Introduction to Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to Psychology offers students a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. The course explores key concepts, theories, and research methods in psychology, including topics such as perception, learning, memory, development, emotion, motivation, personality, and psychological disorders. Students will also examine the application of psychological principles in various real-world contexts and develop an understanding of how psychology can inform personal growth and social interaction. Through lectures, discussions, and interactive activities, students gain foundational knowledge that prepares them for further study in the field.
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Psychology From Inquiry to Understanding 2nd Australia Edition by Scott O. Lilienfeld
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Chapter 1: Science and Pseudoscience in Psychology
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Q1) Michelle constantly tells her boyfriend Niccolai that he doesn't pay attention to her, and that this is why she tends to nag him to pay attention. Her repeated criticisms cause Niccolai to tune her out, which causes her to nag him even more. This bidirectional pattern of influence is what Albert Bandura would have called
A)reciprocal determinism.
B)scientific scepticism.
C)the premise of Occam's Razor.
D)cyclical impingement.
Answer: A
Q2) According to the authors, much of the knowledge from popular psychology sources
A)is consistent with the results of psychological research.
B)is contradicted by what psychological research has demonstrated.
C)is not able to be studied empirically.
D)is of no or very little interest to psychologists.
Answer: B
Q3) ________ refers to a person's belief that he or she accurately and objectively sees the world as it is.
Answer: Naive realism
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) ________ studies allow us to make predictions about one variable based on the knowledge of another.
A)Case
B)Experimental
C)Natural
D)Correlational
Answer: D
Q2) How does conducting a double-blind study attempt to remedy the experimenter expectancy effect?
A)The experimenter does not know but the participant does know what condition the participant is assigned to.
B)The experimenter and the participant both know what condition the participant is assigned to.
C)The experimenter knows but the participant does not know what condition the participant is assigned to.
D)Neither the experimenter nor the participant knows what condition the participant is assigned to.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) The main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system is A)glutamate.
B)gamma-aminobutyric acid.
C)acetylcholine.
D)serotonin.
Answer: B
Q2) Hideki has had difficulty sleeping. His doctor wishes to examine the electrical activity of his brain during different times of the night to help determine the cause of his sleep problems. The doctor will most likely perform a(n)
A)EEG.
B)CT scan.
C)PET scan.
D)MRI.
Answer: A
Q3) Damage to the cerebellum is likely to disrupt which of the following?
A)Playing basketball
B)Sleeping
C)Homeostasis
D)Thinking
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The sense of smell is also known as ________.
A)olfaction
B)the salivary sense
C)chemical infarctation
D)gustation
Q2) The ________ is determined by the frequency of a sound wave.
A)audition
B)timbre
C)amplitude
D)pitch
Q3) When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his left eye and right eye, the image seems to jump from one position to another. This phenomenon illustrates ________.
A)binocular disparity
B)convergence
C)divergence
D)interposition
Q4) Jeremy notices that whenever he gets into a rental car, it takes him several minutes to locate the petrol tank. Such difficulties could be avoided if more car companies sought the input of professionals in ________.
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
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Q1) How many stages of sleep are there in human beings?
A)3
B)4
C)5
D)6
Q2) What is the most frequently used illegal drug in Australia?
A)Alcohol
B)Cocaine
C)Marijuana
D)Methamphetamine
Q3) Which of the following statements might help you determine if an individual has narcolepsy?
A)"I sometimes fall into a deep sleep in the middle of a conversation."
B)"I don't have an adverse reaction to sleeping pills."
C)"I have difficulty getting to sleep."
D)"When I get up in the morning, I have the feeling that I had really bad nightmares."
Q4) Why are many psychologists sceptical of claims that hypnosis represents a true altered state of consciousness?
Q5) Vivid dreams are most likely to be experienced during ________ sleep.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Marketing executives use ________ conditioning when they employ celebrities to sell products.
Q2) ________ increases the likelihood of behaviour being repeated, while ________ decreases the likelihood of behaviour being repeated.
Q3) Allowing students with A-averages exemptions from taking a final exam is an example of ________ reinforcement.
Q4) The conditioned stimulus is defined as
A)the stimulus that automatically produces the unconditioned response.
B)the previously neutral stimulus that automatically produces the unconditioned response.
C)the previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity to produce the conditioned response.
