Introduction To Psychology MCQ
1. The prolongation of brain maturation in the young human is known as _____.
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Frontal cortex maturation.
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2. Therapists practice ________ by using positive reinforcers to shape desired behaviors.
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Behavior modification
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3. Generalization is to __________, whereas reductionism is to __________.
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Dentify general rules that govern behavior across multiple organisms; identify simple causes of complex behaviors
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4. Focal hand dystonia, sometimes called "musician's cramp", is caused by ____.
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Extreme overlap of cortical representation of the fingers
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5. The term "serotonin turnover" refers to the amount of serotonin that is ____.
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Released at synapses and resynthesized.
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6. Infants begin to purposefully use objects as tools by _______________ of age.
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24 months
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7. Our long-term fuel reservoir contains ________ and is located in ________.
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Triglycerides; fat cells
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8. One way to address the ________ aspect of test anxiety is to stop nonproductive self-talk.
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Cognitive
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9. The elderly show the greatest drop-off in cognitive abilities on items ______.
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That require speed and visual-spatial skills.
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10. Judgers prefer ________ while perceivers prefer ________.
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Organization; spontaneity
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11. In women, iq has been shown to be highly correlated with ____.
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The volume of gray matter in the right frontal lobe and Broca's area, and with the volume of white matter throughout the brain
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12. In comparing the dreams of men and women, researchers have found that generally ________.
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Men's dreams more often involve cars, weapons, tools, and sex
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13. In arousal theory, people are said to have a(n) ________ level of tension.
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14. In addition to coordinating voluntary movement, the ________ enables nonverbal learning and memory.
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Cerebellum
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15. In the experimental method, the _____ is sometimes referred to as the treatment.
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Independent variable
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16. In order to be substantiated child maltreatment, _____ must be verified by the authorities.
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Abuse or neglect
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17. People are more likely to be persuaded by a message delivered by someone ____.
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With whom they share some similarity
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18. The conversion of sensory information into coded neural signals is called ________.
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Transduction
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19. The brain reduces an older person's awareness of sensory losses by _____.
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Automatically filling in the missed sights and sounds.
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20. Our eyes don't adapt completely to a repeated visual stimulus because ________.
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Eye movements called micro saccades cause the stimulus image to vibrate
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21. Ouch! a paper cut! the sharp sting travels along ________ pain fibers, which are ________.
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Fast; myelinated
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22. Organisms that help those they recognize as capable of returning the favor are displaying ____.
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Reciprocal altruism
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23. Operationism means that a concept ____.
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Must be defined in logical terms
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24. Ones accumulated knowledge (e.g., of general psychology data) would highlight___intelligence.
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Crystallized
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25. One way to ensure less sample bias is to select a(n) _____ sample.
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Representative/random
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26. One vret program for treating spider phobias is called ______.
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SpiderWorld
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27. The best way to avoid groupthink is to encourage ______________ within an organization.
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28. The fact that we crawl before we walk is an example of _______________.
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. maturation.
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29. The fact that groups can be powerful catalysts for ____________ means that they can also be risky.
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Personal change
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30. Inherited traits are to learned habits as the ________ perspective is to the ________ perspective.
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Evolutionary; behavioral
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31. In bronfenbrenner's ecological-systems approach, the _____ refers to the interactions among systems
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Mesosystem
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32. In albert banduras social-cognitive theory, behavior refers to ________.
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Anything an individual does that can be punished or rewarded
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33. In english, most _____ are combinations of two or more phonemes.
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Morphemes
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34. In psychoanalytic theory, the id has __________ as a main goal.
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Obtaining pleasure
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35. In memory, _____ is an account of an event that has been pieced together from a few highlights.
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Reconstruction
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36. There are generally thought to be _____ naturally occurring emotions that are present from birth.
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37. Typically, when a person misses their regular sleep, they begin to accumulate a(n) __________.
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Sleep debt
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38. Those who have experienced night terrors will usually __________.
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Have anxiety about going back to sleep after an incident
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39. A nightmare differs from a night terror in that generally the subject remembers __________.
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A nightmare, but not a night terror episode
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40. When a person is awake and alert an eeg will produce _____ waves.
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41. A persons willingness to respond to a particular stimulus is called __________.
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Response criteria
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42. Empirical research reveals that on average, people spend about _____ of their time daydreaming.
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43. Emerging adults are in a high-risk category for _____.
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Serious injury and violent death
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44. Elsa is having an orgasm. she is in the _________ stage of the erotic stimulus pathway theory.
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Surrender
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45. Electroencephalographs (eegs) of individuals in stage 1 sleep are characterized by _____ waves.
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46. The topic of ethics is most closely associated with the _____ perspective.
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Stakeholder
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47. Those with intellectual disability have an iq level of ____and below.
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48. A key gene in addiction controls comt, an enzyme that breaks down ____ after its release.
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49. A freudian slip is a speech or hearing error that freud claimed revealed someones __________.
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Unconscious thoughts
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50. A floating sea vessel is to the ocean water as ________ is to ________.
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Figure; ground
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51. A distinctive feature of itch is that it relies on ____.
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Unusually slow axons
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52. A disadvantage of the contraceptive sponge is it _____.
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Is less effective in preventing pregnancy than some other methods
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53. A difference in ________ can explain why one person dies from a disease and another person survives
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54. A child's achievement seems more influenced by _____ in the united states than in other nations.
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Income and ethnicity
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55. A child who calls any man with a moustache daddy is demonstrating the principle of _____.
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Overextension
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56. A child that is not stimulated with a normal environment is likely to show ____.
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Fewer neural synapses compared to a stimulated child
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57. A change in attitudes in response to information provided by another person is called ____.
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Persuasion
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58. A bystander is most likely to help if he or she is ______.
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The only person around
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59. A bright child's _____ age is considerably above his or her _____ age.
