Psychology 101 Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Psychology 101 is an introductory course designed to familiarize students with the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course covers foundational topics such as the history of psychology, major theoretical perspectives, research methods, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, development, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Through lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities, students gain a broad understanding of key psychological concepts, acquire basic research skills, and explore how psychological principles apply to everyday life. Psychology 101 provides a strong foundation for further study in psychology and related fields.
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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) A cognitive psychologist studies:
A) unconscious motives.
B) the measurement of traits.
C) the impact of culture.
D) thinking.
Answer: D
Q2) The "paired associates" method for studying memory was developed by:
A) Hermann Ebbinghaus.
B) Mary Whiton Calkins.
C) Alfred Binet.
D) Margaret Floy Washburn.
Answer: B
Q3) Which approach uses introspection as a method of investigation?
A) behaviorism
B) Gestalt psychology
C) functionalism
D) structuralism
Answer: D
Q4) Ebbinghaus was interested in the important mental process of ____________.
Answer: memory
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Chapter 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Q1) If an experimenter wants to find the cause of a phenomenon,the experimenter should:
A) use naturalistic observation.
B) conduct a formal experiment.
C) conduct a correlational study.
D) administer a survey.
Answer: B
Q2) The U.S.National Institutes of Health now require that all new research grants involving human participants must study ____________ samples.
Answer: diverse
Q3) The main difference between a correlational study and an experiment is that in an experiment:
A) participants are observed in their everyday lives without interference.
B) the investigator manipulates one variable and observes its effects on the other.
C) all participants receive the same experimental conditions.
D) participants are aware of the hypothesis being tested.
Answer: B
Q4) A ____________ is any factor whose numerical value can change. Answer: variable
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations in Behavior
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Q1) A primary function of the sympathetic nervous system is to:
A) prepare the body to respond to stress.
B) regulate motivation.
C) regulate emotion.
D) control the skeletal muscles.
Answer: A
Q2) The purpose of the peripheral nervous system is to:
A) relay messages from the spinal cord to the brain
B) process simple reflexes
C) increase and decrease levels of neurotransmitters in the brain
D) support the central nervous system by transporting nutrients
Answer: A
Q3) ____________ of the cortex plays an essential role in one's understanding of spoken language.
A) The occipital lobe
B) Broca's area
C) Wernicke's area
D) The temporal lobe
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Interplay of Nature and Nurture
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Q1) As children grow older,the amygdala increases more rapidly in females than in males and continues to be larger in women during adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When comparing gender differences in mathematical ability,what interesting finding was made?
A) The differences between genders are greater than the differences within each gender.
B) The differences between genders are less than the differences within each gender.
C) Most men score higher than most women.
D) There are actually no significant differences between men and women in mathematical ability.
Q3) In recent studies,women have been found to perform slightly better than men in:
A) perceptual speed.
B) social studies.
C) mathematics.
D) science.
Q4) ____________ is the subjective experience of being a male or female.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) If you have a "bitter pill to swallow," where on the tongue should you place it in order to make you LEAST likely to taste it?
A) on the tip
B) near the back
C) on either side
D) in the middle
Q2) If you change the frequency of a sound wave,you change the sound's:
A) timbre.
B) intensity.
C) loudness.
D) pitch.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT part of the inner ear?
A) stirrup
B) cochlea
C) oval window
D) organ of Corti
Q4) Raw sensations have little meaning until they are organized and interpreted in the process of sensation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
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Q1) The unconscious mind was not discussed in psychology textbooks until relatively recently.Which statement best explains why?
A) In the United States,psychology instructors approach the subject of psychology from a scientific viewpoint.
B) Most psychologists in the United States do not believe the "unconscious mind" exists.
C) The unconscious can never be studied using scientific methods.
D) The unconscious mind is a fictional term used to explain phenomena psychologists don't understand.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the hypnotic state?
A) sense of unity
B) relaxation
C) hallucinations
D) analgesia
Q3) Sleeptalking occurs during:
A) REM sleep.
B) light sleep.
C) deep sleep.
D) any stage of sleep.
