Introduction to Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Introduction to Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. This course explores foundational topics such as learning, perception, memory, motivation, emotion, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Students will examine major psychological theories, research methods, and real-world applications, gaining insight into how psychological principles influence everyday life. The course also highlights the contribution of psychology to understanding individual and group behavior, preparing students for further study in the field or for applying psychological perspectives in various professions.
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Exploring Psychology 10th Edition by Myers
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Chapter 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
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Q1) According to Emily's grandfather,Adolf Hitler's obvious emotional instability made it clear from the beginning of his international conflicts that Germany would inevitably lose World War II.The grandfather's claim best illustrates A) hindsight bias.
B) the placebo effect.
C) naturalistic observation.
D) random sequencing.
Answer: A
Q2) By suggesting that nurture works on what nature endows,psychologists highlight the fact that we are biologically endowed with a capacity for A) inborn ideas.
B) natural selection.
C) introspection.
D) learning and adaptation.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Behavior
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Q1) The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse is called the A) reflex.
B) threshold.
C) synapse.
D) action potential.
Answer: B
Q2) Which part of a neuron is often encased by a fatty myelin sheath?
A) axon
B) synaptic gap
C) cell body
D) dendrite
Answer: A
Q3) An all-or-none response pattern is characteristic of the A) activation of either the sympathetic or the parasympathetic system.
B) release of endorphins into the central nervous system.
C) release of hormones into the bloodstream.
D) initiation of neural impulses.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
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Q1) Having an identical rather than fraternal twin with alcohol use disorder puts one at an increased risk for alcohol problems.This indicates that alcohol use disorder
A) has a psychedelic effect.
B) is socially influenced.
C) is genetically influenced.
D) is synaptically transmitted.
Answer: C
Q2) After sleeping for about an hour and a half,Jose enters a phase of paradoxical sleep.He is likely to A) be easily awakened.
B) have slower,more regular breathing.
C) emit slower brain waves.
D) have very relaxed muscles.
Answer: D
Q3) Contrast the impact of behaviorism and cognitive neuroscience on psychologists' approach to the study of consciousness.Also explain why you do or do not believe that advances in cognitive neuroscience indicate that consciousness actually exerts a causal influence on our behaviors.
Answer: no answer
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Chapter 4: Developing Through the Life Span
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Q1) Levels of self-esteem in children are highest among children with ________ parents.
A) permissive
B) authoritative
C) conservative
D) authoritarian
Q2) According to Erikson,committing oneself to meaningful social roles would be most indicative of the achievement of
A) autonomy.
B) competence.
C) initiative.
D) identity.
Q3) Who emphasized that children solve problems and step to higher levels of thinking by relying on inner speech?
A) Erik Erikson
B) Lev Vygotsky
C) Jean Piaget
D) Harry Harlow
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Chapter 5: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
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Q1) In a study of Welsh pedestrians,women rated a man as ________ if he was pictured at the wheel of an expensive rather than an inexpensive car.Men rated a woman as ________ if she was pictured at the wheel of an expensive rather than an inexpensive car.
A) less attractive;more attractive
B) more attractive;no more attractive
C) no more attractive;more attractive
D) less attractive;no more attractive
Q2) Teenage girls are especially vulnerable to ________ because of their lower levels of protective antibodies.
A) short refractory periods
B) sexual dysfunction
C) erotic plasticity
D) STIs
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true about sexual fantasizing?
A) Our imagination can increase our sexual arousal and desire.
B) In some women sexual fantasies can lead to sexual orgasm.
C) Men fantasize about sex more often and less romantically.
D) Fantasizing about sex indicates a sexual problem or dissatisfaction.
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Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Men's sense of hearing tends to be ________ sensitive than women's,and women are ________ pain sensitive than men.
A) more;more
B) less;less
C) more;less
D) less;more
Q2) When we look at a clock showing 8 A.M.,certain brain cells in our visual cortex are more responsive than when the hands show 10 A.M.This is most indicative of A) retinal disparity.
B) feature detection.
C) perceptual adaptation.
D) accommodation.
Q3) If we see a speaker mouthing day while actually hearing someone else saying may,we may perceive a third syllable bay that blends both inputs.This phenomenon is known as
A) psychokinesis.
B) synesthesia.
C) embodied cognition.
D) the McGurk effect.
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Chapter 7: Learning
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Q1) A positive reinforcer is anything that when ________ a response,strengthens the response.
A) introduced before B) removed after
C) introduced after D) removed before
Q2) Two-year-old Philip was recently clawed by the neighbor's cat.Philip now fears all small animals.His fear demonstrates the process of:
A) generalization.
B) operant conditioning.
C) spontaneous recovery.
D) extinction.
Q3) If a sea slug on repeated occasions receives an electric shock just after being squirted with water,its protective withdrawal response to a squirt of water grows stronger.This best illustrates:
A) spontaneous recovery.
B) associative learning.
C) observational learning.
D) operant conditioning.
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Hotaka can vividly recall the devastating experience of barely surviving the tsunami that took the lives of many others.It is likely that the stress of that experience provoked the ________ to boost activity in the memory-forming areas of his brain.
A) hypothalamus
B) cerebellum
C) thalamus
D) amygdala
Q2) Which type of memory has an essentially limitless capacity?
A) working memory
B) short-term memory
C) long-term memory
D) flashbulb memory
Q3) By activating the amygdala,stress hormones promote
A) the production of propranolol.
B) infantile amnesia.
C) the serial position effect.
D) long-term potentiation.