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Mental; chronological
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60. The ape in our house was written by _________.
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61. ____________ is the best-known example of neuroplasticity.
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Synaptogenesis
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62. _____ learning occurs without reinforcement.
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63. _____ is/are evolved biological tendencies that predispose animals' behavior and learning.
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Biological constraints
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64. _____ is the species-specific biological predisposition to learn in certain ways but not others.
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Preparedness
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65. _____ is the most common reason people seek mental health services.
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Depression
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66. _____ involves reinterpreting otherwise immoral behavior in terms of a higher purpose.
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Euphemistic labeling
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67. _____ intelligence is defined as the ability to use your active mind to solve novel problems.
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68. _____ drugs are drugs that influence a person's emotions, perceptions, and behavior.
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Psychoactive
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69. _____ considered guided participation important and thought of learning as a collaborative process.
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70. In a typical classical conditioning experiment by pavlov, a buzzer or tone serves as a(n) ____.
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Neutral stimulus that becomes a conditioned stimulus.
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71. Birds appear to be biologically predisposed to develop aversions to the ________ of tainted food.
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72. At _____, childrens vocabularies consist of more than three but less than fifty words.
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18 months
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73. Asperger syndrome is a specific type of autistic ______ disorder.
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74. _____ are favorable views of the self that are not necessarily rooted in reality.
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Positive illusions
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75. ____ is often called america's greatest philosopher.
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William James
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76. The mcgurk effect illustrates the importance of ___________ on speech perception.
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77. When a double-blind study is not possible, an acceptable alternative may be a ________.
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A masked design
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78. Strong manipulations are used to ________ the effect of the ________ variable.
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Maximize; independent
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79. When you take aspirin to remove a headache, the removal of pain is _____.
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Negative Reinforcement
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80. Lithium is often an effective ________ drug.
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Antidepressant
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81. With increasing age, the trait of neuroticism tends to _____.
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Be modified
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82. When novices close their eyes when trying a somersault, _____.
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Their performance is not degraded as much as is the performance of experts
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83. Watson argued that areas of applied psychology can be considered scientific because they ____.
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Seek general laws for the prediction and control of behavior
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84. Tinnitus is a phantom ________ sensation.
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85. The relationship between neurons and glia is similar to the relationship between ____.
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Racecar drivers and their pit crews
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86. The reference page should place the title references __________ at the top of the page.
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Running head
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87. The ratio of reported maltreatment cases to substantiated maltreatment cases is _____.
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88. The quality of resilience is dynamic, which means that it _____.
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May change over time
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89. The process of encoding low frequencies of sound is called ________ coding.
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90. The most significant public impact of watson's varied undertakings was to ____.
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Transform childrearing practices
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91. The mental process of forming concepts is an example of _____.
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Cognition
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92. The key to hypnotic induction seems to be related to ________________.
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State of suggestibility
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93. The greatest secretion of growth hormone occurs during _____ sleep
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94. The grammatical structure "a unless b" is a logically equivalent to __________
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95. The gestalt principle of ________ distinguishes patterns from their back grounds.
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Figure-ground
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96. The _______________ is involved in aggressive attack, predation, and regulation of pain.
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Periaqueductal gray
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97. The ________ technique could be used to trace axons that are afferent to the injected region.
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Retrograde labeling
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98. Synaptic pruning means that unused __________ is(are) being removed in the brain.
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99. Sleep stages 1-4 are termed ________, whereas stages 3-4 are referred to as ________.
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Non-REM sleep; slow-wave sleep
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100. Sisu does not involve __________.
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Disregarding goals when faced with repeated failures
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101. Object relations theorists emphasize the ____ influences on personality
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Social and environmental.
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102. Moving a limb to the body is _________ whereas moving a limb away from the body is ______________.
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Flexion; contraction
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103. Most infants begin cooing about 6-8 ____ after birth.
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104. Most efforts to study the effects of genetics on personality use ____.
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The twin study method
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105. Morphine is considered a(n) ________ drug because it decreases pain.
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106. More than _____ percent of women with children work.
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Disagreements
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107. Medial deviation of one or both eyes is known as ________.
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Strabismus.
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108. Mary thinks that she is a good person. this observation reflects mary's _____.
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Self- efficacy
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109. Mania, unlike many other disorders, actually ____.
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Increases productive, goal-directed behavior
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110. A(n) __________ is a paragraph-length summary of the methods and major findings of an experiment.
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111. From a phenomenological perspective, to understand another person, you must understand ________.
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That persons construals
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112. Xanax and ativan are ________ drugs
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Antianxiety.
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113. Wundt's doctrine of apperception was also known as the ____.
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Law of psychic resultants
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114. Functionalism was an intentional protest of the limitations of ____.
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Wundt's experimentalism and Titchener's structuralism
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115. Concurrent with the rise of gestalt psychology, the zeitgeist in physics was embracing ____.
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Field theory
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116. Following a spinal cord injury, formation of the ____ prevents neuronal regeneration in the ____.
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Glial scar, central nervous system
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117. Twin studies and studies of adopted children allow behavioral geneticists to research the _____
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Relative contributions of genes and environment.
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118. Food deprivation is to ________ as hunger is to ________.
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Need; drive
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119. When decoding a task, remember that all terms and phrases go with the ____________ learning pattern
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Precision
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120. The ________ technique overstimulates neurons, killing them and creating a lesion.
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Kainic acid
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121. When a criterion is missing information that is part of the behavior being measured, _____ occurs.
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Criterion deficiency*
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122. Newborns show an innate preference for looking at faces. this preference ____.
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Provides advantages in social behavior and language learning
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123. Endel tulving said that _____ memories have to do with knowledge of the world.
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124. Everything you think you know about your traits and abilities resides in the ________.
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Declarative self
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125. Enclosed within axons are ____, which are hollow spheres containing ____.
