in which of the following?
A) learning and memory
B) visual processing
C) emotion regulation
D) muscle tone
Answer: A
Q3) Which area of the brain is particularly involved in spatial memory and has been shown to contain more neuron cell bodies in the brains of London taxi drivers?
A) reticular formation
B) hypothalamus
C) hippocampus
D) cerebral cortex
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Interplay of Nature and Nurture
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Q1) In the United States most parents would prefer their children present themselves as: A) shy.
B) inhibited.
C) assertive.
D) reserved.
Q2) How does evolutionary theory explain the difference in parental investment between men and women?
A) Men competed for mates,while women selected mates.
B) Women knew they were the mothers of their children,but men did not always know they were the fathers.
C) Women depended on men for help,but men did not depend on women.
D) Women needed to be more social and cooperative to ensure offspring survival.
Q3) Describe two ways in which the sexual motive is similar to the motives of hunger and thirst and two ways in which the sexual motive is different from these other primary motives.
Q4) List and describe three cognitive differences between men and women.
Q5) ____________ is the subjective experience of being a male or female.
Q6) With the exception of ova and sperm,human cells contain ______ pairs of chromosomes.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The Ponzo illusion can be partly explained by:
A) texture gradient.
B) linear perspective.
C) retinal disparity.
D) convergence.
Q2) Explain the differential functions of the rods and cones by discussing the principle neural connections of both rods and cones as they leave the retina and form the optic nerve.
Q3) When an artist draws trees partially covered by buildings,the artist is using the monocular cue of superposition to denote depth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Single wavelength is to multiple wavelengths as:
A) dim light is to bright light.
B) saturated is to unsaturated.
C) bright light is to dim light.
D) unsaturated is to saturated.
Q5) List four of the monocular depth perception cues,and describe how artists use these cues to create depth in paintings.
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Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
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Q1) A blood-alcohol level of ______ can impair automobile driving.
A) .01
B) .03
C) .08
D) .10
Q2) If you are sleep-deprived,which sleep stage are you MOST likely to make up when you finally sleep?
A) stage one sleep
B) stage four sleep
C) REM sleep
D) all of the stages equally
Q3) Night terrors and sleepwalking are MOST common in:
A) children.
B) young adults.
C) creative individuals.
D) the elderly.
Q4) List and describe the five characteristics associated with the hypnotic state.
Q5) Describe the typical content of dreams,including the types of images and characters that are typically part of dreams and their emotional content.
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Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Learning
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Q1) Responses learned through variable ratio and variable interval schedules of reinforcement are more difficult to extinguish than are responses learned through continuous reinforcement in a phenomenon known as ____________.
Q2) Peter is punched by several bullies at school.Now,whenever a bully merely swings his fist at Peter,Peter winces.In this example,the unconditioned stimulus is:
A) pain from being punched.
B) the punch.
C) a hand moving in the air.
D) wincing.
Q3) Before classical conditioning,the conditioned stimulus is best referred to as: A) unconditioned.
B) a response.
C) neutral.
D) associated.
Q4) The sudden realization of previously unseen relationships is called:
A) vicarious learning.
B) latent learning.
C) insight learning.
D) cognitive mapping.
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) When you file your dental insurance correspondence in a folder marked "Financial: Insurance" and then file the folder alphabetically among hundreds of other folders,you are using a system most analogous to:
A) the sensory registers.
B) short-term memory.
C) long-term memory.
D) chunking.
Q2) The most sensitive method for evaluating memory is the relearning method.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Interference tends to confuse the retrieval process in ____________ memory and to completely knock items out of storage in ____________ memory.
A) long-term;short-term
B) short-term;long-term
C) both short- and long-term;long-term
D) short-term;short- and long-term
Q4) The ____________ method of memory testing requires subjects to choose correct information from several alternatives.
Q5) Donald Hebb called the biological basis of learning and memory ____________.
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Chapter 9: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of prototypical American fast food?
A) hamburger
B) egg roll
C) spanikopita
D) sushi
Q2) Using which of the following is MOST similar to taking a short-cut that you have never used before?
A) heuristic
B) trial and error
C) algorithm
D) mental set
Q3) By themselves,____________ are basically meaningless.
A) morphemes
B) sound bytes
C) phonemes
D) semantics
Q4) Natural concepts are good prototypes of their superordinate concept.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List and describe the three steps in effective cognitive problem solving.
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Chapter 10: Developmental Psychology
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Q1) Stage theorists believe that the changes occurring from one stage to the next make children quantitatively,but not qualitatively,different.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When we judge actions on the basis of ethical principles and not personal consequences,we have reached Kohlberg's ____________ level.
Q3) Compared to female menopause,the male climacteric:
A) occurs rather abruptly.
B) is more likely to produce sexual dysfunction.
C) is a gradual,hardly noticeable process.
D) is accompanied by significant loss of self-worth.
Q4) Climacteric is a term used to describe:
A) erectile dysfunction.
B) the gradual loss of sexual desire.
C) female menopause and male reproductive decline.
D) female menopause.
Q5) During the ____________ stage of moral development,Gilligan believes moral decisions are based on following rules in order to attain rewards and avoid punishment.
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) The psychological need to succeed in work,school,and other areas of life is referred to as:
A) the Yerkes-Dodson law.
