Applied Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Applied Psychology explores the practical implementation of psychological theories, principles, and research to address real-world issues across various fields such as health, education, business, and social services. This course covers methods for assessing, understanding, and influencing human behavior, focusing on areas including clinical, organizational, forensic, and educational psychology. Students will learn to analyze case studies, develop intervention strategies, and evaluate the effectiveness of psychological applications, gaining skills essential for addressing individual and societal challenges in professional settings.
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What is Psychology Foundations Applications and Integration 4th Edition by Ellen E. Pastorino
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) The function of the _______ is to ensure that the research study being proposed conforms to a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
A) IRB or HREC
B) ILO
C) ISB
D) None of these are correct.
Answer: A
Q2) Psychology is defined as the ____.
A) scientific study of why people do what they do
B) scientific study of behavior and mental processes
C) study of different states of consciousness
D) study of mental illness and its treatment
Answer: B
Q3) Psychoanalysis is a therapy developed by ________.
A) Freud
B) Pavlov
C) Watson
D) Skinner
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Neuroscience
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Q1) Pavia slips and falls in the bathroom and bangs her head on the tile floor. She begins to see "stars" and flashes of light, indicating some activation of brain cells in the ____.
A) reticular formation
B) parietal lobe
C) frontal lobe
D) occipital lobe
Answer: D
Q2) Describe the techniques that scientists use to image or study the brain.
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Q3) The thalamus is to ____ as the hypothalamus is to ____.
A) sensation; perception
B) sensation; homeostasis
C) pleasure; movement
D) emotion; intellect
Answer: B
Q4) Describe three different physical or psychological disorders and the neurotransmitter systems that appear to be involved.
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which visual skill do males tend to perform better than females?
A) Being able to see the slight difference between two different colors
B) Accurately processing facial expressions
C) Analyzing spatial aspects of objects
D) Discriminating objects from other objects
Answer: C
Q2) Binocular depth cues rely on ____.
A) retinal disparity
B) the splitting of photopigments
C) closure
D) feature detection
Answer: A
Q3) Pedro was having dinner at his favorite Chinese restaurant when he took a sip of scalding hot wonton soup and burned his tongue. As a result of this injury, Pedro is most likely to experience ____.
A) an inability to taste salty tastes
B) an inability to taste umami
C) permanent taste loss for all flavors
D) temporary taste loss for all flavors
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) The most abused form of amphetamines is ____.
A) PCP
B) methamphetamine
C) marijuana
D) cocaine
Q2) Describe three different theories psychologists have proposed to explain dreaming.
Q3) Manifest content is to ____, as latent content is to ____.
A) activation-synthesis; psychoanalytic
B) recall; interpretation
C) true; false
D) biological; psychological
Q4) Many of the drugs discussed in the textbook are similar in that they ____.
A) alter states of consciousness
B) have short-term but not long-term effects
C) have depressant effects at low doses but stimulant effects at high doses
D) have psychological but not physical effects
Q5) Describe the different types of drugs belonging to the hallucinogen category including their unique characteristics.
Q6) Explain the risks associated with mixing energy drinks with alcohol.
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Chapter 5: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Areas of the body that are particularly responsive to touch are called ____.
A) erogenous zones
B) libidinous areas
C) erotic zones
D) sexual centers
Q2) Intuitive eating occurs in response to ____.
A) physiological signals in the body
B) cultural traditions
C) learned eating habits and situational cues
D) emotional states
Q3) Frederic goes on a very strict diet and loses 75 pounds. Six months after ending his diet, Frederic is back to his original weight of 260 pounds. Frederic's experience is most consistent with ____.
A) having an inefficient digestive system
B) having a high metabolic rate
C) having a set point of 260 pounds
D) having a tendency to engage in emotional eating
Q4) Describe binge-eating disorder.
Q5) Describe intrinsic and extrinsic aspects of motivation.
Q6) Are emotions understood across cultures? Explain your response.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) If Little Albert had developed a fear of large white rats, but not of small white rats, psychologists would label that an example of ____.
A) extinction
B) counter-conditioning
C) stimulus generalization
D) stimulus discrimination
Q2) In one of Albert Bandura's Bobo doll studies, children observed a model behaving aggressively toward the Bobo doll without receiving any positive or negative consequences for the behavior. Later, when these children were given an opportunity to be with the Bobo doll, they tended to ____.
A) ignore the Bobo doll
B) act aggressively toward the Bobo doll
C) play happily with the Bobo doll
D) show fear of the Bobo doll
Q3) Which method will make punishment more effective?
A) Administer punishment on a random schedule rather than for each bad behavior.
B) Show anger so your child can see how important it is to behave appropriately.
C) Delay using physical punishment until a child is school age.
D) Punish the bad behavior each and every time it occurs.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Which example is NOT a memory schema specifically mentioned in your textbook?
A) Stereotypes
B) Scripts
C) Icons and echoes
D) Person schemas
Q2) How do we transfer information from sensory memory to short-term memory?
Q3) The fact that elaborative rehearsal is a more effective means of transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory is consistent with the ____ model of memory.
A) levels-of-processing
B) reconstruction
C) pyramid
D) reciprocal determinism
Q4) Attempting to retrieve the name of your first grade teacher is an example of a(n) ____ memory task.
A) recognition
B) episodic
C) recall
D) implicit
Q5) Describe the traditional three-stages memory model.
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Chapter 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Research studies using image-scanning show that ____.
