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Course Introduction
Psychological Science explores the scientific study of human thought, emotion, and behavior. The course introduces students to key concepts and methods used in psychology, including experimental design, data analysis, and critical evaluation of research findings. Topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, development, and social interaction are examined through empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives, helping students develop a comprehensive understanding of how psychological principles apply to everyday life and broader societal issues.
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What is Psychology Foundations Applications and Integration 4th Edition by Ellen E. Pastorino
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) The psychodynamic perspective is derived from ____ theory.
A) psychoanalytic
B) humanistic
C) behavioral
D) cognitive
Answer: A
Q2) Dr. Honani is studying conceptual learning among monkeys. What ethical obligations does he have toward these primates?
A) He must act ethically, but his research does not need to be reviewed.
B) He must obtain informed consent, as primates are intelligent beings.
C) He must pay attention to the primates' physical and psychological well-being.
D) Neither the APA nor the federal government provides ethical standards for animal research.
Answer: C
Q3) The first female president of the American Psychological Association was ____.
A) Karen Horney
B) Mary Calkins
C) Elizabeth Loftus
D) Anna Freud
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Neuroscience
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Q1) You have just witnessed a car accident. Your heart rate and respiration rate are likely to be elevated due to ____ nervous system activity.
A) somatic
B) parasympathetic
C) iconic
D) sympathetic
Answer: D
Q2) Moving your arm requires ____.
A) inhibition only
B) excitation only
C) neither inhibition, nor excitation
D) both inhibition and excitation
Answer: D
Q3) Which brain structure is part of the forebrain?
A) Medulla
B) Pons
C) Cerebellum
D) Amygdala
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) You are driving down the highway on a moonlit night. In which of the following settings would you be most likely to experience the moon illusion?
A) On the open prairie, where the land is flat and there are no trees or buildings
B) On the open flat desert where there are only short cacti and sagebrush growing
C) In the hills of North Georgia where there are tall pine trees and the terrain is mountainous
D) While sailing in open water, with nothing but the moon and stars visible
Answer: C
Q2) Even if your eyes are closed as you perform flips on a trampoline, you can sense the position of your body primarily because of your ____.
A) pheromone sense
B) telekinetic sense
C) kinesthetic sense
D) clairvoyant sense
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) Bath salts contain ____.
A) amphetamine
B) synthetic marijuana
C) benzodiazepines
D) cathinones
Q2) Long-term use of marijuana ____.
A) has no known adverse effects
B) has long-lasting cognitive effects
C) is often associated with malnutrition
D) increases risk of heart disease
Q3) Which statement is TRUE regarding caffeine?
A) It can lead to dependence.
B) It appears to have no important effects on prenatal development.
C) It interferes with problem solving, even in low doses.
D) It slows down reaction time, even in low doses.
Q4) Nonmedical use of prescription drugs in the United States is ____.
A) declining
B) fairly level over the past decade
C) Increasing among young people
D) increasing among males but not females
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Chapter 5: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Doing a job well because you get to experience a sense of pride in your accomplishments is a good example of ____ motivation.
A) extrinsic
B) arousal
C) intrinsic
D) drive
Q2) Our motivation to sleep can be explained by drive theory because it seems to ____.
A) stem from an innate instinct
B) occur in response to learned incentives
C) correspond with a need to increase nervous system arousal
D) involve a negative feedback loop
Q3) The physical desire to have sex is called ____.
A) thanatos
B) progestrus
C) libido
D) estrus
Q4) Compare and contrast the instinct theory and the self-determination theory of motivation.
Q5) Name, in the correct order, the levels in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Juan feels nauseous every time he eats pizza because one time he ate pizza just before coming down with a stomach virus. Juan's nausea is most likely due to ____.
A) habituation
B) taste aversion
C) operant conditioning
D) social learning
Q2) If an employer at a cleaning company wants his employees to clean more toilets per shift, he would get the best response when using a ____ schedule of reinforcement.
A) fixed interval
B) variable interval
C) fixed ratio
D) variable ratio
Q3) If latent learning is occurring, it suggests most directly that ____.
A) learning can sometimes occur very slowly
B) learning may be strongly influenced by biological factors
C) behaviors that are conditioned will never be completely forgotten
D) cognitive processes are influencing the learning process
Q4) Describe Albert Bandura's Bobo doll studies and their implications.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Which statement is TRUE of long-term memory?
A) Long-term memories are most often encoded in a semantic form.
B) Long-term memories are stored randomly in the brainstem.
C) All long-term memories are encoded only in semantic form.
D) Although the capacity of long-term memory is large, it does fill up occasionally.
Q2) Damage to the ____ of the brain is most likely to result in a person developing anterograde amnesia.
A) hypothalamus
B) cerebellum
C) hippocampus
D) thalamus
Q3) Describe the traditional three-stages memory model.
Q4) The psychologist most associated with false memories is ____.
A) Rescorla
B) Loftus
C) Milner
D) Tolman
Q5) Describe several techniques for improving memory.
Q6) Describe the three functions of memory.
