1.

The word “psychology’ comes from:

a. Latin
b. Spanish
c. Greek
d. Italian
2. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of:
a. people and things
b. emotions and beliefs
c. perception and religion
d. mind and behaviour
3. The scientific approach is more useful at answering questions about ______ than questions about
______.
a. facts, values
b. ideas, emotions
c. values, facts
d. emotions, facts
4. According to the text, the lower level of explanation corresponds to
______ processes.
a. social
b. cultural
c. biological
d. interpersonal
5. A psychologist exploring the impact of a new drug on activity in the brain is working on the ______
level of explanation.
a. lower
b. middle
c. upper
d. all of the above
6. A psychologist studying what makes people laugh in different countries around the world is working on
the ______ level of explanation.
a. lower
b. middle
c. higher
d. none of the above
7. Different people react differently to the same situation. This is referred to as:
a. multiple determinants
b. nativism
c. the Simpson effect
d. individual differences
8. ______ is to nature as ______ is to nurture.
a. environment, genes
b. conscious, unconscious
c. inaccuracy, accuracy
d. biology, experience
9. The term “tabula rasa” highlights the importance of ______ in shaping behaviour.
a. genes
b. experience
c. nature
d. predestination
10. The Greek philosopher ______ believed that knowledge is acquired through experience and learning.
a. Archimedes
b. Rousseau
c. Plato
d. Aristotle
11. ______ is to nature as ______ is to nurture.
a. Plato, Aristotle
b. Aristotle, Plato
c. Pliny, Archimedes
d. Stavros, Pliny
12. ______ is the belief that the mind is fundamentally different from the body.
a. mindism
b. dualism
c. centralism
d. specialism
13. The school of psychology whose goal was to identify the basic elements of experience was called:
a. experientialism
b. dualism
c. functionalism
d. structuralism
14. Which of the following was most closely associated with the structuralist school of psychology?
a. Titchener
b. James
c. Descartes
d. Watson
15. Darwin’s theory of ______ argued that physiological characteristics evolve because they are useful to
the
organism.
a. extreme usefulness
b. natural endowment
c. natural selection
d. natural wellbeing
16. ______ was to structuralism as ______ was to functionalism.
a. Wundt, Titchener
b. Wundt, James
c. James, Titchener
d. Milner, Thompson
17. Freud championed ______ psychology.
a. psychodynamic
b. cultural
c. conscious
d. biodynamic
18. Which school of psychology believes that it is impossible to objectively study the mind?
a. functionalism
b. behaviorism
c. humanism
d. socialism
19. Receiving an electric shock would be an example of a ______ whereas being frightened would be an
example of a ______.
a. stimulus, response
b. punishment, reward
c. reaction, emotion
d. reinforcement, stimulus
20. Dr Pula wants to explore differences in child-rearing practices between British and Chinese parents. She
is most likely a:
a. cognitive psychologist
b. physiological psychologist
c. cognitive-ergonomic psychologist
d. social-cultural psychologist
21. Nature is to ________ as nurture is to ________.
a. environment/genes
b. conscious/unconscious
c. genes/environment
d. unconscious/conscious
22. Freud emphasized the role of ________ in shaping people’s personality.
a. free will
b. unconscious desires
c. hormones
d. group influence
23. Evolutionary psychology has its roots in:
a. behaviourism
b. collectivism
c. functionalism
d. structuralism
24. Most human behaviour:
a. can be easily explained
b. has multiple causes
c. stems from unconscious desires
d. depends on social influence
25. A forensic psychologist would be most likely to study:
a. the accuracy of eyewitness memory
b. the impact of advertising on shopping behaviour
c. the effect of hormones on decision making
d. gender differences in learning styles
26. The behaviourists rejected introspection because:
a. it was too slow
b. it invaded people’s privacy
c. it yielded too much data
d. it was too subjective
27. Another term for reinforcement is:
a. stimulus
b. reward
c. response
d. condition
28. East Asian cultures tend to be more oriented toward ________ while Western cultures tend to be more
oriented toward ________.
a. individualism/collectivism
b. collectivism/individualism
c. cultural norms/social norms
d. social norms/cultural norms
29. Watson and Skinner both contributed to which school of psychology?
a. functionalism
b. cognitive
c. social-cultural
d. behaviourism
30. Which field of psychology would be most likely to study the influence of
over-crowding on conformity?
a. personality
b. cognitive
c. clinical
d. social

ANSWERS

1. c 11. a 21. c
2. d 12. b 22. b
3. a 13. d 23. c
4. c 14. a 24. b
5. a 15. c 25. a
6. c 16. b 26. d
7. d 17. a 27. b
8. d 18. b 28. b
9. b 19. a 29. d
10. d 20. d 30. d

1. The belief that complex understood as the sum of called:

behaviours can be several simpler one’s is a. reductionism
 b. functionalism fulfillment salivation is the
c. introspection b. activation-synthesis ________ while the
d. animism c. threat-simulation meat powder is the
2. Wundt’s primary d. elucidatory ________.
method of research was: consciousness a. UCR, UCS
a. experimentation 9. The brain has four lobes: b. UCS, UCR
b. autoethnography occipital, frontal c. CS, CR
c. introspection ________ and d. CR, CS
d. lesioning ________. 16. Which of the following
3. Jung stated that humans a. sympathetic, was a humanistic
possess both a ________ parasympathetic psychologist?
unconscious and a b. autonomic, somatic a. Freud
________ c. temporal, parietal b. Watson
unconscious: d. visual, auditory c. Wernicke
a. shadow/manifest 10. A psychologist who d. Rogers
b. personal/collective practices Gestalt 17. What are the two parts
c. introvert/extravert Therapy would most of the autonomic
d. phenomenal/latent likely be a(n): nervous system?
4. Remembering that the a. humanist a. somatic, autonomic
capital of Canada is b. behaviourist b. reflexive, responsive
Ottawa requires: c. evolutionist c. sympathetic,
a. sensory memory d. cognitivist parasympathetic
b. semantic memory 11. A psychologist primarily d. frontal, occipital
c. episodic memory interested in mental 18. MBTI stands for:
d. procedural memory processes such as a. Manifold Barometric
5. Which of the following memory and perception Temperature Indicator
psychologists was NOT would most likely be b. Multiple Behavioural
a behaviourist? a(n): Theories Instrument
a. Watson a. humanist c. Myers Briggs Type
b. Thorndike b. behaviourist Indicator
c. Skinner c. evolutionist d. Maslow Bosun Trend
d. Maslow d. cognitivist Indicator
6. Positive reinforcement 12. Which of the following 19. Which lobe of the brain
involves ________ topics would be of least is also known as the
something to increase a interest to a biological auditory cortex?
response whereas psychologist? a. frontal
negative reinforcement a. hunger b. temporal
involves ________ b. thirst c. occipital
something. c. free will d. parietal
a. repeating/increasing d. sleep 20. Which of the following
b. adding/removing 13. William James worked is NOT associated with
c. removing/adding during the: Freud?
d. increasing/repeating a. late 20th century a. id
7. Two kinds of learning b. late 19th century b. ego
studied by behaviourists c. middle ages c. shadow
are: d. the 1700s d. super-ego
a. classical conditioning 14. Freud argued that 21. In Seligman’s ABCDE
and operant conditioning dreams have both model of learned
b. manifest learning and ________ content and optimism, B stands for:
latent learning ________ content. a. belief
c. conscious learning a. Freudian, Jungian b. behaviour
and unconscious b. conditioned, c. brain
learning unconditioned d. blessing
d. operant conditioning c. latent, manifest 22. ________ needs were at
and instrumental d. somatic, autonomic the bottom of Maslow’s
conditioning 15. In Pavlov’s work dogs pyramid/hierarchy.
8. Which of the following salivated naturally in a. safety
is NOT a theory of response to being given b. self actualization
dreaming? meat powder. c. esteem
a. expectation In this situation, d. physiological
23. The idea that human rewards decade?
behaviour may be the c. enjoying a task a. 1930s
product of natural because it meets b. 1950s
selection is central to: physical needs c. 1970s
a. humanistic d. motivation that can d. 1990s
psychology only be experienced 29. In Pavlov’s work, when
b. evolutionary indoors dogs were trained to
psychology 26. Remembering what you salivate to the sound of a
c. cognitive psychology ate for supper yesterday bell that sound was the:
d. behavioural requires: a. UCS
psychology a. sensory memory b. UCR
24. The movement known b. episodic memory c. CS
as radical behaviourism c. procedural memory d. CR
is most closely d. semantic memory 30. Another term for
associated with: 27. According to Freud the thinking about thinking
a. Watson ________ content of a is:
b. Thorndike dream relates to the a. metacognition
c. Pavlov person’s unconscious b. perception
d. Skinner wishes. c. mediation
25. Intrinsic motivation a. shadow d. self-regulation
refers to: b. lateral
a. enjoying a task for its c. spreading
own sake d. latent ANSWERS
b. being motivated by 28. Humanistic psychology
money and/or other emerged during which

1. a 11. d 21. a
2. c 12. c 22. d
3. b 13. b 23. b
4. b 14. c 24. d
5. d 15. a 25. a
6. b 16. d 26. b
7. a 17. c 27. d
8. d 18. c 28. b
9. c 19. b 29. c
10. a 20. c