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Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Learning
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Q1) In Pavlov's studies,the food or meat powder was the:
A) conditioned stimulus.
B) neutral stimulus.
C) conditioned response.
D) unconditioned stimulus.
Q2) Write about two practical applications of taste aversions.You may use examples from your text or develop your own examples.
Q3) The complex behaviors that whales display at Sea World have been probably been developed through the process of shaping.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The fact that we develop phobias to stimuli that have some intrinsic association with danger supports the idea of ____________ preparedness.
Q5) Responses learned through which type of learning are the MOST difficult to extinguish?
A) avoidance conditioning
B) positive reinforcement
C) escape conditioning
D) counterconditioning
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Karla studied Spanish in high school.In college,the experience was very helpful when she took Italian.Now she speaks Italian fluently,but can't remember much Spanish.Karla is experiencing:
A) motivated forgetting.
B) retroactive interference.
C) decay.
D) proactive interference.
Q2) The most sensitive method for evaluating memory is the relearning method.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sometimes new information gets stored in long-term memory;sometimes it does not.According to the levels of processing model,which of the following is the main determinate of whether information enters long-term memory?
A) how long the information is retained in short-term memory
B) how much capacity remains in long-term memory
C) how quickly the information is transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory
D) how well the new information is processed and encoded for memory
Q4) In chronic alcoholism,thiamine deficiency can lead to ____________.
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Chapter 9: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) If you say that an IQ test is invalid,you are claiming that the test:
A) is not appropriate for individuals with lower intelligence.
B) scores are changing over the course of an individual's life span.
C) scores predictions are limited to school success.
D) does not really measure intelligence.
Q2) A ____________ is a habitual way of approaching or perceiving a problem.
Q3) Simple concepts are based on:
A) a single common feature.
B) simple features.
C) a medium level of inclusiveness.
D) similar shapes.
Q4) Individuals with IQs from 35 to 49 are categorized as ____________ retarded.
Q5) A bachelor is a person who is (1)male and (2)unmarried."Bachelor" is an example of a:
A) simple concept.
B) disjunctive concept.
C) conjunctive concept.
D) prototypical concept.
Q6) ____________ is the ability to use previously learned skills to solve familiar problems.
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Chapter 10: Developmental Psychology
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Q1) According to Kubler-Ross's research with terminally ill patients,when patients overcome their grief and realize that it is inevitable that they will die,how do they usually respond?
A) They become angry and resentful.
B) They try to bargain in exchange for extended time.
C) They accept their fate in a state of emotional exhaustion.
D) They deny or ignore the diagnosis.
Q2) When female monkeys who were raised in isolation during early development became mothers,they:
A) were abusive to their infants.
B) were overprotective of their infants.
C) were competent and nurturing with their infants.
D) modeled the behavior of other mothers.
Q3) A ____________ is a biologically determined period in the life of some animals during which certain forms of learning take place more easily.
Q4) The authoritative parent provides strict rules with little or no discussion of those rules.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Fear of failure is most similar to:
A) extrinsic motivation.
B) mastery goals.
C) performance-approach goals.
D) performance-avoidance goals.
Q2) Which of the following is characteristic of hunger,thirst,AND the sexual motive?
A) All are controlled by the hypothalamus.
B) Because all are under biological control,learning does not play a role.
C) All lead to increased arousal.
D) All increase the body's energy level.
Q3) Our preference to be with others is called the need for ____________.
Q4) According to the Cannon-Bard theory,physiological arousal ____________ the conscious experience of emotion.
A) occurs simultaneous to B) leads to C) is caused by D) is altered by
Q5) The Yerkes-Dodson law offers a plausible explanation for addictive behavior.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Personality Theories and Assessment
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Q1) How do trait theories differ from other personality theories?
A) They offer insights into how traits are incorporated into the personality.
B) They are more concerned with describing personality,not with explaining it.
C) They are focused on predicting how an individual will act in a situation.
D) They search for the genetic origins of specific traits.
Q2) Relatively enduring personality patterns that are relatively consistent across situations are called:
A) traits.
B) behaviors.
