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Course Introduction
Introduction to Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles and concepts in the field of psychology. This course explores the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, examining topics such as perception, learning, memory, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. Students will learn about major theories, research methods, and ethical considerations in psychology, gaining insight into how psychological principles apply to everyday life and various careers. Through lectures, discussions, and practical activities, learners will develop critical thinking skills and an appreciation for the complexity of human behavior.
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THINK Psychology 2nd Edition by
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The term __________ psychology refers to the use of psychological theory and practice to tackle real-world problems.
A) factual
B) clinical
C) applied
D) academic
Answer: C
Q2) In order to demonstrate the principles of behaviorism,John B.Watson and Rosalie Rayner famously proved that they could teach an 11-month old child to be afraid of a
A) black spider.
B) white rat.
C) loud bell.
D) strange man.
Answer: B
Q3) Psychology is defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) Dr.Ayers conducts a correlational study examining the relationship between ice cream consumption and death by drowning.She finds that there appears to be a strong relationship between these two variables.Which of the following conclusions would be inappropriate for Dr.Ayers to make?
A) Eating more ice cream causes people to drown.
B) When people eat more ice cream there appears to be an increased risk of drowning.
C) When people do not eat ice cream, their risk of drowning tends to decrease.
D) It appears that the variables of eating ice cream and drowning are related to each other.
Answer: A
Q2) A test has __________ validity if the researcher is able to control all extraneous variables so that the only variable influencing the results of the study is the independent variable.
A) continuous
B) internal
C) face
D) external
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Human Brain
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Q1) The system of glands that release hormones in the body is called the endocrine system.It is generally regulated by the __________ in the brain.
A) cerebral cortex
B) limbic system
C) hypothalamus
D) pons
Answer: C
Q2) The human central nervous system contains which of the following structures?
A) The brain and the spinal cord
B) The cerebrum and the cerebellum
C) The limbic system and the frontal cortex
D) The amygdale and the hippocampus
Answer: A
Q3) If a neuron's dendrites receive almost enough electrochemical stimulation to exceed that
neuron's threshold,then a partial action potential will be generated.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Genetics and Evolution
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Q1) Since males are slightly larger than females,it follows that humans tend to be primarily monogamous and slightly polygynous.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Genes located in the same position on the pair of chromosomes in a unit of heredity are known as __________.
A) heterozygotic
B) alleles
C) mitotic genes
D) Mendelian genes
Q3) Most species of mammals are __________,which describes a pattern by which the mother invests a lot of time in parenting the young while the father's "job" is over after the female is impregnated.
A) monogamous
B) multifaceted
C) polygynous
D) hydrophilic
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) A __________ cell is a feature detector that only responds to a single feature of a stimulus.
A) simple
B) monoreceptive
C) complex
D) ganglion
Q2) Because you are bored one afternoon,you decide to try a little experiment.You open your eye very wide,extend your thumb,and then poke yourself in the eye.Aside from being very foolish and in a lot of pain,you may learn something about your eye when you engage in this masochistic behavior.The very first thing your thumb would touch as it made contact with your eye would be the __________.
A) cornea
B) retina
C) lens
D) iris
Q3) The colored part of the eye that controls the opening of the pupil is called the cornea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Consciousness
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Q1) The __________ unconscious refers to a collection of mental processes that affect the way a person feels or behaviors,even though he or she is not consciously aware of them.
A) collective
B) prefixative
C) cognitive
D) selective
Q2) Which of the following types of brain wave activity is generally seen as one of the dominant types during stage 1 sleep?
A) zeta waves
B) echo waves
C) delta waves
D) beta waves
Q3) Hypnosis can be used to cure any psychological ailment,particularly substance abuse illnesses, provided it is administered by a properly trained,competent professional.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Learning
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Q1) According to __________ law,memory loss following brain damage affects recent memories to a greater extent than remote memories.
