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Introductory Psychology Exam Questions
Introductory Psychology offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course explores foundational topics such as biological bases of behavior, perception, learning, memory, development, personality, psychological disorders, social interactions, and the principles of psychological research. Through lectures, discussions, and practical examples, students will develop an understanding of key psychological concepts, influential theories, and real-world applications of psychological science, providing a basis for more advanced study in psychology and related fields.
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Psychology Themes and Variations 3rd Canadian by Dr. Wayne Weiten
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Chapter 1: A: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following would be expected of an industrial/organizational psychologist?
A)providing group or individual psychotherapy
B)providing assistance to people struggling with everyday problems
C)testing and counselling children who are having difficulty in school
D)working to improve employee morale and attitudes
Answer: D
Q2) In approximately what year did the cognitive perspective surpass the behavioural perspective in influence, according to results from a recent study?
A)1920
B)1950
C)1970
D)1990
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following would a physiological psychologist be most likely to ask?
A)What effect does reward have on learning?
B)How do hormones affect behaviour?
C)What are the stages of problem solving?
D)Why do we like some people and not others?
Answer: B
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Chapter 1: B: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Dr. LeBlanc became a psychologist in 1925. Which of the following types of psychologists is Dr. LeBlanc most likely to be?
A)a counselling psychologist
B)an experimental psychologist
C)an applied psychologist
D)a clinical psychologist
Answer: B
Q2) Which type of psychologist is concerned with changes in behaviour throughout the life span?
A)social
B)developmental
C)personality
D)cognitive
Answer: B
Q3) Which individual is associated with the concept of "stream of consciousness"?
A)William James
B)Wilhelm Wundt
C)Sigmund Freud
D)John Watson
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: A: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
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Q1) Researchers who were studying memory had participants learn a list of words after consuming a soft drink with caffeine or a decaffeinated version of the same soft drink. The researchers then counted the number of words that were recalled from the list. In this study, what would you call the type of beverage (caffeinated or decaffeinated)?
A)extraneous variable
B)dependent variable
C)confounding variable
D)independent variable
Answer: D
Q2) Dr. Malm predicts that if teachers ignore students who act up in class, fewer students will act up in class. What is the scientific term for Dr. Malm's prediction?
A)operational definition
B)inferential statistics
C)hypothesis
D)theory
Answer: C
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Q1) Dr. O'Hara is investigating the effect of music on the productivity of employees in a factory. Half of the employees listen to music while working and half do not listen to music. Dr. O'Hara measures the productivity of each employee. In this study, which group does NOT listen to music?
A)experimental group
B)dependent group
C)control group
D)independent group
Q2) If researchers were interested in studying individuals' attitudes toward "animal rights issues," which of the following would they be most likely to use?
A)a case study
B)a correlation
C)a survey
D)a naturalistic observation
Q3) What type of study is Beth conducting?
A)experiment
B)case study
C)correlational study
D)naturalistic observation
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Chapter 3: A:The Biological Bases of Behaviour
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Q1) Which of the following comparison groups has a significant similarity with adopted children, based on research on adopted children and intelligence?
A)their biological parents
B)both sets of parents
C)their adoptive parents
D)neither set of parents
Q2) What seems to be a primary cause of Parkinson's disease?
A)degeneration of neurons that use dopamine as a neurotransmitter
B)enzymatic deficiency that does not allow for the proper cleanup of waste products in the nervous system
C)agonistic chemical action on the receptor sites of the cerebrum
D)damage to glial cells
Q3) Which of the following is known about action potentials?
A)They travel more slowly if the incoming stimulation is less intense.
B)They are stronger when the incoming stimulation is more intense.
C)They are generated in an all-or-none fashion.
D)They are seldom strong enough to reach the terminal buttons.
Q4) Compare and contrast the nervous system and the endocrine system.
Q5) Compare and contrast lesioning and electrical stimulation of the brain.
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Q1) If the parasympathetic nervous system is currently active, which of the following bodily functions is likely to be occurring?
A)digestion
B)cortisol secretion
C)crying
D)orgasm
Q2) Which method would you use if you needed to know which areas of the brain experienced the greatest blood flow during a particular task?
A)magnetic resonance imaging
B)computerized tomography
C)positron emission tomography
D)electroencephalography
Q3) Where are terminal buttons located?
