Survey of Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Survey of Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the major concepts, theories, and research findings in the field of psychology. This course introduces students to various subfields, including biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social psychology. Emphasis is placed on understanding how psychological principles apply to everyday life and on developing critical thinking skills through the analysis of contemporary issues and case studies. Students will also gain insight into the methods psychologists use to study behavior and mental processes.
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Psychology Core Concepts 7th Edition by Philip G. Zimbardo
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Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science
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Q1) In a research study, the dependent variable is
A) assumed to influence the other variables.
B) measured by the researcher(s).
C) involved in standardizing the meaning of concepts.
D) involved in maintaining objectivity by avoiding bias.
E) manipulated by the researcher.
Answer: B
Q2) If there is a positive correlation between the number of children a person has and their overall life satisfaction, we would find that people with more children
A) consistently find less satisfaction with their lives.
B) are less satisfied with their lives than are people with fewer children.
C) are no more or less satisfied than those with fewer children.
D) are more satisfied with their lives than are people with fewer children.
E) are less satisfied with their lives than they were before they had children.
Answer: D
Q3) Explain why pseudo-psychology could be considered harmful.
Answer: A person who follows a type of pseudo-psychology may miss out on an important benefit or may suffer harm because the practice is ineffective
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Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature
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Q1) The idea that the pituitary gland is the "master gland"
A) is completely accurate and appropriate.
B) is completely inaccurate since it doesn't control any other glands or related structures.
C) is true; yet, it is still controlled by the brain.
D) is a matter of debate since many other researchers refer to the adrenal gland as the "master gland."
E) it is inaccurate, since the "pituitary" gland does not exist in higher animals. It is only found in lower species.
Answer: C
Q2) When you see someone you have a crush on and your heart pounds, your hands get sweaty, and your cheeks feel hot, your ________ is/are active.
A) skeletal nervous system
B) spinal reflexes
C) autonomic nervous system
D) somatic nervous system
E) interneurons
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) It may take your favorite teacher a few seconds to recognize you when you see her in the grocery store. This experience illustrates the importance of A) perceptual sets.
B) context.
C) closure.
D) contiguity.
E) common fate.
Answer: B
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.
E) visual accommodation cannot occur in the dark.
Answer: C
Q3) Visible light occupies only a tiny segment of the __________ spectrum. Answer: electromagnetic
Q4) In __________ processing, perceptions are guided by the sensations themselves. Answer: bottom-up
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Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nurture
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Q1) When the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the UCS (food, in this case), the CR will "die out" in a process called
A) CR fading
B) extinction
C) habituation
D) generalization fading
E) discriminatory fading
Q2) The term "reinforcer" refers to any condition that ________ a response.
A) precedes and causes
B) strengthens or weakens
C) weakens or eliminates
D) follows and strengthens
E) causes or eliminates
Q3) Learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than to the original, natural stimulus is called
A) classical conditioning.
B) operant conditioning.
C) memory linkage.
D) adaptation.
E) shaping.
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Chapter 5: Memory
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Q1) Interference is most likely under what conditions?
Q2) When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list. This is known as the
A) phi phenomenon.
B) recency effect.
C) chunking effect.
D) primacy effect.
E) impression effect.
Q3) According to the levels-of-processing model, we are most likely to remember information that we process at a ________level.
A) deeper
B) medium
C) shallower
D) personal
E) any of these, depending on the information
Q4) Name the form of memory that records our fleeting impressions about sights, sounds, and smells.
Q5) Name and discuss the various types of long-term memories.
Q6) Explain the difference between the two forms of rehearsal.
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Chapter 6: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Which example would most people take longest to identify as a fruit?
A) grape
B) apple
C) orange
D) olive
E) plum
Q2) A(n) ________ is an imprecise mental classification that develops out of our everyday experiences in the world.
A) familiar concept
B) normative schema
C) mental prototype
D) natural concept
E) deja vu experience
Q3) On an IQ test, a child scores a mental age of seven years. What is their IQ score?
A) His IQ matches his chronological age.
B) His chronological age is seven years.
C) The average age of people receiving that score is seven years.
D) Phil got about seven questions right in each section of the test.
E) IQ scores cannot be calculated from the information that is provided.
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Chapter 7: Development Over the Lifespan
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Q1) Which of the following is TRUE about sensory development in infants?
A) Infants do not respond to the smell of rotten eggs.
B) Infants show signs of pleasure at the taste of sugar water.
C) Infants prefer unsalted to salted cereal.
D) Infants cannot move their eyes for several days after birth.
E) Infants are more strongly attracted to male than female faces.
Q2) Three-month-old Brianna would be expected to have the lowest skin temperature when she is
A) left in a room with her mother.
B) left alone with a stranger.
C) completely alone.
D) in a room with her mother and a stranger.
E) None of the above are
Q3) A child in the two-word stage would be LEAST likely to say
A) "Daddy go."
B) "Mama here."
C) "Doggie there."
D) "TV is on."
E) "Baby smile."
Q4) What changes can a person expect as they age beyond their 60s?
