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Principles of Psychology provides an introduction to the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. The course explores fundamental concepts such as perception, learning, memory, emotion, motivation, development, personality, and psychological disorders. Students will examine both classic theories and contemporary research findings, gaining insight into the biological, cognitive, and social factors that influence how people think, feel, and act. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on critical thinking, scientific methods, and the practical application of psychological principles to everyday life.
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Psychological Science 3rd Canadian Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Today, what do most psychological scientists conclude regarding the philosophical concept of dualism?
A) Most largely reject dualism, believing instead that the mind is what the brain does.
B) Most largely accept dualism, as the mind is separate from brain functions.
C) Most largely reject dualism, believing instead that the brain is what the mind controls.
D) Most largely accept dualism, as the brain has been shown to control the mind.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following are most closely associated with social psychology?
A) Watson and Skinner
B) Allport and Lewin
C) Freud and Jung
D) Titchener and Wundt
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) Dr. Bloomin wants to investigate the impact of talking to plants on their growth. He decides to talk to a group of 40 tulips each day for six weeks. A second group is not talked to at all. After six weeks he discovers that the tulips he talked to are five centimetres taller than the tulips not talked to. In this example, the independent variable is:
A) the group of tulips spoken to
B) whether the tulips are spoken to
C) the height of the tulips
D) the group of tulips not spoken to
Answer: B
Q2) The most basic principle of research set forth in the Nuremburg Code is:
A) confidentiality
B) informed consent
C) debriefing
D) deception
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations
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Q1) According to a study by Maguire and his colleagues, which part of a taxi driver's brain is more likely to be larger than normal, and why?
A) frontal lobe; quick motor reactions
B) hippocampus; greater and more accurate representations of the spatial world
C) cerebellum; quick motor reactions
D) thalamus; greater and more accurate representations of the spatial world
Answer: B
Q2) Drugs that treat ____________ make serotonin more available by blocking reuptake.
A) motor disturbances
B) memory disturbances and hallucinations
C) eating disorders and depression
D) pain management and hypersensitivity
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the cerebral cortex?
A) It has a wrinkled appearance.
B) It is the largest part of the human brain.
C) The corpus callosum provides connections between the two hemispheres.
D) Damage to this area typically results in death.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Mind and Consciousness
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Q1) The ethical issue surrounding the Terri Schiavo case was whether Terri was:
A) in a persistent vegetative state or a minimally conscious state
B) able to make current medical decisions for herself
C) more dependent on her parents or her husband
D) able to vocalize her choices
Q2) John believes that the mind is governed by a different set of structures and rules than the physical body. Based on this belief, one could conclude that John is a:
A) monist
B) qualist
C) dualist
D) clinical psychologist
Q3) The particular kind of experience that is so engrossing and enjoyable that you do it for its own sake, rather than because of its consequence, is called:
A) self-reinforcing behaviour
B) escapism
C) flow
D) runner's high
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Consider the pattern: XXY XXY XXY. People perceive this pattern as consisting of three groups of three letters each. Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?
A) similarity
B) good continuation
C) proximity
D) common region
Q2) It is a warm summer day and a group of friends has decided to go on a picnic. Unfortunately, the watermelon they brought has attracted some stinging wasps. Who would experience the most pain if one of these wasps were to sting:
A) Bianca, a 26-year-old woman
B) Tony, a man who has been stung only once before
C) Marie, a woman currently undergoing estrogen replacement therapy
D) Bryan, a man currently undergoing testosterone replacement therapy
Q3) Edges are emphasized in vision by:
A) sensory coding
B) transduction of light
C) lateral inhibition
D) changes in photopigment
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) It is easier to condition birds than rats with vision-relevant stimuli than taste-relevant stimuli because:
A) birds rely on vision more than taste for food selection
B) birds are the only species that lack the ability for learned food aversions
C) birds have no taste buds
D) birds and rats evolved separately
Q2) The neurotransmitter that is most important for reinforcement learning is:
A) serotonin
B) glutamate
C) dopamine
D) norepinephrine
Q3) University students who often drink beer, but only at night in the university pub, will be least affected by the alcohol when they drink:
A) at night in the university pub
B) in the morning in the university pub
C) at night in their dorm room
D) in the morning in their dorm room
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) When you recall a memory of your best friend's face, you are activating the cortical circuits in the ____________ cortex involved in ____________ her face.
