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Principles of Psychology Final Exam
Principles of Psychology introduces students to the foundational concepts, theories, and research methods that define the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course covers key topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Emphasis is placed on both the biological and environmental influences on human behavior, as well as the application of psychological principles to everyday life. Through lectures, discussions, and practical activities, students gain a broad understanding of how psychology informs our understanding of individuals and society.
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Psychology 2nd Canadian Edition by Saundra
K. Ciccarelli
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) The tendency to look for information that supports one's own belief is called:
A)the observer effect.
B)confirmation bias.
C)the placebo effect.
D)a double bind.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is CORRECT concerning random assignment?
A)In random assignment each participant has an equal chance for each condition.
B)In random assignment each participant is assigned alphabetically to each condition.
C)Random assignment can only be determined after an experiment is over.
D)The best formula for random assignment is asking for volunteers
Answer: A
Q3) The use of __________ helps to control for the effect of observer bias.
A)blind observers
B)a single trained observer
C)randomly selected observers
D)none of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective
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Q1) The question "What is happening?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?
A)description
B)explanation
C)prediction
D)control
Answer: A
Q2) The structures of the limbic system play an important role in ________________ and _________________.
A)heart rate; breathing
B)thinking; decision making
C)memory; emotion
D)spatial tasks; coordination
Answer: C
Q3) Which neural disorder may be caused and potentially helped by mirror neurons?
A)Parkinson's
B)autism
C)Alzheimer's
D)aphasia
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following neurotransmitters functions as a common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain?
A)serotonin
B)GABA
C)acetylcholine
D)norepinephrine
Answer: B
Q2) A student takes a drug that distorts perception.He holds up his hand right in front of his face.Horrified he yells,"I have a giant hand!" Most likely the drug interfered with _________ constancy.
A)size
B)shape
C)brightness
D)colour
Answer: A
Q3) Herman Von Helmholtz proposed the place theory of pitch.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs
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Q1) A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane.As the plane takes off,he is smiling.The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce.The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's __________ content.
A)metaphoric
B)latent
C)manifest
D)disguised
Q2) Which sense does NOT send signals to the cortex via the thalamus?
A)hearing
B)smell
C)taste
D)vision
Q3) Every deliberate action you make,such as pedalling a bike,walking,scratching,or smelling a flower,involves neurons in the ______ nervous system.
A)sympathetic
B)somatic
C)parasympathetic
D)autonomic
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) University of British Columbia professor Gerald Gorn applied the concept of classical condition to four separate groups of McGill students.The first group was shown slides of a blue pen as music they liked (from the Grease soundtrack)played in the background.The second group was shown slides of a beige pen as music from India (which most of them disliked.played in the background.The third group was shown the beige pen with the preferred Grease music.The fourth group saw the blue pen and heard the Indian music.Later each group was asked to choose between a blue pen and beige pen.In this study,LIKING OR DISLIKING the music was the:
A)unconditioned stimulus (UCS).
B)unconditioned response (UCR).
C)condition stimulus (CS).
D)condition response (CR).
Q2) When a conditioned response briefly reappears after it has been extinguished,this is called:
A)spontaneous recovery.
B)higher-order conditioning.
C)extinction.
D)stimulus generalization.
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) The term false memory taste aversion phenomenon is associated with the work of:
A)Pezdek.
B)Bowman.
C)Bernstein.
D)Loftus.
Q2) The tendency to interpret an object as always being the same physical dimensions,regardless of its distance from the viewer,is known as:
A)size constancy.
B)shape constancy.
C)perception.
D)Gestalt principle one.
Q3) Forgetting related to long-term memory is most likely due to:
A)interference from other information.
B)decay or disuse.
C)encoding failure.
D)curve of forgetting patterns.
Q4) Hypnotized people report more accurate AND inaccurate information than people who are not hypnotized.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
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Q1) Sleep spindles appear during ______ sleep.
A)Stage One
B)REM
C)Stage Two
D)Stage Four
Q2) What three types of intelligence constitute Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?
A)global,intuitive,and special
B)general,global,and specific
C)analytical,creative,and practical
D)mathematical,reasoning,and verbal
Q3) The trial-and-error method of solving problems is also known as the__________ method.
A)heuristic
B)algorithm
C)mechanical solution
D)step-by-step
Q4) People are deemed gifted in terms of intelligence if their IQ exceeds 130.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) Which type of thought does not begin until the stage of formal operational thought?
A)thinking about what is possible
B)thinking about what is logical
C)thinking about whether an object exists when it is out of sight
D)thinking about only one feature of an object rather than taking all features into consideration
Q2) In which of Piaget's stages does the child develop conservation?
A)sensorimotor
B)preoperational
C)formal operational
D)concrete operational
Q3) Ryan has cystic fibrosis.This means that his mother is a carrier for the cystic fibrosis gene,while his father:
A)is also a carrier.
