Psychology I Exam Review
Course Introduction
Psychology I introduces students to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course covers foundational concepts such as history and approaches of psychology, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning, memory, and development across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on understanding research methods, ethical considerations, and how psychological principles apply to everyday life. Through lectures, discussions, and practical activities, students gain a comprehensive overview of the field and develop critical thinking skills for analyzing human thought and behavior.
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Psychology Themes and Variations 5th Canadian Edition by Wayne Weiten
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Chapter 1: A: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Which term refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge
A) introspection
B) application
C) empiricism
D) cognition
Answer: D
Q2) What is the term used by William James to describe a continuous flow of thoughts
A) phenomenological flow
B) stream of consciousness
C) transcendental meditation
D) existential awareness
Answer: B
Q3) According to your text,what is psychology
A) a school of thought and an occupation
B) a science and a profession
C) a theory and an academic discipline
D) a cognitive process and a philosophy
Answer: B
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Chapter 1: B: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) Which statement reflects psychology's view of behaviour
A) It has an objective cause.
B) It has a single cause.
C) It has subjective causes.
D) It has multiple causes.
Answer: D
Q2) What is NOT a major area of specialization in research psychology
A) industrial/organizational psychology
B) social psychology
C) personality psychology
D) psychometrics
Answer: A
Q3) Where was the first psychology course offered at a Canadian university in 1838
A) Saint Mary's University
B) Dalhousie University
C) Western University
D) McGill University
Answer: B
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Chapter 1: C: The Evolution of Psychology
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Q1) When looking at his results,Castiel notices that a large majority of his participants responded that they generally enjoy watching horror movies.The distribution of these participants in terms of their enjoyment of horror movies would be a
A)symmetrical distribution
B)positively skewed distribution
C)negatively skewed distribution
D)a skewed distribution,but we can't tell whether it's positively or negatively skewed unless we see the graph
Answer: C
Q2) Which is the control group in the study
A)Participants who watched the violent video.
B)Participants who watched the kitten video.
C)Participants who watched the violent video and had low violent tendency scores.
D)Participants who watched the kitty video and had low violent tendency scores.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: A: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
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Q1) What is the independent variable in this study
A) satisfaction of individual group members
B) efficiency, as measured by speed of decision making
C) group size
D) comparing multiple groups
Q2) Dr.Voegeli is testing the effects of a new diet supplement on the endurance levels of several groups of athletes.One group receives 50 ml per day of the supplement.A second group receives 50 ml per day of a substance that has no active component but looks and tastes just like the supplement.A third group receives nothing at all.In this case,what would we call the second group
A) the experimental group
B) the comparison group
C) the control group
D) the placebo control group
Q3) Which type of study did Dr.Amalie's research team conduct
A) experiment
B) double-blind procedure
C) case study
D) naturalistic observation
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Chapter 2: B: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
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Q1) What do descriptive and correlational research methods allow researchers to do
A) exert precise control over the variables being studied
B) draw conclusions concerning cause-and-effect relationships
C) manipulate several variables at the same time
D) examine whether there is an association between variables being studied
Q2) Dr.McDougall is a researcher who measures blood alcohol level to determine intoxication.In this example,how is "blood alcohol level" being used
A) as a hypothetical variable
B) as an independent variable
C) as an operational definition
D) as a covariant
Q3) Jarrod explains his opinion against buying a certain model of car by noting that even though the model is popular and highly rated by numerous organizations,his cousin has that model and has had a lot of problems.How is Jarrod making his decision
A) He is basing his opinion on anecdotal evidence.
B) He is basing his opinion on first-hand information.
C) He is using the evidence-based decision-making procedure.
D) He is using critical thinking skills to reach an opinion.
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Chapter 3: A: The Biological Bases of Behaviour
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Q1) Which gland secretes hormones associated with the development of secondary sex characteristics
A) pineal
B) pancreas
C) thyroid
D) gonad
Q2) For which technique would the patient be required to consume radioactive chemicals
A) magnetic resonance imaging
B) positron emission tomography
C) electroencephalography
D) computerized tomography
Q3) What is the typical speed of an action potential
A) at least 600 kilometres/hour
B) up to 1000 times per second
C) approximately the speed of light (300,000 kilometres/second)
D) approximately the speed of sound (1236 kilometres/hour)
Q4) Compare and contrast lesioning and electrical stimulation of the brain.
