Over history, people have viewed the mind as being located in each of the following
parts of the body EXCEPT the:
A.brain.
B.liver.
C.heart.
D.sexual organs.
Which of the following is NOT involved in regulating sleep/wake cycles?
A.pineal gland
B.hypothalamus
C.melatonin
D.frontal cortex
The delusional, illogical nature of dreams likely results in large part from:
A.unresolved conflicts that the conscious mind cannot access while awake.
B.daily life experiences.
C.deactivation of the prefrontal cortex during sleep.
D.activation of the visual association areas during sleep.
Studies have shown that women who smell T-shirts worn by different men will express
a preference for shirts worn by men who have a complementary immune system to their
own. This ability has been taken as evidence of:
A.pheromone processing in humans.
B.a conscious perception of the most desirable mates.
C.human olfactory processing equivalent to that of dogs’.
D.connectivity between the olfactory bulb and the amygdala.
Early in the twentieth century, António Egas Moniz developed:
A.the hemispherectomy.
B.the basal ganglia ablation.
C.the lobotomy.
D.germline therapy.
When identifying the pool of participants who will be in a research project,
psychologists most often use ________ even though it is not preferred.
A.random assignment.
B.random sampling.
C.convenience sampling.
D.control participants.
According to the text, how do hypotheses relate to theories?
A.Hypotheses are specific predictions used to test a theory’s prediction.
B.Hypotheses are formulated after a research study and later made into theories.
C.Theories are specific predictions used to test a theory’s prediction.
D.Hypotheses always become theories after a study is complete.
Why is critical thinking important in evaluating psychological research?
A.Researchers deliberately lie about their research findings.
B.There might be significant limitations to the research findings.
C.Research findings are rarely influenced by political and personal agendas.
D.There is always a single clear explanation and the researchers may not have found it.
What type of learned response occurs when a formerly neutral object begins to elicit a
reflexive (or highly similar) response after it has been paired with a stimulus that
naturally elicits that response?
A.orienting reflex
B.classical conditioning
C.consequence conditioning
D.operant conditioning
Drugs that produce their effects by mimicking neurotransmitters are called:
A.antagonists.
B.agonists.
C.acetylcholines.
D.reuptake inhibitors.