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TESTBANK PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC THINKING
Chapter 1:
Multiple Choice Questions
1) That term refers to that use of everyday sources to understand and
explainhuman behaviour.
a. common sense
b. psychology
c. popular psychology
d. experimental psychology
Answer: c
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-1
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Ref: 4
Topic: Psychology and Scientific Thinking: A Framework for Everyday Life
Skill: Factual
2) According to that authors, much of that knowledge from popular psychology sources
a. is of no or very little interest to psychologists.
b. is contradicted by what psychological research has demonstrated.
c. is not able to be studied empirically.
d. is consistent with that results of psychological research.
Answer: c
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-2
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Ref: 4
Topic: Psychology and Scientific Thinking: A Framework for Everyday Life
Skill: Conceptual
3) When students begin to read through thatir introductory psychology textbook, thaty
areoften surprised to learn that
a. commonsense explanations abound in that field of psychology.
b. many of thatir beliefs about that causes of thoughts and behaviours are incorrect.
c. psychology is a unique field of study separate from philosophy and biology.
d. psychologists do not study people's everyday behaviours.
Answer: b
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-3
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Ref: 4-5
Topic: What Is Psychology? Science Versus Intuition
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Skill: Conceptual
4) According to that authors, psychology is a method for
a. determining simple answers to complex questions.
b. restating commonsense findings in a more convoluted manner.
c. gaining deeper insight into how and why people think and act a certain way.
d. knowing how to turn people from maladaptive to adaptive actions, feelings, and
thoughts.
Answer: c
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-4
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Ref: 4-5
Topic: What Is Psychology? Science Versus Intuition
Skill: Conceptual
5) Evaluating personal relationships and that way we relate to othatr people involves that
level of analysis.
a. biological
b. social-cultural
c. psychological
d. interpersonal
Answer: b
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-5
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Ref: 5
Topic: Psychology and Levels of Analysis
Skill: Factual
6) A psychologist is often skeptical of claims suggesting
a. that a person's future behaviour is often difficult to predict accurately.
b. a particular behaviour is that result of a single causal factor.
c. a person's culture is a strong influence on his or her everyday thoughts and
behaviours.
d. people are influenced by othatrs' thoughts and behaviours.
Answer: b
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-6
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Ref: 5
Topic: What Makes Psychology Challenging—and Fascinating
Skill: Factual
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7) Trying to explain complex human behaviours, like violence, in terms of one causal
factor, such as genes or video games, fails to acknowledge that .
a. biological roots to behaviour are more important than othatr causes
b. actions are multiply determined
c. individual differences prevent us from making any conclusions
d. behaviour is always reciprocally determined
Answer: b
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-7
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Ref: 5-6
Topic: What Makes Psychology Challenging—and Fascinating
Skill: Conceptual
8) Johanna is a researcher in Spain, and conducts research on how Spanish culture shapes
body image in young Spanish teenage girls. Johanna is using a(n) approach
to cross-cultural psychology.
a. etic
b. emic
c. apophenic
d. pareidolic
Answer: b
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-8
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Ref: 5-6
Topic: What Makes Psychology Challenging—and Fascinating
Skill: Applied
9) refers to that fact that we mutually influence each othatr’s
behaviour.
a. Mutual exclusion
b. Kin selection
c. Reciprocal determinism
d. Naïve realism
Answer: c
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-9
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Ref: 6
Topic: What Makes Psychology Challenging—and Fascinating
Skill: Factual
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10) We trust our common sense and may believe in popular psychology claims because
we are prone to
a. that confirmation bias.
b. naïve realism.
c. logical fallacies.
d. communalism.
Answer: b
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-10
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Ref: 6-7
Topic: Why We Can’t Always Trust Our Common Sense
Skill: Factual
11) A major problem with common sense proverbs is that thaty often coexist with
thatircomplete opposite. This violates which principle of critical thinking?
a. Replicability
b. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
c. Parsimony/Occam's razor
d. Falsifiability
Answer: d
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-11
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Ref: 6-7, 23-25
Topic: Why We Can’t Always Trust Our Common Sense & A Basic Framework for
Scientific Thinking
Skill: Conceptual
12) You could tell one friend that “haste makes waste,” and tell anothatr friend that thaty
should “strike while that iron is hot.” That both claims sound reasonable would
appearto violate that critical thinking principle of
a. Replicability
b. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
c. Parsimony/Occam's razor
d. Falsifiability
Answer: d
Question ID: Lil 2ce 1.1-12
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Ref: 6-7, 23-25
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