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PSYCH 101 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 PORTAGE
LEARNING NEWEST 2025/2026 NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+|
Which of the following is NOT one of the questions behaviorism
has attempted to answer?
A. Which is more important, nature or nurture?
B. How can the unconscious be described by neuroscience?
C. Does environment influence behavior?
D. How can rewards and punishments influence behavior? -
ANSWER-B
Which of the following psychologists are most closely associated
with humanistic psychology?
A. Freud and Jung
B. Allporl and Lewin
C. Watson and Skinner
D.Rogers and Maslow - ANSWER-D
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Damage to this brain area would have a profound impact on
motor learning:
A. cerebellum
C. brain stem
B. cerebral cortex
D, Broca's area - ANSWER-A.
An institutional review board is likely to conclude that there are no
troublesome ethical issues associated
with which of the following types of study?
A. surveys on topics such as experiences of sexual abuse
B. experiments on learning simple lists of words when the
experimenter has deceived
participants about the purpose of the study
C. research in a controlled study in a laboratory
D. naturalistic observation of the conditions in which people are
likely to litter in public - ANSWER-D
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Which of the following phenomena would likely be studied by
social psychologists?
A. which category of perceptual images is most likely to be
identified quickly
B.the rise of Hitler prior to World War Il and his ability to influence
other people's
behavior
C. how animals and people differ in terms of their sensitivity to
reward and punishment
D. which neurons are activated when men look at sports pictures
versus when women look
at the same pictures - ANSWER-B
You might think of the pituitary gland as the master gland because
it:
A. facilitates cognitive mastery of problems
B. controls the release of hormones throughout the system
C. allows for the mastery of skills
D. is in the brain, the master of the body - ANSWER-B
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A synapse is a:
A. signal
B. gap
C. chemical
D. joint - ANSWER-B
The area of science that focuses on studying the working brain is
called:
A. neuroscience
B. psychological science
C. biological science
D. psychobiological science - ANSWER-A
Relative to cross-sectional research studies, longitudinal studies
are:
A. more expensive and take more time
B. less expensive, but take more time
C. less subject to participants dropping out
D. none of the above - ANSWER-A
PSYCH 101 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 PORTAGE
LEARNING NEWEST 2025/2026 NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+|
Which of the following is NOT one of the questions behaviorism
has attempted to answer?
A. Which is more important, nature or nurture?
B. How can the unconscious be described by neuroscience?
C. Does environment influence behavior?
D. How can rewards and punishments influence behavior? -
ANSWER-B
Which of the following psychologists are most closely associated
with humanistic psychology?
A. Freud and Jung
B. Allporl and Lewin
C. Watson and Skinner
D.Rogers and Maslow - ANSWER-D
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Damage to this brain area would have a profound impact on
motor learning:
A. cerebellum
C. brain stem
B. cerebral cortex
D, Broca's area - ANSWER-A.
An institutional review board is likely to conclude that there are no
troublesome ethical issues associated
with which of the following types of study?
A. surveys on topics such as experiences of sexual abuse
B. experiments on learning simple lists of words when the
experimenter has deceived
participants about the purpose of the study
C. research in a controlled study in a laboratory
D. naturalistic observation of the conditions in which people are
likely to litter in public - ANSWER-D
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Which of the following phenomena would likely be studied by
social psychologists?
A. which category of perceptual images is most likely to be
identified quickly
B.the rise of Hitler prior to World War Il and his ability to influence
other people's
behavior
C. how animals and people differ in terms of their sensitivity to
reward and punishment
D. which neurons are activated when men look at sports pictures
versus when women look
at the same pictures - ANSWER-B
You might think of the pituitary gland as the master gland because
it:
A. facilitates cognitive mastery of problems
B. controls the release of hormones throughout the system
C. allows for the mastery of skills
D. is in the brain, the master of the body - ANSWER-B
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A synapse is a:
A. signal
B. gap
C. chemical
D. joint - ANSWER-B
The area of science that focuses on studying the working brain is
called:
A. neuroscience
B. psychological science
C. biological science
D. psychobiological science - ANSWER-A
Relative to cross-sectional research studies, longitudinal studies
are:
A. more expensive and take more time
B. less expensive, but take more time
C. less subject to participants dropping out
D. none of the above - ANSWER-A
