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Studying people of all races and cultures is most helpful for
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discerning human similarities and differences.
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avoiding operational definitions.
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making psychology free of value judgments.
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To make Psychology less complicated
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Cognitive neuroscience studies relationships between
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Childhood memories and psychological disorders.
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Philosophy and phsiology
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natural selection and genetic predispositions.
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thought process and brain functions
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Clinical psychologists specialize in
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the specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a
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correlation is a measure of the extent to which two factors
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vary together.
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influence each other
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are random samples
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are dependent variables
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A correlation between physical attractiveness and dating frequency of +1.00 would indicate that
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it is impossible to predict levels of physical attractiveness based on knowledge of dating frequency.
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more frequent dating is associated with lower levels of physical attractiveness.
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less frequent dating is associated with lower levels of physical attractiveness.
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physical attractiveness has no causal influence on dating frequency.
Question 7
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Political officials who have no doubt that their own economic and military predictions will come true most clearly demonstrate
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overconfidence.
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hindsight bias
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the placebo effect
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random sampling
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Being randomly assigned to the experimental group in a research project involves being assigned
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to the group in which participants all have similar personalities.
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in a way that ensures that the independent variable will affect the dependent variable.
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to that group by chance.
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to the group in which participants are representative of people in general.
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Early psychologists such as Wilhelm Wundt and William James focused on the study of
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unconscious motives.
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conditioned responses
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mental processes
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clinical psychology
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A statement describing the exact procedures for measuring an anticipated experimental outcome is known as a(n)
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control condition
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hypothesis
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replication
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operational definition
Question 11
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Which of the following is most likely to inhibit critical thinking?
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Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's
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From the 1920s into the 1960s, American psychologists emphasized the study of
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The nature–nurture issue refers to the debate over the relative contributions that ________ make to the development of psychological traits.
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massed practice and spaced practice
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genes and experience
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unconscious and conscious motives
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behavior and mental processes
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Our tendency to believe we know more than we do illustrates
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random assignment
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overconfidence
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the placebo effect
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naturalistic observation
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The biggest danger of relying on case-study evidence is that it
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overestimates the importance of operational definitions.
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is based on naturalistic observation.
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may be unrepresentative of what is generally true.
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leads us to underestimate the causal relationships between events.
Question 17
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The placebo effect best illustrates the impact of ________ on feelings and behaviors.
Question 18
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Critical thinking is smart thinking that involves
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debriefing
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evaluating evidence
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case study
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informed consent
Question 19
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A biological psychologist would be most interested in conducting research on the relationship between
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genetics and eye color
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bone density and body size
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self-esteem and popularity
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neurotransmitters and depression
Question 20
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Auditory stimulation is first processed in the ________ lobes.
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temporal
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frontal
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occipital
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parietal
Question 21
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Information is carried from the central nervous system to the body's tissues by
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sensory neurons
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interneurons
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glial cells
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motor neurons
Question 22
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The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work together to keep you in a steady internal state called
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reuptake.
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an action potential
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polarization
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homeostasis
Question 23
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Neurotransmitters are released from knob-like terminals at the end of the
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cell body.
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myelin sheath
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axon
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dendrites
Question 24
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Environmental influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing
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. identical twins raised apart with fraternal twins raised together.
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identical twins raised together with identical twins raised apart
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identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised together.
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identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised apart.
Question 25
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An evolutionary psychologist would suggest that people are genetically predisposed to
Select one:
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neural networks refer to
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neural cables containing many axons
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the branching extensions of a neuron
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junctions between sending and receiving neurons
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interrelated clusters of neurons in the central nervous system
Question 27
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Which brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex?
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cerebellum
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thalamus
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amygdala
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medulla
Question 28
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If your ________ is destroyed, the left side of your brain could not control the movements of your right hand.
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amygdala
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corpus callosum
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hippocampus
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brainstem
Question 29
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The impact of our cultural backgrounds on the development of our personal values best illustrates
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mutations.
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natural selection.
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environmental influences
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heredity.
Question 30
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The part of the brainstem that controls heartbeat and breathing is called the
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thalamus.
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cerebellum.
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medulla
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amygdala
Question 31
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A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called
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reuptake
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the action potential
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the synapse
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polarization
Question 32
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The principle of natural selection was first advanced by
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Lyudmila trut
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dimitry belyaev
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Richard dawkins
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charles darwin
Question 33
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The central nervous system consists of
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somatic and autonomic systems.
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. sensory and motor neurons.
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sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.
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the brain and the spinal cord.
Question 34
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A synapse is a(n)
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chemical messenger that triggers muscle contractions.
