Survey of Psychology Review Questions
Course Introduction
Survey of Psychology introduces students to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course provides an overview of key concepts, theories, and research findings from various subfields of psychology, including biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, development, personality, psychological disorders, and therapy. Students will also explore the methods psychologists use to investigate questions about the mind and behavior, as well as applications of psychological principles to everyday life. The course lays a strong foundation for further study in psychology and related disciplines.
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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) Which type of research study would best be used to study the factors that shaped a notorious serial killer?
A) confounding
B) case study
C) introspection
D) naturalistic observation
E) experiment
Answer: B
Q2) While on a visit to a large city, you observe several billboards in which a series of lights seems to move. Which perspective in psychology would most likely help you understand this phenomenon?
A) Gestalt
B) behavioral
C) humanistic
D) psychodynamic
E) temperament
Answer: A
Q3) Which "school" in psychology was dedicated to uncovering the basic "structures of the mind"?
Answer: structuralism
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Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature
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Q1) "All or none" is the principle stating that
A) a neuron either fires or does not fire
B) a neuron fires at full strength or not at all
C) all the dendrites must be receiving messages telling the neuron to fire or it will not fire at all
D) all somas must be receiving messages telling the neuron to fire or it will not fire at all
E) all neurotransmitters must be released at one time, or none will be released at all.
Answer: A
Q2) The two major subsystems of the nervous system are the central nervous system and the
A) autonomic nervous system.
B) sympathetic nervous system.
C) peripheral nervous system.
D) parasympathetic nervous system.
E) somatic nervous system.
Answer: C
Q3) ________ results from an extra 21 chromosome.
Answer: Down syndrome
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Visual distance and depth cues that require the use of both eyes are called
A) monocular cues.
B) diocular cues.
C) binocular cues.
D) dichromatic cues.
E) Capellian cues.
Answer: C
Q2) The law of Prägnanz is also known as the
A) minimum principle of perception.
B) law of common fate.
C) grouping perception.
D) principle of least resistance.
E) just noticeable difference.
Answer: A
Q3) In __________ processing, perceptions are guided by the sensations themselves.
Answer: bottom-up
Q4) The __________ sense is the sense of body position and the movement of body parts relative to each other.
Answer: kinesthetic
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Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nurture
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Q1) The Skinner box was designed so that
A) he could punish his daughter, Deborah.
B) rats could eliminate painful stimuli.
C) animals could press a lever to receive food.
D) gerbils could make their way through a maze to a food pellet in the box.
E) cats could pull a string to open the door to the box.
Q2) In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. Which of the following is true?
A) The blinking of the eye serves as stimulus.
B) The puff of air serves as the unconditioned stimulus.
C) The puff of air serves as the conditioned stimulus.
D) The blinking of the eye serves as the conditioned stimulus.
E) The air puff is a discriminative stimulus.
Q3) The abbreviation UCS stands for
A) unconditional statement.
B) uniform conditioned subject.
C) unconditional sensation.
D) unconditioned stimulus.
E) operant stimulus.
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Chapter 5: Memory
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Q1) The physical trace that is the biological basis of memory is known as a(n)
A) phoneme.
B) schema.
C) long-term potentiation.
D) engram.
E) phosgene.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of Daniel Schacter's "seven sins" of memory?
A) bias
B) absent-mindedness
C) suggestibility
D) encoding failure
E) transience
Q3) The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in A) echoic memory.
B) iconic memory.
C) long-term memory.
D) working memory.
E) nociceptive memory.
Q4) Name the form of memory that records our fleeting impressions about sights, sounds, and smells.
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Chapter 6: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) A child whose IQ score is ________ would be classified as ________.
A) 60; normal
B) 100; gifted
C) 60; mentally retarded
D) 150; normal
E) 60; gifted
Q2) In his decades-long study of giftedness, Lewis Terman found
A) that there were surprisingly few professionals in his sample.
B) there were a great many professionals and even an "Einstein" or two.
C) that most gifted children generally grew up to be healthy and happy adults.
D) academic success was unrelated to IQ.
E) that high IQ was practically a guarantee of wealth and fame.
Q3) The term ________ refers to the ratio of mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100.
A) intellectual ratio
B) aptitude
C) mental ratio
D) standardized intelligence
E) intelligence quotient
Q4) What type of distribution describes IQ scores?
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Chapter 7: Development Over the Lifespan
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Q1) The despair of a person who is in Erikson's final psychosocial crisis is most likely caused by
A) their fear of dying.
B) their decrease in mental ability and physical stamina.
C) their incomplete resolution of earlier developmental crises.
D) societal discrimination against the elderly.
E) lack of social support from friends and family members.
Q2) Tameeka is at a point in her pregnancy during which the major organs and structures of her baby are first developing. Which period of prenatal development is Tameeka currently experiencing?
A) fetal
B) embryonic
C) placental
D) germinal
E) zygotic
Q3) What is a key criticism of Kohlberg's morality theory?
Q4) Describe the transitions that are characteristic of adolescence including changes that occur involving physical maturation and sexuality.
Q5) Describe the sensory and reflexive abilities and preferences of an infant.