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Chapter 8: States of Consciousness
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Q1) A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, is what Freud called its A) primary content. B) manifest content. C) secondary content. D) latent content.
E) tertiary content.
Q2) Stage 4 sleep is marked by _________ waves.
A) alpha B) beta C) theta D) delta E) gamma
Q3) _________ is a sleep disorder featuring sudden daytime sleep attacks.
Q4) What were the three levels of consciousness proposed by Freud?
Q5) What is the first sleep stage that most people enter each night when sleeping?
Q6) __________ is an induced state of awareness characterized by deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility.
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Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Biological drives are caused by
A) exceptions to the drive-reduction principle.
B) learned behaviors.
C) stimuli within the body.
D) stimuli outside the body.
E) external incentives.
Q2) Contrast the research methods and findings of Alfred Kinsey with those of Masters and Johnson.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a psychological drive?
A) a drive for great wealth
B) a drive to be successful in school
C) a drive to eat when hungry
D) a drive for high levels of achievement
E) a drive to be very popular in one's peer group
Q4) The James-Lange theory of emotion suggests that
A) intense emotion leads to drug abuse.
B) emotion can influence our physical state of arousal.
C) excess emotion leads to hunger.
D) our internal bodily responses occur at the same time as our emotions.
E) our physical state can influence our emotions.
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Chapter 10: Personality: Theories of the Whole Person
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Q1) The concept of ________ includes "instinctive" memories that are shared by all people of all cultures.
A) working memory
B) the preconscious
C) nondeclarative memory
D) the collective unconscious
E) wish fulfillment
Q2) Mei is Chinese American. She is very loyal to her family. Her sister lives with her, and she mails money back to China to her father and younger brother. Mei's way of life is typical of someone who comes from a culture that is
A) collectivistic
B) low in power distance
C) feminine
D) low in uncertainty avoidance
E) high in external loci of control
Q3) Name and describe the three personality parts according to Freud. Be sure to describe how the parts of personality interrelate, and what strategies mediate between motivation and the expression of personality and behavior.
Q4) What did Maslow refer to as psychology's "third force"?
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Chapter 11: Social Psychology
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Q1) Situation is to behavioral context as disposition is to A) thought.
B) social standards.
C) inner characteristics.
D) maturation.
E) childhood rearing.
Q2) A negative action against an individual based solely on his or her group membership is
A) social adjustment.
B) bystander effect.
C) scapegoating.
D) prejudice.
E) discrimination.
Q3) In the revised Asch studies, most people
A) continued administering shocks.
B) acted independently.
C) played the role of prisoner or guard.
D) made accurate judgments every time.
E) conformed at least once.
Q4) Solidarity, loyalty, and a sense of group membership are known as
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following supports a biological basis for schizophrenia?
A) You are not more likely to develop schizophrenia if you were mistakenly adopted at birth into a schizophrenic household.
B) Schizophrenia symptoms are alleviated by dopamine receptor blocking drugs.
C) Drugs that stimulate dopamine receptors induce schizophrenia symptoms.
D) Brain abnormalities in schizophrenic people have been found by imaging studies.
E) All of the above are
Q2) Which of the following is an anxiety disorder?
A) bipolar disorder
B) conversion disorder
C) panic disorder
D) schizophrenia
E) pica
Q3) Define shyness.
Q4) The famous cases portrayed in the movies Sybil and Primal Fear depict patients with __________.
Q5) Distinguish between a hallucination and a delusion.
Q6) Name the two best-known depressive disorders.
Q7) Defend the position that schizophrenia has a biological basis.
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Chapter 13: Therapies for Psychological Disorders
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Q1) ________ is credited with developing client-centered therapy.
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Carl Rogers
C) Albert Ellis
D) Aaron Beck
E) Joseph Wolpe
Q2) Lulu sees a professional once a month to manage the medication she is taking to help alleviate the symptoms of her anxiety disorder. The type of therapy Lulu is undergoing is called
A) psychotherapy.
B) biomedical therapy.
C) physical therapy.
D) electroconvulsive shock therapy.
E) Gestalt therapy.
Q3) The technique of free association was intended to
A) project the concerns of the therapist into the patient's thoughts.
B) allow the therapist to gather clues about the client's unconscious impulses.
C) suppress memory.
D) interpret the symbolic meaning of dreams.
E) allow the client to sublimate their impulses.
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Chapter 14: From Stress to Health and Well-Being
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Q1) ________ is the area of study that is comparable to behavioral medicine.
A) Health psychology
B) Nutritional psychology
C) Biofeedback
D) Psychoanalysis
E) Psychobiology
Q2) During the alarm reaction to a stressor, the hypothalamus triggers an emergency response in the
A) forebrain.
B) adrenal glands.
C) amygdala.
D) immune system.
E) parasympathetic nervous system.
Q3) Prolonged stress has been shown to ________ cancer.
A) decrease vulnerability to B) be unrelated to one's vulnerability to C) increase vulnerability to D) cause
E) increase the metastasis of
Q4) Name the three characteristics of hardiness.
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