A) visual; storing
B) visual; perceiving
C) spatial; storing
D) spatial; perceiving
Q2) A likely way in which suggestibility might cause new information to change an old memory is through:
A) retroactive interference
B) reconsolidation
C) elaborative rehearsal
D) proactive interference
Q3) Dion keeps having nightmares and flashbacks about his brief time in the military. His chronic anxiety is most likely due to which disorder?
A) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder
C) post-traumatic stress disorder
D) attention-deficit disorder
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) What is the direction and strength of the correlation between years in school and IQ?
A) weak negative correlation
B) strong positive correlation
C) strong negative correlation
D) weak positive correlation
Q2) Even though Jim wants to avoid getting the flu, he decides not to get a flu shot because one of his friends had a bad reaction and Jim is afraid that he will have one too. Jim might change his decision if he knew about the influence of ____________ on decision making.
A) cognitive biases
B) social influence
C) normative influence
D) social biases
Q3) The availability heuristic can cause people to incorrectly assess the probabilities of various events because:
A) the most available event is not always the most frequent
B) the most likely event is not always the most frequent
C) it is too difficult to compute joint probabilities of events
D) it is too difficult to distinguish between probabilities and likelihoods
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Shuchun has been in an accident and damaged his prefrontal cortex. This is likely to cause Shuchun to have a lessened ability to:
A) eat sufficiently to maintain body weight
B) avoid eating excessively
C) taste sweetness and saltiness
D) taste hot flavours
Q2) Aurore has been in a skiing accident. She remembers everything about her life, but doesn't seem to experience any emotions about her memories or about new things that happen. Aurore most likely has experienced damage to her ____________ making her ____________.
A) prefrontal cortex; insensitive to somatic markers
B) prefrontal cortex; unable to interpret emotional cues
C) amygdala; insensitive to somatic markers
D) amygdala; unable to interpret emotional cues
Q3) The purpose of homeostatic behaviours is to:
A) generate a drive to satisfy a need
B) stabilize conditions in the body
C) create a state of arousal
D) a and c
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Evidence that humans have a set-point for weight is reflected in the fact that:
A) when prisoners were fed large amounts of food they gained less weight than they should have and returned to their normal weight when they resumed a regular diet
B) people who diet frequently wind up gaining more weight than those who do not
C) semistarvation studies have shown that long-term reduction in food intake causes people to lose interest in food and eating
D) as less food is consumed, the body's ability to use the energy contained in the food is reduced
Q2) In a well-known study of California men, being hostile and impatient was found to be related to ____________, which shows that ____________.
A) heart disease; genes control the development of disease
B) immune functioning; stress is a function of lifestyle
C) heart disease; psychological factors are important in disease development
D) hormonal dysfunction; gender will have an effect on disease development
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Chapter 11: Human Development
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Q1) The biocultural systems theory is used to explain the way:
A) biology and culture interact to affect a child's overall development
B) biology and culture interact and allow a child's language development
C) biology determines how culture shapes the moral development of children
D) culture can alter set biological tendencies in children's moral development
Q2) According to the biocultural systems theory, which system has less direct influence but creates expectations about behaviours and belief systems, as well as regulates the time spent with parents?
A) microsystem
B) macrosystem
C) chronosystem
D) exosystem
Q3) The fact that children can take a form of communication that lacks a consistent grammar and turn it into one that has consistent rules supports the notion that:
A) children can generalize linguistic rules
B) there is a built-in, universal grammar
C) Chomsky was incorrect concerning the origins of grammar
D) Vygotsky was correct concerning the role of culture in language
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) "I love independent cats because they are interesting, even though people find them aloof." In this argument, the conclusion is ____________, the premise is ____________, the qualifier is ____________, and the counter-argument is____________.
