Psychology for Non-Majors Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course provides an engaging introduction to the fundamental principles of psychology for students from diverse academic backgrounds. Covering a broad range of topics, including human development, learning, memory, personality, mental health, and social behavior, the course explores how psychological concepts apply to everyday life and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on understanding research methods and critically evaluating psychological information. No prior background in psychology is required, making this course accessible and relevant to anyone interested in understanding themselves and others better.
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Introduction to PsychologyVersion 1.0 by Charles Stangor
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Chapter 1: Asking Good Psychological Questions
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Q1) Which of the following best defines structuralism
A) Uses the method of introspection to identify the basic elements of psychological experience
B) Focuses on the role of our unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories and our early childhood experiences in determining behavior
C) Based on the premise that it is not possible to objectively study the mind, and therefore that psychologists should limit their attention to the study of behavior itself
D) The study of mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, and judgments
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following alternatives correctly arranges the concepts of norms,behavior,and culture in order of increasing breadth
A) behavior norms culture
B) behavior culture norms
C) norms behavior culture
D) norms culture behavior
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Learning Styles
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Q1) The difference between the highest and the lowest score in a data set is termed the
A) correlation coefficient
B) mode
C) range
D) standard deviation
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following researchers is conducting a case study
A) Dr. Henriette, who is measuring how fast a group of students can respond to a stimulus.
B) Dr. Innis, who is examining the tactile perception of a blind woman
C) Dr. Jenner, who is observing children on a playground
D) Dr. Kulik, who is combing through newspaper stories on serial killers
Answer: B
Q3) When a researcher debriefs her participants,she
A) provides a detailed explanation of the hypotheses and goals of the study.
B) tells them they can stop taking part at any time.
C) assures them that their data will remain confidential.
D) outlines what is going to occur in the study.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Social Psychology: Helping, Influence, and Obedience
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Q1) Which of the following brain structures controls heart rate and breathing
A) cerebellum
B) thalamus
C) corpus callosum
D) medulla
Answer: D
Q2) Based on your text's discussion,how might you evaluate the ratio of brain weight to body weight as an operational definition of intelligence
A) It is a poor operational definition: It lacks validity.
B) It is a poor operational definition: It lacks reliability.
C) It is a good operational definition: It is valid.
D) It is a good operational definition: It is objective.
Answer: A
Q3) The brain's left hemisphere is specialized to process language,an example of _________;
Answer: lateralization
Q4) A toilet either flushes or it doesn't; a gun either fires or it doesn't.By a similar __________ law,a neuron either transmits an action potential or it does not.
Answer: all-or-none
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Chapter 4: Stress, Anxiety Disorders and Classical Conditioning
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Q1) The development of depth perception depends substantially on experience.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Knowledge of sensation and perception has enabled the substantial improvement of equipment and technology.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ________ illusion is a visual illusion containing a horizontal line terminating in inward- or outward-pointing arrowheads.
A) McGurk
B) Mueller-Lyer
C) Ponzo
D) moon
Q4) Which neurotransmitter acts as the brain's natural pain killer
A) dopamine
B) serotonin
C) glutamate
D) endorphins
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Q5) __________ receptor cells detect airborne chemical molecules.
Q6) Review what is known regarding the receptor cells for a)taste and b)smell
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Chapter 5: Treating Psychological Disorders With Emphasis on Cognitive Therapy
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Q1) According to your text,humans should ideally sleep about _______ hours each night.In reality,though,Americans average about ______ hours of sleep each night.
A) 10; 7
B) 10; 6
C) 8; 7
D) 8; 6
Q2) Which alternative correctly matches a term with its definition
A) dependence - increased doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect
B) addiction - a need to use a drug regularly
C) dependence - negative experiences accompany reducing or stopping drug use
D) tolerance - increased doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect
Q3) A trancelike susceptibility to suggestion is characteristic of ________.
Q4) Which of the following sequences reflects the successive brain wave patterns sleepers display as they fall asleep and enter progressively deeper sleep stages
A) beta theta alpha delta
B) beta alpha delta theta
C) alpha beta delta theta
D) beta alpha theta delta
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Chapter 6: Psychological Science
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Q1) In Erikson's theory,children in elementary school are generally facing the key challenge of __________
Q2) Recall the Eriksonian challenges that occur during development.Which is correctly matched with the appropriate ages below
A) trust vs. mistrust-ages 0 to 1-½
B) industry vs. inferiority-ages 1-½ to 3
C) autonomy vs. doubt.-ages 3 to 6
D) initiative vs. guilt- ages 6 to 12
Q3) In Kubler-Ross' theory,acceptance of loss or death is most immediately preceded by:
A) anger
B) bargaining
C) confusion
D) depression
Q4) Identify and describe the categories of identity formation in Marcia's theory.For each category,write a brief vignette illustrating an adolescent reflecting that identity formation statusH
Q5) Identify and describe the stages of moral development in Kohlberg's theory.Provide illustrative examples
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Chapter 7: Social Psychology: Stereotypes
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Q1) The term ________ is sometimes used to refer to the difference between the expected rewards and the expected punishments subsequent to a particular decision.
Q2) Shaping is one way that organisms learn relatively _________ behavior.
Q3) Sometimes when we call a customer service center,we are put on hold; we do not know how long it will be before our holding behavior is reinforced by the response of an associate,and it doesn't matter what we do in the meantime.Holding is reinforced on a _______ schedule.
A) fixed-ratio
B) fixed-interval
C) variable-ratio
D) variable-interval
Q4) Skinner promoted the use of an educational system involving self-teaching and carefully sequenced materials.The system is known as _______ instruction.
A) reinforced
B) computer-aided
C) conditioned
D) programmed
Q5) A bright flash automatically causes us to blink.It is a(n)________ stimulus.
