Behavioral Science Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Behavioral Science is an interdisciplinary field that explores the connections between human behavior and various social, psychological, and biological factors. This course introduces foundational theories and methodologies from psychology, sociology, and anthropology to analyze how individuals and groups perceive, think, act, and interact. Students will examine topics such as learning and motivation, social influence, decision-making, cultural impact, and mental health. Emphasis will be placed on applying behavioral science concepts to real-world challenges, enabling students to better understand and influence human behavior in diverse settings, including healthcare, organizations, and everyday life.
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Psychological Science Modeling Scientific Literacy 1st Edition by Mark Krause
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Chapter 1: Introducing Psychological Science
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Q1) Which type of psychologist is most likely to work at a large company?
A)forensic
B)industrial/organizational (I/O)
C)clinical
D)school
Answer: B
Q2) A good hypothesis is one that is stated in the most general terms possible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Psychology became a scientific discipline in the 1600s.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) By general agreement,psychology was born in __________.
A)1642
B)1853
C)1879
D)1906
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Reading and Evaluating Scientific Research
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Q1) In an experiment to test the effects of anxiety on performance,the dependent variable is the __________.
A)amount of anxiety
B)age of the person
C)person's performance
D)cause of the anxiety
Answer: C
Q2) What does it mean to say that two variables are negatively correlated?
A)An increase in one variable is associated with a decrease in the other.
B)An increase in one variable is associated with an increase in the other.
C)A decrease in one variable is associated with a decrease in the other.
D)The two variables have no relationship.
Answer: A
Q3) In an experiment,a researcher manipulates one variable to see how it affects a second variable.The manipulated variable is called the:
A)dependent variable.
B)experimental variable.
C)independent variable.
D)placebo.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) An individual with a "split brain":
A)will most likely die.
B)will probably become schizophrenic
C)will probably develop a split personality.
D)none of the above
Answer: D
Q2) "All or none" is the principle stating that
A)a neuron always fires at the same strength..
B)a neuron fires at full strength or half strength.There are no other "partial" firing options.
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.
Answer: A
Q3) Lasting only a few milliseconds,the ____________________ is a brief period after an action potential when a neuron cannot fire again.
Answer: refractory period
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) We are sensitive to _________ basic tastes.
A)three
B)five
C)seven
D)countless
Q2) _____ is the study of how physical events relate to psychological perceptions of those events.
A)Sensation
B)Sensory adaptation
C)Perception
D)Psychophysics
Q3) Which Gestalt Principle of Form Perception must always occur even if other principles are also illustrated?
A)figure-ground
B)similarity
C)proximity
D)closure
Q4) When we look directly at an object,the light focuses on the central region of the retina,called the _________,which allows us to see it clearly and in full color.
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
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Q1) _____ are drugs that increase nervous system activity.
A)Hallucinogens
B)Narcotics
C)Psychoactive drugs
D)Stimulants
Q2) For Freud,much of our behavior is controlled by __________.
A)unconscious desires
B)environmental stimuli
C)mental Gestalts
D)mental associations
Q3) Following a car accident,Missy has only minimal consciousness.Sometimes her eyes may open,and she spends part of her time seemingly awake (i.e.,not sleeping),but there are no clear signs of consciousness.Medical professionals would most accurately describe her condition as a
A)minimally conscious state.
B)coma.
C)persistent vegetative state.
D)dissociative state.
Q4) Young children sometimes experience ________________,which can cause them to wake from NREM sleep screaming.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) A grandmother gives her grandchild a cookie because the child cleaned up her room.What is the cookie in this example?
A)conditioned response
B)punisher
C)positive reinforcer
D)negative reinforcer
Q2) Conditioning a response can take longer if the subject experiences the conditioned stimulus repeatedly before it is actually paired with a US.This phenomenon is known as _____.
A)preparedness
B)extinction
C)latent inhibition
D)acquisition
Q3) A child is praised for using his fork instead of his fingers to eat some spaghetti.This is an example of __________ reinforcement.
A)positive
B)extrinsic
C)higher-order
D)secondary
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Herrmann Ebbinghaus is famous for creating a _________________,which graphically displayed the results of his memory experiments.
