Social Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Social Psychology examines how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. This course explores key concepts such as social perception, group dynamics, conformity, persuasion, prejudice, aggression, and interpersonal relationships. Students will analyze classic and contemporary research to understand how social influences shape behavior and attitudes, and apply theoretical frameworks to real-world situations. Emphasis is placed on understanding the role of social and cultural factors in shaping individual identity and actions, with opportunities for critical discussion and practical application.
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Introducing Psychology Brain Person Group 4th Edition by Stephen M. Kosslyn
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology:
History and Research Methods
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Q1) In order to increase typing speed, Minisoft has redesigned its keyboard and provided a chime that is related to typing speed. The company wants to know if its innovations affect typing speed. Identify the independent and dependent variables in this proposed study.
A) The dependent variable is the chime; the independent variables are the chime and typing speed.
B) The dependent variable is speed of typing; the independent variables are the keyboard design and the chime.
C) The dependent variable is keyboard design; the independent variables are the speed of typing and the chime.
D) The dependent variable is the number of errors made; the independent variables are the chime and the speed of typing.
Answer: B
Q2) Research with animals tends to focus on ________.
A) cognition
B) social behavior
C) understanding the brain
D) developmental milestones
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
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Q1) The thalamus is considered a subcortical structure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) When a neuron fires, it fires in a(n) ________ fashion, because there is no such thing as "partial" firing.
A) all-or-none
B) rapid fire
C) accidental patterned
D) quick succession
Answer: A
Q3) Discuss the two core ideas of Mendelian inheritance.
Answer: Mendelian inheritance examines the transmission of characteristics by individual elements of inheritance, each acting separately. The two core ideas are: 1) for each traiT an offspring inherits an "element" from each parent; and 2) in some cases, one of the elements dominates the other, and that is the one whose effect is apparent. If an element is not dominanT it is recessive. The effect of a recessive element is evident only when the offspring receives two copies of iT one from each parent.
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
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Q1) The classic Stroop effect involves the naming of ________.
A) boys' names
B) shapes
C) colors
D) animals
Answer: C
Q2) It is difficult to distinguish between colors at night because ______.
A) we are seeing primarily with the cones
B) rods do not adapt to the dark
C) we are seeing primarily with the rods
D) we are used to seeing mostly with the fovea
Answer: C
Q3) The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.
A) absolute threshold
B) range threshold
C) difference threshold
D) noticeable threshold
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US
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Q1) Punishment is MOST effective ________.
A) in most circumstances
B) when it occurs immediately after the undesired behavior
C) when it is mildly aversive
D) in surprisingly few situations
Q2) Some researchers argue that having a built-in readiness for certain conditioned stimuli makes particular sense from a(n) ________ perspective.
A) environmental
B) social
C) evolutionary
D) neurological
Q3) Anticipatory nausea is seen in some people who ________.
A) are receiving chemotherapy
B) have lung disease
C) have stomach ailments
D) do not respond well to nontraditional medicines
Q4) Are classical and operant conditioning fundamentally the same? Summarize the major arguments for and against the two forms of conditioning being the same.
Q5) What is the basic theme behind social learning theory?
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Chapter 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday
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Q1) Codes refer to the external aspects of stimuli.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Even though you may not remember the specific events that led you to have a certain opinion, your opinions nonetheless influence your behavior. This is because your opinions are often based on ________.
A) semantic memory
B) declarative memory
C) explicit memory
D) implicit memory
Q3) The crucial difference between having a "good" memory and having a "bad" memory among most people is ________.
A) genetically determined
B) the strategies used when storing and retrieving information
C) the amount of education they have
D) the number of neurons in their brains
Q4) Automatic processing, because of its speed, requires more attention.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are codes?
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Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What
Humans Do Best
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Q1) What is functional fixedness?
Q2) ________ refers to a set of rules that determines which conclusions follow from particular assumptions.
A) Strategy
B) Deductive reasoning
C) Logic
D) Thinking
Q3) The label g represents "________ factor" and the label s represents "________ factor."
A) gifted; special
B) general; specific
C) global; singular
D) generic; super
Q4) The tendency to perceive and approach problems in the same ways that have worked in the past is called ______.
A) mental set
B) means-end analysis
C) noncompensatory modeling
D) prototypical idealization
Q5) What are the four aspects of emotional intelligence?
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Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
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Q1) According to the facial feedback hypothesis, when Noah complies with instructions to smile and look happy, it is most likely that __________.
A) he will begin to feel annoyed
B) he will begin to feel angry
C) his positive feelings will increase
D) his reaction will depend on his age
Q2) Positive psychology suggests that individuals should focus more on the positives in one's life such as strengths, well-being, and the pursuit of happiness versus negatives such as abuse, depression, and things that can go wrong in life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Positive psychology can be thought of as ______________.
A) shifting the focus of psychology from cognitive to Gestalt
B) shifting the focus from achievement to self-actualization
C) shifting the focus from negatives to more positives in psychology while focusing on strengths
D) shifting the focus from the abstract to the tangible
Q4) What is an emotional reflex?