30. A what’s happening c. more depressed than a

c. assess relationships person with a high
between variables income
d. all of the above d. cannot make a
3. A study of the feeding prediction from
behaviour of a group of correlational data
wild monkeys in India 5. Descriptive statistics
Research would be an example of: aim to:
a. a survey a. explain
1. Statements based on the b. naturalistic b. confuse
systematic collection of observation c. complicate
data are: c. a correlation d. summarize
a. empirical d. an experiment 6. In a ________
b. dialectic 4. If income and happiness experiment neither the
c. empathic are positively correlated researcher nor the
d. false then a person with a low participants know which
2. The goal of correlational income would be condition participants
research is to: predicted to be: are in.
a. assess the causal a. not depressed at all a. blind
impact of one variable b. less depressed than a b. double-blind
on another person with a high c. random
b. create a snapshot of income d. confounded
7. A researcher is d. it is not typical to the ________ variable
interested in the impact obtain informed consent and measure the
of anxiety on 13. Creating equivalence ________ variable.
performance. In order to among research a. independent,
manipulate anxiety, they participants is vital for: dependent
have some subjects eat a. experimental research b. dependent,
plain chips while others b. correlational research independent
eat barbecue flavoured c. descriptive research c. causal, spurious
chips. The most obvious d. equivalence is never d. spurious, causal
problem with this vital 19. The more exercise a
experiment is a lack of : 14. A researcher is person takes the fewer
a. statistical validity interested in whether the medical problems they
b. empirical validity results of her experiment report. This is an
c. internal validity (conducted in Canada) example of:
d. construct validity would be the same if the a. a curvilinear
8. A strength of experiment were relationship
correlational designs is conducted in China. b. statistical
that they: This researcher is independence
a. can demonstrate concerned with: c. a positive correlation
causation a. internal validity d. a negative correlation
b. do not require ethics b. external validity 20. In a normal distribution
board approval c. statistical validity most scores are located:
c. can be used with d. none of the above a. at the high end of the
variables which cannot 15. Standard deviation is a distribution
be manipulated by a measure of: b. at the low end of the
researcher a. range distribution
d. are more intrusive b. central tendency c. in the centre of the
than experimental c. inference distribution
designs d. dispersion d. at the extremes of the
9. A researcher uses an 16. Generalization is a key distribution
experimental design to issue in: 21. Data from a
study the effect of music a. internal validity correlational study is
on memory. In this b. external validity usually shown as a:
experiment, the c. a double-blind a. scatterplot
Independent Variable is: experiment b. pie chart
a. music d. a single-blind c. bar graph
b. memory experiment d. b or c
c. both music and 17. In an experiment 22. A researcher plans to
memory examining the effect of assess intelligence by
d. neither music nor mood on intelligence counting the number of
memory participants are times participants
10. According to the text, randomly can hop on one leg in 60
which of the following assigned to watch either seconds. An obvious
is NOT a characteristic a funny movie or a sad problem with this is:
of a good theory? movie before they a. lack of statistical
a. it is parsimonious complete an IQ test. The validity
b. it is falsifiable funny movie is shown in b. number of hops is too
c. it is common sense a classroom, while the subjective
d. it is general sad movie is shown in c. lack of construct
11. Empirical statements are the student lounge. The validity
based on: most obvious problem d. lack of significance
a. belief with this experiment is: 23. A double-blind study is
b. data a. lack of statistical used to minimize the
c. intuition validity impact of:
d. common sense b. the IV is confounded a. experimenter bias
12. Informed consent is c. the use of random b. expectancy effects
typically obtained: assignment c. both a and b
a. during an experiment d. none of the above d. neither a nor b
b. before an experiment 18. In an experiment the 24. Correlation coefficients
c. after an experiment researcher manipulates range from:
 a. r = -1 to r = +1 27. Three commonly used cold room painted
b. r = 0 to r = +1 measures of central yellow. In this
c. r = -1 to r = 0 tendency are: experiment the IV is
d. r = +.5 to r = +1 a. range, standard confounded by:
25. In an experiment deviation, median, a. lack of random
randomly assigned, b. median, mode, sampling
participants drank wine dispersion b. the colour of the room
or water. All participants c. mode, median, c. performance on the
then completed an standard deviation task
anxiety questionnaire. In d. median, mode, mean d. there is no confound
this experiment the IV 28. Dr. Maki questioned a 30. A researcher asks 250
was: group of 9th graders students (from a school
a. the results of the about their career with 1000 pupils) to
memory test aspirations. This is an complete a survey about
b. the participants example of a(n) the cafereria. The 250
c. the random a. experiment students are a:
assignment b. survey a. population
d. what the participants c. case study b. case study
drank d. manipulation c. sample
26. Research shows that the 29. In an experiment d. variable
older a person is, the looking at the effect of
larger their vocabulary. heat on performance,
This is an example of a : participants were ANSWERS
a. positive correlation randomly assigned to
b. negative correlation spend 20 minutes in a 1. a
c. causal correlation hot room painted blue or
d. partial correlation to spend 20 minutes in a

2. c 12. b 22. c
3. b 13. a 23. c
4. c 14. b 24. a
5. d 15. d 25. d
6. b 16. b 26. a
7. d 17. b 27. d
8. c 18. a 28. b
9. a 19. d 29. b
10. c 20. c 30. c
11. b 21. a

Neuron of the brain? b. glutamate

a. the limbic system c. dopamine
1. What part of a neuron is b. the cortex d. acetylcholine
responsible for receiving c. the right hemisphere 6. The limbic system
information? d. the brain stem includes the:
a. axon 4. The change in electrical a. amygdala,
b. terminal fibre charge that occurs in a hypothalamus,
c. dendrite neuron when a nerve hippocampus
d. myelin sheath impulse is transmitted is b. hypothalamus,
2. Electrical stimulation of known as the: medulla, hippocampus
the reticular formation a. action potential c. hippocampus, pons,
would most likely cause b. synaptic change thalamus
an animal to: c. refractory period d. cerebellum, pons,
a. sneeze d. ionic charge hypothalamus
b. become blind 5. Schizophrenia and 7. The ________ is to
c. wake up if it had been Parkinson’s disease are feeling fear as the
sleeping both linked to changes ________ is to feeling
d. stop breathing in which pleasure.
3. In evolutionary terms, neurotransmitter? a. pons/medulla
which is the oldest part a. serotonin b.
 amygdala/hypothalamus neurotransmitter b. parietal
c. acetylcholine. c. frontal
thalamus/hypothalamus a. antagonist d. occipital
d. cerebellum/amygdala b. protagonist 23. After a car accident,
8. The effect of c. agonist Rhodri had a lot of
neurotransmitters may d. cure difficulty planning his
be: 16. Damage to the day. This is most likely
a. chemical or electrical hippocampus is most the
b. excitatory or likely to impair: result of damage to
inhibitory a. memory which lobe?
c. positive or negative b. balance a. temporal
d. active or passive c. sleep b. parietal
9. The terminal buttons of d. breathing c. frontal
a neuron are located at 17. Which part of the limbic d. occipital
the end of its: system is involved in an 24. Which area of the brain-
a. axon animal’s feeling of stem controls heart rate
b. dendrite hunger? and breathing?
c. myelin sheath a. thalamus a. reticular formation
d. nodes of ranvier b. pons b. medulla
10. Which lobe is most c. hippocampus c. pons
closely associated with d. hypothalamus d. thalamus
visual processing? 18. The ________ 25. Which structure allows
a. frontal ________ consists of communication between
b. temporal glands that secrete the hemispheres?
c. parietal hormones: a. reticular formation
d. occipital a. nervous system b. temporal lobe
11. Communication within b. immune system c. contralateral bridge
neurons is ______, c. endocrine system d. corpus callosum
communication between d. cerebral cortex 26. Which part of the
neurons is 19. Testosterone is to endocrine system is
________. ________ as estrogen is sometimes called the
a. excitatory, inhibitory to ________. “master gland”?
b. inhibitory, excitatory a. thyroid, parathyroid a. adrenal gland
c. chemical, electrical b. testes, ovaries b. pancreas
d. electrical, chemical c. sympathetic, c. pituitary gland
12. Which of the following parasympathetic d. pineal gland
is NOT a lobe of the d. pancreas, pituitary 27. Which of the following
brain? 20. What do we call the is NOT part of the
a. frontal layer of fatty tissue endocrine system?
b. dorsal surrounding the axon of a. pons
c. parietal some neurons? b. pancreas
d. temporal a. cutaneous coating c. parathyroid
13. A person who is drunk b. myelin sheath d. pineal gland
may have difficulty c. dendritic barrier 28. Where would you see
walking in a straight line d. synaptic sleeve the nodes of Ranvier?
because the alcohol 21. In the context of brain a. on an axon
has impacted their: imaging, what does b. in the cell body
a. thalamus FMRI stand for? c. on a dendrite
b. reticular formation a. fast moving recovery d. a and c
c. amygdala imaging 29. The brain’s ability to
d. cerebellum b. first moveable change in response to
14. Neurotransmitters carry recording indicator experience or damage is
signals across the c. flexible motion called:
________ ________. resistance indicator a. lateralization
a. refractory gap d. functional magnetic b. lesioning
b. axonal gap resonance imaging c. neuroplasticity
c. synaptic gap 22. Which lobe is primarily d. functionality
d. hippocampal gap responsible for hearing 30. Which is the most
15. The poison curare is a(n) and language? common
________ for the a. temporal neurotransmitter in the
 brain? c. dopamine
a. serotonin d. GABA ANSWERS
b. glutamate

1. c 11. d 21. d
2. c 12. b 22. a
3. d 13. d 23. c
4. a 14. c 24. b
5. c 15. a 25. d
6. a 16. a 26. c
7. b 17. d 27. a
8. b 18. c 28. a
9. a 19. a 29. c
10. d 20. b 30. b

