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Applied Psychology explores the practical implementation of psychological theories,

principles, and research to solve real-world problems in various domains such as health,

education, business, and counseling. This course examines how psychological concepts

are used to enhance well-being, improve performance, and foster positive change at

individual, organizational, and societal levels. Topics may include assessment and

intervention strategies, research methods, ethical considerations, and the role of

psychologists in diverse professional settings. By integrating theoretical knowledge with

hands-on applications, students gain skills to address challenges and make informed

decisions in real-life contexts.

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Psychology Around Us 3rd Canadian Edition by Ronald Comer

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 Chapter 1: Psychology Yesterday and Today
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Q1) Philosophy is defined as
A) the study of 'truths'.
B) the study of knowledge and the meaning of life.
C) the study of what makes something beautiful.
D) the study of language and thought.
Answer: B

Q2) Which of the following theoretical approaches in psychology emphasized the

influence of childhood on adult thought and behaviour?
A) Gestalt psychology
B) psychoanalytic theory
C) structuralism
D) cognitive psychology
Answer: B

Q3) What was the major criticism of structuralism?

Answer: Structuralism relied too heavily on describing behaviour rather than applying
the knowledge about the human mind in a practical manner.

Q4) What topic was investigated in an early experiment by Bryan and Harter in 1897?
Answer: how quickly typing skills could be learned by telegraph operators

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Q1) In an experimental setting,the variable that is NOT manipulated is called the ___
variable.
Answer: dependent

Q2) What do inferential statistics allow researchers to do?

A) Determine whether their findings can be applied to everyone in the population.
B) Describe the patterns in the data.
C) Determine how consistent each participant's score was relative to the group.
D) Estimate whether the sample is representative of the population.
Answer: A

Q3) If there is a relationship between the amount of caffeine consumed and heart rate in
that the more caffeine that is consumed the faster a person's heart beats,how would you
describe the correlation between caffeine and heart rate?
A) negative correlation
B) positive correlation
C) stable correlation
D) unstable correlation
Answer: B

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Q1) Efferent neurons carry signals from the CNS to the PNS.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True

Q2) The peripheral nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False

Q3) Which structure of the brain is physically closest to the spinal cord?
A) thalamus
B) pons
C) hippocampus
D) medulla
Answer: D

Q4) What neurotransmitter used by the cells in the pons are important for arousal and
attention?
Answer: norepinephrine

Q5) What is the relationship between brain size and intelligence?

Answer: There is no known relationship unless the brain is abnormally small or large.

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Q1) What happens in a cross-sectional developmental research design?
A) Participants of the same age are tested repeatedly over time.
B) Participants of different ages are tested repeatedly over time.
C) Participants of different ages are tested at one point in time.
D) Participants of the same age are tested at one point in time.

Q2) One of the criticisms of Piaget's view of object permanence is that

A) babies who cannot yet speak cannot tell us whether they have mastered object
permanence.
B) Piaget overestimated children's developmental speed.
C) babies do not yet have enough control over their bodies to initiate a search.
D) eight-month-old babies still act surprised when an object reappears.

Q3) Victoria is looking at the new kitten in the house with fascination.She can't take her
eyes off the kitten! Suddenly,the kitten scoots under the couch.Victoria doesn't get
upset,instead she just blinks and looks at something else in her field of view.What stage
would Piaget say that Victoria is in?
A) sensorimotor
B) preoperational
C) concrete operational
D) formal operational

Q4) What pattern does brain and body development tend to follow?

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Q1) The frequency of a sound wave is measured in Hertz.
A)True
B)False

Q2) Which of the following is the best example of the Gestalt principle of similarity?
A) AAAABBBB
B) AA AA AA AA
C) A B A B A B A B
D) AAAA AAAA

Q3) Touch information is relayed from the thalamus to ___ cortex in the ___ lobe.
A) motor; frontal
B) motor; parietal
C) somatosensory; frontal
D) somatosensory; parietal

Q4) If a stimulus is at an intensity that doesn't reach your absolute threshold,what is the
most likely result?
A) You will not be able to distinguish this stimulus from another stimulus
B) The difference threshold is just noticeable
C) The stimulus will go unnoticed to you
D) You have adapted to the stimulus and no longer notice it