Q5) Choose a specific neurotransmitter or class of neurotransmitters and discuss its impact on behaviour.
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Chapter 3: B: The Biological Bases of Behaviour
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Q1) The long necks of giraffes and sharp beaks of woodpeckers allow access to food.Which term is used for these physical characteristics
A) adaptations
B) fitness
C) natural selection
D) genotype
Q2) As a result of receiving neurotransmitters,the voltage of a postsynaptic receptor has become more negative.What will be the result of this change
A) The presynaptic neuron is less likely to fire again.
B) The presynaptic neuron is more likely to fire again.
C) The postsynaptic neuron is less likely to fire.
D) The postsynaptic neuron is more likely to fire.
Q3) What happens to a neuron's electrical charge as it is stimulated by an excitatory neurotransmitter and starts to receive information
A) It immediately becomes positive.
B) It becomes more negative.
C) It becomes less negative and may become positive.
D) It immediately affects the next neuron.
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Chapter 3: C: The Biological Basis of Behaviour
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Q1) Have you ever waved at someone you thought was your friend,but it turned out to be a total stranger Diana never embarrasses herself like that anymore.According to signal detection theory,she now has a 100% _____ rate when it comes to recognizing faces at a distance,whereas in the past,she had an embarrassing number of _________ without her glasses on.
A) hit; false alarms
B) hit; misses
C) success; false alarms
D) success; misses
Q2) Sandy's roommate,Stella,is most likely to have read a book about consciousness based on the work of ______________.
A)Sigmund Freud
B)William James
C)B.F.Skinner
D)Carl Rogers
Q3) Which part of Mirna's endocrine system was activated during the incident
A) Her ovaries
B) Her pancreas
C) Her adrenal glands
D) Her thyroid gland
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Chapter 4: A: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Zachary is looking at a reversible figure that first appears to be a vase and then appears to be two faces.His perception of the figure keeps switching between these two interpretations.What causes the switch in perception
A) The Gestalt principle of simplicity doesn't work for reversible figures.
B) The figure-ground distinction in reversible figures is often ambiguous.
C) The Gestalt principles of proximity and closure are both at work in reversible figures.
D) Reversible figures cause people to experience the phi phenomenon.
Q2) When Celeste was playing her stereo at 40 decibels and she turned it up to 42 decibels,she could notice that it was louder.If Celeste's stereo were playing at 80 decibels,what should her just noticeable difference be
A) 1 decibel, half as much as it was at 40 decibels
B) 2 decibels, the same as it was at 40 decibels
C) 3 decibels, 50 percent more than it was at 40 decibels
D) 4 decibels, twice as much as it was at 40 decibels
Q3) Using appropriate examples,show how perceptual experiences can be subjective.
Q4) Provide an overview of the trichromatic and opponent process theories of colour vision.Resolve the "debate" between the two.
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Chapter 4: B: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which structure of the eye changes size to help regulate the amount of light entering the inner areas of the eye
A) retina
B) pupil
C) lens
D) cornea
Q2) If Bill has grapheme-colour synesthesia,what would Bill experience
A) colour blindness
B) letters or digits in different colours
C) blurring of colours
D) hearing sounds as colours
Q3) If two sounds vary in frequency,what will be the nature of the perceptual difference
A) loudness
B) timbre
C) decibels
D) pitch
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Chapter 5: A: Variations in Consciousness
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Q1) Hailey recently began meditating on a regular basis.What should Hailey expect to experience in the short term
A) an elimination of fatigue
B) an alteration in her consciousness similar to taking sedative drugs
C) an increase in relaxation and a decrease in autonomic arousal
D) a sense of euphoria similar to that experienced when taking opiate drugs
Q2) Bill has had many dreams in which he has fallen off a cliff,but he has always awakened before hitting the bottom.He has become an insomniac because of his fear that if he ever hits the bottom,he will die.What would you tell Bill
A) He simply needs to train himself to wake up whenever he has a falling dream.
