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Multiple Choice Questions - (26)

Learning Outcome: 01-01 Define success. - (5)

True/False Questions - (9)

Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy. - (7)

Short Answer Questions - (8)

Learning Outcome: 01-03 Define psychology and cite its four major goals. - (4)

Odd Numbered - (22)

Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions. - (7)

Even Numbered - (21)

Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity. - (9)

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation - (35)

Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity. - (11)

Blooms: Apply - (4)

Topic: Understanding Psychology - (11)

Blooms: Remember - (28)

Topic: What is Success? - (12)

Blooms: Understand - (11)

Topic: You and Your Social World - (11)

Difficulty: 1 Easy - (28)

Topic: Your Inner Self - (9)

Difficulty: 2 Medium - (15)

1. According to the text, success means a lifetime of _____________.
using the resources around you
overcoming challenges
→ personal fulfillment
rewards for your work

Multiple Choice Question
2. Which of the following is one of the ingredients of success?
→ Self-esteem
Personal wealth
Self-deprecation
Risk-taking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-01 Define success.
Topic: What is Success?

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-01 Define success.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: What is Success?
3. Yesterday, your college roommate, Sandra, showed you her personal goal journal. It listed her ultimate career goal, the
steps she planned to take to get there, and the contacts she needed to make in order to help her along the way. She had
already checked off two goals on her list. This journal most closely reflects which of Sandra's traits?
Self-awareness
Positive thinking
Self-discipline
→ Self-direction
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: 2 Medium

Learning Outcome: 01-01 Define success.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: What is Success?
4. In the text, a ___________ is defined as a person who has the qualities you would like to have.
CEO
hero
true idol
→ role model
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-01 Define success.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: What is Success?
5. According to the text, _______ is a state of well-being that comes from having a positive evaluation of your life.
success
→ happiness
enlightenment
positive thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: What is Success?
6. ______________ is a personal quality representing the ability to feel interest and excitement in something and turn it into
your life's work.

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Persistence
Work ethic
Creative thinking
Vocation

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: What is Success?
7. Evelyn is striving to develop qualities that will help boost her happiness. She is especially concerned with developing her
ability to challenge herself and to think outside the box. She is working on the qualities of ________ and ______.
work ethic; aesthetic sensibility
→ courage; creative thinking
optimism; emotional awareness
self-esteem; wisdom

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: What is Success?
8. According to the text, _________ is the scientific study of human behavior.
anthropology

sociology
→ psychology
biology
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-03 Define psychology and cite its four major goals.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Understanding Psychology
9. The four major goals of psychology are to describe, ___________, explain, and (sometimes) change human behavior.
analyze
rationalize
perceive
→ predict
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-03 Define psychology and cite its four major goals.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Understanding Psychology
10. Which of the four goals of psychology would a clinical psychologist most likely be interested in?
Description
Prediction
Explanation
→ Change
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-03 Define psychology and cite its four major goals.
Multiple Choice Question

Topic: Understanding Psychology
11. Which of the following regulates your thoughts, feelings, and actions?
→ Nervous system
Conscious mind
Cerebellum
Cognitive system
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Understanding Psychology
12. Another word for thought is ___________, which refers to the functions of processing information around us.
consciousness
perception
→ cognition
remembering

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Multiple Choice Question

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions.
Topic: Understanding Psychology
13. According to the text, ___________ are subjective feelings accompanied by physical and behavioral changes.

actions
→ emotions
thoughts
sensations
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Understanding Psychology
14. Which of the following emotions would be considered a more intense version of contentment?
Passion
Interest
→ Joy
Desire
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Understanding Psychology
15. Your _________ is comprised of all the beliefs you have about yourself.
→ self-image
personality
inner self
self-esteem
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.

Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
16. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a healthy self-image?
Positive
Complex
→ Future-based
Realistic
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
17. How you choose to define yourself to the world is called your ________.
social role
→ identity
self-presentation
self-image
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
18. Josh has an interview for a position as a manager at a local sporting goods store. He doesn't have strong customer service
and leadership skills or experience, but he wants to make a good impression and be offered the job. In the interview, he
represents himself as a people-person with a natural talent for managing others. What does his interview behavior
represent?
Self-preservation
Individual identity

A social role
→ Self-presentation
Multiple Choice Question

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: 2 Medium

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Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
Topic: Your Inner Self
19. Most psychologists agree that individual identity is made up of individual identity, collective identity, and _________.
→ relational identity
emotional identity
relative identity
social identity
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
20. The physical and psychological characteristics that distinguish you from others are known as __________.
self-presentation
→ individual identity
collective identity
natural exclusion

