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Psychology 1200 Mock Midterm 1
Chapter 1 Questions
1. Which of the following is not a major perspective in psychology?
A. Biological
B. Humanistic
C. Cognitive
D. Animalistic
2. Modern Cognitive science looks at _________.
A. Artificial Intelligence
B. Cognitive Neuroscience
C. Personality factors
D. Both A and B
3. Becoming a psychologist requires _________.
A. An undergraduate degree
B. A passion for research
C. 4 – 6 years of graduate school work
D. All of the above
4. An applied psychologist would be more likely to _________.
A. Change the public school curriculum based on educational research
B. Do research on people who have anxiety disorders
C. Perform an experiment on mice
D. Both B and C
5. Which psychological perspective would be more likely to study the way in which
people from different cultures interact?
A. Behavioural
B. Humanistic
C. Sociocultural
D. Psychodyanmic
6. Natural selection is a process that selects behaviours that have survival value,
according to evolutionary psychology.
A. True
B. False
7. Freud argued that internal sexual and aggressive drives are _____.
A. Acquired
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B. Inborn
C. Evident only in angry adults.
D. Evident only in childhood.
8. The behavioural perspective in psychology argues that our behaviour is
controlled by _______.
A. Our thoughts or our interpretation of situations
B. Our unconscious motives
C. Environmental cues and our past learning
D. Our desire to achieve self-actualization
9. A person who believes in Monism, believes that ___________.
A. The Mind and Body are one
B. The Mind and Body are two separate entities
C. The Mind is does not exist in the physical world
D. The Body is only a figment of the mind’s imagination
10.Research shows that when you are writing a multiple choice test you should
never change your answer because your first guess is most likely to be correct.
A. True
B. False
11.Which of the following figures is most associated with behaviourism?
a. Noam Chomsky
b. Carl Jung
c. Albert Bandura
d. John Watson
12.What is the key distinction between basic and applied research?
a. Basic is very simple research, while applied is extremely complex
b. Basic is animal research, while applied is human research
c. Basic is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, applied is designed to
solve problems
d. Basic is designed to solve problems. Applied is designed to answer
questions.
13.The jigsaw program is designed for what specific purpose:
a. to solve complicated puzzles by bringing in experts to inform laypeople
b. to promote collaborative efforts; the importance of which was established
through the Robber’s Cave
c. to influence or control behaviour
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d. to measure school enjoyment across ethnic groups
14.Freud described countless defense mechanisms. Which of the following could be
called a defense mechanism:
a. repulsion
b. retaliation
c. repression
d. repenting
15.Which of the following perspectives would be most likely to call individuals “free
agents, seeking self-actualization and personal meaning”?
a. Humanistic
b. Sociocultural
c. Behavioural
d. Biological
16.What does “CPA” stand for?:
a. Clinical of Psychological Applications
b. Cloning as a Psychological Application
c. Canadian Psychosocial Agency
d. Canadian Psychological Association
17.What is psychological is first ____________________________.
a. physiological
b. speculative
c. syncopated
d. organic
18.Albert Bandura’s approach to cognitive behaviourism can best be described as:
a. outdated
b. eclectic
c. bidirectional
d. egocentric
19.Self-actualization is a phenomenon that may be best described as:
a. Actually distinguishing oneself from one’s environment
b. Reaching one’s full potential
c. Breaking out of one’s shell
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d. Actualizing one’s ability to predict and control behaviour
20.Cognitive Psychology had its’ roots in:
a. Structuralism and Functionalism
b. Motives and Conflicts
c. Free will and self-actualization
d. Genetics and evolution
Chapter 2 Questions
21.A prediction about how specific variables in question are associated is a:
a. Theory
b. Hypothesis
c. Statistical test
d. Operational Definition
e. None of the above
22.Which of the following is an example of a case study?
a. Observing the lunch purchasing behavior of University of Guelph students
b. Investigating the methods that PSYC1200 students use to prepare for and
be successful on a midterm examination
c. Determining the effects of cramming for the night before vs. studying
incrementally throughout the semester on test results
d. Determining the relationship between class attendance and test scores
e. None of the above
23.What is the purpose of random sampling?
a. To ensure that your sample is representative
b. To ensure that all the important characteristics of your population is
reflected in your sample
c. To ensure that the results of your study are not distorted
d. a and b
e. a, b and c
24.When we can conclude that the differences in the dependent variable was
caused by the independent variable we say that our experiment had good:
a. External Validity
b. Generalizability
c. Internal Validity
d. All of the above
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e. None of the above
25.A demand characteristic is:
a. When experimenters influence their participants respond to an
experiment in a way that the experimenter predicts
b. When people receiving a treatment show a change in their behavior based
on their expectations of the treatment, not the treatment itself
c. When we cannot determine which variable had an effect on the dependent
variable
d. A cue that participants pick up on about the hypothesis of the study or
how they are supposed to behave in the study
e. When the experimenter demands participation in an experiment
26.What is the difference between correlational research and descriptive research
a. Correlational research involves independent and dependent variables,
descriptive research does not
b. Correlational research does not involve natural settings whereas
descriptive research does
c. Correlational research uses naturalistic observation and surveys as
methods, descriptive research does not
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
27.The study on the Mozart effect was an example of
a. demand characteristics
b. placebo effects
c. a double blind procedure
d. confounding variables
e. unrepresentative sampling
28.All the individuals about whom we are interested in drawing a conclusion is
called the
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Experimental group
d. Control group
e. None of the above
29.When would incomplete disclosure or deception be allowed in research
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a. When participants may guess the purpose of the study and so are
susceptible to demand characteristics
b. When it is necessary for the creativity of the experimental design
c. When experimenters are on the cusp of making a new discovery and do
not want other researchers to beat them to it
d. Under limited circumstances and when there is no other feasible
alternative
e. a and d
30.What is the purpose of a control group?