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Vesicles; chemical messengers.
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126. Studies on mood and persuasion indicate that ______.
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People are more likely to be affected by a persuasive message when they are in a good mood
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127. Smoking, overeating, high blood pressure, and ________ strongly predict heart disease.
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Type a behavior
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128. If a treatment suddenly lowered your serotonin level ____.
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We could not predict how and when your behavior would change
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129. If a test is valid, then its scores will be useful in _____.
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Predicting the test-taker's behavior in a similar situation
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130. If _____ transmission is blocked, we are paralyzed.
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131. From 1965 to 2013, women went from 9 percent to _____ percent of u.s. medical students.
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132. For a person to remember a piece of information, _____ processes must function properly.
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133. For _____ especially, sex is more satisfying if they are in a committed relationship.
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134. Escape from a punishing event is a ________ reinforcer.
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135. Control of the emotional content of speech depends on ____.
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The right hemisphere
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136. Comparing the two types of concepts, logical is to ______ as natural is to ______.
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Clear; fuzzy
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137. Chronically high insulin levels lead to increased appetite by ____.
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Causing a high percentage of available glucose to be stored as fat
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138. Children who have mastered ___________ have learned when and how to express emotions.
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Emotional regulation
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139. Chemicals known as ____ and ____ guide neuron migration.
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Immunoglobulins; chemokines
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140. Anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, relieve pain by ____.
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Reducing the release of chemicals from damaged tissues
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141. An individual with damage to the primary somatosensory cortex would most have problems with ____.
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Ability to locate where they are being touched
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142. After a loud noise, information travels from the medulla to the ____, and then to the neck muscles.
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143. Adolescents develop ____ reasoning, which allows them to find weaknesses in arguments.
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144. According to freud, anxiety is typically the result of the control of the _____ being threatened.
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Super ego
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145. ____ is a neurotransmitter that participates in movement, planning, and reward.
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146. Mature-age women in college tend to __________ than mature-age men.
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Experience more interruptions in their academic programs
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147. On average, we are able to remember about __________________ of what we hear.
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148. Negative reinforcement is _____ the same as punishment.
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Always mostly sometimes never.
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149. Middle adolescence is characterized by __________.
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Feelings of invincibility
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150. The origins of gambling are ________ years old
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151. Hunger, arousal, and achievement are three basic _____.
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152. The test-retest and split-half methods are used to determine a test's _____.
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Reliability
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153. The somatosensory cortex serves as the leading edge of the ____ lobe.
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154. Researcher george vaillant found that _____________ is/are what really matter(s) in life.
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Relationships with other people
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155. A rat that is raised in an enriched versus a deprived environment typically develops _____ .
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A thicker cerebral cortex
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156. Memories in our unconscious that affect performance and behavior are known as __________ memories.
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157. Medias impact on learning is __________.
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Both positive and negative
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158. Women on the average have a greater density of neurons in part of the ____.
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Temporal lobe
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159. With the removal of the ovaries, a woman's natural ________ level drops.
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Testosterone
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160. Today, most psychologists take _____ approach to human development.
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An interactionist
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161. To begin using your learning patterns intentionally, it is important to __________.
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Reread your textbook until you have memorized the bold terms
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162. The strongest evidence for a critical period for human language development is the ____.
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Difficulty deaf children have learning sign language if they start late
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163. Researcher observes and counts the number of time the baby smiles. this is a ________________.
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Ratio scale
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164. When we respond to a stimulus as a creator we are likely to ______________________.
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Seek solutions; Take an action; Try something new
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165. The vast, interconnected network of all of the neurons in your body comprises your ________ system.
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166. The term _____ refers to the co-occurrence of both pleasant and unpleasant emotions.
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Emotional complexity
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167. The target stores' "bulls-eye" logo is an example of a _____.
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168. The process of remembering something by repeatedly thinking of it is known as _____.
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Rehearsal
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169. The ________ , present in infants, is an example of a built-in, unlearned fear.
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Moro reflex
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170. Most peoples _____ level peaks before noon, making this the time they are likely to be most _____
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Cortisol; alert.
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171. With regard to developmental themes, your text emphasizes ____.
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The interactions between nature and nurture
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172. When the axons of healthy neurons adjacent to damaged cells grow new branches, _____ has occurred.)collateral
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Collateral sprouting
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173. Watson's contribution to the method of objective testing was ____.
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To argue that the subjects' responses were under the stimulus control of the test items
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174. Watson chose to pursue research with white rats, he said, because he ____.
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Wanted to maintain a close association with biology
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175. Universal norms are to _______ as culture-specific norms are to _______.
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Nature; nurture
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176. Today, about 10 percent of adults in great britain and the united states claim to be _____.
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Left-handed
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177. The results of several studies of facial expressions in people who were born blind suggest ____.
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A major role for genetics as well as environment
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178. The removal of electric shock is to the receipt of money as ________ is to ________.
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Primary reinforcer; secondary reinforcer
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179. The relationship between sleep stage and dreaming is that dreams ____.
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are more frequent and more vivid in REM sleep
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180. The recognition that two different stimuli call for two different responses is known as ____.
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Discrimination
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181. The processing of the self in the brain takes place primarily in ____.
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A widely distributed network of brain structures
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182. The need to take a drug in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms is called ________.
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Physical dependence
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183. The millon clinical multiaxial inventory-iv (mcmi-iv) emphasizes _____.
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Personality disorders
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184. The method of loci, outlines, and acronyms are all examples of _____.
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Pnuemonic devices
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185. The major theme of physical and cognitive development in midlife is ____.
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Stability
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186. The light energy from an object is _______ into neural energy that can be interpreted by the brain.
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Transduced
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187. The left side of the brain notices details, while the right side grasps _____.
