Psychology for Health Professions
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Psychology for Health Professions introduces students to the fundamental principles of psychology as they relate to health care settings. The course covers topics such as patient behavior, communication, stress management, mental health, and coping mechanisms, with a focus on understanding how psychological factors influence overall health and treatment outcomes. Students will explore the roles of perception, motivation, emotions, and cultural differences in shaping patient experiences and professional interactions. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped with essential psychological knowledge and skills to enhance their effectiveness and empathy as future health professionals.
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Psychology 6th Edition by James
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Dewayne plans to focus his studies on the unconscious determinants of behavior.His interests are most similar to which of the following:
A)Wilhelm Wundt
B)Aristotle
C)Sigmund Freud
D)William James
Answer: C
Q2) Psychologists use the term ____________________ to refer to the contents and processes of subjective experience, such as sensations, thoughts, and emotions.
Answer: mind
Q3) A functionalist would argue that to understand how memory works, you first need to know which memory processes are innate and which are modified through experience.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) B.F.Skinner became influential by advocating the ____________________ approach to psychology.
Answer: behaviorist
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Chapter 2: The Tools of Psychological Research
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Q1) Dale wants to design a good experiment and be sure there are no confounding variables.In other words, Dale wants to avoid:
A)an uncontrolled variable that changes systematically with the independent variable
B)an uncontrolled variable that changes systematically with the dependent variable
C)a controlled variable that changes systematically with the independent variable
D)a controlled variable that changes systematically with the dependent variable
Answer: A
Q2) In order to better understand the links between brain function and behavior, Dr.Vannoni carefully observed and extensively questioned two stroke victims.Based on this information, it is most likely that Dr.Vannoni was conducting:
A)correlational research
B)survey research
C)case study research
D)experimental research
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biological Processes
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Q1) In the brain, the ____________________ is a structure that is involved in the preparation, selection, and coordination of complex motor movements.
Answer: cerebellum
Q2) Cells in the nervous system that fill in empty space, remove wastes, and aid in efficient communication are called ____________________.
Answer: glial cells
Q3) Depolarization of a neuron causes:
A)the likelihood of an action potential to decrease
B)the likelihood of an action potential to increase
C)the axon hillock to become inactivated
D)a change in the intensity of the action potential
Answer: B
Q4) When released into the synapse between motor neurons and muscle cells, dopamine tends to create excitatory messages that lead to muscle contraction.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT associated with the result of high levels of androgens in adolescent boys?
A)appearance of facial hair
B)lowering of the voice
C)ability to ejaculate
D)broadening hips
Q2) A baby believes that any round object is a ball just like the one the parents bounce outside the crib.This represents one of the baby's:
A)schemata
B)accommodations
C)assimilations
D)conservations
Q3) Discuss the extent to which the stages of moral developed as proposed by Kohlberg are likely to be the same for men and women and the same across cultures.
Q4) A person is at the height of physical prowess around the age of:
A)15
B)20
C)30
D)35
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Varying a sound's arrival time at each ear will change:
A)the perceived location of the sound
B)the pitch of the sound
C)the intensity of the sound
D)the comprehension (meaning) of the sound
Q2) The amplitude of sound is measured in decibels.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The relationship that is called ____________________ states that the ability to notice a difference in the magnitude of two stimuli is a constant proportion of the size of the standard stimulus.
Q4) Discuss the key elements of the trichromatic and opponent-process theories of color vision and describe the evidence that supports each of these theories.
Q5) In each ear, there are three small fluid-filled ____________________ that are lined with hair cells similar to those found in the cochlea.
Q6) There appear to be four basic tastes: ____________________, bitter, salty, and sour.
Q7) Explain the gate-control theory of pain.
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Chapter 6: Consciousness
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Q1) The idea that dreams are bizarre in nature because they are produced by signals in the brain that are random in nature is most closely related to the:
A)Freudian theory of wish fulfillment
B)activation-synthesis hypothesis
C)memory consolidation view
D)parasomnia theory
Q2) Visual neglect is most often associated with an injury to:
A)the left temporal lobe
B)the left occipital lobe
C)the right occipital lobe
D)the right parietal lobe
Q3) Stimulants, such as Ritalin, are used to treat:
A)visual neglect
B)synesthesia
C)ADHD
D)sleep disorders
Q4) Psychologists define ____________________ as the subjective awareness of internal and external events.
