Psychology for Non-Majors
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Course Introduction
This course introduces the fundamental concepts, theories, and research findings of psychology to students from diverse academic backgrounds. Emphasizing the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, the course explores key topics such as learning, memory, perception, development, motivation, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and interactive activities, students will gain an appreciation for how psychological principles apply to everyday life and various professional fields. No prior knowledge of psychology is required, making this course accessible and relevant for non-majors seeking to better understand themselves and others.
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The Science of Psychology An Appreciative View 2nd Edition by Laura A. King
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Chapter 1: Science of Psychology
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Q1) A psychologist following the humanistic approach would be most interested in how
A) children learn about relationships by observing their parents' interactions.
B) people make choices that lead to positive growth.
C) drugs affect one's capability to accurately judge one's abilities.
D) the same behavior is interpreted differently by people living in different cultures.
Answer: B
Q2) Humanists believe that people can change their own fates through conscious decisions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) According to the discipline of psychology, which of the following is NOT a mental process?
A) feeling angry about your psychology instructor's grading policy
B) writing down the answer to a long division problem
C) wanting to kiss the person sitting next to you
D) deciding to ask your boss for a raise
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Psychologys Scientific Method
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Q1) A correlational study is used to determine A) cause and effect.
B) the relationship between variables.
C) the nature of the dependent and independent variables.
D) a representative population.
Answer: B
Q2) Variables are elements of research which A) can change.
B) cannot be depended upon.
C) are invalid due to fluidity.
D) remain constant.
Answer: A
Q3) A participant must give informed consent prior to taking part in an experiment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The first step of the scientific method is to formulate hypotheses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations of Behavior
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Q1) Which brain imaging technique allows scientists to actually see what is happening in the brain while it is working?
A) PET
B) fMRI
C) CT
D) lesioning
Answer: B
Q2) While both hemispheres provide many similar functions in the brain, discuss one important function attributed to each of the right and left hemisphere.
Answer: The left hemisphere is dominant in regards to language functions while the right is dominant in processing nonverbal emotional content.
Q3) ________ refers to the actual genetic material contained in every cell in the body.
A) Phenotype
B) Genotype
C) Plasma
D) Heredity
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) You stare at a bright red sign for a minute, then look away to a white wall. You see a green afterimage on the white wall. This is consistent with the finding that afterimages are usually seen in colors complementary to the colors of the original image, confirming a prediction made by the ________ theory.
A) trichromatic
B) dichromatic
C) opponent-process
D) stereochemical
Q2) When something warm touches your skin, you feel warmth. When something cold touches your skin, you feel coldness. If things both warm and cold touch your skin, stimulating adjacent thermoreceptors for warmth and cold, you will feel
A) warmth only.
B) coldness only.
C) coldness and warmth.
D) neither warmth nor coldness.
Q3) The primary function of the pupil is to bend or refract light as it passes through the eye.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: States of Conciousness
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Q1) The sleep disorder narcolepsy occurs when individuals
A) fall unexpectedly into a deep sleep in the middle of daily activities.
B) have difficulty falling asleep at the hour at which they would like.
C) wake up earlier than desired, sometimes several times a night.
D) stop breathing while they are sleeping.
Q2) When you go to check on your sleeping child, you observe that his eyes are moving back and forth rapidly under his eyelids. It is likely that he is A) in the deepest level of sleep.
B) dreaming.
C) in a hypnagogic state.
D) awakening.
Q3) Due to drug use, Juan sometimes displays higher than his usual levels of awareness while Terri sometimes displays lower than her usual levels of awareness. These conditions are best referred to as A) daydreaming.
B) automatic processes.
C) altered states of consciousness.
D) waking subconscious awareness.
Q4) Discuss the effects of sleep deprivation.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Taste aversion is an adaptive behavior. What biological constraint on learning does it help to explain?
A) instinctive drift
B) preparedness
C) insight
D) latency
Q2) Watson and Raynor conditioned Little Albert to fear a white rat. In this study, the UCS was
A) the white rat.