Sensation and b. proprioception 11. Where would you find

Perception c. auditory realism tastebuds?
d. psychophysics a. on the tongue
1. Sensation is to 6. When a person enters a b. on the walls of the
________ as perception dark room their pupils mouth
is to ________. ________ to allow more c. at the back of the
a. vision, olfaction light to enter their eyes. throat
b. conscious, a. constrict d. all of the above
unconscious b. curve 12. Damage to the
c. awareness, c. dilate ________ may cause
interpretation d. a or c sensorineural hearing
d. taste, vision 7. Wave ________ is to loss.
2. Visual accommodation pitch as wave ________ a. eardrum
involves a change in is to loudness. b. pinna
which structure? a. length, frequency c. stapes
a. lens b. peak, trough d. cilia
b. cornea c. pressure, 13. Which are the 4 basic
c. retina distinctiveness sensations our skin can
d. fovea d. frequency, amplitude detect?
3. If object A overlaps 8. In depth perception, a. vibration, warmth,
object B we perceive accommodation would tingling, pain
object A as being be most useful for which b. pain, friction, cold,
closer. Which depth cue activity? warmth
are we using? a. playing golf c. pain, pressure, hot,
a. relative size b. threading a needle cold
b. linear perspective c. driving a car d. itching, tickling,
c. proximity d. flying a kite friction, aching
d. interposition 9. What is the visible part 14. Which of the following
4. ________ is the ability of the ear called? is NOT one of the six
to sense the position and a. pinna senses?
movement of our body b. funnel a. proprioception
parts. c. tibia b. transduction
a. proprioaction d. cochlea c. olfaction
b. proprioception 10. The optic nerve carries d. taste
c. proprioliction information to: 15. Which of the following
d. proprioprediction a. the retina then the is a gestalt principle?
5. A researcher interested cortex a. intensity
in the relationship b. the retina then the b. density
between physical stimuli thalamus c. proximity
and our psychological c. the thalamus then the d. frequency
experience would be cortex 16. When detecting colour,
studying: d. the cornea then the hue depends on wave
a. extra sensory retina ________ while
perception brightness dependson
 ________ c. malleus 27. ________ ________
a. height, length d. retina theory argues that pain
b. length, height 22. Which of the following is determined by the
c. intensity, consistency is NOT part of the operation of two types
d. consistency, intensity vestibular system? of nerve fibres in the
17. What is the stimulus for a. horizontal canal spinal cord.
vision? b. anterior canal a. opponent process
a. electromagnetic c. saccule b. Young Helmholtz
energy d. invicticule c. gate control
b. electrovisual energy 23. Damage to your d. neural location
c. electrostatic energy olfactory membrane 28. The middle ear contains
d. electroconvulsive would most likely three little bones. They
energy impair your ability to: are:
18. People are more likely a. see a. pinna, cochlea, cilia
to notice a 50 cent b. hear b. incus, anvil, stapes
increase in the price of a c. smell c. hammer, anvil, stirrup
candy bar than they are d. feel pain d. tympani, ossicle,
to notice a 50 cent 24. Which of the following pinna
increase in the price of is NOT a set of 29. Signal detection analysis
an iPad. This illustrates: opponent colours examines our ability to:
a. the absolute threshold according to opponent a. tell the difference
b. Weber’s law process theory? between blue and green
c. signal detection a. red/blue b. detect signals of
d. opponent processes b. red/green distress in a baby
19. What is another term for c. yellow/blue c. detect the latent
difference threshold? d. white/black meaning of a dream
a. absolute threshold 25. Your ability to focus on d. separate true signals
b. difference adaptation a TV show while from background noise
c. just noticeable ignoring the noise of 30. What do we call the
difference your partner nagging field of psychology that
d. sensory about supper illustrates: focuses on improving
differentiation a. synesthesia the development of
20. According to the text, b. selective attention technology by using
how many different taste c. sensory attention psychological
sensations are there? d. sensory adaptation knowledge?
a. 2 26. The fact that you may a. human factors
b. 4 notice a disgusting smell b. signal detection
c. 6 when you first walk into c. humanistic
d. 8 a room but stop noticing psychology
21. Movement of hair cells it if you stay in the room d. computer science
in the ________ triggers for a while illustrates:
nerve impulses which a. synesthesia
are sent to the brain. b. selective attention ANSWERS
a. pinna c. sensory attention
b. cochlea d. sensory adaptation

