1) hardy individuals tend to view life events as less stressful than those who are low on
this personality dimension. an important aspect of how they view their daily life is that:
a.they tend to resist negative changes
b.when stressed, they focus on negative thoughts and feelings
c.they have varying levels of commitment to their daily activities
d.they feel they are largely in control of what happens to them
2) if you are recalling an episode that never really happened, you are experiencing:
a.confabulation
b.false recognition
c.absentmindedness
d.memory bias
3) for most of human history, western scholars believed that the mind and body were
separate and that humans were unique among the animals because humans:
a.possessed a soul
b.controlled other animals
c.were mortal
d.had a mind and body that interacted for a divine purpose
4) the nerves that provide information about muscle movement are called _____ nerves.
a.motor
b.muscle
c.afferent
d.somatosensory
5) lee-joon is in a research study in which researchers compare brain changes in people
receiving different types of treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder. lee-joon
recently completed cognitive-behavioral therapy and now will have his brain scanned.
compared to the brains of people receiving other kinds of therapy, lee-joons brain will
show:
a.little change, because cognitive-behavioral therapy is not a biological treatment
b.the same brain changes as people receiving drug therapy
c.increased brain changes but not in the same areas as people receiving drug therapy
d.changes in brain function, whereas those receiving drug therapy will not
6) you have been asleep for approximately 90 minutes. what sleep stage are you likely
to begin to enter?
a.slow-wave sleep
b.theta wave sleep
c.k-complex sleep
d.paradoxical sleep
7) jagannaths best friend, roger, really does not like jagannaths new girlfriend, malati.
one way that jagannath might change his friends attitude is to:
a.talk to roger about how great malati is whenever the opportunity arises
b.have the three of them do several things together that roger really enjoys
c.point out all the things that roger and malati have in common
d.tell roger that he needs to learn to like malati for them to remain friends
8) a general conclusion growing out of the research on health and stress is that:
a.short-term stress is more dangerous to your health than chronic stress is
b.until recently, psychologists have overemphasized the effects of stress on health
c.the source of stress is more important to health outcomes than is the level of stress
d.chronic stress has adverse effects on health
9) which country has the highest proportion of smokers worldwide?
a.united states
b.india
c.china
d.japan
10) auditory information is received in which lobe of the cerebral cortex?
a.occipital
b.parietal
c.temporal
d.frontal
11) the goal of freuds psychoanalytic approach to therapy was to:
a.have patients acknowledge their abuse history
b.have clients acknowledge the mismatch between their ideal and actual selves
c.uncover the unconscious feelings and motives that were creating problems for the
patient
d.retrain maladaptive behaviors through techniques such as classical conditioning
12) the word ending -s is an example of:
a.syntax
b.a morpheme
c.a phoneme
d.a morpheme and a phoneme
13) the rescorla-wagner cognitive model of conditioning does not explain why:
a.a conditioned stimulus that occurs before the unconditioned stimulus is optimal for
learning
b.a delay between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus is optimal
for learning
c.evolutionarily significant conditioned stimuli are easier to condition
d.the conditioned stimulus needs to be a good predictor of the unconditioned stimulus
14) most forgetting is due to _____ not _____.
a.decay; interference
b.interference; transience
c.transience; absentmindedness
d.absentmindedness; transience
15) short-term memory:
a.has a limited capacity
b.has an unlimited capacity
c.retains information for up to an hour
d.lasts a lifetime
16) the primary visual cortex is located in which brain lobe?
a.frontal
b.temporal
c.occipital
d.parietal
17) patient h.m. suffered from seizures and had part of his medial temporal lobes
removed. as a result, he could no longer:
a.remember his past
b.form new implicit memories
c.form new explicit memories
d.remember anything at all