B) a loud noise.
C) the researchers.
D) a sealskin coat.
Q3) Shaping could be used to train a dog to do which of the following behaviors?
A) ring a doorbell
B) beg
C) bring in the paper
D) Both A and C are correct.
Q4) A CS should be a reliable predictor of the UCS.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Mike waits until the night before his big exam to start studying. He maintains that last minute cramming keeps the information fresh in his memory. What does connectionist network research tell us about the effectiveness of cramming?
A) It is very effective because the information stays in short-term memory.
B) It is very ineffective because information is not tied into related nodes.
C) It is very effective because cramming automatically places new material in the middle of the appropriate region of memory.
D) It is very ineffective because information takes longer than one night to transfer over to long-term memory.
Q2) Priming is a phenomenon that has been found to result in A) impaired explicit memories.
B) enhanced procedural memories.
C) enhanced retrieval of memories. D) impaired semantic memories.
Q3) The encoding specificity principle states that information present at the time of retrieval tends to disrupt retrieval efficiency.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT an aspect of adaptive behavior?
A) conceptual skills
B) practical skills
C) social skills
D) motor skills
Q2) Describe how an executive might involve his employees in solving a company problem using divergent and convergent thinking.
Q3) How does being in a happy mood affect thinking? What are the disadvantages and advantages of a happy mood when problem solving and making decisions?
Q4) Human beings will often reason from the specific to the general. That is, people often form general rules and concepts based on specific experiences and examples. This type of reasoning is termed
A) deductive.
B) retrospective.
C) inductive.
D) descriptive.
Q5) Most hunches are the result of lucky guesses.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) Jason is working on a problem for his science class and is systematically going over every possible outcome. Jason is in the ________ stage of cognitive development.
A) sensorimotor
B) formal operational
C) concrete operational
D) preoperational
Q2) Changes in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding principles that guide what people should do is part of ________ development.
A) metacognitive
B) cognitive
C) temperament
D) moral
Q3) If Tony only shares with his little sister because he is afraid of being punished, he is reasoning at the ________ level of moral development.
A) preconventional
B) concrete
C) preoperational
D) conventional
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Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Which of the following is most closely related to blood sugar control?
A) stomach
B) small intestine
C) insulin
D) fat cells
Q2) A professor conducts an experiment in which she asks her students to either hold a pen between their teeth or hold a pen between their lips. After five minutes, she finds that the students who held the pen between their teeth reported being happier than those who held it between their lips. These results most strongly support the
A) Schacter-Singer theory.
B) two-factor theory of emotion.
C) Cannon-Bard theory.
D) facial feedback hypothesis.
Q3) Outline Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and provide examples of how each level of motivation might be satisfied.
Q4) Drive reduction theory is related to homeostasis.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the psychological factors that contribute to obesity.
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Chapter 11: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
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Q1) The ________ theory best supports the statement: "A women should stay home and care for the children and a man should go to work to provide for them."
A) social cognitive
B) social role
C) biological
D) psychoanalytic
Q2) Little Jimmy is watching television with his parents. He notices that when a person on the television says a mean thing, his mother frowns and his father laughs. Which theory of gender development suggests that Little Jimmy might start teasing his baby sister?
A) biological
B) evolutionary
C) social cognitive
D) humanistic
Q3) Intersex conditions are now referred to as
A) hermaphroditism.
B) gender confusion.
C) disorders of sexual development.
D) transgender disorders.
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Chapter 12: Personality
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Q1) According to your textbook, ________ nearly derailed the scientific study of personality by challenging the assumption that personality traits are ________.
A) Mischel; consistent
B) Freud; consciously expressed
C) Horney; masculine
D) Bandura; inherited
Q2) Every time Antony, a 30-year-old architect, experiences hardship, he goes home to his parents to find comfort in his childhood bedroom. What defense mechanism is in play here?