B) He should be afraid because shocking dreams are often fatal.
C) His belief has no substance and is merely a myth.
D) He should take sleeping pills to repress REM sleep so that he will not dream.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT associated with REM sleep
A) irregular breathing
B) sleep spindles
C) heightened muscle tension
D) dreaming
Q4) Compare and contrast the "role-playing" and "altered state" views of hypnosis.
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Chapter 5: B: Variations in Consciousness
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Q1) Why might doctors and nurses try to "watch what they say" when performing surgery
A) People under anesthesia occasionally awaken completely during surgery.
B) The concentration of other members of the surgical team is disrupted by unnecessary comments.
C) The patient's family members occasionally overhear comments.
D) People under anesthesia maintain some awareness.
Q2) Which of the following are present during both meditation and stage 1 sleep
A) theta waves
B) sleep spindles
C) beta waves
D) delta waves
Q3) Which drug is NOT from the same category as the others
A) LSD
B) mescaline
C) psilocybin
D) marijuana
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Chapter 6: A: Learning
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Q1) Hanna finds that when her kids become too rowdy and noisy,she can successfully block out their noise if she closes the door to her study.What is the behaviour of closing the door in this example
A) unconditioned response
B) escape response
C) positive reinforcement
D) avoidance response
Q2) Which goal is specified in an appropriate format for designing a self-modification program
A) decreasing the amount of time spent watching television
B) decreasing your irritability on a daily basis
C) increasing your happiness and contentment
D) increasing your motivation to accomplish a variety of goals
Q3) According to Rescorla's signal relations model of classical conditioning,which of the following will result in a stronger conditional response
A) a weaker conditional stimulus
B) a conditional stimulus that is always paired with the unconditional stimulus
C) a stronger unconditional response
D) an unconditional stimulus that always elicits an unconditional response
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Chapter 6: B: Learning
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Q1) In classical conditioning,what is a conditioned response
A) unlearned reaction to a stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning
B) stimulus that evokes a response without previous conditioning
C) previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity to evoke a learned response
D) learned reaction to a stimulus that occurs as a result of previous conditioning
Q2) If you give your dog a treat every time he jumps through a hoop,what method are you using
A) operant conditioning
B) classical conditioning
C) observational learning
D) latent learning
Q3) Which schedule of reinforcement should you use if you want a rat in a Skinner Box to respond with both a high and steady rate of response
A) fixed ratio schedule
B) fixed interval schedule
C) variable interval schedule
D) variable ratio schedule
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Chapter 6: C: Learning
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Q1) Alicia is actively trying to get her poker playing under control and decided to enrol in a behaviour modification program.As suggested by the program facilitator,Alicia sets up a punishment for herself in case she ends up playing poker online and losing a lot of money.Which of the following would be the most effective method of punishment
A) Giving $30 to her brother and telling him to buy a CD of an artist she hates.
B) Delivering a strong electric shock to herself every time she played poker.
C) Having her brother take her laptop away from her, even if she needs it for work.
D) Donating an equal amount of money she lost to a charity she believes in.
Q2) Solene is asked to play rock-paper-scissors with the interviewer.Thankfully,Solene has an old,go-to strategy for playing rock-paper-scissors.She uses rock on the first trial,and then for every subsequent trial,she copies the move of the other player from the previous trial.Solene's solution does NOT involve the use of _____________.
A) cognition
B) heuristics
C) a mental set
D) knowledge organization
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Chapter 7: A: Human Memory
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Q1) Which memory system has an almost unlimited storage capacity
A) sensory
B) long-term
C) working
D) phonological
Q2) Elliot is trying to memorize a speech for one of his classes.He stands in different locations in his apartment and reads each line of the speech out loud.Later,when he is in front of his classmates,he visualizes a walk through his apartment,and he can successfully recall the entire speech.Which memory strategy did Elliot use
A) acrostics
B) method of loci
C) distributed practice
D) link method
Q3) What is procedural memory
A) memory for factual information
B) general knowledge that is not temporally dated
C) chronological memory of personal experiences
D) memory for actions, skills, and operations
Q4) Describe Baddeley's model of short-term memory as working memory.
