Human Psychology 101EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (ALREADY
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A gender role refers to:
a. A sense of being male or female.
b. One's biological sex.
c. A set of expected behaviors for males or for females.
d. A sense of being homosexual or heterosexual. - ANSWER- c. A set of expected behaviors
for males or for females.
The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a:
a. Personality psychologist
b. Developmental psychologist
c. Psychiatrist
d. Clinical psychologist - ANSWER- c. Psychiatrist
John B. Watson is to Edward Titchener as ______ is to ______.
a. Mental illness; psychiatry
b. Biology; environment
c. Cognitive perspective; psychoanalytic perspective
d. Observable behavior; inner sensations - ANSWER- d. Observable behavior; inner sensations
Who are likely to show the greatest similarity in temperament?
a. Brother and sister
b. Father and son
c. Identical twins
d. Fraternal twins - ANSWER- c. Identical twins
A negative correlation between degree if wealth and likelihood of suffering from a psychological
disorder would indicate that:
a. Poverty makes people vulnerable to psychological disorders.
b. People who are poor are more likely to have a psychological disorder than are wealthy people.
c. Psychological disorders usually prevent people from accumulating wealth.
,d. All of these statements are correct. - ANSWER- b. People who are poor are more likely to
have a psychological disorder than are wealthy people
The relief of pain following the taking of an inactive substance that is perceived to have medicinal
benefits illustrates:
a. The placebo effect.
b. Debriefing
c. A confounding variable
d. Random assignment - ANSWER- a. The placebo effect
Which perspective most clearly focuses on how we learn observable responses?
a. Neuroscience
b. Behavior genetics
c. Evolutionary
d. Behavioral - ANSWER- d. Behavioral
If the correlation between the physical weight and reading ability of children is +0.85, this would
indicate that:
a. Better reading ability is associated with greater physical weight among children
b. There is very little statistical relationship between weight and reading ability among children.
c. Low body weight has a negative effect on the reading abilities of children.
d. Body weight has no causal influence on the reading abilities of children - ANSWER- a.
Better reading ability is associated with greater physical weight among children
Identical twins originate from the fertilization of:
a. Two egg cells by two sperm cells
b. A single egg cell by a single sperm cell
c. Two egg cells by a single sperm cell
d. A single egg cell by two sperm cells - ANSWER- b. A single egg cell by a single sperm cell
To minimize the extent to which outcome differences between experimental and control groups
can be attributed to placebo effects, researchers make use of:
a. The double-blind procedure
b. Operational definitions
,c. Random assignment
d. Random sampling - ANSWER- a. The double-blind procedure
The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as:
a. functionalism.
b. behavior genetics.
c. natural selection.
d. structuralism. - ANSWER- c. natural selection
Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's:
a. childhood memories.
b. genetic predispositions
c. potential for healthy growth
d. unconscious thought processes - ANSWER- c. potential for healthy growth
Who was the American philosopher-psychologist who authored a textbook in 1890 for the
emerging discipline of psychology?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. William James
c. Wilhelm Wundt
d. John B. Watson - ANSWER- b. William James
Environmental influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing:
a. identical twins raised apart with fraternal twins raised together.
b. identical twins raised together with identical twins raised apart.
c. identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised together.
d. identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised apart - ANSWER- b. identical twins
raised together with identical twins raised apart.
Edward Titchener is to structuralism as William James is to ________.
a. cognitive neuroscience.
b. behaviorism.
c. functionalism.
, d. humanistic psychology - ANSWER- c. functionalism.
According to the book, which of the following order of events best matches theory construction
and scientific investigation?
a. theory, analysis, hypothesis, revise theory, data collection
b. data collection, analysis, theory, hypothesis, report findings in journal
c. hypothesis, analysis, data collection, theory, report findings in journal
d. hypothesis, theory, data collection, revise theory, analysis
e. theory, hypothesis, data collection, analysis, report findings in journal - ANSWER- e. theory,
hypothesis, data collection, analysis, report findings in journal
Introspection was the basic research tool used by ________ in order to study people's inner
sensations and mental images.
a. B. F. Skinner
b. John B. Watson
c. Edward Titchener
d. Charles Darwin - ANSWER- c. Edward Titchener
Mrs. Alfieri believes that her husband's angry outbursts against her result from his unconscious
hatred of his own mother. Mrs. Alfieri is looking at her husband's behavior from a(n) ________
perspective.
a. psychodynamic
b. behavior genetics
c. behavioral
d. evolutionary - ANSWER- a. psychodynamic
A human egg contains ________ chromosome and a human sperm contains ________
chromosome.
a. either an X or a Y; a Y
b. a Y; either an X or a Y
c. an X; either an X or a Y
d. either an X or a Y; an X - ANSWER- an X; either an X or a Y
Norms are best described as:
a. rules for socially acceptable behavior.
