Principles of Psychology
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Principles of Psychology introduces students to the foundational concepts, theories, and research methods in the study of human behavior and mental processes. The course covers major topics such as perception, learning, memory, development, emotion, motivation, personality, and psychological disorders. Through examination of both classic studies and contemporary findings, students develop an understanding of the biological, cognitive, and social factors that influence individual and group behavior. Emphasis is placed on the application of psychological principles to real-world situations and the development of critical thinking skills in evaluating psychological information.
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Psychology An Introduction 10th Edition by Benjamin Lahey
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Hermann Ebbinghaus developed a memory testing strategy that involved nonsense syllables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The sociocultural perspective in psychology emerged from another discipline,criminal justice.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Most psychologists agree that biology
A) is the only influence of human behavior.
B) influences everyone equally.
C) influences human behavior.
D) does not influence human behavior.
Answer: C
Q4) Theories are scientific truths.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Q1) Which research technique did Sigmund Freud use while he gathered information to develop his theories of abnormal behavior?
A) experimental method
B) clinical method
C) correlational method
D) survey method
Answer: B
Q2) If you are concerned that your researcher might actually influence the outcome of your experiment,you should conduct a
A) placebo pre-trial.
B) manipulation check.
C) correlational study.
D) blind experiment.
Answer: D
Q3) Scientists conduct experiments to test hypotheses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations in Behavior
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Q1) Compared to the left hemisphere,the right cerebral hemisphere appears to play a greater role in the processing of negative emotions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Glucagon causes the liver to convert its stored sugar into
A) glutamate.
B) insulin.
C) blood sugar.
D) adrenaline.
Answer: C
Q3) Which brain area is most directly linked to the functions of the autonomic nervous system?
A) thalamus
B) hippocampus
C) corpus callosum
D) hypothalamus
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Interplay of Nature and Nurture
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Q1) What term best defines an individual's sense of belonging to a particular group?
A) self-concept
B) ethnic identity
C) human diversity
D) cultural relativity
Q2) According to gender difference research,men and women who are ______ perform more accurately on a wide range of cognitive tasks.
A) high in femininity
B) androgynous
C) high in masculinity
D) low in masculinity
Q3) The science of genetics was founded in the A) 1660s.
B) 1760s.
C) 1860s.
D) 1960s.
Q4) Females have two Y chromosomes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Visual stimuli that are close together are usually seen as belonging together;this is called
A) figure-ground.
B) proximity.
C) continuity.
D) similarity.
Q2) If you lost all of your ability to hear with your left ear,you would likely have
A) trouble locating the sources of sounds.
B) trouble discriminating individual voices.
C) trouble understanding human speech.
D) no trouble at all with your hearing.
Q3) Which of the following is a binocular cue?
A) texture gradient
B) convergence
C) superposition
D) shadowing
Q4) The vestibular organ provides the brain with information about pain and temperature.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Which of the following is a characteristic of an altered state of consciousness?
A) sense of division
B) illogical
C) clear perception
D) describable
Q2) The brain waves of a person having a vivid dream are most similar to
A) conscious awareness.
B) the hypnagogic state.
C) deep (stage 4)sleep.
D) light (stage 2)sleep.
Q3) The hormone ______ is a key factor in regulating a person's level of sleepiness.
A) testosterone
B) melatonin
C) estrogen
D) glutamate
Q4) In terms of states of consciousness,hypnosis involves a A) high degree of controlled processing.
B) strong defense against suggestibility.
C) sense of deep relaxation and altered body awareness.
D) dependence on a belief in supernatural powers.
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Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Learning
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Q1) Stimulus discrimination occurs in classical conditioning but not in operant conditioning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After John was ridiculed by the teacher in his high school English class,he began cutting class.This can be seen as an example of A) avoidance conditioning.
B) discriminative conditioning.
C) positive reinforcement.
D) punishment.
Q3) Rats who know where something is in a maze relative to a starting place possess a cognitive map.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An essential factor in the definition of learning is that the learned behavior
A) must result from maturation.
B) must be unmotivated.
C) has a biological cause.
D) is relatively permanent.
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Short-term memory can store any information received by the brain through the senses.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following best describes the memory capacity of the sensory register?
A) Capacity is limited on the average to 7 chunks of information.
B) There is the potential for partial recall of everything ever experienced in episodic memory.
C) It is designed to hold an exact image of the sensory experience.
D) It depends on the effort put into the process of attention.
Q3) Procedural memory and working memory are the same kinds of memories.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Human brains and computers operate in exactly the same way.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Information in short-term memory can be renewed through rehearsal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Using shortcuts to solve complex problems is using algorithmic reasoning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A bee in the midst of a tail-wagging dance is attempting to communicate
A) distance and direction to nectar.
B) a threat to the hive.
C) a malfunction of its stinger.
D) abdication of the queen bee.
Q3) Of the following,why are intelligence tests used?
A) to predict behavior
B) to categorize people
C) to measure expertise
D) to normalize society
Q4) Reading the identical directions to every person taking a given intelligence test is an aspect of the test's
A) reliability.
B) validity.
C) normalization.
D) standardization.
