Introduction to Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Introduction to Psychology is a foundational course that explores the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. The course examines key concepts such as perception, learning, memory, emotion, motivation, development, personality, and psychological disorders. Students will gain an understanding of major psychological theories, research methods, and applications to everyday life, providing a broad overview of the field and an essential background for further study in psychology and related disciplines.
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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) To balance psychology's historical focus on human problems and negative emotions,Martin Seligman called for the development of
A) behavior genetics.
B) cognitive neuroscience.
C) positive psychology.
D) introspection.
Answer: C
Q2) To assess reactions to a proposed tuition hike at her school,Ariana sent a questionnaire to every fifteenth person in the registrar's alphabetical listing of all currently enrolled students.Ariana is ensuring that her survey results are accurate by using
A) random assignment.
B) naturalistic observation.
C) replication.
D) random sampling.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Behavior
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Q1) Information is most quickly transmitted from one cerebral hemisphere to the other by the
A) corpus callosum.
B) motor cortex.
C) association areas.
D) somatosensory cortex.
Answer: A
Q2) Using magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer-generated images of the brain's soft tissues is called a(n)
A) MRI scan.
B) EEG.
C) brain lesion.
D) PET scan.
Answer: A
Q3) An undersupply of serotonin is most closely linked to A) Alzheimer's disease.
B) schizophrenia.
C) Parkinson's disease.
D) depression.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
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Q1) Loss of oxygen or extreme sensory deprivation produces perceptual distortions most similar to those produced by consuming
A) morphine.
B) LSD.
C) barbiturates.
D) methamphetamine.
Answer: B
Q2) Felix was so preoccupied with his girlfriend's good looks that he failed to perceive any of her less admirable characteristics.This best illustrates an unfortunate consequence of
A) sequential processing.
B) selective attention.
C) blindsight.
D) change blindness.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Developing Through the Life Span
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Q1) Kohlberg's critics have noted that a postconventional level of morality is most likely to be found among people who value
A) individualism.
B) moral intuitions.
C) concrete operations.
D) simple equality rather than equity.
Q2) Who is likely to be the most popular student in the fifth-grade class?
A) Helmut,who is the tallest boy in the class
B) Jeff,who is the statistician for the basketball team
C) Hara,who is below average in height and physical maturity
D) Sally,who is the most sexually mature girl in the class
Q3) In a pleasant but unfamiliar setting,infants with an insecure maternal attachment are most likely to
A) demonstrate unusually low levels of stranger anxiety.
B) happily leave their mother's side and explore their new surroundings.
C) feel happy when their mothers leave them.
D) show indifference to their mother's return after a brief absence.
Q4) Design an experiment to show how the process of habituation can help us to demonstrate human infants' capacities for perception,learning,and memory.
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Chapter 5: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
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Q1) When his mother offered to play leapfrog with him,Jorge protested,"I'm not going to play a girl's game!" Jorge's reaction best illustrates the impact of A) androgyny.
B) gender schemas.
C) sexual orientation.
D) secondary sex characteristics.
Q2) The refractory period is the A) moment before orgasm during which sexual arousal is maintained at a fairly high level.
B) stage of the sexual response cycle during which sexual excitation reaches its climax. C) span of the monthly female reproductive cycle during which ovulation occurs.
D) time span after orgasm during which a man cannot be aroused to another orgasm.
Q3) Research has found that an animal's sexual orientation can be altered by A) manipulation of prenatal hormone conditions. B) exposure only to animals of the same sex.
C) injections of sex hormones in early adulthood. D) destruction of the hippocampus.
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Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Distant trees were located closer to the top of the artist's canvas than were the nearby flowers.The artist was clearly using the distance cue known as A) linear perspective.
B) closure.
C) relative height.
D) interposition.
Q2) The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually A) large when it is near the horizon.
B) large when it is high in the sky.
C) bright when it is near the horizon.
D) bright when it is high in the sky.
Q3) Caroline wonders whether her 10-month-old daughter can perceive depth well enough to avoid crawling over the edge of a tall platform in her church auditorium.Researchers could safely assess her daughter's perceptual ability using A) a visual afterimage.
B) a Necker cube.
C) a visual cliff.
D) the Moon illusion.
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Chapter 7: Learning
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Q1) The process of reinforcing successively closer approximations to a desired behavior is called:
A) generalization.
B) intermittent reinforcement.
C) shaping.
D) secondary reinforcement.
Q2) The desire to engage in an activity for the sake of its enjoyment alone involves:
A) instinctive drift.
B) modeling.
C) intrinsic motivation.
D) latent learning.
Q3) Which pioneering learning researcher highlighted the antisocial effects of aggressive models on children's behavior?
A) John B.Watson
B) Albert Bandura
C) Ivan Pavlov
D) B.F.Skinner
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Using different neural networks to simultaneously encode the voice quality,lyrics,and musical accompaniment of a memorable vocal performance best illustrates:
A) parallel processing.
B) massed practice.
C) automatic processing.
D) distributed practice.
Q2) Mr.Nydam is unable to remember playing golf several times each week on a particular course.Yet the more he plays the course,the more his game improves.His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between:
A) short-term memory and long-term memory.
B) massed practice and distributed practice.
C) explicit memory and implicit memory.
D) recognition and recall.
