Introduction to Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Introduction to Psychology offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course explores key concepts, theories, and research findings related to topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, development, and personality. Students will examine the biological and environmental influences on behavior, gain insight into human cognition and social interactions, and learn about psychological disorders and their treatments. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, scientific methods, and the application of psychological principles to everyday life.
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Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology 2nd Edition by Ronald T. Kellogg
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Two techniques that are now widely used provide an indirect measure of more localized brain activity, as compared to electrical scalp recordings.These two techniques are
A)positron emission tomography (PET)and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
B)functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)and parallel distributed processing (PDP)
C)parallel distributed processing (PDP)and positron emission tomography (PET)
D)functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)and event-related potential (ERP)
Answer: A
Q2) A well-designed laboratory experiment may use
A)reaction time
B)error rates
C)PET scans
D)all of the above
Answer: D
Q3) In order to transfer input into sensory store, one needs to recognize patterns.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Perception
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Q1) A guest lecturer is speaking to your psychology class. He is not articulating clearly, but you can still understand him. Without ________, this would not be possible.
A)prosopagnosia
B)bottom-up processing
C)phonemes
D)top-down processing
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following phenomenon is found in individuals with normal perceptual functioning as opposed to requiring an injury to the brain as detected in lesion studies?
A)spatial neglect
B)blindsight
C)change blindness
D)prosopagnosia
Answer: C
Q3) The letter D would be more readily recognized in a word than by itself.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Attention
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Q1) In Cherry's shadowing experiments, subjects noticed changes in physical or sensory features rather than semantic features in the unattended ear.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following theories always predicts that memory for unattended information should be nonexistent?
A)attenuation theory
B)early selection filter
C)late selection filter
D)decay
Answer: B
Q3) A breakdown in the system of engaging, moving, and reading out the current focus of attention can cause a disorder called:
A)blindsight
B)aphasia
C)apraxia
D)spatial neglect
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Memory Systems
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Q1) People forget things that were stored in long-term memory because it is necessary to make room for new information.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which model of working memory predicts that both irrelevant speech and bursts of white noise would disrupt recall of letters from the verbal short-term memory store?
A)Baddeley's multicomponent model
B)Jones' episodic buffer model
C)Wicken's proactive interference model
D)Cowan's embedded process model
Q3) Psychologists have agreed that there are multiple memory stores represented within long-term memory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Patients who were put under general anesthesia show the effects of having been primed to respond to cues.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Remembering Events
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Q1) Suppose that you conducted an experiment in which people studied material while intoxicated or sober, then recalled the material while intoxicated or sober.Which conditions would result in the poorest recall?
A)sober study - sober test
B)intoxicated study - intoxicated test
C)intoxicated study - sober test
D)sober study - intoxicated test
Q2) __________________memory refers to factual and conceptual knowledge about the world.
A)episodic
B)semantic
C)echoic
D)short-term
Q3) Which of the following phenomena supports the idea that forgetting is a problem of accessibility, not availability?
A)hypermnesia
B)context effects in recognition and recall
C)tip of the tongue
D)all of the above
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Chapter 6: Memory Distortions
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Q1) Uncovering repressed memories almost always results in reconstructed false memories.
A)True
B)False
Q2) You are instructed to read a story called The War of the Ghosts.At the end, you are asked to recall whatever details of the story that you can remember.You relate an insignificant detail of something black coming from the mouth of a character in the story. This is called
A)sharpening
B)detailing
C)leveling
D)elaborating
Q3) False confessions to crimes can in theory be brought about through the interrogation of a suspect.The mechanism by which the person comes to believe incorrectly that he or she is guilty of crime is called
A)repression
B)trauma induced amnesia
C)memory implantation
D)dissociation
Q4) When recalling a story, what kind of distortions can arise?
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Chapter 7: Imagery and Knowledge Representation
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Q1) Conrad found no difference in reaction time to verify "A fish can move." versus "An animal can move." This result disproves the
A)category size effect
B)cognitive economy assumption
C)typicality effect
D)predicate intersection assumption
Q2) Draw a network illustrating the assumption of cognitive economy using the natural concept of vehicles.
Q3) A proposition is coded as a relation and set of arguments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A defining feature of cows is that they are white with black splotches.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Mental rotation requires the use of propositional codes.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Frames are schemas that represent routine activities.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Language
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Q1) A symptom of someone with aphasia is
A)the inability to speak
B)the inability to comprehend
C)lesion or damage to the left hemisphere
D)all of the above
Q2) When speakers make accurate judgments on how well their listeners are understanding, and adjust their speeches accordingly, they are showing sensitivity to
A)speech acts
B)propositional content
C)thematic structure
D)morphemic structure
Q3) When Paula talks to her co-worker, Doug, at lunch, or her friend Diane, at the gym, she raises topics that are appropriate to the conversation.This illustrates
A)conversational implicatures
B)turn-taking
C)the cooperative principle
D)the coarticulation principle
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Chapter 9: Problem Solving
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Q1) Suppose Joe realizes that before he changes his flat tire he must first jack up the car.Elevating the car would be a(n)
A)goal state
B)initial state
C)subgoal
D)heuristic
Q2) __________ refers to a decision situation in which each state of nature is likely to occur with a known probability.
A)decision under certainty
B)decision under risk
C)decision under uncertainty
D)none of the above
Q3) The tendency to see a shoe as an object to be worn on the foot, with no other possible uses, is called
A)Einstellung
B)functional fixedness
C)undirected thinking
D)verification
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Chapter 10: Reasoning and Decision Making
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Q1) What does the availability heuristic suggest?
A)the probability of two united events cannot be greater than the probability of one or the other separately
B)events that are typical of a class are assigned a high probability of occurrence
C)the probabilities of states of nature are unknown
D)if relevant examples can readily be retrieved from memory, then the class of events must occur with a high probability
Q2) Which of the following is a valid form of conditional reasoning?
A)denial of antecedent
B)denial of the consequent
C)affirming the consequent
D)none of the above
Q3) Research conducted in rural Central Asia showed that people in some cultures base their response to reasoning tasks on
A)deduction
B)induction
C)personal experience
D)illicit conversion
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