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Chapter 10: Developmental Psychology
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Q1) If 30-year-old Peter is unsure of what he should do with his life and where he fits in,Erikson would most likely agree that Peter did not successfully complete the _____________ stage.
A) intimacy vs.isolation
B) generativity vs.stagnation
C) autonomy vs.shame and doubt
D) identity vs.role confusion
Q2) Conventional moral reasoning predominates after 11 years of age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Right after Larry discovered he was terminally ill he felt like he could beat the illness.Which of Kübler-Ross's stages will Larry most likely experience next?
A) denial
B) depression
C) acceptance
D) anger
Q4) The last stage of Kübler-Ross' death and dying theory is acceptance.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) People who tend to score ______ on neuroticism tend to score _____ on happiness.
A) low;low
B) high;high
C) low;high
D) middle;high
Q2) Research studies examining the heat and aggression theory have found correlations between high temperatures and A) robberies.
B) deadly assaults.
C) overall crime rates.
D) stalking.
Q3) A child who cleans up his room every day because he wants his $2 allowance on Saturday is A) self-actualizing.
B) extrinsically motivated.
C) intrinsically motivated.
D) probably a Type B personality.
Q4) The last phase of the sexual response cycle is the resolution phase. A)True B)False
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Chapter 12: Personality Theories and Assessment
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Q1) The personality theory attributed to Sigmund Freud is known as ______ theory.
A) collectivistic
B) behavioral
C) humanistic
D) psychoanalytic
Q2) What is a person asked to do when taking the Rorschach inkblot test?
A) make up complete stories about pictures
B) answer a series of true/false questions
C) describe what they see in an ambiguous picture
D) draw a picture of a house,tree,and person
Q3) The self-actualized person has reached a high level of moral development.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)is a(n)_______ personality test.
A) objective
B) projective
C) subjective
D) retrospective
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Chapter 13: Stress and Health
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Q1) The first stage of progressive relaxation training is to determine A) the difference between relaxed and tense muscles.
B) if health insurance will cover the cost.
C) if you are limber enough to perform its basic tasks.
D) your individual level of hypnotic susceptibility.
Q2) If you use defense mechanisms to cope with stress,you are using a(n)_______ coping strategy.
A) aggressive
B) beneficial
C) preventative
D) ineffective
Q3) If after getting a C in a class that you thought you deserved a B in,you threw a little child-like temper tantrum outside your teacher's office,you exhibited the defense mechanism of A) reaction formation.
B) repression.
C) rationalization.
D) regression.
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Chapter 14: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Unwanted sexual advances,unwanted sexually suggestive comments,and sexual coercion are all forms of
A) rape trauma syndrome.
B) sexual harassment.
C) sadomasochism.
D) sexual dysfunction.
Q2) Half of those who experience an episode of major depression for the first time will
A) also have periods of mania.
B) make a suicide attempt.
C) not experience another episode.
D) also experience conversion disorder.
Q3) If a person was described to you as a voyeur,which of the following behaviors would that person most likely engage in?
A) watching others have sex
B) exposing sexual organs to strangers
C) involving children in sexual practices
D) dressing in opposite-sex clothing
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) When a patient starts acting toward his therapist as if he were a child and the therapist were a parent (and seeking parental approval),______ has occurred in this patient-therapist relationship.
A) association
B) catharsis
C) resistance
D) transference
Q2) Which of the following is an advantage to group psychotherapy?
A) letting other people solve your problems for you
B) learning that your problems are unique to you
C) getting more individual attention from the therapist
D) learning that you are not alone in your problems
Q3) According to Ellis and Beck,people become psychologically disturbed because they
A) learn maladaptive behaviors.
B) are unaware of unconscious conflicts.
C) have maladaptive ways of thinking.
D) are aware of their irrational beliefs.
Q4) Catharsis is the process of letting out emotions based on unconscious conflicts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology
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Q1) Because society expects us to behave differently in different social settings we have A) a single social role.
B) many gender roles.
C) several levels of obedience.
D) many different social roles.
Q2) Prejudice can be reduced if a person becomes aware of her or his own prejudices.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An athlete responds to a career-threatening injury by persevering through a rigorous rehabilitation program.Those who know this athlete explain his perseverance in terms of his desire to compete and to express his natural talents.The social process underlying this explanation is
A) social penetration.
B) dissonance reduction.
C) attribution.
D) diffusion of responsibility.
Q4) Generally,the more attractive a person is,the less persuasive they are.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Psychology Applied to Business and Other
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Q1) In job selection,setting different minimum qualifying scores on intelligence tests for different ethnic groups is illegal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a supervisor is high in structuring,it means that they
A) tend to have a personality that prefers an anal-retentive approach.
B) structure their own workday between paperwork and supervision.
C) spend time working on the weekly schedule to accommodate requests.
D) spend time organizing and directing the work of employees.
Q3) What is the typical outcome of greenhouse effects on climate change?
A) Greenhouse effects do not actually exist.
B) Average temperature are decreasing.
C) Only air temperatures are changing.
D) Average temperatures are increasing.
Q4) Tests that provide an actual sampling of manual skills required for a particular job are called ________ tests.
A) performance
B) ability
C) achievement
D) paper-and-pencil
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