Psychological Science
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Psychological Science offers a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course covers foundational topics such as biological bases of behavior, cognition, learning, memory, development, emotion, motivation, personality, psychological disorders, and social influences. Emphasizing empirical research methods, students explore how psychologists formulate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze data, and draw conclusions. Through critical evaluation of classic and contemporary studies, the course provides students with a strong grounding in key psychological theories and the practical application of psychological principles in everyday life.
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Psychology 2nd Canadian Edition by Saundra
K. Ciccarelli
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Several years ago two scientists announced that they had evidence of "cold fusion" in the laboratory,but further studies failed to replicate their findings and it was later found that the original scientists had used sloppy methods.This highlights which of the following critical-thinking principles?
A)Few "truths" do not need to be tested.
B)All evidence is not equal in quality.
C)Authority or expertise does not make the claims of the authority or expert true.
D)Critical thinking requires an open mind.
Answer: B
Q2) The tendency to look for information that supports one's own belief is called:
A)the observer effect.
B)confirmation bias.
C)the placebo effect.
D)a double bind.
Answer: B
Q3) The first step in a psychological experiment is developing a method.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective
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Q1) Canadian Dr.Wilder Penfield unlocked many mysteries of the brain.Which disease/disorder experienced the most help as a result of Penfield's work?
A)Alzheimer's
B)epilepsy
C)Parkinson's
D)addictions
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following regions contains the primary visual cortex?
A)occipital lobe
B)parietal lobe
C)temporal lobe
D)frontal lobe
Answer: A
Q3) Receiving neurons have special ____________ that fit the shape of certain molecules.
A)synaptic vesicles
B)gaps
C)receptor sites
D)branches
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The ability to see the world in three dimensions is called:
A)depth perception.
B)visual cliff.
C)top-down processing.
D)contiguity.
Answer: A
Q2) The sequence of the pathway from the retina to brain that enables us to see is: rods and cones to bipolar cells to ganglion cells to the optic nerve.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) There are seven primary tastes: hot,sour,spicy,sweet,brothy,acid,and bitter.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The ability to see 3-D movies is an instance of using motion parallax.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs
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Q1) When our mental activity undergoes a change in quality or pattern,this is called a/an:
A)waking consciousness.
B)altered state of consciousness.
C)transient state of consciousness.
D)hallucination.
Q2) How were the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder unique,compared to those of other types of depression?
A)Symptoms consistent with depression would only occurred after travelling to a different time zone.
B)Symptoms consistent with depression would generally appear during the summer months and disappear in the winter months.
C)Symptoms consistent with depression would generally appear during the autumn or winter months and disappear in the spring and summer months.
D)Symptoms consistent with depression would only occurred after travelling to a different time zone during the summer months.
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Which of the following statements about conditioning is FALSE,according to Pavlov?
A)The CS and UCS must come close together in time.
B)The CS must come immediately after the UCS.
C)The neutral stimulus and UCS must be paired several times before conditioning takes place.
D)All of the above are true.
Q2) Bill hates to clean up after dinner.One night,he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up.When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen,his wife has cleaned everything up for him.Which of the following statements is most likely true?
A)Bill will start cleaning up the kitchen before he bathes the dog.
B)Bill's wife has positively reinforced him for bathing the dog.
C)Bill's wife has negatively reinforced him for bathing the dog.
D)Bill will never bathe the dog again.
Q3) Learning that remains hidden until its application becomes useful is latent learning.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) Which type of memory allows us to have meaningful conversations?
A)iconic memory
B)echoic memory
C)working memory
D)procedural memory
Q2) A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime.Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully?
A)Yes,because iconic memory is very reliable.
B)No,because iconic memory is not reliable.
C)Yes because eyewitness testimony relies on LTM,which is rehearsed and reliable.
D)No,because eyewitness testimony may be influenced by other factors resulting in false positive identifications.
Q3) The system of memory that is more or less permanent is called ______ memory.
A)working
B)sensory
C)eidetic
D)long-term
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Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
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Q1) Which of the following statements about gifted people is TRUE?
A)They are more likely to suffer from mental illnesses.
B)They are physically weaker than nongifted persons.
C)They are often skilled leaders.
D)They are often socially unskilled.
Q2) Measuring intelligence by testing is a rather new concept in the history of the world.The idea of "intelligence" testing originated in:
A)France.
B)Canada.
C)the United Kingdom.
D)Germany.
Q3) Miguel was struggling with the answer to one of the questions on his psychology midterm.Seeing that the answer was not going to come easily,he went on to answer some of the other easier questions.Then,suddenly,the answer to the problematic question just seemed to "pop" into his head.Miguel's experience is an example of:
A)means-end analysis.
B)a heuristic.
C)an algorithm.
D)insight.
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Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) According to Piaget,the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the object's nature is known as:
A)object permanence.
