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Principles of Psychology offers a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. This course explores foundational concepts such as perception, learning, memory, emotion, motivation, development, personality, and abnormal psychology. Students will examine major theoretical perspectives, research methodologies, and real-world applications, gaining insight into how individuals think, feel, and interact with their environment. The course also highlights the impact of biological, psychological, and social factors on behavior, fostering a deeper understanding of both individual and group dynamics.
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THINK Psychology 2nd Edition by Abigail A. Baird
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The development of brain-imaging techniques has significantly advanced the study of cognitive psychology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The theories of the behaviorists were originally based on the research of Ivan Pavlov.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is an accurate synonym for the term 'hypothesis'?
A) An educated guess.
B) A conclusion based on gathered data.
C) An answer to a question that is based on logic.
D) An untestable supposition.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) Jean Piaget did a case study of his own children,and that study formed the basis of his theories on cognitive development.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) It is difficult for psychologists to make generalizations about our behaviors from one person to another.This limitation of research describes which of the empirical challenges of studying people?
A) People react to situations differently
B) People are complex
C) People have hidden agendas
D) People are different
Answer: D
Q3) The most efficient way to get a large amount of data from a large number of participants is to conduct a survey.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Human Brain
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Q1) The __________ gland is responsible for secreting growth hormone and for regulating other glands in the body.
A) thyroid
B) pituitary
C) adrenal
D) pancreothyrotic
Answer: B
Q2) __________ are responsible for sending a message from the presynaptic neuron to the postsynaptic neuron.
A) Neurons
B) Dendrites
C) Neurotransmitters
D) Cell bodies
Answer: C
Q3) Once a neurotransmitter is released into a synapse,it stays there until it finds a receptor site on the surface of the next neuron's dendrite.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Genetics and Evolution
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Q1) Researchers have found that if one identical (monozygotic)twin suffers from schizophrenia,the other twin has a 50% chance of developing that condition.In fraternal (dizygotic)twins,however,if one twin has the condition than the other a 27% chance of developing the disorder.These results provide evidence that there may be a strong __________ component to schizophrenia.
A) environmental
B) heritability
C) diathesis
D) chemical
Q2) Hair color,eye color,and height are all examples of homogenic characteristics.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bipedalism refers to an animal's ability to A) use opposable thumbs.
B) switch from focusing on their eyesight to focusing on their hearing.
C) use their left and right hands interchangeably.
D) walk on two legs.
Q4) The Origin of Species was written by Charles Darwin in 1859.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) If you are handed a coffee cup and instantly see it as a combination of a circle (the base),a cylinder (the sides),and a crescent (the handle),then you are demonstrating the __________ theory of perception.
A) geon-receptive
B) top-down processing
C) recognition-by-components
D) grapheme
Q2) Feature __________ are specialized brain cells that only respond to particular elements in an individual's visual field.
A) analyzers
B) detectors
C) receptors
D) perceivers
Q3) Seeing is to "vision" as hearing is to "__________."
A) olfaction
B) gustation
C) audition
D) tactition
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Chapter 6: Consciousness
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Q1) Hypnosis can be used to cure any psychological ailment,particularly substance abuse illnesses,
provided it is administered by a properly trained,competent professional.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hypnotic __________ refers to a high susceptibility to hypnotism.
A) ability
B) openness
C) reception
D) lucidity
Q3) What does REM stand for?
A) Rapid Eye Movement
B) Random Excitatory Memory
C) Repletion of Extra Melatonin
D) Rigorous Energetic Motion
Q4) Which of the following physical events occurs during REM sleep?
A) Breathing becomes rapid and irregular
B) Muscular tension increases as dream activity becomes more intense
C) Heart rate decreases
D) Eyes begin darting around behind the eyelids once or twice each hour
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Chapter 7: Learning
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Q1) For months after he was involved in a very serious car accident,Micah would cringe when he drove past the site where the accident took place.Over time,however,that response to the bad memory started to fade away,and after about a year his "jitters" had disappeared completely.The process by which a learned response fades away is called
A) extinction
B) unlearning
C) conditioned diminishing
D) unconditioned diminuation
Q2) Psychologist Edward Tolman demonstrated that rats would learn to complete a maze in a shorter period of time,but only when they had an incentive to do so.This is known as __________ learning.
A) conditioned B) associated C) latent
D) motivated
Q3) The unfortunate case of Little Albert is a case study in the learning concept of generalization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) How long does it take before current iconic memories are replaced with new images?
A) Almost immediately
B) 2-4 seconds
C) 4-8 seconds
D) 8-15 seconds
Q2) A(n)__________ memory is one that is immediately stored in long-term memory and is caused by emotional events.
A) imperative
B) affective
C) procedure
D) flashbulb
Q3) __________ memory involves the ability to recall detailed images vividly after only a brief exposure to them.
A) Photographic
B) Mirror
C) Iconic
D) Eidetic
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Chapter 9: Cognition and Intelligence
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Q1) In what year did David Wechsler publish the first version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?
A) 1905
B) 1916
C) 1939
D) 1982
Q2) Linguistic __________ states that different languages impose different conceptions of reality.A prime example of this is the fact that the ancient Mayan culture had no word that meant "zero," and thus their reality did not include a concept of the "absence of value."
A) morphism
B) determinism
C) relativism
D) phonemics
Q3) In which country did Lewis Terman published an adaptation of Alfred Binet's intelligence test in 1916?