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The details; the big picture
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188. The information processing approach is to the connectionist approach as ________ is to ________.
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Serial; parallel.
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189. The increased activity of the amygdala is a reason that young children experience _____.
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Frightening nightmares
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190. The immune system's way of telling the brain that the body is ill is by way of ____.
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Cytokines
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191. The flynn effect is most likely due to the result of changes in _____.
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Education and nutrition.
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192. The flow of ____ ions across the membrane is controlled by the gabaa complex
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Potassium.
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193. The first person to de-condition a learned fear was ____.
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194. Tardive dyskinesia is associated with the long-term use of certain ________ drugs.
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Antipsychotic
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195. States of tension or arousal that arise from a biological need and are unlearned are called _____
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Primary drives
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196. Some psychological disorders occur primarily in one culture. however, ________ occurs worldwide.
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Schizophrenia
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197. Similar to depressed patients, bipolar patients may benefit from a change in their ____.
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Sleep schedule
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198. Scott argued that consumers ____.
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Are not rational beings
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199. Scientists study sleep in sleep labs using _____.
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EEG recordings
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200. One objection to the use of the one-mate strategy in women is that ____.
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In some cases, having multiple sex partners can result in more offspring.
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201. One criticism of watson was that his strict objectivity ____.
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Was hard to achieve.
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202. On a cloudy day, a yellow flower is likely to appear ________ it does on a bright sunny day.
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Equally as yellow as.
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203. Night terrors can be distinguished from nightmares in that night terrors ____.
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Occur during NREM sleep.
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204. Nicotine triggers a(n) ________ in blood pressure and a(n) ________ in pain sensitivity.
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Increase; decrease
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205. Neurotransmitters have distinct molecular shapes; so do the _____ they bind to.
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Receptors.
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206. Neurotransmitters are packaged in sacs called ___________ in the terminal button.
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Synaptic vesicles.
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207. Neurons localized within the ________ control the secretion of glucocorticoids.
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Posterior pituitary
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208. Motives address the fundamental question of the _____ of behavior.
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209. Most people today sleep between _____ hours each night.
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210. Most nerves produce and release _______, chemicals that convey information between nerves.
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Neurotransmitters
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211. Most infants begin babbling about 3-4 ____ after birth.
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Months hours weeks days
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212. Morphine, heroin, and codeine are effective because they imitate the action of our natural ____.
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Endorphins
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213. Morphine and other opiate drugs decrease sensitivity to pain by ____.
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Mimicking the effects of endorphins at the synapses
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214. Morphine and heroin duplicate the action of ____________.
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Endorphins
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215. Modern psychology emerged from philosophy approximately ____ years ago.
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216. Moderate levels of stress, such as meeting new friends, have been shown to _____.
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Be beneficial, as long as supportive moderators are available.
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217. Milgram's research suggests that _____ factors are most important when it comes to obedience.
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Situational
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218. Maximizing _____ cues is a good way to improve your memory of something.
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Retrieval
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219. Marcia is described as a good stress manager because she ____.
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Accepts her limitations.
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220. Low levels of arousal lead to _____ and high levels of arousal lead to _____.
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Reduced behavior efficiency; reduced behavior efficiency
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221. Loss of orexin-containing neurons in the hypothalamus may contribute to ____.
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Narcolepsy
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222. Learning to drive a car is an example of _____ that becomes _____ over time.
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Explicit learning; implicit
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223. Learning reflects _____. maturation reflects _____.
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Nurture, nature.
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224. Laws limiting the number of baby aspirins per container are an example of _____ prevention.
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225. Lateralization refers to the ____.
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Functional asymmetries of the brain.
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226. Language has been defined as a system for communicating thoughts and feelings using ____.
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Arbitrary signals such as voice sounds, gestures
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227. Khler's research on tenerife ____
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Was analyzes based solely.
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228. Khler argued that trial-and-error learning ____.
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Was a consequence of not allowing the subject to see the whole situation
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229. Knowledge of the internal aspects of oneself is termed as _____.
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Intrapersonal intelligence
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230. Keller and marion breland are known for their article, _________.
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Prepared to learn
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231. Katy has red hair. when other people see katy, they assume she has a temper. this illustrates ____.
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Stereotype
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232. A(n) _____ inventory asks about how one would act with others in a variety of situations.
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Social skills
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233. The place theory of perception is analogous to tones produced by ____.
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Stringed instruments
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234. The psychologist who believed that learned behavior could be inherited was _________.
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McDougall.
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235. The placebo effect best illustrates the importance of _____________ in therapeutic outcomes.
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Positive expectation
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236. An obsession is a ________, while a compulsion is a ________.
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Thought; behavior
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237. In a case study, a researcher is most likely to _____.
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Conduct an in-depth study of a single research project
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238. Humans localize low frequencies by ____ differences and high frequencies by ____ differences.
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Phase; loudness
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239. The singular thing or event that catches ones attention is called __________.
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Stimulus.
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240. There is compelling evidence for the role of the hippocampus in ____ memory.
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241. Experts have singled out three primary culprits for the anger epidemic: time, tension, and _____.
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Technology
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242. Experimental research requires that the responses of _____ group(s) be examined.
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At least two
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243. According to dr. hans selye, the third stage of the "stress triad" is known as the ________ stage.
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Exhaustion
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244. A skinner box is most likely to be used in research on ________.
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Operant conditioning
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245. A set of connected ideas support by examples is a(an) ________.
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246. A psychological test that measures what we intend it to measure is said to be ___________.
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247. A predictor variable is generally analogous to a(n) ________ variable in the experimental method.
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Independent
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248. A potential treatment for jet lag is to administer ________ at ________.
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Melatonin; bedtime
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249. A person with broca's aphasia ____.
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Recognizes that something is wrong with grammatically incorrect sentences
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250. A perfect correlation, whether positive or negative, is ________ in the real world.