A) Thorndike's
B) Tolman's
C) Fechner's
D) Ribot's
Q2) __________ neurons respond both when an organism performs a task and when it watches another organism perform the same task.
A) Di-activated
B) Reciprocal
C) Dual
D) Mirror
Q3) If you present the conditioned stimulus after the unconditioned stimulus,you are using __________ conditioning.
A) inverted
B) affective
C) reverse
D) backward
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Chapter 8: Memory
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Q1) Research has found that the _________ becomes activated during challenging working-memory tasks.
A) limbic system
B) amygdala
C) frontal lobe
D) cerebellum
Q2) __________ is the process of activating associations in memory just before starting a certain task.
A) Priming
B) Reading
C) Impulsing
D) Preparing
Q3) __________ is the process of matching an external stimulus to a stored memory.
A) Familiarizing
B) Recognition
C) Recall
D) Priming
Q4) The lone sin of intrusion,according to Daniel Schacter,is bias.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Cognition and Intelligence
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Q1) The best time for a person to learn a second language is when they first enter school,on average around the age of 4,because that is when the brain is fully developed and most ready to learn.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As Rebekah is driving to the hotel where her business convention is being held,she finds that she cannot quite figure out how to get there.The set of __________,which consists of the steps she would need to figure out how to get to her destination,might first have her (1)pull to the side of the road,(2)retrieve her GPS unit from the glove compartment,(3)plug in the unit,(4)type in the address of her destination,and (5)follow the verbal commands until she gets to the hotel.
A) best fits
B) reductions
C) functionality
D) operations
Q3) The term intelligence is a general measure of how smart a person is.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Human Development I: Physical, Cognitive, and Language Development
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Q1) Morphemes and phonemes are the basic structural units found in every language. A)True
B)False
Q2) Provided there are no unusual circumstances like organic brain injury,human beings' intelligence increases steadily as we grow from children to older adults.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The rules that govern how words may be arranged to form phrases and sentences is called __________.
A) phonology
B) morphology
C) syntax
D) semantics
Q4) The correct order of the stages of prenatal development is:
A) fetal stage, embryonic stage, zygotic stage
B) germinal stage, embryonic stage, fetal stage.
C) zygotic stage, fetal stage, germinal stage
D) zygotic stage, embryonic stage, germinal stage, fetal stage
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Chapter 11: Sex and Gender
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Q1) Michael and Martha have been married for 25 years,and have four sons.They are Bradley (22),Max (20),Jared (17),and Ron (14).According to research,which son is most likely to be gay?
A) Jared
B) Max
C) Bradley
D) Ron
Q2) Which of the following pubescent developmental changes in girls help to prepare their bodies for childbirth?
A) The development of pubic hair and the start of menstruation.
B) The increase in physical height and the enlargement of the uterus.
C) The widening of hips and the growth of breasts.
D) The development of facial hair and the lowering of the voice.
Q3) Estrogen hypersensitivity syndrome causes genetic males to develop external female genitalia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Human Development II: Social Development
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Q1) Play allows children to learn to discipline themselves,a process known as self-regulation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which one of the following children would most likely be described as "independent?"
A) Jerome, who has a secure attachment to his mother.
B) Jesse, who has an anxious-ambivalent attachment to his mother.
C) James, who has an anxious-avoidant attachment to his mother.
D) Jeremiah, who has a disorganized-disoriented attachment to his mother.
Q3) Mary Ainsworth identified three different types of attachment based on her work with the
strange situation test,and other researchers added a fourth attachment style several years later.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Lawrence Kohlberg,moral actions and moral feelings refer to the same thing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) __________ refers to showing no emotion,even though the person is actually feeling one.A good example of this would be the use of a "poker face" when playing cards.
A) Morphing
B) Intensification
C) Neutralizing
D) Masking
Q2) Isn't it amazing how when you're in a really foul mood - angry at the world,one might say - that all of the bad drivers come out to get in your way? It seems like when you're just hot under the collar,people seem to know it and they drive badly just to irritate you more.Maybe,instead,you just notice the other bad drivers more when you're angry.This is an example of __________ processing.
