Social Psychology
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Course Introduction
Social Psychology explores how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. This course examines the influence of groups, social norms, attitudes, persuasion, prejudice, conformity, and group dynamics on human behavior. Through the study of classic and contemporary theories and research, students gain insight into the psychological processes underlying social interactions, the formation of identity, and the ways social perception shapes our judgments and decisions. Real-world applications such as conflict resolution, interpersonal relationships, and the impact of culture on behavior are also discussed, equipping students with a deeper understanding of how individuals are influenced by and in turn influence their social environments.
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Psychological Science 4th Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Relative to human biological evolution,cultural evolution has occurred:
A) much slower
B) about the same speed
C) much faster
D) no way to know
Answer: C
Q2) You catch your 12-year-old sister smoking.She says that she likes to smoke because her friends smoke.You tell her she does it because she is addicted.Which of the following terms correspond to the stated levels of analysis for the smoking behavior?
A) cultural; psychological
B) cultural; biological
C) social; psychological
D) social; biological
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) Which of the following formal elements of the scientific method consists of a set of interconnected ideas or concepts?
A) a theory
B) a hypothesis
C) an experiment
D) none of the above
Answer: A
Q2) The fact that small samples are less reliable indicators of typical behavior than large samples is associated with the principle of:
A) psychophysiological assessment
B) descriptive statistics
C) the use of random sampling
D) the law of large numbers
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Biology and Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following parts of a neuron integrates information from other neurons?
A) axon
B) synapse
C) cell body
D) dendrite
Answer: C
Q2) As Beatriz works outside in her yard,she works up a pretty good sweat.This is due in part to the functioning of her:
A) somatic nervous system
B) autonomic nervous system
C) central nervous system
D) endocrine system
Answer: B
Q3) Phenotype refers to the:
A) genetic information carried by a cell
B) physical or behavioral characteristics actually expressed
C) results of a genetic mutation
D) probability of a gene being expressed
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The optic nerve projects from the retina through a neural pathway that progresses to the _____,which is located in the _____ lobe.
A) lateral geniculate nucleus; occipital
B) lateral geniculate nucleus; parietal
C) primary visual cortex; parietal
D) primary visual cortex; occipital
Q2) There is a loaf of bread behind a container of milk on the table in front of you.You see the bread as a single loaf rather than two half loaves,one on either side of the milk container.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?
A) similarity
B) good continuation
C) parallelism
D) closure
Q3) Temperature receptors that signify heat when they are activated:
A) also signify cold when they are inhibited
B) generally signify cold when they are inactive
C) oppose the activity of receptors signifying cold
D) may respond simultaneously with receptors signifying cold
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
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Q1) Linnea said that she had dreams about what she was going to wear and what pencil to bring to class.What type of sleep was she probably in?
A) non-REM
B) REM
C) luna
D) SCN
Q2) When the corpus callosum is severed,the result is:
A) loss of consciousness
B) death
C) split brain
D) inability to form new memories
Q3) Circadian rhythms can best be described as:
A) special heartbeats that trigger the heart to increase or decrease the circular flow of blood
B) the rise and fall of the sun each day
C) biological clocks controlling hormone levels, temperature, and the sleep cycle
D) the ancient art of star tracking, which is used today to figure out sleep patterns
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) The process by which an environmental stimulus and a behavior are connected is known as:
A) cognition
B) episodic memory
C) conditioning
D) behavior modification
Q2) In _____,learning occurs because of the consequences that follow the behavior.
A) classical conditioning
B) operant conditioning
C) observational learning
D) imitation
Q3) The neural structure responsible for releasing dopamine in response to reinforcement is the:
A) nucleus accumbens
B) insula
C) raphe system
D) orbitofrontal cortex
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) Eyewitness testimony is very convincing because people incorrectly assume that memory is like:
A) a video camera
B) a live journal
C) an interactive Web site
D) the evening news report
Q2) As a research participant,you read a list of names of unknown individuals.On another day,you read a list that includes some of those names,and you are asked if anyone on the list is famous.According to the _____,you will remember the individuals from the first list as famous.
A) procedural memory schema
B) prospective memory effect
C) shadowing effect
D) false fame effect
Q3) Shannon has a biology exam next week.To be sure that she really knows the material,she should:
A) cram the night before the test
B) test herself on the material
C) make up multiple-choice questions
D) use maintenance rehearsal
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) When Mandy and Joe meet,Joe tells her that he loves math and computers and his favorite hobbies have always involved building things.Mandy concludes that Joe must be an engineering student rather than a liberal arts student,even though there are many more liberal arts than engineering students at their school.Mandy is using the _____ heuristic and ignoring _____.
A) representativeness; base rates
B) availability; base rates
C) representativeness; subjective likelihood
D) availability; subjective likelihood
Q2) Melinda is an extremely successful surgeon.Which of Gardner's multiple intelligences does she therefore possess in abundance?