A)at the end of dendrites
B)at the end of axons
C)on the soma
D)in the synaptic cleft
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Chapter 4: A: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Jerry, a nuclear operator, must monitor 50 different gauges that keep track of various aspects of the nuclear reactor. Which of the following theories provides the most specific predictions for Jerry's likelihood of detecting any changes or problems?
A)signal-detection
B)Fechner's law
C)pragnanz
D)Weber's law
Q2) What will eventually occur if you stare at an unchanging image for a long time?
A)sensory adaptation
B)perceptual inversion
C)perceptual agnosia
D)sensory overload
Q3) Our construction of perceptual hypotheses illustrates which of your text's unifying themes?
A)Psychology is empirical.
B)Behaviour is determined by multiple causes.
C)Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
D)Our experience of the world is highly subjective.
Q4) Using appropriate examples, show how perceptual experiences can be subjective.
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Q1) When your psychology professor is lecturing to your class, your professor can tell which students are sitting in the first, second, third, etc., row, in part because students in the closer rows appear to have more distinct or clearer facial features than students in more distant rows. Which depth cue is your professor using?
A)linear perspective
B)texture gradient
C)interposition
D)relative size
Q2) According to signal-detection theory, what is the term for waking up to your alarm in the morning?
A)hit
B)false alarm
C)miss
D)correct rejection
Q3) Which aspect of auditory perception is analogous to visual depth perception?
A)amplitude perception
B)auditory localization
C)pitch perception
D)auditory adaptation
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Chapter 5: A: Variations in Consciousness
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Q1) Alicia is taking a prescription drug to help treat her narcolepsy. She finds that when she takes the drug she feels extremely restless and irritable, and she loses her appetite. What has Alicia's physician likely prescribed?
A)stimulant
B)hallucinogen
C)sedative
D)narcotic
Q2) Rowan was relaxing and not really paying attention to anything when his roommate came home. The roommate has asked for help working through some difficulties with a computer program. What will happen to Rowan's brain waves as he helps his roommate?
A)They will decrease in both frequency and amplitude.
B)They will increase in frequency and decrease in amplitude.
C)They will increase in both frequency and amplitude.
D)They will decrease in frequency and increase in amplitude.
Q3) Which of the following statements about dreams is NOT accurate?
A)Dreams are not as bizarre as widely assumed.
B)Dreams have had a profound impact on art and culture.
C)Dreamers sometimes realize that they are dreaming.
D)Dreams occur only during REM sleep.
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Q1) Both the discovery of insulin and refinements in the design of the sewing machine were inspired, in part, by dreams. Which theory of dreaming is supported by examples like this?
A)problem solving
B)activation-synthesis
C)conservation of energy
D)wish fulfillment
Q2) Based on the results of the Featured Study on the merits of unconscious thought, what should you do in between gathering information and making a decision?
A)Gather more information to support or refute the original information.
B)Engage in some other task as a distraction for a while.
C)Think very carefully about the information you've received.
D)Nothing. Make your decision as soon as possible after gathering information.
Q3) In order for the day-night cycle to reset the human biological clock, where do receptors in the retina direct light information?
A)suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus
B)suprachiasmatic nucleus of the medulla
C)pineal gland of the medulla
D)pineal gland of the hypothalamus
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Chapter 6: A: Learning
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Q1) Carson used to really enjoy lime sherbet, and when he was in Mexico he tried frozen lime margaritas. After his fourth margarita Carson became extremely ill. Now he finds that even the sight of lime sherbet in a bowl can make him feel queasy. What is the unconditioned stimulus in this example?
A)the queasiness that Carson feels when he sees lime sherbet
B)the sight of lime sherbet
C)the lime margaritas that Carson consumed
D)the illness that followed the fourth margarita
Q2) Nolan has learned to drink a cup of coffee whenever he gets a tension headache because drinking coffee makes the pain of the headache go away. What does this example illustrate?
A)avoidance learning
B)escape learning
C)classical conditioning
D)positive reinforcement
Q3) Conditioning is a specific type of learning. What does it involve?
A)changing your response to stimuli as you age
B)controlled laboratory experiments, rather than real-world applications
C)learning associations between events that occur in the environment
D)repeated presentations of noxious stimuli
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Chapter 6: B: Learning
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Q1) It often helps an individual comply with a behaviour modification program if he or she signs a written agreement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingencies of a behaviour modification program. What is this type of agreement called?