D)the previously neutral stimulus that automatically produces the conditioned response.
Q5) If a white rat is conditioned to produce fear in a child, and soon all white furry animals are feared by the child, ________ is said to occur.
Q6) ________ is the term used to describe the situation in which a CS comes to elicit a CR.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Pretend for a moment that you are the chairperson of the psychology department. Based on the information discussed on context-dependent learning, justify to your faculty why they should not reassign students to different seats on the day of an exam or should not give exams in different classrooms from where the material was learned.
Q2) Albert realises that he has to study differently for essay tests in history than the multiple-choice test in his psychology class. In which aspect of memory is he demonstrating growth?
A)Metacognition
B)Meta-awareness
C)Meta-mnemonics
D)Meta-memory
Q3) Schemas and scripts are valuable memory tools because they
A)assist us in interpreting new situations.
B)facilitate the encoding of information in memory.
C)often oversimplify a complex reality.
D)reduce the amount of information that must be stored in long-term memory.
Q4) Describe and differentiate by duration and capacity the various systems of memory.
Q5) Discuss how our memories both serve us well and lead to memory errors.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Reasoning and Language
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Q1) Learning to ride a bike is just like learning to hit a cricket ball. Which theory of language acquisition might support this statement?
A)Imitation account
B)General cognitive processing account
C)Nativist account
D)Social pragmatics account
Q2) The brain's tendency to streamline our thinking processes by use of preexisting knowledge is referred to as ________.
A)top-down processing
B)bottom-up processing
C)inductive reasoning
D)taxonomic construction
Q3) A step-by-step learned procedure for solving a problem is called a(n)
A)schema.
B)cognitive map.
C)heuristic.
D)algorithm.
Q4) ________ refers to how attention-grabbing something is.
Q5) ________ help us draw conclusions and solve problems in a "fast and frugal" way.
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Iq Testing
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Q1) According to Robert Zajonc, which of the following individuals would be likely to have the lowest intelligence?
A)Erika, who is an only child
B)Roscoe, who is the second born of four children
C)Ennis, who is the youngest of five children
D)Jessica, who is the only child in her family and who was adopted
Q2) Concerning the historical misuses of IQ testing, which is true?
A)Immigrants scoring low on IQ tests usually did so because of a lack of familiarity with the English language.
B)A majority of immigrants who were given IQ tests tended to score in the average to above average range.
C)IQ tests given to immigrants in the early 1900s were valid measures of intelligence.
D)Women tended to outscore men on IQ tests during the early 1900s.
Q3) According to Gardner, there are as many as ________ types of intelligence.
A)three
B)five
C)seven
D)nine
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Chapter 10: Human Development
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Q1) The major issue of ________ explores how development is influenced by both genetics and life experiences.
A)continuity-stages
B)nature-nurture
C)plasticity-formidity
D)stability-change
Q2) The ________ style of parenting is associated with the best social and emotional outcomes for children and the lowest levels of behaviour problems.
Q3) Empty-nest researchers have found that
A)women who do not define themselves exclusively as parents have an easier time adjusting after their children leave home.
B)most empty-nesters are men who experience a period of depression after their children leave home.
C)women are less likely than men to experience depression after their children leave home.
D)women are more likely than men to experience depression after their children leave home.
Q4) The parallel female version of a midlife crisis is the ________ ________.
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Chapter 11: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) According to the James-Lange theory, people use ________ cues to differentiate and label their emotions; according to the two-factor theory, people look to ________ cues to differentiate and label their emotions.
A)physiological; situational
B)situational; physiological
C)situational; situational
D)physiological; physiological
Q2) The fact that people living in poverty are less likely to pursue their dreams can best be explained by the ________.
A)incentive motivation theory
B)intrinsic motivation theory
C)extrinsic motivation theory
D)hierarchy of needs theory
Q3) What is the correct sequence of events in emotional response according to the Cannon-Bard theory?
A)Stimulus emotion physiological changes
B)Stimulus physiological changes emotion
C)Physiological changes stimulus emotion
D)Stimulus emotion AND physiological changes (simultaneous)
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Chapter 12: Stress, Coping and Health
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Q1) Research exploring the relationship between Type A personalities and coronary heart disease (CHD)is not as strong as was previously believed. Some studies found support for this relationship, while others did not. While this inconsistency may at first glance seem to be a bad thing, it does provide avenues for further exploration and clarity. The lack of consistent research findings is important for which of the following concepts from this chapter?