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Q1) What changes in brain activity are apparent with hypnosis?
A) a decrease in activity in the cerebral cortex and thalamus, followed by an increase in
activity in these areas
B) an increase in activity in the thalamus and a decrease in activity in the cerebral
cortex
C) a decrease in activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and an increase in activity in the
pons
D) an increase in activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and pons, followed by a
decrease in activity in these areas

Q2) Proponents of which dream theory are least likely to view lucid dreaming an as
especially important phenomenon?
A) information-processing theory
B) object relations theory
C) Freudian dream theory
D) activation-synthesis theory

Q3) Hypnosis is internally-driven whereas meditation is externally driven.

A)True
B)False

Q4) The drug MDMA is commonly known as the club drug ___.

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Q1) Describe why correlational evidence does NOT imply causality when describing the
relationship between television watching and child aggression.

Q2) Learned helplessness may offer an animal model of human

A) anxiety.
B) depression.
C) schizophrenia.
D) mania.

Q3) Provide an example of a specific phobia.Explain how the condition may have
developed through classical conditioning by identifying the sequence of events
associated with the US,UR,CS,and CR.

Q4) In the ___,attention to one stimulus blocks our ability to attend to another stimulus.
A) pop-out effect
B) Stroop effect
C) context effect
D) reinforcement effect

Q5) Based on the discussion in the text book,describe three study strategies that would
enhance a student's learning and preparation for exams.

Q6) Describe the methodology and the results of the Bobo doll study.

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Q1) People sometimes remember having experienced events they only imagined.Which
of the following phenomena is most likely responsible for this effect?
A) retroactive interference
B) repression
C) source misattribution
D) misinformation

Q2) In a tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon,one feels like

A) they're not supposed to reveal a memory, even though it is accurate.
B) the environmental cues of learning and testing are too different.
C) the memory is extremely vivid and clear.
D) a memory is just on the edge of consciousness.

Q3) When you are introduced to an older gentleman with a big bushy moustache,you
NOT help but think of your Uncle Frank who also has a similar moustache.In this example
the moustache is a ___.
A) prime
B) retrieval cue
C) tip-of-the-tongue cue
D) activation cue

Q4) What did we learn about memory from the case of Henry Molaison (H.M.)?

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Q1) Dorian is 18 months old; Constance is 3 years old.Dorian's vocabulary probably
contains about ___ words.Constance's vocabulary contains about ___ words.
A) 50; 500
B) 100; 500
C) 50; 1000
D) 100; 1000

Q2) Describe the concept of bounded rationality and when we use it.

Q3) The use of heuristics is a "best guess" that does NOT guarantee a solution.
A)True
B)False

Q4) Although Eitan worked on his chemistry homework for several hours,he still did NOT
understand it.While taking a break to watch television,he gained insight into the
processes he had studied.What term describes his "break"?
A) encoding period
B) incubation period
C) retrieval period
D) critical period

Q5) Define lexical meaning and describe how it changes over time.

Q6) What is decision making?

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Q1) Which of the following lists is NOT consistent with Thurstone's seven primary mental
abilities?
A) word fluency, spatial ability, perceptual speed, and numerical skill
B) associative memory, creative intelligence, reasoning, and verbal comprehension
C) numerical skill, spatial ability, mental abilities, and perceptual speed
D) reasoning, word fluency, perceptual speed, and numerical ability

Q2) What learning theorist postulated about the existence of social intelligence?

Q3) ___ occurs when people in a specific group perform poorly on an IQ test because
they fear that their performance will confirm a negative perception of their group.
A) Stereotype threat
B) Biased testing
C) Culture-specific test construction
D) Stereotype vulnerability

Q4) Ceci believed that one's innate abilities are derived from biological resource pools.
A)True
B)False

Q5) What did the intelligence quotient (IQ)originally represent?

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Q1) According to Schachter and Singer,what faculties determine our emotional state?
A) physiological arousal
B) cognitive
C) evolutionary
D) genetic

Q2) How long can a person survive without food?

