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General Psychology provides an overview of the fundamental concepts, theories, and research in the field of psychology. This course explores a wide range of topics including biological bases of behavior, perception, learning, memory, development, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Emphasis is placed on understanding how psychological principles apply to everyday life and on the development of critical thinking skills for evaluating psychological information. Through a combination of lectures, readings, and discussions, students will gain a broad understanding of human behavior and mental processes.
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Psychological Science 3rd Canadian Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Which organization is responsible for publishing the code of ethical behaviour for psychologists?
A) Health Canada
B) Canadian Psychiatric Association
C) Canadian Mental Health Association
D) the Canadian Psychological Association
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following schools of psychology is most closely linked with Darwin's theory of evolution?
A) Gestalt
B) behaviourism
C) structuralism
D) functionalism
Answer: D
Q3) The implicit association test (IAT) is used to measure:
A) people's associations without their awareness
B) people's behaviour toward different groups of people
C) the sources of racial attitudes
D) the experiences that have affected people's racial attitudes
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) Investigators who are interested in gaining a lot of information about group attitudes quickly are likely to use what kind of research approach?
A) case study
B) psychophysiological assessment
C) participant observation
D) self-report
Answer: D
Q2) If you want to know how far apart scores in a data set tend to be, you could use the:
A) mean
B) median
C) mode
D) standard deviation
Answer: D
Q3) The mean, median, and mode are all examples of:
A) inferential statistics
B) measures of central tendency
C) types of variability
D) correlational measures
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations
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Q1) The advantage of studying monozygotic twins is that:
A) all of their behaviours are identical
B) they are treated the same in their environment
C) they are easy to locate and track for research
D) they are genetically identical
Answer: D
Q2) The nerves that provide information about muscle movement are called __________ neurons.
A) motor
B) muscle
C) inter(neurons)
D) somatosensory
Answer: D
Q3) 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
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Chapter 4: The Mind and Consciousness
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Q1) Your friend has been complaining about her inability to concentrate and her irritability. She mentions that she has not been able to fall asleep. What condition might your friend have?
A) dementia
B) insomnia
C) melatonin
D) paradoxical sleep
Q2) Sean, who is 18 years old, complains that he never dreams. He asks if this could be possible. Based on what you know about dream behaviour, you are likely to:
A) agree with him because you don't dream either
B) disagree with him because he is 18 and everyone can dream after the age of 12
C) disagree with him because we all have dreams unless we have a specific brain injury or are on a certain kind of medication
D) agree with him because not everyone has dreams in REM sleep
Q3) Which of the following is NOT likely a purpose of sleep?
A) strengthening of neuronal connections that serve as the basis for learning
B) consolidation of information
C) maintenance and strengthening of the immune system
D) reducing the likelihood of schizophrenia
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a basic quality of taste?
A) sweet
B) umami
C) salty
D) sharp
Q2) ____________ has the most direct route to the brain because it is the only sense that bypasses the ____________.
A) the haptic sense; thalamus
B) gustation; hypothalamus
C) the kinesthetic sense; hypothalamus
D) olfaction; thalamus
Q3) After leaving the thalamus, axons projecting from tactile sensory neurons project to the ____________ in the ____________ lobe.
A) homunculus; parietal
B) homunculus; temporal
C) primary somatosensory cortex; parietal
D) primary somatosensory cortex; temporal
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Getting a library fine for overdue books resulting in fewer overdue books is a form of:
A) positive reinforcement
B) negative reinforcement
C) positive punishment
D) negative punishment
Q2) Research investigating gender differences in learning patterns have shown that:
A) women are more likely to use landmarks and memorize a series of turns when navigating through space
B) men are more likely to use landmarks and memorize a series of turns when navigating through space
C) women are more likely to keep track of cardinal directions and use landmarks
D) men are more likely to keep track of cardinal directions and use landmarks
Q3) Physical maturation is NOT considered a form of learning because it:
A) does not result from experience
B) does involve changes in behaviour
C) does not involve classical conditioning
D) is an enduring change
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) People find it very easy to put on a button-down shirt, but much harder to list the steps involved in putting on that shirt. This suggests that ____________ memory is more useful in getting dressed than ____________ memory.
A) declarative; procedural
B) procedural; declarative
C) episodic; semantic
D) semantic; episodic
Q2) Laden has a memory of being given a wonderful teddy bear. She believes that she is remembering her second birthday. You could tell that the earliest birthday she could be remembering is her ____________ because until that time her ____________ lobes were too immature.
A) third; frontal
B) third; temporal
C) fifth; frontal
D) fifth; temporal
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Lucia won the bronze medal in gymnastics. What might you expect her to say to reporters after the ceremony about her feelings?
A) "If only I had . . ."
B) "Things might have been different if . . ."
C) "I can't stop thinking about how close I came . . ."
D) "I am glad that at least I won a medal . . ."
Q2) Fluid intelligence has been argued ____________ adaptive; crystallized intelligence has been argued ____________ adaptive.
A) to be; not to be
B) to be; to be
C) not to be; to be
D) not to be; not to be
Q3) The expectation that a minister will give a sermon in church, while a professor will give a lecture in class, comes from the property of schemas that:
A) categories contain exemplars
B) concepts contain prototypes
C) situations have consistent attributes
D) people have specific roles in situations
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Gerde is very close to finishing her Ph.D. in biology. She has been offered several good jobs and everyone assumed she was off to a brilliant career. However, Gerde decides that while she is a very talented biologist, what she really wants is to become a carpenter. She quits graduate school and goes on to become a very happy and successful carpenter. According to Maslow, Gerde is:
A) an underachiever
B) high in self-esteem
C) self-actualized
D) unmotivated
Q2) Motivation ____________, while emotion ____________.
