General Psychology Exam Review
Course Introduction
General Psychology offers a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Covering foundational topics such as biological bases of behavior, perception, learning, memory, cognition, development, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and social psychology, this course emphasizes critical thinking and the application of psychological principles to everyday life. Students will explore major theories, research methods, and classic as well as contemporary studies, gaining insights into how psychological knowledge is developed, evaluated, and applied.
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Psychology An Introduction 10th Edition by Benjamin Lahey
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) The first intelligence test was developed to
A) provide France with a college entrance examination.
B) determine educational pathways for children.
C) test the memory abilities of U.S.workers.
D) diagnose mentally retarded criminals.
Answer: B
Q2) Most psychologists agree that people can only be understood by
A) recognizing sociocultural influences.
B) looking at brain differences.
C) comparing human behavior to animal behavior.
D) using formal experimentation.
Answer: A
Q3) Why can a psychiatrist prescribe drugs but a clinical psychologist cannot?
A) Because the psychiatrist was in school longer.
B) Because the psychiatrist has received medical training.
C) Because the clinical psychologist has not studied human behavior broadly enough.
D) Because insurance companies will not let clinical psychologists prescribe drugs.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Q1) In psychological research,the idea of informed consent is that participants A) have a right to know the results of the study after it is complete. B) need to be aware of the risks and benefits of participating in research. C) should not be pressured into participating in a research experiment. D) can expect the researchers to keep the outcomes of the study confidential.
Answer: B
Q2) If the most frequently occurring age in your classroom belongs to 19-year-olds,then 19 is the ______ age of the class.
A) modal
B) median
C) mean
D) average
Answer: A
Q3) Naturalistic observation describes a research technique in which careful observation and recording of behavior occurs
A) in real-life settings.
B) through archival research.
C) in a controlled laboratory.
D) under legal scrutiny.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations in Behavior
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Q1) Which brain area is most directly linked to the functions of the autonomic nervous system?
A) thalamus
B) hippocampus
C) corpus callosum
D) hypothalamus
Answer: D
Q2) The cerebral cortex is part of the forebrain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The peripheral system is comprised of the brain and spinal cord.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Synaptic vesicles are located in the ends of axons.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Interplay of Nature and Nurture
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Q1) When college students are asked about the number of sexual partners desired over the next 30 years,
A) men reply to the survey question but most women refuse to answer the question.
B) women report a higher number of desired sexual partners than men.
C) there is no significant difference between men and women and the number of sexual partners desired.
D) men report a higher number of desired sexual partners than women.
Q2) According to evolutionary theory,the parental investment f or women who were pregnant was high.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Recessive traits appear only when the mother's gene is ______ and the father's gene is ______.
A) dominant;recessive
B) dominant;dominant
C) recessive;dominant
D) recessive;recessive
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Information about the location and movement of skin,muscles,joints,and tendons is provided by
A) saccule and utricle cells.
B) kinesthetic receptors.
C) semicircular canals.
D) tactile discs.
Q2) Gate control theory is associated with A) vision.
B) pain.
C) balance.
D) olfaction.
Q3) The effectiveness of morphine in relieving pain is explained by its A) mood elevating effects.
B) chemical similarity to endorphins.
C) capacity to inhibit free nerve endings.
D) tendency to open spinal gates.
Q4) Opponent-process theory helps us understand sound localization. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
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Q1) A spontaneous state of consciousness that occurs when one experiences their own body becoming distorted or unreal in some way is referred to as A) mantrafication.
B) mindfulness.
C) mesmerism.
D) depersonalization.
Q2) Incorporating a ringing telephone into your current dream is called day residue.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When a person is aware of events taking place in her or his internal as well as external environment,that person is considered to be in a state of A) consciousness.
B) transcendence.
C) divided perception.
D) heightened sensation.
Q4) Sleepwalking occurs during the deepest parts of non-REM sleep. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Learning
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Q1) The key element in classical conditioning is association.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A sudden cognitive change that allows a problem to be solved is A) insight.
B) disinhibition.
C) recognition.
D) superstition.
Q3) Edward Tolman's work on place learning and latent learning supported the cognitive interpretation of learning.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Reinforcing the behavior of a model will increase the probability of the same behavior in the observer.This is called
A) external disinhibition.
B) vicarious reinforcement.
C) negative reinforcement.
D) spontaneous learning.
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Procedural memory is memory for skills.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The idea that an item's position on a list influences its probability of recall is known as the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The levels of processing theory of long-term memory suggests two levels,shallow and deep processing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In preparing for any test,which of the following would be most beneficial?
A) maintenance rehearsal
B) elaboration
C) chunking
D) relearning
Q5) According to interference theory,memories that are not used gradually fade over time.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) General intelligence is a better predictor of breadth of knowledge than the depth of knowledge in any one area.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How many phonemes are there in the English language?
A) 26
B) 44
C) approximately 12,000
D) an infinite number
Q3) The Primary Mental Abilities Test is designed to measure ______ different types of intelligence.
A) three
B) five
C) seven
D) nine
Q4) It is believed that persons with high "g"
A) have faster reflexes but slower reaction times.
B) have slower reflexes due to more complex neural connections.
C) have both faster reflexes and faster reaction times.