A)Ruling out rival hypotheses
B)Falsifiability
C)Occam's Razor
D)Replicability
Q2) After the initial physical reaction to a stressor, Sonya enters the second stage of Selye's general adaptation syndrome. This stage is known as ________.
Q3) According to Selye, some people may develop illnesses such as organ damage, depression, anxiety, or a weakened immune system during the ________ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.
A)alarm
B)collapse
C)exhaustion
D)resistance
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology
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Q1) Milgram examined other explanations for obedience and was able to manipulate the independent variables such as the amount of feedback and proximity from the learner to the teacher, and the physical proximity and prestige of the experimenter. Milgram was not only trying to replicate his original findings, but he was also trying to demonstrate which of the other principles of scientific thinking?
A)Falsifiability
B)Replicability
C)Ruling out rival hypotheses
D)Occam's Razor
Q2) The following types of people may exhibit high levels of prejudice against a wide variety of out-groups EXCEPT
A)people with authoritarian personality traits.
B)people with high levels of extrinsic religiosity.
C)people with high levels of intrinsic religiosity.
D)people with a high need for conformity.
Q3) The ________ is a persuasive technique involving having someone agree to a request and then revealing that there are additional hidden obligations.
Q4) ________ is helping others for unselfish reasons.
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Chapter 14: Cross-Cultural Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is not a barrier to the provision of culturally-appropriate psychological services in Australia?
A)Insufficient number of appropriately trained staff
B)The existence of stigma about mental illness in many communities
C)The lack of "mentalistic" terms in some community languages
D)The inability of many migrants and refugees to pay for psychological services
Q2) A medical specialist from Perth, Western Australia, has been appointed to improve the effectiveness of diabetes education among Aboriginal communities around Lake Argyll in the Kimberley. The first thing that person does is to find out from local leaders acceptable ways of communicating with the community and how to gain cooperation with the work. Which part of Vicary and Bishop's 10-step model does this best represent?
A)Self-reflection
B)Formative preparation
C)Networking and supervision
D)Referral
Q3) Progress towards provision of culturally appropriate mental health interventions requires specific ________ and development of mental health professionals
Q4) Culture helps us to ________ ourselves and interact with others.
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Chapter 15: Personality
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Q1) In one of Aesop's fables, a fox is unable to obtain some grapes that he truly wishes to have. However, after failing to obtain them, he downplays their importance. This behaviour is most consistent with the defence mechanism of ________.
A)displacement
B)intellectualisation
C)rationalisation
D)sublimation
Q2) The ________ is the most extensively researched of all structured personality tests.
A)TAT
B)MMPI
C)Rorschach
D)NEO
Q3) Tests consisting of ambiguous stimuli that examinees must interpret are called ________.
A)structured personality tests
B)Rorschach tests
C)projective tests
D)face validity
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Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) When an individual is institutionalised against his will because he poses a danger to himself or others, and he has committed no crime, this is called ________ commitment.
A)criminal
B)involuntary
C)statutory
D)regulatory
Q2) Maria is often anxious and tense, though there is no specific reason for these feelings. As a result, she is often irritable with her family, friends, and co-workers without meaning to be. Her family doctor suggests that she meet with a psychiatrist to discuss her generalised ________.
Q3) ________ involves an intense fear of being embarrassed or humiliated in public.
Q4) A patient in a psychiatric hospital exhibits disordered thinking, bizarre behaviour, and hallucinations. This person is probably suffering from ________.
A)schizophrenia
B)bipolar disorder
C)a dissociative disorder
D)passive-aggressive personality
Q5) Contrast the demonic and moral treatment approaches of mental illness.
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Chapter 17: Psychological and Biological Treatments
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Q1) Which of the following is considered a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)?
A)Sertraline
B)Clozapine
C)Lorazepam
D)Atomoxetine
Q2) What category of therapy is most concerned with improving a client's awareness of the underlying causes of his or her difficulties?
A)Behavioural
B)Biological
C)Cognitive
D)Insight
Q3) In what brand of psychotherapy would a clinical psychologist attempt to uncover the underlying unconscious conflicts and impulses that are the cause of one's psychological difficulties?
A)Behavioural
B)Cognitive-behavioural
C)Humanistic
D)Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
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