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Principles of Psychology Test Preparation
Principles of Psychology introduces students to the foundational concepts, theories, and research methods in the field of psychology. This course explores key topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, development, personality, and psychological disorders. Emphasis is placed on understanding how biological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors influence behavior and mental processes. Through engaging lectures, discussions, and practical activities, students gain insights into both classic studies and contemporary findings, developing a comprehensive understanding of human thought and behavior.
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Psychology Themes and Variations 9th Edition by Wayne Weiten
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Manny tends to be very passive and allows people to take advantage of him.What would a humanist be MOST likely to say about Manny?
A) Manny will find it difficult to change because he probably has deep-seated feelings of inferiority.
B) Manny can become more assertive once he begins to feel better about himself and recognizes that he has the ability to fulfill his potential.
C) Manny simply needs to take an assertiveness training class in which he can learn and practice assertive behaviors.
D) Manny should undergo analysis so that he can begin to resolve whatever unconscious conflict is at the root of his passivity.
Answer: B
Q2) Freud concluded that psychological disturbances are largely caused by
A) unrealistic demands from family and friends.
B) personal conflicts existing at an unconscious level.
C) genetic predispositions to behave in a particular way.
D) conflicts between conscious desires and environmental constraints.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
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Q1) Manipulating a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observing the changes in a second variable defines
A) the testing approach.
B) the survey approach.
C) the experimental approach.
D) naturalistic observation.
Answer: C
Q2) One of the disadvantages of the experimental method is
A) the inability to generate cause-and-effect conclusions.
B) the length of time necessary to complete the study.
C) the fact that only one variable can be studied at a time.
D) the fact that experiments often can't be done for practical or ethical reasons.
Answer: D
Q3) Statistics that are used to summarize and organize data are called A) descriptive statistics.
B) numerical statistics.
C) inferential statistics.
D) computational statistics.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Biological Bases of Behavior
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Q1) Synaptic vesicles are structures that
A) control the speed with which a neuron fires.
B) manufacture myelin.
C) store neurotransmitters.
D) provide energy for a neuron's activity.
Answer: C
Q2) Recent research studies have shown that the brain forms all the neurons it will ever have by the end of infancy,and that no new neurons form in adult brains.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Assume that developing a sixth toe is a recessive trait that is controlled by a single pair of genes.If a child has six toes,but both the child's biological parents have normal feet,you can conclude that
A) one parent is heterozygous for the trait, and the other parent is homozygous.
B) both parents are heterozygous for the trait in question.
C) the child has been adopted.
D) both parents are homozygous for the trait in question.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Compare vision and hearing with regard to the proximal stimulus and information processing for each sense.
Q2) ____________________ refers to the relative amount of whiteness in a color.
Q3) Using appropriate examples,show how perceptual experiences can be subjective.
Q4) Sensory adaptation is an automatic process that helps to keep people tuned into changes in their sensory experiences.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Pairs of colors that produce gray tones when mixed together are known as A) sedentary colors.
B) gray scale colors.
C) complex colors.
D) complementary colors.
Q6) Briefly distinguish between sensation and perception.
Q7) Like vision,the physical stimulus for sound is a wave form of energy that is characterized by amplitude,wavelength and purity.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Use an example from your everyday life to explain sensory adaptation.
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Chapter 5: Variations in Consciousness
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Q1) While serving as a subject at a sleep clinic,Erica is deprived of dreaming for several nights.As a result,she is likely to
A) experience REM rebound and spend more time in REM sleep on subsequent nights. B) become accustomed to going without dreaming and spend less time in REM sleep on subsequent nights.
C) immediately return to a normal sleep cycle when she is allowed to sleep through the night.
D) have difficulty achieving REM on subsequent nights.
Q2) Christine has just taken a drug.She experiences a short-lived high that lasted a few hours and reports that she feels warm,friendly,sensual,and insightful.Additionally her blood pressure has increased and shows sweating,insomnia and transient anxiety.It is most likely that Christine has taken A) MDMA.
B) morphine or heroin.
C) barbiturates or Quaaludes.
D) cocaine or amphetamines.
Q3) Pick two sleep disorders and briefly discuss the symptoms for each disorder.
Q4) Compare REM and NREM sleep with respect to EEG activity,muscular activity,and cognitive activity.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Nicolas has autistic disorder and he was mute.A therapist working with Nicolas initially gave him a piece of chocolate any time he made a sound with his lips.This slowly changed until Nicolas only received a piece of chocolate for saying complete words,and eventually only for saying complete sentences.In this example,Nicolas developed speech skills through the use of
A) classical conditioning.
B) modeling.
C) shaping.
D) negative reinforcement.
Q2) Learning that is not apparent from behavior when it first occurs is known as A) insight learning.
B) latent learning.
C) classical conditioning.
D) operant conditioning.
Q3) In classical conditioning the response is ____,while in operant conditioning the response is ____.
