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Course Introduction
Experimental Psychology explores the scientific method as applied to the study of human and animal behavior. This course covers foundational topics including research design, hypothesis testing, experimental control, data collection, and analysis techniques. Students examine major areas such as sensation, perception, learning, memory, and cognition through the lens of controlled experimentation. Emphasis is placed on ethical considerations, critical thinking, and the interpretation of empirical findings. Through hands-on laboratory exercises and research projects, students gain practical skills in designing and conducting psychological experiments, as well as communicating scientific results.
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Psychological Science 3rd Canadian Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) To rephrase Descartes, "I think therefore I behave" is a statement that reflects the importance of ____________ on behaviour and would not be spoken by a behaviourist.
A) reflexes
B) mental functions
C) environment
D) the unconscious
Answer: B
Q2) According to research conducted by Richard Nisbett, ____________ tend to be ___________ in their thinking.
A) Western cultures; holistic
B) Eastern cultures; holistic
C) both Western and Eastern cultures; holistic
D) both Western and Eastern cultures; analytic
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) The matter of who has access to data collected in an experiment is associated with what ethical issue?
A) deception
B) informed consent
C) anonymity
D) confidentiality
Answer: D
Q2) Anam is studying the intelligence of a group of people as they progress through early adulthood to old age. Her approach should involve:
A) cross-sectional research
B) experimental research
C) random assignment
D) longitudinal research
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is likely to be associated with observer bias?
A) reactivity
B) experience sampling
C) experimenter expectancy
D) the Hawthorne effect
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a purpose of a knockout mouse?
A) to determine the effects of a removed or disrupted gene on the genome
B) to determine the effect of a removed or disrupted gene on other genes
C) to determine how a removed gene might interact with the environment
D) to determine if the removed gene is important for a specific function
Answer: D
Q2) In considering a human characteristic, we could say that the ____________ provides the options and the ____________ determines which option is taken.
A) gene; genome
B) environment; genome
C) genome; environment
D) chromosome; genome
Answer: C
Q3) Which variables of behavioural genetics can be examined with adoption studies?
A) genetics only
B) environment only
C) genetics and environment
D) parenting
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Mind and Consciousness
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Q1) Jim is supposed to drive his children to school, but he is thinking about a big project at work. He drives directly to work, rather than dropping the children off at school first. This behaviour suggests that:
A) driving has become an automated behaviour for Jim
B) Jim is unable to concentrate on two things at once
C) Jim is likely very tired
D) thinking about the project interfered with Jim's driving ability
Q2) Kyle has suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. His eyes appear to be fully functional and were not damaged during the incident. However, he reports that he is only able to see light and dark, not objects. From what syndrome is Kyle likely suffering?
A) visiospatial sketchpad
B) blindsight
C) unconscious occipital awareness
D) foresight
Q3) Fast, short desynchronized brain waves are an indication of:
A) alertness
B) epilepsy
C) seizure
D) hypertension
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Your friend Kylie doesn't believe that she has a blind spot in her field of vision, because she does not notice it. You should tell her that:
A) she might be right; not everyone has a blind spot
B) if she were to close one eye and look into the distance, she would probably notice it
C) the reason she doesn't notice it is that her brain fills in the gap left by her blind spot automatically
D) the idea that humans have a blind spot is actually still being debated
Q2) After being in a car crash, Yuri has the selective inability to recognize faces. He is most likely suffering from ____________ due to damage to his ____________.
A) agnosia; primary visual cortex
B) agnosia; fusiform gyrus
C) prosopagnosia; primary visual cortex
D) prosopagnosia; fusiform gyrus
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) A term sometimes used to represent the storage of learning by the neural systems of the brain is:
A) habit
B) engram
C) bias
D) dividend
Q2) Alli is afraid of her neighbour's large dog. She soon becomes afraid of any dog she sees on the street, and eventually even pictures of dogs or toy dogs. This change in her fear of dogs represents the phenomenon of:
A) second-order conditioning
B) generalization
C) discrimination
D) reconditioning
Q3) The process by which an individual needs increasing amounts of the drug to achieve the same psychological or physical effects is known as:
A) addiction
B) tolerance
C) sensitization
D) withdrawal
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) Many movies involve product placement; for example, the main actor may only drink cans of Dr. Pepper. Companies pay for product placement because they assume that it increases the likelihood that audience members will later buy the product. If this actually happens, it is likely due to existence of the item in:
A) explicit memory
B) semantic memory
C) implicit memory
D) procedural memory
Q2) After Itohan was in a serious car accident, she could remember everything that had happened to her before the accident but could not form any new memories. Itohan most likely has damage to her ____________, causing her to have ____________ amnesia.