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Very unlikely to occur
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251. A neuron may have thousands of _____, but can have only one _____.
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Dendrites; axon
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252. A mild degree of pain releases the neurotransmitter ____. a more intense pain also releases ____.
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Glutamate, substance P
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253. Hearing a tone for a split second after the tone has stopped is an example of ____ memory.
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254. Harry and martha frank found that on barrier problems dogs did not perform as well as _________.
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255. Giftedness is an extreme of intelligence defined as having an iq score of ____.
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130 or above
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256. Ghrelin is associated with ____ in the periphery and ____ in the brain.
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Stomach contractions; excitation of the arcuate nucleus
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257. From ________ months old, children are most capable of using simple sentences such as i see.
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258. Consciousness is defined in your text as _____.
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An awareness of oneself and one's surroundings
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259. Compared with boys, girls are more likely to play in ________ groups.
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260. After his surgery, h.m. had the most difficulty with ____.
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being able to define new English words
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261. After his dismissal from johns hopkins, watson ____.
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Published for the American public through popular media
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262. According to your text, some researchers believe autism may be due to _____.
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Corpus callosum
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263. According to the text, the emotions that we feel __________.
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Can sometimes make us feel good when we are humiliated
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264. About half of children whose parents divorce will have a stepparent within _____ years.
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265. A major theme of freud's system, borrowed from darwin, was the ____.
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Importance of the sex drive throughout life
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266. A litmus test for cult organizations is that _____ is/are part of the structure.
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267. A limitation of the experimental method is that ____.
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Participants know that they are in a research study and may vary their behavior accordingly
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268. ________ are habitual targets of displaced aggression.
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Scapegoats
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269. Excessive cost and time required to implement and maintain is characteristic of ________.
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Activity-based costing
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270. Sound waves arriving at a listener first strike the _____.
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Tympanic membrane.
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271. The word blanket has _____ phoneme(s) and _____ morpheme(s).
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Seven; twoc
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272. The primary reason older people receive less neural input is that _____.
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Their senses decline, reducing the sensory input
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273. Some dementias, including _____, begin with impaired motor control.
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Parkinson's disease
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274. According to the drive-reduction theory, we are pushed by our _____ and pulled by our _____.
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Needs; incentives
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275. According to the old model of parent-adolescent relationships, _____.
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Parent-adolescent conflict is intense and stressful throughout adolescence
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276. The principle of auditory grouping called ________ is responsible for melody schema.
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Experience
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277. To avoid rear wheel traction loss on a slippery surface ____________________.
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All of the above
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278. Thorndike's law of effect is most similar to _____'s concept of _____.
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Skinner; positive reinforcement
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279. Titchener's view of the field of psychology was ____.
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Too limited to embrace new work and dimensions
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280. Action potentials move along axons _____.
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More rapidly in myelinated than in non-myelinated axons
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281. A(n) _____ is a learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus due to repeated pairings.
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Conditioned response
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282. Facebook, linkedin, and twitter are examples of ___________.
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Social media providers
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283. Cultivation theory argues that media _____.
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Immersion enculturates people into shared beliefs about the world
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284. Carl rogers maintained that the one basic tendency for humans is to ________.
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Maintain and enhance life
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285. Alfred adlers theory is called _____ because of its emphasis on the uniqueness of the person.
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Individual psychology
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286. According to yalom, __________ is a necessary precondition for effective group therapy.
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Group cohesiveness
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287. _____ is the neurotransmitter most closely linked to learning that certain behaviors are rewarding.
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288. In order for reinforcers to be effective a(n) ______ state must exist for that reinforcer.
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Deprivation
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289. Asking women for dates is most likely to be reinforced on a ________ schedule.
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Variable-ratio
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290. Job satisfaction has a _____ correlation with counterproductive behavior.
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Moderate negative
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291. Afterimages are best explained by the _____ processing theory.
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292. Nicotine activates the same brain areas as _____.
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293. An ________ is a stimulus that indicates that a particular behavior will be reinforced.
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294. _____ has been the most consistent predictor of a secure attachment.
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Parental sensitivity
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295. High achievers prefer job situations with ________.
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Personal responsibility and feedback
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296. Emotions such as relaxation, serenity, and calmness comprise the ________ mood dimension.
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Low negative affect
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297. Cattell's taxonomy included _____ traits.
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298. As compared to high self-monitors, low self-monitors ________.
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Show less commitment to their organizations
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299. Allison chewie felt she was always pressed for time; she was feeling ________.
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Time poverty
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300. A manager with a theory x view of human nature would ________.
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Be unlikely to allow workers to work independently
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301. A brand community is an example of a(n) _____.
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Primary group
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302. ________ emphasizes motivating the worker through the characteristics of the job itself.
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Job Enrichment
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303. ______ is designed to elicit different opinions without inciting people's personal feelings.
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Programmed conflict
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304. _____ pertain(s) to the personal gratification consumers associate with the product or service.
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Psychological needs
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305. A way for sm companies to monetize their application, service, or content is through the ________.
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Freemium revenue model
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306. According to dweck, the best parenting advice one can give to help children succeed is ________
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Constructively criticize and link with praise for effort
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307. Bandura conducted a classic study known as the "bobo" doll study. the term bobo refers to ________.
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The type of inflatable doll that was used in the study
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308. Damage to the frontal lobes, such as that suffered by phineas gage, reliably produces ____.
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Impulsivity and poor judgment
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309. Allen, who has a drug addiction problem, is most likely to be successfully treated by ______.
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Behavior therapy
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310. _____ is utilized when an individual conjures up a sensory experience in their own mind.
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311. According to spencer, the universe operates in accord with ____.
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The principle of the survival of the fittest
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312. Creating and managing content is part of the ________ component from the five components of smis.
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Procedures
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313. _____ is an individual's characteristic response tendencies across similar situations.
