Psychology 101 Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Psychology 101 is an introductory course that explores the fundamental concepts, theories, and methods of the science of behavior and mental processes. Students will examine key topics such as biological bases of behavior, perception, learning, memory, development, emotion, motivation, personality, psychological disorders, and social psychology. Emphasis is placed on understanding research methods, critical thinking, and the application of psychological principles to everyday life. This course provides a foundation for further study in psychology and related fields, encouraging students to reflect on human behavior and its underlying causes.
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The World of Psychology 7th Canadian Edition by by Samuel E. Wood
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Lauri believes that her boyfriend is afraid of making commitments because of an unconscious hatred for his mother. Her belief is closest to which psychological perspective?
A) Cognitive
B) Behavioural
C) Humanistic
D) Psychoanalytic
Answer: D
Q2) Independent variable is to ________ as dependent variable is to ________.
A) correlation; experiment
B) cause; effect
C) random; control
D) effect; cause
Answer: B
Q3) The highest percentage of psychologists work in
A) colleges and universities
B) schools.
C) hospitals and clinics.
D) private practice.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Biology and Behaviour
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Q1) Which of the following produces images of brain functions by injecting the patient with radioactive glucose?
A) A PET scan, or positron-emission tomography scan
B) A CT scan, or computerized axial tomography scan
C) A SQUID, or superconducting quantumterference device
D) MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging
Answer: A
Q2) Which lobes are involved primarily with the reception and interpretation of auditory information?
A) Parietal
B) Temporal
C) Occipital
D) Frontal
Answer: B
Q3) Describe the nature of fMRI, what it can tell us about the brain and how it works. Answer: fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging can tell us about both function and structure of the CNS. fMRI can image the flow of oxygen to brain regions. As neurons work they require more oxygen.
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following statements would be true of people who have lost the sight in one eye?
A) They could use binocular disparity as a depth cue.
B) They could not perceive three dimensions.
C) They could use convergence as a depth cue.
D) They could use monocular depth cues
Answer: D
Q2) Detecting a candle 48 kilometres away on a clear, dark night, and tasting a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in 9 litres of water are examples of A) absolute thresholds
B) difference thresholds.
C) perceptual constancies.
D) transduction.
Answer: A
Q3) Olfaction is the sense of A) touch.
B) smell
C) taste.
D) balance.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: States of Conciousness
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Q1) Cocaine and amphetamines
A) add to the level of serotonin.
B) decrease the level of serotonin.
C) slow the reuptake of dopamine
D) release dopamine.
Q2) Which of these is not a narcotic?
A) Codeine
B) Valium
C) Morphine
D) Heroin
Q3) In severe cases of sleep apnea, sufferers may awaken as many as 800 times a night as they gasp for air.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following groups spends many hours in bed, but is the least likely to experience satisfying sleep?
A) Children from six to puberty
B) The elderly
C) Adolescents
Dfants and young children
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Classical conditioning has a role in all of the following except A) maturation
B) drug tolerance.
C) falling love.
D) the immune system response.
Q2) Which of the following is not an effect of media violence?
A) It presents aggression as an acceptable way to solve problems.
B) It teaches new forms of aggression.
C) It reduces emotional reactions to aggression and the effects of aggression.
D) It makes the real world seem like a less violent place than it is
Q3) The goal of both positive and negative reinforcement is to increase the probability of a response.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which element in classical conditioning is the signal?
A) Conditioned stimulus
B) Conditioned response
C) Unconditioned stimulus
D) Unconditioned response
Q5) What is discrimination in classical conditioning?
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) Most psychologists accept decay theory as a cause of forgetting in long-term memory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the role of hormones in memory.
Q3) Which of the following refers to the vivid images people have of what they were doing at the time we first learned of some dramatic event, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the events of September 11, 2001?
A) Engrams
B) Constructive distortions
C) Flashbulb memories
D) Mnemonics
Q4) Environmental context plays a significant role in
A) neither recognition nor recall.
B) recall
C) recognition.
D) both recognition and recall.
Q5) What is the relearning method? What are its advantages and how is it used? Give an example from your life.
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Chapter 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) In the Middle Ages, people accused of being witches were often tested by being dunked in a river or pond. If they floated to the surface, they were condemned as witches, and if they sank and drowned they were posthumously acquitted. We can see that this test obviously lacks A) norms.
B) validity
C) standardization.
D) reliability.
Q2) What is the learning theory approach to language learning and what does animal research suggest about this theory?
Q3) The Remote Associates Test is used to measure A) creativity
B) problem-solving ability.
C) imaging ability.
D) concept formation.
Q4) Deep structure refers to the literal words that are written or spoken or signed. A)True
B)False
Q5) How does language in trained chimpanzees differ from human language?
Q6) What is meant by the terms reliability, validity and standardization?
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Chapter 8: Development
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Q1) Another term for a newborn child is
A) neonate
B) embryo.
C) fetus.
D) toddler.
