Psychological Science Test
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Course Introduction
Psychological Science explores the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes, integrating evidence-based research from areas such as cognition, emotion, perception, development, and social interaction. This course introduces students to the foundational theories, methodologies, and applications that define psychology as a science, emphasizing critical thinking and the evaluation of empirical evidence. Through examining topics like learning, memory, personality, psychological disorders, and biological bases of behavior, students gain insight into how people think, feel, and act both as individuals and within groups.
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Psychological Science 5th Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT an example of a question scientists might ask regarding evolutionary adaptations in humans?
A) Why do people like sweets and foods high in fat?
B) Why do young children develop a fear of heights,as shown in visual cliff studies?
C) How has walking upright increased human survival?
D) Can you learn to adapt your note-taking style from a lecture to small-group discussion classes?
Answer: D
Q2) Over history,people have viewed the mind as being located in each of the following parts of the body EXCEPT the:
A) brain.
B) liver.
C) heart.
D) sexual organs.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) When a researcher collecting data does NOT know a study's hypothesis,the study is a ________ study.
A) blind
B) confounded
C) meta-analytic
D) reactivity
Answer: A
Q2) If you list a set of scores from the lowest value to the highest,then take the middle value to indicate what a typical score is,you are using the:
A) mean.
B) mode.
C) median.
D) range.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biology and Behavior
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Q1) Which variables of behavioral genetics can be examined with adoption studies?
A) genetics only
B) environment only
C) genetics and environment
D) parenting
Answer: C
Q2) What part of the neuron releases chemical signals?
A) axon
B) terminal buttons
C) cell body
D) dendrite
Answer: B
Q3) Beatrice's mother and father both carry a dominant gene for brown eyes and a recessive gene for blue eyes.The probability that Beatrice's eyes are brown is:
A) .75.
B) .50.
C) .25.
D) 1.00.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) Walter has a strong desire to use methamphetamine,even though he no longer enjoys the feelings it produces.This phenomenon is primarily due to activity in the: A) amygdala.
B) nucleus accumbens.
C) cannabinoid system.
D) hippocampus.
Q2) If your brain was a building,sleep would play the role of the: A) manager.
B) janitor.
C) security guard.
D) decorator.
Q3) DeMarco has been diagnosed as being in a minimally conscious state.Which of the following behaviors is DeMarco most likely to exhibit?
A) higher levels of consciousness,including the ability to identify his family members
B) deliberate movements,such as following a pencil with his eyes
C) opening and closing his eyes,but with no awareness of his surroundings
D) no EEG brain activity
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Hannah is having dinner at a Mexican restaurant.When she tries the three kinds of sauces to see how hot they are,she is assessing ________ differences.When she compares the taste of her margarita to the taste of her friend's Mexican beer,she is assessing a ________ difference.
A) qualitative; qualitative
B) qualitative; quantitative
C) quantitative; quantitative
D) quantitative; qualitative
Q2) According to this information processing model,the recognition of patterns occurs because the data are relayed from a lower level to a higher level of processing in the brain.
A) bottom-up processing
B) bottom-down processing
C) top-up processing
D) top-down processing
Q3) The optic nerve is composed of axons of:
A) rods and cones.
B) bipolar cells.
C) ganglion cells.
D) foveal cells.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) A startling noise will always cause the human eye to blink.If one has learned to associate a blue light with a startling noise,what is the resulting blue-light-elicited eye blink known as?
A) an unconditioned stimulus
B) a conditioned response
C) an unconditioned response
D) a conditioned stimulus
Q2) Who founded the school of behaviorism?
A) Skinner
B) Watson
C) Pavlov
D) Bandura
Q3) Who believed that conditioning processes were the basis for how animals learned to adapt to their environments?
A) John Locke
B) Charles Darwin
C) Ivan Pavlov
D) Edward Thorndike
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) In the context of memory,persistence is:
A) transience.
B) a type of distortion.
C) unwanted remembering.
D) PTSD.
Q2) Fayd is studying for his English literature exam.For each novel he has read for the course,he tries to spend a lot of time thinking of how the novel relates to his own life.This activity requires that he really thinks about the themes and characters in the book,making him recognize more about how different characters in the story relate to each other.Fayd is using the memory strategy of:
A) maintenance rehearsal.
B) practice.
C) chunking.
D) elaborative rehearsal.
Q3) Recent research suggests that negative memories may be erased through:
A) blocking of reconsolidation.
B) lack of sleep.
C) schemas.
D) fMRI studies.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Language, 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) Analogical representations ________ correspond to characteristics of the object that they represent.Symbolic representations ________ correspond to characteristics of the object that they represent.
A) do; do
B) do not; do not
C) do; do not
D) do not; do
Q3) The average adult knows about:
A) 20,000 words.
B) 40,000 words.
C) 60,000 words.
D) 20,000 to 60,000 words,depending on which language the adult has learned.
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) A challenge to Piaget's theory of development takes issue with his argument that:
A) all adults are capable of formal operational thought.
B) differentiating self from objects is very important.
C) individuals go through the developmental stages in the same order.
D) object permanence develops more quickly in females than in males.
