1) as you get older, you have fewer (less) _____ during sleep, suggesting that your
brain actively has to work to keep you sleeping.
a.sleep spindles
b.delta waves
c.k-complexes
d.synchronization
2) according to selye, the general adaptation syndrome consists of three stages that
occur in the following order:
a.exhaustion, resistance, alarm
b.resistance, alarm, exhaustion
c.alarm, exhaustion, resistance
d.alarm, resistance, exhaustion
3) in terms of the process of affective forecasting, rationalizing and minimizing are two
strategies that people use to _____ a negative event.
a.avoid thinking about
b.reduce the bad effects of
c.make sense of
d.both b and c
4) palomas parents spent a great deal of time with her when she was growing up; they
always made her feel loved and valued. erhards parents loved him, but they were
always busy and distant. as an adult, who is likely to experience more guilt, and why?
a.erhard, because he never feels sufficiently secure
b.paloma, because she has developed the ability to empathize
c.erhard, because he never feels valued or important
d.paloma, because she feels obligated to repay her parents
5) angie often has relationships that are full of drama, and her emotions in these
relationships range from extremely loving to angry and depressed. other people view
her as intense and unstable. she has been this way since adolescence and probably will
not change much as she ages. her disorder would be diagnosed as:
a.narcissistic personality disorder
b.borderline personality disorder
c.major depressive disorder
d.no diagnosis because these are simply extremes of normal behavior
6) your roommate is an extremely shy person. research suggests that she:
a.probably acquired this disposition during a difficult time in her adolescence
b.displayed signs of inhibition and social distress even as a very young child
c.was raised by parents who provided supportive and calm environments that fostered
her quiet character
d.may have suffered some trauma as an infant
7) gestalt psychology is least relevant to our understanding of which of the following
topics?
a.subjective experience
b.human personality
c.visual perception
d.cellular neuroscience
8) researchers conduct an experiment in which male participants are given a drug that
makes them feel extremely happy. participants in group a are told that they will feel this
way from the drug. participants in group b are not told about the effects of the drug.
after the drug has taken effect, an attractive woman enters the room. according to the
schachter-singer two-factor theory, which group of participants is less likely to feel
attracted to the woman, and why?
a.group a, because they were already happy when they came to the experiment.
b.group a, because they expected positive feelings from the drug.
c.group b, because they identified the positive feelings later.
d.group b, because they were not told about the effects of the drug.
9) temperature, pain, and pressure are components of the _____ sense.
a.olfactory
b.vestibular
c.gustatory
d.haptic
10) temperamental differences in humans are primarily a function of:
a.exposure to different early environments
b.different parenting styles
c.underlying differences in biological processes
d.gender differences
11) in comparing memory processes in young adults versus the elderly, we find that:
a.the elderly are better able to remember things that happened to them yesterday, but
have a more difficult time recalling things from childhood than do young adults
b.the elderly are better at keeping multiple things in mind simultaneously
c.whether the information is positive or negative has a greater impact on recall in the
elderly
d.memory is equal in both groups, but the elderly require more time to recall
information
12) yuko remarks that she is interested in child development and educational
psychology. based on your texts discussion, yukos interests echo the:
a.emphases of confucius
b.writings of da vinci
c.thoughts of greek scholars
d.writings of early muslim thinkers
13) researchers have found that taller people tend to have higher levels of self-esteem
than shorter people. this pattern of data reflects:
a.an inferential statistic
b.a positive correlation
c.measures of central tendency
d.measures of variability