PSY 101 TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERSQuestion 1
The gustatory sense refers to the chemical sense of Select one:
a. smell.
b. taste.
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c. touch.
d. pain.
Question 2
Which endocrine gland regulates blood sugar level? Select one:
a. pituitary gland
b. thyroid gland
c. gonads
d. islets of Langerhans Correct
Question 3
If an early psychologist believed that the study of psychology should focus on the purpose of the mind and not on its raw elements, that psychologist would most likely adhere to the school of thought known as
Select one:
a. behaviorism.
b. psychoanalysis.
c. functionalism. Correct
d. structuralism.
Question 4
As a researcher, you believe that anxiety causes poor test performance. From the options below, the best research technique to support or refute your hypothesis is the
Select one:
a. descriptive method.
b. formal experiment. Correct
c. clinical method.
d. correlational method.
Question 5
What is the relationship between statistical significance and practical significance? Select one:
a. Statistical significance does not equal practical significance. Correct
b. If an outcome is statistically significant, this means that it has practical significance.
c. If an outcome is practical significance, this means that it has statistical significance.
d. Statistical significance and practical significance are really the same thing. Feedback
Question 6
What term best defines an individual's sense of belonging to a particular group? Select one:
a. self-concept
b. ethnic identity Correct
c. human diversity
d. cultural relativity
Question 7
Males have chromosomes and females have chromosomes. Select one:
a. two Y; two X
b. an X and a Y; two X Correct
c. two X; two Y
d. two X; an X and a Y
Question 8
Chromosomes are constructed of long strands of Select one:
a. melatonin. b. DNA. Correct
c. thyroxin.
d. glia.
Question 9
The unit of measure for the intensity of sound is Select one:
a. pitch.
b. saturation.
c. hue.
d. decibel. Correct
Question 10
How are hormones different from neurotransmitters? Select one:
a. Hormones are chemical messengers.
b. Hormones are carried in the bloodstream.
c. Hormones are not regulated by the brain.
d. Hormones are by-products of neurotransmitters.
Question 11
A placebo effect can occur when the Select one:
a. participant believes they are receiving a beneficial treatment. Correct
b. random sampling procedure has been conducted inaccurately.
c. researcher fails to obtain informed consent from the participants.
d. correlation between two key variables equals zero.
Question 12
A/n is a tentative explanation of the facts, findings, and relationship in any of the sciences. Select one:
a. edict
b. theory Correct
c. law
d. declaration
Question 13
How does contemporary psychoanalysis differ from the original form of psychoanalysis? Select one:
a. Contemporary psychoanalysts are no longer concerned with unconscious motives.
b. Contemporary psychoanalysts place greater importance on motives other than sexual or aggressive. Correct
c. Contemporary psychoanalysis is a much more dominant force in psychology than the original form.
d. Contemporary psychoanalysis does not differ significantly from Sigmund Freud's approach.
Question 14
A person can only be understood by studying the beliefs and the values of the community in which the person has lived. This statement best exemplifies the
Select one:
a. behavioral approach.
b. sociocultural approach. Correct
c. humanistic approach.
d. social learning approach.
Question 15
Job dissatisfaction would be a problem best dealt with by psychologists. Select one:
a. applied Correct
b. developmental
c. personality
d. sociocultural
Question 16
Behaviors refer to actions that are and mental processes refer to events that are . Select one:
a. public; private Correct
b. legal; illegal
c. private; public
d. illegal; legal
Question 17
The practice of psychiatry is most like the psychological specialty of Select one:
a. experimental psychology.
b. developmental psychology.
c. biological psychology.
d. clinical psychology. Correct
Question 18
The primary function of dendrites is to Select one:
a. keep the cell alive.
b. transmit outgoing information.
c. secrete hormones.
d. receive incoming information.
Question 19
What do psychoanalytic and humanistic views have in common? Select one:
a. They believe self-concept is the most important human aspect. Incorrect
b. They believe conscious processes are unimportant.
c. They view the unconscious mind as a source of human problems.
d. They have nothing but psychology in common.