A) 10 days
B) 20 days
C) 35 days
D) 40 days

Q3) What cultural arrangement describes an instance where men have multiple wives?
A) polypharmacy
B) polyandry
C) polygamy
D) promiscuity

Q4) What is the relationship between happiness and chronological age?

A) strong
B) moderate
C) minimal
D) zero

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Q1) Recently,interactionist theorists have realized that personality shows
disposition-situation consistency.In other words,
A) the same situation can trigger different personality traits.
B) different personality traits are typically observed to the same situation over time.
C) personality traits don't change with different situations.
D) certain situations trigger certain personality traits, and these show consistencies over
time.

Q2) Which of the following traits was found to have the greatest heritability,according to
twin studies?
A) agreeableness
B) warmth
C) excitement
D) openness

Q3) In Canada,employers may use any of the available personality tests to assess who
is the best candidate for a job they hope to fill.
A)True
B)False

Q4) Explain how modelling and self-efficacy influence personality?

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Q1) In an experiment by Jones and Harris,people were presented with either a pro-Castro
speech or an anti-Castro speech.When people were told that the pro-Castro writer's
position had been assigned,NOT chosen,people
A) made a situational attribution about the writer's beliefs.
B) made a dispositional attribution about the writer's beliefs.
C) made the same attribution for the pro-Castro speech as for the anti-Castro speech.
D) made just as strong an internal disposition as when they believed the writer's position
to be freely chosen.

Q2) Jim is a white male who believes that he is having difficulty finding a job because of
affirmative action in hiring.Which of the following theories is most relevant to Jim's belief?
A) social identity theory
B) realistic conflict theory
C) in-group bias
D) social comparison theory

Q3) The more specific an attitude,the ___ likely it is to be accurately predicted.

Q4) What did Milgram find when he studied gender effects on obedience?

Q5) Groups sized fewer than ___ do NOT produce a conformity effect.

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Q1) Some victims of extraordinarily traumatic events may develop ___,a condition
characterized by persistent thoughts or memories of the event.

Q2) How does someone with a repressive coping style deal with stressors?
A) They lash out at someone else.
B) They share their stressful experience with others to ease the burden.
C) They do the opposite of what they feel or believe.
D) They consistently block negative feelings and discomfort out of awareness.

Q3) Problem-focused coping is best defined as

A) coping strategies focused on changing how we feel about the stressor.
B) coping strategies focused on handling the stressor directly.
C) coping strategies focused on denying the existence of the stressor.
D) coping strategies focused on using exercise and meditation to decrease the effects
of a stressor.

Q4) Which of the following events would create the highest level of stress for
seven-year-old Julia?
A) breaking her leg
B) having her best friend tell her she "hates" her
C) getting caught lying to her father
D) not being allowed to go to a slumber party as punishment

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Q1) When talking to his psychiatrist,a patient with schizophrenia said,"The pain in my
head is the fusion of egg and sperm,but it only takes a father to make a baby,then the
world ends." This is an example of ___.
A) a hallucination
B) a delusion
C) disorganized thinking and speech
D) inappropriate affect

Q2) Recent explanations of generalized anxiety disorder that build upon the theories of
Beck and Ellis are known as ___.

Q3) What early childhood experiences may explain the development of borderline
personality disorder?

Q4) Studies indicate that as many as ___ of all cases of acute stress disorder develop
into post-traumatic stress disorder.
A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 65%
D) 80%

Q5) Define the concept of catatonia.

Q6) Major depressive disorder is to ___,as bipolar disorder is to ___.

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Q1) Ameer suffers from an intense fear of snakes.It has gotten so extreme that she
cannot go outside in the summer for fear that a snake will be there.Which type of
therapy should Ameer try?
A) behaviour therapy
B) cognitive-behavioural therapy
C) existential therapy
D) drug therapy

Q2) What is the list of feared objects or situations that are used in systematic
desensitization called?

Q3) Gestalt therapists believe that subjective experiences and self-awareness can be
measured objectively in controlled laboratory studies.
A)True
B)False

Q4) Franklyn has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.Which of the following would be
most effective in helping Franklyn control his symptoms?
A) drug therapy
B) cognitive-behavioural therapy
C) behavioural therapy
D) humanistic therapy

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