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Chapter 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) As he attempted to spell the word receive,Tim reminded himself "i before e except after c." Tim's self-reminder best illustrates the use of:
A) trial and error.
B) insight.
C) an algorithm.
D) a heuristic.
Q2) Noam Chomsky has argued that children's readiness to learn grammar rules is a(n): A) aphasia.
B) process simulation.
C) bilingual advantage.
D) biological predisposition.
Q3) During a lecture,your professor says,"A child learns language as he interacts with caregivers." This generic use of the pronoun he is more likely to trigger images of males than of females.This best illustrates the impact of:
A) language on thinking.
B) aphasia on attentional focus.
C) telegraphic speech on universal grammar.
D) critical periods on language acquisition.
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Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Although instincts cannot explain most human motives,the underlying assumption that genes predispose some species-typical behaviors continues in:
A) evolutionary psychology.
B) the Yerkes-Dodson law.
C) arousal theory.
D) drive-reduction theory.
Q2) The World Health Organization defines ________ as a BMI of 30 or more.
A) unit bias
B) neophobia
C) obesity
D) starvation
Q3) In one experiment,deeply-in-love university students experienced ________ when looking at their beloved's picture.
A) narcissism
B) self-disclosure
C) ostracism
D) pain relief
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Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
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Q1) Which of the following best explains why communities with greater income inequality also tend to be communities with less happiness?
A) the feel-good,do-good phenomenon
B) the adaptation-level phenomenon
C) the do-good,feel-good phenomenon
D) the relative deprivation principle
Q2) During World War II,promotion rates in the U.S.Air Corps were so rapid for the group as a whole that many individual soldiers in this military branch were unhappy about the somewhat slower speed at which they were promoted.Their unhappiness is best explained in terms of:
A) the adaptation-level phenomenon.
B) relative deprivation.
C) the faith factor.
D) the feel-good,do-good phenomenon.
Q3) People who laugh a lot have exhibited a lower incidence of:
A) cancer.
B) emotion-focused coping.
C) heart disease.
D) problem-focused coping.
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Sixty-five-year-old Bernice is taking courses at the university with the intention of completing a bachelor's degree.Some members of her family think she is not likely to succeed because she is much too old to learn new information.This family's thinking about Bernice illustrates A) hindsight bias.
B) prejudice.
C) discrimination.
D) stereotyping.
Q2) The ideas,attitudes,values,and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next is called A) conformity.
B) collectivism.
C) division of labor.
D) culture.
Q3) The preservation of innovation best illustrates the survival value of A) culture.
B) conformity.
C) individualism.
D) social norms.
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Q1) People who frequently break speed limits tend to think that many others do the same.This false consensus effect is most similar to what Freud called
A) displacement.
B) reaction formation.
C) regression.
D) projection.
Q2) After failing his chemistry exam,Charles believes he does not have the intelligence to succeed in school and ultimately in life.Charles' low opinion of himself is representative of his low
A) self-esteem.
B) self-efficacy.
C) defensive self-esteem.
D) self-disclosure.
Q3) Carl Jung believed that the collective unconscious contains ________ derived from our species' universal experiences.
A) archetypes
B) free associations
C) defense mechanisms
D) erogenous zones
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) It would be most difficult to use the ________ to explain why anorexia nervosa occurs mostly in Western cultures.
A) psychological perspective
B) medical model
C) social-cognitive perspective
D) biopsychosocial approach
Q2) Twenty-two-year-old Tawana is slightly overweight and loves to eat,particularly snack foods and rich desserts.Fearful of gaining more weight,she frequently takes laxatives and vomits following episodes of binge eating.Tawana most clearly suffers from
A) bulimia nervosa.
B) anorexia nervosa.
C) a fugue state.
D) narcissistic personality disorder.
Q3) Research indicates that
A) some people are more genetically predisposed than others to develop anxiety disorders,OCD,and PTSD.
B) generalized anxiety disorder is more common than specific phobia.
C) people,but not animals,may acquire fear through observational learning.
D) phobic reactions to cats are much more common than to dogs.
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Chapter 15: Therapy
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Q1) Cognitive-behavioral therapy is designed to A) combine drug therapy with psychotherapy.
B) focus attention on clients' negative as well as positive feelings toward their therapists. C) modify clients' self-defeating thoughts and their maladaptive behaviors.
D) encourage clients to value their unique moment-to-moment feelings.
Q2) Deep-brain stimulation has been reported to provide relief from A) dissociative disorders.
B) phobias.
C) schizophrenia.
D) depression.
Q3) Ron is a 22-year-old mechanic who suffers from claustrophobia.The most effective way to treat Ron's problem would involve ________ therapy.
A) cognitive
B) psychoanalytic
C) client-centered
D) behavior
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Chapter 16: Exploring the Role of Industrial-Organizational Psychology
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Q1) Akira dreamed that a handsome young man she had met the previous day asked her for a date.When he actually did call for a date several days later,Akira concluded that dreams accurately predict future events.Her belief best illustrates
A) a normal curve.
B) an illusory correlation.
C) a standard deviation.
D) a scatterplot.
Q2) Paul is seldom absent from work.However,an illness the previous week forced him to miss work for a day,and his supervisor evaluated his performance less positively than was warranted.This best illustrates the supervisor's vulnerability to A) the interviewer illusion.
B) leniency errors.
C) recency errors.
D) the halo effect.
Q3) Statistical significance refers to whether research A) variables are causally related.
B) participants were randomly assigned to particular conditions. C) findings are due to chance variations.
D) results add support to previous findings.
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