Psychology II
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Psychology II builds upon foundational psychological concepts, delving deeper into the study of behavior, cognitive processes, and emotional functioning. This course explores advanced topics such as development across the lifespan, social and personality psychology, abnormal behavior, and the biological bases of behavior. Students will analyze influential theories, current research, and case studies to understand how various factors shape human thought, feeling, and action. Through collaborative projects and practical applications, students will enhance their critical thinking skills and gain a richer appreciation for the complexity of human behavior in diverse settings.
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What is Psychology Foundations Applications and Integration 4th Edition by Ellen
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E. Pastorino
Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Consider an experiment in which participants watch various types of TV programs and are then observed while playing a physical game to determine the number of aggressive acts they commit. In this example, the dependent variable would be the ____.
A) gender of the participants
B) game played by the participants
C) type of TV programming watched
D) number of aggressive acts observed
Answer: D
Q2) A case study involving a person with 53 different personalities, although valuable in some ways, is unlikely to be ____.
A) accountable
B) valid
C) significant
D) generalizable
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Neuroscience
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Q1) When a neurotransmitter makes the postsynaptic cell more positive inside, ____ has occurred.
A) inhibition
B) excitation
C) transformation
D) substitution
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a component of the autonomic nervous system?
A) the sympathetic nervous system
B) the central nervous system
C) the peripheral nervous system
D) the somatic nervous system
Answer: A
Q3) Glia cells are responsible for ____.
A) forming myelin
B) directing the activity of hormones
C) providing very little benefit to the brain
D) occasionally functioning as neurotransmitters
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The human eye has about ____.
A) the same number of rods and cones
B) 100 million cones but only about 5 million rods
C) 100 million rods but only 5 million cones
D) 5 million cones and 10 million rods
Answer: C
Q2) The highest concentration of cones is in the ____.
A) blindspot
B) periphery of the retina
C) fovea
D) optic disk
Answer: C
Q3) The ability to sense the position of our body parts in space and in relation to one another is called ____.
A) the vestibular sense
B) Merkel's sense
C) gustation
D) kinesthesis
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) According to Freud, when you wake up and recall dreaming about taking a test in your psychology class, you are recalling the ____ of the dream.
A) manifest content
B) superficial content
C) latent content
D) meaningful content
Q2) Which child is most typical of a person diagnosed with enuresis?
A) A three-year-old female
B) A three-year-old male
C) A six-year-old female
D) A six-year-old male
Q3) The suspected reason for the substantial increase in the rate of sleep apnea in the United States over the past two decades is ______.
A) the development of CPAP devices
B) greater travel causing more jet lag
C) the obesity epidemic
D) overuse of melatonin supplements
Q4) Describe a dream, identifying both the manifest content and a possible latent content of the dream.
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Chapter 5: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Abraham Maslow believed that after satisfying our basic physiological and security needs, we can begin to work on our ____ needs.
A) biological
B) cognitive
C) safety
D) belonging
Q2) Our brain turns hunger on and off in order to maintain ____ in our body.
A) arousal
B) competition
C) homeostasis
D) relaxation
Q3) Exercise is important in any weight loss program because it ____.
A) increases blood-insulin levels and decreases blood-glucose levels
B) suppresses hunger through body fatigue
C) decreases the number of fat cells in the body
D) counteracts the body's tendency to decrease metabolism
Q4) What research-based evidence suggests homosexuality may have a biological basis in some people?
Q5) Explain how drive theory uses the idea of secondary drives to account for human motivations.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) When treating alcoholism with aversion therapy, the drug called disulfiram is used as the ____.
A) conditioned stimulus
B) unconditioned response
C) unconditioned stimulus
D) neutral stimulus
Q2) In classical conditioning, extinction occurs when the ____.
A) neutral stimulus is presented without the conditioned stimulus
B) unconditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned response
C) conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus
D) conditioned stimulus is presented without the conditioned response
Q3) Tina has a heavy class load and is spending a lot of time studying, to the dismay of her beloved dog, Bobo. When Bobo walks over and puts his chin on Tina's leg, she pets him and gives him a treat from the bag she keeps in her desk drawer. As a consequence, he continues walking over and putting his chin on Tina's leg. Tina has used ____.
A) positive reinforcement
B) negative reinforcement
C) positive punishment
D) negative punishment
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) An organized, generalized knowledge structure in long-term memory is a(n) ____.
A) trace
B) icon
C) engram
D) schema
Q2) Your generalized knowledge structure, or schema, of what happens when you go to the dentist's office is an example of a ____.
A) script
B) preposition
C) stereotype
D) person schema
Q3) The last items in a long list of items to be remembered are usually remembered better than items in the middle of the list. This is referred to as the ____.
A) primacy effect
B) law of effect
C) continuity effect
D) recency effect
Q4) Describe the three functions of memory.
Q5) Explain the difference between proactive and retroactive interference.
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Chapter 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Compare and contrast the views of intelligence held by Charles Spearman and Howard Gardner.
Q2) Which example best illustrates creativity?
