Psychology for Nursing Final Exam
Course Introduction
Psychology for Nursing introduces students to fundamental psychological concepts and theories relevant to nursing practice. This course explores how psychological factors influence health, illness, and patient care, focusing on topics such as human development, stress and coping, communication, mental health disorders, and therapeutic relationships. By understanding psychological principles, nursing students will enhance their ability to assess patient needs, promote mental and emotional well-being, and provide holistic, patient-centered care across diverse healthcare settings.
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Psychology From Inquiry to Understanding 2nd Australia Edition by Scott O. Lilienfeld
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Chapter 1: Science and Pseudoscience in Psychology
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Q1) If a psychologist were to develop a theory of cognitive development, he or she would want the theory to explain ________ observations.
A)a moderate number of B)a small number of C)a substantial number of D)very few
Answer: C
Q2) The use of the emotions one experiences as a guide for evaluating the validity of scientific claims is called ________ by psychologists.
Answer: emotional reasoning
Q3) Pinker (1997)and others have demonstrated that humans display an adaptive predisposition to make order out of disorder and sense out of nonsense. This tendency can account for
A)reliance on confirmation bias.
B)scepticism.
C)the popularity of pseudoscience.
D)belief perseverance.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) When neither the experimenter nor the participant have any knowledge of the experimental condition to which the participant has been assigned we say that this is a(n)________ study.
Answer: double-blind
Q2) ________ is consistency of measurement.
A)Random assignment
B)Validity
C)Reliability
D)Confounding variable
Answer: C
Q3) What is the authors' position on the use of animal research in psychology?
A)Animal research provides important insights but also comes with costs in terms of death and suffering of these subjects.
B)All animal research must be ended as soon as is possible.
C)It is more desirable to harm animals than to harm humans in the research process.
D)Results from animal research cannot inform us of how the same phenomenon occurs with humans.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) John has decided to start to learn how to wrestle. On his first day at practice, a seasoned wrestler slams the back of his head to the mat. John was shaken and reported to the trainer that he "saw stars" after he hit his head. As a result of "seeing stars," John's ________ was temporarily affected as a result of the slam.
A)corpus callosum
B)occipital lobe
C)parietal lobe
D)somatosensory cortex
Answer: B
Q2) Andy has decided to seek medical help for mood disturbances and appetite problems. Which neurotransmitter is most likely involved in the problems Andy is experiencing?
A)GABA
B)Dopamine
C)Serotonin
D)Acetylcholine
Answer: C
Q3) The autonomic nervous system consists of two divisions: ________ and
Answer: sympathetic; parasympathetic
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following most closely mimics the process of transduction?
A)Betty mixes eggs, flour, and sugar together to make a cake.
B)While painting, Stan combines the colours red and blue to make purple.
C)Gas companies convert crude oil into a fuel that car engines can run on.
D)Nike changes its logo from a "swoosh" to a "panther".
Q2) The colour of light is what psychologists call
A)brightness.
B)hue.
C)synesthesia.
D)timbre.
Q3) Which of the following is the most recently identified of the basic taste sensations?
A)Bitter
B)Salty
C)Umami
D)Sour
Q4) As we look off in the distance, the lines on a road seem to shrink down to a point where it meets rather than staying parallel as we know it must. This is an example of the monocular cue of ________.
Q5) The wave frequency of a sound is what we refer to as its ________.
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
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Q1) A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, is what Freud called its ________.
A)primary content
B)manifest content
C)secondary content
D)latent content
Q2) What is the most frequently used illegal drug in Australia?
A)Alcohol
B)Cocaine
C)Marijuana
D)Methamphetamine
Q3) When Sophia flies across the world for work meetings, traversing several time zones, her circadian rhythm is likely to be interrupted by A)jet lag.
B)sleep deprivation.
C)sleep debt.
D)REM rebound.
Q4) Vivid dreams are most likely to be experienced during ________ sleep.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Which of the following terms suggests that it is possible to condition all conditioned stimuli equally well to all unconditioned stimuli?
A)Stimulus generalisation
B)Shaping of successive approximations
C)Equipotentiality
D)Stimulus discrimination
Q2) Who is best known for studying the phenomenon of insight in animals?
A)Köhler
B)Tolman
C)Seligman
D)Bandura
Q3) ________ was the first person to describe learning as acquired through classical conditioning while studying the digestive process of dogs.
