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Survey of Psychology is an introductory course designed to provide students with an overview of the fundamental principles, theories, and research methods in the field of psychology. The course explores a wide range of topics, including biological bases of behavior, perception, learning, memory, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Through lectures, discussions, and practical examples, students will gain insight into how psychological processes influence human thoughts, emotions, and actions, preparing them for further study in psychology and related disciplines.
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Introduction to Psychology Gateways to Mind and Behavior 14th Edition by Dennis Coon
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Chapter 1: Psychology, Critical Thinking, and Science
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Q1) Although they now do research to test their ideas, the psychologists in which school of thought, initially, were less interested in treating psychology as a science and stressed more subjective factors, such asone's self-image, self-evaluation, and frame of reference?
A) behaviorists
B) functionalists
C) humanists
D) structuralists
Answer: C
Q2) Which specialty area in psychology would be most likely to study how people interact in group settings, including such areas as interpersonal attraction, friendships, and peer influences?
A) social
B) comparative
C) community
D) environmental
Answer: A
Q3) William James was the founder of the school of thought known as __________. Answer: functionalism
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Chapter 2: Brain and Behavior
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Q1) Regarding the repair of the central nervous system, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A) Along with the animal research on spinal cord repair, some human trials have also been recently undertaken.
B) Scientists have partially repaired cut spinal cords in ratsby establishing cellular bridges to close the gap.
C) Neurilemma covers neurons in the central nervous system and enables these neurons to regrow themselves when activated.
D) Stem cells have been injected into the gap in the spinal cord to repair the damaged spinal cords in rats.
Answer: C
Q2) The outer portion of the adrenal glands that secretes corticoids is called the adrenal A) medulla.
B) dorsal.
C) cortex.
D) ventricle.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Human Development
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Q1) Children who are between seven and 11 years of age are in which cognitive stage?
A) preoperational
B) post-operational
C) concrete operational
D) formal operational
Answer: C
Q2) When a gene is recessive, it must be paired with a second gene of the same type before its effect will be expressed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Dr.Santos conducts research involving the changes in the abilities and behaviors of humans from conception to death.Dr.Santos is most likely a(n)__________ psychologist.
Answer: developmental
Q4) Adolescence is the same as the developmental period known as puberty.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) To become a better "eyewitness" to life, you should do all of the following EXCEPT
A) seek out-of-the-ordinary experiences.
B) increase your perceptual sets.
C) engage in reality testing.
D) pay attention to other people and your surroundings.
Q2) Commercials that are loud and present unexpected imagery will usually A) decrease the viewer's attention due to sensory gating.
B) decrease the viewer's attention due to sensory conflict.
C) increase the viewer's attention.
D) have no effect on the viewer's attention.
Q3) Using a cell phone while driving may result in your failure to perceive a car pulling out of a driveway that is in plain view but not the focus of your attention, a situation referred to as __________.
Q4) In one study of eyewitness cases, what percent of the time was the wrong person chosen in a police lineup?
A) five percent
B) 10 percent
C) 18 percent
D) 25 percent
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Chapter 5: States of Consciousness
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Q1) We spend most of our lives in a state of consciousness that is organized, meaningful, and clear and is referred to as
A) a state of ASCs.
B) waking consciousness.
C) an altered state of consciousness.
D) microsleeps.
Q2) The drowsiness one feels immediately before sleep would be characterized by somewhat larger and slower waves than when one is awake and alert.These slower waves are called __________ waves.
A) alpha
B) beta
C) delta
D) spindle
Q3) According to your textbook, sensory deprivation is defined as
A) a loss of vivid and accurate memories for events.
B) a loss of perceptual consciousness.
C) any major reduction in the amount or variety of sensory stimulation.
D) splitting consciousness into two streams of mental activity.
Q4) The abuse of more than one drug at a time is called __________ abuse.
Q5) The official name of sleepsex is __________.
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Chapter 6: Conditioning and Learning
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Q1) If you wear a particular tie and gets lots of compliments, you are more likely to wear this tie more often.This illustrates
A) an automatic, non-learned response.
B) observational learning.
C) classical conditioning.
D) operant conditioning.
Q2) The law of effect was proposed by
A) Edward Thorndike.
B) B.F.Skinner.
C) Ivan Pavlov.
D) John B.Watson.
Q3) Most nights Ian comes home from work, turns on the TV, eats a whole bag of cookies or chips, then takes a shower, and changes clothes.By dinnertime he has lost his appetite.Ian could solve this problem by not turning on the TV but heading to the shower first.By changing the order of activities that precede dinner, he is breaking the
Q4) Many studies of operant conditioning in animals make use of an operant conditioning chamber, which was invented by __________.
