Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
Q1) In a random sample, ____.
A) the independent variable is administered randomly to the participants in the study
B) participants are chosen to be included in the study based on personal characteristics
C) participants are taken on a volunteer basis only
D) every member of the population has an equal chance of being a participant in the
study
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Q2) The first American woman to earn a doctorate in psychology was ____.
A) Margaret Washburn
B) Karen Horney
C) Anna Freud
D) Rosalie Rayner
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Q3) Hypotheses can be classified into two categories such as
A) analytical and anecdotal.
B) accidental and purposeful.
C) controllable and uncontrollable.
D) predictive and causal.
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Chapter 12: Health, Stress, and Coping
Q1) Which is the correct sequence of stages in Selye's general adaptation syndrome?
A) Resistance, alarm, exhaustion
B) Exhaustion, alarm, resistance
C) Alarm, exhaustion, resistance
D) Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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Q2) Whatever you do to manage a situation that you perceive as threatening is called
____.
A) appraisal
B) coping
C) focusing
D) stressing
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Q3) Which is the correct sequence of stages in Selye's general adaptation syndrome?
A) Resistance, alarm, exhaustion
B) Exhaustion, alarm, resistance
C) Alarm, exhaustion, resistance
D) Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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Chapter 6: Learning
Q1) The safest and most effective tool to change a child's behavior is ____.
A) positive punishment
B) negative punishment
C) coercion
D) reinforcement
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Q2) The safest and most effective tool to change a child's behavior is ____.
A) positive punishment
B) negative punishment
C) coercion
D) reinforcement
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Q3) Nash is fed up with hearing his friends brag about the tricks their dogs can do, so he
decides to train Indigo, his hyacinth macaw, how to shoot a basketball, using a bird-size
ball and hoop. He starts out by giving Indigo a treat for touching the ball with its beak.
When Indigo reliably touches the ball, Nash begins reinforcing Indigo for picking the ball
up in its beak, and, behavior by behavior, eventually trains Indigo to shoot hoops. Nash is
using ____.
A) reflex arcs
B) shaping
C) classical conditioning
D) observational learning
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Chapter 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
Q1) Which professions would be most likely to require a high degree of spatial
intelligence?
A) Waitress
B) Store clerk
C) Architect
D) Accountant
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Q2) Thinking is defined in the textbook as the ____.
A) use of knowledge to accomplish some sort of goal
B) unconscious processing of mental symbols
C) process involved in solving problems
D) discovery of the relationships between concepts and theories
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Q3) Outline the stages of typical language acquisition for a newborn infant until around
two years of age.
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Chapter 13: Mental Health Disorders
Q1) Specific phobias typically begin in ____.
A) infancy
B) childhood
C) adolescence
D) adulthood
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Q2) Stress may influence depression by increasing the activity of stress hormones,
thereby ____.
A) inhibiting the activity of brain neurotransmitters related to mood
B) decreasing the levels of important hormones like testosterone
C) stimulating overactivity in the hypothalamus
D) increasing wear and tear on the major organs of the body
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Q3) Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by ____.
A) intense panic
B) extreme mood shifts
C) periods of dissociation from consciousness
D) chronic anxiety
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
Q1) Tom is looking out the window at an airport boarding gate. He sees a number of 747s
and interprets the smaller ones as being farther away than the larger ones. Tom is using
____.
A) relative size
B) interposition
C) texture gradient
D) linear perspective
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Q2) When your attention is focused on the items on your desk rather than the desk itself,
you are making a distinction that relies on the Gestalt principle of ____.
A) proximity
B) closure
C) figure-ground
D) good continuation
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Q3) All colors of light are some combination of ____ light.
A) red, green, and yellow
B) blue, yellow, and red
C) green, red, and blue
D) green, blue, and yellow
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Chapter 2: Neuroscience
Q1) Which phrase best describes how the action potential occurs?
A) "all or none"
B) "slow but sure"
C) "speed equals intensity"
D) "all for one, and one for all"
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Q2) If you are currently taking a drug that affects your behavior, most likely, it is affecting
the ____.
A) speed or your action potentials
B) strength of your action potentials
C) number of new neurons your brain produces
D) activity occurring within your synapses
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Q3) Which statement is TRUE regarding the processes of excitation and inhibition?
A) In order for the body to work normally, neurotransmitters should usually be excitatory.
B) In order for the body to work normally, neurotransmitters should usually be inhibitory.
C) Both inhibitory and excitatory processes are necessary for normal neurological
activity.
D) Neither excitatory nor inhibitory processes are good for normal neurological activity.
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Chapter 5: Motivation and Emotion
Q1) Frederic goes on a very strict diet and loses 75 pounds. Six months after ending his
diet, Frederic is back to his original weight of 260 pounds. Frederic's experience is most
consistent with ____.
A) having an inefficient digestive system
B) having a high metabolic rate
C) having a set point of 260 pounds
D) having a tendency to engage in emotional eating
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Q2) Jameel has a desire to learn as much about psychology as he can. Psychologists
would call this desire a(n) ____.
A) emotion
B) thought
C) motive
D) instinct
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Q3) Shen was injured in an accident. At the hospital, he was given an IV with glucose.
What effect would this IV likely have on Shen's level of hunger?
A) It should have no effect.
B) It should increase his hunger.
C) It should decrease his hunger.
D) It should cause his hunger level to fluctuate unpredictably.
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Chapter 9: Human Development
Q1) Which behavior best represents moral reasoning at the conventional level?
A) Not cheating on a test because of a fear of getting caught
B) Being in favor of capital punishment because that is the law in your state
C) Choosing to not fight in a war because it is unethical to be forced to fight
D) Stealing food because you are starving
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Q2) Marshall's family frowns upon cohabitation and would be very disappointed if
Marshall were to live together with someone in an intimate relationship. Marshall's family
is most likely from which of the following cultures?
A) North America
B) Asia
C) Northern Europe
D) Western Europe
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Q3) Describe Erikson's four psychosocial stages that relate to adolescent and adult
development.
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