Psychology for Social Scientists Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Psychology for Social Scientists offers an essential introduction to psychological theories, research methods, and key concepts relevant to the social sciences. The course explores how individual and group behaviors, motivations, and perceptions influence society and social structures. Students will examine topics such as cognition, emotion, attitude formation, social influence, identity, group dynamics, and decision-making through a psychological lens. By integrating foundational psychology with applications in fields like sociology, political science, and economics, the course equips students with analytical tools to better understand social phenomena and interpret human behavior in a variety of social contexts.
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Psychological Science 5th Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Dr.Lin studies obesity.She believes that the likelihood of obesity is related to levels of the trait of agreeableness.In which subfield is Dr.Lin most likely to work?
A) personality psychology
B) social psychology
C) counseling psychology
D) developmental psychology
Answer: A
Q2) Paul researches how cooperation in humans increases our ability to survive and successfully raise children.Paul uses a(n)________ approach in his research.
A) structuralist
B) functionalist
C) evolutionary
D) cognitive
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) A psychologist wants to create two groups that are as similar as possible at the beginning of an experiment.To do this,he or she should use:
A) random sampling.
B) random assignment.
C) self-report methods.
D) participant observation.
Answer: B
Q2) The range and standard deviation are examples of:
A) inferential statistics.
B) measures of central tendency.
C) types of variability.
D) correlational measures.
Answer: C
Q3) How are a theory and a hypothesis different?
A) A hypothesis is more specific than a theory.
B) A hypothesis and a theory are the same thing.
C) A theory can only be used for one study while a hypothesis can be used for several.
D) A theory is unchanging while a hypothesis can be altered.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Biology and Behavior
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Q1) Interneurons communicate:
A) within local or short distance circuits.
B) directly on muscles.
C) directly on sensory organs.
D) with glial cells.
Answer: A
Q2) The gland that controls the release of hormones in the endocrine system is the:
A) pineal.
B) thyroid.
C) pituitary.
D) adrenal.
Answer: C
Q3) The process by which chromosomes duplicate and the cell divides into new cells with identical chromosome structure is called:
A) fertilization.
B) cell division.
C) mutation.
D) conception.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) Which of the following individuals is most likely to be hypnotized easily?
A) Suzanne,who scores high on the suggestibility screening test
B) Mark,who scores low on the suggestibility screening test
C) Ann,who is easily distracted
D) Chen,who shows low imaginative skills
Q2) Sean,who is 18 years old,complains that he never dreams.He asks if this could be possible.Based on what you know about dream behavior,you are likely to:
A) agree with him because you do not dream either.
B) disagree with him because he is 18 and everyone can dream after the age of 12.
C) disagree with him because we all have dreams unless we have a specific brain injury or are on a certain kind of medication.
D) agree with him because not everyone has dreams in REM sleep.
Q3) The processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness is referred to as:
A) the smart unconscious.
B) subliminal perception.
C) split brain.
D) drifting off.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) After being in a car crash,Yuri has the selective inability to recognize faces.He is most likely suffering from ________ due to damage to his ________.
A) agnosia; primary visual cortex
B) agnosia; fusiform gyrus
C) prosopagnosia; primary visual cortex
D) prosopagnosia; fusiform gyrus
Q2) Which subfield of psychology studies the relationship between physical stimuli and the psychological experiences they produce?
A) psychophysiology
B) behavioral genetics
C) behavioral neuroscience
D) psychophysics
Q3) The major problem to be explained in depth perception is that:
A) the environment contains too few depth cues.
B) there are no receptor cells that are selective for depth.
C) there are no cells in the primary visual cortex that are selective for depth.
D) the retina input is two-dimensional.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) According to classical-conditioning theory,phobias develop as the result of:
A) cultural learning.
B) biological preparedness.
C) specification of a fear experience.
D) generalization of a fear experience.
Q2) The best definition of learning is that learning:
A) results entirely from maturation rather than experience.
B) must result in adaptation of behavior,but does not have to be enduring.
C) always results in adaptations in behavior.
D) is relatively enduring and results from experience.
Q3) Token economies are an example of the ways mental health hospitals and other training centers use:
A) shaping.
B) primary reinforcement.
C) continuous reinforcement.
D) secondary reinforcement.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) On the bus last week,Kyohei heard two women talking about someone named Enisa for the entire 30 minutes of the trip.Today,the woman sitting next to Kyohei in class told her friend that Enisa was coming.Kyohei assumed that Enisa was someone famous and wondered why she did not know her.Kyohei is experiencing the:
A) misinformation effect.
B) repetition priming effect.
C) false-fame effect.
D) source attribution effect.
Q2) According to levels of processing theory,information that is encoded more deeply is remembered better than information that is encoded less deeply,because information encoded more deeply:
A) has greater rehearsal.
B) is stored longer in short-term memory storage.
C) is more meaningful.
D) is entered into long-term memory more logically.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the following words would be taught in the same way in both phonics instruction and whole language approaches?
A) cat,hat
B) bear,bare
C) a,I
D) who,how
Q2) What is the paradox of choice?
A) Not having any choices is what makes us happiest.
B) Having a lot of choices makes us happy.