Q2) The Magical Number of short-term memory is
A)fifteen plus or minus two.
B)nine plus or minus two.
C)seven plus or minus three.
D)seven plus or minus two.
Q3) Using the mnemonic known as ____________________,you could remember the order of the first 10 U.S.presidents by imagining yourself walking from room to room in your house,with a different president sitting in each room.
Q4) Which of the following best describes human memory?
A)Memory is like a video camera recording an entire experience.
B)Memories are reconstructed based on a combination of schemas and specific details.
C)Memories for events are a jumble of unrelated details and facts,with no system of organization.
D)Memories generally consist of nothing but false beliefs and misinformation.
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Chapter 8: Thought and Language
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Q1) Kyle buys a new refrigerator,but when he gets home,he cannot fit it through the front door of his house.Which of the following would describe the initial state for Kyle's problem?
A)The refrigerator is outside of the house.
B)The refrigerator is inside the house.
C)Kyle can make the refrigerator narrower by taking the doors off of it.
D)The refrigerator does not fit through the front door.
Q2) People often overestimate the danger of shark attacks because it is fairly easy to think of news stories and reports of shark attacks.This is an example of how the _____ can sometimes lead to poor judgments.
A)availability heuristic
B)anchoring effect
C)functional fixedness effect
D)representativeness heuristic
Q3) What are the smallest units of meaning in a language?
A)words
B)syntax
C)phonemes
D)morphemes
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Chapter 9: Intelligence, aptitude, and Cognitive Abilities
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Q1) According to your textbook,what is the most likely explanation for why children born during the first part of the calendar year tend to have higher verbal and mathematical aptitude?
A)prenatal exposure to flu
B)they are the oldest students in their class year
C)temperature during infancy
D)exposure to sunlight during infancy
Q2) Taylor is the only girl on her baseball team.Today she will be playing in the championship game and is worried that she will "choke" (not be able to play as well as she usually does)because she was told that girls always "choke" in the big games.What concept is being represented?
A)between-group heritability
B)confirmation bias
C)stereotype threat
D)test bias
Q3) One way to determine how specific genes influence behavior is to breed mice that have had the gene removed from their genome.A research project using this technique is referred to as a _________________ study.
Q4) Charles Spearman used the letter g as an abbreviation for
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Chapter 10: Life Span Development
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Q1) Which statement best summarizes emotion and life satisfaction at old age?
A)Older adults are more likely to focus on positive experiences than younger people.
B)Older adulthood is primarily characterized by despair and anxiety about aging.
C)Older adults are typically diagnosed with depression.
D)Older adults are no different from younger adults in terms of depression and life satisfaction.
Q2) Before puberty,males do not produce sperm,even though their genitals are physically equivalent to a man's.This illustrates which of the following?
A)empiricism
B)behaviorism
C)humanism
D)maturation
Q3) The cognitive changes that occur in late adulthood and may impair driving:
A)are irreversible.
B)are minimal.
C)can be improved with specific training.
D)affect only people with dementiA
Q4) A(n)________________ is first created when a sperm and an ovum fuse together.
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) According to the psychologist __________________ humans have a "hierarchy of needs," such that basic needs must be met before higher needs can be addressed.
Q2) Research into the sexual response cycle of men and women has revealed some surprising similarities and differences.Describe some of these similarities and differences.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true about how humans display emotions?
A)While some basic emotions are universally recognized,different cultures have unique ways of displaying some emotions.
B)All emotional displays are understood across all cultures.
C)There are no emotional displays that are universally understood across all cultures.
D)Emotional displays are determined by context,but not by culture.
Q4) Joseph's mother tells him to smile more if he wants to feel better.She is applying the _____ theory of emotion.
A)Cannon-Bard
B)two-factor
C)James-Lange
D)slow/fast path
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Chapter 12: Personality
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Q1) In a research study discussed in your textbook,researchers found that ratings of the Big Five personality factors corresponded to the _____________ specific brain regions.
A)electrical activity in B)neurotransmitters in C)size of D)location of
Q2) Which of the following gives the stages of development outlined by Freud in the order in which they occur?
