Psychology 101 Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Psychology 101 introduces students to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This foundational course explores major concepts, theoretical perspectives, and research methods in psychology. Topics include biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, development, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and the treatment of mental health issues. Through lectures, discussions, and practical activities, students gain insight into how psychological principles apply to everyday life and develop critical thinking skills for understanding human behavior.
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THINK Psychology 2nd Edition by Abigail A. Baird
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Which specialty area of psychology employs the smallest percentage of graduates with psychology degrees?
A) Health psychology
B) Clinical neuropsychology
C) Experimental psychology
D) Industrial-organizational psychology
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following pairs is associated with the earliest development of behaviorism?
A) Pavlov and Watson
B) Skinner and Thorndike
C) Skinner and Pavlov
D) Watson and James
Answer: A
Q3) The father of the modern science of psychology was Wilhelm Wundt.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true regarding the use of the scientific method?
A) The scientific method uses hypotheses to generate theories, but facts are not relevant because there is no such thing as a true fact. All facts are merely relative, and so they are not important in the scientific method.
B) The scientific method is concerned with facts and hypotheses, as we use the gathering of data to confirm or refute hypotheses. Theories are not relevant to the scientific method.
C) The scientific method is only concerned with facts, as anything else is merely a form of a guess.
D) Facts, theories and hypotheses all have very important functions in the use of the scientific method.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is one important type of criterion validity?
A) Reliable validity
B) External validity
C) Predictive validity.
D) Construct validity
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Human Brain
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Q1) Which parts of the body get the most "space" and attention in the primary somatosensory cortex of the parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex?
A) The tongue
B) The knee
C) The toes
D) The lips
Answer: D
Q2) The ability of an amputee to develop the skills needed to control a prosthetic limb is an example of which characteristic of the human brain?
A) Integration
B) Redundancy
C) Sophistication
D) Adaptability
Answer: B
Q3) The brainstem is made up of the medulla,the pons,and the hypothalamus.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Genetics and Evolution
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Q1) "There is really no need to worry about the depletion of the ozone,because human beings will adapt by developing a new outer layer of skin that is more resistant to the radiation of the sun." This is a statement that suggests we can acquire characteristics that are useful for our survival.Upon whose theory of evolution might this statement be based?
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Charles Darwin
C) Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
D) John Broadus Watson
Q2) In order to demonstrate very important principles of heredity,Gregor Mendel cross-bred different strains of __________ to see what sort of offspring they would produce.
A) lab mice
B) roses
C) garden peas
D) pigeons
Q3) The basic building block of chromosomes is RNA,or Ribonucleic Acid.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The __________ threshold is the minimum difference between two stimuli needed to detect the difference 50% of the time.
A) Weber
B) sensory
C) difference
D) absolute
Q2) The __________ of your eye is sort of like a movie screen at a cinema,as it is that onto which light gets projected.
A) fovea
B) cornea
C) lens
D) retina
Q3) Which theory of pain suggests that there are mechanisms in the spinal cord that can either "permit" or "block" pain messages from getting to the brain?
A) Nociceptive reduction theory
B) Neuropathic blocking theory
C) Spinal inhibition theory
D) Gate-control theory
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Chapter 6: Consciousness
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Q1) The clock shifts in the spring and fall that are necessitated by Daylight Savings Time often throw off the internal clocks of people for several days.If you've memorized the phrase "spring forward,fall back," then you might appreciate the hour of sleep that you gain in the fall,and abhor the hour of sleep lost in the spring.Research,in fact,shows that __________ actually increased significantly after the spring change in a sample of Canadian individuals.
A) days taken off from work due to illness
B) automobile accidents
C) birth defects
D) college exams submitted that earned a failing grade
Q2) While many Eastern cultures and religious value meditation as a way of direction consciousness away from worldly preoccupations,_________ meditation involves a focused awareness of everything you experience.
A) hyperalert
B) omnipresent
C) mindfulness
D) sentient
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Chapter 7: Learning
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Q1) A __________ reinforcer satisfies a basic survival need,like hunger or thirst.
A) primary
B) physiological
C) positive
D) secondary
Q2) Which of the following effects on the brain has not been noted by research into sleep deprivation?
A) Sleep deprivation disrupts the ability of the thalamus to send messages to the amygdala.
B) Sleep deprivation leads to a diminishing of proteins that help neurons grow and survive.
C) Sleep deprivation can hinder the creation of cells in the hippocampus.
D) Sleep deprivation leads to an impairment of subsequent learning.
Q3) Which type of learning was inspired by the work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov?
A) Operant conditioning
B) Classical conditioning
C) Vicarious conditioning
D) Latent learning
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) "The process of memory is like using one of those "Storage USA" businesses," Prof.Fisher tells her class."You have a place to keep your stuff,but the three main processes have to work or else you're just wasting your money.__________ is like putting stuff into the locker you rented,storage is keeping it safe there over time,and retrieval is taking it out later on when you need it."
A) Integration
B) Encoding
C) Intake
D) Application
Q2) Which cognitive process allows us to determine which of the many sensations around us we are going to store in memory and which of those data we are going to discard?
