Understanding Psychology
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Understanding Psychology introduces students to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, exploring key concepts, theories, and research methods within the field. The course covers foundational topics such as development, cognition, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and the biological bases of behavior. Students examine how psychologists investigate human thought and behavior and how psychological principles can be applied to everyday life, helping them develop a broad appreciation for the complexities of human experience and an understanding of the factors that shape who we are.
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psychology concepts and connections brief version 9th edition by spencer a. rathus
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) When an individual questions the claims of a particular mouthwash to "brighten your smile" in three days or less, they are engaging in
A)skepticism.
B)examining the accuracy of these claims.
C)examining reality.
D)considering the credentials of the authority.
Answer: D
Q2) Greg has heard that studies have shown that yoga helps prevent Alzheimer's. As a critical thinker, Greg should ask all except which of the following questions?
A)Who ran the study?
B)Were the researchers unbiased?
C)Are the researchers well-known?
D)Who paid for the research?
Answer: D
Q3) Clinical psychologists typically have a(n) ________ while psychiatrists have a(n)
Answer: Ph.D.; MD
Q4) __________ are formulations of apparent relationships among observed events. Answer: Theories
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Chapter 2: Biology and Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following statements is not true about the cerebral cortex?
A)The cerebral cortex is involved in very few of our bodily activities.
B)The cerebral cortex is the outer coating of the cerebrum.
C)The cerebral cortex has two hemispheres.
D)Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not primarily involved in sensation or motor activity are called association areas.
Answer: A
Q2) You and a friend are studying psychology at the dining room table when you hear something stirring underneath it. You lean over to investigate, and a rat scurries across the floor. Which nervous system kicks into gear in both you and your friend?
A)The afferent nervous system
B)The parasympathetic nervous system
C)The sympathetic nervous system
D)The central nervous system
Answer: C
Q3) Biology somehow gives rise to specific ______ _______ in some organisms. Answer: behavioral tendencies
Q4) Language areas of the cortex usually lie in the ______ hemisphere. Answer: left
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Thomas Young projected three different colored lights onto a screen so they partially overlapped. He found that he could produce ______________________ of the lights.
A)analogous colors by varying the duration
B)any color by varying the saturation
C)afterimages by varying the intensities
D)any color by varying the intensities
Answer: D
Q2) Smell and taste are considered chemical senses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Frequency theory of pitch discrimination predicts that high-pitched sounds fire __________ and low-pitched sounds fire __________.
A)more often; less often
B)less often; more often
C)more sensory cells; fewer sensory cells
D)near the oval window; near the round window
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) Paradoxical sleep is also known as
A)REM sleep.
B)the hypnagogic state.
C)Stage 4.
D)none of these
Q2) Kate put in two "all-nighters" in a row to study for her psychology test. According to sleep research,
A)she will be fine for the test.
B)her sleep on the third night will be normal.
C)she may show deficits in learning, attention, and memory.
D)her REM sleep will not be affected.
Q3) Monica is talking to her friend at a loud party. From across the crowded, noisy room she somehow hears her name being mentioned. This is known as the A)selective consciousness.
B)cocktail party effect.
C)self-awareness effect.
D)egocentric attention.
Q4) ______________ drugs slow down the activity of the central nervous system.
Q5) The most common sleep disorder is ________.
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Which of the following is correct concerning the effects of playing video games?
A)Males and females are affected in similar ways.
B)It is connected with a history of juvenile delinquency.
C)It is connected with higher grades in school.
D)There does not seem to be any connection between video games and violent behavior.
Q2) ___________ _____________ is a simple form of learning in which organisms learn to engage in behavior that is reinforced.
Q3) A child is bitten by a snake. Whenever he sees a snake, he gets scared. Now, whenever he hears the word "snake," he gets scared. The last situation is called
A)higher-order conditioning.
B)reverse conditioning.
C)punishment.
D)partial reinforcement.
Q4) Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?
A)Money
B)Food
C)Cigarettes
D)Job success
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Chapter 6: Memory: Remembrance of Things Past-And Future
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Q1) What type of code represents stimuli in terms of their meaning?
A)Visual code
B)Acoustic code
C)Sensory code
D)Semantic code
Q2) Jackie's psychologist believes that Jackie has difficulty remembering her early adolescent years due to traumatic events that occurred during that time. This is known as
A)regression.
B)retrieval errors.
C)repression.
D)all of these
Q3) The evidence for the popular idea that all of our experiences are in permanent long-term storage is
A)incontestable.
B)very strong.
C)debatable.
D)nonexistent.
Q4) The three types of memory tasks used to measure forgetting are recall, _________, and _________.
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Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) In making decisions, people tend to focus on examples that confirm their judgments and ignore instances that do not. This process often leads to A)overconfidence.
B)overbearing behavior.
C)divergent thinking.
D)availability heuristic.
Q2) Tom is able to adapt to a variety of conditions and to challenge his physical limitations. He demonstrates A)emotionality.
B)intelligence.
C)durability.
D)reliability.
Q3) Only humans can be taught to communicate with language. A)True
B)False
Q4) When we assess the differences between our current situation and our goals to reduce the discrepancy, we are employing ___________ analysis.
Q5) Experts use __________ processing to solve problems.
Q6) __________ refers to the fact that the sounds of a language have meaning.
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Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Psychologists and other scientists do seem to agree that aggression is caused by A)many factors.
B)the environment.
C)genetics.
D)situational factors.
Q2) Which of the following is a stimulus motive?
A)Exploration
B)Hunger
C)Thirst
D)Homeostasis
Q3) The tendency for salmon to swim upstream to spawn in a particular place is an example of a
A)fixed action pattern.
