PSYC 1001 EFG. Come to the PASS workshop with your mock exam complete. During the workshop you can work with other students to review your work.

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1 It is most beneficial to you to write this mock midterm UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS. This means: Complete the midterm in 50 mins Work on your own. Keep your notes and textbook closed. Attempt every question. After the time limit, go back over your work with a different colour or on a separate piece of paper and try to do the questions you are unsure of. Record your ideas in the margins to remind yourself of what you were thinking when you take it up at PASS. The purpose of this mock exam is to give you practice answering questions in a timed setting and to help you to gauge which aspects of the course content you know well and which are in need of further development and review. Use this mock exam as a learning tool in preparing for the actual exam. Please note: Come to the PASS workshop with your mock exam complete. During the workshop you can work with other students to review your work. Often, there is not enough time to review the entire exam in the PASS workshop. Decide which questions you most want to review the Facilitator may ask students to vote on which questions they want to discuss in detail. Facilitators do not bring copies of the mock exam to the session. Please print out and complete the exam before you attend. Facilitators do not produce or distribute an answer key for mock exams. Facilitators help students to work together to compare and assess the answers they have. If you are not able to attend the PASS workshop, you can work alone or with others in the class. Good Luck writing the Mock Exam!! Dates and locations of mock exam take-up: Wednesday, September 27 th 6:00pm 7:30pm in Richcraft Hall Room 2200 Thursday, September 28 th 6:00pm 7:30pm in Azrieli Theatre Room 101

2 1. Which of the following measures variability? a) Mode b) Linear regression c) Mean d) Standard deviation e) Only a) and c) 2. Sandy is in the field of developmental psychology and is exploring why people play sports. Which of the following would best describe her perspective? a) Playing sports is the result of the person you are, based on your certain personality traits. b) Playing sports is a form of therapy and may treat mental health associated illnesses. c) Playing sports is an act that changes across a lifespan. d) Playing is essential for overall health and contributes to well-being. e) None of the above. 3. In psychology studies, it may be necessary to use deception. This may involve: a) Participants being paid to be part of the study. b) Participants are not aware of being part of the study. c) Participants are asked to purposely perform poorly in the study, d) Participants unknowingly receive a placebo. 4. Which of the following is NOT true about the Attributional Retraining studies? a) It is based off a theory of motivation. b) The experimental group is not manipulated. c) The study outcomes may lead to ways in which we can alter how students think about their academic success and failures. d) Attributional retraining and academic success are positively correlated. 5. Ron Weasley, a first-year psychology student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry believes that the mind and body are two distinct entities that communicate via a small structure at the base of the brain. Which philosopher would Ron most likely enjoy speaking the most with? a) B.F. Skinner b) Aristotle c) Karl Marx d) Rene Descartes e) None of the above.

3 6. Which of the following is most useful in establishing cause-and-effect relationships? a) A complete census. b) A controlled experiment. c) A professionally designed and well-conducted online survey. d) A naturalistic observation. e) All of the above. 7. You want to study whether caffeine improves student s performance on an exam. You divide the students into two groups. Group A receives caffeine the morning of the exam, while Group B does not. You form a hypothesis that Group A will perform better due to their high alertness caused by the caffeine. However, your results are not following your predicted trend. You notice that amount of sleep played a role in how the students performed, regardless of being caffeinated or not. Amount of sleep is a) The independent variable. b) The control. c) The confounding variable. d) Counterbalancing e) Both c) and d) 8. It has been said that there is a relation between the number of hours a student studies and their academic performance. Psychologists want to examine this effect specifically in University students at Carleton. Subjects are asked to study a given certain number of hours prior to an exam. The researchers record exam performance for each student and notice a positive correlation between the two variables. Which graph would most likely be related to this study? a) c) b) d)

4 9. Harry Potter conducted a study and on how well people in Griffindore performed in the potion class. The mode of the class results was 97. Which of these interpretations must be correct? a) Nobody in the class scored below a 50. b) 97 was the highest score c) 10 people scored 97. d) None of the above. 10. Dr. Brown is using cutting edge research findings when dealing with his patients. From the works of Dr. Red and Dr. Blue, where they did extensive research on bed side manner with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, Dr. Browns implementation of this research has made a great difference. Which field of psychology are these doctors in? a) Dr. Brown: Research, Dr. Blue: Research, Dr. Red: Research b) Dr. Blue: Applied, Dr. Brown: Research, Dr. Red: Research c) Dr. Brown: Applied, Dr. Blue: Research, Dr. Red: Applied d) Dr. Brown: Applied, Dr. Red: Research, Dr. Blue: Research 11. Hermione Granger is trying to decide which field of psychology to further study in. She is particularly interested in looking at how traumatic brain injury interferes with people s daily living. You would suggest her to explore a) Health Psychology b) Clinical Neuropsychology c) Physiological Psychology d) Behavioural Psychology 12. Kim Peek was an autistic savant who had astonishing memory capacity. He could quickly and correctly memorize encyclopedic knowledge of history, literature and classical music. Although Peek struggled with conceptual thinking and had many other issues, he has been a true inspiration to many around the world and excellent source of knowledge for psychologists. Somebody studying the psychology of Peek s life is most likely interested in a) Experimental research b) Cause and effect c) Case studies d) Observation and measurement

