Psychology 101 Test Questions
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Psychology 101 is an introductory course that explores the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Students are introduced to foundational concepts, including major theories, research methods, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning and memory, development, personality, psychological disorders, and treatment approaches. Emphasis is placed on understanding human thought, emotion, and actions, and applying psychological principles to everyday life. The course also examines critical thinking, ethical considerations in research, and contemporary issues in psychology.
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Psychology Core Concepts 7th Edition by Philip G. Zimbardo
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Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science
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Q1) ________ was an influential advocate of behaviorism.
A) Jean Piaget
B) William James
C) B. F. Skinner
D) Sigmund Freud
E) Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: C
Q2) The first step in any scientific investigation is
A) forming the hypothesis.
B) perceiving the question.
C) coming to a conclusion.
D) developing an argument.
E) identifying research participants.
Answer: A
Q3) In an experiment, which variable is controlled by the experimenter and which is measured by the experimenter?
Answer: independent variable; dependent variable
Q4) Which schools of psychology are the most and the least likely to study thoughts and mental processes?
Answer: cognitive psychology; behaviorism
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Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature
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Q1) The peripheral nervous system consists of
A) all the nerve cells that are not in the brain and spinal cord.
B) all nerves in the brain and the spinal cord.
C) the spinal cord and autonomic system.
D) the brain and the autonomic system.
E) motor neurons and sensory neurons.
Answer: A
Q2) Because the human brain is born already programmed for language, we can say that language is a(n) ________ behavioral tendency.
A) essential
B) critical
C) innate
D) somatic
E) cerebral
Answer: C
Q3) When you walk on a balance beam, which neural structure helps you maintain your equilibrium?
Answer: cerebellum
Q4) The two halves of the cerebral cortex are called the __________ .
Answer: a natural selection
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The idea that the eye contains separate receptors for red, green, and blue is known as the ______ theory.
A) opponent-process
B) additive color mixing
C) trichromatic
D) reductive color mixing
E) Gestalt
Answer: C
Q2) Top-down processing emphasizes all of the following EXCEPT
A) stimulus features.
B) experience.
C) cultural background.
D) knowledge.
E) memory.
Answer: A
Q3) Impulses from nerve cells convey odor information to __________ bulbs located just below the frontal lobes.
Answer: olfactory
Q4) The process of __________ associates meaning with incoming sensory stimuli. Answer: perception
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Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nurture
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Q1) Organisms seem to learn the spatial layout of their environment by ________, even if they are not reinforced for learning particular paths.
A) reflexive responses
B) social learning
C) exploration
D) extinction
E) discrimination
Q2) Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?
A) water
B) food
C) shelter
D) a gold star
E) air
Q3) Which strategy will NOT increase the effects of punishment?
A) making the punishment occur only on a partial, sporadic schedule
B) making the punishment consistent
C) pairing punishment of the wrong behavior with reinforcement of the
D) having the punishment immediately follow the behavior it is meant to punish
E) having the punishment include some form of physical discipline
Q4) Under what conditions is punishment effective in the control of behavior?
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Chapter 5: Memory
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Q1) You start out using Firefox, then change to Explorer because your company demands that browsers be Microsoft products. If you have trouble with Explorer, it is most likely due to
A) proactive interference
B) retroactive interference
C) anterograde interference
D) consolidation problems
E) retrograde interference
Q2) Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ______ rehearsal.
A) repetitive
B) imagery
C) elaborative
D) maintenance
E) self-referent
Q3) A cognitive understanding of memory, emphasizing how information is changed when it is encoded, stored, and retrieved is the
Q4) What are the major divisions of declarative memory?
Q5) What is the capacity of working memory?
Q6) Name and discuss the various types of long-term memories.
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Chapter 6: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Measuring intelligence by testing is a rather new concept in the history of the world. The idea of such testing came from
A) France.
B) United States.
C) United Kingdom.
D) Soviet Union.
E) Japan.
Q2) Concepts
A) can represent objects but not activities.
B) cannot be directly observed by researchers.
C) are basically the same from one person to the next.
D) interfere with our ability to organize new information.
E) come in exactly two types, visual and auditory.
Q3) Which of the following people would be considered a savant?
A) Carrie, who is mentally retarded
B) Luka, who is mentally retarded but has superb mathematical skills
C) Carter, who is gifted and does well at most tasks
D) Abby, who is gifted but has major difficulties with spelling
E) Cleo, who is of average intelligence, but is great at math and terrible at spelling
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Chapter 7: Development Over the Lifespan
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Q1) Your little brother has a big ball of clay. While he watches, you roll the ball of clay into a long snake-like shape. He begins to cry because he thinks he has less clay now. Which of Piaget's stages is your brother likely to be in?
A) sensorimotor
B) preoperational
C) formal operational
D) concrete operational
E) postformal operational
Q2) Erikson believed that you cannot move into the period of generativity until you have A) a stable marriage.
B) reached the age of 50.
C) achieved worldly-wise, adult cognitive style.
D) faced and accepted your own mortality.
E) successfully met the challenges of identity and intimacy.
Q3) Describe the four stages in Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Be sure to address the abilities and limits of each stage.
