1) attitudes are evaluations of:
a.objects
b.events
c.ideas
d.all of the above
2) red, yellow, and blue are the _____ primary colors; when they are combined they
make _____.
a.additive; white
b.additive; black
c.subtractive; white
d.subtractive; black
3) why are the nodes of ranvier important structures for neural firing?
a.they release neurotransmitters.
b.they are involved in reuptake.
c.they are the receptor sites for binding with neurotransmitters.
d.they are areas along the axon that speed transmission.
4) juan and joseph are opera singers. juan is a baritone. joseph is a tenor: his voice is
higher-pitched. with respect to their physical properties, the sound waves corresponding
to juans voice are lower in _____ than those corresponding to josephs voice; that is,
they are lower in _____.
a.frequency; decibels
b.frequency; hertz
c.amplitude; decibels
d.amplitude; hertz
5) drugs that produce their effects by mimicking neurotransmitters are called:
a.antagonists
b.agonists
c.acetylcholines
d.amygdalas
6) who was the first to develop a method of assessing intelligence?
a.cattell
b.galton
c.binet
d.gardner
7) why have psychologists emphasized fight-or-flight responses over tend-and-befriend
responses?
a.the former have greater adaptive value.
b.the research has largely been done with males.
c.research supports the former but not the latter.
d.avoidance responses are more important to survival than approach responses are.
8) ethnomusicology examines music preferences from the ____ level of analysis.
a.biological
b.individual
c.social
d.cultural
9) based on freuds psychosexual stage theory, which of the following would you most
expect to hear a 5-year-old boy say to his mother?
a.how come none of the girls at school like me?
b.you are soooo beautiful!
c.i wish you would go away so i could spend more time with dad!
d.you are mean. i dont like you!
10) sam, a 10-year-old, has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(adhd).
which of the following outcomes would you expect to see as sam gets older?
a.he will outgrow this disorder by young adulthood.
b.he has a high likelihood of having adhd as a young adult.
c.his prognosis is very good if he receives early drug treatment.
d.the prognosis is unclear; long-term studies have not yet been conducted on this
disorder.
11) rates of autism have recently:
a.decreased in number, which means there are many children with autism who are
undiagnosed
b.decreased in number, due to the fact that physicians are reluctant to negatively label a
child
c.increased in number, which corresponds to an actual increase in cases
d.increased in number, which is probably due to the recent recognition and diagnosis of
more mild cases of autism
12) unintended differences between the groups in an experiment reflect _____ bias;
these differences stem from a failure to follow the principle of random _____.
a.sampling; selection
b.sampling; assignment
c.selection; sampling
d.selection; assignment
13) the correct order for the development of freuds psychosexual stages is:
a.phallic, oral, latency, anal, genital
b.oedipal, oral, anal, phallic, genital
c.oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
d.anal, oral, latency, genital, phallic