1. c 14. b 27. c
2. a 15. c 28. c
3. d 16. b 29. d
4. b 17. a 30. a
5. d 18. b
6. c 19. c Sleep
7. d 20. c
8. b 21. b 1. A dualist believes:
9. a 22. d a. people have two
10. c 23. c personalities
11. d 24. a b. life is better with a
12. d 25. b partner
13. c 26. d c. there are two
 explanations for every c. stimulant, opioid 18. Which is the odd one
behaviour d. barbiturate, stimulant out?
d. the mind is separate 10. What did Freud regard a. nicotine
from the brain as the primary function b. alcohol
2. Prolonged sleep of dreams? c. barbiturates
deprivation can result in: a. enhanced cognition d. benzodiazepines
a. impaired driving b. wish fulfilment 19. The appearance of sleep
b. increased anxiety c. memory suppression spindles on a sleeper’s
c. memory problems d. enhanced self-esteem EEG recording would
d. all of the above 11. The body’s primary indicate they are in:
circadian pacemaker is a. REM sleep
3. Which of the following the: b. N1 stage sleep
is NOT one of the 4 a. pineal gland c. N2 stage sleep
primary classes of b. hippocampus d. N3 stage sleep
psychoactive drugs? c. suprachiasmatic 20. Which of the following
a. stimulant nucleus is NOT a sleep disorder?
b. barbiturate d. amygdala a. narcolepsy
c. depressant 12. According to the b. somnambulism
d. hallucinogen activation-synthesis c. sleep apnea
4. How long does a theory of dreaming, d. epilepsy
circadian rhythm last? dreams are triggered by 21. Which of the following
a. about an hour the random firing of is NOT associated with
b. about a day neurons in the: REM sleep?
c. about a month a. right temporal lobe a. decreased limbic
d. about a year b. suprachiasmatic system activity
5. Which of the following nucleus b. increased heart rate
is a depressant? c. brain stem c. genital arousal
a. alcohol d. hypothalamus d. dreaming
b. nicotine 13. What is another name 22. If you were looking at
c. LSD for hallucinogens? an EEG recording of a
d. caffeine a. poppies sleeping person and
6. From birth to adulthood, b. psychedelics noticed theta waves,
the amount of sleep we c. epinephrine which stage of sleep
need per night: d. stimulants would that indicate?
a. increases 14. The term “hypnosis” is a. REM
b. decreases based on the Greek word b. N1
c. stays the same for: c. N2
d. decreases then a. trance d. N3
increases b. drug 23. I am watching my friend
7. ________ waves are to c. sleep sleep. If I want them to
wakefulness as d. dream be able to tell me about
________ waves are to 15. Which is the odd one their dreams I should
deep sleep. out? wake them during:
a. alpha, beta a. opium a. REM
b. beta, delta b. halcion b. N1
c. alpha, delta c. heroin c. N2
d. beta, theta d. morphine d. N3
8. What is another name 16. What did Freud call the 24. ________ increase
for N3 stage sleep? hidden psychological activity in the CNS
a. rapid eye movement content of a dream? while ________ reduce
sleep a. its manifest content it.
b. beta wave sleep b. its literal content a. barbiturates, toxic
c. dream sleep c. its latent content inhalants
d. slow wave sleep d. its soporific content b. barbiturates,
9. Caffeine is to ________ 17. Which hormone helps us stimulants
as alcohol is to fall asleep? c. stimulants,
________. a. nor-adrenalin depressants
a. stimulant, depressant b. estrogen d. depressants,
b. stimulant, c. oxytocin stimulants
hallucinogen d. melatonin
25. ________ behaviour is 9. a of identity development?
to unconscious as 10. b a. foreclosure
________ behaviour is 11. c b. precipitant
to conscious. 12. c c. conventional
a. normal, abnormal 13. b d. operational
b. idiopathic, nomothetic 14. c 6. Which of the following
c. automatic, controlled 15. b has been put forward as
d. moral, immoral 16. c a criticism of Piaget’s
26. When it comes to a 17. d theory?
drug’s “safety ratio” the 18. a a. he was not meticulous
bigger the ratio the, 19. c about his methods
________ drug. 20. d b. he did not pay enough
a. more dangerous 21. a attention to the social
b. less dangerous 22. b environment
c. more expensive 23. a c. his findings apply to
d. less expensive 24. c girls but not to boys
27. Taking a stimulant will 25. c d. his findings apply to
probably cause: 26. b boys but not to girls
a. an increase in blood 27. a 7. Longitudinal research
sugar 28. c involves:
b. constricted pupils 29. d a. testing different
c. increased GABA 30. a people of the same age
production b. testing different
d. all of the above people at the same stage
28. Hallucinogens typically of development
mimic which c. testing the same
neurotransmitter? people at different ages
a. GABA and d. a and b
Development Psychology
acetylcholine 8. According to research,
b. endorphins and which is the most
dopamine 1. Another term for a common type of
c. serotonin and fertilized ovum is: attachment?
epinephrine a. placenta a. secure
d. dopamine and b. sperm b. ambivalent
norepinephrine c. fallopian c. avoidant
29. ________ is defined as d. zygote d. disorganized
persistent difficulty 2. According to the text, 9. A baby is repeatedly
falling or staying asleep. middle adulthood lasts shown a blue circle.
a. apnea until approximately: Over time the baby
b. narcolepsy a. age 35 shows less and less
c. bruxism b. age 45 interest in the blue
d. insomnia c. age 55 circle. This illustrates:
30. Which is the odd one d. age 65 a. sensory deprivation
out? 3. ________ parenting b. habituation
a. heroin combines high c. dishabituation
b. LSD responsiveness with low d. reflexive adjustment
c. PCP demandingness. 10. Kohlberg proposed a
d. mescaline a. authoritative stage theory of:
b. permissive a. cognitive
c. rejecting-neglecting development
ANSWERS d. authoritarian b. sexual development
4. The trajectory of c. social development
1. d development beginning
2. d d. moral development
at conception is: 11. Cross-sectional studies
3. b a. zygote, fetus, embryo
4. b are particularly
b. embryo, zygote, fetus vulnerable to:
5. a c. zygote, embryo, fetus
6. b a. attrition
d. embryo, fetus, zygote b. lack of ongoing
7. c 5. Which of the following
8. d research funding
is one of Marcia’s stages
 c. cohort effects c. pre-operational environment?
d. meta-critiques d. sensorimotor a. placenta
12. Which brain area is 19. You are stroking a b. umbilical cord
responsible for baby’s cheek with your c. amniotic sac
reasoning and planning? finger. The baby turns d. all of the above
a. brain-stem its head and tries to suck 26. Piaget argued that
b. pre-frontal cortex on your finger. The baby ________ and ________
c. temporal lobe is exhibiting the go hand in hand during
d. parietal lobe ________ reflex. childhood.
13. The “strange situation” a. tonic neck a. trust, mistrust
is a test of: b. withdrawal b. intimacy, isolation
a. attachment c. rooting c. accommodation,
b. accommodation d. grasp assimilation
c. assimilation 20. ________ are substances d. industry, inferiority
d. arbitration that can harm the fetus. 27. Which of the following
14. You are watching a a. testosterones is NOT a teratogen?
newborn when it is b. teratogens a. nicotine
startled by a loud noise. c. telomeres b. testosterone
The baby extends its d. testifiers c. radiation
arms and legs, then 21. Which of Marcia’s d. alcohol
quickly brings them in stages of identity 28. Mary complains when
as if trying to grasp development is her tall thin glass of
something. This characterised by the juice is poured into a
illustrates the: individual establishing short but wider glass.
a. grasp reflex an identity based on the She tells her father that
b. tonic reflex choices or values of she now has less juice.
c. moro reflex others? Mary has not yet
d. stepping reflex a. identity-diffusion grasped the principle of:
15. Kubler-Ross claimed b. foreclosure a. assimilation
that there are 5 phases of c. moratorium b. integration
grief. Which of the d. identity-achievement c. attenuation
following was NOT one 22. Younger adults would d. conservation
of the phases she typically outperform 29. When compared with
identified? older adults on a test of: someone in their 20s, a
a. denial a. fluid intelligence person in their 40s is
b. bargaining b. crystallized likely to have:
c. anger intelligence a. worse vision but
d. confusion c. wisdom better hearing
16. ________ ________ is d. vocabulary b. worse hearing but
the ability to think and 23. Alzheimer’s disease is better vision
acquire information associated with a c. worse vision and
quickly and abstractly. gradual loss of worse hearing
a. meta cognition ________ producing d. better vision and
b. fluid intelligence neurons. better hearing
c. crystallized a. dopamine 30. At which stage of moral
intelligence b. serotonin development did
d. speed reading c. acetylcholine Kohlberg argue that
17. According to the text, d. GABA people can make moral
early adulthood begins 24. Authoritarian parents decisions that take
roughly between ages: are: account of principles
a. 15 – 25 a. demanding and such as justice and
b. 20 – 30 responsive equality?
c. 25 – 45 b. demanding but not a. post-conventional
d. 30 – 50 responsive b. post-operational
18. Piaget believed that c. responsive but not c. pre-conventional
object permanence is demanding d. conventional
typically attained during d. neither demanding
which stage? nor responsive ANSWERS
a. formal operations 25. Which of the following
b. concrete operations is part of the prenatal
1. d d. contingent a reward if it lay down,
2. d reinforcement turned, then rolled over.
3. b 4. Observational learning Kim was using:
4. c is also known as: a. classical conditioning
5. a a. classical conditioning b. modelling
6. b b. operant conditioning c. a fixed interval
7. c c. modelling schedule
8. a d. manipulation d. shaping
9. b 5. Taking away a child’s 11. In classical
10. d toys after she has hit her conditioning, US stands
11. c brother (to stop her for:
12. b hitting him again!) a. unintentional stimulus
13. a is an example of: b. unconditioned
14. c a. positive punishment stimulus
15. d b. negative punishment c. unconnected stimulus
16. b c. vindictive d. none of the above
17. c conditioning 12. In classical
18. d d. observational learning conditioning, UR and
19. c 6. According to the CR are:
20. b behaviourist school, a. opposite behaviours
21. b ________ plays no role b. the same behaviour
22. a in learning. c. the result of extinction
23. c a. experience d. the same stimulus
24. b b. nurture 13. Which of the following
25. d c. nature phrases best sums up the
26. c d. punishment law of effect:
27. b 7. Thorndike developed a. think before you act
28. d the: b. if you can’t beat
29. c a. law of effort them, join them
30. a b. law of energy c. if it works, repeat it
c. law of effusion d. measure twice, cut
Learning d. law of effect once
8. Giving a student extra 14. Positive reinforcement
1. Pavlov is famous for his homework after they ________ the likelihood
work in: misbehave in class is an of a behaviour, and
a. contingent example of: negative reinforcement
conditioning a. positive punishment ________ the likelihood
b. operant conditioning b. negative punishment of a behaviour.
c. classical conditioning c. positive reinforcement a. increases, increases
d. oppositional d. negative b. decreases, decreases
conditioning reinforcement c. increases, decreases
2. The study of learning is 9. ________ schedules of d. decreases, increases
most closely associated reinforcement are based 15. Gerhardt got sick after
with which school of on number of responses eating a peach. Now he
psychology? while ________ feels sick when he looks
a. psychoanalytic schedules of at peaches,
b. humanist reinforcement are based nectarines or plums.
c. social on elapsed time. This illustrates:
d. behaviourist a. fixed, variable a. spontaneous recovery
3. If we reinforce the b. variable, fixed b. intermittent
desired response every c. interval, ratio reinforcement
time it occurs we are d. ratio, interval c. modelling
using: 10. To train her puppy to d. generalization
a. continuous roll over, Kim began by 16. A bakery gives
reinforcement rewarding it for simply customers a free pastry
b. incremental lying down. Later, she after every 6 pastry