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Chapter 8: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior
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Q1) Psychologists use the term ______ memory to refer to "photographic" memory.
A) pictographic
B) engrammatic
C) iconic
D) eidetic
Q2) Rhoda is thinking of a family reunion last summer.This reminds her that a close friend is attending the same college in which her cousin is enrolled; her thoughts then turn to the reading assignments she has neglected in one of her classes.The process of __________ describes how one memory brings up another in our network of mental categories.
Q3) In the words of George Miller,the capacity of short-term memory is the "magical number _________."
A) nine, plus or minus two
B) six, plus or minus one
C) five, plus or minus two
D) seven, plus or minus two
Q4) Leigh wakes up in a hospital.She remembers careening into a collision,but nothing thereafter.Leigh is experiencing ______ amnesia.
Q5) Implicit memory is often studied through experiments that use ________.
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Chapter 9: Emotions, An Introduction to Psychological Disorders,
and
Depression
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Q1) An infant produces her first words around 6 months of age.
A)True
B)False
Q2) About 95% of the population have an IQ score between ______ and _______.
A) 50; 150
B) 70; 130
C) 80; 120
D) 90; 110
Q3) Which alternative correctly pairs an intelligence theorist with the number of types of intelligence he proposed
A) Thurstone - 7
B) Gardner -- 3
C) Sternberg - 7
D) Thurstone - 3
E) Gardner - 7
Q4) The "nurture" approach argues that language acquisition is driven by:
A) conditioning and reinforcement processes
B) the operation of an internal language acquisition device
C) a universal grammar
D) all of these
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Chapter 10: Schemas: Piagets Cognitive Development
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Q1) The longer-term physiological consequences of stress include:
A) the deterioration of blood vessels and the heart
B) lowered immune system functioning
C) genetic damage
D) A, B, and C
Q2) Which of the following describes the resistance stage of the General Adaptation model
A) Intially perceiving a threat or a stressor
B) Trying to adapt to a stressor
C) Failing to successfully respond to a stressor
D) Successfully coping with a stressor
Q3) Stand up straight: Not only will you look better,but you'll probably feel better too.
A)True B)False
Q4) Review the Cannon-Bard,James-Lange,and Schachter-Singer theories of emotion.Support each theory with reference to empirical research
Q5) Most sufferers of anorexia nervosa are women. A)True B)False
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Chapter 11: Schemas: Memory
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Q1) Which alternative correctly defines the id
A) Represents morality and oughts
B) Consists of primitive, instinctual urges
C) The conscious controller of personality
D) The representation of sexual norms
Q2) Which of the following correctly describes Freud's anal stage of psychosexual development
A) Pleasure comes from sucking, biting, and chewing
B) Pleasure comes from bowel and bladder elimination
C) Pleasure comes from the genitals
D) Mature sexual orientation is developed
Q3) The latency period in psychosexual development last from age 3 to age 6.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following describes the individual difference measure of Need for cognition
A) Conventional, superstitious, and concerned with sex
B) Believing that one can control his or her own outcomes
C) Examining one's own self and feelings
D) Enjoying thinking about things
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Chapter 12: Personality
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Q1) Psychologists use the term ________ to refer to a loss of contact with reality.
A) hallucination
B) psychosis
C) delusion
D) neurosis
Q2) Which of the following defines generalized anxiety disorder
A) Sense of impending doom, along with intense physiological arousal
B) Persistent, uncontrollable, free-floating worry
C) Unwanted, intrusive thoughts, or urges to perform specific behaviors
D) Intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation
Q3) Most schizophrenics actually have no immediate relatives with the disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Twin studies conducted by __________ indicate that the heritability of autism may be as high as _______%.
A) molecular geneticists; 50%
B) molecular geneticists; 75%
C) molecular geneticists; 90%
D) behavioral geneticists; 90%
Q5) The five domains of assessment when the DSM-IV-TR is used are termed ________.
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Chapter 13: Visual Perception, Schizophrenia, Medications, sleeping
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Q1) Which of the following defines cingulotomy
A) A medical procedure that uses a pulsing coil to stimulate the brain
B) A medical procedure in which brief seizures are created in the brain
C) A psychological procedure in which the patient is forced to recall past experiences
D) Surgery that destroys brain tissue
Q2) Which of the following defines the psychoanalytic concept of free association
A) The therapist listens while the client talks about whatever comes to mind
B) An understanding by the client of the unconscious causes of his or her symptoms
C) The patient's attempts to avoid the painful feelings in his or her unconscious
D) The redirection of the feelings in an important relationship by the client toward the therapist
Q3) Group therapy is less effective than individual therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Anti-psychotics are used mainly to treat ____________.
Q5) Ellis' ________ therapy is aimed at challenging the flaws in a client's thinking.
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Chapter 14: Psychology Advising
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Q1) Ill-fated invasions and space shuttle missions illustrate a group process loss termed ________.
Q2) An unpleasant state of psychological tension called ________ occurs when an individual holds two contradictory thoughts or attitudes.
Q3) We are taught not only the 'golden rule,' but also the 'Christian duty' of helping others with no expectation of any return; this is the norm of __________.
Q4) Which of the following is an example of catharsis
A) Engaging in aggression after watching a violent TV show
B) Engaging in altruism after watching a helpful person
C) Showing less aggressive tendencies after watching a violent TV show
D) Showing less altruism after exercising
Q5) According to Margaret Clark and Edward Lemay,the key feature of a healthy relationship is a sense of __________.
Q6) A neighbor asks for a small favor; you agree.The following week,he asks for a larger favor.Having previously agreed to the smaller favor,you are now more likely now to consent to the larger favor than you would be otherwise.Your neighbor has gained your compliance through the _________technique.
Q7) Prejudice is to discrimination as attitude is to _________.
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