Something changes in an introductory course once it reaches development, personality, disorders and social behaviour. The questions stop testing whether you can define a term and start testing whether you can apply a theory to a person, or tell two explanations of the same behaviour apart. Psychology: An Introduction, 10th Edition by Benjamin Lahey covers that second half in detail, and students who coasted through the foundation chapters on memorization alone usually meet their first real difficulty here, several weeks before the final.
Why this test bank helps
In the applied chapters the wrong options are not wrong facts, they are the right facts belonging to a different theory, so an answer without an explanation leaves you no better prepared than before. Each rationale in this set names the theory or process being tested, says what identifies it in the scenario, and attributes the distractors to the accounts they came from. That is how a wall of competing perspectives becomes something you can navigate under time pressure.
What’s inside
- Questions ordered to the book chapter by chapter, covering the survey from methods through social psychology.
- Definitional, conceptual and scenario-based items, weighted toward application in the later chapters.
- A written rationale under every question that attributes each option to its theory or process.
- Full coverage of the personality, disorders, therapy and social chapters that close the course.
- A single organized PDF, downloadable the moment checkout completes.
Topics covered
- Developmental psychology — prenatal influences, Piagetian stages, attachment, adolescence and adult development.
- Motivation and emotion — hunger and sexual motivation, achievement motivation, and the major theories of emotion.
- Personality theories and assessment — psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait and social learning accounts; inventories against projective methods.
- Stress, coping and health psychology — stressors, the general adaptation syndrome, personality and health, and coping resources.
- Psychological disorders — anxiety, mood, somatic symptom, dissociative, schizophrenic and personality disorder categories.
- Therapies — psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive and behavioural therapy, biomedical treatment and outcome research.
- Social psychology — attitudes and persuasion, attribution, conformity and obedience, group processes, aggression and attraction.
- Foundations carried forward — research methods, biological bases, learning and memory as they are applied in the later chapters.
Who it’s for
Students taking introductory or general psychology from this specific edition — first-year majors and students meeting a general education requirement whose course is still set against the 10th Edition rather than a later printing.
How to use it (the right way)
Read the chapter, then attempt a block of questions closed-book and score it before consulting anything. Read every rationale, and for the applied items write down which theory each distractor belonged to, since that is the map the later examinations are testing. This is a study aid. Use it in line with your institution’s academic-integrity policy — for revision and self-testing, never as a replacement for the coursework or as material taken into a graded assessment.
Sample question (shows the format — your download contains the full set)
Q. A driver cuts you off in traffic and you immediately conclude he is a selfish person. Later that week you cut someone off yourself, and explain it by the fact that you were late for a hospital appointment. Which pair of biases does this illustrate?
- A. The fundamental attribution error together with the actor-observer effect
- B. The just-world hypothesis together with cognitive dissonance
- C. Groupthink together with social loafing
- D. The mere exposure effect together with the halo effect
Answer: A. Explaining another person’s behaviour by disposition while underweighting his situation is the fundamental attribution error, and the reversal when you explain your own behaviour situationally is the actor-observer effect. B pairs a belief that people get what they deserve with the discomfort of inconsistent cognitions, neither of which the scenario describes. C names two group phenomena, and no group is involved. D refers to liking through familiarity and to one trait colouring overall impressions, which do not fit either half of the example.
Edition & format
- Matches: Psychology: An Introduction, 10th Edition, by Benjamin Lahey (ISBN 9780073531984).
- Format: Digital PDF, delivered instantly after checkout.
- Access: Lifetime — re-download from your account whenever you need it.
Chapter numbering and examples differ between the 10th Edition and later printings. Please confirm the edition and ISBN above match your assigned book before you buy.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the current edition? This set is prepared against the 10th Edition specifically. If your syllabus lists the 11th or another edition, choose that listing instead, because chapter numbering and content coverage shift.
How do I receive it? Immediately, and entirely online. The PDF is attached to your order the second checkout finishes, so you can start using it the same evening.
Do all the questions include rationales? Yes — the rationale is the point of the set. Without it a question tells you only whether you were right, which is the least useful thing it could tell you.
Is using a test bank allowed? It is intended as preparation, in the same category as a study guide. Keep within your institution’s academic-integrity policy and keep it out of any graded assessment.
More titles for this course are in Psychology Test Banks.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.