1) recall your texts discussion of the cognitive approach in psychology. during which
decade did cognitive neuroscience become an influential field in cognitive psychology?
a.the 1960s
b.the 1970s
c.the 1990s
d.the 2000s
2) individuals suffering from serious anxiety have all of these characteristics except:
a.anxiety has developed through classical conditioning
b.recalling threatening events is easier than recalling nonthreatening events
c.abnormalities are found in the caudate nucleus
d.reduced amygdala activity is experienced
3) learning involves all of the following except:
a.changes in behavior
b.consequences of actions
c.associations between events
d.maturation
4) if a client presents with a diagnosis of epilepsy, this information would be recorded
on which axis of the dsm-iv classification system?
a.axis i
b.axis iii
c.axis v
d.axis ii
5) tolmans work on learning without reinforcement resulted in the theory of:
a.partial-reinforcement learning
b.nonoperant learning
c.latent learning
d.serial positioning
6) one of the negative aspects of treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with
drugs is that:
a.the drugs that treat the disorder may also lead children to develop antisocial behaviors
b.the effects are not maintained over a long period
c.drug treatment depresses the central nervous system and may cause side effects like
overeating
d.the effects are maintained for such a long period that parents worry about irreversible
side effects
7) restrained eaters eat according to:
a.internal hunger cues
b.what they perceive others want them to eat
c.rigid rules
d.relatively random patterns
8) researchers investigated whether mood affects participants ratings of jokes.
participants in the first mood group read sad statements. in the second group,
participants read neutral statements. in this study, the participants who read the sad
statements constituted the:
a.control group
b.population
c.experimental condition
d.observational group
9) erikson argues that most adults are motivated by what he calls generativity. by this he
means that people:
a.wish to be creative
b.wish to produce as much as possible
c.want to give something of themselves to others
d.generate many sentences
10) lashawna has no siblings, and her parents do not smoke. jayda has an older brother
and mother who smoke. who would be more likely to start smoking, and why?
a.lashawna, because her dopamine neurons are more sensitive to nicotine
b.lashawna, because smoking would be a novel and exciting experience
c.jayda, because her family members act as role models for smoking
d.both girls are equally likely to start smoking
11) the illusion of the ames room works because:
a.size is computed from an incorrect estimate of distance
b.distance is inferred from an incorrect assumption about size
c.the conflicting distance cues make a depth determination ambiguous
d.the conflict between size and distance cues is incorrectly resolved
12) you vividly remember what you were doing when you heard about the terrorist
attacks that occurred on september 11, 2001. what you remember is a _____ memory
and is therefore likely to be _____.
a.flashbulb; more accurate than memory for ordinary events
b.true; more accurate than memory for ordinary events
c.false; less accurate than memory for ordinary events
d.flashbulb; as accurate as memory for ordinary events