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neural cable containing many axons
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junction between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron.
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automatic response to sensory input
Question 35
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The two major divisions of the nervous system are the central and the ________ nervous systems.
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somatic
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peripheral
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autonomic
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sympathetic
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the extension of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body.
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a layer of fatty tissue that encases the fibers of many neurons.
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a cell that serves as the basic building block of the nervous system.
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a molecule that blocks neurotransmitter receptor sites.
Question 37
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The part of the brainstem that helps to coordinate movements is called the
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nucleus accumbens
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corpus callosum.
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pons
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amygdala.
Question 38
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The parasympathetic nervous system
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stimulates digestion and accelerates heartbeat.
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inhibits digestion and accelerates heartbeat.
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inhibits digestion and slows heartbeat.
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stimulates digestion and slows heartbeat.
Question 39
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Gender identity refers to
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the set of expected behaviors for males or for females.
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the sense of being male or female.
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one's biological sex.
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how masculine a boy is or how feminine a girl is.
Question 40
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Mr. Eskenazi frowns when his son cries but hugs his daughter when she cries. Which of the following most clearly highlights Mr. Eskenazi's gender typing of his children?
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evolutionary psychology
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cognitive neuroscience
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social learning theory
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Freudian psychology
Question 41
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A boy who exhibits traditionally masculine interests and behavior patterns demonstrates the influence of
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When teased by his older sister, 9-year-old Vijay does not cry because he has learned that boys are not expected to. Vijay's behavior best illustrates the importance of
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gender identity.
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menarche.
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testosterone.
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gender roles
Question 43
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Children tend to organize their worlds into male and female categories. This best illustrates the importance of
Question 44
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Compared with men, women experience a greater risk of
Question 45
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Gender typing refers to the acquisition of
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a traditional masculine or feminine role.
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secondary sex characteristics.
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expected behaviors for males or for females.
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a sense of being either male or female.
Question 46
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The belief that boys are more independent than girls is a
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gender schema
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gender identity.
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gender role.
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gender type.
Question 47
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A gender role refers to
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a sense of being male or female.
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a set of expected behaviors for males or for females.
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a sense of being transgender.
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one's birth sex.
Question 48
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Compared with females, males use conversation to
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Compared with boys, girls are more likely to play in ________ groups.
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small
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unsupervised
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mixed age
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comeptitive
Question 50
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The roles assigned to women and men
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have been pretty much the same in all historical time periods.
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differ widely across cultures
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are pretty much the same in all cultures.
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differ widely across historical time periods but not across cultures.
Question 51
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A study of phone communication in France indicated that women make ________ phone calls than men and stay connected for a ________ period of time when talking to other women than men do when talking to other men.
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fewer; shorter
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fewer; longer
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more; longer
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more; shorter
Question 52
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Social learning theory emphasizes that
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observation and imitation play a crucial role in the gender-typing process.
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children only learn gender-typed behaviors if they have been directly rewarded for them.
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children will not learn gender-typed behaviors if the same-sex parent is absent from the home.
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all of these statements are true.
Question 53
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Although Wendy is genetically male, she dresses in women's clothes in order to express her strong sense of identity as a female. Wendy could best be described as
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asexual
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bisexual
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transgender
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intersex
Question 54
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The first appearance of secondary sex characteristics is most likely to be associated with the onset of
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the x chromosome
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gender identity
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puberty
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transgender
Question 55
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Maturation refers to
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biological growth processes that are relatively uninfluenced by experience.
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any learned behavior patterns that accompany personal growth and development
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the acquisition of socially acceptable behaviors.
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the physical and sexual development of early adolescence.
Question 56
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According to Piaget, accommodation refers to
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parental efforts to include new children in the existing family structure.
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incorporating new experiences into existing schemas.
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adjusting current schemas to make sense of new experiences.
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developmental changes in a child's behavior that facilitate social acceptance by family and peers.
Question 57
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Who are likely to show the greatest similarity in temperament?
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Ruth and Ramona, identical twins
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Larry and Laura, brother and sister
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Vincent Sr. and Vincent Jr., father and son
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Philip and Paul, fraternal twins
Question 58
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A child's temperament is likely to be
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a product of parenting style.
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stable over time.
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a reflection of his or her thinking.
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Difficulty: Difficult to observe.
Question 59
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According to Erikson, adolescence is to identity as late adulthood is to
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integrity
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autonomy
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intimacy
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generativity
Question 60
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At age 12, Sean is happy, self-reliant, and has a positive self-image. It is most likely that Sean's parents are
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authoritarian.
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authoritative
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conservative.
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permissive.
Question 61
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Babies are born with several reflexes for getting food. One of these is to
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withdraw a limb to escape pain.