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
21. Which of the following is an element of your collective identity?
Role as a son
Age
→ Social class
Interest in sculpture
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
22. When asked to describe himself, Grant said that he was the proud father of two girls, who were both highly accomplished
competitive skiers. Which element of identity is Grant reflecting here?
Individual identity
Collective identity
→ Relational Identity
Cultural identity
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
23. The behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large social group and transmitted from one generation to the

next are known as ____________.
social identity
→ culture
collective identity
customs
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
24. Which one of the following would most likely be part of the cultural identity of someone who grew up in Japan?
Independence
Risk taking
Competition
→ Obedience
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
25. _________ refers to an aspect of culture that is the set of characteristics used to define male and female.
→ Gender

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Sex

Gender bias
Sex role
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
26. Mr. Cole is a kindergarten teacher. Today at school he gave Rebecca a gold star for helping to clean up the classroom toys;
punished Cynthia for yelling at Richard, who threw her doll across the room; and put Allan in time-out for crying when he
was hurt while wrestling with another boy. Mr. Cole is reinforcing _____________ among these students.
individual identity
→ gender roles
class bias
self-presentation
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Multiple Choice Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
27. Success has the same definition to people from impoverished third-world nations as it does to those from industrialized
nations.
True
→ False
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True / False Question
28. Physical attractiveness and wealth have little effect on long-term happiness.
→ True
False

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-01 Define success.
Topic: What is Success?

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy.
True / False Question
Topic: What is Success?
29. You cannot raise your level of happiness.
True
→ False
You can always seek out opportunities to increase happiness.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy.
True / False Question
Topic: What is Success?
30. Negative emotions demand stronger focus and energy.

→ True
False
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions.
True / False Question
Topic: Understanding Psychology
31. We are born with a sense of self.
True
→ False
We are not born with a sense of self. It develops over time, based on repeated inputs from our environment.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
True / False Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
32. A healthy self-image is positive, optimistic, and not too complex.
True
False

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A healthy self-image is positive, but realistic, and is also complex.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember

Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
True / False Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
33. People with complex self-images have more than one positive aspect of their lives to take pride in.
→ True
False
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
True / False Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
34. Western cultures usually value individual goals over group goals.
→ True
False

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
True / False Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
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35. Research suggests that it is healthiest to possess either stereotypically masculine or stereotypically feminine qualities.
True
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It is healthiest to have a combination of stereotypically masculine and feminine qualities. A combination of traits leads to
more versatility in dealing with different situations.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
True / False Question
Topic: You and Your Social World
36. Why doesn't winning the lottery or becoming an overnight success definitively mean you will achieve long-term
happiness?

Explanation:

Studies show that a year or so after big changes like this, your happiness level is likely to return to where it was the
previous year.
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy.
Short Answer Question
Topic: What is Success?
37. Explain the difference between the personal qualities of future-mindedness and persistence for creating happiness.

Explanation:

Future-mindedness allows one to focus on the possibilities of the future, rather than dwelling on the mistakes or
disappointments of the past, while persistence is the ability to persevere in the face of those setbacks and disappointments
in order to keep on track and avoid stress.
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-02 List several personal qualities that help people to be happy.
Short Answer Question
Topic: What is Success?
38. Explain why psychologists study observable behaviors to learn about people.

Explanation:

Psychologists cannot directly measure what people think or how they feel, so they must rely on their observable actions
and words to understand them.
Short Answer Question

Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium

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Learning Outcome: 01-03 Define psychology and cite its four major goals.
Topic: Understanding Psychology
39. Explain what is meant by the range of emotions.

Explanation:

Emotions can range from extremely negative to extremely positive, or they can be more neutral.

Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions.
Short Answer Question
Topic: Understanding Psychology
40. Explain how the action of completing your schoolwork on time can influence your feelings and thoughts.

Explanation:

Getting your work finished on time can make you feel pleased with yourself and elicit positive thinking about repeating
this behavior to achieve success.
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-04 Explain the relationship between thoughts; feelings; and actions.
Short Answer Question
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41. Explain the influence of perception on the formation of your sense of self.

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Our sense of self is formed by our experiences, and our experiences are influenced by perception. Our perceptions are not
necessarily the same as reality, so our sense of self may miss the mark.
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
Short Answer Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
42. Why is it important to have a realistic viewpoint concerning your self-image?

Explanation:

People with a realistic self-image understand their strengths and weaknesses. They aren't bothered by their weaknesses
though, because they know that their strengths outweigh them.
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-05 Define self; self-image; and identity.
Short Answer Question
Topic: Your Inner Self
43. Explain the difference between relational and collective identity.

Explanation:

Relational identity refers to how we identify ourselves in relation to the important people in our lives, while collective
identity is concerned with the social groups we belong to.

Short Answer Question

Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Outcome: 01-06 Describe the components of identity.
Topic: You and Your Social World

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