PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Agnosia, Neuroglia, Pragmatics
27 Jun 2018
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Lesson 1 and 2 Practice Quiz
1. Which is the most accurate:
a. Psychologists study the psyche
b. Psychologists study animal behaviour
c. Psychologists study mental processes and
behaviour
d. Psychologists study human behaviour
2. Rationalism is to _______ as empiricism is to
______.
a. Logic; observation
b. Analysis; measurement
c. Analysis; science
d. Logic; function
3. Through their research on human responses to
physical stimuli, both Helmholtz and Fechner
contributed to the beginning of:
a. Materialism
b. Psychophysics
c. Rationalism
d. Comparative psychology
4. Which of the following approaches to psychology
was most likely to reject the idea that mental
events are an appropriate subject matter for study
in psychology?
a. Functionalism
b. Empiricism
c. Structuralism
d. Cognitive psychology
5. Which of the following is NOT true:
a. Psychologists use introspection to study
phenomenon
b. Functionalists are interested in the ‘why’
question
c. Structuralists are interested in the ‘what’
question
d. Psychologists are natural selection to inform
their understanding of behaviour
6. Is Psychology most closely related to:
a. Chemistry
b. Philosophy
c. Sociology
d. Biology
7. Structuralism is to ______ as functionalism is to
______.
a. Elements of consciousness; purpose of
consciousness
b. Consciousness; memory
c. Unobservable behaviour; consciousness
d. Introspection; consequences of behaviour
8. The concept of natural selection is most important
for psychologists interested in the ___________ of
behaviour.
a. Variation
b. Functions
c. Limitations
d. Structure
9. If psychology can be defined as the science of
behaviour and the mind, why are the data in
psychology always drawn from behaviour?
a. Behaviour can be influence by physiology,
but the mind cannot.
b. Behaviour can be observed the mind
cannot.
c. Behaviour can be influenced by the
environment, but the mind cannot
d. All of the others.
10. Psychology arose in the nineteenth century from
developments in a number of areas, primarily:
a. Science and medicine
b. Culture and philosophy
c. Philosophy and religion
d. Science and philosophy
11. Suppose a researcher finds a correlation between
the amount of time university students spend on
Facebook (variable A) and the students grades
(variable B). The researcher can reasonably
conclude:
a. That variable A influence variable B
b. That some unknown variable is affecting
variable A and variable B
c. That variable B influences variable A
d. None of the above
12. Suppose that you conduct an experiment to
study the effects of love on improving children's
self-concepts. To manipulate love, you allow a
research assistant to hug each child after he or
she has successfully completed a set of math
problems. After the study is over, you ask the
children if they felt loved during the study. They
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all say no. Apparently, your operational
definition of your independent variable is
a. Unreliable
b. Too subjective
c. Not objective
d. Invalid
13. The first step of the scientific method specifies that
a researcher:
a. Formulate a hypothesis
b. Design the study
c. Determine the subjects he/she would like to
use in the experiment
d. Collect the data of the study
14. Dr. Lemieux wants to determine if a group of
participants reading on computer screens will
read more pages of text in one hour than a group
of participants reading on paper. She assigns
students sitting at the front of the class to be in the
“computer” condition and students at the back of
the class to be in the “paper” condition. In this
experiment seating location is
a. the independent variable
b. a confounding variable
c. the dependant variable
d. an operational definition
15. Only _____ involve the manipulation of
independent variables
a. Studies using naturalistic observation
b. Experiments
c. Correlational studies
d. Case studies
16. Minor deception may be permitted in research
providing there is ____ and _____.
a. Monetary remuneration; prior informed
consent
b. No foreseeable harm; there is a full
debriefing
c. Prior informed consent; no foreseeable harm
d. No confounding; information is confidential
17. Mean is to ______ as standard deviation is to
_____.
a. Descriptive statistics; inferential statistics
b. Central tendency; variability
c. Variability; relations
d. Inferential statistics; descriptive statistics
18. In psychological research, the term generalization
refers to
a. Obtaining a broad understanding of how
different variable are related to each other
b. How significant the results of the statistical
analysis are
c. Adding the results from one study to those
from other studies
d. Concluding that the results obtained from
a sample can also be applied to the larger
population
19. Inferential statistics are useful in telling
researchers whether the results of their
experiments are
a. Affected by confounding variables
b. Important
c. Due to chance
d. Correlated with the results from other
research
20. A researcher has two groups of subjects – one that
had been taught a memory aid and one that has
not, both groups are asked to learn a list of 20
nouns in two minutes, and both are then given a
recall list. What is the independent variable?