A) images of visual stimuli are stored in two dimensions rather than three
B) visual images in our minds have many of the spatial properties of the real stimulus
C) we lack the ability to store in memory exact replicas of the actual visual images in our minds
D) we scan visual images that are actually more distant faster in our minds
Q2) Well-structured problems can be solved through the use of ____.
A) heuristics only
B) algorithms only
C) natural concepts only
D) heuristics or algorithms
Q3) The idea of generalized intelligence was advocated most strongly by ____.
A) Charles Spearman
B) Robert Sternberg
C) Howard Gardner
D) Alfred Binet
Q4) Explain what interactionism is as the dominant perspective in psychology today on the nature-nurture debate regarding intelligence.
Q5) Compare how we use prototypes and exemplars in categorization.
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) Current research on private speech suggests that ____.
A) it should be encouraged when children are problem solving
B) its occurrence after age five suggests a developmental delay
C) it must be explicitly taught to children to be effective D) it tends to interfere with learning new skills
Q2) As a child grows older and enters middle school, parenthood tends to _____ and marital satisfaction tends to _____.
A) become more stressful; decrease
B) become less stressful; increase C) involve fewer parent-child conflicts; increase D) become less demanding; level off
Q3) Which object would a typical infant be able to see most clearly?
A) A face at a close distance
B) A mobile at a moderate distance
C) A face at a moderate distance
D) A mobile at a long distance
Q4) Describe Kohlberg's stages of moral development and discuss Carol Gilligan's views about Kohlberg's stages.
Q5) Describe common teratogens and their effects.
Q6) Describe the factors that are associated with marital satisfaction.
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) Which behavior is most likely to ease racial tensions in a town?
A) Majority members hire minority members to work for them.
B) Majority members live on the opposite side of town from minority members.
C) Minority members are hired for higher paying jobs than the majority members.
D) Minority and majority members work together on civic projects.
Q2) In Zimbardo's mock prison study, ____.
A) guards became abusive and prisoners became docile
B) prisoners developed rival gangs amongst themselves
C) female prisoners became just as hardened and rebellious as male prisoners
D) guards and prisoners together overthrew the prison warden's authority
Q3) Cognitive dissonance theory is an attempt to explain ____.
A) attitude inconsistency
B) behavior inconsistency
C) behavior constancy
D) attitude and/or behavior change
Q4) Which of the following is an attitude?
A) Liking spinach soufflé and parsnips
B) Knowing how to bake cookies
C) Recognizing the color green
D) Believing that El Salvador is in Central America
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Chapter 11: Personality
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Q1) Rachel is writing a paper on the limitations of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Which of the following is most likely to be the focus of her paper?
A) The theory overemphasizes the effect of factors beyond human control.
B) The theory is inappropriately based on common individuals and circumstances and not on extraordinary ones.
C) The hierarchy is based on a Western model of thinking.
D) The hierarchy does not help us understand why some people will appear to leave lower needs unsatisfied while fulfilling higher level needs.
Q2) In later research, Hans Eysenck developed a third dimension of personality that he labeled ____.
A) neuroticism
B) introversion
C) psychoticism
D) emotional stability
Q3) Name the five factors in the five factor view of traits and give a brief definition of each.
Q4) Explain the difference between an internal and external locus of control.
Q5) How does the structure of the personality emerge, according to Freud?
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Chapter 12: Health, Stress, and Coping
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Q1) Describe three health-promoting behaviors specifically discussed in your textbook.
Q2) According to Martin Seligman, a sense of helplessness is usually ____.
A) a product of genes
B) learned
C) developed through a spiritual void
D) a response to controllable events
Q3) In the United States, approximately ____ of adult men and _____ of adult women still smoke.
A) 10%; 5%
B) 14%; 9%
C) 19%; 15%
D) 25%; 18%%
Q4) Repetitive and uninterrupted computer typing and frequent mouse use can lead to the condition of ____.
A) "teenager tendonitis"
B) cubital tunnel syndrome
C) immunosuppression
D) carpal tunnel syndrome
Q5) Explain the relationship between Type C personality and cancer.
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Chapter 13: Mental Health Disorders
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Q1) Mania ____.
A) is a symptom of major depression
B) can include delusional thinking or hallucinations
C) does not occur in cyclothymic disorder
D) is a sad mood state
Q2) Following heart surgery, 74-year-old Roberta, an outgoing, active artist, becomes extremely confused and is grossly disoriented. She is diagnosed with delirium, a ____ disorder.
A) somatic
B) psychotic
C) neurodevelopmental
D) neurocognitive
Q3) Phobic disorders are a type of ____.
A) mood disorder
B) schizophrenic disorder
C) somatoform disorder
D) anxiety disorder
Q4) Describe borderline personality disorder.
Q5) Discuss two common myths about suicide, including the truth regarding each myth.
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Q6) What is the difference between positive and negative symptom of schizophrenia?
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Chapter 14: Mental Health Therapies
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Q1) Bryan is a person with paranoid schizophrenia who has auditory hallucinations and delusions. Which medication is most likely to be effective for Bryan's disorder?
A) Valium
B) Clozapine
C) Prozac
D) Lithium
Q2) Which client characteristic contributes to the success of psychotherapy?
A) A previous history of psychological disorders
B) Having supportive loved ones
C) Not expressing feelings and thoughts
D) Not being actively involved in therapy
Q3) John and his therapist entered into a business relationship during the time that John was receiving therapy. Such a situation ____.
A) is against the law in most states
B) is restricted by the ethical standards of the APA
C) was formerly against the law, but no longer is
D) was formerly restricted by the APA, but no longer is
Q4) Explain how systematic desensitization might be used to treat a person with a phobia of heights.
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