A) reaction formation
B) regression
C) repression
D) displacement
Q3) Eysenck was most interested in the behavioral inhibition system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe Carl Rogers's approach to personality.
Q5) Describe some issues a person might face if they are fixated at the anal stage of Freud's psychosexual stages.
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology
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Q1) The Sherif's Robbers Cave Study provided an excellent example of the power of
A) the mere exposure effect.
B) effort justification.
C) the investment model.
D) task-oriented cooperation.
Q2) Professor Jenkins is interested in whether or not people respond differently to interview questions posed by a single person versus a group of interviewers. His area of expertise lies in ________ psychology.
A) neurological
B) cognitive
C) social
D) behavioral
Q3) If someone is very aggressive, their ________ levels may be low.
A) dopamine
B) serotonin
C) norepinephrine
D) testosterone
Q4) Define and give an example of Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory. What can be done to resolve the state of dissonance?
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Chapter 14: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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Q1) In theory, which of the following is believed to be TRUE about the different kinds of employee commitment?
A) Individuals are thought to identify primarily with one type of commitment.
B) Some individuals identify with one of these types of commitment, and others do not display any identifiable type of commitment at given times.
C) Continuance commitment is found twice as often as normative commitment, and normative commitment is found twice as often as affective commitment.
D) Individuals are believed to have a commitment profile reflecting their level of commitment on all three dimensions at any given time.
Q2) In his effort to perfect the assembly line, Henry Ford hired ________ to conduct time and motion studies.
A) Frederick Winslow Taylor
B) Frank Gilbreth
C) Elton Mayo
D) Ransom
E) Olds
Q3) Describe the four areas of emphasis of industrial psychology.
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Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following psychological disorders is the most common in the United States?
A) schizophrenia
B) panic disorder
C) bipolar disorder
D) phobic disorder
Q2) When Sandra was 18 years old, she was in a serious car accident. Although she made a full recovery from her injuries, she experienced extreme anxiety afterward. Sandra is now very anxious when driving, will not drive near the site of the accident, has nightmares about the accident, and flinches when she goes through intersections. Sandra has symptoms suggestive of
A) generalized anxiety disorder.
B) a specific phobia.
C) post-traumatic stress disorder.
D) panic disorder.
Q3) A possible behavioral explanation for depression focuses on A) mixed reinforcement.
B) harsh punishers.
C) irrational beliefs.
D) learned helplessness.
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Chapter 16: Therapies
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Q1) Josie went to a psychoanalyst but found his style too cold and uninvolved. She wanted a therapist with whom she could have more of a relationship. She switched to a Rogerian therapist. The therapeutic setting is now one of A) arousal and challenge.
B) structure and desensitization.
C) warmth and acceptance.
D) analysis and interpretation.
Q2) In family therapy, getting the family to acknowledge that the problem is a family problem and not just the problem of one individual is called A) validation.
B) reframing.
C) structural change.
D) detriangulation.
Q3) Describe the philosophy of psychoanalytic therapy.
Q4) A major advantage to group therapy is that clients
A) have more opportunity to develop social skills. B) are able to meet without the therapist.
C) learn about other psychological disorders that individuals must deal with. D) become dependent on other clients rather than the therapist.
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Chapter 17: Health Psychology
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Q1) Discuss the criticisms of the stages of change model that are provided in your text.
Q2) Describe three common methods used to quit an addictive habit like smoking.
Q3) Which of the following accurately describes the sequence of stages in the general adaptation syndrome?
A) alarm, resistance, and challenge
B) primary appraisal, alarm, secondary appraisal
C) challenge, frustration, and exhaustion
D) alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
Q4) The circumstances that threaten a person or tax his/her coping abilities are called A) mental blocks.
B) transactions.
C) emotion generators.
D) stressors.
Q5) Who is experiencing the benefits of social support?
A) Marcy is volunteering at a hospice center.
B) Chet is listening to music.
C) Ava joined a weight-watchers club.
D) Jim is reading a book.
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