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A gender role refers to:
a. A sense of being male or female.
b. One's biological sex.
c. A set of expected behaviors for males or for females.
d. A sense of being homosexual or heterosexual. - ANSWER- c. A set of expected behaviors
for males or for females.
The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a:
a. Personality psychologist
b. Developmental psychologist
c. Psychiatrist
d. Clinical psychologist - ANSWER- c. Psychiatrist
John B. Watson is to Edward Titchener as ______ is to ______.
a. Mental illness; psychiatry
b. Biology; environment
c. Cognitive perspective; psychoanalytic perspective
d. Observable behavior; inner sensations - ANSWER- d. Observable behavior; inner sensations
Who are likely to show the greatest similarity in temperament?
a. Brother and sister
b. Father and son
c. Identical twins
d. Fraternal twins - ANSWER- c. Identical twins
A negative correlation between degree if wealth and likelihood of suffering from a psychological
disorder would indicate that:
a. Poverty makes people vulnerable to psychological disorders.
b. People who are poor are more likely to have a psychological disorder than are wealthy people.
c. Psychological disorders usually prevent people from accumulating wealth.
,d. All of these statements are correct. - ANSWER- b. People who are poor are more likely to
have a psychological disorder than are wealthy people
The relief of pain following the taking of an inactive substance that is perceived to have medicinal
benefits illustrates:
a. The placebo effect.
b. Debriefing
c. A confounding variable
d. Random assignment - ANSWER- a. The placebo effect
Which perspective most clearly focuses on how we learn observable responses?
a. Neuroscience
b. Behavior genetics
c. Evolutionary
d. Behavioral - ANSWER- d. Behavioral
If the correlation between the physical weight and reading ability of children is +0.85, this would
indicate that:
a. Better reading ability is associated with greater physical weight among children
b. There is very little statistical relationship between weight and reading ability among children.
c. Low body weight has a negative effect on the reading abilities of children.
d. Body weight has no causal influence on the reading abilities of children - ANSWER- a.
Better reading ability is associated with greater physical weight among children
Identical twins originate from the fertilization of:
a. Two egg cells by two sperm cells
b. A single egg cell by a single sperm cell
c. Two egg cells by a single sperm cell
d. A single egg cell by two sperm cells - ANSWER- b. A single egg cell by a single sperm cell
To minimize the extent to which outcome differences between experimental and control groups
can be attributed to placebo effects, researchers make use of:
a. The double-blind procedure
b. Operational definitions
,c. Random assignment
d. Random sampling - ANSWER- a. The double-blind procedure
The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as:
a. functionalism.
b. behavior genetics.
c. natural selection.
d. structuralism. - ANSWER- c. natural selection
Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's:
a. childhood memories.
b. genetic predispositions
c. potential for healthy growth
d. unconscious thought processes - ANSWER- c. potential for healthy growth
Who was the American philosopher-psychologist who authored a textbook in 1890 for the
emerging discipline of psychology?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. William James
c. Wilhelm Wundt
d. John B. Watson - ANSWER- b. William James
Environmental influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing:
a. identical twins raised apart with fraternal twins raised together.
b. identical twins raised together with identical twins raised apart.
c. identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised together.
d. identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised apart - ANSWER- b. identical twins
raised together with identical twins raised apart.
Edward Titchener is to structuralism as William James is to ________.
a. cognitive neuroscience.
b. behaviorism.
c. functionalism.
, d. humanistic psychology - ANSWER- c. functionalism.
According to the book, which of the following order of events best matches theory construction
and scientific investigation?
a. theory, analysis, hypothesis, revise theory, data collection
b. data collection, analysis, theory, hypothesis, report findings in journal
c. hypothesis, analysis, data collection, theory, report findings in journal
d. hypothesis, theory, data collection, revise theory, analysis
e. theory, hypothesis, data collection, analysis, report findings in journal - ANSWER- e. theory,
hypothesis, data collection, analysis, report findings in journal
Introspection was the basic research tool used by ________ in order to study people's inner
sensations and mental images.
a. B. F. Skinner
b. John B. Watson
c. Edward Titchener
d. Charles Darwin - ANSWER- c. Edward Titchener
Mrs. Alfieri believes that her husband's angry outbursts against her result from his unconscious
hatred of his own mother. Mrs. Alfieri is looking at her husband's behavior from a(n) ________
perspective.
a. psychodynamic
b. behavior genetics
c. behavioral
d. evolutionary - ANSWER- a. psychodynamic
A human egg contains ________ chromosome and a human sperm contains ________
chromosome.
a. either an X or a Y; a Y
b. a Y; either an X or a Y
c. an X; either an X or a Y
d. either an X or a Y; an X - ANSWER- an X; either an X or a Y
Norms are best described as:
a. rules for socially acceptable behavior.