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Chapter 7: B: Human Memory
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Q1) Which pair of terms does NOT belong together
A) retrieval; short-term memory
B) encoding; attention
C) schema; long-term memory
D) rehearsal; short-term memory
Q2) Which area of the brain is associated with the consolidation of long-term memories
A) cerebral cortex
B) medulla
C) hypothalamus
D) hippocampal region
Q3) What is the specific term for the memory process that allows you to recite a poem that you have previously memorized
A) retrieval
B) recognition
C) storage
D) encoding
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Chapter 8: A: Language and Thought
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Q1) Jacob is thinking of buying a $1 lottery ticket.In Lottery A,his odds of winning are 1 out of 1,000,and he may win $500.In Lottery B,his odds of winning are 1 out of 5,000,but he may win $5,000.What will Jacob choose to do based on expected value theory
A) Buy a ticket from Lottery A because it has a higher expected value.
B) Not buy either ticket because both lotteries have very low odds of winning.
C) Buy a ticket from Lottery B because it has a higher expected value.
D) Buy either ticket because both lotteries have the same expected value.
Q2) Many people mistakenly believe their chances of dying in an airplane crash are greater than their chances of dying in an automobile crash.What is reflected in this belief
A) belief in the law of small numbers
B) conjunction fallacy
C) availability heuristic
D) confirmation bias
Q3) What occurs when the word "able" is changed to the word "table"
A) The number of phonemes and morphemes both increase.
B) The number of phonemes decrease, but the number of morphemes increase.
C) The number of phonemes stay the same, but the number of morphemes increase.
D) The number of phonemes increase, but the number of morphemes stay the same.
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Chapter 8: B: Language and Thought
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Q1) A political party has released a new TV ad that is intended to point out the differences in finance policies between its campaign,and the campaign of the competing party.Which tactic is most likely to be used,if the ad contains semantic slanting
A) clear statements that the two parties have very different views
B) overly complicated language that is intended to cause confusion
C) words that are chosen for their emotional impact
D) statements that are deceptive or contain only partial truth
Q2) What is the system of rules that specifies how words can be arranged into sentences in a language
A) semantics
B) symbolic structure
C) morpheme structure
D) syntax
Q3) Which type of strategy is especially useful when a problem has a well-specified end point
A) forming subgoals
B) changing the representation of the problem
C) working backward
D) algorithm
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Chapter 9: A: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) What aspect of hydrocephaly may lead to mental retardation
A) presence of an extra chromosome
B) nutritional deficiencies
C) build-up of cerebrospinal fluid
D) inherited enzyme deficiency
Q2) Whose research and conclusions triggered a heated debate over ethnic differences in intelligence
A) Arthur Jensen and Philippe Rushton
B) David Wechsler and Alfred Binet
C) Alfred Binet and Louis Terman
D) Francis Galton and Charles Darwin
Q3) What are the typical correlations between IQ scores and school grades
A) nonsignificant
B) moderately positive
C) moderately negative
D) positive, and nearly perfect
Q4) From what you know of their views concerning intelligence,discuss what each of the following might say about the origin or cause of mental retardation: Jensen,Wechsler,Gardner,and Scarr.
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Chapter 9: B: Intelligence and Psychological Testing
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Q1) Terman studied a large sample of children identified as gifted,beginning in 1921,and followed them for decades.Which stereotype was ruled out by Terman's results
A) Gifted children exhibit better-than-average emotional stability.
B) Gifted children exhibit better-than-average physical health.
C) Gifted children are judged successful by conventional standards.
D) Gifted children become adults who make genius-level contributions in their fields.