Q5) When one dreams, one is usually having ____________________ or REM sleep.
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Chapter 7: Learning From Experience
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Q1) When Peter was three years old, he was clawed very badly by the neighbor's cat.Today, Peter is afraid of all small animals, including rabbits and puppies.Peter's fear of all small animals illustrates the classical conditioning process referred to as:
A)stimulus discrimination
B)stimulus generalization
C)aversive conditioning
D)conditioned inhibition
Q2) An automatic shift of attention toward novel events is referred to as:
A)habituation
B)desensitization
C)an orienting response
D)conditioned inhibition
Q3) Damon's dorm room is next door to the bathroom.At the beginning of the term, Damon found his attention captured by each flush of a toilet.His behavior is an example of:
A)sensitization
B)learning
C)an orienting response
D)habituation
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) When Ebbinghaus studied forgetting, he found that very little information is forgotten in the first few days after it is encoded.
A)True
B)False
Q2) People tend to show a(n) ____________________ effect in memory, as they tend to remember items at the ends of lists better than items in the middle of lists.
Q3) In Sperling's investigations of iconic memory, subjects in the partial report condition:
A)were asked to report only a specific portion of the display they had seen B)heard a tone that signaled which row they should report, just before the display was presented C)were asked to report as many letters as possible from the display they had seen D)typically performed much worse than subjects in the whole report condition
Q4) In describing memory, psychologists use the term ____________________ to refer to the processes that determine and control how memories are recovered and translated into performance.
Q5) Compare and contrast explicit and implicit memory.
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Chapter 9: Language and Thought
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Q1) When Emerson told his four-year-old sister that "I hit the bat that flew into the attic with my baseball bat," she was very confused and wondered how the long wooden stick that he often carries could possibly fly.When Emerson's sister is able to recognize that the word "bat" can have two different meanings, she will have made a gain in her understanding of:
A)semantics
B)phonology
C)morphology
D)syntax
Q2) Frank is 14 months old and uses only bottle, no, up, bye-bye, mama and dada when he talks.However, when the family is on their way to visit Frank's grandmother, and his mother tells Frank to get his red tiger from the bedroom and bring it with him, Frank quickly runs to get the tiger.This episode demonstrates that toddlers:
A)can understand more words than they can actually produce
B)can produce more words than they can actually understand
C)have difficulty pronouncing phonemes they have never heard
D)tend to overgeneralize irregular verbs and nouns
Q3) Describe the confirmation bias and belief persistence.In your answer, provide an illustrative example of each.
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Chapter 10: Intelligence
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Q1) The Flynn Effect is the finding that:
A)performance on IQ tests seems to be rising steadily and consistently over time
B)performance on IQ tests seems to be declining steadily and consistently over time
C)fluid intelligence declines with age while crystallized intelligence increases with age
D)IQ scores tend to remain relatively stable after the age of 7
Q2) If you wanted to measure someone's current competence in a particular subject area, you should administer an aptitude test that measures that content area.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A statistical procedure that groups together related items on tests by analyzing the correlation among test scores is:
A)analysis of variance
B)analysis of covariance
C)factor analysis
D)psychometric analysis
Q4) Spearman called the aspect of intelligence that is unique to a particular type of test:
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) The view that physiological reactions precede and drive the subjective experience of emotions is known as:
A)the James-Lange theory of emotion
B)the commonsense view of emotions
C)the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
D)the two-factor theory of emotion
Q2) According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, safety needs will not become activated until
A)physiological needs have been met:
B)esteem needs have been met
C)love and belongingness needs have been met
D)self-actualization needs have been met
Q3) Hunger and thirst are classified as:
A)incentives
B)drives
C)instincts
D)conditioned stimuli
Q4) Explain the role of comparisons people make and adaptation level in happiness.
Q5) Discuss what cross-cultural research has shown about the expression and recognition of emotions.