A)operant agreement
B)reinforcement contract
C)behavioural contract
D)behaviour modification agreement
Q2) In Pavlov's principle experiment, what was the conditioned stimulus?
A)meat powder
B)tone
C)light
D)salivation
Q3) In an operant conditioning study, what is the device that creates a graphic record of an organism's response and reinforcement over time?
A)cumulative recorder
B)response monitor
C)Pavlov Box
D)Skinner Box
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Chapter 7: A: Human Memory
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Q1) Graham has selected four different universities that he might like to attend, and now he is trying to decide which of the four he should apply to. He has all the material spread out in front of him, and he is carefully considering all the advantages and disadvantages associated with each campus. Which component of memory is Graham utilizing, based on Baddeley's model of working memory?
A)visuospatial sketchpad
B)rehearsal loop
C)executive control system
D)prospective memory
Q2) Which of the following occurs when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information?
A)retroactive interference
B)proactive interference
C)retrograde amnesia
D)anterograde amnesia
Q3) Using the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory, describe the capacity, durability, and the typical form of information storage in each of the three human memory systems, and identify the processes that transfer information from one system to another.
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Chapter 7: B: Human Memory
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Q1) If you focus your attention on the sounds of the words that you are trying to remember, what type of encoding are you using?
A)semantic
B)structural
C)verbal
D)phonemic
Q2) Elaine has a tendency to tell the same stories over and over again. She can't seem to remember who has heard the story and who has not. Which type of errors does Elaine make?
A)source monitoring
B)reality monitoring
C)prospective memory
D)destination memory
Q3) What is short-term memory good for?
A)maintaining rehearsed information for approximately five minutes
B)preserving information in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of a second
C)preserving episodic information long enough for cortical encoding
D)maintaining unrehearsed information for up to about 20 seconds
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Chapter 8: A: Language and Thought
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Q1) Why does children's pronunciation improve over time, according to learning theory?
A)The brain matures with age.
B)The quality of their problem-solving ability improves.
C)Transformational rules are mastered.
D)Parents insist on closer and closer approximations of the correct word before they provide reinforcement.
Q2) Imagine that a race of extraterrestrials came to earth. These extraterrestrials quickly learned to use Earth words to convey meaningful messages, but they never created new combinations of words or learned how to use rules to create meaningful sentences.
Which of the following would be true of their communications?
A)They would have all the requirements for language.
B)They would not be generative or structured, but would be symbolic and semantic.
C)They would lack all the essential elements of language.
D)They would not be symbolic or semantic, but would be generative and structured.
Q3) Outline the key properties of language, and use these to evaluate the ape-language controversy.
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Chapter 8: B: Language and Thought
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Q1) Arguing from an evolutionary perspective, what do Leda Cosmides and John Tooby suggest that human reasoning depends on?
A)complex heuristics based on lifelong learning
B)inferential heuristics
C)'dumb and dumber' heuristics
D)specialized cognitive mechanisms for natural problems
Q2) People tend to put too much faith in their own estimates and beliefs. What is this tendency called?
A)overconfidence effect
B)confirmation bias
C)gambler's fallacy
D)availability heuristic
Q3) In the statement "First the oven was preheated to 350 degrees," how many morphemes are in the word "preheated"?
A)3
B)5
C)6
D)9
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Chapter 9: A: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) According to Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, in which type of intelligence should someone score high if they can cope well with new or novel tasks?
A)creative
B)analytic
C)practical
D)contextual
Q2) Which of the following would a mechanical aptitude test be high in if the scores were strongly correlated with performance in an auto mechanics training class?
A)face validity
B)criterion-related validity
C)reliability
D)construct validity
Q3) Which subtheory of intelligence, as proposed by Sternberg, is associated with intelligence being a culturally defined concept?
A)contextual
B)geographic
C)apocalyptic
D)anachronistic
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Chapter 9: B: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) If you were to study the processes, mechanisms and strategies associated with intelligent behaviour, which of Sternberg's subtheories would you be focused on?
A)contextual subtheory
B)componential subtheory
C)practical subtheory
D)experiential subtheory
Q2) What was the stated purpose of the first useful intelligence test?