Q2) Which child is likely to be admitted to a school gifted program
A) Abby, who has very high scores on aptitude tests for creativity and field-independence
B) Louis, who has an IQ score of 135
C) James, who has an IQ score that is one standard deviation above the mean
D) Dina, who demonstrates exceptional grades in school
Q3) What is the largest category of intellectual disability
A) mild
B) moderate
C) profound
D) severe
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Chapter 9: C: Intelligence Psychological Testing
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Q1) Scott is trying to prove to Jordan that IQ tests are important.He mentions that IQ test scores have a _____ correlation with occupational attainment and a ____ correlation with job performance.
A) strong positive; strong positive
B) moderate positive; strong positive
C) strong positive; moderate positive
D) moderate positive; moderate positive
Q2) Sophie is proud of the fact that the results of her quizzes are reliable.This means that if you take her quiz named "Find out how adventurous you are based on your favourite movie quotes",then _____________.
A) your quiz result would be positively correlated with how often you often you watch your favourite movie
B) the questions on the quiz are a logical representation of the domain they measure
C) you will get the same results, no matter how many times you take the quiz
D) the results of the quiz would correctly predict how adventurous you are
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Chapter 10: A: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) As the three children approached the house that everyone claimed was haunted,Yvette was apprehensive,Mackenzie was afraid,and Jayme was terrified.What would Robert Plutchik suggest about the experience of the three children
A) They were experiencing different unique primary emotions.
B) They were each labelling their emotions differently due to differences in experience.
C) They were experiencing different intensities of the same primary emotion.
D) They were experiencing different unique secondary emotions.
Q2) Imagine that your house is on fire and you are afraid.Which explanation best represents evolutionary theories of emotion
A) "My fear is a built-in, primary reaction to a dangerous situation."
B) "My shaking must be due to fear, since my house is on fire."
C) "I'm shaking because I'm afraid."
D) "I'm afraid because I'm shaking."
Q3) Which statement does NOT accurately describe the role of insulin in hunger
A) Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas.
B) Insulin is secreted primarily when the stomach is full.
C) Increased insulin secretion causes increased hunger.
D) Insulin must be present for cells to utilize glucose.
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Chapter 10: B: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) As Rowena is watching the climax of a horror movie,she gets goose bumps,her heart starts pounding,and her breathing becomes more rapid.Which component of emotion is reflected in her response
A) physiological component
B) behavioural component
C) perceptual component
D) cognitive component
Q2) Which theory of emotion is supported by evidence about the rapid-response pathway from the thalamus to the amygdala that triggers autonomic arousal before cortical areas receive input
A) facial-feedback theory
B) James-Lange theory
C) Cannon-Bard theory
D) common sense theory
Q3) Which component of emotion is associated with body language
A) perceptual component
B) physiological component
C) cognitive component
D) behavioural component
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Chapter 11: A: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) What do psychologists mean when they say that "males and females differ on Trait X"
A) The average male differs from the average female on Trait X.
B) All males differ from all females on Trait X.
C) Most males differ from most females on Trait X.
D) The highest Trait X scores will be males', and the lowest scores will be females'.
Q2) On average,there is a decline in cognitive abilities with old age.What must be taken into account in order to understand this average decline
A) Results may be due to age-related bias in assessment methods.
B) Results are confounded by the effects of experimenter expectancy.
C) The distribution may be skewed by a small minority of severely impaired individuals.
D) These results are found only within North American populations.
Q3) Which of the following is most likely to decline in the later years
A) procedural memory
B) speed in processing information
C) problem-solving ability
D) intellectual accomplishment
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Chapter 11: B: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) Which stage of cognitive development lasts from approximately age 11 onward
A) concrete operational stage
B) sensorimotor stage
C) preoperational stage
D) formal operational stage
Q2) What did Bowlby assert that adults are programmed by evolutionary forces to do in response to infants and small children
A) Think about them constantly.
B) Protect them even if it means dying for them.
C) Keep a distance from them so as to not become too attached.
D) Be captivated by their behaviour and respond with warmth, love, and protection.
Q3) Xavier is five years old,and he just saw his mom put some money in a coffee can.If you were to ask Xavier what other people would think is in the coffee can,what would he say
A) "Money."
B) "Coffee."
C) "I don't know."
D) "Coffee and money."