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) Confabulation occurs when a young child:
A) deliberately lies
B) recalls an event with made-up memories as well as accurate memories
C) uses his or her imagination rather than recalling an actual event
D) cannot remember where she or he learned something
Q2) Maternal hormones:
A) have little effect on a fetus's development because the fetus is isolated from the mother's blood supply
B) can affect physical development, such as the time at which a child will walk, but not mental variables, such as IQ
C) can have important effects on variables such as intellectual development
D) have an effect on a fetus's development only in the first trimester
Q3) A human newborn:
A) cannot discriminate brightness and color
B) can clearly focus on objects up to 50 feet away
C) can tell the difference between her or his mother's voice and that of a stranger
D) can discriminate tiny stripes from gray patches
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Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) How many English words refer to emotions?
A) 35
B) 150
C) 550
D) 5,000
Q2) Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)is characterized by attempts to avoid thinking about a seriously traumatic event,accompanied by flashbacks to and nightmares about that event.PTSD would seem to involve the emotional coping strategy of:
A) thought suppression
B) cognitive avoidance
C) rumination
D) distraction
Q3) John has a great capacity to empathize with others.He calls his parents three times a week.John's regular phone calls demonstrate that guilt:
A) encourages behaviors that strengthen relationships
B) can be used to manipulate others
C) demonstrates caring
D) makes people faithful to their life partners
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Chapter 11: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) For which of the following groups would an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa be most typical?
A) teenage African American girls
B) race and class are not important risk factors for these conditions
C) teenage Asian women
D) college-age white women
Q2) If human beings had more receptors for the hormone oxytocin,people would be:
A) less trusting
B) less curious
C) more trusting
D) more curious
Q3) Attempting to restrain the amount you eat in order to control your weight:
A) is still the best long-term weight-loss strategy yet discovered
B) works for only about 60 percent of people over time
C) can result in overeating when one perceives the diet has been "broken" by eating a forbidden food
D) works best for those who are very overweight rather than moderately overweight
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Naomi was raised by her parents as a vegetarian her entire childhood.When she gets to college she finds that all of the new friends she spends most of her time with eat meat.After her first year with these new friends,Naomi finds herself starting to eat meat as well.Naomi's situation demonstrates the effect of _____ on attitudes.
A) classical conditioning
B) implicit attitudes
C) socialization
D) unconscious influence
Q2) Attitudes are evaluations of:
A) objects
B) events
C) ideas
D) all of the above
Q3) Human beings have evolved as social animals who live in groups,in part because:
A) members of the same group do not constitute a danger to each other
B) mating within a group increases the probability of a healthy offspring
C) groups provide safety from competing groups and predators
D) members of the same groups provide less competition for mates
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Kyoung and Sohee,identical twins from Korea,were adopted when they were infants by two different families.Kyoung and Sohee grew up in different cities,went to different schools,and had sets of parents with quite different personalities.Which of the following people will be most similar to Kyoung in personality?
A) her adoptive mom
B) a female sibling in her adoptive family
C) her biological mom
D) Sohee
Q2) Idiographic approaches to the assessment of personality focus on:
A) individuals
B) comparisons across people
C) ratings made by parents, peers, or others rather than self-reports
D) unique personal qualities rather than cross-person similarities
Q3) Children raised to follow group norms and to submit to those in authority are living in a(n)_____ culture.
A) individualistic
B) collectivist
C) independent
D) none of the above
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Sarah is a practicing clinical psychologist.She should expect to see:
A) roughly equal numbers of bipolar and depressed clients
B) many more depressed than bipolar clients
C) more females than males with bipolar disorder
D) more males than females who are suffering from depression
Q2) Psychologists use the term prognosis to refer to:
A) how a particular disorder is defined
B) the likely cause of the disorder
C) the future course and probable outcome of the disorder
D) whether the diagnosis is correct or not
Q3) Jenny is a 30-year-old executive who was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)when she was in elementary school.Based on recent research,you would assume that:
A) Jenny has few problems with ADHD as an adult
B) Jenny's current symptoms will be misunderstood as symptoms of an anxiety disorder rather than ADHD
C) it is more likely than not that Jenny still shows symptoms of ADHD
D) Jenny is unlikely to show ADHD symptoms as an adult because women are much more likely than men to outgrow the disorder
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) In the treatment of bipolar disorder with the drug lithium it has been discovered that:
A) lithium's effect on mania is stronger than its effect on depression
B) the side effects of the drug intensify over time
C) the drug cannot be combined with any other drugs because of negative drug interactions
D) it is much less effective than behavioral interventions
Q2) In Ellis's rational-emotive therapy:
A) the focus is on how the situation elicits maladaptive behaviors
B) a therapist explains and demonstrates thinking patterns that are adaptive
C) a link between dysfunctional emotions and unstructured thought is developed by the client
D) maladaptive behaviors are extinguished via classical conditioning
Q3) This type of provider has earned a medical degree and can prescribe medication:
A) counseling psychologist
B) psychiatrist
C) social worker
D) clinical psychologist
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