Q3) The inability to remember whose face appears on a five-dollar bill is mostly likely due to a failure in
A) retrieval.
B) storage.
C) encoding.
D) implicit memory.
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Chapter 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) A reliance on quick intuitive judgments is best illustrated by our use of:
A) convergent thinking.
B) algorithms.
C) trial and error.
D) heuristics.
Q2) A person who can effectively identify the best possible answers to multiple-choice test questions best illustrates:
A) a mental set.
B) convergent thinking.
C) the availability heuristic.
D) belief perseverance.
Q3) Steve was sure he answered at least 70 questions correctly on his biology test.In fact,he was right on only 55 items.Steve's misjudgment of his test performance illustrates:
A) the framing effect.
B) confirmation bias.
C) belief perseverance.
D) overconfidence.
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Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Two-year-old Jada is bored.She has been stuck in her car seat for 30 minutes,has played with every toy available to her,and has looked at everything in the car.She wants desperately to escape.She is motivated to escape the car seat to:
A) maintain her level of arousal.
B) decrease her arousal.
C) increase her arousal to an optimum level.
D) reach homeostasis.
Q2) Who argued that our emotional reactions to specific situations can occur rapidly and prior to any conscious interpretations of those situations?
A) Walter Cannon
B) Stanley Schachter
C) Robert Zajonc
D) Jerome Singer
Q3) The most unambiguous nonverbal clue to our specific emotional state is provided by our:
A) respiration rate.
B) hand gestures.
C) body posture.
D) facial muscles.
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Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
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Q1) Professor Huang is researching the effect of stress appraisal on lymphocyte activity.Her work best illustrates the specialty area of:
A) evolutionary psychology.
B) psychoneuroimmunology.
C) clinical psychology.
D) cognitive psychology.
Q2) Research on the experience of flow suggests that people experience the most happiness when they are:
A) eating.
B) daydreaming.
C) highly self-aware.
D) absorbed in challenging activities.
Q3) During the last half-century,the buying power of Americans has ________ and their self-reported personal happiness has ________.
A) remained almost unchanged;decreased
B) increased;remained almost unchanged
C) remained almost unchanged;increased
D) remained almost unchanged;remained almost unchanged
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Cognitive dissonance refers to the discomfort we feel when our thoughts and behaviors are
A) implicit.
B) conciliatory.
C) inconsistent.
D) reciprocated.
Q2) Compared with people from East Asian cultures,those from individualist Western countries are more likely to demonstrate
A) situational attributions.
B) cognitive dissonance.
C) positive attitudes.
D) the fundamental attribution error.
Q3) According to the text,people who have low MAOA gene expression tend to demonstrate
A) high levels of implicit prejudice.
B) more aggression when provoked.
C) low levels of subtle prejudice.
D) a less aggressive manner.
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Larry studies diligently because he is haunted by an image of himself being unable to get a job after graduation.Larry's diligence best illustrates the motivational impact of A) group identification.
B) self-efficacy.
C) possible selves.
D) the spotlight effect.
Q2) According to Freud,understanding how the id,ego,and superego interact is essential to grasping the nature of
A) the collective unconscious.
B) free association.
C) motivational conflict.
D) an inferiority complex.
Q3) The Big Five is the term currently used to refer to basic A) statistical procedures.
B) personality theories.
C) trait dimensions.
D) sensory modalities.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Compared with those who suffer no disorder,those with alcohol use disorder have a ________ risk of committing suicide.Compared with the general population,those who have been depressed have a ________ risk of committing suicide.
A) higher;higher
B) lower;lower
C) higher;lower
D) lower;higher
Q2) Which perspective suggests that explaining our own failures in terms that are global,stable,and internal contributes to depression?
A) linkage analysis
B) biological
C) epigenetic
D) social-cognitive
Q3) The onset of ________ typically begins with a weight-loss diet.
A) anorexia nervosa
B) a fugue state
C) a dissociative disorder
D) personality disorder
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Chapter 15: Therapy
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Q1) Which of the following is most clearly a key element shared by all effective psychotherapies?
A) systematic desensitization
B) an eclectic approach
C) meta-analysis
D) a new perspective on life
Q2) The healing power of insight and self-awareness is LEAST likely to be emphasized by A) cognitive therapies.
B) psychodynamic therapy.
C) behavior therapies.
D) humanistic therapies.
Q3) To help Mr.Eberstadt overcome alcohol use disorder,his therapist first attempted to discover whether his misuse of alcohol was somehow a reaction to his wife's behavior.The therapist's concern is most likely to be characteristic of a A) psychoanalyst.
B) family therapist.
C) client-centered therapist.
D) biomedical therapist.
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Chapter 16: Exploring the Role of Industrial-Organizational Psychology
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Q1) A random sample of females was observed to exhibit a lower average level of self-esteem than a random sample of males.To assess the likelihood that this observed difference reflects a real difference in the average self-esteem of the total population of males and females,you should
A) construct a scatterplot.
B) calculate a correlation coefficient.
C) plot the distribution of self-esteem levels among all males and females.
D) conduct a test of statistical significance.
Q2) For each performance review,Professor Donnell is evaluated by her students,colleagues,department chair,and research assistants.This best illustrates
A) managing by objectives.
B) the experience of flow.
C) human factors psychology.
D) 360-degree feedback.
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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