A) produces behaviour; influences motivation
B) influences emotion; produces behaviour
C) is caused by cognition; influences cognition
D) influences cognition; is caused by cognition
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of people with a high need for achievement?
A) having unrealistically high career goals
B) setting attainable personal goals
C) scoring high on exams
D) obtaining high grades in career related classes
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Compared to the medical model of health, the biopsychosocial model:
A) is more complex
B) ignores human biology
C) is rarely used in practice
D) is more simplistic
Q2) Participants in a research study have to provide saliva samples to a team of researchers. The researchers then relate the participants' personality traits to immune system functioning. The researchers are involved in the study of:
A) psychoneuroimmunology
B) sociobiology
C) biobehaviourism
D) allopathic load
Q3) June feels that she has too many projects to do and too many people demanding too much of her. She knows she can't keep up with the demands. What is she experiencing?
A) stress
B) eustress
C) anticipatory coping
D) emotional coping
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Chapter 11: Human Development
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Q1) Gender roles are ______________ while gender schemas are _______________.
A) culturally defined norms that differentiate the behaviour and attitudes of men and women; cognitive structures that influence how people interpret the behaviour of men and women
B) cognitive structures that influence how people interpret the behaviour of men and women; culturally defined norms that differentiate the behaviour and attitudes of men and women
C) biologically defined norms that differentiate the behaviour and attitudes of men and women; cognitive structures that influence how people interpret the behaviour of men and women
D) biological structures that influence how people interpret the behaviour of men and women; culturally defined norms that differentiate the behaviour and attitudes of men and women
Q2) Your sister has a 4-year-old child. According to Piaget he is probably at the ____________ stage of development.
A) preoperational
B) sensorimotor
C) concrete operational
D) formal operational
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Who is most likely to be involved in a happy and satisfying relationship?
A) Carlye, who always sees the hopeful side of things
B) Luis, who is very relaxed and easygoing
C) Anjiti, who is outgoing and socially skilled
D) Jemail, who is passionate and intense
Q2) People are often advised not to make hasty decisions about other people. The research on thin slices of behaviour would suggest that this advice is:
A) good because opinions change with more information
B) good because information can be evaluated better with more time
C) bad because further analysis usually produces less accurate judgments
D) bad because accurate judgments can be made using little information
Q3) The main advantage of a stereotype is that it ____________; the main disadvantage is that it ____________.
A) is a mental shortcut; blocks necessary processing
B) identifies critical information; is a mental heuristic
C) is basically accurate; is not very detailed
D) allows for rapid processing; can lead to errors
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Which of the following statements is NOT a view that evolutionary psychologists would hold about human personality?
A) Some traits evolved because of the rewards associated with having those traits.
B) Human personality is based both on free will and biological processes.
C) Having several different personality traits present in a community ensures that many different tasks are accomplished.
D) Personality differences may be the result of random processes in evolution.
Q2) Freud argued that defence mechanisms are:
A) strategies the id uses to satisfy the pleasure principle
B) mental strategies we consciously employ to deal with unacceptable sexual urges
C) unconscious strategies that the mind uses to protect itself from distress
D) strategies employed by the superego to satisfy the reality principle
Q3) Making downward comparisons has been shown to:
A) increase self-esteem
B) decrease self-esteem
C) have little effect on self-esteem
D) have a negative effect on the people to whom one is being compared
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) As discussed in the textbook, the fact that monkeys tend to experience fear if fear is displayed by other monkeys suggests that:
A) a biological predisposition to be generally anxious may exist
B) situational factors play a role in anxiety development
C) higher-order cognition plays a role in anxiety development
D) temperament is especially important in anxiety development
Q2) One of the reasons personality disorders remain controversial in clinical practice is that:
A) they appear to be relatively temporary conditions that come and go unpredictably, so they should not be classified as real "disorders"
B) many of the characteristics of each personality disorder are similar, so people can easily be diagnosed with more than one personality disorder at the same time
C) personality disorders appear to have very little in common with normal personality, so calling them "personality" disorders doesn't make sense
D) more than 75 percent of the population could be diagnosed with a personality disorder, which makes the diagnosis meaningless
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Sherri has obsessive-compulsive disorder and has been in treatment with a psychoanalyst for the past 10 years. Although she does not feel that she is making progress with her therapist, she believes that the money and time already spent justify "sticking around" and seeing if she will ever experience recovery from the disorder. Sherri is showing use of:
A) the sunk costs fallacy
B) the lose-lose cognitive strategy
C) the justifiable excuse behaviour pattern
D) the "smoking gun" effect
Q2) Motivational interviewing relies on just one or two interviews using a client-centred approach. Research suggests that the success of this treatment is the result of the:
A) ability of hypnosis to act quickly on repressed memories
B) focus on unwanted behaviour only, and not its causes
C) focus on the cause of unwanted behaviour only, and not the behaviour itself
D) warmth and empathy of the therapist toward the client
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Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology
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Q1) People achieve a sense of primary control by:
A) exerting control over unchanged realities
B) shaping existing realities to fit their perceptions
C) aligning themselves with existing realities
D) all of the above
Q2) Individuals who spoke different languages categorized colours differently if they fell within two different colour categories in their language but similarly if they fell within the same category. This finding suggests that:
A) language determines colour perception
B) language affects colour perception
C) the strict Whorfian hypothesis is true
D) language has a social component
Q3) Culture in animals other than humans is a result of:
A) classical conditioning
B) social learning
C) genetic predisposition
D) a unique environment
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