reinforcement only rewarded the puppy purchases. This is an
c. intermittent if it lay down AND example of what kind of
reinforcement turned to one side. Later reinforcement schedule?
still, the puppy only got a. fixed interval
 b. fixed ratio c. the players can sunglasses would be the:
c. variable interval discuss their strategy a. US
d. variable ratio with each other before b. UR
17. A researcher trains a dog making their choices c. CS
to salivate to the sound d. each player has access d. CR
of a bell. Then he turns to a lawyer 27. People who have a lot of
the lights on 22. In the prisoner’s dental problems often
just before he sounds the dilemma game, the come to dislike even the
bell. If he continues to cooperative decision is: smell of their
do this until the dog a. confess dentist’s office. The
starts to salivate as b. don’t confess smell represents a(n):
soon as the lights go on, c. blame the other a. US
he has demonstrated: person b. UR
a. latent learning d. none of the above c. CS
b. insight 23. To encourage children d. CR
c. second-order to enjoy arithmetic, you 28. Taking away a person’s
conditioning should: car after they have been
d. extinction a. punish them when caught speeding would
18. An intermittent schedule they make a mistake be
of reinforcement that b. reward them every an example of:
reinforces behaviour time they get an answer a. positive punishment
after an average, right b. negative punishment
but unpredictable, c. sometimes surprise c. positive reinforcement
amount of time has them with a reward d. negative
passed is called a when they get an answer reinforcement
________ ________ right 29. Research indicates that
schedule. d. ignore them exposure to violent
a. fixed ratio 24. To be classed as a TV/video games:
b. variable ratio phobia, a fear must be a. has no impact of
c. fixed interval both: aggression
d. variable interval a. rational and life- b. increases aggression
19. Food is to ________ threatening c. reduces aggression
reinforcer as money is to b. unexplained and d. promotes random acts
________ reinforcer. unconscious of kindness
a. positive, negative c. short-lived and 30. Animals are most likely
b. negative, positive dangerous to learn associations that
c. primary, secondary d. strong and irrational promote:
d. secondary, primary 25. After being bitten by a a. survival
20. Positive punishment big Alsatian dog, Hugo b. happiness
________ behaviour, was scared of other big c. extinction
and negative punishment dogs but he was d. discrimination
________ not scared of little dogs
behaviour. like Chihuahuas. This ANSWERS
a. strengthens, pattern demonstrates:
strengthens a. shaping 1. c
b. weakens, weakens b. negative punishment 2. d
c. strengthens, weakens c. discrimination 3. a
d. weakens, strengthens d. latent learning 4. c
21. In the prisoner’s 26. You are online one 5. b
dilemma game: evening when an advert 6. c
a. a positive outcome for appears showing your 7. d
one player does not favourite movie star 8. a
necessarily mean a wearing a new brand of 9. d
negative outcome sunglasses. The 10. d
for the other player advertiser hopes that 11. b
b. a positive outcome for your positive feelings 12. b
one player necessarily toward the movie star 13. c
means a negative will make you want the 14. a
outcome sunglasses. In this 15. d
for the other player situation, the
16. b effect person’s memory and
17. c c. ?source monitoring their confidence in the
18. d d. salience accuracy of that
19. c 6. Anterograde amnesia is memory.
20. b typically associated with a. virtually no
21. a damage to the: correlation
22. b a. amygdala b. a strong positive
23. c b. retina correlation
24. d c. cerebellum c. a strong negative
25. c d. hippocampus correlation
26. c 7. Which part of working d. a curvilinear
27. c memory controls how relationship
28. b attention is directed? 13. The word fragment test
29. b a. the central executive is used to test a person’s
30. a b. the mother board ________ memory.
c. the mnemonic a. extrinsic
Memory processor b. instrinsic
d. the director c. explicit
1. ________ memory is to 8. ________ interference d. implicit
hearing as ________ works backwards, and 14. After reading an article
memory is to seeing. ________ interference about a case of cheating
a. echoic, eidetic works forwards. on campus, students are
b. eidetic, echoic, a. primary, recency likely to over-
c. working, short-term b. recency, primacy estimate the incidence of
d. short-term, working c. proactive, retroactive cheating on campus.
2. The cognitive school of d. retroactive, proactive This is an example of:
psychology found it 9. When asked to come up a. iconic memory
helpful to liken the brain with the name of a bird, salience
to a(n): people are much more b. the availability
a. cash machine likely to say heuristic
b. computer “robin” than they are to c. counterfactual
c. orchestra say “ostrich”. This is thinking
d. calculator because: d. functional fixedness
3. A person who has just a. robin is a shorter word 15. In stage models of
eaten supper completes b. robin begins with the memory, information
the word fragment _ o_k letter “r” moves from:
as fork (rather c. robins are prototypical a. sensory to short-term
than as book or look d. robins are smaller to long-term memory
etc). This is an example 10. The tendency to think b. sensory to long-term
of: about and experience to working memory
a. conditioning events according to c. short-term to long-
b. recognition “what might have term to explicit memory
c. priming been” is known as: d. sensory to eidetic to
d. relearning a. anterograde amnesia iconic memory
4. Which of the following b. counterfactual 16. The spacing effect
brain areas have been thinking suggests that when you
shown to be important c. salience study for a test you
for memory? d. heuristic processing should:
a. cerebellum 11. Damage to the a. wait until the last
b. amygdala cerebellum is likely to minute then find a quiet
c. hippocampus interfere with: place to study
d. all of the above a. auditory processing b. learn different
5. Puni isn’t sure whether b. explicit memory material in different
she read something in a c. implicit memory places
magazine or in her d. emotional memories c. spread your study
psychology text book. 12. Research has shown that time over a number of
Puni has a problem with: there is sessions
a. media literacy _________________ d. always study in a
b. the misinformation between the accuracy of spacious area
a
17. Classical conditioning a. unpleasant, pleasant to be better at
effects are an example b. pleasant, unpleasant remembering the
of: c. unattended, material:
a. eidetic memory unrehearsed a. when you are happy
b. primary memory d. unrehearsed, b. when you are drunk
c. retroactive unattended c. when you are sad
interference 23. Recall involves d. when you are angry
d. implicit memory ________ step(s), and 28. ________ memory is to
18. Magnus was locked in a recognition involves first-hand experience as
room. The only way to ________ step(s). ________ memory is to
escape was to force open a. one, one knowledge
a window b. one, two about the world.
and climb out. Magnus c. two, two a. semantic, episodic
remained locked in the d. two, one b. episodic, semantic
room because he never 24. Working memory is best c. implicit, explicit
thought to use thought of as: d. explicit, implicit
his keys to force the a. an alternative to long 29. Heuristics are:
window. Magnus’ term memory a. the same as
problem was: b. a set of memory mnemonics
a. amnesia procedures b. a type of hormone
b. functional fixedness c. a type of procedural c. information
c. interference memory processing strategies
d. misinformation d. an adjunct to sensory d. none of the above
19. In the context of memory 30. When she studies for a
memory, LTP stands 25. Shandra is convinced Psych exam, Melodee
for: that her neighbour, Joe, always tries to think of
a. limited transfer is cruel to his dog. She ways in which the
potential notices every time information she is trying
b. lateral temporal Joe shouts at the dog or to learn relates to her
parietal jerks its lead but she own life. She is hoping
c. latent timing doesn’t seem to notice to benefit from:
probability the times when Joe a. the self-reference
d. long term potentiation plays with the dog or effect
20. After a stroke, 22-year- gives it treats. This is an b. the spacing effect
old Malik can no longer example of: c. overlearning
remember his childhood a. misinformation d. enhanced interference
friends or the vacations b. anterograde amnesia
he took with his family. c. proactive interference ANSWERS
Malik is suffering from: d. confirmation bias
a. retrograde amnesia 26. Ivy remembers watching 1. a
b. anterograde amnesia the solar eclipse in 2. b
c. functional fixedness amazing detail. She is 3. c
d. dyslexia certain she can 4. d
21. Our tendency to focus remember exactly what 5. c
on information that is she was wearing, who 6. d
consistent with our she was with, what 7. a
beliefs and to ignore music was playing on 8. d
contradictory a nearby radio and even 9. c
information is called: the breed of dog which 10. b
a. contradiction ran past her just before 11. c
avoidance the eclipse. This 12. a
b. confirmation bias is an example of a(n): 13. d
c. counterfactual a. flashbulb memory 14. b
thinking b. eidetic image 15. a
d. functional fixedness c. procedural memory 16. c
22. ________ information is d. semantic memory 17. d
lost from sensory 27. Research suggests that if 18. b
memory, and ________ you are sad when you 19. d
information is lost from study for a test you are 20. a
short-term memory. likely
21. b a. approximately 500 language
22. c words production.
23. d b. approximately 5000 a. Wernicke’s, Broca’s
24. b words b. Broca’s, Wernicke’s
25. d c. approximately 50,000 c. Chomsky’s, Skinner’s
26. a words d. Skinner’s, Chomsky’s
27. c d. more than 100,000 11. Three-year old Bonita
28. b words calls every dog she
29. c 5. Chomsky argued that: encounters Rover (the
30. a a. all languages share a name of her family’s pet
fundamental universal dog). This is an example
grammar of:
b. brains contain a a. over-emphasis
language acquisition b. overextension
device c. over-stimulation
c. children are born with d. babbling
a knowledge of general 12. Sternberg’s practical
rules of syntax intelligence is pretty
d. all of the above much the same as:
6. Down syndrome is a. vocabulary
Intelligence caused by: b. memory
a. a brain injury during c. mechanical ability
1. ________ believed in a birth d. common sense
general intelligence b. a chromosomal 13. The Flynn effect refers
factor. disorder to the observation that:
a. Sternberg c. poor education a. scores on intelligence
b. Spearman d. a viral infection tests have been
c. Gardner during childhood increasing worldwide
d. Thurstone 7. On average, women for decades
2. In terms of intelligence: typically outperform b. identical twins are
a. identical twins are men on tests of: more similar
more similar to one a. spelling intellectually than
another than are b. mental rotation fraternal twins
fraternal twins c. both a and b c. learning a second
b. fraternal twins are d. neither a nor b language seems to
more similar to one 8. Which of the following increase cognitive
another than are non- is NOT one of abilities
twin siblings Sternberg’s triarchic d. language and its
c. adopted children are intelligences? structures limit human
more similar to their a. creative intelligence thought
biological parents than b. practical intelligence 14. Eight-month old Juan
their c. fluid intelligence lies in his cot and
adoptive parents d. analytical intelligence babbles. Which of the
d. all of the above 9. Research shows that following is his most
statements are true people are more likely to likely utterance?
3. Fluid intelligence tends be successful at learning a. “mummy, mummy,
to ________ with age a second mummy”
while crystallized language if: b. “Juan wants bottle”
intelligence tends to a. they start learning it c. “la la ba oo”
________ with age. as adults d. “Mary had a little
a. increase, decrease b. they start learning it lamb”