A) hippocampus; anterograde
B) hippocampus; retrograde
C) amygdala; anterograde
D) amygdala; retrograde
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Why do people use cognitive biases in their thinking even though using them can result in bad decisions?
A) These biases will likely result in good decisions.
B) Bad decisions are less serious using the biases.
C) The biases produce bad decisions in unimportant situations.
D) The biases produce good decisions in critical cases.
Q2) Research on cognition-enhancing drugs has been largely driven by research on:
A) increasing exam performance among university students
B) treatment of attention deficit disorder
C) treatment of Alzheimer's disease
D) ways to boost a person's IQ
Q3) Carina is trying to decide what word is formed by w_ed. She could fill in the blank with every letter from a to z until she found a word, or she could start with e because it is the most frequently occurring letter. If she tried every letter, Carina would be using a(n) ____________. If she starts with e, Carina would be using a(n) ____________.
A) algorithm; heuristic
B) heuristic; heuristic
C) algorithm; algorithm
D) heuristic; algorithm
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Emilio and Claudio are both graduating seniors. Emilio has an A average and Claudio has a C average. They are both applying to law school at the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall, and McGill. Emilio is likely to be ____________ in achievement motivation and Claudio is likely to be ____________ in achievement motivation.
A) high; low
B) high; high
C) low; low
D) low; high
Q2) Nitya has been eating a large tuna fish sandwich. After eating the first half she is no longer hungry and wraps the other half for later. When she is putting the wrapped sandwich in the fridge she notices a piece of apple pie, and takes a crumb to taste. Eating the crumb of pie makes her hungry again and she has the whole piece. The change from tuna fish to pie has made Nitya hungry again because ____________ have been ____________.
A) satiety centres in the lateral hypothalamus; deactivated
B) control centres in the prefrontal cortex; deactivated
C) hunger centres in the ventromedial hypothalamus; reactivated
D) reward centres in the frontal lobes; reactivated
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Which hormone is assumed to stimulate infant/mother bonding during breastfeeding?
A) serotonin
B) oxytocin
C) peptide
D) androgen
Q2) Fewer colds and flus, a better functioning immune system, and reduced risk of serious diseases like heart disease, can be expected from which of the following?
A) increasing the positive emotions one experiences
B) decreasing the number of people in one's social network
C) being single versus married
D) increasing one's social and work responsibilities
Q3) Your roommate is hostile, very competitive, and pessimistic. On the basis of recent research, which of the following health problems is he most likely to experience later?
A) cardiovascular disease
B) immune system failures
C) chronic infections
D) cancer
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Chapter 11: Human Development
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Q1) Myelination:
A) occurs in all brain regions at roughly the same time
B) increases the speed at which a neuron can transmit signals
C) is not complete in the brain areas involved in abstract thought until young adulthood
D) increases the speed at which a neuron can transmit signals and is not complete in the brain areas involved in abstract thought until young adulthood
Q2) Work on language acquisition with animals has shown that:
A) while chimps lack the ability to speak aloud, they can easily master the key components of the human language
B) chimps can master sign language, but not spoken language
C) chimps, while very good at communicating, are not able to master the key components of human language
D) animals have little or no language or communication within their species
Q3) In terms of sensory capabilities, you came into the world with:
A) good visual sensitivity but unable to smell or taste
B) the ability to process stimuli related to all five senses
C) good taste and smell but only a minimal sense of hearing
D) excellent vision but poorly developed senses of smell and taste
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Whose behaviour is LEAST likely to be helped by an antidepressant that raises levels of serotonin?