A) I love cats; cats are interesting; independent cats; people find cats aloof
B) cats are interesting; I love cats; interesting cats; people find cats aloof
C) people find cats aloof; cats are independent; interesting cats; I love cats
D) people find cats aloof; I love cats; independent cats; cats are interesting
Q2) If the amygdala of a cat is stimulated with an electric probe, the cat will ____________; if the amygdala of a cat is damaged, it will ____________.
A) explore feared objects; eat unusual things
B) attack; become passive
C) eat unusual things; explore feared objects
D) become passive; attack
Q3) Sources of information who are ____________ tend to be the most persuasive.
A) like the target audience
B) rational and emotional
C) attractive and credible
D) strongly partisan
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) When it comes to personality, most psychologists recognize that personality emerges from:
A) unconditional positive regard which leads to positive mental health
B) childhood experiences as one passes through the psychosexual stages
C) learning from psychological experiences with little or no influence from genetics
D) biological factors including genes, brain structures, and neurochemistry
Q2) Who is most likely to adopt a nomothetic approach to the study of personality?
A) a psychodynamic theorist
B) a trait theorist
C) a humanistic theorist
D) a narrative therapist
Q3) Dr. Henry suggests that personality is adaptive to the environment, functions in a unique and whole system that is different for every person, and is based on physiological mechanisms. Her view of personality:
A) is somewhat outdated
B) is based on research by Sigmund Freud
C) represents the current understanding in personality psychology
D) has more in common with Carl Jung than with Gordon Allport
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Arianna has stopped washing her hair, going to the grocery store, and talking to people. Some people think that she must be suffering from a mental disorder. Does her behaviour fit the criteria needed to be diagnosed with a disorder?
A) No; her behaviour may be odd but it is adaptive for her.
B) No, although her behaviour does deviate from the norms of her culture.
C) Yes; her behaviour is clearly causing her personal distress.
D) Yes; her behaviour is maladaptive.
Q2) Jenny is a 30-year-old executive who was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when she was in elementary school. Based on recent research, you would assume that:
A) Jenny has few problems with ADHD as an adult
B) Jenny's current symptoms will be misunderstood as symptoms of an anxiety disorder rather than ADHD
C) there is a 30-80 percent chance that Jenny still shows symptoms of ADHD
D) Jenny is unlikely to show ADHD symptoms as an adult because women are much more likely than men to outgrow the disorder
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Tommy has a 20-year history of stealing, armed robbery, physical violence, and lying and cheating to get out of trouble. These behaviours started in grade school. Based on what is known about the origins and treatment of this kind of disorder, which of the following statements would best represent a knowledgeable psychiatrist's opinion on Tommy's treatment options?
A) "Tommy, I wish that someone would have intervened with you when you were younger."
B) "Tommy, given the outstanding history of deviance you have had, hospitalization is your best option."
C) "Tommy, the best treatment for you currently is deep brain stimulation, which might remove some of your impulsive and aggressive tendencies."
D) "Tommy, the most promising treatment option for you right now is heavy medication, including lithium and perhaps an antipsychotic."
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an advantage of group therapy?
A) practice using new interpersonal behaviours
B) cost
C) lack of need for a trained therapist
D) increasing insight
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Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology
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Q1) Chinese sufferers of depression are more likely than North Americans to experience:
A) feelings of guilt
B) difficulty concentrating
C) headaches
D) all of the above
Q2) Why is an Indonesian in the Netherlands more likely to be discriminated against than an Indonesian in Canada?
A) Canadians are nicer than the Dutch
B) Canada is further away from Indonesia than the Netherlands
C) the Netherlands once enslaved Indonesians
D) Indonesia once enslaved the Dutch
Q3) A bus driver did not stop at the scene of an accident to offer to help. Almost all of the passengers decided that he must be a very mean person. The passengers could most likely be described as:
A) adult Americans
B) adult Hindu Indians
C) 8-year-old American boys
D) 8-year-old Hindu Indian girls
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