Psychology 101 Final
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Course Introduction
Psychology 101 is an introductory course that explores the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Students will examine key topics such as human development, learning, memory, perception, emotion, motivation, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Through lectures, discussions, and practical activities, the course provides foundational knowledge of major psychological theories, research methods, and real-world applications, fostering a deeper understanding of how individuals think, feel, and interact within their environments.
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THINK Psychology 2nd Edition by Abigail A. Baird
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) On a television talk show you see an actor describing his recent struggles with depression.He reports that his symptoms have significantly decreased since he saw a professional in Hollywood to receive a prescription for anti-depressant medication.You conclude that the actor's therapist is probably a(n)___________.
A) psychiatrist
B) social worker
C) health psychologist
D) psychometrician
Answer: A
Q2) A psychologist who adheres to the Gestalt school is staring at a banana.Which of the following statements is she most likely to make?
A) I see a long, curved, yellow object with a dark stem at one end.
B) I think that banana would really take the edge off of my hunger right now.
C) I see a banana.
D) I see a series of curved lines converging at two points, with the color yellow in between them. There is also a small "u"-shaped line connected to one conversion point for the other lines. The color brown is inside of it.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) Which type of bias or error most thoroughly explains the phenomenon of Clever Hans?
A) The placebo effect
B) The observer-expectancy effect
C) The double-blind effect
D) The subject expectancy effect
Answer: B
Q2) The most efficient way to get a large amount of data from a large number of participants is to conduct a survey.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In a formal experiment,the participants who are given no treatment or a treatment that is believed to have no effect make up the __________ group.
A) experimental
B) comparison
C) control
D) outcome
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Human Brain
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Q1) The primary motor cortex of the human brain is located in which of the cerebral lobes?
A) Frontal
B) Occipital
C) Temporal
D) Parietal
Answer: A
Q2) The human central nervous system contains which of the following structures?
A) The brain and the spinal cord
B) The cerebrum and the cerebellum
C) The limbic system and the frontal cortex
D) The amygdale and the hippocampus
Answer: A
Q3) 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 feet
B) The hands
C) The hips
D) The genitals
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Genetics and Evolution
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Q1) Some people with a particular social agenda like to suggest that there are massive genetic differences between people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.Based on your knowledge of genetics and evolution,what would be your best answer to these individuals?
A) Genetically you are correct; however, environmental influences have overcome those differences.
B) You are correct, because people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds share only about 5% of their genetic code.
C) You are wrong. Genetically, we are all very similar, with only slight differences between groups.
D) You are wrong. The only difference between human beings is gender. Otherwise, we are all genetically identical.
Q2) How much of human DNA is genetically similar to that of chimpanzees?
A) Almost none of it
B) 98-99%
C) 80%
D) 50%
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The human brain is capable of distinguishing over 700 million different color variations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If you are handed a coffee cup and instantly see it as a combination of a circle (the base),a cylinder (the sides),and a crescent (the handle),then you are demonstrating the __________ theory of perception.
A) geon-receptive
B) top-down processing
C) recognition-by-components
D) grapheme
Q3) The semicircular canals and vestibular sacs are parts of our vestibular system that help our body maintain balance.In which part of the body are these functions located?
A) The eyes
B) The nose
C) The skin
D) The ears
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Chapter 6: Consciousness
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Q1) The __________ hypnotic susceptibility scale is a measure used to assess individuals' relative degree of hypnotic ability.
A) Harvard
B) Yale
C) Stanford
D) Dartmouth
Q2) According to the theory of Sigmund Freud,there are three levels of content to every dream - the manifest content,the latent content,and the unconscious content.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dissociation and selective attention are two possible explanations for the phenomenon of __________.
A) hypnotic analgesia
B) dissociative personality disorder
C) posthypnotic suggestions
D) hypnotic regression
Q4) The average human being will have over 100,000 dreams in his or her lifetime. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Learning
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Q1) When two stimuli are associated to produce a reflexive response in an organism,that animal (or person)has demonstrated __________ conditioning.
A) classical
B) aversive
C) operant
D) associative
Q2) Human beings are generally prewired to have a dislike of bitter flavors,because evolutionary theory suggests that many naturally growing poisonous substances have an initial bitter flavor.This is an example of taste-__________ learning.
A) affected
B) disdain
C) disgust
D) aversion
Q3) If a child's parents refuse to give him what he asks for until he uses "the magic word," they are
teaching him that "please" is a discriminative stimulus.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Which part of the brain is most likely to be injured in a person suffering from anterograde amnesia?
A) The putamen
B) The hippocampus
C) The frontal lobe
D) The amygdala
Q2) If My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas,then I am probably familiar with the use of __________.
A) rote rehearsal
B) elaboration
C) flashbulb memories
D) mnemonics
Q3) The process of encoding,storage,and retrieval is known as the __________-processing model of memory.
A) stimulus
B) information
C) interactive
D) attentive
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Chapter 9: Cognition and Intelligence
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Q1) The __________ bias describes the effect that occurs when a person's existing ways of thinking distort his or her logical decisions.
A) hindsight
B) representative
C) heuristic
D) belief
Q2) Which of the following cognitive skills has not been found to contribute to high IQ scores
A) quick information processing speeds
B) high capacity of working memory
C) better skill at regulating emotions
D) mental self-monitoring
Q3) The __________ state refers to a problem-solving condition in which a person has incomplete or unsatisfactory information.