A)John Watson
B)Ivan Pavlov
C)B) F. Skinner
D)Albert Bandura
Q4) Describe how you would condition a child who is afraid of cats to enjoy playing with a neighbour's cat.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Oscar is writing a fictional autobiography. He is combining real events with those that could have happened, as well as a few creative additions. In terms of the memory system, this approach is most similar to A)the three systems of memory.
B)parallel distributed processing.
C)reconstructive memory.
D)implicit memory.
Q2) Evidence suggests that when the real criminal is NOT included in a "live" line-up, most witnesses
A)will be accurate and inform the police that the person is NOT present.
B)will be inaccurate and select the person who most closely resembles the real criminal.
C)will refuse to answer and ask to leave the police station.
D)None of the above
Q3) The most sensitive measure of memory is A)priming.
B)recall.
C)recognition.
D)relearning.
Q4) The process of retaining information in memory is called ________.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Reasoning and Language
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Q1) Many children who are deaf, who are born to hearing parents, invent their own signs when they are not instructed in formal sign language. This is known as ________.
Q2) Babies engage in intentional vocalisations that sound meaningful, but are not. This is referred to as ________.
A)babbling
B)telegraphic speech
C)holographic speech
D)two-word utterances
Q3) Learning to ride a bike is just like learning to hit a cricket ball. Which theory of language acquisition might support this statement?
A)Imitation account
B)General cognitive processing account
C)Nativist account
D)Social pragmatics account
Q4) One explanation for the difficulty of second language acquisition among adults is that when someone learns a second language in adulthood, they use different ________ than those who learn a second language in early childhood.
Q5) ________ help us draw conclusions and solve problems in a "fast and frugal" way.
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Iq Testing
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Q1) Based on IQ score information as described by Stern, a student with an IQ score of 120 is likely to answer IQ test questions like someone who is age ________, even though the student is only ________.
A)10; 12
B)12; 11
C)10; 8
D)12; 10
Q2) A psychological test that measures what we intend it to measure is said to be ________.
A)valid
B)normed
C)reliable
D)standardised
Q3) According to Sternberg's theory, which of the following statements is the most accurate?
A)Creative intelligence is similar to crystallised intelligence.
B)Practical intelligence involves our ability to use original thinking to solve problems.
C)Analytical intelligence is similar to Spearman's g factor of intelligence.
D)Practical intelligence is similar to Gardner's naturalistic intelligence.
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Chapter 10: Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following is true with regard to the order of development of motor skills?
A)Babies develop motor skills based on what they see, so it is largely a function of imitation.
B)Babies develop motor skills in very unique sequences, so there is no "order" of skills that is considered typical.
C)Motor skills tend to develop in the same sequence from child to child, although the ages of each milestone vary.
D)Motor development in babies has two predictable paths-one for sighted children and one for blind children.
Q2) The ________ point in a pregnancy-that is, the age at which an infant could survive outside of its mother's womb-is about 25 weeks.
Q3) The reproductive organs and genitals that distinguish the sexes are called ________ sex characteristics.
Q4) Using specific examples, differentiate between the thinking patterns of a six-year-old student and a nine-year-old student, according to Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Q5) A teenager is most likely functioning in Piaget's ________.
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Chapter 11: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Schachter and Singer's two-factor theory of emotion suggests that we distinguish between the experience of different emotions based on
A)the type of behaviour involved.
B)the type of bodily reaction.
C)our interpretation of the situation.
D)the emotional expression of others.
Q2) Some evidence exists suggesting that rewards may ________ intrinsic motivation. A)reinforce
B)not affect
C)undermine
D)bolster
Q3) As Stella watches the TV lotto drawing, she realises she has the winning combination. If her heart starts to race at the same instant that she feels euphoria over winning, her response pattern would tend to support
A)the Cannon-Bard theory.
B)Izard's evolutionary theory.
C)the James-Lange theory.
D)Schachter and Singer's two-factor theory.
Q4) Describe the levels of personal space and provide an example for each level.
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Chapter 12: Stress, Coping and Health
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Q1) Adelaide hears a hissing sound as she hikes through the desert. Her muscles tense and her blood pressure rises. According to Hans Selye, she is in the ________.
A)chronic stress phase
B)alarm phase
C)exhaustion phase
D)resistance phase
Q2) Discuss three of the four health tips given in the chapter. Include the benefits and implications of each tip.
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding ulcers is true?
A)Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium that lives in stomach acid and causes as many as 90 per cent of stomach ulcers.
B)Stress is the primary cause of ulcers.