Question 20
With your eyes closed, touch the tip of your nose with your right index finger. You are able to do this mainly because of information from your
Select one:
a. auditory sense.
b. vestibular sense.
c. kinesthetic sense. Correct
d. skin senses.
Question 21
What is the relationship between a nerve and a neuron? Select one:
a. Nerves are part of the sympathetic system; neurons are part of the parasympathetic system.
b. A nerve follows an afferent pathway and a neuron follows an efferent pathway.
c. The term "nerve" is the plural for neurons found within the brain.
d. A nerve is a bundle of long neurons outside the brain and spinal cord. Correct
Question 22
A researcher wants to study the effects of caffeine on student performance on quiz scores. The research gives a caffeinated drink to half the students and a non-caffeinated drink to the other half of students. The researcher then measures quiz scores by counting the number of correct answers. Given the above scenario, what is the dependent variable?
Select one:
a. the number of correct answers on the quiz
b. the number of students reporting that the consume caffeine everyday
c. whether or not the students received a caffeinated drink during the study
d. whether or not students like drinking caffeinated beverages
Question 23
Based on available evidence, inheritance influences the of our behavior. Select one:
a. broad dimensions Correct
b. narrow definitions
c. smallest detail
d. moral development
Question 24
If the endocrine gland located just below the larynx were diseased, what kind of problem might result? Select one:
a. fluctuating blood pressure
b. vocal instability
c. unstable menstrual cycles
d. unstable metabolism Correct
Question 25
Which of the following is an example of a descriptive method of doing research? Select one:
a. test-retest reliability
b. naturalistic observation Correct
c. placebo manipulation
d. quasi experimentation
Question 26
In a dark room, lighting one candle adds a lot of brightness. However, in a room with 100 lit candles, lighting one candle has little effect. This example can be explained by
Select one:
a. sensory adaptation.
b. perceptual constancy. c. Weber's law.
d. the Law of Effect.
Question 27
A paramedic arrives at an accident. One of the people injured has a problem breathing and cannot stand upright. Most likely, the area of the hindbrain damaged is the
Select one:
a. pons.
b. medulla. Correct
c. cerebrum.
d. thalamus. Feedback
Question 28
Another name for the bell-shaped curve in statistics is the Select one:
a. scatterplot.
b. standard deviation.
c. box plot.
d. normal distribution. Correct
Question 29
A person is having trouble with reflexive movements of the eyes and postural reflexes. In which area of the brain would you suspect an injury?
Select one:
a. limbic system
b. midbrain Correct
c. cerebral cortex
d. forebrain
Question 30
In the study that examined brain activity during a rhyming task, what sex difference was found? Select one:
a. Males showed activity in both hemispheres.
b. Females showed activity in both hemispheres. Correct
c. Males showed greater activity in the right hemisphere.
d. Females showed greater activity in the left hemisphere.
Question 31
The process of receiving, translating, and transmitting messages from the outside world to the brain is called Select one:
a. sensation. Correct
b. selective attention.
c. perception.
d. cognition.
Question 32
In formal experiments, the experimental group is the group and the control group is the group. Select one:
a. inactive; inactive
b. inactive; active
c. active; active
d. active; inactive Correct
Question 33
What do you experience when nocioceptors are stimulated? Select one:
a. pain Correct
b. sexual pleasure
c. dizziness
d. sound
Question 34
People are tested for peripheral vision by driving machines. If declines are found, the physical cause probably involves Select one:
a. decreases in cones.
b. decreases in rods. Correct
c. more rods than cones in the retina.
d. decreased intraocular eye pressure.
Question 35
According to evolutionary theory, men have a lower parental investment in each offspring because men Select one:
a. have no intrinsic interest in helping children mature developmentally.
b. are too interested in themselves and fending off enemies.
c. are too distracted with the daily hunting and gathering duties. d. cannot be certain they are the father of a particular child.
Question 36
The clinical method is a variation of Select one:
a. the survey method.
b. correlational methods.
c. naturalistic observation. Correct
d. the dependent variable. [Show Less]