A) learned; innate
B) innate; learned
C) elicited; emitted
D) emitted; elicited
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Chapter 7: Human Memory
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Q1) Kelly is taking antibiotics for an ear infection,but she finds she often forgets to take the medication when she is supposed to.She has tried leaving the container for the medication in plain view,but she still forgets on occasion.Kelly's difficulty in remembering to take her medication illustrates
A) proactive interference.
B) pseudoforgetting.
C) anterograde amnesia.
D) a failure in prospective memory.
Q2) In regard to the recovered memory controversy,psychologists who rely on research on the misinformation effect,reality-monitoring,and imagination inflation are MOST likely to
A) have no opinion on the accuracy of recovered memories.
B) doubt the accuracy of recovered memories.
C) believe the accuracy of recovered memories.
D) be equally likely to doubt or believe the accuracy of recovered memories.
Q3) When you return to your hometown after being gone for a number of years it is likely that you will be flooded with long forgotten memories.Psychologists attribute this to the availability of ____________________,or retrieval cues that aid retrieval.
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Chapter 8: Language and Thought
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Q1) Claude and Marie are excited because they have just bought a restaurant from the previous owners.The two partners know that the last seven restaurants that have been operated at that location have gone bankrupt within a year of their openings,but Claude and Marie are certain their restaurant will be successful because they plan on working hard.In this case,the two new business partners are
A) showing belief perseverance.
B) showing evidence of the gambler's fallacy.
C) showing the confirmation bias.
D) apparently ignoring base rates.
Q2) Greeno referred to problems where individuals need to discover the relationships between the elements of a problem as problems of A) arrangement.
B) transformation.
C) inducing structure.
D) cognition.
Q3) Algorithms are guiding principles or "rules of thumb" used in solving problems or making decisions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) Dr.Clarke designs a test she believes will predict an individual's ability to perform in managerial positions.When Dr.Clark administers her test to 100 managers at Aldor Corporation,she finds that some of the best managers do well on the test,but others do quite poorly.Dr.Clarke should probably conclude that her test
A) lacks criterion-related validity.
B) lacks content validity.
C) is not well standardized.
D) is unreliable.
Q2) If your score falls at the 75th percentile on a standardized test,which of the following is an accurate interpretation?
A) You correctly answered 75% of the items on the test.
B) 75% of the people who took the test scored higher than you.
C) 75% of the people who took the test scored at or below your score.
D) Your answers to pairs of similar items on the test were the same 75% of the time.
Q3) Intelligence testing is largely a(n)____________________ enterprise and does not generally translate into the language and cognitive framework of other cultures except for the Japanese.
Q4) How well do IQ scores predict academic and vocational success?
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Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Which of the following statements concerning erotic material is false?
A) erotic material increases the likelihood of overt sexual activity for several hours after the exposure
B) erotic material may alter attitudes in ways that eventually influence sexual behavior
C) erotic material plays a major role in the commission of sexual offenses
D) erotic material stimulates sexual desire in many people
Q2) Max has the need to master difficult challenges,to outperform others,and to meet high standards for excellence.According to researchers such as McClelland and Atkinson,Max MOST likely
A) has high affiliation needs.
B) is high in achievement motivation.
C) is low in achievement motivation.
D) has a high fear of failure.
Q3) A state of physiological equilibrium is referred to as ____________________.
Q4) Which group tends to overestimate the interest the opposite sex has in them?
A) women
B) men
C) both sexes
D) neither sex, both are realistic
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Chapter 11: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) The local school board in Middletown recently asked that the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT)be administered to all fifth grade students.They are particularly interested in the scores from the spatial relations and abstract reasoning sections.Based on the research into gender differences in cognitive abilities,you should expect that
A) the male students will score higher than the female students on both these two sections of the test.
B) the male students will score higher than the female students on the spatial relations section of the test.
C) the female students will score higher than the male students on both these two sections of the test.
D) the female students will score higher than the male students on the spatial relations section of the test.
Q2) At the preconventional level,the child decides if things are good or bad (moral)on the basis of whether they
A) are against the law.
B) bring punishment or reward.
C) are in accord with social rules.
D) fit the child's own sense of "rightness."
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Chapter 12: Personality
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Q1) Which of the following is one of the assumptions of the psychodynamic theories of personality that has NOT obtained considerable acceptance?
A) Unconscious forces can influence behavior.
B) Early childhood experiences can influence adult personality.
C) Sexual and aggressive impulses are the driving force of behavior.
D) Internal conflict can play a key role in generating psychological distress.
Q2) How,according to Terror Management Theory,does culture solve the existential crisis created by awareness of death?
A) It gives members a sense of being part of a enduring legacy by creating stories and traditions.
B) It provides people with a sense of personal self-worth.
C) It functions as an anxiety buffer.
D) It creates mortality salience by encouraging humans to think about their own death.