B) achievement motivation.
C) the need for novel stimulation.
D) the performance motive.
Q2) A student who works hard in the hope that he will get the best grade in the class so that his classmates will think he is smart is particularly motivated by:
A) intrinsic goals.
B) performance-avoidance goals.
C) mastery goals.
D) performance-approach goals.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of extrinsic motivation?
A) working in a factory with poor conditions but good pay
B) going to Disney World to ride the roller coasters
C) rereading your favorite novel
D) watching a horror film because you love feeling frightened
Q4) ____________ said that the need to aggress is inborn and instinctual.
Q5) Mouth dryness and total blood volume are cues in the regulation of
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Chapter 12: Personality Theories and Assessment
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Q1) In assessing personality,interviews:
A) are rarely stress-producing.
B) are too time-consuming and costly.
C) are unable to assess friendliness.
D) are highly subjective.
Q2) Bandura's notion of self-regulation is most similar to Freud's:
A) ego.
B) conscience.
C) id.
D) ego ideal.
Q3) Projective tests are most likely to be used by psychologists who follow which of the following perspectives?
A) humanism
B) psychoanalysis
C) behaviorism
D) social learning
Q4) When we punish ourselves with guilt and disappointment for not meeting personal standards,Bandura would say we are engaging in the process of ____________.
Q5) According to Abraham Maslow,the ultimate in completed growth is
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Chapter 13: Stress and Health
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Q1) Taylor and her colleagues (2000)propose that women react to stress with which of the following reactions?
A) tend and befriend
B) flight or fight
C) flight
D) hide or flight
Q2) The coping strategy of removing the source of stress can be problematic because:
A) stress is a necessary part of life and maturity.
B) it can invite even more problems.
C) sometimes it simply isn't possible.
D) it may backfire.
Q3) Describe three ways in which health psychology can affect health and/or the cost of health care.
Q4) Cognitive coping involves:
A) carrying out a plan to eliminate the stress.
B) changing one's thoughts about the stressful situation.
C) learning specific relaxation techniques.
D) withdrawal.
Q5) In the resistance stage of the ____________,the body's resources are fully mobilized.
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Chapter 14: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Dan is a well-organized man.His house is spotless,and he maintains a very strict schedule of activities that does not vary from one day to the next.His checkbook is balanced to the penny immediately after every check he writes,and he is extremely committed to his job.He has trouble making major decisions,and he has trouble expressing affection.Of the following,Dan's behavior is MOST consistent with a(n):
A) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
B) histrionic personality disorder.
C) antisocial personality disorder.
D) paranoid personality disorder.
Q2) In the United States,mental health professionals usually use the definitions of abnormality that are found in the:
A) GDM-III
B) APA-IV
C) SCH-II
D) DSM-IV
Q3) In ____________ personality disorder,an individual has no desire to form social relationships and has blunted emotions.
Q4) An obsession is an unwanted,distressing,and recurring ____________.
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) Cognitive restructuring has been demonstrated to be effective for the treatment of depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How are psychoanalysis and humanistic psychotherapy alike?
A) They both use dream interpretation as a technique.
B) They both believe that therapy should bring feelings into conscious awareness.
C) They both involve the therapist infusing their judgment about the client's underlying problems and proposed solutions.
D) They both believe that repressed sexual motives are at the root of emotional disturbance.
Q3) The first documented psychosurgeries were performed during the:
A) Stone Age.
B) classical era.
C) Dark Ages.
D) 1700s.
Q4) Describe three of the six fundamental concepts of feminist psychotherapy,and explain whether you think feminist psychotherapy is an important therapeutic method.
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology
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Q1) Equity theory in relationships states that:
A) benefits must outweigh deficits.
B) the benefits each partner receives must be equal.
C) the ratio between each partner's perceived benefits and contributions must be equal.
D) each partner must contribute equally to the relationship.
Q2) In the fundamental attribution error,the impact of which of the following is overestimated?
A) dispositional factors on others and dispositional factors on oneself
B) dispositional factors on oneself and situational factors on oneself
C) dispositional factors on oneself and situational factors on others
D) dispositional factors on others and situational factors on oneself
Q3) The group that is MOST likely to mindlessly pursue a stupid plan is the group that has:
A) good cohesiveness.
B) a leader who suggests brainstorming.
C) several bitter factions that strongly disagree with each other.
D) past experiences with failure.
Q4) As relationships mature,____________ love generally changes to ____________ love.
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Chapter 17: Psychology Applied to Business and Other
Professions
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Q1) Of the following psychologists,which one did NOT have a great influence in educational psychology?
A) Binet
B) Bloom
C) Thorndike
D) Pratto
Q2) Designing a lamp switch that could be manipulated by a person who has minimal use of their hands would be a task for a human factors engineer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the following,which is the BEST example of a criterion-referenced test?
A) scoring 90% or more accuracy in a typing test
B) scoring higher than 90% of your classmates on an algebra exam
C) performing multiplication at a level typical of a 9-year-old even though you are only a 6-year-old
D) coming in ninth place in a foot race
Q4) Of the "big five" personality traits,____________ is the best predictor of future job success.
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Q5) ____________ are more likely to be sentenced to death than white-collar workers.