A) affectively accurate
B) mood-congruent
C) cognitive parallel
D) emotionally stimulatory
Q3) Insomniacs are individuals who have far lower sleep needs than most other people.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) On a recent episode of "Britain's Got Talent," many viewers were shocked and surprised when a 40-something year old woman who had rather plain looks sang a rendition of "I Dreamed A Dream," that was absolutely incredible.The judges lauded her with praise and she passed the first level of the competition.Many people who were interviewed suggested that they had not expected her to do so well,and admitted that her rather plain appearance is what caused them to be so surprised.This is an unfortunate example of the ___________ bias.
A) attractiveness
B) self-serving
C) fundamental attributional
D) Pygmalion
Q2) Which of the following is a motive that is linked to the concepts of social pressure and influence?
A) Accumulation motive
B) Achievement Motive
C) Hedonic motive
D) Affiliation Motive
Q3) Being in a gang is an example of a total situation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Health and Stress
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Q1) Traffic jams,long lines,getting the wrong order at the hamburger restaurant drive-thru,and finding out that you are out of coffee in the morning are all examples of stress-inducing hassles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dr.Atkinson is seeing a client who was referred for psychotherapy after having a heart attack.This client has been terribly anxious since the heart attack and now has a rather extreme fear that he is going to have another heart attack and will not survive.Dr.Atkinson helps the client with a stress-management program,uses psychoeducation to give the client information about guided relaxation and meditation,and helps the client formulate a weight-loss plan in consultation with the client's physician.Dr.Atkinson can best be described as a(n)__________.
A) biological psychologist
B) health psychologist
C) clinical psychologist
D) counseling psychologist
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Chapter 16: Personality and Individual Differences
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Q1) The __________ approach to studying personality is a method of interpreting data that is person-oriented and focuses on how the unique parts of a person's personality form a consistent whole.
A) individualistic
B) nomothetic
C) idiosynchratic
D) idiographic
Q2) Which personality assessment tool is based on the theory of Raymond Cattell?
A) The NEO-PI-R
B) The MMPI
C) The 16-PF
D) The TAT
Q3) Which personality theorist contributed to the publication of a list of over nearly 18,000 words found in the dictionary that could be used to describe people's personality traits?
A) Raymond Cattell
B) Gordon Allport
C) Hans Eysenck
D) Jeffrey Gray
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Chapter 17: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) According to the DSM-IV-TR,approximately ___% of individuals will develop generalized anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.
A) 1
B) 3
C) 5
D) 10
Q2) Which of the following diagnoses is marked by a pathological need to be the center of attention in nearly every situation?
A) Prosocial personality disorder
B) Narcissistic personality disorder
C) Histrionic personality disorder
D) Borderline personality disorder
Q3) Women are far more likely than men to develop PTSD at some point in their life,and this divide increases significantly if the woman was subjected to the traumatic event prior to the age of ___ years.
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 25
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Chapter 18: Psychological Therapies
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Q1) __________ is a type of counseling that relates closely to Freudian concepts like the influence of the unconscious.It requires patients to talk to a psychiatrist about their lives while the psychiatrist listens,analyzes,and interprets each word.
A) Psychodynamic psychotherapy
B) Manifest therapy
C) Psychoanalysis
D) Interpersonal therapy
Q2) Professor Lewendowsky is growing tired of one of her students constantly coming late to class.After several warnings,none of which have any effect,she has had enough.When that student shows up ten minutes late to class the next day,Professor Lewendowsky takes her into the hall and says,"I'm sorry but you may not join us for class today.Your tardiness is now unacceptable.Please leave,and come back for our next class." The teacher has used __________ to attempt to get her student to stop coming late to class.
A) counterconditioning
B) aversive conditioning
C) contingency management
D) implosion therapy
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