A) Kevin, who gets into repeated bar fights
B) Fritz, who deliberately drives his car off a bridge
C) five-year-old Kimiko, who is always hostile toward people
D) Gabriella, who has overdosed on sleeping pills
Q2) If you had been consulted when Abu Ghraib was being developed, what advice could you have given about minimizing the probability of mistreatment of prisoners?
A) Establish a clear chain of command and clear responsibilities.
B) Test potential guards and use only those who are psychologically stable.
C) Encourage values by emphasizing group solidarity as Americans.
D) Make sure that the guards are paid well enough not to resent their work.
Q3) Catalina has gotten an entirely new haircut that she can't wait to show her boyfriend. A social psychologist might advise her that her boyfriend may:
A) not like the haircut because it is new
B) not like the haircut because she did not ask his opinion first
C) like the haircut just because she is so happy with it
D) like the haircut because having her look different is exciting
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) In terms of the number of structures (e.g., the id) that Freud believed made up the mind, which other theory is most similar?
A) the Five-Factor Theory
B) Eysenck's Hierarchical Model of Personality
C) Tellegen's Two-Factor Theory
D) Allport's model consisting of a limitless number of personality traits
Q2) If countries which are now collectivistic in orientation became more independent in orientation, people in those countries would be:
A) more likely to use the self-serving bias
B) less likely to use the self-serving bias
C) more likely to use self-enhancement strategies
D) less likely to use self-enhancement strategies
Q3) Psychologists agree that the best method for measuring aspects of personality is to:
A) ask people's friends or relatives
B) observe how people behave
C) have people report on themselves
D) No, psychologists do not yet agree on the best method.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Personality disorders are classified along with ____________ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual because they ____________.
A) mood disorders; involve extreme moods
B) anxiety disorders; involve fear in relationships
C) multiple personality disorder; involve dysfunction in personality expression
D) mental retardation; are typically long-lasting
Q2) Caroline uses an old grocery cart to collect cans, plastic bags, and newspapers from the street. She wears multiple layers of clothing even when it is hot outside. She frequently talks to herself in public. She is:
A) showing what happens when severe bipolar disorder is left untreated
B) showing what happens when severe anti-social personality disorder is left untreated
C) manifesting positive symptoms of schizophrenia
D) manifesting negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Q3) Asperger's syndrome is:
A) a form of autism showing severe intellectual impairment
B) the childhood precursor to obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults
C) a form of high-functioning autism
D) a form of autism characterized by hyperactivity
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) What characterizes client-centred therapy?
A) the use of dream interpretations to uncover unconscious conflicts
B) the use of direct suggestions for how the patient could behave more effectively
C) getting the patient to take the perspective of others so he or she can become more empathetic
D) getting the patient to focus on his or her subjective experience
Q2) Freud arranged the physical setup of his therapy room so that his patient could not see him. In his view this:
A) allowed him to focus on his own feelings
B) increased the sense of mystery experienced by his patient
C) caused the patient to feel more vulnerable and hence express his/her sickness more
D) reduced inhibitions the patient might feel about revealing unconscious thoughts and wishes
Q3) The use of tranquilizers to control anxiety disorders:
A) is problematic because many of these drugs are addictive
B) is ideal because most of these drugs are not addictive
C) increases the presence of an excitatory neurotransmitter
D) is most effective for phobias
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Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology
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Q1) Subtypes of schizophrenia ____________ across cultures.
A) vary in frequency
B) do not vary in frequency
C) are related to employment rates
D) are affected by family dynamics
Q2) Social striving is associated with:
A) working in a group just hard enough to get by
B) working harder in a group than as an individual
C) being a confederate in a social-loafing experiment
D) only working hard during an economic slump
Q3) The dramatic rise in rates of anorexia is:
A) associated with acculturation
B) the result of an increase in ascetic lifestyles
C) influenced by the inclusion of "holy anorexia" in the definition
D) most prevalent in Western cultures
Q4) Cultural psychologists believe that:
A) culture is primarily a product of the mind
B) culture and mind are separable
C) culture and mind make each other up
D) All of these are important assumptions.
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