Psychology for Health Professions
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Course Introduction
Psychology for Health Professions offers an essential overview of psychological principles and their application within healthcare settings. This course explores how human behavior, mental processes, and emotional factors impact health, illness, and medical treatment. Students will examine topics such as stress and coping, patient-provider communication, health behavior change, psychological responses to illness, and the role of culture and diversity in healthcare. Through case studies, discussions, and applied exercises, future health professionals will develop skills to enhance patient care, foster effective therapeutic relationships, and promote overall well-being in diverse patient populations.
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Introducing Psychology Brain Person Group 4th Edition by Stephen M. Kosslyn
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology:
History and Research Methods
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Q1) Why was the perspective followed by Wilhelm Wundt and his followers called structuralism?
A) They wanted to identify the major brain structures.
B) Their primary goal was to understand the physiology of the mind.
C) They focused their efforts on analyzing the elements of the nervous system.
D) Their primary focus was on describing the structure of conscious experience.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following questions could be answered best by using the survey method?
A) What is the effect of ingesting alcohol on problem-solving ability?
B) Does wall color affect the frequency of violence in prison populations?
C) Do students prefer a grading system with or without pluses and minuses?
D) What is the relationship between number of hours of study per week and grade point average?
Answer: C
Q3) List the three levels of analysis.
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Q4) What is the key idea of Freud's psychodynamic theory?
Answer: Behavior is driven by a collection of unconscious mental processes.
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
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Q1) Jennifer has been diagnosed with spinocerebellar degeneration. The first stage of the disease involves tremors and unsteady gate. In the later stages, she will be unable to stand or walk and will be uncoordinated in her movements. This disease affects the ______.
A) hippocampus
B) amygdala
C) cerebellum
D) hypothalamus
Answer: C
Q2) The two halves of the brain are connected by the ________.
A) cerebral hemisphere
B) sulcus
C) corpus callosum
D) cerebral cortex
Answer: C
Q3) Briefly compare and contrast MRI with fMRI.
Answer: Both are neuroimaging techniques. MRI reveals information pertaining to the structure of the brain, whereas an fMRI reveals information pertaining to the function of the brain.
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
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Q1) A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight, even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight. This form of perceptual constancy is called _________.
A) size constancy
B) shape constancy
C) color constancy
D) relative constancy
Answer: C
Q2) Receptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision and visual clarity are ______.
A) bipolar cells
B) ganglion cells
C) rods
D) cones
Answer: D
Q3) Bottom-up processing operates like a row of standing dominoes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US
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Q1) Some researchers believe that classical conditioning takes place only because
A) the pairing of the CS and US doesn't provide useful information about the likelihood of occurrence of the US
B) the pairing of the CS and UR provides useful information about the likelihood of occurrence of the CS
C) the pairing of the CS and US provides useful information about the likelihood of occurrence of the US
D) the pairing of the US and UR provides information about the likelihood of occurrence of the US
Q2) The abbreviation CS stands for _____________.
A) conditioned stimulus
B) correlated stimulus
C) conventional structure
D) conditional situation
Q3) The Law of Effect emphasized that responses were more likely to be made if they were followed by some pleasing consequence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday
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Q1) In humans, the effects of stress on the hippocampus ________.
A) are permanent
B) can be reversed
C) can be stopped, but not reversed, if the environment changes D) are minimal
Q2) Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!). Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Janie is walking down the stairs, all of a sudden, she remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Janie had a problem with _______________.
A) encoding
B) storage
C) retrieval
D) evaluation
Q3) Miller argued that STM could hold ________ chunks at once.
A) 2
B) 4
C) 7
D) from 5 to 9
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Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What
Humans Do Best
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Q1) The two most common forms of mental retardation are ________.
A) alcohol related
B) genetically related
C) environmental
D) fragile X syndrome and fetal alcohol syndrome
Q2) Sally is enrolled in a high school geometry course, which she describes as "drawing figures and figuring drawings." In a typical class, students draw geometric figures and use a formula to calculate an aspect of the figure such as its area. Each time Sally uses a formula she is making use of what psychologists call ___________.
A) heuristics
B) logarithms
C) algorithms
D) convergence
Q3) Research on the genetic effects on intelligence has found that ________.
A) there are one or two specific intelligence genes
B) genes have little if any effect on intelligence
C) the environment plays the only role
D) multiple genes contribute to intelligence
Q4) What four basic elements are required of a "true" language?
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Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
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Q1) What is the correct sequence of events in emotional response according to the Cannon-Bard theory?
A) stimulus --> emotion --> physiological changes
B) stimulus --> physiological changes --> emotion
C) physiological changes --> stimulus --> emotion
D) stimulus --> emotion AND physiological changes (simultaneous)
Q2) According to Ekman, ________ would not be considered a basic emotion.
A) guilt
B) anger
C) disgust
D) surprise
Q3) Seeing a snake, and then simultaneously running away from it and becoming frightened, is the sequence of events postulated by ______ theory.