Q2) The authoritative parenting style produces adolescents who
A) have lower self-esteem.
B) internalize moral standards
C) have below average grades.
D) are low social competence.
Q3) In Erik Erikson's theory, the struggle during adolescence is A) competence versusferiority.
B) initiative versus guilt.
C) intimacy versus isolation.
D) identity versus role confusion
Q4) Which of the following do middle-aged and older people generally not experience?
A) increasingly impaired night vision
B) Becoming more farsighted
C) Decreasedtellect
D) Hearing loss the higher frequencies
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Children whose parents place great emphasis on excellence and competition are more likely to be
A) moderate achievement motivation.
B) below average achievement motivation.
C) very low achievement motivation.
D) high achievement motivation
Q2) Stomach contractions (hunger pangs) may not be necessary in the perception of hunger because researchers found that
A) hunger is a physical process, and thus perception is notvolved.
B) people become hungry before stomach contractions start to happen.
C) humans continue to experience hunger even when they have had their stomach removed
D) hunger pangs are not real.
Q3) Lazarus contends that emotions are provoked when cognitive appraisals of events are
A) positive, or negative, or neutral.
B) in agreement with the physiological cues.
C) positive or negative, but not neutral
D) only negative.
Q4) How does Maslow's hierarchy of needs explain motivation?
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) The foot-in-the-door technique involves
A) first gaining a favourable response to a small request, then a favourable response to a larger request
B) continuing to push your request for compliance after the target person has declined to comply.
C) first having a request turned down and then asking for something less and having the smaller request accepted.
D) starting with a very attractive offer to gain compliance and then deliver less.
Q2) Which of the following is most likely to occur if people become involved in us-versus-them situation?
A) They will not like the group that they are part of.
B) They will be more likely to question their own behaviour before acting.
C) They will become more socially outgoing and develop a range of friendships.
D) They will begin to only socialize with people whom they feel a deep bond with
Q3) What might your expectations be based on in a self-filling prophecy?
Q4) Are people, as a rule, more attracted to those who are opposite or to those who are similar to them?
Q5) How did Asch explore the idea of conformity, and what did he find?
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Chapter 11: Personality Theory and Assessment
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Q1) Maxine makes excuses, finding self-deceiving justification for unacceptable ideas and impulses. This is called
A) suppression.
B) projection.
C) repression.
D) rationalization
Q2) Which of the following best describes what is meant by the term psychoanalysis?
A) It is a theory of the unconscious.
B) It is a therapy for treating psychological disorders.
C) It is both a therapy for treating psychological disorders and a theory of personality
D) It is a theory of personality.
Q3) For Hans Eysenck, each individual must be rated somewhere on his traits of extroversion and neuroticism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The role of the ego is to obey the pleasure principle.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why is Horney considered a pioneer in psychology?
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Chapter 12: Health and Stress
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Q1) Like the general adaptation syndrome, the model proposed by Lazarus emphasizes the physical response to stress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The average number of attempts made by former smokers to quit smoking before they are successful is
A) 5-6
B) 3-4
C) 1-2
D) 7-8
Q3) Whenever we are required to choose between two desirable alternatives, the conflict is called
A) an approach-avoidance conflict.
B) an approach-approach conflict
C) a double approach-avoidance conflict.
D) an avoidance-avoidance conflict.
Q4) Discuss the psychological model of stress proposed by Lazarus and Folkman.
Q5) Describe the role of social support to improved health.
Q6) What has health psychology research found that can help cancer patients?
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Q7) What three personal factors are associated with health and resistance to stress?
Chapter 13: Psychology Disorders
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Q1) What are some suggested causes of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder?
Q2) One significant contributing factor to schizophrenia appears to be that people who suffer from schizophrenia are particularly
A) invulnerable to stress.
B) sensitive to anxiety.
C) insensitive to anxiety.
D) vulnerable to stress
Q3) Identify the symptoms associated with borderline personality disorder.
Q4) The view that schizophrenia develops from both genetic predisposition and excessive stress is called
A) the dopamine activity model.
B) the causal model of schizophrenia.
C) the diathesis-stress model
D) the socio-cultural model.
Q5) Which of the following would not be categorized as a mood disorder?
A) Bipolar disorder
B) Seasonal affective disorder
C) Major depression
D) Conversion disorder
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Chapter 14: Therapies
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Q1) Five-year-old Will is terrified of dogs. During a therapy session, Will watches from a safe distance as another child approaches a dog with no ill effect. Then the child reaches out to pet the dog and finally holds the dog in her lap. Will is encouraged to engage in each step himself. The therapist is trying to treat Will's fear of dogs with A) psychodrama.
B) participant modelling
C) a token economy.
D) time out.
Q2) If a patient in psychoanalysis transfers to her analyst feelings typically expressed toward a significant person (like a mother and father), then the analysis is not likely to succeed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following types of groups is often not led by a trained, professional therapist?
A) Self-help groups
B) Psychodrama
C) Family therapy
D) Existential therapy
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