Q4) What are the basic temperament types identified by Kagan?
Q5) What are the characteristics of a preoperational child?
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Chapter 8: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Your alarm clock is set to wake you up two hours before you would normally arise. After a few days of this, you shut off your alarm clock and go to sleep. We would now expect to show
A) even less REM sleep than usual.
B) more REM sleep than usual.
C) no REM sleep.
D) the same REM sleep as usual.
E) only REM sleep.
Q2) ________ involves controlled breathing while assuming certain body positions and minimizing external stimuli.
A) Hypnosis
B) Meditation
C) Consciousness
D) Dichotic listening
E) Cataplexy
Q3) _________ is a sleep disorder featuring sudden daytime sleep attacks.
Q4) What metaphor did Freud use for consciousness?
Q5) Contrast the physiological events that occur during non-REM and REM sleep.
Q6) Why is sleep debt a problem?
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Q7) What is the first sleep stage that most people enter each night when sleeping?
Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Murray and McClelland used the ________ to identify a number of motives that are central in people's lives.
A) Rorschach inkblot test
B) PPI (Personal Priority Inventory)
C) MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
D) TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)
E) Individualism-Collectivism Scale
Q2) Which theory states that a stimulus triggers physiological changes that produce emotion?
A) Cannon-Bard theory
B) James-Lange theory
C) Schachter-Singer theory
D) the common sense view of emotions
E) Lazarus theory
Q3) Which of the following activities is inconsistent with drive-reduction theory?
A) eating food that tastes bad
B) going swimming on a hot day
C) eating when you are not hungry
D) smoking pot to relax
E) putting on a sweater when you are cold
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Chapter 10: Personality: Theories of the Whole Person
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Q1) An investigation of students' housing preferences would probably show that single rooms are preferred by _______whereas suites are preferred by _______.
A) extraverts; introverts
B) introverts; extraverts
C) good students; poor students
D) poor students; good students
E) white students; minority students
Q2) A personality that consisted of only the ego and the id would be completely
A) illogical.
B) selfless.
C) rational.
D) amoral.
E) destructive.
Q3) A serious criticism of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test is that A) it does measure intuition.
B) scores on the test are inconsistent when taken by the same person on two occasions.
C) there is little evidence that the test predicts occupational success.
D) it has strong validity.
E) B and C are
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Chapter 11: Social Psychology
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Q1) The ________ refers to the influence of a group majority on individual judgments.
A) bystander effect
B) Asch effect
C) scapegoating scenario
D) demand situation
E) cognitive dissonance error
Q2) Sally labels the driver who cuts her off in rush hour traffic an "idiot." This is an example of
A) cognitive dissonance.
B) a self-fulfilling prophecy.
C) social norm validation.
D) the fundamental attribution error.
E) prejudice.
Q3) How are proximity to others and attraction correlated?
A) not correlated
B) positively correlated
C) negatively correlated
D) inversely correlated
E) they are correlated, but only in a canonical fashion.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) The etiology of a mental disorder is another term for its A) symptoms.
B) prevention.
C) cure.
D) prevalence.
E) cause.
Q2) Which of the following supports a biological basis for schizophrenia?
A) You are not more likely to develop schizophrenia if you were mistakenly adopted at birth into a schizophrenic household.
B) Schizophrenia symptoms are alleviated by dopamine receptor blocking drugs.
C) Drugs that stimulate dopamine receptors induce schizophrenia symptoms.
D) Brain abnormalities in schizophrenic people have been found by imaging studies.
E) All of the above are
Q3) A person who bathes at least 15 times per day is displaying A) distress.
B) irrationality.
C) unpredictability.
D) observer discomfort.
E) unconventionality.
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Chapter 13: Therapies for Psychological Disorders
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Q1) ________ is a type of insight-oriented therapy.
A) Cognitive-behavioral treatment
B) Cognitive counseling
C) Transference
D) Psychoanalysis
E) Systematic desensitization
Q2) What are two of the major classes of antidepressant drugs?
A) benzodiazepines and lithium
B) MAO inhibitors and tricyclics
C) benzodiazepines and tricyclics
D) benzodiazepines and MAOIs
E) barbiturates and SSRIs
Q3) A client at a mental institution is rewarded for improved grooming habits with coupons he can exchange for special foods or weekend passes. This technique is called
A) modeling.
B) negative reinforcement.
C) a token economy.
D) systematic desensitization.
E) flooding.
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Chapter 14: From Stress to Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Roberto knew he had not tried hard enough on the final exam and deserved the lower grade. He told himself that he would definitely study harder next time. This is an example of
A) Type A personality.
B) Type B personality.
C) internal locus of control.
D) external locus of control.
E) learned helplessness.
Q2) These types of programs typically offer group sessions to trauma survivors with 72 hours of the traumatic event:
A) MMPI
B) TAT
C) CISD
D) DSM
E) OCEAN
Q3) Name three factors that are not associated with happiness.
Q4) These are efforts taken to reduce the symptoms of stress or one's awareness of them:
Q5) Explain how chronic stress can produce disease.
Q6) ________ is the physical and mental response that a person has to a stressor.
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