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1) if dr. arzun is using the biopsychosocial model as a frame of reference for
understanding heart disease, she will be most likely to recommend which of the
following for a patient with heart disease?
a.medication
b.exercise
c.stress reduction
d.all of the above
2) in this condition, people are unable to distinguish one face from another, but they can
recognize other objects.
a.prosopagnosia
b.fusiform gyrus
c.monocular disparity
d.binocular disparity
3) sharita looks at her professor and then shifts her gaze to the screen behind her
professor. as she does this, her lens is becoming _____ through the process of _____.
a.thinner; accommodation
b.thicker; accommodation
c.thinner; refraction
d.thicker; refraction
4) the major benefit of _____ for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is
_____.
a.client-centered group therapy; social support
b.ritalin; incremental improvement that increases over time
c.behavior therapy; more long-lasting outcomes than medication alone
d.cognitive therapy; greater academic success
5) when rhuju walks past the chemistry building, she remembers that she has a lab
report due the next day. the chemistry building served as a _____ that _____ triggered
her prospective memory.
a.priming stimulus; automatically
b.priming stimulus; consciously
c.retrieval cue; automatically
d.retrieval cue; consciously
6) an extensive study of a single person or a few people is characteristic of:
a.self-report research
b.case studies
c.the scientific method
d.psychophysiological assessment
7) jonas and yitzhak both have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and have recently
been given two different kinds of treatment. jonas is taking ritalin, and yitzhak is being
treated with behavioral therapy. in three years, the boys will be tested for symptoms of
the disorder. what are the most likely outcomes?
a.the outcomes will be similar; both boys will show a significant reduction in
symptoms.
b.the outcomes will be similar at first, but jonas is more likely to drop out of therapy
due to the significant side effects.
c.yitzhak will show slow improvement, and after three years he will have fewer
symptoms than jonas.
d.yitzhak will experience significant improvement at first, but jonas will have fewer
symptoms after three years.
8) martas parents and older siblings have encouraged her to become a doctor or a
lawyer, but she would like to be an artist. which of these theorists would most clearly be
in favor of martas following her dream of becoming an artist?
a.shinobu kitayama
b.sigmund freud
c.walter mischel
d.carl rogers
9) in which of the following types of study do researchers examine the extent to which
variables are naturally related in the real world? that is, there is no attempt by the
researcher to influence the relation among the variables.
a.descriptive study
b.case study
c.experimental study
d.correlational study
10) which of the following people is experiencing flow?
a.jill, as she commutes to work daily
b.peter, who feels euphoric while running 7 miles
c.linda, who enjoys shopping at the mall
d.chris, as he washes his car
11) in eysencks theory, psychoticism means:
a.being criminally insane
b.showing empathy in inappropriate situations
c.showing dramatic mood swings
d.being impulsive and self-centered
12) morwenna has always been overweight and ammon has always been thin. if they
both look at pictures of food, a brain scan is likely to show that morwenna has _____
than ammon.
a.more activity in the limbic system
b.less activity in the limbic system
c.more activity in the ventromedial hypothalamus
d.less activity in the ventromedial hypothalamus
13) what type of reward schedule extinguishes the fastest?
a.partial reinforcement
b.variable ratio
c.continuous reinforcement
d.fixed interval