A)to identify gifted children
B)to identify children who had the potential to be successful in college
C)to evaluate the success of educational programs
D)to identify children in need of special training
Q3) Many human traits, including intelligence, show a normal distribution. What does this mean?
A)Most cases are near the edges of the distribution.
B)Cases are equally frequent across the entire distribution.
C)Most cases are near the middle of the distribution.
D)Few cases are near the middle of the distribution.
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Chapter 10: A: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) What typically happens to animals that have lesions in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus?
A)They overeat and become obese.
B)They go for days without sleep.
C)They lose all interest in sex.
D)They ignore food and often starve.
Q2) Alisha is telling a story about a character on a TAT card. In her story, Alisha focuses on the individual's lack of persistence when undertaking projects, and she also describes how the individual prefers situations that have little competition. Which of the following does Alisha's answer suggest that she most likely has?
A)low need for affiliation
B)high need for affiliation
C)low need for achievement
D)high need for achievement
Q3) What does the set point for body weight refer to?
A)the lowest possible weight at which the person can survive
B)a person's current weight
C)the highest weight the person can attain by unrestricted eating
D)a person's natural point of stability in body weight
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Chapter 10: B: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) As Estella is watching the climax of a horror movie, all at once she is frightened, nervous, and excited. Which component of emotion does her response illustrate?
A)cognitive
B)physiological
C)behavioural
D)perceptual
Q2) Which component of emotion includes the subjective conscious experience of an emotion?
A)cognitive
B)behavioural
C)perceptual
D)physiological
Q3) A rapid-response pathway that quickly results in physiological responses associated with emotion begins with the thalamus. Where does it go from there?
A)medulla
B)amygdala
C)cerebellum
D)cerebral cortex
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Chapter 11: A: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) What is associated with early maturation in both males and females?
A)deterioration of peer relations
B)less self-control and emotional stability
C)higher levels of moral reasoning
D)greater risk for eating disorders
Q2) Research on adolescence indicates that for girls, early maturation is particularly difficult, while for boys, late maturation is especially hard. How would you explain this gender difference? Consider how your text's unifying theme that psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context might help to explain it.
Q3) As a parent, you are particularly worried that your child will engage in behaviours including disordered eating, poor school performance, and promiscuity. Which of the following individuals should you worry most about, given research evidence?
A)a boy who matures late
B)a girl who matures early
C)a boy who matures early
D)a girl who matures late
Q4) Describe the four stages of cognitive development proposed by Jean Piaget, and discuss the major developmental changes associated with each of the stages.
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Chapter 11: B: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) Environmental factors are most likely to cause damage to specific structures of a developing embryo or fetus when those structures are undergoing rapid development. Which unifying theme in psychology is reflected in this example?
A)Heredity and environment jointly influence behaviour.
B)Psychology evolves in a socio-historical context.
C)Psychology is theoretically diverse.
D)Psychology is empirical.
Q2) At what age does menopause typically occur?
A)12
B)30
C)40
D)50
Q3) What type of attachment is associated with toddlers who exhibit little, if any, distress when their mothers leave the room?
A)anxious-ambivalent
B)avoidant
C)especially strong
D)secure
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Chapter 12: A: Personality: Theory, Research, and Assessment
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Q1) What causes troublesome anxiety, according to Carl Rogers?
A)unresolved sexual conflicts
B)the use of defence mechanisms
C)threats to our self-concept
D)unconditional love
Q2) Which of Maslow's needs would reflect your needs to learn all you can about philosophy and understand the inner workings of our political system?
A)cognitive
B)aesthetic
C)esteem
D)self-actualization
Q3) What did Raymond Cattell use in order to identify clusters of closely related personality traits and the factors underlying them?
A)analysis of variance
B)normal distribution
C)factor analysis
D)multifactorial averaging
Q4) How do you think an operant theorist like Skinner would explain defence mechanisms? Give several examples.
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Q1) According to Daniel Nettle, which personality trait would have conferred a survival advantage and therefore would have been selected for in our ancestral environment?
A)openness
B)introversion
C)neuroticism
D)extraversion
Q2) Which of the following represents the correct developmental order of Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages of development?