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Motivation
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314. The behavioral perspective is to ________ as the psychodynamic perspective is to
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Learning; unconscious processes.
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315. According to freud, _____ is the most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism.
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Repression
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316. __________ can be incurred when the actions of supervisors are the cause for harm.
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Direct liability
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317. _____'s work is the basis for conflict theory.
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Karl Marx
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318. Milder forms of bipolar disorders are known as _____ disorder.
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Cyclothymic
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319. Carl rogers, a leading humanist, developed the approach of ____.
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Client-centered therapy
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320. _____ offers medication and other biological treatments.
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Address psychological
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321. The humanistic perspective represents a reaction to both the _____ and the ______ views.
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Psychoanalytic; behavioral
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322. The dorsal auditory stream terminates in the ________ and is involved in ________ .
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Posterior parietal cortex; sound localization
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323. Securely attached infants tend to show ____ when reunited with a caregiver.
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A need for an extended interaction
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324. The _____ includes the cerebral cortex and several structures beneath it.
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Forebrain
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325. In the harmful dysfunction definition of psychological disorders, dysfunction involves ________.
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The inability of an psychological mechanism to perform its function
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326. The ______________ is to sensory input as an old-fashioned switchboard was to telephone calls.
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327. Individuals who believe they control their own fates display an _____ locus of control.
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328. The new discipline of psychology was the product of the union of ____.
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Philosophy and physiology
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329. For titchener, distinct sensations combined with others to form ____.
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Perceptions and ideas
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330. A graph illustrating the pressure and volume changes during one heartbeat is called the __________.
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Cardiac cycle
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331. For brentano, the primary research method was ____.
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Observation
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332. A word of praise is to a soothing back rub as ________ is to ________.
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Conditioned reinforcer; primary reinforcer
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333. One of the most famous projective tests is the rorschach inkblot test, which is ____.
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More widely used than the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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334. Rescorla's modern concept of classical conditioning is based on the idea that _____
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Information about the coming of the UCS.
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335. According to erikson's theory, the dominant crisis of adolescence concerns _____.
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Establishing an identity
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336. Parasuicide refers to _____.
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A suicide attempt that does not end in death
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337. ________ is not a benefit of flextime.
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Reduced absenteeism
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338. Paychecks and course grades are delivered on a _____ schedule of reinforcement.
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Fixed-ratio.
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339. The kind of generalization your text focuses on is ______.
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Response generalization
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340. To measure forgetting, ebbinghaus used the ____________ method.
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Relearning
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341. The ventral auditory stream terminates in the ________ and is involved in ________.
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Posterior parietal cortex; sound localization
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342. The state we are in when we are awake and reasonably alert is called ________.
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Altered state of consciousness
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343. The reappearance of previously effective behavior during extinction is called ____________.
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Spontaneous recovery
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344. Research indicates that adolescents who work 20 hours a week or more _____.
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Tend to hate their jobs and achieve less in school.
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345. Self-disclosure is most likely to occur _____________.
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During one-on-one conversations.
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346. Infants by age ___ months will imitate acts modeled on television.
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Similar,successful, admirable
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347. The famous bobo doll research was conducted by _____ and showed the power of _____.
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Albert bandura, observational learning
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348. Benzedrine, methedrine, and dexedrine are all ________.
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
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349. Unlike jean piaget, lev vygotsky viewed cognitive development as a __________ process.
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Socially mediated.
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350. In drive theory, inborn is to ______ as experience is to ______.
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Biological drives; primary drives.
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351. The more ________ a society is, the more respect is accorded to its elderly adults.
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Collectivistic.
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352. Research shows that _____ is the most important determinant of therapy outcome.
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The quality of the client's participation
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353. Preschoolers often have trouble tying their shoelaces because they have inadequate _____.
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Fine motor skills
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354. For most people, money and praise are _____ reinforcers.
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Secondary
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355. For girls, menarche is _____.
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A girl's first menstrual period
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356. According to baddeley and hitch, ________.
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Short-term memory itself has different forms.
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357. According to kohlberg _____ is what advances a person's morality.
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358. _____ means helping another person for personal gain, such as to feel good, or avoid guilt.
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359. Paid obituaries in newspapers and roadside memorials illustrate the fact that mourners _____.
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Sometimes want strangers to know about a death
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360. People in stage 4 (n4) sleep ________.
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Sleep apnea
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361. Research indicates that remarried people initially restore all of the following except _____.
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Previous friendships
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362. People are most likely to dislike the taste of ________ foods.
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363. Emotional disgust is to emotional delight as ________ is to ________.
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Right prefrontal cortex activation; left prefrontal cortex activation.
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364. Feelings of hunger are ________ by high levels of pyy and ________ by high levels of leptin.
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Increased; decreased.
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365. Over the next decade, the employment of fitness works is expected to increase by _____.
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366. Your text defines family therapy as a psychological treatment that _____.
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Attempts to change maladaptive interaction patterns among family members
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367. Windigo psychosis is an example of a _____ mental disorder.
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Culture-bound
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368. Whereas psychotherapists generally ____, psychiatrists ____.
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Cannot prescribe medications; can prescribe medications
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369. When child culture conflicts with adult morality, children will _____.
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Align themselves with their peers
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370. To solve a problem in his or her special area, the expert is more likely than the novice to _____.
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Rely on past experiences
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371. The newest antipsychotics are called _____ antipsychotics.
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Atypical.
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372. The most extreme, final form of escape or withdrawal from frustration is ________.
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373. Researchers have discovered that people who are under chronic stress tend to have _____ telomeres.
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Shortened.
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374. Narcolepsy occurs when ________.
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375. In western culture, viewing the deceased as a role model is seen as _____.
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A continuing bond
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376. In problem solving, the term rule of thumb refers to ________.