C)Spicy foods and an unhealthy diet are the primary causes of ulcers.
D)Ulcers are uniquely genetic and stress has nothing to do with the symptoms of ulcers.
Q4) According to Selye, we go through three stages in reaction to stress. Excitement of the autonomic nervous system, release of stress hormones, and physical symptoms of anxiety are part of the ________ stage.
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology
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Q1) The tendency of people to alter their behaviour as a result of group pressure is called
A)obedience
B)attribution
C)conformity
D)social comparison
Q2) In his famous study, this researcher recruited college students to portray either guards or prisoners with some rather shocking results.
A)Spears
B)Milgram
C)Asch
D)Zimbardo
Q3) ________ can occur when individuals who are part of a group focus on preserving group solidarity at the expense of considering all possible alternatives or even failing to use rational thought in the process.
A)Social facilitation
B)Groupthink
C)Social loafing
D)Group polarisation
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Chapter 14: Cross-Cultural Psychology
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Q1) Judith Kearins discovered that children in desert communities in Western Australia had better ________ skills than white children, probably because they used such skills to cope in an environment which had no verbal or numerical cues.
Q2) Dr Sam Birk is planning to discover if Italian and Greek women who migrated to Australia in the 1960s have the same concept of healthy eating. Since many of these women have limited English language, he intends to interview them in the language of their country of origin. Which of these is a major barrier to him successfully achieving his aim?
A)Finding experienced interviewers who are native speakers of each of the two languages is difficult.
B)Words used by one language group for certain health concepts may not have equivalents in the other language.
C)The age-range of the samples ranges widely from 65 to 85.
D)Some of the women learned to cook in Italy or Greece, while others did so after arriving in Australia.
Q3) Many writers about Aboriginal Australians do not compare them with Torres Straits people, because there have been no ________ studies of the differences between Aboriginal and Torres Straits peoples.
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Chapter 15: Personality
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Q1) Growing up, Eric was always favoured by his parents more than his sister. If this unequal treatment leads to differences in the children's personalities, it would be an example of a(n)
A)epigenetic influence.
B)genetic influence.
C)nonshared environmental factor.
D)shared environmental factor.
Q2) Shyanne is a toll-booth operator. At least once every hour, she typically has an encounter with a motorist who berates and belittles her because they are upset about traffic, they don't have enough change, or they are just unhappy that day. As a result, when she gets home Shyanne often yells at her roommates and slams cabinet doors closed when she can't find what she wants. She is displaying classic symptoms of A)displacement.
B)projection.
C)regression.
D)sublimation.
Q3) According to Freud, the ________ is the part of one's personality that enables us to feel guilt and shame when we fail to live up to our internal standards of appropriate behaviour.
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Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Dr Nwoambi is a psychologist who is currently evaluating a new client. Dr Nwoambi would most likely refer to the ________ to assist her in diagnosing her client's psychological disorder.
A)Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
B)Physician's Desk Reference
C)Textbook of Psychological Disorders
D)Manual of Psychological and Behavioural Disorders
Q2) Differentiate how learning theorists and cognitive theorists differ in their explanations for the causes of anxiety disorders.
Q3) The primary purpose of the DSM-5 is to ________.
A)help psychologists assess only normal behaviour
B)keep the number of diagnostic categories of mental disorders to a minimum
C)help psychological professionals diagnose psychological disorders
D)describe the causes of common physiological disorders
Q4) According to the authors, which of the following statements is true?
A)Gender differences in depression are found throughout all cultures.
B)Gender differences in depression are not universal.
C)Men are more likely than women to be diagnosed with depression.
D)Men in the United States are more likely than women to be diagnosed with depression.
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Chapter 17: Psychological and Biological Treatments
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Q1) A key component of Ellis's rational emotive behaviour therapy is the psychotherapist's
A)active disputing and challenging of the client's assumptions.
B)concern with helping a client to reach a point of self-actualisation.
C)helping a client search for meaning in difficult and stressful life events.
D)use of social skills training to improve patient functioning.
Q2) Sullivan believed that the analyst's proper role is that of ________.
A)conversational witness
B)observational witness
C)participant surveyor
D)participant observer
Q3) Research suggests that there is ________ between one's race and the outcome of therapy.
A)little or no relationship
B)a curvilinear relationship
C)a positive relationship
D)a negative relationship
Q4) Clients who undergo empirically supported treatments to manage their distress are ________ likely to demonstrate improvements in well-being.
Q5) The most nondirective form of psychotherapy is ________.
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