A) eidetics
B) selection
C) concentration
D) attention
Q3) The way we interpret the meaning of a given stimulus is called semantic encoding.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Cognition and Intelligence
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Q1) Mental sets can either help you solve or a problem or obstruct you from solving a problem.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Researchers have found that the higher a person's intelligence is,the less need that person has for the process of central executive functioning in the brain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The neurotransmitter that helps people make decisions that lead to good outcomes and avoid bad outcomes is __________.
A) GABA
B) serotonin
C) epinephrine
D) dopamine
Q4) According to linguistic theory,a spoonerism occurs when a person inadvertently exchanges the initial sounds of two or more words in a phrase.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Human Development I: Physical, Cognitive, and Language Development
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Q1) When the National Council of Aging surveyed adults over 60,they found that ___% reported that they were satisfied with the amount of sex that they were having,and ___% reported that they wanted to have more sex.
A) 39; 39
B) 27; 40
C) 50; 10
D) 35; 2
Q2) A researcher who is investigating age changes is exploring the differences that exist between people of varying ages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The average age for the onset of puberty is approximately ____ years later in pre-industrial cultures than it is in industrialized cultures.
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
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Chapter 11: Sex and Gender
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Q1) Research has found that,generally speaking,heterosexual women prefer to date and/or marry a man who is taller than herself.If this finding is correct,then it is good news for women that men are,on average,_______ taller than women.
A) 4 inches
B) 5 inches
C) 2 inches
D) 8 inches
Q2) Expectations about the way men and women behave are called gender
A) mores
B) norms
C) roles
D) schemas
Q3) People who are neither specifically feminine nor masculine are referred to as asexual.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Men's sexuality tends to be less strongly felt and can be more fluid than women's.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Human Development II: Social Development
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Q1) Which of the following was one of the attachment styles proposed by Mary Ainsworth?
A) Anxious-ambivalent
B) Easy
C) Slow-to-warm-up
D) Difficult
Q2) Erik Erikson felt that before we can establish a healthy intimate relationship with another person we must first solidify our own identity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jean Piaget argued that unsupervised play with peers is critical to the __________ development.
A) moral
B) social
C) emotional
D) cognitive
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Chapter 13: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) The James-Lange theory of emotions states that the physiological and psychological components of emotion occur simultaneously.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research into the universality of facial expressions has revealed which of the following phenomena?
A) Babies can learn to express happiness with a frown if their parents consistently model such expressions.
B) Higher animals, including chimpanzees and orangutans, use the same facial muscles in the same proportions as human beings when expressing fear, anger, happiness, or surprise.
C) Blind children who have never seen a facial expression will express emotions with the same expressions as sighted people.
D) In cultures where the expression of emotions is considered inappropriate, facial expressions differ significantly from cultures where emotions are more freely expressed.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) The work of Solomon Asch showed how __________,or susceptibility to the opinions of others,can cause people to conform.
A) social inhibition
B) suggestibility
C) diffuse social boundaries
D) persuasiveness
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the conditions that influences conformity,according to Solomon Asch?
A) Being in an individualistic society rather than a collectivist society
B) Being in a unanimous group without dissenters
C) Being among admired people.
D) Being in a public setting
Q3) In the movie Spiderman,an old man standing next to Peter Parker said,"I guess it's true.One man really can make a difference." This is an example of minority influence.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A conformity group refers to those people to whom a person feels affiliated.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Health and Stress
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Q1) Research has found that the body's immune system can attack your own body parts,leading to which of the following conditions?
A) Crohn's disease
B) Diabetes
C) Scleroderma
D) Lupus
Q2) People who work high stress jobs are particularly susceptible to experiencing burnout.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ is a coping strategy that involves finding a new or creative way to think about a stressor that reduces its threat.
A) Rationalizing
B) Denial
C) Reframing
D) Repressive coping
Q4) Acute stress is a temporary state,while chronic stress is an extended situation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Personality and Individual Differences
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Q1) Some studies have suggested that our personalities become _______ as we grow older.
A) more fluid
B) more stable
C) more mature
D) more difficult to maintain
Q2) The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)was developed by __________.
A) Karen Horney
B) Julian Rotter
C) Henry Murray
D) Alfred Adler
Q3) Which of the three interacting systems of the personality is concerned with moral behavior and operating according to standards of right and wrong?
A) The superego id
B) The id
C) The ego
D) The reaction formation
Q4) Traits are stable and enduring.States are temporary and changing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) A __________ is a characteristic of thought or behavior that indicates a potential mental disorder.
A) syndrome
B) symptom
C) sign
D) pathology
Q2) __________ disorders are characterized by physical symptoms that do not have an identifiable cause.
A) Dissociative
B) Autistic
C) Attention-deficit
D) Somatoform
Q3) In order for an individual to be diagnosed with major depressive disorder,(s)he must show signs of severe depressive symptoms for a period of at least __________.
A) 1 week
B) 2 weeks
C) 1 month
D) 2 months
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Chapter 18: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) __________ is an instance in which a client's unconscious feelings about a significant person in his or her life are directed at their therapist.
A) Resistance
B) Introjection
C) Projection
D) Transference
Q2) Dori goes to her physician complaining of a specific 'set' of psychological symptoms.After giving her a physical examination,the physician agrees to give Dori a prescription for benzodiazepines.From which of the following problems is Dori most likely suffering?
A) Depression
B) Anxiety problems
C) Schizophrenia
D) Muscular tics and tremors
Q3) Psychopharmacology is the study of how drugs affect the mind and behavior.
A)True
B)False
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