1) rob plans to receive drug therapy for his depressive symptoms. should rob expect
different kinds of results from drug treatment, compared to other kinds of therapy?
a.he should expect that drugs, but not other therapies, will result in changes in his brain
activity.
b.he should expect his brain functioning to change, whether with drugs or another kind
of therapy.
c.he should expect longer-lasting results from drugs versus talk therapy.
d.no reliable effects on brain functioning have been detected as a consequence of any
form of therapy.
2) the fact that little albert learned fear toward not only a white rat but also a ball of
wool and a rabbit represents:
a.second-order conditioning
b.generalization
c.discrimination
d.reconditioning
3) kelsey and andreas are participating in the same two psychology experiments. the
first task is to listen to a list of numbers and repeat them back in the same order. the
second task is to determine how many prime numbers are on the list. kelsey has an iq of
123 and andreas has an iq of 111. there ought to be a _____ difference between kelsey
and andreass performance on the repetition task and a _____ difference between kelsey
and andreass performance on the counting prime numbers task.
a.small; small
b.large; large
c.large; small
d.small; large
4) jane believes that all blacks are lazy. one of her classmates, patrick, who is black, has
the highest gpa in her high school and is also the star of the track team. how is janes
stereotype for blacks likely to change given her knowledge of patrick?
a.she will no longer stereotype blacks as lazy.
b.she will reassess her stereotype and will only attribute laziness to black women.
c.it will not change. her stereotype for blacks will not allow jane to even notice patricks
behavior.
d.she will likely categorize patrick as an exception to the rule and continue to believe
that all blacks are lazy.
5) an odor is most likely encoded by a(n):
a.single receptor specialized for that odor
b.activation pattern across several receptor types
c.single olfactory and a single gustatory receptor
d.activation pattern across several olfactory and gustatory receptor types
6) one explanation offered in your textbook for the recent rapid increase in the
diagnosis of dissociative disorders is that:
a.childhood physical abuse, the primary antecedent of the disorder, has increased
b.more therapists believe the disorder is real and elicit reports from their patients that
support it
c.more criminals are receiving psychiatric screening, and dissociative disorders are
particularly prevalent in this group
d.the disorder is caused by an environmental toxin that is now more widespread
7) according to sexual strategies theory, men and women differ in their sexual behavior
because they:
a.operate under different cultural constraints
b.face different adaptive problems
c.have different distributions of hormones
d.differ in their levels of erotic plasticity
8) which of the following characteristics is not likely to apply to a child who was reared
by sympathetic parents?
a.easily angered
b.able to express negative emotions in an appropriate manner
c.tending to appropriately focus on others rather than him- or herself
d.shows self-control and self-discipline
9) sherry has a very difficult time controlling her behavior. she hates being by herself
and makes every effort to keep people as emotionally close to her as possible. she has
threatened to hurt herself more than once when boyfriends have broken up with her.
sherry would probably be diagnosed with:
a.narcissistic personality disorder
b.borderline personality disorder
c.obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
d.a mood disorder
10) the strongest associations between an unconditioned stimulus and a conditioned
stimulus occur when:
a.they are presented at the exact same time
b.the unconditioned stimulus is presented slightly before the conditioned stimulus
c.the conditioned stimulus is presented slightly before the unconditioned stimulus
d.the conditioned response is presented during the conditioned stimulus
11) according to your text, how do successive rem periods change as the night
progresses?
a.successive rem periods become shorter.
b.successive rem periods become longer.
c.successive rem periods are less likely to involve dreaming.
d.successive rem periods are more likely to involve dreaming.
12) which of the following reasons does not support long-term potentiation (ltp) as a
cellular basis for learning?
a.ltp is prominent in the hippocampus.
b.drugs that block learning also block ltp.
c.conditioning produces neurochemical effects similar to those of ltp.
d.ltp permanently activates the synapse.
13) comparisons between how children acquire spoken language versus signed
language indicate that:
a.signed language follows entirely different grammatical rules than spoken language
does
b.signed language is acquired much more slowly than spoken language
c.both types of language develop at about the same pace
d.signed language is acquired more efficiently if the childs parents speak, whereas the
acquisition of spoken language is not affected by whether the parents speak or sign