Q5) Describe three problems that occur as punishment increases in severity.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Sensory memory can hold an exact copy of what you see or hear for a few seconds; then forgetting takes place due to A) disuse.
B) memory decay.
C) consolidation.
D) suppression.
Q2) Sam studies for 20 minutes, then takes a break, then studies another 20 minutes, and then takes a break, and so on.This pattern of studying is referred to as __________ practice.
Q3) The process by which memories are reconstructed or expanded by starting with one memory and then following chains of associations to other, related memories is called A) chunking.
B) parallel processing.
C) redintegration.
D) mnemonic coding.
Q4) According to patterns of blood flow, procedural memories appear to be stored in the cerebellum and __________.
Q5) How does "memory jamming" work in advertising?
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Chapter 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity
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Q1) Two examples of mechanical solutions are
A) general and functional.
B) trial and error and rote.
C) intuition and insight.
D) selective encoding and heuristics.
Q2) The basic speech sounds of a language are called morphemes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Your visual representation of a bakery may also include its wonderful odor and the delicious taste of its baked goods.This shows that which of the following involves more than pictures?
A) mental images
B) concepts
C) symbolic rules
D) automatic processing
Q4) A cultural barrier to creative problem solving would involve
A) a fear of making a fool of oneself.
B) values or norms that prevent a new approach.
C) an inability to see new uses for familiar objects.
D) habits that prevent looking at another aspect of the problem.
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Chapter 9: Intelligence
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Q1) Leon has been diagnosed with an intellectual disability, which means he has an IQ below 70 and significant impairment in which of the following?
A) kinesthetic skills
B) adaptive behaviors
C) divergent abilities
D) automatic processing
Q2) The generally accepted definition of intelligence is the overall capacity to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to adapt to one's surroundings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The broadest aptitude measures, which assess a wide variety of mental abilities, are __________ tests.
A) multiple aptitude
B) general intelligence
C) special aptitude
D) differential achievement
Q4) To his list of eight intelligences, Howard Gardner has more recently proposed adding __________ intelligence.
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Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) You are about to make a speech.Your hands tremble, your posture tenses, and your voice has a slight quiver as you begin.These outward signs represent which component of emotion?
A) emotional feelings
B) emotional expressions
C) physiological changes
D) emotional behavioral symptoms
Q2) A woman's sex drive is related to the levels in her bloodstream of estrogens and A) androgens.
B) serotonins.
C) endorphins.
D) catecholamines.
Q3) In a study on preferred body shape, women with abnormal eating habits
A) rated their body shape as being farther from their ideal weight than women with normal eating habits.
B) chose as an ideal weight, one that was heavier than men prefer.
C) chose as an ideal weight, one that is lighter than what they think men prefer, but heavier than what men actually do prefer.
D) did not want to be thinner than what they thought men found attractive.
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Chapter 11: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
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Q1) If Miguel uses different rules to judge the appropriateness of male and female sexual behavior, he would be said to be using a(n)__________ standard.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an example of a paraphilic disorder?
A) frotteuristic disorder
B) hypersexual disorder
C) fetishistic disorder
D) sexual masochism disorder
Q3) Regarding child molestation, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A) Most molestations take place in the abuser's home.
B) Many molesters gain access to their victims through caretaking.
C) Most molesters initially gain compliance from the child through force, anger, and threats.
D) Most molesters act alone.
Q4) According to the text, the AIDS epidemic has been spreading among A) heterosexuals and women.
B) African Americans and Hispanics.
C) children.
D) all of these groups.
Q5) Surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries is known as __________.
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Chapter 12: Personality
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Q1) According to Rogers, when children learn that some actions win their parents' love and approval and others are rejected and that some feelings are "bad" or "wrong", they develop
A) ego ideals.
B) possible selves.
C) conditions of worth.
D) organismic valuing.
Q2) Which of the following theorists view(s)personality as habits that are governed by four elements of learning: drive, cue, response, and reward?
A) Carl Rogers
B) Gordon Allport
C) Raymond Cattell
D) Dollard and Miller
Q3) The first, and best-known, psychodynamic approach, grew out of the work of Sigmund Freud and is called __________ theory.
Q4) The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)was developed by personality theorist Henry Murray.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Health, Stress, and Coping
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Q1) Which of the following represents a frustration whose source is personal?
A) Traffic delays you on the way to an important test.
B) You want to play tackle for a professional football team, but you weigh only 150 pounds and played on the second string team all though high school.
C) You must choose between attending two colleges, both equally desirable to you.