a. Whether or not the participants have
been taught the memory aid
b. The amount of time participants took to
complete the recall test
c. Participants’ score on the recall test
d. The number of words
Lesson 3 and 4 Practice Quiz
1. A recessive allele will influence the expression of a
trait only when it:
a. forms a homozygous gene combination with
a dominant allele
b. is paired with a dominant, but weak allele
c. forms a heterozygous gene combination with
another recessive allele
d. is paired with another recessive allele
2. Intelligence has a heritability estimate of .50 in a
North-American Caucasian population. This
means that:
a. All Caucasian individuals from North
America will show a correlation in IQ scores
with their biological parents’ IQ scores of
about .50.
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b. On average, about 50% of the variance in
intelligence in a group of Caucasian-
Canadians can be explained by genetic
inheritance.
c. On average, about 50% of the variance in
intelligence in any group of people can be
explained by genetic inheritance.
d. All Caucasian individuals from North
America will show a correlation in IQ scores
with their adoptive parents' IQ scores of
about .50.
3. The reproductive success of those individuals who
share the same genes is called:
a. Reciprocal selection
b. Inclusive fitness
c. Personal fitness
d. Kin selection
4. Natural selection has favoured species that
reproduce sexually because sexual reproduction:
a. pleasurable, which is reinforcing
b. leads to a longer life span and more
variability in behaviour
c. produces organisms that have the capacity
for thinking and language
d. leads to genetic diversity, which is
adaptive
5. Concordance is the degree to which two people:
a. Share the same genotype
b. Share the same phenotype
c. Are biologically related
d. Share the same environment
6. Which of the following statements is FALSE
regarding human sexual behaviour?
a. Men are more likely to seek diversity in
their sexual relationships than women
b. Human sexual behaviour is subject to strong
cultural influence
c. Men tend to be more promiscuous than
women
d. Unmarried women tend to seek casual
sexual relationships
7. Most traits and disorders are caused by:
a. A single gene and the environment
b. Multiple genes (polygenic)
c. Multiple genes and the environment
d. A single gene
8. Altruistic behaviour toward non-relatives can be
explained by
a. Reciprocal altruism
b. Inclusive fitness
c. Nonfamilial altruism
d. Personal fitness
9. The fact that male peacocks have evolved large
tail feathers even though large feathers appear to
be an impediment to survival is best explained by:
a. Evolution through sexual selection
b. Evolution through natural selection
c. Genetic drift
d. Large feathers can be used to protect the
nest
10. An organism’s phenotype is the result of:
a. Its genotype
b. The influence of environmental influences
and experiences
c. The interactions of its genotype with the
environment
d. The reproductive success of its parents
11. Whenever your neighbors play their music loudly,
you bang on the ceiling with a broom handle to get
them to turn it off. They do turn off the annoying
music, which makes you likely to bang on the
ceiling the next time you hear it. Your behavior is
under the influence of:
a. Negative punishment
b. Negative reinforcement
c. Positive punishment
d. Positive reinforcement
12. People who live in cities often do not respond to
night sounds while asleep. This is an example of:
a. Operant conditioning
b. Habituation
c. Latent learning
d. Classical conditioning
13. To what is the tendency of the CS to elicit a CR
related?
a. The number of CS-US pairings
b. The intensity of the CR
c. The intensity of the CS
d. The number of times the US has elicited the
CR
14. Which schedule of reinforcement is most similar
to that used in gambling?
a. Variable ratio
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Lesson 1 and 2 practice quiz: which is the most accurate, psychologists study the psyche, psychologists study animal behaviour, psychologists study mental processes and behaviour, psychologists study human behaviour, rationalism is to _______ as empiricism is to. Is psychology most closely related to: chemistry, philosophy, sociology, biology, structuralism is to ______ as functionalism is to. ______: elements of consciousness; purpose of consciousness, consciousness; memory, unobservable behaviour; consciousness d. Introspection; consequences of behaviour: the concept of natural selection is most important for psychologists interested in the ___________ of behaviour, variation, functions, limitations, structure. Facebook (variable a) and the students grades (variable b). To manipulate love, you allow a research assistant to hug each child after he or she has successfully completed a set of math problems. After the study is over, you ask the children if they felt loved during the study. Apparently, your operational definition of your independent variable is: unreliable, too subjective, not objective d.