D) do not differ from lower "g" persons in any measurable ways.
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Chapter 10: Developmental Psychology
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Q1) The period known as infancy lasts from about the ______ mark to the ______ mark.
A) 2-week;26-week
B) 2-week;1-year
C) 1-week;26-week
D) 2-week;2-year
Q2) The age 30 transition is a component of ______'s stage theory of development.
A) Gilligan
B) Kohlberg
C) Piaget
D) Levinson
Q3) According to Gilligan,moral development in males begins with ______ and moral development in females begins with ______.
A) self-interest;self-interest
B) self-interest;abstract principles of justice
C) balanced concern for self and others;self-interest
D) balanced concern for self and others;abstract principles of justice
Q4) According to Erikson,a life crisis is a turning point.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Human body temperature fluctuates around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.The body maintains this temperature through a process called
A) primary motivation.
B) drive reduction.
C) homeostasis.
D) optimal arousal.
Q2) In their studies of emotion,Schachter and Singer concluded that the autonomic arousal that accompanies emotion
A) is not important to the cognitive interpretation of emotion.
B) is similar for all emotions.
C) occurs after the emotion has been interpreted.
D) can be used to determine the emotion being experienced.
Q3) Praise can increase intrinsic motivation when the praise
A) implies that success was due to natural ability.
B) does not compare the child to other children.
C) states that the adult is actually controlling the child.
D) does compare the child to other children.
Q4) The more jobs a person has,the happier they tend to be.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Personality Theories and Assessment
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Q1) If Pam is rated as negligent,careless,and undependable on a personality test,which of the following personality traits may also be low?
A) agreeableness
B) conscientiousness
C) openness
D) extraversion
Q2) It was Freud's emphasis of ______ that led Carl Jung to break away from Freud and continue to develop his own ideas about human behavior without Freud.
A) sexual motivation
B) unconscious desire
C) oral-anal fixations
D) the Oedipal complex
Q3) What type of task might a person be asked to do if taking a projective test?
A) answer true/false questions
B) make up a story
C) respond on a 1-to-5 scale
D) fill in a computer scanning sheet
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Chapter 13: Stress and Health
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Q1) The component of Type A behavior that is most closely related to coronary heart disease is
A) time urgency.
B) repression.
C) hostile aggression.
D) achievement motivation.
Q2) A person reduces stressful mistakes into small,logical errors through the defense mechanism called
A) projection.
B) intellectualization.
C) sublimation.
D) denial.
Q3) Steve dislikes the thought of staying in school but does not want to work either.Which type of conflict is at work here?
A) approach-approach
B) avoidance-avoidance
C) approach-avoidance
D) double approach-approach
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Chapter 14: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Women are ______ to suffer from depression compared to men.
A) half as likely
B) equally likely
C) twice as likely
D) ten times more likely
Q2) Waxy flexibility is a symptom that is most closely associated with ______ schizophrenia.
A) undifferentiated
B) paranoid
C) disorganized
D) catatonic
Q3) Experiences of depersonalization are more common among
A) elderly people.
B) young adults.
C) children from unstable homes.
D) fully self-actualized people.
Q4) According to supernatural theory,abnormality was caused by evil spirits.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Therapies
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Q1) In family therapy,it is assumed that the A) person who has the symptoms does not have the problem.
B) person who has the symptoms is causing the problem.
C) problem originates in the interactions of the family members.
D) healthy family members are responsible for the disturbed family member's behavior.
Q2) Client-centered psychotherapy emerged from a behaviorist viewpoint.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If you tend to downplay or ignore compliments given to you,and this behavior is taken to the extreme,Beck might suggest that you are exhibiting the cognitive error of A) selective abstraction.
B) minimization.
C) graded exposure.
D) safe emergency.
Q4) Phobias can often be cured by using extinction to a fearful stimulus;a procedure based on this fact is known as graded exposure.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology
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Q1) If a person is asked to explain why she did not follow instructions,she is very likely to perceive and report her own behavior in terms of
A) a lack of personal control.
B) a sense of responsibility for her actions.
C) situational factors.
D) her essential personality and deep values.
Q2) In general,speakers are more persuasive if they obviously intend to change your opinion and have something to gain by changing your opinion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Highly cohesive groups often think in ways that foster unanimous agreement rather than critical evaluation.This tendency is known as
A) collective behavior.
B) social facilitation.
C) groupthink.
D) forced compliance.
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Chapter 17: Psychology Applied to Business and Other
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Q1) What benefit did keeping its employees healthy through exercise have for the Johnson & Johnson Corporation?
A) The rate of new hires was decreased.
B) Productivity remained even but there were fewer missed days.
C) It saved almost a quarter-of-a-million dollars in health care claims.
D) Its yearly profit exceeded expenses for the first time in history.
Q2) Which of the following is one potential reason that the earth will no longer be able to sustain life at some time in the future?
A) resource depletion
B) nuclear destruction
C) sun deterioration
D) global cooling
Q3) Handicapped children must receive educational and psychological assistance in circumstances that are as similar as possible to the environment of non-handicapped children.In legal terms this is called the
A) mastery learning environment.
B) intelligent tutoring system.
C) least restrictive environment.
D) person x situation interaction.
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