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look longer at face-like images.
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open the mouth in search of a nipple when touched on the cheek.
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turn the head away from a cloth placed over the face.
Question 62
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Brad and Jane exercise very little control over their two young children, and they usually allow them to do whatever they want. Psychologists would characterize Brad and Jane as ________ parents.
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conventional
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permissive
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authoritative
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authoritarian
Question 63
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Cognition refers to
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any process of change that accompanies maturation.
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any process that facilitates the physical development of the brain.
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the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
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an emotional tie linking one person with another.
Question 64
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Most victims of childhood sexual abuse become normal adults. This best illustrates
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object permanence.
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egocentrism.
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resilience.
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conservation.
Question 65
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Erik Erikson suggested that the major psychosocial task of middle adulthood was to discover a sense of contributing to the world by being productive. According to Erikson, those who do this effectively demonstrate
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generativity.
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intuition.
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integrity.
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autonomy
Question 66
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According to Kohlberg, morality based on the avoidance of punishment and the attainment of concrete rewards represents ________ morality.
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preconventional
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concrete operational
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postconventional
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conventional
Question 67
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Lawrence Kohlberg focused on the development of
Question 68
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According to Erikson, teens who suffer role confusion have not yet
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achieved a sense of autonomy.
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solidified a sense of identity
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strived for a sense of competence.
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experienced a sense of basic trust.
Question 69
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According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to
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a failure to realize that things continue to exist even when they are not visible.
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the difficulty perceiving things from another person's point of view.
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young children's exaggerated interest in themselves and their own pleasure.
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a sensorimotor need for self-stimulation, as evidenced in thumb sucking.
Question 70
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The cocktail party effect provides an example of
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change blindness.
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hypnagogic sensations.
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selective attention
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REM rebound.
Question 71
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a disinhibitor is a substance that makes you less impulsive
Question 72
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Chemical substances that alter perceptions and moods are called ________ drugs.
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neurotransmitter
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disinhibition
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neuroadaptive
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psychoactive
Question 73
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Stereotypes are mental conceptions that can strongly influence the way we interpret the behaviors of individuals belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups. A stereotype is most similar to a
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signal detector.
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sensory adaptation.
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perceptual set
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difference threshold.
Question 74
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Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes is called
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top-down processing
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prosopagnosia.
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signal detection.
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priming.
Question 75
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Patients who have negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure may experience increased postoperative pain. This best illustrates the importance of
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top-down processing.
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difference thresholds.
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sensory adaptation.
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priming.
Question 76
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For some people, hearing certain sounds may activate color-sensitive regions of the cortex so as to trigger a sensation of color. This phenomenon is called
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telepathy.
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kinesthesis.
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synesthesia
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tinnitus.
Question 77
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A gestalt is best described as a(n)
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binocular cue.
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illusion.
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monocular cue.
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organized whole.
Question 78
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Parapsychology refers to the
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study of synesthesia.
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study of phenomena such as ESP and psychokinesis
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direct transmission of thoughts from one mind to another.
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study of perceptual illusions.
Question 79
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Our sense of the position and movement of individual body parts is called
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olfaction.
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the vestibular sense.
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sensory interaction.
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kinesthesis
Question 80
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less light-sensitive and less color-sensitive than are cones.
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more light-sensitive and less color-sensitive than are cones
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less light-sensitive and more color-sensitive than are cones.
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more light-sensitive and more color-sensitive than are cones.
Question 81
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Which receptor cells most directly enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light?
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feature detectors
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bipolar cells
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rods
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cones
Question 82
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Accommodation refers to the
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process by which the lens changes shape to focus images on the retina.
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process by which stimulus energies are changed into neural messages.
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quivering eye movements that enable the retina to detect continuous stimulation.
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diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus.
Question 83
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A mental set is most likely to inhibit
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confirmation bias.
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belief perseverance.
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overconfidence.
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creativity.
Question 84
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Experts would agree that intelligence is mental ability to learn from experience.
Question 85
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A person who can imagine many alternative uses of a paper clip best illustrates
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insight.
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divergent thinking
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convergent thinking.
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intuition.
Question 86
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The heritability of intelligence refers to
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the extent to which the distribution of intelligence scores of a group approximates a normal curve.
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the proportion of variation in intelligence among individuals that is attributable to genetic variation.
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the extent to which an individual's intelligence is attributable to genetic factors.
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a general underlying intelligence factor that is measured by every task on an intelligence test.
Question 87
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A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, and people is a(n)
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concept.
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heuristic.
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prototype.
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algorithm.