A) Doing library research for a paper
B) Devising a new use for a paper clip
C) Viewing a painting
D) Solving a problem the way others have solved it
Q3) In what way does language appear to influence thinking?
A) Language can influence our memory and perceptions.
B) The words of a particular language can create new ways of thinking that would not be possible if one spoke a different language.
C) Different nouns can alter the depth of thinking in a particular area, but different verbs cannot.
D) Different verbs can alter the depth of thinking in a particular area, but different nouns cannot.
Q4) Compare and contrast the views on intelligence of Spearman and Cattell to those of Gardner and Sternberg.
Q5) What is IQ and how is it derived?
Q6) Compare how we use prototypes and exemplars in categorization.
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) Explain Kubler-Ross's descriptions of reactions to dying and what subsequent research had to say about her theory.
Q2) Your niece should begin to be able to recognize the difference between her mother's face and a stranger's face at around ____.
A) three days
B) six weeks
C) three months
D) six months
Q3) What is Ben, a high school senior, most likely to value in a dating partner?
A) Social status
B) Attractiveness
C) Both social status and attractiveness
D) Musical talent
Q4) Dualistic thinking is to ____, as relativistic thinking is to ____.
A) males; females
B) adolescents; adults
C) children; adolescents
D) Americans; Asians
Q5) Describe common teratogens and their effects.
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) The mere exposure effect is related primarily to which aspect of attraction?
A) Similarity
B) Proximity
C) Attractiveness
D) Balance
Q2) When normally high-achieving females are asked to perform math problems and verbal tasks in a room where they are outnumbered by males, the women perform ____.
A) worse on both math and verbal tasks
B) worse on math but not verbal tasks
C) better on math but not verbal tasks
D) better on both math and verbal tasks
Q3) Contrary to prejudice, discrimination necessarily involves ____.
A) thinking
B) behavior
C) feeling
D) imagination
Q4) Compare and contrast the concepts of stereotype and prejudice and provide a clear example of each.
Q5) Describe cognitive dissonance theory and how it explains attitude change.
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Chapter 11: Personality
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Q1) Raymond Cattell determined that there were 16 basic traits that could describe differences in personality. He called these ____ traits.
A) source
B) cardinal
C) primary
D) secondary
Q2) A personality assessment tool that requires individuals to look at ambiguous pictures and describe what they see is a ____.
A) personality inventory
B) rating scale
C) clinical interview
D) projective test
Q3) Research on age changes in the five factor traits suggest that as you age in adulthood, you can expect that you will become more ____ and less____.
A) extraverted; intelligent
B) open to experience; agreeable
C) conscientious; open to experience
D) neurotic; conscientious
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Chapter 12: Health, Stress, and Coping
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Q1) Which mechanism relies least on changing one's thought processes in order to manage stress?
A) Guided imagery
B) Progressive relaxation
C) Meditation
D) Optimistic attitude
Q2) Immunosuppression may occur when ____.
A) serotonin and dopamine are released into synapses
B) corticosteroids and endorphins are released into the bloodstream
C) glutamate and GABA are released into synapses
D) oxytocin and other peptides are released into the bloodstream
Q3) In approach-avoidance conflicts, a person ____.
A) is faced with a choice that has both positive and negative consequences
B) must choose between two undesirable events
C) first begins to deal with a problem and then begins to ignore it
D) must choose between two desirable events
Q4) Sanuye is majoring in biology with the goal of going to medical school. He is struggling with his courses, but does not want to give up like his roommate who left at mid-term. From studying hardy individuals, how can Sanuye lessen his stress?
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Chapter 13: Mental Health Disorders
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Q1) Panic disorder is a type of ____.
A) anxiety disorder
B) dissociative disorder
C) mood disorder
D) somatic disorder
Q2) Simone has been diagnosed with elective mutism-she chooses not to speak at all.
Simone's behavior may be considered abnormal according to which criterion?
A) Personal distress
B) Not typical or culturally expected
C) Unconscious thought
D) Distorted perception
Q3) Identify the differences between major depression and persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia).
Q4) Describe borderline personality disorder.
Q5) Professor Quigley has her introductory psychology courses break into small groups and decide on how they would define abnormal behavior. About 75% of the groups reach a definition based on behavior deviating from how people are supposed to act. Why don't scientists use such social norms to define abnormality?
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Chapter 14: Mental Health Therapies
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Q1) Aversion therapy has been used as a therapy for ____.
A) schizophrenia
B) alcohol use disorder
C) depression
D) bipolar disorder
Q2) In client-centered therapy, empathy is communicated to the client by ____.
A) accurately interpreting the client's nonverbal signals of anxiety and tension
B) active listening and reflecting the feelings expressed by the client
C) the therapist transferring her feelings for a loved one onto the client
D) giving sound and logical advice that can be understood and followed by the client
Q3) When is it appropriate for a therapist to break the confidentiality of communications with a client?
A) It is never appropriate.
B) When the client is suspected of child abuse
C) When the client expresses excessive anger
D) When the client is depressed
Q4) Describe two behavior therapy techniques that are based on operant conditioning principles.
Q5) Describe how computer technology has influenced psychotherapy.
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