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Chapter 11: C: Human Development Across the Lifespan
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Q1) The band's manager is nervous about whether their new album will succeed.She is nervous because bands similar to The Skeins have made this same change in the past and have been very unsuccessful.When she brings up her worries to the band,they are most likely to react by saying ____________.
A) the other bands failed because they were bad song writers
B) that if they fail it's because of their fans
C) they believe in themselves
D) they trust their fans are going to love the new sound
Q2) Because of the type of music they play and their high energy on and off-stage,many parents disapprove of them because they believe they are "always drunk in public".This is an example of __________.
A) the spotlight effect
B) a self-fulfilling prophecy
C) an illusory correlation
D) the fundamental attribution error
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Chapter 12: A: Personality: Theory, Research, and Assessment
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Q1) What is a personality trait
A) a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations
B) a consistent pattern of behaviour that is entirely inflexible across situations
C) a flexible tendency to alter behaviour in a variety of situations
D) a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a particular situation
Q2) What leads a person to overcompensate,according to Alfred Adler
A) fixation at one of the psychosexual stages
B) a superiority complex
C) failure in the use of defence mechanisms
D) an inferiority complex
Q3) Why was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)originally designed
A) as an aid for clinical diagnosis
B) as a self-assessment tool
C) to screen military personnel
D) to assess basic dimensions of normal personality
Q4) Discuss ways in which each of the major perspectives on personality has influenced some aspect of everyday life in modern society.
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Q1) Which statement is consistent with the phenomenological approach
A) Viewing human behaviour as mechanistic and predictable.
B) Trying to see a situation from another person's perspective.
C) Interpreting the symbols that are inherent in dreams.
D) Challenging a person's maladaptive cognitions.
Q2) If you are interested in measuring and describing the personality traits of a typical or normal individual,which test would you be most likely to administer
A) Rorschach
B) NEO Personality Inventory
C) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
D) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Q3) Which personality theory is most likely to be criticized for viewing human behaviour as overly simple or mechanistic
A) humanism
B) psychoanalytic theory
C) radical behaviourism
D) social cognitive theory
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Q1) Elijah listens carefully to the content of an infomercial for a new exercise system.Bob focuses on the fact that two star athletes are endorsing the exercise system.After the infomercial has ended,both Elijah and Bob have favourable attitudes toward the exercise system that was advertised.What is predicted by the elaboration likelihood model
A) Both men are likely to purchase the exercise system that was advertised.
B) Elijah is more likely to actually purchase the exercise system.
C) Neither man is likely to actually purchase the exercise system.
D) Bob is more likely to actually purchase the exercise system.
Q2) Which of the following leads to conformity
A) negative reinforcement
B) responding to real or imagined social pressure
C) observing a model being reinforced for a particular response
D) positive reinforcement
Q3) According to evolutionary psychologists,what has shaped the cognitive mechanisms that lead to bias in person perception
A) childhood experiences
B) natural selection
C) parental attitudes
D) relationships with others
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Q1) Stella and André have been a couple for several years.Their love is characterized by warm feelings and affection.They enjoy spending time together and describe themselves as lovers and friends.Which term best describes Stella and André's love
A) attached love
B) companionate love
C) mature love
D) passionate love
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the major components of an attitude
A) cognitive component
B) affective component
C) behavioural component
D) perceptual component
Q3) Which of the following proposes that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness will select each other as partners
A) similarity hypothesis
B) matching hypothesis
C) reciprocity effect
D) least-common-denominator effect
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Q1) What effect does stress appear to have on the human immune system
A) It can lead to decreased levels of immune activity.
B) It decreases autonomic nervous system function.
C) It can lead to increased levels of immune activity.
D) It has very little effect on immune activity.
Q2) What has been supported by recent research evidence from studies that investigated the link between depression and heart disease
A) The stress of living with heart disease may cause the onset of depression.
B) Depression and heart disease are both caused by the negative effects of smoking.
C) Depression and heart disease are not correlated with each other.
D) The emotional dysfunction of depression may cause heart disease.
Q3) Which statement best describes people with higher scores on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale
A) They react more negatively to stressful events.
