1) mandy believes all engineers are unimaginative. working on the literary magazine,
she meets josiah, who is an engineering major and a writer of fascinating short stories.
mandy is likely to handle this contradiction by deciding that:
a.josiah is the exception to the rule about engineers
b.engineers can be interesting and creative
c.josiah does not really want to be an engineer
d.creativity is different in engineers
2) psychologists have greater confidence in research results when:
a.the data involve stimulus judgments
b.the research has used participant observation
c.the results are replicated
d.there is an experimenter expectancy effect
3) when dirk fails his calculus exam, he is most likely to explain the result as being due
to:
a.not having gone to class or studied enough
b.his decision to go out the night before the exam
c.his lack of basic ability in mathematics
d.the exam having been too difficult to be fair
4) recent psychological research suggests that parental influence on the personality of
childrenis:
a.less influential than had been previously assumed
b.more influential than psychologists had previously believed
c.strongest during the identity development stage of adolescence
d.strong in collectivistic cultures but weak in individualistic cultures
5) in which of the following types of descriptive studies do researchers involve
themselves in the situation of interest?
a.naturalistic observation
b.participant observation
c.longitudinal study
d.cross-sectional study
6) people are often advised not to make hasty decisions about other people. the research
on thin slices of behavior would suggest that this advice is:
a.good because opinions usually change significantly with more information
b.good because information can be evaluated better with more time
c.bad because further analysis usually produces less accurate judgments
d.incorrect because accurate judgments about many characteristics can be made using
little information
7) recall the definition of psychological science offered in your text. your text suggests
that for much of its history, psychologists focused mostly on:
a.the brain
b.disorders
c.behaviors
d.the mind
8) based on research presented in the text, which of the following young patients with
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is likely to have the best treatment outcome after
three years?
a.randy, who is taking ritalin
b.john, who is receiving weekly individual counseling sessions
c.hamid, who is receiving daily academic tutoring and cognitive therapy
d.soren, who is receiving intensive behavioral therapy
9) if you were a therapist who endorsed carl rogerss person-centered approach to
therapy, how would you treat your client?
a.you would have the clients behavior observed by two or more raters.
b.you would discuss the clients problems and concerns as he or she understands them.
c.you would have the client take a self-report test that measured the five traits of the
five-factor theory.
d.you would have the client take a projective test.
10) which of the following actions is the best example of an anxiety response rather
than a fear response, as defined in your textbook?
a.a person jumps out of the way of an oncoming car.
b.a person worries that she will never graduate from college and will be poor and
homeless.
c.a person thinks about strategies to avoid walking alone in a dangerous neighborhood.
d.a person starts crying after receiving the news that he has cancer.
11) the primary auditory cortex is located in which brain lobe?
a.frontal
b.temporal
c.occipital
d.parietal
12) which of the following conditions is a disorder or syndrome that exemplifies the
conflict between womens personal rights versus the effects of womens behavior on their
infants?
a.down syndrome
b.fetal alcohol syndrome
c.hemophilia, a genetic bleeding disorder
d.mental retardation
13) the action of neural firing as it proceeds down the axon is similar to which of the
following types of movement?
a.skipping
b.crawling
c.running laps
d.driving on a road
14) if the ventral stream of your visual cortex was not working temporarily, you would
be unable to understand _____ an object is; but if your dorsal stream was still
functioning, you could understand _____ an object is.
a.where; what
b.what; where
c.where; why
d.what; why
15) the area where the optic nerve leaves the retina is referred to as the:
a.optic chiasm
b.ganglion bundle
c.fovea
d.blind spot
16) messages are sent to the brain or spinal cord from the body via _____ neurons;
messages leave the brain and spinal cord via _____ neurons.
a.motor; mental
b.afferent; efferent
c.efferent; afferent
d.internal; external
17) according to the affect-as-information theory, we use:
a.current moods to make judgments, even if we do not know the sources of our moods
b.prior moods to make judgments, even if we do not know the sources of our moods
c.current moods to make judgments, but only if we know the sources of our moods
d.prior moods to make judgments, but only if we know the sources of our moods
18) a classic childrens game involves placing a set of objects on a table under a cloth.
the cloth is lifted very briefly. after the cloth is replaced, the child then tries to
remember as many of the objects as possible. eleazar (iq 132), sean (110), suzanne
(112), and diem (125) are playing. in what order (from high to low) should the children
score in this game?
a.eleazar, diem, sean, suzanne
b.eleazar, diem, suzanne, sean
c.sean, suzanne, diem, eleazar
d.sean and suzanne, diem, eleazar