1) milo is training for an international chess competition and thinks that if he increases
his brain volume he will do better in the competition. which of the following actions
should milo take to increase his brain volume?
a.reduce the number of hours he watches television
b.go on a vegetarian diet
c.pray
d.exercise
2) dagmar and bjorg have gone down the most demanding ski trail at the resort. back at
the lodge, they suddenly find that their attraction for each other has increased greatly.
this effect is most likely due to:
a.physiological arousal
b.excitation transfer
c.subjective emotional appraisal
d.cognitive analysis
3) mary is being treated for borderline personality disorder (bpd) in an inpatient
treatment center. what will the first stage of treatment generally involve?
a.it will be brief and intense and involve group therapy with other patients who have
bpd.
b.it will involve drug treatment with a mood stabilizer such as lithium and brief
psychodynamic therapy.
c.mary will meet with a cognitive therapist at least twice a week.
d.her therapist will first work to replace her most extreme and dysfunctional behaviors
with more adaptive and effective ways of coping.
4) sam is an adult who is extremely fearful in social situations. if it were possible to do
a brain scan while sam was being introduced to strangers, sams brain would show
heightened activation in the:
a.hippocampus
b.modus tremendum
c.cerebellum
d.amygdala
5) khoury has very little food in his kitchen. rather than inventorying his ingredients
before starting dinner, he considers recipes and looks to see if he has the required
ingredients. khoury is solving the problem of making dinner by:
a.restructuring
b.working backward
c.developing an analogy
d.using an algorithm
6) the main difference between the exemplar model and the prototype model is that the
prototype model is defined by _____ of the category and the exemplar model is defined
by _____ of the category.
a.the best example; all the examples
b.all the examples; the best example
c.the most common example; the best set of examples
d.the best set of examples; the most common example
7) the use of _____ for treating disruptive behavior has not only been without evidence,
but has proven deadly in at least one instance, and is an example of a(n) _____.
a.scream therapy; group therapy technique
b.birth simulation; psychoanalytic therapy
c.scream therapy; projective technique
d.birth simulation; alternative therapy
8) kate has suffered right hemisphere damage. which of the following tasks is least
likely to be affected?
a.achieving feng shui in her living room by rearranging the couch and the tv
b.balancing her checkbook
c.reading that look on her boyfriends face
d.drawing a picture for her niece
9) colt is an excellent quarterback. one skill that contributes to his ability is that he sees
the players not just as individuals, but as units that can be called on to make different
plays. this skill enables him to process the game more efficiently and to hold more
information about the game in his short-term memory. colt is using the memory strategy
of:
a.visualization
b.imaging
c.chunking
d.linking
10) people are especially bad eyewitnesses when:
a.they do not feel confident about their testimony
b.the person who committed the crime is of the same race as the eyewitness
c.they are asked to recall an event that occurred in the real world
d.the person who committed the crime is of a different race than the eyewitness
11) which of the following people would experience the most distress over a stressful
situation?
a.pam, a woman in a happy marriage
b.donna, a single mom of three who works full time
c.alex, a man in a happy marriage with two children
d.gerard, a man in a domestic partnership
12) geoff is trying to remember his shopping list by repeating the items over and over
again to himself. he is using:
a.maintenance rehearsal
b.acoustic rehearsal
c.elaborative rehearsal
d.linkage rehearsal
13) inattention and shallow encoding can often result in _____, which leads to
forgetting.
a.blocking
b.transience
c.absentmindedness
d.all of the above
14) when a researcher cannot manipulate variables in a project on the relationship
between level of education and income, she will be forced to collect naturally occurring
data. the data analysis would probably involve:
a.a correlational analysis
b.descriptive, but not inferential, statistics
c.naturalistic observation
d.selection bias
15) yaakov can be easily bored, so he seeks out situations that increase his excitement
and arousal. he prefers thrilling activities to calm and safe ones. according to research
presented in your textbook, a gene related to _____ regulation may be responsible for
these tendencies.
a.testosterone
b.serotonin
c.dopamine
d.acetylcholine
16) what neuronal process does the nmda receptor facilitate?
a.vesicle release
b.long-term potentiation
c.influx of calcium in terminals
d.protein kinase