B)learned behavior.
C)conditioned response.
D)stimulus.
Q4) An individual who seeks to master a task for money or praise is motivated by ________ rewards.
Q5) The sexual response cycle consists of ______, ______, ______, and ______.
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Q6) The _____ theory is consistent with the facial-feedback theory.
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Chapter 9: The Voyage Through the Life Span
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Q1) The __________ connects the embryo and fetus to the placenta.
A)amniotic sac
B)system of blood vessels in the uterine wall
C)umbilical cord
D)amniotic fluid
Q2) Adrienne and her husband want to provide their infant daughter with lots of opportunities for brain development. According to research, they should do all except which of the following?
A)Provide their daughter with lots of toys and computer games
B)Spend time talking to their daughter
C)Hold their daughter often
D)Sing and dance with their daughter
Q3) Piaget described human thought in terms of two basic concepts:
A)logic and reason.
B)logic and emotion.
C)adaptation and affordances.
D)assimilation and accommodation.
Q4) Another term used for fluid intelligence is working memory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Personality: Theory and Measurement
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Q1) Carl Jung differed from Freud specifically in the area of A)unconscious behavior.
B)the importance of sexual instinct.
C)ego.
D)psychodynamics.
Q2) When children behave in a way that reflects what they believe their parents want, they are demonstrating, according to Rogers
A)conditions of worth.
B)unconditional positive regard.
C)unconditional love.
D)self-actualization.
Q3) Eysenck differentiated two personality traits called introversion-extraversion and _____ ________.
Q4) Which best illustrates a child in the phallic stage of psychosexual development?
A)Billy acts out to get his mother's attention whenever she is alone with his father.
B)Kelly seeks out strangers for sexual encounters.
C)Alan always goes shopping with his father.
D)Maria has not had conscious sexual desires for the past year.
Q5) Freud emphasized the _____ processes in the shaping of our personalities.
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Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Coping
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Q1) Sarah earns high grades and leads a study group at school. Her brother is less ambitious and earns low grades. Most likely, Sarah is a
A)Type A.
B)Type B.
C)Type C.
D)Type D.
Q2) Dr. Andersen's class is studying how to prevent health problems such as cardiovascular diseases, to lower high blood pressure with diet and exercise, and to effectively deal with everyday hassles. They are studying
A)health psychology.
B)psychology health psychology.
C)physical health psychology.
D)all of these
Q3) The top two sources of stress reported by American respondents to an online survey are
A)relationships and work.
B)children and spouses.
C)money and work.
D)physical health and money.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Psychomotor retardation is associated with A)bipolar disorder.
B)paranoid schizophrenia.
C)depersonalization.
D)major depression.
Q2) The DSM-IV groups disorders on the basis of
A)observable symptoms.
B)assumptions about their causes.
C)the type of personality associated with each.
D)the theoretical orientation of their prescribed treatments.
Q3) It appears that many people with schizophrenia have undergone a variety of birth and pregnancy complications. These findings suggest that atypical _______ may be involved.
A)mothering
B)genes
C)central nervous system development
D)fertilization
Q4) The _____ is the most widely used classification system for psychological disorders.
Q5) _____ is the common cold of psychological problems.
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Chapter 13: Methods of Therapy
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Q1) Behavior modification is another term for A)classical conditioning.
B)Gestalt directive therapy.
C)behavior therapy.
D)nondirective therapy.
Q2) The operant technique used to help formerly hospitalized patients live in communities is
A)successive approximations.
B)exposure therapy.
C)social skills training.
D)rapid socialization.
Q3) ECT is currently used mainly for people diagnosed with A)acute depression.
B)major depression who do not respond to antidepressants.
C)major depression.
D)schizophrenia.
Q4) Rational emotive behavior therapy attempts to change irrational behavior by confronting rational thoughts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) Men are viewed as more attractive by women when they are A)introverted.
B)agoraphobic.
C)submissive.
D)assertive.
Q2) As the number of people increases, the likelihood to help decreases. Darley and Latané suggest this is because of a(n) ________ __ _________.
Q3) When a group pays less attention to the external realities than to its own cohesiveness, this is known as
A)polarization.
B)the risky shift.
C)groupthink.
D)none of these
Q4) Which newscaster is an individual most likely to watch on a regular basis?
A)Peter Jennings, who always opposes her views
B)Dan Rather, who shows no affinity for a particular view
C)Tom Brokaw, who agrees with her views
D)None of these
Q5) Changing our behavior in order to adhere to social norms is called __________.
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Chapter 15: Psychology and Human Behavior
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Q1) Context-dependent and state-dependent memories involve the effect of A)schemas.
B)relearning.
C)retrieval cues.
D)interference.
Q2) A _______ is an organism that engages in a response that is then imitated by another organism.
A)model
B)reinforcer
C)UCS
D)discriminative stimulus
Q3) An altered state of consciousness that involves a trance and high suggestibility is called A)mediation.
B)hypnosis.
C)dreaming.
D)narcolepsy.
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Chapter 16: Psychology and Personality
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Q1) Tom's mother constantly misinterprets physical sensations and goes to the doctor because she is convinced she has some dreaded disease. Tom's mother is exhibiting A)senility.
B)hypochondriasis.
C)la belle indifference.
D)conversion disorder.
Q2) If a therapist focuses on an individual's irrational thoughts and negative thinking patterns, he or she is employing _______ therapy.
A)gestalt
B)meta
C)cognitive
D)feedback
Q3) Kris drives his car at 100 miles per hour after drinking a six-pack of beer. This behavior fits which criteria of psychological disorders?
A)Unusual
B)Self-defeating
C)Dangerous
D)Severe personal distress
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