C) Having unlimited choices makes us happiest.
D) Having some choice is better than none,but too many choices can make us unhappy.
Q3) Extremely successful surgeons are likely to possess an abundance of what type of Gardner's multiple intelligences?
A) verbal and logical/mathematical
B) spatial and kinesthetic
C) spatial and interpersonal
D) logical/mathematical and interpersonal
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) What makes it difficult to interpret the research on the link between marriage and happiness?
A) Much of the research is correlational and also involves indirect links between marriage and happiness.
B) Being married automatically puts people at risk for health problems which make people unhappy.
C) Husbands and wives serve as social support for each other,which can be draining and actually make you less happy.
D) There are confounding features,like the fact that many surveys take place right after people get married and are still in the "honeymoon period."
Q2) Approximately what percentage of children develops what Ainsworth called an insecure attachment style?
A) 5 percent
B) 15 percent
C) 35 percent
D) 65 percent
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Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Many college students spend a year studying in another country.The country where they are studying will often have different attitudes and practices concerning sex.A female student's sexuality is likely to be ________.A male student's sexuality is likely to be ________.
A) changed by any other culture; unchanged by any other culture
B) unchanged by any other culture; changed by any other culture
C) changed by a more conservative culture; changed by a less conservative culture
D) changed by a less conservative culture; changed by a less conservative culture
Q2) Blythe had a large and late breakfast.Even though she was planning to skip lunch,she starts to feel hungry at noon and decides to eat.The best explanation for Blythe's hunger at lunchtime and subsequent decision to eat would come from:
A) classical conditioning.
B) poor self-regulation.
C) homeostatic adjustment.
D) low self-efficacy.
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Chapter 11: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Who is most likely at risk for heart disease?
A) Hannah,who has a Type A personality
B) Bob,who has a Type A personality
C) Jennifer,who has a Type B personality
D) Wilkinson,who has a Type B personality
Q2) Which of the following states is NOT characterized as one of the three components of happiness?
A) being acknowledged by others as a successful person
B) having meaning in life
C) having positive emotions and pleasure
D) being engaged in life
Q3) Assume that a negative event has occurred in your life.Under which of the following conditions is it likely to be most stressful?
A) It occurred just after a positive event.
B) It was just like an event you had experienced a year earlier.
C) It was unexpected.
D) You are female,not male.
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Christi will be starting college in the fall.She is filling out the questionnaire that will be used to match roommates.To maximize the probability that she and her roommate will become friends,Christi ought to:
A) focus on her political viewpoints.
B) be clear about the things that she does not like in others.
C) describe her own looks very accurately.
D) describe her interests and personality as specifically as possible.
Q2) A group of microbiology students has been working on a semester-long project that will determine 50 percent of the students' course grades.A week before the project is due,the students realize they have made a critical error and their results are useless.One member of the group argues strongly that they should falsify their results so they will be able to turn in a successful project.Though all the other members have doubts,none of them feels comfortable saying so.All the members ignore the possibility of being caught and convince themselves to falsify the report.This scenario is an example of:
A) bystander effect.
B) social facilitation.
C) social loafing.
D) groupthink.
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) What is the difference between temperaments and personality traits?
A) Traits are broader than temperaments.
B) Temperaments are broader than traits.
C) There is no difference; traits and temperaments are essentially identical.
D) It depends on the groups one is investigating.
Q2) Idiographic approaches to the assessment of personality focus on:
A) individuals.
B) comparisons across people.
C) ratings made by others rather than self-reports.
D) ratings from different cultures.
Q3) Studies of the relationship between infant temperament and adult personalities show:
A) lack of a reliable and valid relationship between the two.
B) that infant temperament can predict aspects of adult personality.
C) that positive but not negative social behaviors can be predicted by early temperament.
D) that children classified as inhibited at age 3 were likely to be outgoing by young adulthood.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) What brain region is damaged when a person experiences chronic stress,as with some anxiety disorders?
A) the cerebellum
B) the hippocampus
C) the amygdala
D) the prefrontal cortex
Q2) Which of the following experiences is NOT a symptom of a panic attack?
A) sweating
B) high heart rate
C) feelings of going crazy or dying
D) irresistible fatigue
Q3) Which of the following disorders involves a lack of meaningful social contact with other people?
A) attention-deficit/hyperactivity
B) generalized anxiety
C) autism spectrum
D) borderline personality
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) When you go to your therapist in an attempt to overcome your fear of heights,she asks you to lie on a couch and relax while you imagine slowly climbing up the steps of a ladder.She is using:
A) hypnotherapy.
B) creative visualization therapy.
C) flooding technique.
D) systematic desensitization.
Q2) One of the limits of biological therapies in treating mental disorders is that:
A) such treatment may require long-term intervention.
B) almost all psychotropic drugs are habit forming.
C) they are more expensive than other forms of therapy.
D) they cannot be used with children.
Q3) Based on research presented in the text,which of the following young patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is likely to have the best treatment outcome after three years?
A) Randy,who is taking Ritalin
B) John,who is receiving weekly individual counseling sessions
C) Hamid,who is receiving daily academic tutoring and cognitive therapy
D) Soren,who is receiving intensive behavioral therapy
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