Week 8 · Midterm exam

Midterm Exam — Instructions

Introduction to Psychology Free sample edition

The midterm exam's instructions page, as students read it before they start. The exam's questions and its answer key ship only inside the course's .imscc (Classic QTI); a scored exam's items are not published on this public page.

Overview

This is the scored midterm for Introduction to Psychology. It checks the first half of the course, Weeks 1 to 7, and the five questions those weeks asked. What does psychology study, and how does it know? Where does behavior live? How does the world get in, and what is awareness? How does experience change you, and how do you keep it?

The midterm has 25 questions, and every question counts the same. Most questions ask you to select exactly one option (18 questions). Five ask you to judge a true/false statement, and two ask you to select every applicable option.

Every question practices a skill you have already used in the weekly quizzes, tutorials, and Analysis Workshops. Nothing on the midterm comes from outside Weeks 1 to 7.

Coverage and scope

The midterm covers Weeks 1 to 7 and five of the course objectives. Here is how the 25 questions divide among them:

Psychology as a science (2 questions). Taught in Week 1 and used again in Week 2. Expect behavior versus mental processes, reading a measurement by its mean and median, the field's schools and their founders, the six perspectives, and a theory versus a hypothesis.
Research methods and ethics (4 questions). Taught in Week 2 and used again in Week 3. Expect the three research designs and what each one is allowed to conclude, reading the sign and size of r, correlation versus causation, and reliability versus validity. Expect what a single case study can and cannot claim, and the research ethics rules.
Biological bases of behavior (6 questions). Taught in Week 3 and used again in Weeks 4, 5, and 7. Expect the parts of a neuron, the all-or-none action potential, the synapse, and the major neurotransmitters in "associated with" language. Expect the divisions of the nervous system, the lobes and key brain structures, and the parts of the brain and senses behind perception, sleep, and memory.
Sensation, perception, and consciousness (7 questions). Taught in Weeks 4 and 5. Expect sensation versus perception, the absolute and difference thresholds, sensory adaptation, top-down processing, and depth cues. Expect the circadian rhythm, the sleep stages, the dream theories, and the three drug families.
Learning and memory (6 questions). Taught in Weeks 6 and 7. Expect the labels of classical conditioning, extinction and spontaneous recovery, and the four consequences of operant conditioning, where positive means added and negative means removed. Expect encoding strategies such as the spacing effect, the types of long-term memory, and why memory is reconstructive.

Sensation, perception, and consciousness carry the most questions, with the biological bases and learning and memory close behind, so give those three the most review time. Week 8's "how do we know?" checklist is not scored on its own, but it runs on the Week 2 research-methods ideas the midterm does check.

These notes map the skills the midterm checks. The questions themselves are drawn from the course's question bank and are not listed here.

Instructions

Attempts: one. The midterm is a single scored attempt.
Time limit: there is no time limit. Take the time you need, as long as you submit before the exam closes.
Window: the midterm opens in the Week 8 module and closes at the due time your instructor sets. Start early enough to finish comfortably inside that window.
Navigation: the questions appear one at a time, and once you move on you cannot go back to an earlier question. Settle each one before you click to the next.
Materials: you will not need a calculator; any number a question uses is given in the question itself. Unless your instructor announces otherwise, the midterm is closed-note.
After you submit: Canvas shows your score. The keyed answers stay hidden so the midterm stays fair for every student.

Academic integrity

The midterm is an individual, scored assessment, and it is closed to AI. Do not use a chatbot or any other AI tool, do not get help from another person, and do not share or post the questions during or after your attempt. These rules come from the course syllabus, which explains why: the midterm confirms that you personally understand the concepts, studies, terms, and interpretations.

The honest way to prepare is open to you. The study guide, the practice exam, and the exam-prep tutorial rehearse the same skills with fresh variants, and nothing on them appears on the midterm word for word.

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