Q5) Glucose and fatty acids are the primary two types of ________.
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Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Différence
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Q1) What are the three mental structures found in personality according to Freud?
Q2) Aesthetics, fantasy, and ideas are most closely associated with which superfactor?
A) extroversion
B) agreeableness
C) openness
D) conscientiousness
Q3) Someone who was interested in measuring a person's source traits, as described by Raymond Cattell, would use the ______________.
A) NEO Personality Inventory
B) California Psychological Inventory (CPI)
C) Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire (16PF)
D) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Q4) Sometimes an individual responds to a personality inventory by choosing "I agree" to every question, regardless of the question's content. This particular phenomenon is called ________.
A) neediness
B) pathological
C) uncooperative
D) acquiescence
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Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up,
Growing Older, Growing Wiser
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Q1) What are the two cognitive distortions that adolescents develop?
Q2) What do we learn from the research of Meaney and his colleagues with rats?
A) Infants prefer complex pictures over simple pictures.
B) Adult personalities have no relationship to infant temperaments.
C) Touching infants might produce harmful effects.
D) Handling rat pups during the first days after birth had an impact on their responses to stressful events.
Q3) What are the psychosocial stages of development in adulthood?
Q4) Shelley and Julie are mothers who each have a three-month-old infant. Shelley tells Julie, "My son is so fussy," to which Julie replies, "That's funny-my son is so easy." It appears that Shelley and Julie are discussing their newborns' ________.
A) personalities
B) moods
C) reflexes
D) temperaments
Q5) Describe the physical characteristic of adolescents in this generation that may contribute to their earlier entry into puberty.
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Q6) Describe human development during the first trimester.
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Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life
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Q1) According to Selye, some people may develop illnesses such as high blood pressure or a weakened immune system during the ______ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.
A) alarm
B) collapse
C) exhaustion
D) resistance
Q2) To treat your sleep problem you are told that you should restrict your sleeping hours, you should set your alarm clock to wake up at the same time each day, and you should use your bed only for sleep or sex. What sleep disorder have you been experiencing?
A) enuresis
B) narcolepsy
C) insomnia
D) REM sleep behavior disorder
Q3) Cognitive appraisal is comprised of two phases.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly state the three main criteria for substance abuse.
Q5) What are the three phases in the general adaptation syndrome?
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Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More Than Everyday Problems
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Q1) Of the following, a fear of ________ is not considered to be a specific phobia.
A) contracting an illness
B) insects
C) flying
D) public embarrassment
Q2) Padma is extremely confident and feels that lately she needs very little sleep. In addition, she reports that her thoughts seem to be going fast-similar to watching three television shows at once. Padma most likely is experiencing ________.
A) a manic episode
B) a dysthymic episode
C) a loss of mental control
D) a psychotic break
Q3) Attributional style refers to a person's ________.
A) characteristic way of explaining life events
B) accuracy of understanding the causes of certain events
C) sense of how much blame they deserve for problems in their life
D) manner of explaining other's actions
Q4) Describe the five axes of the DSM.
Q5) How are bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder similar?
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Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
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Q1) Describe the effects of traditional antipsychotic medication on schizophrenia.
Q2) _________ strengthens a response by following it with a pleasurable consequence.
A) Positive reinforcement
B) Punishment
C) Negative reinforcement
D) Extinction
Q3) What is the primary goal of the therapist in client-centered therapy?
A) to facilitate transference
B) to eliminate the client's undesirable behaviors
C) to provide unconditional positive regard
D) to help the client become more aware of his or her own feelings
Q4) As Celine begins to reveal more and more of her innermost thoughts and feelings to her therapist, she begins to feel good about him as well as accepted by him. She develops a sense of trust, particularly because he does not criticize her. What process is occurring?
A) unconditional positive regard
B) insight
C) rationalization
D) transference
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Q5) Describe the two step process used in systematic desensitization.
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
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Q1) If Professor Jameson is most interested in studying what you believe about an object or topic, then she is focusing on the ________ component of attitudes.
A) behavioral
B) affective
C) cognitive
D) informational
Q2) The two types of social influence that can encourage conformity are called ________.
A) status and roles
B) compliance and obedience
C) informational and normative
D) subjective and objective
Q3) Ari structures her life so as to avoid closeness. What type of attachment style does she probably have?
Q4) ______ is a change of behavior in response to a direct request.
A) Conformity
B) Obedience
C) Compliance
D) Deindividuation
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Chapter 14: Statistics Part B : How to Think About Research Studies
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Q1) Results that are not attributable to chance are referred to as ______________.
A) non chance fluctuations
B) skewed
C) statistically significant
D) variant
Q2) The "L" in the QALMRI method stands for ________.
A) latent
B) logic
C) length
D) lighten
Q3) In writing a research report, you would expect a discussion of the step-by-step process of what happened in a study to be discussed (in) ________.
A) the Results section
B) the Discussion section
C) anywhere in the Methods section
D) the procedure section within the Methods section
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