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Psychological Science
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Psychological Science explores the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, integrating foundational concepts with current research methodologies. The course examines key topics such as perception, cognition, emotion, motivation, development, personality, and social influences, providing insights into both individual and group behavior. Students learn about the biological bases of behavior, psychological disorders, and the application of psychological principles across various contexts. Through critical analysis of experimental evidence and case studies, the course fosters a scientific understanding of the mind and equips students with the skills to evaluate psychological information critically.
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Psychological Science 3rd Canadian Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Psychological scientists now believe that:
A) brain chemical imbalances cause most, if not all, mental disorders
B) mental illness is largely due to learning the wrong set of coping skills
C) people's experiences change their brain structures, which in turn influence how people behave
D) people's experiences change their behaviour, but not their brain structures; brain structures are set at birth
Answer: C
Q2) What is an important goal of your psychology textbook?
A) to teach you how to be a therapist by using methods of psychology
B) to provide a basic education about the methods of psychological science
C) to help you define normal versus abnormal behaviour so you can accurately identify mental illness
D) to predict how people interact in novel situations
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) When a researcher joins a social group and talks to the members in order to study that group, the approach is referred to as:
A) a self-report method
B) participant observation
C) experience sampling
D) response performance
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is likely to be associated with observer bias?
A) reactivity
B) experience sampling
C) experimenter expectancy
D) the Hawthorne effect
Answer: C
Q3) Something is considered a variable if it:
A) has no operational definition
B) can be manipulated by an experimenter
C) involves random assignment
D) is theoretical rather than concrete
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations
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Q1) A myelin sheath is like:
A) the tuning dial of a radio
B) the insulation of a wire
C) the layers of a cake
D) the thermostat of a heater
Answer: B
Q2) Propagation of the action potential occurs:
A) along the axon at the nodes of Ranvier
B) along the dendrites at the nodes of Ranvier
C) between neurons at the synapse
D) on the cell body
Answer: A
Q3) Another term for neuron firing is:
A) action potential
B) somatic potential
C) resting membrane potential
D) efferent arc
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Mind and Consciousness
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT an effect of opiate drugs?
A) feeling of intense pleasure
B) pain relief or analgesia
C) increased heart rate
D) relaxation
Q2) Which of the following individuals would likely be easily hypnotized?
A) Suzanne, who scores high on the suggestibility screening test
B) Mark, who scores low on the suggestibility screening test
C) Ann, who is easily distracted
D) Chen, who shows low imaginative skills
Q3) Johanna wants to determine whether there are differences in the brain when individuals look at well known objects versus novel objects. Which of the following would be an appropriate technique for determining this?
A) qualia reports
B) fMRI
C) EKG
D) split-brain procedures
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) We cannot see a shade of bluish yellow because:
A) there is no set of cones responsive to combined shades
B) there is no set of cones responsive to wavelengths associated with yellow
C) ganglion cells that are excited by S cones are inhibited by M and L cones
D) ganglion cells that are excited by L cones are inhibited by M cones
Q2) Daniel is standing on the outside platform of the train station. He is looking down the tracks hoping to see his train. As the tracks get further from him the two sides of the tracks will appear to ____________, providing the depth cue of ____________.
A) remain parallel; linear perspective
B) converge; linear perspective
C) remain parallel; texture gradient
D) converge; texture gradient
Q3) It is a warm summer day and a group of friends has decided to go on a picnic. Unfortunately, the watermelon they brought has attracted some stinging wasps. Who would experience the most pain if one of these wasps were to sting:
A) Bianca, a 26-year-old woman
B) Tony, a man who has been stung only once before
C) Marie, a woman currently undergoing estrogen replacement therapy
D) Bryan, a man currently undergoing testosterone replacement therapy
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) In the fear conditioning of Little Albert, Watson used the following stimuli:
A) unconditioned stimulus-loud sound; conditioned stimulus-rat
B) unconditioned stimulus-rat; conditioned stimulus-loud sound
C) unconditioned stimulus-fear; conditioned stimulus-rat
D) unconditioned stimulus-loud sound; conditioned stimulus-fear
Q2) Billy has watched many movies in which the hero smokes cigarettes. When Billy identifies with these heroes and begins to smoke, what psychological term might be used to describe his behaviour?
A) vicarious reinforcement
B) modelling
C) positive reinforcement
D) meme-based transmission
Q3) Based on the understanding of the role of classical conditioning in drug addiction, treatments should expose drug addicts to:
A) the cues that predict drug use but not to the drugs
B) the drug in the absence of drug cues
C) the unconditioned stimulus
D) the unconditioned response
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) Elaboration is an effective mnemonic strategy because the information learned is processed:
A) more often
B) more deeply
C) more intentionally
D) more automatically
Q2) When you recall a memory of your best friend's face, you are activating the cortical circuits in the ____________ cortex involved in ____________ her face.
A) visual; storing
B) visual; perceiving
C) spatial; storing
D) spatial; perceiving
Q3) Shristi is in her second week of university. She is just beginning to feel as though she knows her way around campus. Her feeling is due, in part, to having had locations become linked to:
A) prefrontal cortex cells
B) posterior parietal lobe cells
C) amygdala recording cells
D) hippocampal place cells
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) John fell off his bike without a helmet and injured his frontal lobes. If he were to take an IQ test, what aspect would be impaired?