Q3) Briefly describe the research into behavioral genetics and personality and its conclusions and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the biological approach to personality.
Q4) Explain what is meant by a personality trait and describe the five-factor model of personality.
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Chapter 13: Social Behavior
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Q1) Observers tend to attribute actors' behavior to ____ factors and actors tend to attribute their own behavior to ____ factors.
A) external; internal
B) internal; external
C) external; external
D) internal; internal
Q2) Cross-cultural studies on gender differences in mate preferences find that females place a higher priority on A) kindness.
B) physical attractiveness.
C) good health.
D) social status.
Q3) Research studies have repeatedly shown that attitudes are ____________________ predictors of people's behavior.
Q4) Cognitive dissonance refers to the state one is in when A) beliefs are contrary to one's peer group.
B) cognitions are inconsistent.
C) behaviors are socially undesirable.
D) interpersonal relationships are unbalanced.
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Chapter 14: Stress,Coping,and Health
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Q1) The Social Readjustment Rating Scale was designed specifically to measure A) change
B) conflict
C) control
D) aggression
Q2) Roommates Ann and Margaret both woke up yesterday with a headache,upset stomach,and muscle stiffness.While Ann was showering for her 9:00 art history class,Margaret rushed off to the college health clinic.MOST likely Margaret exhibits a ____ than Ann.
A) lower level of anxiety and lower lever of neuroticism
B) lower level of anxiety and higher level of neuroticism
C) higher level of anxiety and lower level of neuroticism
D) higher level of anxiety and higher level of neuroticism
Q3) In which of the following situations are people MOST likely to follow the instructions they receive from health care professionals?
A) when the instructions are complex and include technical medical terms
B) when they do not fully understand the instructions but still feel the need to do something
C) when they like, respect, and understand the health care professional
D) when the medication or treatment program is expensive
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Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) The neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia asserts that all of the following are associated with an increased vulnerability to schizophrenia EXCEPT
A) prenatal malnutrition.
B) prenatal viral infection.
C) repeated concussions in childhood.
D) obstetrical complications at birth.
Q2) The catatonic subtype of schizophrenia is the most commonly occurring subtype.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT among the common symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder?
A) an increase in psychosomatic diseases
B) the presence of nightmares and flashbacks
C) an increased sense of vulnerability
D) increased problems with social relations
Q4) Common criteria used by clinicians include deviance,the impairment of adaptive behavior and personal discomfort.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Psychoanalysts often encourage transference so that clients can reenact relations with crucial people in the context of therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Carl Rogers named his technique "client-centered therapy" to emphasize his belief that
A) clients should play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy.
B) clients should always be the center of attention.
C) therapists should always share all of their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with clients.
D) the client is in a position of natural status and authority over the therapist.
Q3) Which of the following shows the MOST appropriate matching of therapy to psychological problem?
A) lithium treatment for phobic disorder
B) cognitive therapy for panic disorder
C) Xanax for depression
D) systematic desensitization for bipolar mood disorder
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Chapter 17: Statistical Methods
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Q1) The percentage of variation in one variable that can be predicted based on the other variable is known as the
A) coefficient of determination.
B) standard deviation.
C) correlation coefficient.
D) mean.
Q2) The standard deviation
A) indicates the average difference between each score in a group and the mean for that group of scores.
B) reveals the degree of skew for a group of scores.
C) is sensitive to scores at the extremes of a distribution of scores.
D) is used to determine whether a data set is positively or negatively skewed.
Q3) Which measure of central tendency is obtained by adding all the scores and dividing that total by the number of scores?
A) mode
B) median
C) mean
D) range
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Chapter 18: Industrial organizational Psychology
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Q1) Dr.Sanchez works for a corporation helping find the most effective means of hiring good employees who will be productive and stay with the company.Dr.Sanchez is most likely a practitioner of
A) industrial psychology
B) human factors psychology
C) social psychology
D) organizational psychology
Q2) I/O psychologists
A) usually work from the employers perspective
B) never integrate the subfields
C) often have expertise in more than one subfield
D) usually work from the employees perspective
Q3) Standardized tests used during the selection process that are intended to predict respondents honesty are known as
A) job analysis
B) integrity tests
C) unstructured interviews
D) personality tests
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Chapter 19: Psychology and Environmental Sustainability: Conservation Psychology
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Q1) Those who study the potential impact of a catastrophic environmental event,like Hurricane Katrina,have noted that people in which of these situations are very likely to be MOST devastated?
A) people in poor communities
B) people living on islands
C) those living in densely populated areas
D) all of the above
Q2) The first peer-reviewed ecological psychology journal Ecopsychology published its first volume in this year.
A) 1979
B) 1989
C) 1999
D) 2009
Q3) Schultz,et al (2005)found that individuals who are __________ are more likely to take pro-environmental action without the need for any operant manipulation.
A) altruistic
B) paternal
C) biocentric
D) all of the above
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