A)anal, oral, phallic, latency, genital
B)anal, oral, phallic, genital, latency
C)oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
D)oral, anal, genital, latency, phallic
Q3) Four-year-old Sai has erotically tinged desires for his mother and also feels hostility to his father. According to Sigmund Freud, what is Sai experiencing?
A)identification complex
B)phallic complex
C)genital complex
D)Oedipal complex
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Chapter 13: A: Stress, Coping, and Health
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Q1) What does Lacey snapping at her coworkers illustrate?
A)approach-avoidance conflict
B)avoidance-avoidance conflict
C)the coping mechanism known as aggression
D)the coping mechanism known as displacement
Q2) Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding HIV and AIDS?
A)Many highly sexually active heterosexuals underestimate their risk for HIV infection.
B)Due to recent efforts to educate the public, misconceptions about AIDS have all but disappeared.
C)Many people naïvely underestimate the risk of contracting the HIV virus through casual contact with infected individuals.
D)Taking high doses of immunosuppressants can successfully treat HIV infections and prevent full-blown AIDS from developing.
Q3) Many people believe that suicide represents the ultimate failure to cope with life's stresses. Others feel that suicide is, itself, a coping response. What do you think? Is one type of stress more likely to lead to suicide than others?
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Q1) Of the following individuals, who would be least likely to develop heart disease?
A)Dennis, who is depressed
B)Charles, who has high blood pressure and smokes
C)Bill, who is a Type B personality
D)Andrew, who is a Type A personality
Q2) As Patricia's marriage was ending, she read a lot of psychology texts that dealt with interpersonal attraction and mate choice. She would tell her friends about all the very interesting ways that her relationship's failure matched up with the patterns and trends described in the research literature, and she even wrote a paper about it for one of her classes. Which defence mechanism does this example illustrate?
A)denial
B)undoing
C)overcompensation
D)intellectualization
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Chapter 14: A: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Wendy works at Dyne Corporation. At the last business executive meeting she showed up in pyjamas and slippers. When her coworkers commented on the inappropriateness of her outfit, Wendy did not seem the least bit disturbed or embarrassed by their comments. What is the best description for Wendy's style of dressing, in this example?
A)delusional
B)personally distressing
C)maladaptive
D)culturally deviant
Q2) What is the most likely cause of psychogenic amnesia and fugue?
A)neurotic personality
B)unconscious recollections of childhood trauma
C)neurotransmitter imbalance
D)extreme stress
Q3) Which disorder is most consistent with Angela's symptoms?
A)obsessive-compulsive disorder
B)bipolar disorder
C)generalized anxiety disorder
D)delusional disorder
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Q1) Tom displays very odd behaviour. He wears a heavy parka and mittens during the summer and lectures from the steps of City Hall about upcoming invasions by men from outer space. Which criterion of abnormality does Tom's behaviour meet?
A)personal distress
B)deviance
C)cognitive confusion
D)the medical model
Q2) What proportion of diagnoses for depression are 'seasonal' types, in Canada?
A)31 percent
B)21 percent
C)41 percent
D)11 percent
Q3) Which individual would be most likely to successfully learn to control his anxiety?
A)Raphe, who has phobic disorder
B)Dom, who has post-traumatic stress disorder
C)Tiimu, who has generalized anxiety disorder
D)Ed, who has panic disorder
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Chapter 15: A: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Price has had several episodes of severe depression, but for the past week he has been euphoric and hyperactive, and he hasn't slept for the past four nights. His family is concerned, and they have brought him to a mental health clinic for treatment. If the doctor who sees him prescribes medication to reduce Price's current symptoms, which medication is most likely to be prescribed?
A)a drug from the benzodiazepine family
B)a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
C)a tricyclic drug
D)lithium
Q2) Monica is being treated for depression. She goes to regular sessions with a therapist who uses rational emotive therapy, and she is also taking an antidepressant medication. What does this example illustrate?
A)eclectic therapy
B)off-label prescription
C)a sham therapy procedure
D)a placebo-control condition
Q3) Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic and humanistic brands of insight therapy.
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Chapter 15: B: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Tarek suffers from chronic anxiety. He tends to worry constantly and is uncomfortable in a wide variety of situations. He decides to seek therapy. Tarek believes that if he can learn to calm himself when he finds himself in anxiety-producing situations, then he will be better able to cope. Based on Tarek's beliefs, which type of therapy is he most likely to select?
