1) ramos has symptoms of panic disorder and has been prescribed the drug xanax. due
to the medication, he is most likely to have side effects such as:
a.facial tics
b.sexual dysfunction
c.drowsiness
d.white blood cell deficiency
2) though hormones and neurotransmitters are often chemically identical, the effect of
hormones is slower than the effect of neurotransmitters because hormones:
a.are delivered by the bloodstream
b.are chemically very different from neurotransmitters
c.are transported in the interstitial fluid
d.affect only the peripheral nervous system
3) darrius was visiting his cousins dairy farm. his cousin pointed out that they were
using selective breeding to increase milk production. what did he mean?
a.they selected only certain cows to give milk.
b.they bred cows for milking and cows for meat together.
c.they used cows only for milking and not meat.
d.they controlled which cows were bred based on their prior milk production.
4) an important difference between gardners multiple intelligences and the use of g in
multiple areas is that gardners intelligences are defined _____ and the skills associated
with general intelligence are defined _____.
a.descriptively; statistically
b.qualitatively; analytically
c.normatively; quantitatively
d.subjectively; objectively
5) trying to understand the connection between the actions of neurons and a thought
illustrates the underlying goal of psychological science in establishing the:
a.connection between brain and mind
b.connection between nature and nurture
c.connection between genes and thought
d.connections between various components of the nervous system
6) freud used the term libido to refer to:
a.unrestrained sexual behavior
b.unconscious motives
c.the motive to punish or harm others, particularly parents
d.an energy that promotes pleasure seeking
7) luke needs about seven hours of sleep a night. during his spring break, however, he
sleeps 10 hours just because he enjoys it so much. this finding is a problem for which
theory?
a.maslows theory
b.yerkes-dodson theory
c.hulls theory
d.freuds theory
8) according to this information processing model, the recognition of patterns occurs
because the data are relayed from a lower level to a higher level of processing in the
brain.
a.bottom-up processing
b.bottom-down processing
c.top-up processing
d.top-down processing
9) making downward comparisons is associated with:
a.increased self-esteem
b.decreased self-esteem
c.having little effect on self-esteem
d.having a negative effect on the people to whom one is being compared
10) workplace training and job placement would be of interest to which type of
psychologist?
a.counseling
b.clinical
c.industrial/organizational
d.developmental
11) giving depressed patients a placebo rather than an actual drug:
a.has no impact on depression
b.alleviates depressive symptoms in roughly one-third of patients
c.causes some patients to report that they are better when they actually are not
d.alleviates some depressive symptoms, but does not affect brain functioning
12) research on brain differences at birth in males and females demonstrates that:
a.these differences explain many of the subsequent differences between men and
women
b.no reliable differences have yet been identified
c.we do not yet have enough data to understand what the source of the observed
differences between male and female brains might be
d.sex differences do not develop until puberty
13) for psychologists, theory of mind refers to:
a.our ability to recognize that others have mental states that might explain their
behavior
b.the tendency to explain our own behavior in terms of environmental factors and the
behavior of others in terms of their mental states
c.the belief that nonhumans have minds that are much like our own
d.the fact that the mind cannot be observed directly but must be inferred
14) a researcher wants to investigate the response of students on a college campus to a
plan to turn a grassy area into a parking lot. she plans to give a questionnaire to a
random sample of students. it is likely that:
a.her results would generalize to the population of interest to her
b.she would not be able to generalize her results because she is using a convenience
sample
c.if she repeated the study with another random sample, she would get very different
results
d.her findings are not representative of the attitudes of students on the campus
15) the most important distinction between the scientific method and casual observation
is that scientific inquiry is more:
a.abstract
b.complex
c.rational
d.objective
16) food is considered a primary reinforcer, whereas _____ is a secondary reinforcer.
a.water
b.sex
c.money
d.none of the above
17) imagine that eysenck has classified one of your roommates as an extravert and the
other as an introvert. when you come into the room, you slam the door very loudly,
surprising them both. who would show more physiological arousal to this event?
a.the extravert
b.the introvert
c.they would both show the same level of arousal
d.this personality dimension does not allow one to predict the outcome
18) what is the term for the cultural transmission of knowledge from one generation to
another?
a.epic
b.era
c.meme
d.gene