A) England
B) The United States of America
C) Canada
D) Italy
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Chapter 10: Human Development I: Physical, Cognitive, and Language Development
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Q1) The discontinuation of menstrual cycles and the end of a woman's ability to bear children is known as __________.
A) andropause
B) reproductive halting.
C) infertility
D) menopause
Q2) Which of the following is one of the benefits of a cross-sectional study?
A) It provides information about age changes.
B) It can be very inexpensive.
C) It can be done without using any statistical analyses.
D) It can be done using a very small number of participants.
Q3) Provided there are no unusual circumstances like organic brain injury,human beings'
intelligence increases steadily as we grow from children to older adults.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Morphemes and phonemes are the basic structural units found in every language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Sex and Gender
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Q1) In the culture of India,a __________ refers to an individual who occupies the "third gender," and is neither a man nor a woman.
A) kathoey
B) hijra
C) winkte
D) koro
Q2) One of these things is not like the others.Can you figure out which one?
A) homosexual
B) winkte
C) gender identity disorder
D) kathoey
Q3) Before the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing,China,a laboratory was set up to make sure that
athletes competing as females were,in fact,female!
A)True
B)False
Q4) People who are neither specifically feminine nor masculine are referred to as asexual.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Human Development II: Social Development
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Q1) According to the social __________ account of morality,a person has an instant gut reaction to moral situations that precedes moral reasoning.
A) reaction
B) innative
C) institutionist
D) instinct
Q2) The United States of America has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the Western world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Adolescence is a famously awkward period in life in which our __________,or our sense of self,undergoes quite a bit of change and becomes a critical part of our relationships with others.
A) thanatos
B) ego ideal
C) self-concept
D) identity
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Chapter 13: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) According to research,who is better at flirting,men or women?
A) men
B) men, but only when they are with their friends
C) women
D) women, but only when they are with their friends
Q2) The pathway that connects the thalamus to the amygdala and allows for rapid interpretation of stimuli so that the correct emotion can be experienced is called the __________ pathway.
A) trans-frontal
B) rapid subcortical
C) thalamygdalic
D) trans-cranial
Q3) Animals will work long and hard to stimulate the ____________,the part of the brain that is generally responsible for processing rewards.
A) distal parietal ganglion
B) proximal hypothalamic chiasm
C) anterior central sulcus
D) medial forebrain bundle
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) __________ is the act of working together for the good of the group.
A) Cooperation
B) Teamwork
C) Group facilitation
D) Social contracting
Q2) In and of themselves,stereotypes are always dangerous and destructive.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As he sipped a $20 cocktail at the bar of a five-star restaurant,Jevon watched the television where a news story about a man who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for committing a crime was being covered.He thought to himself,"That guy sure deserved what he got.Why can't he be like me? If you're a good person and you play by the rules,you get rewarded.When you are a bad person,you get what you deserve!" Jevon is demonstrating the __________ hypothesis.
A) in-group/out-group
B) mere exposure
C) just-world
D) Pygmalion
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Chapter 15: Health and Stress
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Q1) Which stage of the general adaptation syndrome might explain why college students tend to experience a higher rate of absenteeism from class around midterm and final exam time each semester?
A) Resistance
B) Alarm
C) Exhaustion
D) Surrender
Q2) Natalya has received phone call that her child is sick at school and needs to be picked up.Natalya is suddenly very flustered as she struggles to think of how she is going to get coverage at work,get to her child's school,and perhaps make an appointment with her doctor,all in just a few minutes.The stress that Natalya feels to this challenging set of circumstances could best be described as __________ stress.
A) acute
B) intrinsic
C) chronic
D) extrinsic
Q3) Acute stress is a temporary state,while chronic stress is an extended situation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Personality and Individual Differences
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Q1) The most widely used and researched of all personality inventories is the MMPI.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following was a psychodynamic theorist?
A) Carl Rogers
B) Raymond Cattell
C) Walter Mischel
D) Alfred Adler
Q3) What is the purpose of a defense mechanism from the psychodynamic perspective?
A) To make sure that we make rational decisions that are based on reason and logic.
B) To make sure that people who are negative and can have a negative effect on our lives are kept outside of our consciousness.
C) To keep unpleasant thoughts and motivations in our unconscious mind.
D) To keep us from developing psychological pathologies that can cause problems in our lives.
Q4) Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are considered the two founders of the humanistic approach.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Men are diagnosed with alcohol abuse or dependence five to six times as frequently as women.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ stress disorder refers to an anxiety disorder caused by experiencing or witnessing out-of-control events with feelings of helplessness and fear.
A) Traumatically repressed
B) Vicarious observed
C) Externalized
D) Post-traumatic
Q3) People with schizophrenia are very difficult to treat because of their constant shifting from personality to personality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Asperger syndrome is thought to be a childhood disorder that bears a resemblance to autism.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 18: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) Studies exploring the efficacy of ECT have found that up to ___% of patients experience significant improvements in their symptoms of depression after six to 12 ECT sessions over two to four weeks.
A) 50
B) 70
C) 80
D) 95
Q2) The two types of antipsychotic drugs that are available are
A) neurogenic and neurotoxic
B) first-generation and second-generation
C) excitatory and inhibitory
D) typical and atypical
Q3) Which of the following is not a type of humanistic psychotherapy?
A) Client-centered therapy
B) Person-centered therapy
C) Interpersonal therapy
D) Gestalt therapy
Q4) Psychologists and psychiatrists have different types of training.
A)True
B)False
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