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Course Introduction
Psychological Science explores the systematic study of behavior and mental processes, integrating scientific methods to understand how individuals think, feel, and act. The course covers foundational topics such as perception, learning, memory, development, emotion, and personality, as well as the biological and social bases of behavior. Emphasis is placed on research design, critical thinking, and the interpretation of empirical evidence, preparing students to apply psychological principles in real-world contexts and to critically evaluate psychological information in everyday life.
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Psychology An Introduction 10th Edition by Benjamin Lahey
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Theories are scientific truths.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What differentiated Sigmund Freud from most of the other influential founders of psychology?
A) Freud was the only founder from a European country.
B) Freud was trained as a philosopher and teacher.
C) Freud was interested in the unconscious mind.
D) Freud was a physician and treated psychological problems.
Answer: C
Q3) Why can a psychiatrist prescribe drugs but a clinical psychologist cannot?
A) Because the psychiatrist was in school longer.
B) Because the psychiatrist has received medical training.
C) Because the clinical psychologist has not studied human behavior broadly enough.
D) Because insurance companies will not let clinical psychologists prescribe drugs.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Q1) For a formal experiment to yield valid results,all alternative explanations for the findings must be ruled out by a process of
A) experimental control.
B) placebo effectiveness.
C) non-random assignment.
D) interactive subjectivity.
Answer: A
Q2) The careful observation of behavior in laboratory settings is called naturalistic observation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) When deception is used in a psychological study,do participants need to be told about the deception?
A) No,if they have already provided informed consent.
B) No,if the study is important enough to the university.
C) Yes,at the beginning of the study.
D) Yes,before the end of the study.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations in Behavior
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Q1) Neural pruning and neurogenesis are the exact same process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Some individuals use bright light to treat seasonal affective disorder,a type of depression that occurs during the winter months.It is believed that bright light therapy is effective due to its influence on
A) melatonin.
B) parathormone.
C) estrogen.
D) thyroxin.
Answer: A
Q3) In the processing of verbal tasks,women tend to be more accurate and use different parts of their brain.This difference in cerebral hemisphere functioning was determined by using
A) bloodwork analysis.
B) psychotherapeutic intervention.
C) functional MRI.
D) projective testing.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Interplay of Nature and Nurture
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Q1) Which statement about genes and chromosomes is most accurate?
A) Genes and chromosomes are essentially the same thing.
B) Chromosomes are made up of genes.
C) Genes are made up of chromosomes.
D) For every gene,there is a corresponding chromosome.
Q2) In thinking about Mary (a female),a psychologist would tend to view Mary's gender role as being comprised of
A) only feminine characteristics.
B) no masculine characteristics.
C) neither masculine nor feminine characteristics.
D) both masculine and feminine characteristics
Q3) On average,women prefer a mate with good character and high earning potential.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Expectations of gender differences can create gender differences in cognitive performance.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) A theory supporting the effectiveness of acupuncture states that it works because it
A) inhibits key skin receptors for pain.
B) opens neural gates in the spinal cord.
C) triggers the release of endorphins.
D) redirects neural signals in the cortex.
Q2) A door is still perceived as a rectangle even after we view it from different angles.This is due to
A) depth cues.
B) retinal disparity.
C) shape constancy.
D) linear constancy.
Q3) The absolute threshold is the smallest magnitude of a stimulus that can be ______ and the difference threshold is the smallest magnitude of s stimulus that can be ______.
A) generated;generated half the time
B) generated half the time;generated
C) detected half the time;detected
D) detected;detected half the time
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Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Which drug is not physically addictive and,after repeated use,less of the drug may be needed to produce the desired effect?
A) opium
B) marijuana
C) LSD
D) caffeine
Q2) Incorporating a ringing telephone into your current dream is called day residue.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Alan took a drug and then described how he had gained a unique insight into a social problem;however,he has no justification or proof to back up his thoughts.Which characteristic of altered states of consciousness best fits this example?
A) sense of unity
B) self-evident reality
C) transcendent
D) distortion of perception
Q4) Depressants operate by depressing the actions of the peripheral nervous system.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Learning
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Q1) A pigeon learned to peck a lighted disc for a few bits of grain.The bird does not peck when the light is off because no grain will be forthcoming.The light is called the
A) generalized stimulus.
B) conditioned stimulus.
C) conditioned response.
D) discriminative stimulus.
Q2) A parent's spanking behavior increased dramatically after she initially used it to stop her children from whining.Which danger of punishment has been demonstrated here?
A) the criticism trap
B) learned helplessness
C) Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher.
D) There is no danger demonstrated in the example.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a primary reinforcer?
A) grades
B) food
C) applause
D) money
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) The raw sensory information that is selected and then represented in memory describes the process of A) storage.
B) encoding.
C) retrieval.
D) recognition.
Q2) It's difficult not to be able to remember items that others expect you to remember.If you just started making up memories to answer others' questions,this is known as A) disinhibition.
B) facilitation.
C) consolidation.
D) confabulation.
Q3) The tendency to recall the beginning and the end of a list of items is known as A) the serial position effect. B) retroactive interference.
C) motivated forgetting.
D) spreading activation effect.
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Chapter 9: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) The presence of two or more characteristics at the same time defines a disjunctive concept.
A)True B)False
Q2) Sternberg's theory of intelligence is an advance over previous theories of intelligence because it
A) quantifies the "g" factor.
B) identifies the best heuristics for problem solving.