b. increase, stay the as children 15. A man may do poorly
same c. they choose on a spelling test not
c. decrease, increase Vietnamese because he lacks
d. decrease, stay the d. they stop using their spelling ability but
same first language because he knows that
4. According to the text, a completely men are not expected to
typical university 10. ________ area is to do well on spelling tests.
student has a vocabulary language comprehension This is an example of:
of: as ________ area is to a. test bias
 b. gender neutrality Approximate c. squirt honey
c. stereotype threat Intelligence Scale d. dance
d. the Flynn effect 21. Which of the following 26. The term “linguistic
16. Compared with is NOT supported by relativity” refers to the
monolinguals, people research data? idea that:
who are bilingual a. brain size is positively a. some languages are
usually have: correlated with better than others
a. more cognitive intelligence b. language influences
flexibility b. the number of how people think
b. superior cognitive neurons in a brain is c. it is easier to talk to
functioning positively correlated family members than
c. better analytical skills with intelligence friends
d. all of the above c. thickness of the cortex d. there are different
17. If a proposed is positively correlated language families
intelligence test turned with intelligence around the world
out to really be a test of d. having a bigger brain 27. On average men do
patience rather than makes people smarter better than women on
intelligence, it would be 22. Interpersonal tests requiring:
criticized for having: intelligence includes the a. spatial ability
a. low reliability ability to understand: b. spelling
b. low construct validity a. one’s own emotions c. emotional intelligence
c. low consistency b. how context affects d. pronouncing words
d. low consistent performance on 28. Intelligence is normally
validity vocabulary tests distributed in the
18. The smallest unit of c. other people’s population, this means
sound that makes a emotions that:
meaningful difference in d. the role of schooling a. most people have
language is called a: in conversational ability extremely low
a. sound 23. If an intelligence test is intelligence
b. unit reliable, you would b. most people have
c. phoneme expect people to: extremely high
d. syntactic phrase a. be able to cheat on the intelligence
19. People who believe in test c. most people are
eugenics would be most b. get a better score each average in terms of
likely to support: time they write the test intelligence
a. programs that c. get a similar score d. everyone in the
encourage university each time they write the population has
graduates to start a test approximately the same
family d. take longer to write level of intelligence
b. free contraception for the test if they take it 29. Which animals have
people with a degree again been shown to use
c. free childcare for 24. Divergent thinking is to language in the same
people who perform ________ ________ as way as people?
poorly on intelligence convergent thinking is to a. bonobos
tests ________ ________. b. chimpanzees
d. extended maternity a. one solution, many c. vervet monkeys
leave for women who solutions d. none of the above
have been shown to b. many solutions, one 30. Misty Coleman is an
have a low IQ solution outstanding ballerina.
20. In the area of c. mathematical ability, Which of Gardner’s
intelligence, WAIS verbal ability multiple intelligences is
stands for: d. extrinsic motivation, she most clearly
a. Wernicke Aphasic intrinsic motivation demonstrating when she
Intelligence Scale 25. In order to direct other dances?
b. Wechsler Adult bees to the location of a. naturalistic
Intelligence Scale food sources, honey b. linguistic
c. Wechsler Aptitude bees: c. logico-mathematic
and Intelligence Scale a. hum d. kinesthetic
d. Wernicke b. buzz
 ANSWERS b. hurt then help intelligence
response c. emotional regulation
1. b c. fist and knees d. emotional
2. d response contingency
3. c d. tend and befriend 10. Which is the correct
4. d response order for the stages of
5. d 4. The adrenal glands the sexual response
6. b release: cycle?
7. a a. cortisol a orgasm, excitement,
8. c b. epinephrine plateau, resolution
9. b c. a and b b excitement, plateau,
10. a d. melatonin orgasm, resolution
11. b 5. The phenomenon of c plateau, excitement,
12. d misattribution of arousal orgasm, resolution
13. a (e.g. thinking you are in d plateau, excitement,
14. c love when really resolution, orgasm
15. c you are just scared) is 11. ________ is the main
16. d best explained by which sugar that the body uses
17. b theory of emotion? for energy.
18. c a. the James-Lange a. insulin
19. a theory b. leptin
20. b b. the two-factor theory c. fructose
21. d c. the Cannon-Bard d. glucose
22. c theory 12. Which eating disorder is
23. c d. the wishful thinking characterized by binge
24. b theory eating followed by
25. d 6. Which of the following purging?
26. b is NOT a kind of non- a. anorexia nervosa
27. a verbal communication? b. fasting
28. c a. facial expression c. bulimia nervosa
29. d b. crying d. 5:2 syndrome
30. d c. swearing 13. When faced with a
d. tone of voice stressful situation
Emotion 7. Which of the following women are likely to
is classed as a basic respond with the:
emotion? a. fight or flight
1. Which of the following a. guilt response
is a response of the b. shame b. hurt then help
sympathetic nervous c. jealousy response
system? d. disgust c. fist and knees
a. extra sugar is released 8. The facial feedback response
into the bloodstream hypothesis refers to: d. tend and befriend
b. increased perspiration a. the movements of our response
c. increased respiration facial muscles can 14. Physical exercise can:
d. all of the above trigger emotions a. lower blood pressure
2. Primary emotions are to b. we can judge b. improve muscle
the ______ pathway as someone else’s mood by strength
secondary emotions are looking at their face c. slow age-related
to the ________ c. once we know how cognitive decline
pathway. we are feeling, we d. all of the above
a. mild, intense change our facial 15. Which of the following
b. hard, soft expression is a human sex
c. fast, slow d. some people disguise hormone?
d. pleasant, unpleasant their emotions if they a. ghrelin
3. When faced with a look in a mirror b. estrogen
stressful situation, men 9. The ability to control c. insulin
are likely to respond one’s emotions is known d. adrenalin
with the: as: 16. The amount of energy
a. fight or flight a. facial feedback we use while at rest is
response b. interpersonal called our:
 a. basal metabolic rate d. blood pressure and 28. Which of the following
b. resting heart rate heart rate does NOT influence our
c. relaxing glucose level 23. According to Selye’s feelings of hunger?
d. normal insulin level general adaptation a. insulin
17. Social support can have syndrome, the third b. ghrelin
both ________ and stage of our reaction to c. septin
________ effects on our stress is: d. leptin
happiness. a. alarm 29. Anorexia nervosa is
a. minimal, continuous b. exhaustion characterised by a(n)
b. maximal, sporadic c. resistance a. distorted body image
c. direct, appreciation d. mobilization b. extremely low body
d. indirect, cumulative 24. Which 3 structures make weight
18. Before taking a test, up the HPA axis? c. obsessive fear of
Sunni says to his friend a. hypothalamus, pineal gaining weight
“I know I can do well on gland, anterior gyrus d. all of the above
this test.” b. hippocampus, parietal 30. According to the two-
This best illustrates lobe, affective cortex factor theory of emotion,
Sunni’s: c. hippocampus, emotion equals:
a. over-confidence parasympathetic nervous a. arousal plus cognition
b. self-efficacy system, adenoids b. arousal plus
c. self-doubt d. hypothalamus, intelligence
d. peer review pituitary, adrenal glands c. attribution plus
19. People who are 25. According to the explanation
experiencing high levels Cannon-Bard theory of d. attribution plus
of arousal from one emotion: cognition
event tend to experience a. emotional experience
unrelated emotions more and physiological ANSWERS
strongly too. This is arousal occur at the
called: same time 1. d
a. general adaptation b. emotional experience 2. c
syndrome precedes physiological 3. a
b. spreading activation arousal 4. c
c. the Cannon-Bard c. physiological arousal 5. b
hypothesis precedes emotional 6. c
d. excitation transfer experience 7. d
20. Both the slow and fast d. we cannot experience 8. a
emotional pathways are different emotions 9. c
controlled by the: 26. According to the James- 10. b
a. thalamus Lange theory of 11. d
b. hypothalamus emotion: 12. c
c. frontal cortex a. emotional experience 13. d
d. amygdala and physiological 14. d
21. According to the text, arousal occur at the 15. b
what kind of role does same time 16. a
material wealth play in b. emotional experience 17. c
determining happiness? precedes physiological 18. b
a. huge arousal 19. d
b. significant c. physiological arousal 20. a
c. small precedes emotional 21. c
d. non-existent experience 22. c
22. The body mass index d. we cannot experience 23. b
(BMI) is calculated different emotions 24. d
using: 27. The most stressful life 25. a
a. calorie intake and event included in the 26. c
calorie output Holmes and Rahe Stress 27. d
b. activity level and Scale is: 28. c
carbohydrate a. being sent to jail 29. d
consumption b. getting divorced 30. a
c. height and weight c. being fired from work
d. death of a spouse
Personality c. somatology Five traits?
d. physiognomy a. sense of humour
1. Phrenologists tried to 7. The ________ complex b. openness to
find out about is to girls as the experience
personality by: ________ complex is to c. conscientiousness
a. reading a person’s boys. d. extraversion
horoscope a. Electra, Oedipus 14. Freud founded the
b. feeling a person’s b. Oedipus, Electra ________ approach to
skull c. oral, phallic understanding human
c. looking at a person’s d. phallic, oral behaviour.
hands 8. The discovery that the a. palliative
d. asking people heritability of the Big b. psychodynamic
questions Five personality traits is c. patronymic
2. A limitation of selective around 40% – 50% d. psychedelic
breeding studies is that suggests that: 15. The influence of parents
they cannot: a. the environment plays on the personality of
a. tell us anything about no role in personality their children is:
the role of genes b. genes play no role in a. non-existent
b. be used to study personality b. weakest in early
human beings c. the environment plays childhood
c. provide information an important role in c. strongest in early
relevant to the personality childhood
nature/nurture debate d. the Big Five traits d. consistent across the
d. tell us anything about account for about half of lifespan
the role of the our personality 16. What is special about
environment 9. Humanistic “knockout” mice?
3. Which neo-Freudian psychologists embraced a. they are very
challenged his ideas the idea of: attractive
about penis envy? a. repression b. their DNA has been
a. Adler b. free will modified
b. Fromm c. unconscious drives c. they are easy to knock
c. Jung d. the id out
d. Horney 10. According to Eysenck, d. they are unusually
4. Someone who feels as extraverts seek to aggressive
though they are not ________ their arousal 17. The aim of behavioural
living up to expectations while introverts seek to genetics is to learn
would be ________ their arousal. about:
described by Adler as a. decrease, increase a. the extent to which
having: b. hide, reveal geneticists can modify
a. low self-realization c. increase, decrease people’s behaviour
b. an Adlerian complex d. reveal, hide b. the possibility of
c. an inferiority complex 11. Allport believed that eradicating behavioural
d. low actualization traits could be organized problems in children
5. According to Freud, the into three levels: c. the genetic and
mind’s three a. primary, secondary, environmental
components are: tertiary influences on human
a. ego, id, superego b. cognitive, emotional, behaviour
b. unconscious, moral, physiological d. the ability of animals
