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ANSWER KEY FOR TEST Test 1 Item Summary
1. A
Topic: Chapter Introduction
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 1.
(p. 2)
2. C
Topic: Psychology, Pseudoscience, and Popular Opinion
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 2.
(p. 4)
3. B
Topic: Thinking Critically And Creatively About Psychology
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 3.
(p. 6-11)
4. C
Topic: Psychology's Past: From the Armchair to the Laboratory
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 4.
(p. 13)
5. B
Topic: Psychology's Past: From the Armchair to the Laboratory
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 5.
(p. 14)
6. B
Topic: Three Early Psychologies
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 6.
(p. 16)
7. C
Topic: Three Early Psychologies
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 7.
(p. 16)
8. C
Topic: The Major Psychological Perspectives
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 8.
(p. 18)
9. C
Topic: Two Influential Movements in Psychology
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 9.
(p. 19)
10. A
Topic: Psychological Research Skill: Applied
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 10.
(p. 23)
11. C
Topic: Psychological Research
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 11.
(p. 23)
12. D
Topic: What Psychologists Do
Chapter: 1 QUESTION: 12.
(p. 25-26)
13. A
Topic: Why Study Methodology?
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 13.
(p. 34)
14. B
Topic: What Makes Research Scientific?
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 14.
(p. 35)
15. D
Topic: Case Studies
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 15.
(p. 38)
16. D
Topic: Observational Studies
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 16.
(p. 40)
17. C
Topic: Looking for Relationships Correlational Studies
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 17.
(p. 46)
18. C
Topic: Experimental Variables
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 18.
(p. 48)
19. D
Topic: Experimental and Control Conditions
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 19.
(p. 50)
20. D
Topic: Experimenter Effects
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 20.
(p. 51)
21. D
Topic: Descriptive e Statistics: Finding Out What's So
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 21.
(p. 54)
22. A
Topic: Inferential Statistics Asking "So What?"
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 22.
(p. 55)
23. C
Topic: From the Laboratory to the Real World Interpreting Findings
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 23.
(p. 57)
24. A
Topic: From the Laboratory to the Real World Interpreting Findings
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 24.
(p. 57)
25. B
Topic: Keeping the Enterprise Ethical
Chapter: 2 QUESTION: 25.
(p. 58)
26. C
Topic: Unlocking the Secrets of Genes
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 26.
(p. 67)
27. A
Topic: Unlocking the Secrets of Genes
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 27.
(p. 68)
28. A
Topic: Our Human Heritage The Genetics of Similarity
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 28.
(p. 68)
29. A
Topic: Our Human Heritage The Genetics of Similarity
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 29.
(p. 69)
30. C
Topic: Our Human Heritage The Genetics of Similarity
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 30.
(p. 70)
31. A
Topic: Our Human Heritage The Genetics of Similarity
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 31.
(p. 75)
32. C
Topic: Evolution and Sexual Strategies kill: Applied
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 32.
(p. 77)
33. B
Topic: Courtship and Mating
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 33.
(p. 78)
34. B
Topic: Evolution, Genes, and Behavior
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 34.
(p. 81)
35. A
Topic: The Heritability Hunt
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 35.
(p. 83)
36. B
Topic: Our Human Diversity The Genetics of Difference
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 36.
(p. 86)
37. B
Topic: Origins of Intelligence
Chapter: 3 QUESTION: 37.
(p. 91-92)
38. A
Topic: The Peripheral Nervous System
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 38.
(p. 101)
39. A
Topic: The Peripheral Nervous System
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 39.
(p. 101)
40. C
Topic: The Peripheral Nervous System
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 40.
(p. 101)
41. A
Topic: The Peripheral Nervous System
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 41.
(p. 101-102)
42. C
Topic: The Peripheral Nervous System
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 42.
(p. 102)
43. A
Topic: How Neurons Communicate
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 43.
(p. 107)
44. B
Topic: Chemical Messengers in the Nervous System
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 44.
(p. 108)
45. C
Topic: Chemical Messengers in the Nervous System
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 45.
(p. 111)
46. B
Topic: Eavesdropping on the Brain
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 46.
(p. 114)
47. C
Topic: The Forebrain: Emotions, Memory, and Thought
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 47.
(p. 118)
48. A
Topic: A Question of Dominance
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 48.
(p. 127-128)
49. A
Topic: Where Are Our Thoughts and Memories Stored?
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 49.
(p. 107)
50. A
Topic: Are There "His" and "Hers" Brains?
Chapter: 4 QUESTION: 50.
(p. 131)