A) Plutchik's
B) the James-Lange
C) the Cannon-Bard theory
D) Schachter and Singer's
Q4) What does your text suggest about differences between Japanese and Westerners and their expression of emotions?
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Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Différence
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Q1) Gary was rude to his mother and feels very bad about it. For the rest of the day, he went out of his way to be kind, not only to his mother, but to everyone he encountered. Which defense mechanism is Gary using?
A) denial
B) sublimation
C) intellectualization
D) undoing
Q2) Which of the following is one of the dimensions of personality associated with Hans Eysenck?
A) psychoticism
B) agreeableness
C) impulsivity
D) emotionality
Q3) What is one criticism of projective tests?
A) They are inappropriate for use with children.
B) They are too simple in their administration and scoring.
C) They have low validity and reliability.
D) They fail to take into account differences in the testing environments.
Q4) The biggest complaints against projective tests are issues of ________ and
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Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up,
Growing Older, Growing Wiser
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Q1) Which of the following is a disadvantage of the longitudinal design?
A) Individuals of different ages are being compared to one another.
B) It is relatively inexpensive.
C) It takes a shorter amount of time than a cross-sectional design.
D) Participants may become familiar with the repeated testing and this may influence later performance.
Q2) Erik Erikson's stages of ________ development consider the effects of maturation and learning on personality and relationships.
A) sociocultural
B) sociocognitive
C) psychosexual
D) psychosocial
Q3) The assumption that we are born with a proclivity to develop and use language is known as __________.
A) nativism
B) the behavioral approach
C) the phonemic approach
D) the interactionist approach
Q4) Describe human development during the first trimester.
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Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life
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Q1) If Frank is "freebasing," then he is using ________.
A) MDMA
B) heroin
C) crack
D) LSD
Q2) During which phase of cognitive appraisal are resources available to deal with the stressors assessed?
A) coping
B) primary appraisal
C) secondary appraisal
D) tertiary appraisal
Q3) How precisely does social support provide the buffer against stress?
Q4) What is the relationship between self-esteem and aggression?
Q5) There is evidence that dreaming stops completely if there is damage ________.
A) to the amygdala
B) that disconnects parts of the frontal cortex from the brainstem and limbic system
C) that disconnects the frontal cortex from the hippocampus
D) to the medulla
Q6) List the main purposes of sleep as laid out by your authors.
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Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More Than Everyday Problems
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Q1) Define psychological disorder.
Q2) How are bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder similar?
Q3) Dr. Nwoambi is a psychologist who is currently evaluating a new client. Dr. Nwoambi would most likely refer to the _________ to assist her in diagnosing her client's psychological disorder.
A) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
B) Physician's Desk Reference
C) Textbook of Psychological Disorders
D) Textbook of Physiological Disorders
Q4) Over the past fifty years, many Americans have shifted their view of the "ideal" female figure to being rail-thin; this shift highlights the importance of ________.
A) family influence
B) genetics
C) culture
D) personality traits
Q5) The average age of onset for schizophrenia is 35.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the three components used to define a psychological disorder?
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Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
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Q1) Elyn was recently treated with electroconvulsive therapy. She is mostly likely experiencing which psychological disorder?
A) a personality disorder
B) dissociative identity disorder
C) depression
D) anxiety disorder
Q2) REBT uses the ABCDEF approach.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A therapist is interested in helping her client get a clearer understanding of his motives and actions. This therapist is most likely to be a/an ____________.
A) action therapist
B) insight therapist
C) biomedical therapist
D) relationship therapist
Q4) Behavioral techniques are based on classical conditioning and operant conditioning principles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
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Q1) State and briefly define three common attributional biases.
Q2) In Festinger and Carlsmith's (1959) famous study on cognitive dissonance, participants who received $20 (versus $1) enjoyed the study more.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The tendency of people to comply with a second, lesser request after refusing a larger one is called the ______ technique.
A) lowball
B) door-in-the-face
C) foot-in-the-door
D) bait-and-switch
Q4) Collectivist cultures seem to be more conducive to conformity than individualistic cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to Darley and Latané, the main factor causing people to refrain from helping is not wanting to get involved.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Statistics Part B : How to Think About Research Studies
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Q1) Students in Dr. Friedlander's class got the following scores on their first test: 75, 77, 87, 63, 93, 77, 72, 80, 57, 68, 76. What is the median?
A) 77
B) 75
C) 36
D) 76
Q2) Your text authors suggest that the QALMRI method can serve the practical purpose(s) of ________.
A) quickly solving statistical related questions
B) determining the validity of a study only
C) understanding the meaning of a research study only
D) understanding the meaning of a research study and for reporting your own research
Q3) Psychologists want to make judgments and decisions about the data and variables. This is the role of __________.
A) descriptive statistics
B) inferential statistics
C) univariate statistics
D) multivariate statistics
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