B)conservation.
C)centration.
D)reversibility.
Q2) Which of the following statements about Tinashe and Tinotenda Mufuka is FALSE?
A)They were successfully separated.
B)They are surprisingly healthy.
C)They are expected to not be as well adjusted as other children from rural Zimbabwe.
D)They were attached at the torso and shared a liver.
Q3) Puberty is defined as the:
A)production of hormones in the reproductive glands stimulated by the pituitary gland.
B)stage of identity versus role confusion.
C)physical changes that occur in the body as sexual development reaches its peak.
D)the time when a child becomes a teenager.
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Paul Ekman and his colleagues gathered abundant evidence supporting the universality of _______ basic facial expressions of emotion.
A)three
B)five
C)seven
D)nine
Q2) At about age 12,a girl comes to her mother and says that she is going through a great deal of bodily changes.Most likely the girl is talking about:
A)diminishment of the primary sex characteristics.
B)development of secondary sex characteristics.
C)changes in the tertiary sex characteristics.
D)getting too fat.
Q3) Severe stress experienced by a pregnant woman during the ________ trimester might increase the chance of a male child becoming homosexual.
A)first
B)second
C)third
D)any
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Chapter 10: Stress and Health
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Q1) It is time for a game of Jeopardy.The category is "Social Factors that Contribute to Stress." The revealed answer is "Lack of variety or meaningfulness of work." What will you say right before the buzzer sounds?
A)"What is one cause of job stress?"
B)"What is one cause of poverty?"
C)"What is road rage?"
D)"What is overcrowding?"
Q2) Al must build 25 radios before he receives $20.What schedule of reinforcement is being used?
A)a variable-ratio schedule
B)a fixed-ratio schedule
C)a fixed-interval schedule
D)a continuous reinforcement schedule
Q3) The term hassles refers to:
A)minor health problems that cause a person to miss at least one day of work.
B)personal limitations that make it impossible for someone to pursue a desired goal.
C)the necessity to interact with persons we dislike in order to obtain our goals.
D)minor annoyances of everyday life.
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Chapter 11: Theories of Personality
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Q1) What is Freud's term for the primitive,biological side of personality?
A)id
B)ego
C)superego
D)preconscious
Q2) Cattell used the statistical technique called:
A)factor features.
B)t test.
C)pf analysis.
D)factor analysis.
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the traits found to have a genetic component in studies of identical twins?
A)intelligence
B)leadership abilities
C)antagonism
D)aggressiveness
Q4) Self-efficacy refers to the ability of a person to give unconditional positive regard.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) A group of people viewed as competitors,enemies,or different and unworthy of respect is a/an:
A)pariah.
B)in-group.
C)threat-group.
D)out-group.
Q2) Which type of love is defined as commitment only?
A)infatuation
B)consummate love
C)companionate love
D)empty love
Q3) Why do we engage in the stereotyping of people?
A)to validate our assumptions
B)to help us perceive people more accurately
C)to reduce the amount of information we need to process
D)to provide more complete information about individuals
Q4) An attitude has four major components.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following best describes dysthymia?
A)a mild,chronic form of depression
B)a severe,intermittent form of depression
C)a form of depression that affects biological functions such as appetite
D)a form of depression that is very responsive to electroconvulsive therapy
Q2) When a psychologist or psychiatrist is using the DSM-IV-TR as a guide to evaluating a client,he or she would assess the client on each of five: A)axes.
B)stages.
C)phases.
D)steps.
Q3) A phobia is a type of mood disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is not a correct match?
A)Axis V-Global Assessment of Functioning
B)Axis I-Personality Disorders
C)Axis III-General Medical Conditions
D)Axis IV-Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
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Chapter 14: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) Which person might benefit the least from a group therapy environment?
A)Suzanne,who has a phobia of cats
B)Richard,who has a drinking problem
C)Jasmine,who is painfully shy
D)Elena,who suffers from depression
Q2) The drug ______ is used to treat depression.
A)Valium
B)Prozac
C)Ritalin
D)lithium
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the four basic elements of Rogers's person-centred therapy?
A)conditional positive regard
B)empathy
C)reflection
D)authenticity
Q4) Antipsychotic drugs are used to treat symptoms such as hopelessness,sadness,and thoughts of suicide.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Psychology and Human Development
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Q1) According to organismic integration theory (OIT),which of the following is most associated with internalization?
A)amotivation
B)identified regulation
C)integrated regulation
D)introjected regulation
Q2) Probably the biggest problem with personality assessments by behaviourists is the:
A)observer effect.
B)subject bias.
C)experimenter bias.
D)test bias.
Q3) Some have suggested that the results of Milgram's obedience study may have been due to the __________ effect.
A)reciprocity
B)indebtedness
C)foot-in-the-door
D)returning-a-favour
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