1) orianna wants to ask her boyfriend to go to her familys house for thanksgiving. the
night she is going to ask him, she invites him to her place, where she cooks his favorite
meal, plays his favorite music, and wears his favorite dress. she is hoping that he will
agree to her thanksgiving plans if he is:
a.grateful to her for her efforts
b.very attracted to her
c.in a good mood
d.feeling guilty
2) the optic nerve is composed of axons of:
a.rods and cones
b.bipolar cells
c.ganglion cells
d.foveal cells
3) our perception of _____ is unusual in that it does not involve the thalamus.
a.taste
b.balance
c.smell
d.pain
4) peter is a very precocious 4-year-old. he is already starting to read and has the
vocabulary of a 10-year-old. peters parents are very academic. their house is filled with
books and intellectual conversation. what is the most reasonable conclusion about the
source of peters high intelligence?
a.he inherited the genes for high intelligence from his parents.
b.his parents provided the stimulation needed to develop high intelligence.
c.his intelligence resulted from an interaction of genes and environment.
d.either genes or the environment could be the causal factor for his high intelligence.
5) passionate love is characterized by:
a.strong commitment to caring for and supporting your partner
b.evolving in a relationship
c.intense longing and sexual desire
d.all of the above
6) confabulation means:
a.making things up any time an answer is not known
b.making things up when asked about personal experiences
c.making things up when asked about general knowledge
d.amnesia
7) layla wants to teach a mouse to put half its food in a small box. its reward will be to
get twice as much food later. why will this be difficult?
a.mice are not responsive to positive reinforcement.
b.it will not be difficult; any animal can be trained to do this.
c.layla would need to select a special breed of mouse.
d.evolutionary adaptations make the mouse want to keep all its food.
8) frank feels that he is more valuable and more special than people around him. he is
also more focused on his own needs than on the needs of anyone else, and he feels
angry when someone asks him for help. frank has:
a.no self-esteem
b.low self-esteem, which he is trying to protect by pretending to be special
c.a narcissistic personality
d.multiple personality disorder
9) a friend reports that he is constructing a fear hierarchy regarding his fear of heights
for use in his next therapy session. he is suffering from:
a.hallucinations related to schizophrenia
b.obsessive-compulsive disorder
c.depression
d.a phobia
10) jacob has clear symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, namely,
difficulty with paying attention and lack of behavioral control. jacobs behavior
resembles that of people with damage to which of the following brain areas?
a.the amygdala
b.the hippocampus
c.the hypothalamus
d.the frontal lobes
11) jane owns a consulting firm and has three employees. which person should jane
recommend for a job that demands good people skills?
a.the type a person because she will be highly extroverted
b.the type b person because she will be accommodating and relaxed
c.the type c person because she will be highly motivated to help others
d.the mixed-personality type person because she will be the most flexible
12) a presidential candidates acceptance speech at the party convention greatly
influences many voters views on the candidate. which of the following people was most
likely to have a more favorable opinion of then senator obama after his speech at the
2008 democratic national convention?
a.zora, who had been an obama supporter since he announced his candidacy for
president
b.yancey, who is a fervent democrat but does not know much about obama
c.xenia, who only became a obama supporter after hillary clinton dropped out of the
presidential race
d.will, who was a mccain supporter but intensely disliked his negative campaign
13) which of the following factors is not an advantage of group therapy?
a.practice using new interpersonal behaviors
b.cost
c.lack of need for a trained therapist
d.increasing insight
14) lashleys idea that memory is distributed throughout the brain is contradicted by the
idea of:
a.equipotentiality
b.consolidation
c.fire together, wire together
d.concurrent storage
15) an instructor looking at her class is also looking at:
a.stereotypes
b.archetypes
c.genotypes
d.phenotypes
16) a convincing piece of evidence for the idea that positive emotions and negative
emotions are independent is that positive emotions involve _____ and negative
emotions involve _____.
a.increases in norepinephrine; increases in dopamine
b.increases in dopamine; increases in norepinephrine
c.increases in dopamine; decreases in norepinephrine
d.decreases in norepinephrine; decreases in dopamine
17) recent mri studies have found that about _____ of the variability among people in
intelligence is accounted for by brain volume.
a.5 percent
b.10 percent
c.25 percent
d.50 percent