A)anal,oral,latency,phallic,genital
B)anal,latency,oral,phallic,genital
C)oral,anal,phallic,latency,genital
D)oral,anal,latency,phallic,genital
Q3) An infant's temperament is a useful predictor of his or her adult personality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _________________ is the psychologist whose theories are most closely associated with the concept of a "hierarchy of needs."
Q5) Freud believed the id was fueled by an energy called _____________.
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Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding the intersection of the mental health and legal industries?
A)The insanity defense is raised in less than 1% of all criminal trials,and is only successful about 20% of the time.
B)"Insanity" is a psychological/psychiatric term.
C)The serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was famously found not guilty by reason of insanity.
D)The precedent for the insanity defense is a trial that occurred in the 1970s.
Q2) Which of the following statements best summarizes the relationship between schizophrenia and violence?
A)Generally,people with schizophrenia are no more likely to become violent than non-mentally ill people,and if violence occurs,other factors,such as substance abuse,are likely to contribute to its cause.
B)People with schizophrenia are twice as likely to be violent as non-mentally ill people.
C)People with schizophrenia are far more peaceful than non-mentally ill people.
D)People with schizophrenia cannot differentiate right from wrong,and therefore are prone to violence.
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Chapter 14: Therapies
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Q1) According to your textbook,what percentage of college students exhibit symptoms of depression?
A)1%
B)15%
C)50%
D)85%
Q2) In behavior therapy,distressing symptoms are seen as:
A)the result of learning.
B)the result of your unconscious impulses.
C)a chemical imbalance.
D)an indicator of neurophysiological abnormalities.
Q3) Freud believed that with insight and better understanding of past experiences,his patients' symptoms would improve.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Electroshock treatment is mainly effective in treating _______.
A)depression
B)schizophrenia
C)anxiety disorders
D)all of the above
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Chapter 15: Social Psychology
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Q1) How did the Stanford Prison Study researchers come to the conclusion that roles,and not individual personalities,were the main influence on the volunteers' behavior?
A)The volunteer "prison guards" were specifically instructed to respond brutally.
B)The "prisoners" were actually actors hired by the researchers.
C)The prisoners and prison guards were psychologically similar prior to the start of the experience.
D)The researchers actually believed that personality is more important than social roles.
Q2) Conceptually,_____ is the opposite of the fundamental attribution error.
A)cognitive dissonance
B)the self-fulfilling prophecy
C)outgroup bias
D)self-serving bias
Q3) According to some researchers,one way to measure implicit prejudice is to
A)use the Implicit Associations Test.
B)count the number of stereotypes they use when describing individuals.
C)ask participants how they feel about different racial and ethnic groups.
D)use the Open Demonstration of Hostility Measurement Scale.
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Chapter 16: Krause and Corts
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Q1) A direct effect of stress on coronary health would be:
A)a stress-related increase in inflammation that results in buildup of cholesterol in the arteries.
B)eating more fattening foods in response to stress.
C)engaging in increased risky behavior due to stress.
D)increased moodiness during periods of stress
Q2) People with low socioeconomic statuses tend to have worse health than do those with high status.One reason for this is ________________.
A)malingering (pretending to be ill)
B)cultural reinforcers
C)environmental stressors
D)heredity
Q3) Which of the following factors is not related to a person's weight?
A)Exposure to food advertisements
B)Sedentary lifestyle
C)Ethnicity
D)All of these are related to weight.
Q4) In terms of health,both spouses' benefit equally from marriage.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Krause and Corts
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Q1) Over the past decade,the EEOC has received 12,000 to 15,000 complaints of _____________each year,with the vast majority (85% to 90%)being filed by women.
Q2) Absenteeism refers to:
A)when an employee regularly misses work for illegitimate reasons.
B)when an employee regularly misses work for any reason.
C)the rate at which employees leave the company.
D)the policy of allowing workers to accumulate sick leave and vacation time.
Q3) The human resources manager for a large company likes to let interviews with job applicants go wherever the conversation naturally leads.He feels that this technique gives him a fairly accurate sense of the applicant's personality.Which technique is the manager using?
A)structured interview
B)job simulation
C)360 assessment
D)unstructured interview
Q4) The most effective leaders are neither the least assertive nor the most assertive.
A)True
B)False
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