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Chapter 8: States of Consciousness
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Q1) A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's
A) deep content.
B) latent content.
C) manifest content.
D) subliminal content.
E) supraliminal content.
Q2) The stage of sleep marked by the production of very slow delta waves is ________ sleep.
A) REM
B) Stage 1
C) Stage 2
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 6
Q3) What is the first sleep stage that most people enter each night when sleeping?
Q4) How do opiates suppress pain?
Q5) _________ is a sleep disorder featuring sudden daytime sleep attacks.
Q6) What metaphor did Freud use for consciousness?
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Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Thirst, sexual desire, and hunger are examples of ________ drives.
A) biological
B) reduction
C) psychological
D) internalized
E) externalized
Q2) One of the most remarkable findings of Goleman's marshmallow study was that
A) the results correlated to later SAT scores.
B) some four-year-olds did not like marshmallows.
C) those who delayed gratification tended to be shy later in life.
D) better students took the marshmallow more quickly.
E) most children waited about five minutes before eating the marshmallow.
Q3) A psychologist who has studied emotions with Ekman for decades is going to present a summary of the research. Which title might this psychologist consider?
A) "Emotion as a Deviation"
B) "Emotion: Evolution's Big Mistake"
C) "Why Emotions Are Not Fully Developed in Humans"
D) "How Facial Expressions Communicate Emotions"
E) "How the Brain Determines Emotional Responses"
Q4) Name the two factors in Stanley Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion.
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Chapter 10: Personality: Theories of the Whole Person
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Q1) Which psychological test asks the subject to tell a story based on a picture of one or more people in which it is unclear what is going on?
A) Rorschach test
B) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
C) California Psychological Inventory (CPI)
D) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
E) Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MPTI)
Q2) What is one criticism of Rorschach tests?
A) They are inappropriate for use with children.
B) They are too simple in their administration and scoring.
C) They have low validity and reliability.
D) They fail to take into account differences in the testing environments.
E) They do not take enough time to administer
Q3) Observational learning is the focus of the personality theory devised by A) Carl Jung.
B) Karen Horney.
C) Carl Rogers.
D) Albert Bandura.
E) Julian Rotter.
Q4) According to Bandura, we are capable of learning by __________.
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Chapter 11: Social Psychology
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Q1) A key implication of Stanley Milgram's research is that
A) discrimination is widespread across the United States.
B) the bystander effect occurs in vague conditions.
C) conformity is limited to laboratory studies.
D) the similarity principle can explain the authoritarian personality.
E) the power of the situation can induce an ordinary person to harm another.
Q2) Social ________ refers to the real, imagined, or symbolic presence of other people.
A) obedience
B) conformity
C) loafing
D) context
E) obligation
Q3) Prejudice refers to
A) a negative judgment of others.
B) a positive judgment of others.
C) either negative or positive judgments of others.
D) harming groups we do not like.
E) None of the above are
Q4) What was the rationale for Stanley Milgram's study of obedience?
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) A high percentage of persons suffering from dissociative identity disorder report
A) symptom fabrication.
B) somatic symptom complaints.
C) a history of sexual abuse.
D) depression.
E) paranoia.
Q2) Which of the following is one definition of abnormal behavior?
A) behavior that is rare
B) behavior that is consistent with the norms of society
C) behavior that does not create distress
D) behavior that is adaptive
E) behavior that poses a small risk of harm or danger
Q3) The cognitive perspective views ________ as key factors in mental disorder.
A) how we perceive, feel, think, and remember
B) our unconscious influences
C) our search for self-actualization
D) chemical imbalances
E) learning
Q4) Describe the five indicators of abnormality.
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Chapter 13: Therapies for Psychological Disorders
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Q1) A serious concern regarding the use of anti-anxiety medications is that
A) a person who abruptly stops taking these drugs may show signs of withdrawal.
B) such drugs are depressants.
C) chronic use may lead to addiction.
D) driving is impaired after such use.
E) All of the above are
Q2) Client-centered therapy is a type of ________ therapy.
A) insight
B) behavior
C) cognitive
D) reality
E) neo-Freudian
Q3) The focus of cognitive therapies is on
A) our unconscious processes.
B) what we think and how we think.
C) observing the behaviors of others.
D) using medications to solve emotional problems.
E) self-actualization.
Q4) What drugs are commonly prescribed to treat bipolar disorder?
Q5) What is the common element of all therapies?
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Chapter 14: From Stress to Health and Well-Being
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Q1) When visiting your Aunt Jane in California last year, an earthquake struck the area. The earthquake would qualify as a
A) false criticism.
B) mortal attack.
C) traumatic stressor.
D) catastrophic stressor.
E) mild stressor.
Q2) Holmes and Rahe created the ________ to rate the stress associated with various life changes.
A) Burnout Assessment Scale
B) Severity of Hassles Scale
C) Social Readjustment Rating Scale
D) Life-Change Unit Scale
E) Stress in Your Life Scale
Q3) ________ involves relieving emotional pressure either directly or indirectly.
A) Venting
B) Catharsis
C) Ego defense strategies
D) Social support
E) Accommodation
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