A)behaviour
B)emotion
C)biomedical
D)insight
Q2) Consistent with the phenomenon of regression toward the mean, what would you expect of the person who receives the highest grade in the class on the first psychology exam?
A)She will get a high grade, but probably not the highest, on the second psychology exam.
B)She will get a below-average grade on the second psychology exam.
C)She will get the highest grade in the class on the second psychology exam.
D)She will get the highest grade in the class on the first economics exam.
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Chapter 16: A: Social Behaviour
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Q1) Mort is trying to convince his parents that he should enrol at a university in another province, rather than the local university. He has made five strong points that support his position, but his parents are not convinced. Based on the research into factors that influence persuasion, what should Mort do?
A)repeat the arguments that he has already made
B)play some soft background music while he and his parents discuss the issue some more
C)add additional points that support his position, even if they are weaker arguments
D)ask his parents to think about their decision for a few days
Q2) Jack is working on a farm and his employer has asked him to kill an unwanted litter of puppies that has just been born. Jack doesn't want to do it, but he knows that it is his job to follow orders. Which of the following will make Jack most likely to disobey orders?
A)hearing another employee refusing to do the job
B)seeing someone watching him
C)realizing that he isn't being very well paid
D)feeling sad for the dogs
Q3) How could you explain the matching hypothesis in terms of operant conditioning?
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Q1) In regards to interpersonal attraction, which saying is most accurate?
A)Birds of a feather flock together.
B)Opposites attract.
C)He who hesitates is lost.
D)To know me is to love me.
Q2) In many cultures, what key element is associated with physical attractiveness?
A)facial symmetry
B)body type
C)height
D)hair colour
Q3) Which component of persuasion would be enhanced if an advertiser chose to use doctors and dentists to promote their vitamin supplements?
A)likability
B)trustworthiness
C)attractiveness
D)expertise
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Chapter 17: Appendix B: Statistical Methods
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Q1) The relationship between variable X and variable Y is such that high scores on variable X are generally associated with high scores on variable Y and low scores on variable X are generally associated with low scores on variable Y. What would be found if the correlation coefficient is calculated?
A)a strong correlation
B)a positive correlation
C)a weak correlation
D)a negative correlation
Q2) What is a frequency polygon?
A)a line figure that presents data from a frequency distribution
B)a graph that represents a symmetrical or bell-shaped curve
C)a graph in which paired scores for each subject are plotted as single points
D)a bar graph that presents data from a frequency distribution
Q3) When a trait is normally distributed, where would you find most of the scores?
A)at the bottom of the distribution
B)at the top of the distribution
C)near the centre of the distribution
D)scattered uniformly across the distribution
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Q1) What must industrial/organizational psychologists do as a result of anti-discrimination legislation?
A)ensure that their recruitment and selection practices are legally sound
B)hire people from minority groups based on "quotas"
C)pass a government security clearance screening
D)warn all potential hires that their resumés are subject to legal review
Q2) Which type of discrimination is legal, according to Canadian law?
A)education
B)sex
C)religion
D)race
Q3) How does the speed of technological change affect companies' personnel selection?
A)Morale drops as a result of low interpersonal contact, as face-to-face communication is replaced by email.
B)Selection is often done using online and through other technological methods.
C)Individuals who are willing and able to adapt on a continuous basis are preferred.
D)Older workers are systematically "weeded out" due to inability to adapt to new technology.
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Chapter 19: Appendix D: Evaluating the Quality of
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Q1) Which of the following would be most likely to provide unbiased information?
A)a website attached to a university, with a range of links and peer-reviewed articles on the topic of experimental analysis of reports of UFO abductions
B)an online article about post-traumatic stress disorder, written for a popular magazine, that includes a list of citations and contact information for all individuals interviewed for the article
C)a site maintained by a patients' rights group, providing information (including case studies and newspaper articles) about how clinicians may be implanting false memories in their clients
D)a site sponsored by a pharmaceutical company that explains in great detail (and with links to government health organizations) about the symptoms and treatments for depression
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an important criterion when evaluating materials on the Internet?
A)Who is the publisher or sponsor of the website?
B)What is the quality of the online presentation?
C)How popular is the site, or how many "hits" has it received?
D)What is the identity and qualification of the author?
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