B) They cope more effectively with long-term stressors associated with change.
C) They are more vulnerable to physical illness and psychological problems.
D) They have a more external locus of control.
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A) social support
B) optimism, hardiness, and conscientiousness
C) smoking
D) stress mindset
Q2) Simon smokes and Chester is a "couch potato" who does not exercise.Which of the following do both men have a higher risk of developing,compared to men who exercise and don't smoke
A) heart disease
B) acquired immune deficiency syndrome
C) lung cancer
D) ulcers
Q3) Why does stress contribute to impaired task performance
A) Stress disrupts arousal.
B) Stress increases desire.
C) Stress disrupts attention.
D) Stress increases motivation.
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Q1) Noah finds out that he has been selected to become a pilot and will need to start basic training in two weeks.This causes ________ stress.However,once he arrives at basic training,this will probably switch to __________ stress due to the strictness of the drill sergeants.
A) pressure; change
B) conflict; pressure
C) change; pressure
D) change; frustration
Q2) Which of the following best represents the technique Latoya's psychologist is using to help her overcome her social anxiety
A) She encourages Latoya to watch and mimic socially adept friends.
B) She helps Latoya practice social techniques using structured role-play exercises.
C) She encourages Latoya to gradually handle increasingly more difficult social tasks.
D) She invites Latoya to a new social setting so she can show her it's not as scary as Latoya thinks.
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Q1) What is the role of stress for the development of mood disorders
A) Stress increases the likelihood of a mood disorder in those with vulnerability.
B) Stress is a primary cause of mood disorders.
C) Stress influences anxiety disorders but not mood disorders.
D) Stress is an outcome of mood disorders, but not a causal factor.
Q2) Jack thinks constantly about dirt and germs.He washes his hands hundreds of times a day.Which disorder is most consistent with Jack's behaviour
A) obsessive-compulsive disorder
B) phobic disorder
C) somatization disorder
D) illness anxiety disorder
Q3) Approximately what percentage of the individuals who develop either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa are females
A) 20 to 25%
B) 50 to 55%
C) 70 to 75%
D) 90 to 95%
Q4) How are concussions and depression related
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Q1) With regard to the legal defence "not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder," which statement best describes the use and success of this defence,according to Lumburner and Roesch
A) It is rarely used, but often successful when it is employed.
B) It is rarely successful and used only in cases of severely disordered defendants.
C) It is often used but rarely successful.
D) It is typically misused in most cases and is unsuccessful.
Q2) Jason has been diagnosed with depression,as well as a specific phobia.What term is used for this double diagnosis
A) comorbitidy
B) etiology
C) overdiagnosis
D) categorical approach
Q3) Which disorder is characterized by anxiety only in certain specific situations
A) specific phobic disorder
B) generalized anxiety disorder
C) specified anxiety disorder
D) panic disorder
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Q1) In looking for therapeutic services,what should you keep in mind
A) The therapist's professional background should be your number-one concern.
B) Most therapists are in private practice.
C) Community mental health centres and human service agencies are good sources of information.
D) The therapeutic services available are essentially the same in most North American communities.
Q2) According to Rogers,when does personal distress occur
A) when a person engages in negative thinking
B) when there is incongruence between a person's self-concept and reality
C) when unconscious conflicts threaten to rise to the surface of conscious awareness
D) when a person is lacking in self-control
Q3) According to Simon and Savarino's research that examined medical records of thousands of patients,when are people with depression at greatest risk for attempting suicide
A) years after ending treatment
B) in the first few weeks after drug treatment begins
C) in the first few weeks after psychotherapy begins
D) in the month before treatment begins
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Q1) During which decade did the treatment of individuals with psychological disorders make a major shift from the public mental hospital system to community mental health centres
A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1980s
Q2) Which technique do psychoanalysts use to help clients gain insight regarding the unconscious meaning of their free associations and dreams
A) interpretation
B) transference
C) modelling
D) empathy
Q3) What class of therapeutic drugs gradually elevate mood
A) antidepressant drugs
B) mood stabilizers
C) antipsychotic drugs
D) antianxiety drugs
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