Q2) Piaget's conclusion that young children have no inherent sense of mathematical principles:
A) was contradicted by the results of other researchers replicating his marble test.
B) has been called into question by research showing that children under 3 years of age understand concepts such as more than and less than.
C) has largely been supported,though such principles are acquired earlier than he postulated.
D) has been supported in a manner highly consistent with his initial proposal.
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Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Paloma's parents spent a great deal of time with her when she was growing up; they always made her feel loved and valued.Erhard's parents loved him,but they were always busy and distant.As an adult,who is likely to experience more guilt,and why?
A) Erhard,because he never feels sufficiently secure
B) Paloma,because she has developed the ability to empathize
C) Erhard,because he never feels valued or important
D) Paloma,because she feels obligated to repay her parents
Q2) An evolutionary explanation of mate preferences might suggest that women seek men with high status because:
A) they confer the prestige of their status on their partners.
B) they have more resources with which to support their families.
C) their high status implies good genetic potential for intelligence.
D) their high status implies good adaptive skills.
Q3) Which neurotransmitter appears to be responsible for the decreased sexual interest in those taking antidepressants?
A) dopamine
B) serotonin
C) nitric oxide
D) norepinephrine
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Chapter 11: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) According to your textbook,which of the following statements is NOT a reason why spirituality may contribute to overall well-being?
A) Members of faith communities gain physical and social support.
B) Faith gives people a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives.
C) Many religions have strict rules that people feel compelled to follow.
D) Many religions support healthy behaviors.
Q2) Melinda just got a new job as a receptionist,and she does not expect it to be very stressful.However,she is nervous about learning how to perform well in the job when she first starts working.This kind of stress is ________ and may result in ________.
A) long term; worse immune functioning
B) long term; better immune functioning
C) short term; worse immune functioning
D) short term; better immune functioning
Q3) The most central goal of the positive psychology movement is to:
A) promote positive change in society by advocating for world peace.
B) convince people that they have much in life to be grateful for.
C) study and understand psychological well-being.
D) train people to become positive and more effective leaders.
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) The idea of reciprocal helping applies best to which of the following situations?
A) A student helps her lab partner with a difficult assignment.
B) A father helps his daughter improve her soccer skills.
C) An aunt helps her niece make her wedding gown.
D) An adolescent walks and feeds his pet dog.
Q2) Sarah wants to do particularly well at her upcoming piano recital.What should she do to ensure a great performance?
A) practice repeatedly until playing the piano becomes her nondominant response
B) practice repeatedly until playing the piano becomes her dominant response
C) wing it,because too much practice will make her nervous
D) insist that everyone she cares about comes to hear her at the recital
Q3) Research on the bystander intervention effect using a smoke-filled room revealed that most people:
A) surrounded by apathetic confederates will fail to seek help in an emergency.
B) who are by themselves will not seek help in an emergency.
C) who are in the company of apathetic confederates will seek help in an emergency.
D) sought help when they began to show physical symptoms to the smoke.
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) According to your textbook,scoring low on the trait of ________ is associated with relatively high consistency in your behavior across situations.
A) neuroticism
B) self-monitoring
C) agreeableness
D) subjective well-being
Q2) People who are very ________ may seek out so much environmental stimulation that they get into trouble,and people who are very ________ may be so overstimulated by their environments that they feel chronically overwhelmed and uncomfortable.The brain structure that is responsible for consistent differences in understimulation or overstimulation in personality is the ________.
A) extraverted; introverted; descending reticular activating system
B) extraverted; introverted; ascending reticular activating system
C) introverted; extraverted; descending reticular activating system
D) introverted; extraverted; ascending reticular activating system
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) According to your textbook,a mental disorder that involves a person's losing awareness of time and events is called:
A) dissociative amnesia.
B) dissociative fugue.
C) schizophrenia.
D) bipolar disorder.
Q2) Which of the following personality disorders belong to the same group?
A) schizoid,paranoid,and obsessive-compulsive
B) avoidant,dependent,and obsessive-compulsive
C) paranoid,dependent,and obsessive-compulsive
D) antisocial,histrionic,and paranoid
Q3) A woman is sitting on a bench.She is sweating profusely,is short of breath,has numbness in her feet and hands,and feels as though she is dying.Based on this information alone,we could conclude that the woman is suffering from:
A) generalized anxiety disorder.
B) a panic attack.
C) panic disorder.
D) agoraphobia.
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) This treatment delivers a strong electrical current to the brain with the goal of reducing the symptoms of depression.
A) transcranial magnetic stimulation
B) deep brain stimulation
C) electroconvulsive therapy
D) electromagnetic therapy
Q2) Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors work by:
A) allowing serotonin to remain in the synapse.
B) facilitating the reuptake of serotonin into the presynaptic neuron.
C) blocking serotonin's effects on the postsynaptic receptors.
D) converting serotonin to another chemical form.
Q3) For which of the following patients would lithium alone have the most clear and beneficial effect?
A) someone who has extreme bouts of mania and mild depression
B) someone who has extreme bouts of depression and mild mania
C) someone who has mild bouts of depression and mania
D) someone who has extreme bouts of depression and mania
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