A) crystallized intelligence
B) verbal intelligence
C) fluid intelligence
D) spatial intelligence
Q2) A critical property of insight is that the solution to the problem:
A) has clear subgoals
B) emerges in a single step
C) emerges over several steps
D) develops clear subgoals
Q3) Annie is moving from one apartment to another. She has three cats and only one cat carrier. She puts one cat in the carrier, one cat inside her large slow cooker, and turns her laundry basket upside down on top of the third in the car. Annie clearly does not have a problem with:
A) mental sets
B) functional fixedness
C) working backward
D) restructuring
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Anthony loves to cook and has recently won a competition that has given him his own show on the Food Network. He continually develops marvelous and complicated recipes that he demonstrates on his show. In his free time, he explores other restaurants, new cookbooks, or innovative places to get ingredients. His friends find it odd, however, that he never really wants to eat the things he cooks, and eats other people's cooking very moderately. Anthony most probably has damage to his:
A) lateral hypothalamus
B) right frontal lobes
C) limbic system
D) b or c
Q2) Negative feedback models describe the process of:
A) equilibrium
B) homeostasis
C) drive fulfillment
D) goal setting
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Which of the following is an effect of chronic smoking?
A) liver failure
B) immune disorders
C) heart disease
D) brain tumours
Q2) If Aimee wants to increase her lifespan by a few years, which of the following pieces of advice is recommended?
A) Pamper yourself.
B) Increase your social support network.
C) Spend more time interacting with nature.
D) Spend more time on hobbies.
Q3) Participants in a research study have to provide saliva samples to a team of researchers. The researchers then relate the participants' personality traits to immune system functioning. The researchers are involved in the study of:
A) psychoneuroimmunology
B) sociobiology
C) biobehaviourism
D) allopathic load
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Chapter 11: Human Development
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Q1) When can your sister expect her newborn child to begin to notice and respond to peers?
A) immediately after birth
B) at 1 month
C) at 6 months
D) at 1 year
Q2) The relative contributions of nature and nurture continue to be an issue in most areas of psychological inquiry. In regard to language acquisition we can say that:
A) nurture is most important since the language you learn is entirely a function of culture
B) nature is everything since everyone learns a language
C) the human brain is innately prepared for acquiring words and forming sentences
D) the human brain is a blank slate in regard to vocabulary but comes with an innate understanding of grammar
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Yolanda is interviewing for a job as an engineer. She is doing very well until the interviewer asks her if she believes that a woman can really devote the time to being an engineer. After that, she stumbles over answers and becomes distracted. Yolanda is showing the effects of:
A) self-serving bias
B) attributional bias
C) prejudiced attitudes
D) stereotype threat
Q2) Ichiro is worried because his relationship with his girlfriend seems less solid than it has been. He can't really identify a problem, but they seem to be more impatient and distant with each other. Based upon Gottman's work, what would you suggest that Ichiro do?
A) see a counsellor with his girlfriend
B) have a serious conversation about their relationship
C) show more affection and interest on a daily basis
D) go away for a fantastic holiday weekend together
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) JoAnn describes herself as a modest and rational person. She doesn't usually spend time daydreaming or seeking out new experiences. Instead she enjoys completing familiar tasks and having a structured daily routine. If JoAnn is measured on the five factors of the five-factor theory, she will probably score very low in:
A) empathy
B) introversion
C) conscientiousness
D) openness
Q2) An advantage of studying personality across species is that:
A) researchers don't need to use subjective ratings
B) stereotypes can be avoided
C) this evidence provides a biologically based explanation for personality traits
D) researchers can avoid having to use ethical considerations when conducting research
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) People with bipolar disorder and people with major depression have in common the fact that:
A) they both have enlarged ventricles
B) they both have experienced some childhood trauma
C) both evidence extremely low mood or loss of pleasure some of the time
D) both disorders occur about equally often in the population
Q2) The diathesis-stress model of mental illness focuses on:
A) cultural factors in mental illness
B) the interaction between parenting style and life stress
C) stress as the primary cause of illness
D) the interaction between genetic predispositions and the environment
Q3) One of your roommates comes from a small rural town and the other one from a large city. Does this affect their probability of ever experiencing a schizophrenic episode?
A) No; genetic factors tend to override environmental factors in schizophrenia.
B) Maybe; it depends entirely on the stress level of each environment.
C) Yes; the one from the urban area is at higher risk.
D) Yes; the one from the rural area is at higher risk.
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Your new expensive shoes hurt your feet and fit poorly. However you continue to wear them because of the high initial cost. You are exhibiting:
A) cost rationalization
B) the sunk cost fallacy
C) obsessive-compulsive disorder
D) anosognosia
Q2) If your physician prescribes a drug to treat your depression, what is the likelihood you will experience relief from your symptoms?
A) quite low because drugs need to be combined with talk therapy to be effective
B) about the same as if the physician had prescribed a placebo
C) about 30 percent
D) about 65 percent
Q3) In a group of adolescents, approximately ____________ can be expected to suffer from depression at any particular time.
A) 5 percent
B) 15 percent
C) 20 percent
D) 25 percent
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Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology
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Q1) Social striving is common among:
A) Americans
B) Israelis
C) Palestinians
D) Ghanaians
Q2) Incest is most likely to be seen as disgusting to individuals from:
A) high socio-economic status
B) university-educated populations
C) low socio-economic status
D) Eastern cultures
Q3) Rule-based reasoning is to ____________ as associative reasoning is to ____________.
A) holistic thinking; analytic thinking
B) analytic thinking; holistic thinking
C) empiricism; theory
D) theory; empiricism
Q4) The course of schizophrenia is significantly better for patients living in:
A) a collectivistic rather than individualistic society
B) less developed societies rather than more industrialized ones
C) an individualistic rather than a collectivistic society
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