C) provides a basis for discovering how some people are more intelligent.
D) takes into account all aspects of intellectual functioning.
Q3) Objectification is the process of giving a new intelligence test to a large sample of people representative of the general population.
A)True B)False
Q4) Generally,it is safer to fly in an airplane than to drive an automobile. A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: Developmental Psychology
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Q1) What best distinguishes the infancy stage from other stages of development?
A) Physical growth is most rapid in the first year.
B) Cognitive growth is 5 times greater than in any other developmental stage.
C) Emotions are fully developed before the next developmental stage.
D) It is the only stage that has no emotional development.
Q2) Which of the following describes the moral stage of morality as self-sacrifice?
A) The person acts for a higher purpose,following an internalized moral code.
B) A person acts in such a way as to obtain rewards for themselves and to avoid punishments.
C) The person views their own needs as equal to those needs of others.
D) To be good and receive approval,they must self-sacrifice and meet the needs of others.
Q3) Based on the research by the Harlows,what happened when mother-deprived monkeys became mothers themselves?
A) They tended to prefer nurturing the offspring of others.
B) They rejected and attacked their own infants.
C) They forced the fathers to complete all infant-related tasks.
D) They were normal and nurturing mothers.
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) The ______ theory of emotion suggests that we first interpret the incoming stimuli from the environment,and then interpret the stimuli from the body from the autonomic arousal caused.
A) Izard
B) cognitive
C) Cannon-Bard
D) James-Lange
Q2) College students from African countries are more likely to believe that their negative emotions as being caused by
A) environmental toxins.
B) internal thoughts.
C) other people.
D) abject poverty.
Q3) Cognitive theories of emotion predict that we
A) think before we feel.
B) feel before we think.
C) act before we feel.
D) act before we think.
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Chapter 12: Personality Theories and Assessment
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Q1) Adler believed that the primary goal of personality development was to overcome A) unconditional motivation.
B) anal-retentiveness.
C) feelings of inferiority.
D) low ego strength.
Q2) According to Freud,children between the ages of _______ and _______ become concerned with the size and functioning of the genitals.
A) birth;2 years
B) 2 years;3 years
C) 3 years;6 years
D) 7 years;11 years
Q3) To prevent itself from being overwhelmed by excessive demands from the id and superego,the ego relies on
A) the Oedipus complex.
B) defense mechanisms.
C) the reality principle.
D) the pleasure principle.
Q4) An oral receptive personality cannot develop before the age of three.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Stress and Health
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Q1) Compared to younger widows and widowers,older widows and widowers are more likely to exhibit depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Major life events cause stress because they are always negative.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Attempts to deal with the source of stress or to control our reactions to it,or both,describe
A) the alarm reaction.
B) exhaustion.
C) coping.
D) frustration.
Q4) Effective coping involves _______,whereas ineffective coping involves _______.
A) removing the source of stress;withdrawing from the stress
B) defense mechanisms;managing stress reactions
C) aggression;frustration
D) repression;sensitization
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Chapter 14: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) One of the characteristics of conversion disorder is la belle indifference,which means that the person
A) is not upset by their condition.
B) has no knowledge of their condition.
C) knows of no cure for their condition.
D) is extremely upset by their condition.
Q2) If a defendant is given a "guilty but mentally ill" sentence,which of the following is true?
A) The defendant must be severely psychotic and untreatable.
B) The defendant will serve a prison sentence.
C) The defendant will receive mandatory psychiatric treatment but no prison time.
D) The defendant will be committed to a mental hospital for life.
Q3) A person who feels as if they have become distorted or unreal,or that their surroundings are unreal,may be suffering from depersonalization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) When resistance occurs in therapy,what event is taking place?
A) The procedure of free association is inoperative.
B) The therapist must resist growing attraction for the client.
C) The client will not share deep personal problems.
D) The client opens up and shares difficult emotional feelings.
Q2) If a psychotherapist is working hard to create a condition where the censorship of the ego is relaxed,then this person is most likely using a ______ approach to psychotherapy.
A) psychoanalytic
B) humanistic
C) behavioral
D) cognitive
Q3) The procedure known as ______ uses electrical probes to destroy the cingulated cortex of the limbic system.
A) commissurotomy
B) cingulotomy
C) transcranial stimulation
D) prefrontal lobotomy
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology
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Q1) Social loafing is more likely to occur in which types of groups?
A) small groups of strangers
B) larger groups
C) same-sex groups
D) groups of high-income persons
Q2) In the context of social psychology,social roles tell people
A) how to behave.
B) their place in society.
C) what is expected.
D) their future.
Q3) In terms of helping behavior and the number of bystanders present,we help most when there
A) is much to be gained.
B) is little to be gained.
C) are many people around.
D) are few people around.
Q4) Prejudice occurs because we do what we are told by people in authority.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Psychology Applied to Business and Other
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Q1) If a company was looking for someone with high leadership potential,it would do well to consider which pair of traits?
A) introversion and likeability
B) drive and honesty
C) compassion and selflessness
D) manipulative and strong-willed
Q2) The current earth population is about
A) 6 million.
B) 600 million.
C) 6 billion.
D) 60 billion.
Q3) Criterion-referenced testing establishes the ________ that children must meet.
A) practical criteria
B) lofty goals
C) multiple mastery levels
D) normative databases
Q4) Social loafing can be minimized when individual's efforts are recognized and rewarded.
A)True
B)False
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