B)is not a carrier.
C)does not have a cystic fibrosis gene.
D)has two cystic fibrosis genes.
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Channel is a 43-year-old female who has been in sexual relationships with both men and women in the past.She is presently dating a 32-year-old female and is thinking of moving to a province that legally recognizes the marriage between two women.She is thinking of getting married to her partner,despite still admitting that she finds both men and women attractive.Channel is considered _____________ in terms of her sexual orientation.
A)transsexual
B)homosexual
C)bisexual
D)heterosexual
Q2) Which researcher is best known for studying the phenomenon of insight in animals?
A)Köhler
B)Tolman
C)Seligman
D)Skinner
Q3) Primary sex characteristics are present at birth.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Stress and Health
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Q1) The defence mechanism that involves forgetting threatening or conflicting events or situations,resulting in complete absence of those events or situations from conscious memory,is called:
A)repression.
B)denial.
C)projection.
D)displacement.
Q2) Joey put a quarter in the gumball machine only to find that the machine was not working.He continued to turn the dial on the machine in hope that he would retrieve a gumball.Unfortunately,after several minutes of forcefully turning the dial he still did not retrieve a gumball.As a result,he kicked the machine several times.Kicking the machine is an example of:
A)persistence.
B)increasing efforts.
C)varying efforts.
D)aggression.
Q3) Secondary appraisal involves classifying the stressor as a threat or a challenge.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Theories of Personality
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Q1) You are quite hungry but don't have a dime to your name.If you were described as "all id and only id," what would you do?
A)Distract yourself with images of food.
B)Steal a hot dog from the vendor on the corner.
C)Run all the way home to get something to eat as soon as possible.
D)Use the defence mechanism of denial to thwart the hunger pangs until an appropriate meal can be obtained.
Q2) In the metaphor the angel,the devil,and me,the devil is the:
A)id.
B)ego.
C)superego.
D)libido.
Q3) An investigation of students' housing preferences would probably show that single rooms are preferred by _______whereas suites are preferred by _______.
A)extraverts; introverts
B)introverts; extraverts
C)good students; poor students
D)poor students; good students
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together.You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother.Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other.This is an example of:
A)constructive processing.
B)the misinformation effect.
C)the curve of forgetting.
D)false memory syndrome.
Q2) All of the following are Sternberg's components of love EXCEPT: A)passion.
B)intimacy.
C)loyalty.
D)commitment.
Q3) Scapegoats are usually the group of people with the: A)most annoying customs.
B)most unusual appearance.
C)most money.
D)least power.
Q4) According to Sternberg,consummate love requires only passion and intimacy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) The police find a man who is dishevelled and in a daze wandering through the downtown area.When the police ask him for his name,he seems bewildered.A search of missing persons photographs reveals that this man was reported missing three months ago in a town more than 700 kilometres away.The man is most likely suffering from:
A)schizophrenia.
B)dissociative fugue.
C)dissociative amnesia.
D)dissociative identity disorder.
Q2) Which of the following is one definition of abnormal behaviour?
A)behaviour that is rare
B)behaviour that is consistent with the norms of society
C)behaviour that does not create distress
D)behaviour that is adaptive
Q3) The model of psychological abnormality that combines the influences of all of the other models in varying amounts is called the omnilogical model.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) Which of the following is true regarding cybertherapy?
A)Critics fear there may be unanticipated side effects.
B)It is relatively danger-free compared to other forms of therapy.
C)Drop-out rates are higher compared to other forms of therapy.
D)Research has consistently demonstrated that it is less effective than face-to-face therapy.
Q2) According to the Consumer Reports survey,which of the following is accurate?
A)Individual psychotherapy works best for every type of disorder.
B)The longer a person stays in therapy,the greater the improvement.
C)Overall,psychotherapy without drugs is not as effective as psychotherapy with drugs.
D)Group therapy is more effective than individual therapy in treating a wide range of disorders.
Q3) When we consider intelligence,it is important to remember that although _______ sets limits on a child's potential,it is the _______ that permits that potential to be actualized.
A)learning; opportunity
B)opportunity; learning
C)heredity; environment
D)environment; heredity
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Chapter 15: Psychology and Human Development
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Q1) Tinotendo and Tinashe Mufuka share a/an:
A)body from the waist down.
B)liver.
C)heart.
D)upper torso.
Q2) Which of Erik Erikson's psychosocial crises revolves around the child's learning to direct his or her own behaviour?
A)trust versus mistrust
B)initiative versus guilt
C)industry versus inferiority
D)autonomy versus shame and doubt
Q3) Joanna is experiencing severe anxiety.Her psychiatrist attributes her disorder to a chemical imbalance.Her psychiatrist is using the ___________ of abnormality.
A)psychoanalytic model
B)intrapersonal model
C)biological model
D)behavioural model
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