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Chapter 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) You attend a meeting where 50% of the people in attendance are psychology majors, 10% are engineering majors, 20% are business majors, and 20% are pre-law majors. At this meeting, you meet Charles. Charles is wearing a white button-down shirt and a pair of jeans. He wears glasses and he has a calculator in the front pocket of his shirt. If you base your judgment on the base rate, you should guess that Charles is a(n) ____ major.
A) psychology
B) engineering
C) business
D) pre-law
Q2) When children learn the pragmatics of speech, they are learning the ____.
A) appropriate order of subject, verb, and object in their language
B) many different words that stand for the same thing in their language
C) rules of conversation operating in their culture
D) basic sounds that comprise their language
Q3) Which item is the best example of a basic level category?
A) Dog
B) Spaniel
C) Animal
D) Mammal
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) Research on the imaginary audience and personal fable suggests that they are characteristic of ____.
A) both adolescents and young adults, to some extent
B) adolescents, but not adults
C) adolescents, but only the imaginary audience is also characteristic of adults
D) adolescents, but only the personal fable is also characteristic of adults
Q2) Research on the concept of a mid-life crisis suggests that most ____.
A) women do not experience a significant crisis, but most men do
B) men do not experience a significant crisis, but most women do
C) men and women experience a significant crisis
D) men and women do not experience a significant crisis
Q3) Alma and Len enjoy activities such as coloring and drawing. These activities emphasize their ____.
A) locomotive skills
B) fine motor skills
C) gross motor skills
D) reflex activity
Q4) Describe Baumrind's parenting styles including typical outcomes and factors that influence these styles.
Q5) Describe the factors that are associated with marital satisfaction.
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) A persuader who acknowledges the other side of an argument will be perceived as more trustworthy by the audience. This is a factor associated with the ____ category of persuasion variables.
A) audience
B) message
C) communicator
D) consistency
Q2) Compare and contrast the concepts of stereotype and prejudice and provide a clear example of each.
Q3) Muzafer Sherif's Robber's Cave experiment with boys at a summer camp showed that ____.
A) cooperative contact can be fostered in situations where groups share superordinate goals
B) prejudice is very difficult to create when people feel comfortable within their in-groups
C) once prejudice and conflict are created, it is nearly impossible to eliminate it
D) the best way to reduce conflict between two groups is to place them together in the same context and let them work it out
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Chapter 11: Personality
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Q1) Although Scott is not generally a sociable person, he can be, when he is with people that he knows quite well. Gordon Allport would consider Scott's sociability to be a ____.
A) central trait
B) secondary trait
C) primary trait
D) cardinal trait
Q2) According to Freud, the job of the ego is to ____.
A) satisfy the demands of the id only
B) satisfy the demands of the superego only
C) satisfy the demands of both the id and the superego
D) eliminate the demands of both the id and the superego
Q3) A sexually promiscuous teenage girl may not realize that her motivations stem from conflicting emotions surrounding growing up without a father. Freud would most likely say that her motivations are arising from her ____.
A) unconscious
B) interdependent self
C) sense of cognitive dissonance
D) preconscious
Q4) Explain the concept of reciprocal determinism.
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Chapter 12: Health, Stress, and Coping
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Q1) Reinterpreting a perceived insult from a friend as the product of your friend's "bad day" would be an example of ____.
A) problem-focused coping
B) cognitive reappraisal
C) a defense mechanism
D) the fundamental attribution error
Q2) Daily hassles are a specific type of ____.
A) conflict
B) catastrophe
C) discrimination
D) stressor
Q3) Hispanic Americans are more likely to report ____ as daily hassles than European or African Americans.
A) economic matters
B) problems with aging parents
C) feeling lonely
D) invasion of personal privacy
Q4) Describe three health-promoting behaviors specifically discussed in your textbook.
Q5) Compare and contrast problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping.
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Chapter 13: Mental Health Disorders
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Q1) Serena is depressed at the time when she is applying for a job, and is turned down. It is most likely that she will ____.
A) rely on others for support.
B) believe that the same result will occur the next time she applies for a job
C) forget about the experience immediately
D) respond with an unrealistic optimism the next time she applies for a job.
Q2) The DSM-5 contains information about nearly ____ disorders.
A) 100
B) 200
C) 300
D) 400
Q3) Which individual is more likely to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder?
A) Sheila, a 21-year-old woman
B) Donald, a 45-year-old man
C) Pasha, a 50-year-old woman
D) Carlos, a 20-year-old man
Q4) Why do you think men might tend to fare worse over the course of schizophrenia than women who experience the same disorder?
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Chapter 14: Mental Health Therapies
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Q1) Markus is terrified of dogs. His therapist confines him in a room with several friendly puppies. Markus is frightened at first, but after an hour, the fear begins to subside. Markus's therapist is using ____.
A) virtual reality therapy
B) flooding
C) systematic desensitization
D) token economy
Q2) A good example of a psychosurgery performed today that has an acceptable success rate is the ____.
A) implantation of deep brain stimulators in patients with Parkinson's disease
B) severing of nerves that connect the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain
C) removal of the amygdala in patients with severe fears and emotional responses
D) rerouting of dopamine pathways in the brain to decrease addictive tendencies
Q3) A psychoanalyst would probably interpret a client's attempt to change the subject of a therapy session as ____.
A) free association
B) conditional acceptance
C) sublimation
D) resistance
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