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Heuristics
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377. In classical conditioning, the ________ signals the impending occurrence of the ________.
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378. Immanuel kant used the terms persistent, steadfast, and calm to describe a ________ person.
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Phlegmatic
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379. Hypnagogic sensations are most closely associated with ________ sleep
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Disinhibitor.
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380. Cocaine is detectible in urine for about ______________ after administration.
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Two to three days.
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381. Center-based day care is common in countries like france, israel, and china, where _____.
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It is heavily subsidized by the governments.
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382. Believers in the information-processing model of memory are likely to agree that ________.
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Studying computers can give you useful insight.
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383. As in early adulthood, __________ tend to be emotionally closest during middle adulthood.
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Sister-sister bonds
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384. After the children are grown, most married couples _____.
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Spend longer hours at work.
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385. Across cultures, a result of near-death experiences is _____.
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An increased fear of death
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386. According to wundt, there were two elementary forms of experience, namely ____.
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Sensation and feelings.
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387. A person will often take a barbiturate as a ________.
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Sleep aid
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388. ________ plays a critical role as a neurotransmitter that stimulates skeletal muscles to contract.
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Acetlycholine
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389. _____ is to easygoing as _____ is to moody.
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Agreeableness; neuroticism.
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390. Twin and adoption studies have found that biology has _____ influence on temperament.
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A moderate.
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391. The puzzle box is traditionally associated with the work of ____.
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Thorndike
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392. The primary reason older people receive less input into their brains is that _____.
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Their senses decline, reducing the sensory input
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393. The different periods in freud's theory of the developing personality are called ____.
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Psychosexual stages
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394. Rollo may sees __________ as being a fundamental aspect of human existence.
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395. Rescorla found that the cs must _________ the ucs for conditioning to take place.
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396. Consistent with james's views, pavlov argued that ____.
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Psychology was not yet a science.
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397. Cognitive control can be observed as early as____________________
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398. As individuals get older, they describe _____ possible selves and portray them in more _____ ways.
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Fewer; concrete
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399. A sample that ________ is most likely to yield generalizable results.
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Is large and randomly selected.
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400. A person's macrosystem includes _____.
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Political processes.
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401. Sensitivity to _____ sounds usually declines first among _____.
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High-pitched; women
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402. Samuel is moody, anxious, and self-punishing. samuel is high in _____.
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Neuroticism
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403. Our sense of taste works when food molecules are ________.
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Dissolvedin a liquid solution.presented
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404. Only _____% of lymphocytes are in circulation at any one time.
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405. Nicotine activates neural mechanisms similar to those activated by _____.
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406. Damage to the amygdala can impair recognition of ________ but not ________.
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Facial emotion expression; recognition of emotion using tone of voice
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407. Behavioral therapies use applications of ____.
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Direct intentionalism.
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408. An approach to learning termed ____ was developed by thorndike.
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Connectionism
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409. All of the following beliefs reflect cognitive flexibility except _____.
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Life plans are static
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410. According to retrieval failure theory, memories stored in ltm are _____.
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Never really forgotten.
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411. According to piaget, the sensorimotor stage begins at _____ and ends at about age _____.
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Birth ; 2 years
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412. A retention of skills and dispositions without conscious recollection is known as ________ memory.
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413. A prediction that comes true because people believe it is called _____.
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A self-fulfilling prophecy.
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414. A marked decrease in brain processing and memory in some older adults may be attributed to _____.
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Inadequate control processes
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415. Jenna tickles her 5-year-old son. this sensory input is first translated into ____.
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Haptic code
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416. Implicit memory formation involves the _____.
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Cerebellum
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417. _____ is characterized by excessive worry and unease concerning multiple aspects of life.
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Generalized anxiety disorder.
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418. Melatonin is to ________ as an aspirin is to ________.
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Insomnia; headache.
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419. All of watson?s methods are based on the concept of ____.
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Observation
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420. In the treatment of long-standing self-injurious behavior, punishment is often ________.
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Ineffective
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421. Selective attention is _____, whereas divided attention is _____.
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Focusing on one thing; focusing on many things
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422. Self-determination, curiosity, challenge, and effort are all _____ in adolescents' motivation.
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Attribution.
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423. In the final scene of fat pig, helen __________________.
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Exoenzymes
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424. In the context of the structure of the eye, the axons of the ganglion cells make up the _____.
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Optic nerve
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425. With sleep deprivation, the levels of leptin ________ and the levels of ghrelin ________.
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Fall; rise.
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426. The part of the neuron whose name literally means "branch" is ________.
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Dendrite.
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427. The boy scouts is an example of an organization that grew out of the _____ school of thought.
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Child protectionist
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428. The actualizing tendency is to _____ as striving for superiority is to _____.
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Carl Rogers; Alfred Adler
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429. The activation-synthesis hypothesis resulted from using ________.
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PET scans
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430. The activation-information-mode model suggests ________.
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Events that occur during waking hours may influence dreams
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431. The __________ perspective emphasizes the human capacity for personal growth.
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Humanistic
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432. Teenage boys who are __________ are just as likely as girls to form intimate same-sex ties.
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Androgynous
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433. Sexual harassment tends to occur when there is a(n) ____ difference between two people.
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434. Senility is to _____ as dementia is to _____.
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Ageism; irreversible, pathological loss of brain functioning
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435. Nicotine triggers a(n) ________ in anxiety and a(n) ________ in mental alertness.
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Increase; increase
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436. Mental representations of previously stored sensory experiences are called _____.
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Mental images
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437. Many fear responses are acquired through the process of _______ conditioning.
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Classical.
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438. If you experience micro sleep,______.
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Pull off the road at a safe place and nap
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439. Green et al. used a ________ from their ________ of interest in order to make a ________.
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Sample; population; generalization
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440. Forward conditioning occurs when the ___________.