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Chapter 12: Personality
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Q1) Cross-cultural studies of personality traits are most commonly interpreted to support:
A)Allport's trait theory
B)Cattell's source trait approach
C)Eysenck's superfactors approach
D)The Big Five approach
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a person who scores high on the neuroticism dimension of the Big Five model of personality?
A)anxious
B)cooperative
C)insecure
D)self-conscious
Q3) The psychologist ____________________ coined the term inferiority complex, which he believed was our natural drive to overcome a sense of inadequacy and to achieve superiority.
Q4) Allport's term ____________________ refers to the less obvious characteristics of a person's personality that do not always appear in behavior.
Q5) According to Freud, the ego operates according to the ____________________.
Q6) Discuss the major contributions of Carl Jung.
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology
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Q1) Outline the three major dimensions of love that were proposed by Robert Sternberg.Discuss how these dimensions combine to produce different types of love.
Q2) Elizabeth watched 20 episodes of a new television series.She thought that every one of the episodes she saw was terrible.However, all Elizabeth's friends think that this is one of the best television series of all time.In this case, most people should make:
A)an external attribution for Elizabeth's rating of the new television series
B)an internal attribution for Elizabeth's rating of the new television series
C)a situational attribution for Elizabeth's rating of the new television series
D)an attribution error in explaining Elizabeth's rating of the new television series
Q3) Darla's first impression of her blind date will be most strongly influenced by his: A)name
B)apparent intelligence
C)first words
D)physical appearance
Q4) The term ____________________ is used to refer to the reluctance to come to the aid of a person in need when other people are present.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) The ____________________ symptoms of schizophrenia involve observable expressions of abnormal behavior, such as delusions or hallucinations
Q2) Individuals who have an exaggerated sense of entitlement and attempt to be the focus of attention may have a(n):
A)narcissistic personality disorder
B)antisocial personality disorder
C)borderline personality disorder
D)paranoid personality disorder
Q3) A person who experiences a mild form of depression lasting for a period of at least two years is likely to suffer from:
A)dysthymic disorder
B)negative schizophrenia
C)antisocial personality disorder
D)major depression
Q4) A person with ____________________ typically would restrict his or her normal activities so as to avoid public places out of fear that a panic attack will occur.
Q5) What is the DSM? Describe how it works and the types of information sought when it is used.
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Chapter 15: Therapy
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Q1) Sabeen is trying to maintain a state of deep muscle relaxation as she works through her anxiety hierarchy.This represents:
A)existential therapy
B)systematic desensitization therapy
C)psychoanalytic therapy
D)aversion therapy
Q2) Modern psychodynamic therapies differ from Freud's original psychoanalysis.One main difference is the fact that psychodynamic therapies place greater emphasis on:
A)unconscious drives related to sex and aggression
B)improving the client's interpersonal and social skills
C)understanding why transference occurs
D)the conscious motivations that underlie a particular set of symptoms
Q3) Drugs that act as dopamine antagonists work well in treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as the sharp decline in the normal expression of emotions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some potential side effects of ____________________ are confusion and memory loss.
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Chapter 16: Stress and Health
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Q1) People under high stress are more likely to get sick because stress inhibits:
A)the cardiovascular system
B)the endocrine system
C)the sympathetic nervous system
D)the immune system
Q2) Keith goes into his doctor for a blood test.Two weeks later, he returns for a follow-up blood test, and the doctor notes that Keith's lymphocyte count has increased since his earlier visit.Based on the research into the physical responses to stress, you might conclude that:
A)Keith is experiencing more stress at the time of the second blood test
B)Keith is experiencing less stress at the time of the second blood test
C)Keith is more likely to develop a physical illness within the next 2 weeks
D)Keith has a phobic reaction to medical testing that causes him to experience severe stress
Q3) The general adaptation syndrome was proposed by ____________________.
Q4) Explain the role that cognitive appraisals play in the experience of stress.Discuss the two elements that must be perceived before an individual will experience a stress reaction.
Q5) Outline different relaxation techniques that can be used to cope with stress.
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Q6) Discuss the effects of being an optimist on reactions to stressful events.
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