a. To determine the behavior of participants in the absence of the
independent variable
b. To ensure that more people have the opportunity to participate in
psychological research
c. To determine the effect of a second independent variable outside of the
experimental group
d. a and c
e. None of the above
Appendix Questions
31.Which of these is NOT an example of a descriptive statistic:
a. The class average on the biology midterm was 75.69.
b. The class average for the biology midterm was significantly higher than
for the physics midterm.
c. In Wimbleton, the median income is 50,000 pounds.
d. The mode number of goals scored this season in soccer was 2.
32.Total variance is made up of:
a. (Variance due to treatment 1) + (Variance due to treatment 2) + … +
(Variance due to treatment n)
b. (Variance accounted for due to independent variable) – (Variance not
accounted for due to error)
c. (Variance accounted for due to independent variables) + (Variance not
accounted for due to error)
d. (Variance accounted for due to the independent variables) + (Variance
due to treatments)
33.The Pearson produce-moment correlation correlation coefficient is best
described as:
a. A statistic of the magnitude and direction of the relationship between two
variables.
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b. A statistic of the magnitude of the relationship between two variables.
c. A statistic of the significance of the difference between groups.
d. A statistic of the amount of similarity between two variables.
34.What is the range of the following set of scores: 4, 8, 5, 9, 10, 3, 8, 15, 3, 3, 21
a. 17
b. 18
c. 25
d. 8
35.What is the mode from the following set of scores: 6, 2, 10, 5, 18, 29, 2, 6, 2,
10, 9
a. 29
b. 10
c. 2
d. 6
36. What is the mean of the following set of scores: 5, 7, 1, 6, 20, 35, 3, 6
a. 6
b. 13
c. 10
d. 12
37.What is the median for the following set of scores: 60, 71, 65, 69, 68, 65, 74,
80, 79
a. 71
b. 68
c. 70
d. 69
38.Which of the following measures is influenced by extreme scores?
a. The mode
b. The median
c. The mean
d. All of the above
39.Statistical significance occurs when you have a very ____ probably that your
findings ________
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a. High; are due to chance
b. Low; are due to chance
c. High; are meaningful
d. Low; are meaningful
40.What conclusion could you draw from the following result: Children who eat
breakfast before going to school have better grades on a spelling test, p < .05.
a. There is a statistically significant difference between children’s test
scores.
b. There is not a statistically significant difference between children’s test
scores.
c. If children eat breakfast, they will do better in school.
d. There is no relationship between eating breakfast and children’s test
scores.
Chapter 11 Questions
41.A study comparing the television viewing habits of three different age groups
(cohorts) of children measured at the same time, is an example of the:
a. cross-sectional method of studying developmental change
b. longitudinal method of studying developmental change
c. sequential method of studying developmental change
d. experimental method of studying developmental change
42.Which of the following is NOT a way to learn about what is going on in an
infant’s mind:
a. habituation procedure
b. high–amplitude sucking
c. electromagnetism
d. preference method
43.The germinal period in a pregnancy is:
a. the first two weeks of the pregnancy, from conception to implantation
b. the third through the eight week of pregnancy
c. the last part of the pregnancy, from the ninth week through to birth
d. the part of the pregnancy prior to conception
44.A teratogen is:
a. a fertilized egg that undergoes rapid cell division
b. any physical defect in an unborn child
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c. any environmental agent that can do damage to the developing baby
d. a genetic defect that occurs when two recessive genes are paired at
conception
45.The __________ system is the least developed sensory-perception system at
birth:
a. auditory
b. tactile
c. smell
d. visual
46.Cephalocaudal development is a sequence of physical maturing and growth that
proceeds:
a. from the bottom of the body upward
b. from the extremities toward the center of the body
c. from the top of the body downward
d. from the center of the body to the extremities
47.Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development, in order of development, are
a. sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
b. preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational, sensorimotor
c. preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational
d. sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational
48.In North America, the majority (65%) of infants have been found to develop:
a. a secure attachment with their primary caregiver
b. a resistant attachment with their primary caregiver
c. an avoidant attachment with their primary caregiver
d. a disorganized and disoriented attachment with their primary caregiver
49.According to Marcia, identity _________ refers to the status in which the
adolescent is currently in a crisis, exploring various commitments and ready to
make choices, but not yet having made a commitment to the choices.
a. diffusion
b. foreclosure
c. moratorium
d. achievement
50.Which of the following is NOT a stage of dying according to Kubler-Ross?
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a. denial
b. isolation
c. bargaining
d. acceptance