1) ruomei has never liked biology, but she has a crush on her lab partner and always
enjoys going to class because she sees him there. ruomeis friends are surprised to hear
that ruomei now likes biology and is planning to take another class in the subject.
ruomeis new liking for biology:
a.is complex
b.is implicit
c.has been socialized
d.has been conditioned
2) according to the work of shepard siegel, an addicts usual large dose is most likely to
produce an overdose in which setting?
a.in a novel setting
b.in a familiar setting
c.the setting is unimportant
d.none of the above
3) the compulsive use of a drug despite negative consequences is referred to as:
a.tolerance
b.withdrawal
c.addiction
d.dependence
4) colleen and lavonne are playing darts. colleen throws her dart into the center of the
target, and lavonne throws his dart into the outer ring. in an analogy to vision, colleen
would have been likely to hit a _____, and lavonne would have been likely to hit a
_____.
a.rod; cone
b.rod; rod
c.cone; cone
d.cone; rod
5) maria goes to see a therapist. she is depressed because her romantic relationships do
not last. her therapist specializes in disorders rooted in childhood abuse and uses special
techniques to uncover repressed memories of this abuse. a potential problem for maria
in seeing this therapist is that:
a.she may not be able to handle remembering the abuse
b.the therapist may not be able to address other problems
c.she may deliberately describe false cases of abuse to please her therapist
d.the therapist may unintentionally create false memories of abuse
6) opiates such as heroin have enormous reward value to the brain because they _____
and _____.
a.activate dopamine receptors; bind with opiate receptors
b.inhibit dopamine receptors; bind with opiate receptors
c.activate dopamine receptors; block opiate receptors
d.inhibit dopamine receptors; block opiate receptors
7) studies have shown that guilt is primarily influenced by _____, whereas other
negative emotions are primarily influenced by _____.
a.genetics; the social environment
b.the social environment; genetics
c.genetics; genetics
d.the social environment; the social environment
8) the effects of the central nervous system on the endocrine system are largely
mediated by which brain structure?
a.cerebral cortex
b.hypothalamus
c.cerebellum
d.thalamus
9) for which of the following groups would an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa
or bulimia nervosa be most typical?
a.teenage african american girls
b.race and class are not important risk factors for these conditions
c.teenage asian women
d.college-age white women
10) when remembering words on a list, people tend to remember words at the beginning
of the list and words at the end of the list better than words in the middle of the list. this
phenomenon is known as:
a.the serial position effect
b.retroactive interference
c.motivated forgetting
d.spreading activation effect
11) an evolutionary explanation of mate preferences might suggest that men seek
physically attractive women because:
a.their attractiveness will facilitate the partners sexual capacity
b.their attractiveness confers higher status on their partners
c.their attractiveness indicates higher probable levels of fertility
d.highly attractive women are also assumed to have other positive qualities