C) thoughts.
D) emotions.
Q3) Humanists use the term ____________ to describe the process that pushes individuals to grow and improve.
A) self-regulation
B) inner-directedness
C) subjective reality
D) conscience
Q4) Explain Rogers's concept of conditions of worth and how it relates to both healthy and unhealthy personality development.
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Chapter 13: Stress and Health
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Q1) It is more common for men to acquire the HIV virus from intercourse with women than in is for women to acquire the HIV virus from men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the Lehman (1987)studies,individuals who had lost a spouse or a child in a fatal automobile accident were still experiencing more depression than a control group up to ____________ later.
A) 1 year
B) 6 months
C) 3 years
D) 5 years
Q3) The current theory of the influences on health is referred to as the ____________ model of health.
Q4) Life events cause stress because they:
A) involve change that is negative.
B) cause negative feelings.
C) require adjustments.
D) are perceived as pesky inconveniences.
Q5) Discuss the relationship between depression and immune system functioning.
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Chapter 14: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) African Americans have lower rates of suicide than non-Hispanic whites.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following increases the likelihood of developing posttraumatic stress disorder?
A) being male
B) having social support
C) having higher levels of anxiety before the traumatic event
D) none of these
Q3) According to the research of Oquendo and colleagues (2001),____________ have the highest suicide rates,and ____________ have the highest suicide rates.
A) non-Hispanic whites;African Americans
B) Asian Americans;non-Hispanic whites
C) African Americans;American Indians
D) Asian Americans;African Americans
Q4) ADHD is NOT a diagnosis endorsed by the APA in the DSM-IV.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________ involves sexual relations between relatives.
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) Tim and his fiancé argue about the type of food they should serve at their wedding,causing Tim to conclude that the whole marriage will be a failure.Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck would call this type of conclusion:
A) an arbitrary inference.
B) an overgeneralization.
C) selective abstraction.
D) personalization.
Q2) Which of the following is a true statement about ethnic and gender issues in psychotherapy?
A) In comparison with non-Hispanic white Americans,a larger proportion of Hispanic Americans with psychological disorders were receiving outpatient mental health treatment.
B) More women than men receive mental health services.
C) African Americans are more likely than whites to be committed to psychiatric hospitals when they have a mental disorder.
D) All of these are true statements.
Q3) ____________ psychotherapy encourages women to confront issues created by living in a sexist society.
Q4) Describe social skills training and cognitive restructuring.
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology
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Q1) ____________ theory states that partners in a relationship will be comfortable only when the ratio between their perceived contributions and benefits is equal.
Q2) According to your text,one of the primary reasons romantic relationships end is:
A) lack of sexual compatibility.
B) economic stress.
C) decreased passion.
D) unmet expectations.
Q3) Research on social facilitation suggests that performance will improve in the presence of others under certain circumstances.Which of the following circumstances would increase the likelihood that social facilitation would occur?
A) You are giving a speech that you are not fully prepared to give.
B) You are asking a person you like out on a date.
C) You are executing a football play you practiced all summer.
D) You are giving your first piano recital.
Q4) Yielding to group pressure even when no direct request has been made is called
Q5) ____________ refers to the faulty decision-making processes that can occur in groups.
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Chapter 17: Psychology Applied to Business and Other Professions
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Q1) In the ____________ design of workspace,offices are laid out in large open spaces and separated by low movable partitions,desks,and file cabinets.
Q2) Felicia Pratto suggests that women unequally distributed in powerful occupations when compared to men because women:
A) tend to be unhappy in powerful occupations,due to their sensitive,emotional sides.
B) tend not to perform as well as men,due to inexperience in such occupations.
C) tend to be drawn to jobs that help people,and when they do seek positions within powerful occupations,they are less likely to be hired.
D) rarely apply for powerful positions.
Q3) Differentiate between an industrial-organizational psychologist and a human factors engineer and the types of services they usually provide.
Q4) Which form of employee evaluation uses simulated "on-the-job" situations to assess ability?
A) the structured interview
B) a job performance rating
C) simulated management tasks
D) an ability test
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