1) individuals with antisocial personality disorder are difficult to treat because they:
a.are so focused on the future that they lose sight of their present difficulties
b.care little about how others feel about their behavior
c.have excessively low self-esteem and feel therapists will not want to treat them
d.view their problems as too overwhelming to treat
2) brandon, a 6-year-old, was diagnosed with autism at age 2. since then, he has been
receiving a treatment called applied behavioral analysis (aba). which of the following
outcomes is most likely for brandon after four years of receiving aba, according to
research presented in your textbook?
a.brandon will have a higher iq than before he started.
b.brandon will have excellent social relationships with family and friends by age 6.
c.brandon will have required intensive treatment at first, but after one year his behavior
will have improved and time in therapy will be reduced.
d.brandon will have required aba treatment as well as a supplemental therapy, such as
group therapy, to increase his social skills.
3) if a key is pressed on a piano, the frequency of the resulting sound will determine the
_____, and the amplitude will determine the _____ of the perceived musical note.
a.timbre; intensity
b.intensity; timbre
c.loudness; pitch
d.pitch; loudness
4) if no damage to the hippocampus occurred due to prolonged hpa activation, people
would likely experience no or few stress-related impairments in:
a.muscle movement
b.memory
c.social interaction
d.emotion regulation
5) which of the following statements is a myth about brain plasticity across the life
span?
a.most forgetting occurs later in life.
b.adult brains form no new cells.
c.neurogenesis occurs across the life span.
d.environmental conditions play a large role in neurogenesis.
6) this type of amnesia results in a loss of past memories:
a.retrograde amnesia
b.anterograde amnesia
c.source amnesia
d.none of the above
7) your father has not ridden a bicycle since he was in college, about 20 years ago. your
fathers remembering how to ride the bike without falling will call upon _____ memory.
his remembering the names of the parts of the bike will call upon _____ memory.
a.episodic; declarative
b.semantic; episodic
c.procedural; semantic
d.declarative; episodic
8) if aimee wants to increase her life span by a few years, which of the following pieces
of advice is recommended?
a.pamper yourself.
b.increase your social support network.
c.spend more time interacting with nature.
d.spend more time on hobbies.
9) learning without direct reinforcement is known as:
a.delayed learning
b.extinction
c.spontaneous recovery
d.latent learning
10) katie is afraid of clowns. she has been trying to overcome this fear by getting into a
very relaxed state and then going to the circus. after months of this exposure, she is no
longer afraid when she sees a clown. what anti-phobia treatment is this action similar
to?
a.reconstruction theory
b.extinctive training
c.advocate theory
d.systematic desensitization
11) which of the following statements best reflects the contributions of women to early
psychological science?
a.women were not strong contributors to psychological science research until recently.
b.women were most likely to contribute as secondary researchers, but not primary
researchers, until the twentieth century.
c.womens contributions to early psychological science have typically been
underappreciated.
d.womens contributions to early psychological science were, in contrast to the other
sciences, always highly appreciated.
12) according to research on patient outcomes following split-brain surgery, which of
the following tasks is likely to improve with time?
a.right hemisphere language capabilities
b.left hemisphere language capabilities
c.left hemisphere spatial capabilities
d.right hemisphere spatial capabilities
13) if you had a disorder that caused neurons to demyelinate, this would initially cause:
a.neurons to immediately begin to die
b.dendrites to proliferate excessively
c.the insulation of the axon to deteriorate
d.the development of an increased number of nodes of ranvier