immoral c. id, ego, superego to learn language
c. oral, anal, phallic d. cardinal, central, 18. Monozygotic is to
d. primary, secondary, secondary ________ twins as
tertiary 12. The MMPI is used to dizygotic is to ________
6. The idea that you can measure: twins.
assess someone’s a. unconscious drives a. male, female,
personality by studying b. the Big Five traits b. female, male
their face is called: c. personality and c. fraternal, identical
a. phrenology psychological disorders d. identical, fraternal
b. physiology d. leadership potential 19. Which of the following
13. Which of the following characteristics describe
is NOT one of the Big someone who, according
 to Maslow, is self- 24. Which of the following ANSWERS
actualized? is not a defence
a. creativity mechanism? 1. b
b. confidence a. projection 2. b
c. spontaneity b. regression 3. d
d. all of the above c. ingratiation 4. c
20. According to Freud, d. sublimation 5. a
children pass through 4 25. Rohan is self- 6. d
stages of psychosexual disciplined, focused on 7. a
development. achievement and keen to 8. c
Which of the following do his duty. He would 9. b
shows the stages in the be 10. c
correct developmental expected to score highly 11. d
order? on: 12. c
a. oral, anal, phallic, a. neuroticism 13. a
latency b. agreeableness 14. b
b. latency, oral, anal, c. extraversion 15. c
phallic d. conscientiousness 16. b
c. phallic, anal, oral, 26. The Barnum effect helps 17. c
latency to explain people’s 18. d
d. oral, phallic, latency, belief in: 19. d
anal a. fortune-telling 20. a
21. Projective tests claim to b. astrology 21. c
reveal information c. horoscopes 22. b
about: d. all the above 23. b
a. career aptitude 27. ________ are the basic 24. c
b. intellectual attainment biological units that 25. d
c. unconscious processes transmit characteristics 26. d
d. parenting style from one generation to 27. a
22. Traits are defined as: the next: 28. b
a. physical a. genes 29. c
characteristics that b. neurons 30. b
distinguish us from c. glia
other people d. instincts Abnormal Psychology
b. relatively enduring 28. Which of the following
characteristics that would NOT be useful to 1. Comorbidity occurs
influence our behaviour a behavioural geneticist? when:
across many situations a. family studies a. several members of a
c. unconscious b. case studies family have the same
tendencies to act in c. adoption studies mental health issue
different ways according d. twin studies b. an individual spends
to the situation 29. According to Freud, the too much time thinking
d. permanent personality id is to the ________ about death
tendencies that principle as the ego is to c. a person suffers from
determine our behaviour the ________ principle. more than one disorder
in any situation a. aggressive, sexual at the same time
23. Sheldon’s theory that b. sexual, aggressive d. nothing can be done
people with different c. pleasure, reality to prevent a disorder
body types have d. reality, pleasure from occurring
different personalities 30. Lana is friendly, always 2. In OCD, ________ are
has been: willing to help others to thoughts as ________
a. supported by research and compassionate. We are to actions.
b. discredited would expect Lana to a. opinions, convictions
c. shown to be accurate score highly on: b. obsessions, conditions
for thin people but not a. extraversion c. obsessions,
overweight people b. agreeableness compulsion
d. shown to be accurate c. neuroticism d. compulsions,
for women but not for d. openness to obsessions
men experience
3. Schizophrenia is usually d explaining that it is a. it seems to occur only
diagnosed in: normal to be scared in North America
a. infancy 9. Dissociative identity b. only people who have
b. childhood disorder is sometimes undergone
c. early adulthood called: psychoanalysis are ever
d. old age a. schizophrenia diagnosed with it
4. Malingering and b. dissociative fugue c. people who “suffer”
Munchausen syndrome c. multiple personality from it do not regard
are: disorder their feelings or
a. somatoform disorders d. generalized anxiety behaviours as a disorder
b. anxiety disorders disorder d. it has a prevalence
c. sexual disorders 10. Which of the following rate of zero
d. factitious disorders does the DSM NOT take 16. Which of the following
5. The prevalence rate of a into account when is NOT a characteristic
disorder refers to: providing guidance re: a of borderline personality
a. its frequency of diagnosis? disorder?
occurrence in a a. cultural factors a. mood swings
population at a given b. medical conditions b. hallucinations
time c. everyday functioning c. impulsivity
b. its severity within an d. the DSM takes ALL d. identity problems
individual of the above into 17. Which category/cluster
c. how much coverage account of personality disorder
there is of the disorder 11. GAD is more common does borderline
in the media in ______, while ADHD personality disorder
d. how long it typically is more common in come under?
takes an individual to ________. a. dramatic/erratic
recover from the a. educated people, b. odd/eccentric
disorder uneducated people c. avoidant/dependant
6. Which of the following b. uneducated people, d. anxious/inhibited
was NOT included in educated people 18. A person suffering from
the Canadian Mental c. females, males hypoactive sexual desire
Health Survey: d. males, females disorder has:
a. depression 12. Until the 18th century a. too little interest in
b. obesity the most common sex
c. drug abuse treatment for the b. too much interest in
d. anxiety mentally ill was to: sex
7. DSM stands for: a. lock people up in c. an obsessive need to
a. diagnostic and asylums expose their genitals in
scientific manual of b. give people public
mental disorders experimental drugs d. a desire to witness
b. diagnostic and c. give people suffering in other people
statistical manual of psychoanalysis 19. Acrophobia is to
major disorders d. make people do ________ as
c. diagnostic and community service arachnophobia is to
scientific manual of 13. ADHD is usually first ________.
major disorders diagnosed in: a. open spaces, spiders
d. diagnostic and a. infancy b. spiders, open spaces
statistical manual of b. childhood c. heights, spiders
mental disorders c. adulthood d. spiders, heights
8. Trepanation was used in d. old age 20. Which of the following
olden times to help 14. Frotteurism is: has NOT been classified
“cure” psychological a. a type of as a sexual disorder?
disorders by: schizophrenia a. dyspareunia
a. drilling holes in the b. an eating disorder b. vaginismus
skull c. a paraphilia c. premature ejaculation
b. using electric shock to d. a somatoform d. creatinuria
“reset” the brain disorder 21. A person who worries
c. giving people more 15. Gender identity disorder excessively about
than one drug at the is a controversial having a serious illness
same time diagnosis because: is most likely to
 be diagnosed as is that: 15. c
suffering from: a. somatoform disorders 16. b
a. borderline personality only happen to men, 17. a
disorder factitious disorders only 18. a
b. conversion disorder happen to women 19. c
c. hypochondria b. somatoform disorders 20. d
d. mitochondria involve cognition, 21. c
22. In the context of factitious disorders 22. c
psychological disorders, involve emotion 23. d
APD stands for: c. in somatoform 24. a
a. anxious personality disorders the physical 25. b
disorder symptoms are real, in 26. c
b. arousal paraphilia factitious disorders the 27. d
disorder physical symptoms are 28. c
c. antisocial personality not real 29. b
disorder d. somatoform disorders 30. d
d. antagonistic are caused by
performance disorder environmental factors, 1. Women are ________
23. BPD is more common in factitious disorders are likely than men to visit a
________; APD is more caused by genetic doctor because they are
common in ________. factors anxious.
a. uneducated people, 29. Which of the following a. more
educated people would be classified as a b. less
b. children, adolescents social-cultural influence c. no more or less likely
c. extraverts, introverts in the bio-psycho-social d. there is no data on
d. women, men model of illness? this issue
24. Hallucinations are a. neurotransmitters 2. Stimulants are most
classed as a ________ b. homelessness likely to be prescribed to
symptom of c. patterns of negative a person suffering from:
schizophrenia. thinking a. ADHD
a. positive d. genetic makeup of the b. anxiety disorders
b. cognitive individual c. bipolar discorders
c. negative 30. A criticism of the DSM d. Munchausen
d. transitive is that it: syndrome
25. Dysthymia appears to be a. hasn’t changed since 3. Natural improvement is
a milder form of: the 1950s a threat to the ________
a. bipolar disorder b. is not actually used by of outcome research.
b. clinical depression therapists, insurers etc a. reliability
c. schizophrenia c. only includes a b. validity
d. Munchausen handful of disorders c. stability
syndrome d. is primarily focused d. ingenuity
26. To understand anxiety on Western illness 4. Exposure therapy makes
disorders we need to use of which
take account of: ANSWERS conditioning principle?
a. only biological factors a. negative
b. only environmental 1. c reinforcement
factors 2. c b. negative punishment
c. both biological and 3. c c. both a and b
environmental factors 4. d d. extinction
d. neither biological nor 5. a 5. In the context of
environmental factors 6. b psychological treatment,
27. APD is a type 7. d what does CBT stand
of________ disorder. 8. a for?
a. internalizing 9. c a. client based therapy
b. mood 10. d b. complex brain therapy
c. somatoform 11. c c. cognitive behavioural
d. externalizing 12. a therapy
28. The difference between 13. b d. compassion based
somatoform disorders 14. c therapy
and factitious disorders
6. Psychiatric service dogs c. environmental expects to feel better
have been trained to d. all of the above rather than because of
help people suffering 12. The biomedical the actual treatment is
from: approach to treating called:
a. bipolar disorder psychological disorders a. a treatment effect
b. panic attacks emphasizes: b. a placebo effect
c. anxiety disorder a. family and cognitive c. an illusory correlation
d. all of the above therapy d. a Barnum effect
7. Giving alcoholics b. medication and brain 20. A fetus is most
“Antabuse” to make intervention vulnerable to damage
them feel nauseous if c. psychoanalytic from drugs used to treat
they drink alcohol is an intervention the mother’s
example of: d. CBT and projective mental illness during:
a. aversion therapy testing a. the first trimester
b. exposure therapy 13. The main aim of b. the second trimester
c. ECT psychodynamic therapy c. the final trimester
d. AAT is to explore the d. there is no risk to the
8. In the context of patient’s: fetus from these drugs
treatment for a. friendships 21. Meta-analysis involves:
psychological disorders, b. unconscious a. using descriptive
TMS is a type of: c. work relationships rather than inferential
a. hormone d. neuronal health statistics
b. neurotransmitter 14. One of the founders of b. using results from the
c. brain stimulation humanistic therapy was: study with the largest
d. antipsychotic a. Carl Rogers number of participants
medication b. Sigmund Freud c. combining results
9. Concern about c. Karl Lashley from different studies
nonspecific treatment d. Edward Thorndike d. replicating a study
effects in evaluation 15. Both flooding and until you achieve the
research reflects the systematic same results
possibility that: desensitization are types 22. Antipsychotic
a. patients will improve of: medications appear to
in a way that cannot be a. systemic therapy influence both ________
measured b. psychodynamic and ________.
b. some patients will therapy a. estrogen, testosterone
improve while others c. behavioural therapy b. dopamine, serotonin
will not d. biomedical therapy c. serotonin, GABA
c. no treatment will 16. MAO inhibitors, d. adrenalin, GABA
work tricyclics and SSRIs are 23. Ativan, Valium and
d. receiving any kind of all used to treat: Xanax are types of