D) You did not win the lottery, after buying a ticket.
Q2) A stressful sense of threat is likely to occur when people not only perceive that they lack control over the situation but also have a perceived
A) sense of displacement.
B) state of sublimation.
C) need to change secondary risk factors.
D) lack of competence.
Q3) The three types of responses that are triggered by stress are
A) bodily effects, upsetting thoughts, and ineffective behavior.
B) physiological arousal, labeling, and emotional expression.
C) activation, resistance, and resolution.
D) alarm, maintenance, and exhaustion.
Q4) Stress triggers bodily effects, upsetting thoughts, and ineffective __________.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following categories include risk factors that contribute to psychopathology?
A) social conditions such as poverty
B) family factors such as abusive parents
C) psychological factors such as learning disorders
D) all of these
Q2) Michelle feels that everything she touches is contaminated and dirty, so she cleans her house from morning to night and writes down what she cleans in a book.Once she cleans something, she avoids touching it.If she were to touch the object, it would become contaminated, and she would have to clean it again.Michelle would most likely be diagnosed with a(n)
A) conversion disorder.
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) dissociative disorder.
D) generalized anxiety disorder.
Q3) Multiple personalities, or dissociative identity disorder, often begins
A) as a result of combat exhaustion.
B) in adulthood as a response to unremitting phobias.
C) as a consequence of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
D) in childhood as a result of unbearable experiences.
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) In order to help Andy see how his words and gestures appear aggressive to others, the therapist in Andy's psychodrama group has Andy join the audience and two other members of the group play Andy and the person he is talking with.This technique is known as the __________ technique.
Q2) Regarding Carl Rogers' type of therapy, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A) Rogers' therapy is considered a directive, action-oriented type of therapy.
B) Rogers found it more beneficial to explore conscious thoughts and feelings.
C) Rogers preferred using the term "client" to "patient" because "patient" implies that a person is "sick" and needs to be "cured."
D) Rogers believed that the therapist's job was to create a safe "atmosphere of growth" by providing opportunities for change.
Q3) By focusing on feelings when counseling a friend, you can encourage the outpouring of emotion that is the basis for
A) illumination.
B) repression.
C) catharsis.
D) depression.
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Chapter 16: Social Thinking and Social Influence
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Q1) If you have ever said "yes" when you wanted to say "no" or been afraid to question a grade that seemed unfair, you are exhibiting
A) nonassertive behavior.
B) self-assertion.
C) a lack of critical thinking.
D) empathic behavior.
Q2) According to the theory of cognitive dissonance, attitudes are changed because A) emotionally persuasive arguments unfreeze beliefs.
B) logical arguments alter the belief component of an attitude.
C) clashing thoughts cause discomfort.
D) actions contrary to one's beliefs cause behavior to improve.
Q3) A person is more likely to conform if he or she
A) has low needs for structure or certainty.
B) has a high degree of self-confidence.
C) lives in a culture that emphasizes group cooperation.
D) is not concerned about the approval of others.
Q4) When a person tries to occupy two or more roles that make incompatible demands on his or her behavior, the person is experiencing a(n)__________.
Q5) The process of making inferences about behavior is known as __________.
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Chapter 17: Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) Racial prejudice that is reflected in the policies of police departments, schools, or government institutions is referred to as
A) racial ethnocentrism.
B) racism.
C) stereotyping.
D) fascism.
Q2) Emir tends to see his friends and his present lover as unreliable and unwilling to commit themselves to lasting relationships.He would love to be extremely close to his present girlfriend but he worries that she really does not love him and will leave him, like the last one.Emir tends to feel emotionally unsettled as if no one will ever truly understand him or appreciate him.According to the research on dating couples, Emir would be described as having which attachment pattern?
A) avoidant
B) ambivalent
C) oppositional
D) dependent
Q3) Discuss five of the eight ways that a person can "break the prejudice habit" and become more open and tolerant of others.
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Chapter 18: Applied Psychology
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Q1) Healthy organizations promote well-being by doing all of the following EXCEPT
A) expressing sincere gratitude for the efforts of others.
B) showing tolerance and respect for the different needs, values, and experiences of others.
C) showing a capacity to forgive individuals who make mistakes.
D) providing disciplinary actions and mandatory counseling for those who chronically complain or blame others.
Q2) Topics of special interest to sports psychologists include which of the following?
A) control of attention
B) achievement motivation
C) athletic personality
D) all of these
Q3) Regarding natural resource consumption, which of the following is ten times higher in North America than in Asia or Africa?
A) ecological footprint
B) carbon footprint
C) territorial marker
D) conservation factor
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