1) what is the name of the field that studies the immune system response to
psychological factors?
a.psychophysiology
b.psychoimmunology
c.psychoneuroimmunology
d.psychoneuropharmacology
2) memory researchers often ask participants in their studies to try to remember lists of
words. which of the following statements is a finding from these kinds of studies?
a.memory is a nearly exact copy of original events.
b.people can be sure whether a word appeared on a list or not.
c.women are much less prone to inaccurate memory than men are.
d.people sometimes falsely remember information and do not realize it.
3) to remember more information, _____ can be used to organize information into
meaningful units.
a.cognitive maps
b.chunking
c.association networks
d.none of the above
4) ted, the president of a multimillion-dollar corporation, stated that he did not feel bad
at all for firing thousands of workers in order to make more money. why should i feel
bad for them when i just made millions of dollars by getting rid of their jobs? not only
at work but in his personal life, too, ted seems unconcerned with the effects of his
behavior on others. if ted had been born into a poor and violent neighborhood, he would
likely be incarcerated. ted could probably be diagnosed with:
a.multiple identity disorder
b.antisocial personality disorder
c.narcissistic personality disorder
d.a mood disorder
5) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (such as prozac):
a.are ideal drugs for treating severe depression
b.can cause sexual dysfunction
c.work for adults, but are usually not effective with children
d.have been used to effectively treat almost all forms of mental illness
6) in regard to the positive and negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia:
a.positive symptoms respond to antipsychotic drug treatments, whereas negative
symptoms frequently do not
b.positive symptoms are thought to be caused by structural deficits in the brain, whereas
negative symptoms are caused by dopamine activity
c.both probably originate from the same organic causes
d.both are more common in women
7) your friend is taking an over-the-counter medication. he claims that it is not a
psychoactive drug, but you claim it is. what characteristic of the drug would most likely
support your argument?
a.the drug is available over the counter.
b.the drug is legal.
c.the drug activates the brains neurotransmitter receptors.
d.the drug is nonprescription.
8) john fell off his bike without a helmet and injured his frontal lobes. if he were to take
an iq test, what aspect would be impaired?
a.crystallized intelligence
b.verbal intelligence
c.fluid intelligence
d.spatial intelligence
9) when jon scored a 95 on his first psychology exam, he reported that he had spent a
great deal of time studying. when he scored a 60 on his second psychology exam, he
stated that the exam was poorly written. these responses are an example of:
a.social comparisons
b.self-evaluative maintenance
c.self-serving bias
d.none of the above
10) imitation learning is facilitated by special parts of the brain known as:
a.motor cortices
b.sensory cortices
c.mirror neurons
d.nmda receptors
11) your school requires you to change your e-mail password every 3 months. now,
when you try to remember the new password, you can only remember the old one. this
effect is most likely due to:
a.blocking
b.transience
c.interference
d.anterograde amnesia
12) pain medications work by:
a.keeping pain stimuli from being received by sensory pain neurons
b.blocking transmission from sensory pain neurons to the brain
c.changing the brains interpretation of information from sensory pain neurons
d.diverting signals from the sensory pain neurons to the thalamus
13) serena is experiencing mild depression. she would like to help herself feel happier.
which of the following activities should elevate serenas mood, at least for a few weeks?
a.asking for a promotion at work
b.making one new friend a day for a month or more
c.writing a letter to someone expressing positive and negative feelings about past events
d.expressing gratitude to someone who has helped her
14) an advantage of studying personality across species is that:
a.researchers do not need to use subjective ratings
b.stereotypes can be avoided
c.this evidence provides some support for a biologically based explanation for
personality traits
d.researchers can avoid having to use ethical considerations when conducting research
15) as described in the text, harlow did an experiment with infant rhesus monkeys,
requiring them to make a choice between an imitation mother that provided contact
comfort or one that provided food. the results demonstrate that for this species:
a.food is the most important reinforcement
b.food is used as a method for tension reduction in the young
c.contact comfort is more important than food, particularly during stress
d.infants were distressed because the mother providing contact comfort did not also
supply food
16) intelligence is associated with higher performance on which cognitive task(s)?
a.simple reaction time
b.inspection time
c.choice reaction time
d.all of the above
17) which of the following is an example of using critical thinking and scientific
reasoning?
a.believing that sugar causes adhd because you feel hyper after eating a candy bar
b.concluding that listening to mozart improves cognition in children after reading an
article about this topic in a popular magazine
c.using a personal example to show how a psychological principle must be wrong
d.conducting research to investigate the effectiveness of left brain/right brain games in
improving memory
18) the need to use a drug regularly is termed:
a.dependence
b.habituation
c.addiction
d.abuse
19) if the muscles of one eye are paralyzed, making it impossible to change the point of
focus of that eye, which kind of depth cue will become unavailable?
a.linear perspective
b.disparity
c.occlusion
d.motion parallax
20) in this psychosexual stage, the erogenous zone centers on the genitals:
a.oral
b.anal
c.phallic
d.latency