treatment will be a. ADHD ________ medication.
beneficial b. psychosis a. anti-psychotic
10. Primary prevention c. bipolar disorder b. anti-convulsive
strategies target d. depression c. anti-anxiety
________ while 17. Eclectic therapy may d. anti-depressant
secondary prevention include: 24. You are most likely to
strategies target a. medication encounter the principles
________. b. CBT of operant conditioning
a. children, adults c. psychotherapy in:
b. seriously disturbed d. all of the above a. CBT
people, mildly disturbed 18. An anti-psychotic drug b. humanistic therapy
people would be most likely to c. psychodynamic
c. everyone, selected be prescribed for a therapy
individuals person suffering from: d. dream analysis
d. adults, children a. anxiety 25. Drug therapies are based
11. Risk factors for b. schizophrenia on the assumption that
psychological disorders c. ADHD psychological disorders
may be: d. all of the above are associated with:
a. social 19. Improvement that occurs a. brain injury
b. economic simply because a patient b. disordered thinking
 c. chemical imbalance ANSWERS b. 30%
d. unconscious conflicts c. 65%
26. SSRIs work by blocking 1. a d. 95%
the reuptake of: 2. a 4. People are more likely
a. imipramine 3. b to help others if:
b. glucose 4. d a. they are in a bad
c. reactine 5. c mood
d. serotonin 6. d b. they feel guilty about
27. A criticism of drug 7. a something
therapies is that: 8. c c. someone else is
a. they provide no relief 9. d already helping
for the majority of 10. c d. they are in a hurry
people 11. d 5. Punching a wall or
b. they have been shown 12. b kicking a chair when
to be helpful for people 13. b you are angry at a co-
suffering from ADHD, 14. a worker are examples of:
but there is no evidence 15. c a. displaced aggression
they help people 16. d b. inanimate hostility
suffering from 17. d c. repression
depression 18. b d. avoidant attachment
c. they provide 19. b 6. An advertiser who seeks
temporary relief, but do 20. a to associate their
not treat the underlying 21. c product with something
cause of the disorder 22. b people already like (for
d. they take much longer 23. c example, a celebrity or a
to help people than 24. a popular song) is making
psychodynamic therapy 25. c use of:
28. The difference between 26. d a. classical conditioning
group therapy and a self- 27. c principles
help group is: 28. a b. pseudoscience
a. group therapy 29. b c. operant conditioning
involves a therapist, but 30. c principles
a self-help group does d. sublimation
not 1. Physically attractive 7. According to Moreland
b. group therapy is for people are usually and Beach, the more
more than one person, perceived as: frequently we see a
but a self-help group is a. more intelligent than person the:
just for an individual unattractive people a. less likely we are to
c. group therapy is a b. more dominant than recognize them
short-term fix, while a unattractive people b. less likely we are to
self-help group provides c. more socially skilled trust them
long term benefits than unattractive people c. more likely we are to
d. group therapy is d. all of the above dislike them
usually online, while a 2. Research has shown a d. more likely we are to
self-help group is never positive correlation like them
online between aggression and 8. Having an audience
29. ECT is most commonly the level of: typically ________ us if
used to treat: a. acetylcholine we are doing an easy
a. anxiety b. testosterone task and ________
b. depression c. estrogen us if we are doing a
c. addiction d. GABA difficult task.
d. schizophrenia 3. In Milgram’s original a. hinders, hinders
30. Prefrontal lobotomy and study on obedience, b. helps, helps
cingulotomy are types what percentage of c. helps, hinders
of: participants were willing d. hinders, helps
a. drug intervention to 9. Groupthink is most
b. psychotherapy administer the maximum likely when:
c. psychosurgery level of shock: a. there is time pressure
d. community a. 5% b. group members feel
intervention no sense of group
 identity d. more if they are complimenting them on
c. there is a weak leader angry, less if they are their choice of footwear
d. group members are in sad c. tell them how many
frequent contact with 16. To be classed as celebrities hold the
people outside the group “intimate”, a attitude you want them
10. Stimulation of the relationship must be to adopt
amygdala is most likely based on: d. get them to make a
to increase feelings of: a. passion small change in attitude
a. happiness b. acceptance to start with
b. guilt c. social support 22. Jill and John have been
c. shyness d. all of the above married for many years
d. aggression 17. Prejudice is to ________ and rely on each other to
11. Evolutionary theory as discrimination is to meet important goals.
predicts that we will be ________. This reliance reveals
most likely to help: a. thought, action that they are:
a. old people b. race, age a. passionate
b. family members c. stereotype, b. interdependent
c. poor people categorization c. self-serving
d. strangers d. negative, positive d. all of the above
12. Research has shown that 18. The tendency to 23. Groups that set
people are LESS willing underestimate the role of ________ and ________
to administer severe situational factors when goals are more likely to
shocks in the Milgram deciding why a stranger be effective than groups
paradigm if: behaved in a particular that don’t set these kind
a. they choose the level way is known as the: of goals.
of shock themselves a. self-serving bias a. easy, vague
b. the person telling b. fundamental b. vague, unreachable
them to administer the attribution error c. specific, attainable
shock is in another room c. situational d. difficult, unattainable
c. they knew that other exploitation bias 24. Which of the following
people had refused to d. causal explanation best illustrates the
administer severe shocks error concept of minority
d. all of the above 19. If you want someone to influence?
13. In terms of interpersonal be attracted to you, a. a union is successful
attraction, research research suggests that in negotiating an
suggests that: you should: improved benefits
a. opposites attract a. ask them about package for its members
b. similarity breeds themselves b. three teenagers
contempt b. argue with them manage to persuade
c. birds of a feather c. talk only about their school to adopt a
flock together yourself new anti-litter policy
d. a stitch in time saves d. all of the above c. Shari is able to
nine 20. The fact that as group persuade her friend Ivy
14. We tend to stereotype size increases, group to give up smoking
people on the basis of productivity tends to d. the government
their: decrease is most likely passes a law requiring
a. physical appearance explained by: cyclists to wear helmets
b. age a. groupthink 25. According to cognitive
c. race b. stereotyping dissonance theory, we
d. all of the above c. social loafing may be motivated to
15. People who are high in d. social facilitation change our attitudes to:
self-monitoring are 21. According to the “foot a. reduce negative
______ likely to act in in the door” technique, feelings
ways consistent with you are more likely to b. conform to the
their attitudes than be able to change attitudes of high-status
people who are low in someone’s attitude if individuals
self-monitoring. you: c. force others to do the
a. more a. visit them in their same
b. less home d. increase our level of
c. neither more nor less b. start by anxiety
26. Another term for the 10. d 5. The fight or flight
fundamental attribution 11. b response is instigated by
error is: 12. d the:
a. commitment 13. c a. hypothalamus
b. correspondence bias 14. d b. hippocampus
c. cognitive dissonance 15. b c. cerebellum
d. stereotype threat 16. d d. pons
27. We are likely to make a 17. a 6. In the context of stress
________ attribution to 18. b research, GAS stands
explain our success, and 19. a for:
a ________ attribution 20. c a. generalized anxiety
to explain our failure. 21. d symptoms
a. causal, correlational 22. b b. general adaptation
b. correlational, causal 23. c syndrome
c. person, situation 24. b c. gustatory alimentary
d. situation, person 25. a system
28. Benjamin thinks that if 26. b d. generic adrenal
he kicks his car and 27. c sensitivity
swears at his computer 28. d 7. A person with an
he will release his anger 29. c internal locus of control
and be less aggressive 30. b generally feels that:
with his co-workers. a. location matters most
Benjamin believes in: Stress when it comes to
a. the fundamental understanding behaviour
attribution error 1. According to the b. internal feelings are
b. social loafing Canadian government, more important than
c. social facilitation stress has ________ outward appearance
d. catharsis costs. c. they are responsible
29. One likely explanation a. social for their own
for why so many people b. economic achievements
ignored Kitty c. personal d. emotional control is
Genovese’s situation is: d. all of the above the best way of coping
a. social facilitation 2. Commitment, control with stress
b. the social and challenge are all 8. In response to stress,
responsibility norm elements of: levels of adrenaline
c. diffusion of a. tardiness ________ and levels of
responsibility b. stress cortisol ________.
d. groupthink c. hardiness a. rise, rise
30. The Implicit Association d. depression b. fall, fall
Test is designed to 3. One response to stress in c. rise, fall
measure: the workplace is d. fall, rise
a. verbal ability “presenteeism”. This 9. Selye used the term
b. unconscious may include: ________ to refer to the
stereotyping a. working longer hours fact that stress can
c. hidden mathematical b. working while ill sometimes be beneficial.
ability c. not taking holidays a. pro-stress
d. dream content d. all of the above b. eustress
4. According to the c. buzz
ANSWERS inverted U hypothesis, d. compensation
optimal performance 10. A person who believes
1. d occurs when: that his/her
2. b a. there are high levels achievements are
3. c of stress determined by fate
4. b b. there is no stress would be described as
5. a c. there is a moderate having an ________
6. a level of stress locus of control.
7. d d. the inverted U a. interrupted
8. c hypothesis does not b. internal
9. a address this issue c. exacting
d. external
11. Which stress hormone 17. According to Selye’s
increases sugars in the GAS model, we respond
bloodstream and to stress with alarm,
enhances the brain’s use then with resistance and,
of glucose? finally, with ________.
a. adrenalin a.. adjustment
b. testosterone b. eustress
c. cortisol c. commitment
d. all of the above d. exhaustion
12. Which of the following 18. Which stress hormone
would be classed as a increases heart rate and
cognitive action strategy elevates blood pressure?
for dealing with stress? a. cortisol
a. goal setting b. progesterone
b. asking questions c. adrenaline
c. analyzing the problem d. dopamine
d. all of the above 19. Which of the following
13. Self-confidence is a is NOT associated with
________ measure; self- workplace stress?
efficacy is a ________ a. work overload
measure. b. job insecurity
a. state, trait c. supervisory support
b. trait, state d. conflict with co-
c. useful, useless workers
d. useless, useful 20. The adrenal glands are
14. Deep breathing, yoga located:
and exercise would all a. at the top of the
be ________ stress kidneys
management techniques. b. in the brain
a. religious c. in the stomach
b. cognitive d. to the left of the heart
c. physical
d. social ANSWERS
15. According to the
transactional theory of 1. d
stress and coping, our 2. c
response to stress 3. d
follows which path? 4. c
a. primary appraisal, 5. a
secondary appraisal, 6. b
stressor, coping 7. c
response 8. a
b. stressor, emotional 9. b
appraisal, cognitive 10. d
appraisal, coping 11. c
response 12. d
c. stressor, primary 13. b
appraisal, secondary 14. c
appraisal, coping 15. c
response 16. a
d. emotional appraisal, 17. d
cognitive appraisal, 18. c
stressor, coping 19. c
response 20. a
16. Another term for
hardiness is:
a. resilience
b. control
c. eustress
d. aerobic fitness