1) if prozac did not increase the activity of _____, it would not be effective in treating
depression.
a.norepinephrine
b.dopamine
c.acetylcholine
d.serotonin
2) greg has grown up to be a very aggressive person. neither of his parents is
aggressive. in addition, neither his schoolmates nor his neighbors are particularly
aggressive. according to behavior geneticists, what might be happening?
a.greg is using his own free will to engage in aggressive behavior.
b.greg has a condition called negative sociability, which is considered to be neither
environmental nor genetic in origin.
c.genes from gregs parents combined in a unique (though random) way to create gregs
aggressive tendencies.
d.greg probably inherited a gene called rh5, which is associated with aggression.
3) a critical property of insight is that the solution to the problem:
a.has clear subgoals
b.emerges in a single step
c.emerges over several steps
d.develops clear subgoals
4) having a higher level of social support is:
a.negatively correlated with health problems
b.correlated with type a personality
c.important to health for children but less so for adults
d.unrelated to gender
5) which of the following is not correct?
a.the frontal lobe plays a significant role in thinking and movement.
b.the occipital lobe plays a significant role in vision.
c.the parietal lobe plays a significant role in touch.
d.the temporal lobe plays a significant role in the integration of movement and sight.
6) according to the concept of survival of the fittest:
a.random mutations are always adaptive
b.only the biggest animals will survive
c.organisms that are most adaptive to their environment are most likely to survive
d.organisms that can spontaneously mutate their genes in response to the environment
are most likely to survive
7) one of the important changes in how psychologists approach the analysis of
development is that in the last several decades:
a.much more emphasis has been placed on learning
b.important developmental changes have been presumed to occur across the entire life
span
c.the role of culture has been deemphasized
d.much less emphasis has been placed on biological factors
8) in _____, the presence of others may lead to increased arousal and enhanced
performance.
a.social loafing
b.social facilitation
c.deindividuation
d.none of the above
9) which of the following factors are associated with greater longevity?
a.high intelligence and faster reaction time
b.larger memory span and high intelligence
c.faster reaction time and larger memory span
d.faster reaction time
10) according to piaget, in which stage of development do children come to understand
the law of conservation and quantity?
a.sensorimotor
b.preoperational
c.concrete operational
d.formal operational
11) a psychiatric nurse:
a.can work in a hospital specializing in mental illness
b.can prescribe medication
c.has a medical degree
d.usually earns a bachelors degree in liberal arts
12) in the relationship between gender and depression, the general conclusion is that
they are:
a.unrelated, contrary to popular opinion
b.related, such that sometimes men have higher rates of depression and sometimes
women have higher rates
c.related, with women showing higher rates of depression, although it is not entirely
clear why this is the case
d.related, and it is due to the fact that women take on multiple roles outside the home
13) according to the two-factor theory of emotion, we experience emotion through:
a.simultaneous physiological arousal and cognitive interpretation
b.the subjective emotion followed by the physiological response
c.physiological arousal followed by cognitive interpretation
d.the emotion correlated with the physiological response pattern
14) people suffering obsessive-compulsive disorder are:
a.unaware of the irrationality of their behavior
b.more likely to be male than female
c.aware that their obsessions and compulsions are irrational
d.typically diagnosed with the disorder in early childhood
15) cat wants to buy a new laptop. she knows that her husband will think that it is not a
necessary expense. she initially proposes buying a $2,500 laptop. when her husband
gets upset, she suggests that she could get by with a used laptop for $700. cat is using
the _____ approach, and it is likely that her husband _____ agree.
a.foot-in-the-door; will
b.foot-in-the-door; will not
c.door-in-the-face; will not
d.door-in-the-face; will
16) shaina, maria, and lavonne are all about the same age and work for the same
company. shaina is a secretary. maria and lavonne are both advanced programmers, but
lavonne is two grades higher and makes more money. given the data on work and iq
scores, you would expect their iq scores to be ranked from lowest to highest as:
a.shaina, lavonne, maria
b.lavonne, shaina, maria
c.maria, shaina, lavonne
d.shaina, maria, lavonne
17) the leading cause of death in the united states is:
a.car accidents
b.suicide
c.aids
d.heart disease
18) gerdie volunteers for a demonstration on hypnosis. the hypnotist makes a series of
suggestions to her, and she appears to enter a hypnotic state. the hypnotist then asks her
to perform a series of silly behaviors, and she appears to willingly engage in these. the
hypnotist then tells her to forget all that she did on stage. later, she appears to have
forgotten. her forgetting is due to the effects of:
a.delusions induced by the hypnotist
b.posthypnotic suggestions
c.unconscious forgetting
d.nothing; she really does remember
19) which of the following research goals is not a purpose of a knockout mouse?
a.to determine the effects of a removed or disrupted gene on the genome
b.to determine the effect of a removed or disrupted gene on other genes
c.to determine how a removed gene might interact with the environment
d.to reduce the need for mris and other invasive techniques to study brain development