1) if your house was selectively permeable like a neuron, which of the following
situations would be most likely?
a.everyone would be welcome to enter.
b.all the doors would be open.
c.only certain people would be allowed inside.
d.no one would be allowed to leave.
2) pavati is a competitive gymnast and has made it to the final round of the olympic
trials. she is intensely motivated to perform at her absolute peak. given your knowledge
of the effects of arousal on performance, you might advise her that she should _____,
because _____.
a.calm down; very high arousal can hurt her performance
b.calm down; she will lose focus and hurt her performance
c.stay intensely motivated; very high arousal will help her performance
d.stay intensely motivated; it will increase her focus and help her performance
3) damage to the frontal lobes and limbic system can cause the dissociation of a visual
image from the associated emotional content. this problem is thought to be the cause of:
a.tasacks syndrome
b.capgras syndrome
c.tourettes syndrome
d.korsakoffs syndrome
4) when mandy and joe meet, joe tells her that he loves math and computers and his
favorite hobbies have always involved building things. mandy concludes that joe must
be an engineering student rather than a liberal arts student, even though there are many
more liberal arts than engineering students at their school. mandy is using the _____
heuristic and ignoring _____.
a.representativeness; base rates
b.availability; base rates
c.representativeness; subjective likelihood
d.availability; subjective likelihood
5) which of the following personality disorders belong to the same group?
a.histrionic, paranoid, and obsessive-compulsive
b.avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive
c.paranoid, dependent, and obsessive compulsive
d.antisocial, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive
6) the average result on an iq test is assigned the value of 100. all other test results are
assigned scores based on their distance from that average score. this method means that
iq scores measure:
a.absolute intelligence
b.absolute differences in intelligence
c.ranked orders of intelligence
d.relative differences in intelligence
7) across a number of anxiety disorders, drug therapy:
a.has been found effective and is the treatment of choice
b.works in the short term, but can result in relapse when the drug is discontinued
c.has more negative side effects than when used to treat other disorders
d.is not effective because anxiety disorders are more mental than biological
8) james is very low in eysencks personality trait of psychoticism. thus you would
expect him also to be:
a.somewhat cynical
b.moderately impulsive
c.a caring person
d.very outgoing
9) as a participant in a memory experiment, shamithia has been given a list of words:
candy, sugar, tart, pie, and honey. when she is later asked to recall the words on this list,
shamithia incorrectly recalls one of the words. which of the following words is she most
likely to falsely recall?
a.sweet
b.cake
c.bee
d.tort
10) according to research on the cognitive effects of meditation, which of the following
statements is not correct?
a.meditation may improve attention and reduce stress.
b.long-term practicing of meditation may result in structural brain changes.
c.meditation may delay age-related cognitive declines.
d.meditation is identical to hypnosis.
11) tameri and khai have found a house to buy that they really like. the day they found
it, they had been having a wonderful time house hunting and planning their life
together. a few days later, after having had a miserable day at work, khai goes back to
look at the house again. you could predict that khai will like the house:
a.more because it will remind him of tameri
b.more because of belief persistence
c.less because of his bad day at work
d.less because his second look will be more objective
12) what is the name of the drug taken by women in the late 1950s and early 1960s to
ease morning sickness and later found to produce birth defects (e.g., limb deformities)?
a.thorazine
b.imipramine
c.ethanol
d.thalodimide
13) according to the learned helplessness model of depression, people:
a.think they have no control over the outcomes they experience
b.attribute outcomes to situational factors that are both specific and temporary
c.explain negative events as a result of their own negative personality traits
d.make errors in logic when explaining outcomes they have experienced
14) if a trait is a single concept, then personality is:
a.a collection of concepts
b.an element of a general concept
c.the opposite of a concept
d.something entirely different from the concept
15) in a group of adolescents, approximately _____ can be expected to suffer from
depression at any particular time.
a.5 percent
b.15 percent
c.20 percent
d.25 percent