Question 88
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People with opposing views of capital punishment reviewed mixed evidence regarding its effectiveness as a crime deterrent. As a result, their opposing views differed more strongly than ever. This best illustrates
Question 89
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Consumers respond more positively to ground beef advertised as “75 percent lean” than to ground beef described as “25 percent fat.” This illustrates that consumer reactions are influenced by
Question 90
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Semantics refers to the
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early speech stage in which a child speaks in two-word sentences.
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rules by which we derive meaning from sounds.
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ability to understand what is said to us.
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orderly arrangement of words into grammatically correct sentences.
Question 91
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Conditioning is the process of
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discrimination.
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observational learning.
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spontaneous recovery.
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learning associations.
Question 92
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In classical conditioning, generalization refers to the tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the
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unconditioned reinforcer
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unconditioned stimulus.
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conditioned reinforcer.
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conditioned stimulus.
Question 93
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A child learns to stop fighting with his brother when the fight leads to suspension of the child's TV-viewing privileges. In this case, the suspension of TV-viewing privileges is a
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positive reinforcer.
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negative reinforcer.
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positive punishment.
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negative punishment.
Question 94
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Any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response is called a(n)
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positive reinforcer
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negative reinforcer.
Question 95
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Any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response is called a(n)
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negative reinforcer
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positive reinforcer.
Question 96
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Both classical and operant conditioning are forms of
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Question 98
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chunking refers to the organization of information in to large groups not meaningful ones
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process of encoding refers to getting info into memory
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process of getting info out of memory is called
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retrieval
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ejection
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extraction
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memory taking
Question 101
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Elevated levels of stress hormones most clearly contribute to developing
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source amnesia.
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flashbulb memories
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amnesia.
Question 102
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Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their memory failure best illustrates
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motivated forgetting
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retrograde amnesia.
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source amnesia.
Question 103
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Conscious rehearsal of what you just heard a friend tell you requires
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implicit memory.
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working memory.
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deep processing.
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automatic processing.
Question 104
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Retention of skills and classically conditioned associations without conscious recollection is known as ________ memory.
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implicit
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sensory.
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short-term
Question 105
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According to Freud, the unconscious is
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a reservoir of deeply repressed memories that does not affect behavior.
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the part of personality that cannot process information.
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the thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, of which we are largely unaware.
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a set of universal concepts acquired by all humans from our common past.
Question 106
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The MMPI is an example of a(n)
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personality inventory
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self-esteem test.
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projective test.
Question 107
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In response to stress, the adrenal glands release
Question 108
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Psychologists define stress as
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physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion.
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the process by which we appraise and respond to threatening or challenging events.
Question 109
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A general sense of happiness or life satisfaction is most unrelated to whether people
Question 110
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One of the major pillars of the positive psychology movement involves the study of
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character strengths
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the relaxation response.
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self-control.
Question 111
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Rats that received electric shocks were unlikely to develop ulcers if the
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rats could control the termination of the shocks.
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shocks became a routine part of the rats' daily life.
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shocks were systematically associated with the delivery of appetizing food.
Question 112
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Subjective well-being refers to
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An aroused, motivated state that is often triggered by a physiological need is called a(n)
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The James-Lange theory of emotion states that
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to experience emotion is to be aware of our physiological responses to an emotion-arousing event.
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an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both physiological arousal and the subjective experience of emotion.
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the expression of emotion reduces our level of physiological arousal.
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to experience emotion we must be physically aroused and able to cognitively label the emotion.
Question 115
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Maslow referred to the needs for purpose and meaning that lie beyond the self as
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A disorder in which a person loses contact with reality and experiences irrational ideas and disordered perceptions is a
Question 117
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In which type of disorder is a person's speech likely to be so full of unrelated words and phrases that it could be characterized as a “word salad”?
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schizophrenia
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panic disorder
Question 118
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The onset of schizophrenia is typically associated with early
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adulthood
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adolescence.
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childhood.
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infancy.
Question 119
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Exhibiting two or more distinct and alternating personalities is a symptom of a(n)
Question 120
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A basic element of all effective psychotherapies is the
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escape from real-life pressures offered by psychotherapy
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client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better.
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professional training and experience of the therapist.
Question 121
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A central therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis is
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active listening.
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free association
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operant conditioning
Question 122
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A therapist who takes an eclectic approach is one who
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uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic approaches.
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prefers to engage in therapy in a group setting.
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emphasizes that active listening is the major technique in all effective therapies.
Question 123
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Counterconditioning techniques for replacing unwanted responses are
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systematic desensitization and free association.
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aversive conditioning and exposure therapies.
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unconditional positive regard and transference.
Question 124
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Humanistic therapists are likely to teach clients to