A) initial
B) boggled
C) inadequate
D) misinformed
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Chapter 10: Human Development I: Physical, Cognitive, and Language Development
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Q1) Which of the following is true with regard to the order of development of motor skills?
A) Babies develop motor skills based on what they see, so it is largely a function of imitation.
B) Babies develop motor skills in very unique sequences, so there is no "order" of skills that is considered typical.
C) Motor development in babies has two predictable paths - one for sighted children and one for blind children.
D) Motor development tends to occur in a universal sequence and thus specific skills predictably develop before other skills.
Q2) Charmaine is interested in going to graduate school to gain expertise into the way in which people experience physical,cognitive,and social changes over the course of their lives.The type of program that Charmaine should be applying to is __________ psychology.
A) developmental
B) child
C) social
D) ecological
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Chapter 11: Sex and Gender
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Q1) The average woman has ____% more fat and ____% less muscle than the average man.
A) 50; 25
B) 20; 10
C) 70; 40
D) 80; 10
Q2) During autopsies,the striate cortex of homosexual individuals has been found to be much smaller than those of heterosexual individuals,providing solid evidence that sexual orientation has a biological cause.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Gender is determined by the particular chromosome type a person has,as well as the particular genitals with which they are born.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Human Development II: Social Development
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Q1) In their research into the function of memory in younger,middle aged,and older adults,Cartensen and her colleagues found that older adults:
A) actually have much better memories of life experiences than do younger adults.
B) selectively remembered positive events while forgetting negative ones.
C) were less able to remember their own experiences, but were more able to remember skills.
D) showed no sign of memory impairment unless there was an identifiable organic/physical cause.
Q2) Generally speaking,when do cliques tend to break down?
A) by early adulthood
B) when puberty occurs
C) by the time we graduate from high school
D) by mid-adolescence
Q3) The United States of America has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the Western world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) When researchers removed the amygdalae and parts of the temporal lobes from the brains of monkeys,those monkeys developed __________ blindness,which refers to the fact that they would not approach objects that would ordinarily frighten them.
A) terror
B) psychic
C) affective
D) emotional
Q2) The highest level of needs according to Maslow's hierarchy is self-actualization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the relationship between the terms "mood" and "emotion?"
A) A mood is part of an emotion, but an emotion is not part of a mood.
B) An emotion is a response to a specific stimulus, while a mood is a more general free-floating feeling that does not relate directly to a stimulus.
C) An emotion is part of a mood, but a mood is not a part of an emotion.
D) A mood has an affective component, while an emotion has an expressive and a physiological component.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) The systematic destruction of one group by another is called __________.
A) fratricide
B) patricide
C) homicide
D) genocide
Q2) People who are highly motivated and very able to understand a persuasive message are likely to be persuaded through the central route,while people who are not tend to be persuaded through the peripheral route.This is the main concept of the ____________ model.
A) Pygmalion
B) foot-in-the-door
C) persuasion paradigm
D) elaboration likelihood
Q3) In and of themselves,stereotypes are always dangerous and destructive.
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) Eustress is a low-level,positive stress that helps a person perform at a high level or achieve a goal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research has shown that acute stress is usually a reaction to an internal event,while chronic stress is usually a reaction to an external event.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is one of the three stages of the general adaptation syndrome?
A) sensorimotor
B) interpretation
C) exhaustion
D) stabilization
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) Which theorist proposed that the level of control we believe we have over the world around us influences our personality?
A) Dan McAdams
B) Abraham Maslow
C) Alfred Adler
D) Julian Rotter
Q2) A(n)__________ is a particular image,such as mother as caretaker and nurturer,that is persistent across time and cultures.
A) reacted formation
B) afterimage
C) archetype
D) icon
Q3) Which of the following pairs of concepts from different theories are the most similar?
A) Self-efficacy and locus of control
B) Learned helpless and defense mechanisms
C) The id, ego, and superego and the collective unconscious
D) The self-concept and the reaction formation
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Chapter 17: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which dietary supplement may help relieve the symptoms of major depression?
A) Cod Liver oil
B) Black cohash
C) Echinacea
D) Omega-3 fatty acids
Q2) Sudden,unexplained blindness,deafness,paralysis,or numbness in a specific body part is a symptom of __________ disorder.
A) conversion
B) dissociative identity
C) somatization
D) schizotypal personality
Q3) A sense of powerlessness underlies the theory of learned helplessness and its contribution to the symptoms of depression.This theory was researched and explained by __________.
A) Martin Seligman
B) Aaron Beck
C) Paul Glasser
D) Fritz Perls
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Chapter 18: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) __________ is a psychoanalytic technique in which the therapist encourages the client to relax his or her mind and,starting from a recent experience,memory,or dream,report every image or idea that enters awareness,refraining from logic or self-editing.
A) Dream analysis
B) Interpretation of transference
C) Free association
D) Interpretation of resistance
Q2) Which of the following neurotransmitters is not affected by the newest "atypical antidepressant" medications?
A) Serotonin
B) Acetylcholine
C) Norepinephrine
D) Dopamine
Q3) What would be the primary type of setting where you would find a counselor working?
A) In a private practice
B) In a hospital
C) In a school or institutional setting
D) In a medical practice
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