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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)