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5 STEPS TO A

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LAUREN WILLIAMS has a bachelors degree in history and psychology and a masters degree in
social studies education. She has been a teacher in New York City for 12 years, having taught advanced
placement psychology for nine years. She is currently working toward a second masters degree in
counseling.

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CONTENTS
Introduction

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Chapter 1 Schools of Thought

Questions 120

Chapter 2 Research Methods 7

Questions 2130

Chapter 3 The Brain

11

Questions 3150

Chapter 4 Neuroscience 17
Questions 5160

Chapter 5 Sensation and Perception 21

Questions 6180

Chapter 6 Consciousness, Sleep, and Dreams 27

Questions 81110

Chapter 7 Drugs and Hypnosis 35

Questions 111130

Chapter 8 Classical Conditioning 41

Questions 131150

Chapter 9 Operant Conditioning and Cognitive Learning 47

Questions 151175

Chapter 10 Memory

55

Questions 176195

Chapter 11 Remembering and Forgetting 61

Questions 196215

Chapter 12 Intelligence and Testing 67

Questions 216240

Chapter 13 Thought and Language

75

Questions 241265

Chapter 14 Motivation 83
Questions 266285

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Chapter 15 Emotion 89
Questions 286310

Chapter 16 Developmental Psychology:

Infancy and Childhood 95
Questions 311335

Chapter 17 Developmental Psychology:

Adolescence and Adulthood 101
Questions 336355

Chapter 18 Developmental Psychology:

Death and Dying 107
Questions 356360

Chapter 19 Freudian Psychology 109

Questions 361380

Chapter 20 Personality Psychology 115

Questions 381400

Chapter 21 Stress and Coping 121

Questions 401415

Chapter 22 Disorders 125

Questions 416435

Chapter 23 Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia 131

Questions 436455

Chapter 24 Therapies

137

Questions 456475

Chapter 25 Social Psychology

Questions 476500

Answers

149

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Schools of Thought
1. Jill wants to study the process of thinking. Which field of psychology
should she choose?
(A) Cognitive
(B) Social
(C) Personality
(D) Learning
(E) Perception
2. I believe people choose to live meaningful lives. I share many of the same
beliefs as Carl Rogers. Most important, I believe many people have the
ability to reach self-actualization. Who am I?
(A) Wertheimer
(B) Skinner
(C) Maslow
(D) Terman
(E) Seligman
3. Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?
(A) John Watson
(B) William James
(C) Ivan Pavlov
(D) Max Wertheimer
(E) Sigmund Freud
4. Which of the following psychologists wrote The Principles of Psychology?
(A) William James
(B) Wilhelm Wundt
(C) John Watson
(D) Sigmund Freud
(E) Max Wertheimer