5 13. A group of researchers get together and decide to find a new way to test intelligence. They generate a standardized evaluation and begin to test it on university students. Each participant is asked to take the test 5 times within a span of 8 years. It is predicted that those who perform well on the test also do well in their future academic endeavours. The results show that although the participants score the same/similar every time, the predicted correlation does not remain true. What does this mean? a) The test is not valid, nor is it reliable. b) The test is valid and reliable. c) The test is only valid. d) The test is only reliable. 14. A completely counterbalanced design deals with order effects by: a) Eliminating them b) Reducing them to a more reasonable number. c) Averaging them out across treatments. d) a) and b) 15. A recent study conducted at Hogwarts by the house of Slytherin, had to get revaluated because it was noted that there was a significant amount of experimenter bias. The experimenter/participant were always aware of which group they were observing/participating in. The study probably should ve considered doing: a) Double blind b) Random assignment c) Control d) None of the above 16. The scientific method is a) Measurable evidence b) An example of empiricism c) A body of techniques to investigate a phenomenon to acquire new knowledge d) All of the above 17. What is the best definition of a theory in psychology? a) A theory is a hypothesis. b) A theory explains a phenomenon in nature via a comprehensive set of ideas. c) A theory is an educated guess about something that has occurred in nature. d) A theory is a law that must be followed and never be questioned.

6 18. Why do psychologists develop a hypothesis before conducting research? a) A hypothesis predicts outcomes and defines the parameters of the study and your research. b) Hypotheses organize your thoughts and is the reason why you can interpret your results. c) Hypotheses help a researcher decide which results are worth paying attention and which are not. d) A hypothesis gives you direction and guarantees success in the research study. 19. Why is random assignment important? a) It allows for the study to run within a certain time frame without wasting any time. b) The use of chance procedures ensures that every participant has the same opportunity. c) It enables a double-blind study to take place. d) Random assignment ensures that only some participants get to be part of every group, which allows for more accurate results. 20. Which of the following statements would Sigmund Freud NOT have said? a) Free will is an illusion. b) The unconscious determines our behaviour. c) Early childhood experiences have the potential to govern our personality and our lives as adults. d) The psychoanalytic perspective of psychology is truly the best form. 21. Which correlation coefficient indicates the weakest relationship between two variables? a) -1 b) 0.8 c) 0.9 d) Which of the following would most likely produce example of selection bias? a) Conducting interviews via telephone instead of in person. b) Only receiving responses from half of the people in sample. c) Using a random sample of students at a university to estimate the proportion of people who think the legal drinking age should be lowered. d) All of the above. 23. The Darley and Latane study gave a potential reason as to why the events during Kitty Genovese s murder in 1964 happened the way it did. The experiment these two social psychologists conducted gave rise to what theory? a) The bystander effect b) Diffusion of responsibility c) Observer effect d) All of the above e) Only a) and b)

7 24. A classroom has 100 students, of those 100 students, 40% are humanists, 20% are dualists, 20% are animalists and 20% are empiricists. This presentation of information falls under what category of statistics? a) Inferential b) Qualitative c) Descriptive d) Correlational 25. What were the dependent variables in the Featured study on Sexual Attraction? a) Degree of sexual imagery and the proportion of participants who cross each bridge who called the confederate later. b) The number of people crossing the bridge. c) The degree of sexual imagery and the proportion of participants who cross the low bridge. d) The degree of sexual imagery and the proportion of participants who cross the high bridge. 26. The difference between educational and cognitive psychology? a) Educational looks at the educational process as a whole, and studies how people learn and ways to implement that in the education system, while cognitive examines different parts of the brain. b) Educational looks at the educational process as a whole, and studies how people learn and ways to implement that in the education system, while cognitive focuses on lower mental processed like memory, reasoning, decision making a creativity. c) Educational looks at the educational process as a whole, and studies how people learn and ways to implement that in the education system, while cognitive focuses on higher mental processed like memory, reasoning, decision making a creativity. d) They are both the same. 27. Bullying is a) A social phenomenon with most episodes involving females and males. b) A social construct with most episodes involving females. c) A social phenomenon with most episodes involving peers. d) A social construct with most episodes involving peers. 28. This human-made part of the environment has exerted considerable influence over behaviour and gives rise to the sociohistorical context of humans: a) Cultural heritage b) Social cues c) Social media d) All of the above.

8 29. One of the difficulties in investigating the effects of drugs on consciousness is that individuals tend to have different experiences with a given drug because of their expectations. This is an example of what major theme in psychology? a) Psychology is empirical. b) Psychology is consciousness. c) Behaviour is determined by multiple causes. d) People s experience of the world is highly subjective. 30. To become a practicing psychiatrist, you must complete: a) Ph.D b) M.Sc c) M.D. d) B.Sc and Ph.D 26) In drug treatment 26) In drug treatment