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Neutral stimulus is presented immediately before the unconditioned stimulus.
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441. Erikson would suggest that 80-year-old ____ has achieved integrity.
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Christine, who is highly self-affirming.
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442. Episodic memories are affected by damage to the ____.
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Prefrontal cortex
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443. Elnora stuart paired __________ with pleasant scenes.
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Toothpaste
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444. Electroconvulsive therapy (ect) was introduced in the _____; it is used to treat severe _____.
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1930s; depression
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445. Bulimia nervosa is clinically present in _____ percent of young women in the united states.
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446. Brief quotes and short characterizations of the day's events in news coverage are called ________.
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Sound bites
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447. Brain scans of people viewing erotic material reveal a more active ________ in men than in women.
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448. Binet and simon considered children relatively slow if their ________.
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Mental age equals their chronological age
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449. Behaviorists believe that psychologists should focus on _____.
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Observable behaviors.
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450. Autopsies show that the brain of a person with major ncd due to alzheimer's disease _____.
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Has a proliferation of plaques and tangles
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451. As many as _____ of women suffer from bulimia at some point in their lives.
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452. An innate mechanism that assists individuals in the development of language is the __________.
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Language acquisition device (LAD)
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453. An important factor with respect to children coping with adversity is a child's _____.
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Adversity
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454. Allen, who has a drug abuse problem, is most likely to be successfully treated by ________.
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Behavior modification
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455. Activity in the ________ depresses hunger.
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Ventromedial hypothalamus.
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456. According to whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, _____.
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Language influences throught
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457. According to maslow, the motive of self-actualization makes one want ________.
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To fulfill one's inborn potential
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458. A flashbulb memory is one in which _____.
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Vivid images are associated with a surprising or strongly emotional event
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459. A depressive disorder is classified as a(n) _____ disorder.
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460. A basic experiment involves a minimum of ________ participant group(s).
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461. _______________ formed a large part of freud's psychoanalytic method.
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Dream interpretation
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462. __________ is common in middle adulthood.
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Life evaluation
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463. ______ was a clinical psychologist and applied sport psychology professional.
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Bruce Ogilvie
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464. ______ differences are biological and ______ differences are culturally prescribed.
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Parental; sibling
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465. _____ theory is to role relinquishment as _____ theory is to social involvement.
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Disengagement; activity
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466. _____ stimulates the release of norepinephrine and dopamine and also blocks their reuptake.
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Amphetamine
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467. _____ involves extreme weight loss due to an obsessive fear of obesity and self-imposed starvation.
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Anorexia nervosa
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468. _____ are marked by excessive guilt, withdrawal, or fearfulness.
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Internalizing problems
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469. _____ aggression aims to hurt only as a means to some other end.
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Instrumental
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470. ____ used the binet test at ellis island to restrict the entry of immigrants to the united states.
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471. _____ uses psychological rather than biological means to treat psychological disorders.
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Insight therapy
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472. The content of the unconscious mind is the focus of ________ therapy.
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Psychoanalytic
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473. According to freud, the _____ holds painful memories and is the source of psychological disorders.
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Reality principle
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474. According to sigmund freud, _____ mental processes occur without a person being aware of them.
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Unconscious
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475. As a result of freud's analysis of his own dreams, he recognized ____.
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All of the above
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476. Money is an important coping resource because _____.
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It increases your options for eliminating stressors or reducing stress
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477. Irreversibility refers to the preoperational child's tendency to _____.
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Believe that what has been done
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478. In the _____ stage of alzheimer disease, patients may not eat or talk.
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479. The term andropause, or male menopause, is sometimes used to refer to _____.
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The age-related reduction in testosterone
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480. Tia has a bmi of 40. she would be classified as _____.
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Morbidly obese.
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481. The most common defense mechanism is _____.
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Repression
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482. The inability to move limbs in catatonic schizophrenia illustrates _____ symptoms of schizophrenia.
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483. Older adults have _____ vocabularies but _____ fluency.
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Extensive; limited
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484. Most teacher-directed preschool programs stress _____.
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Academics.
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485. The type of grief that impedes a person's future life is called _____ grief.
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Complicated.
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486. The explanation of the pre that puts greatest emphasis on internal cues is the ________ hypothesis.
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Frustration
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487. According to the text, sociodramatic play may help children to develop _____.
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Antisocial behavior.
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488. A(n) _____ is a mental representation of spatial locations and directions.
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Cognitive map
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489. A subliminal stimulus refers to any stimulus that _____.
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Is presented below the threshold of a person's conscious awareness.
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490. A child's cognitive understanding of sex differences would be his or her _____.
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Gender schema.
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491. __________ tends to decline only slightly in middle adulthood.
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Frequency of sexual activity
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492. Worldwide, only about 15 percent of infants receive daily care from _____.
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A paid, trained, nonrelative caregiver.
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493. An undersupply of the major inhibitory neurotransmitter known as ________ is linked to seizures.
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494. According to freud, the ego is guided by the _____, whereas the id is guided by the _____.
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The reality principle; the pleasure principle
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495. According to famed hypnosis researcher _____.
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Hilgard, hypnosis
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496. According to _____, the highest level of personal development is called self-actualization.
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497. About _____ as many boys as girls are classified as having a learning disability.
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Three times
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498. A biased sample consists of too many ________ cases.
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499. A _____ reinforcement schedule gives the reinforcer after a varying number of responses.
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Variable-ratio
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500. _____ may be the most crucial difference between a skilled and an unskilled person.
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501. _____ is a feeling of fullness that has an effect on the perception of hunger.
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Satisfaction
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502. _____ is a common condition because many elderly people take many different prescription drugs.
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Polypharmacy
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503. The most common reversible condition that is mistaken for neurological disorder is _____.
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Depression; malnutrition, dehydration, brain tumors, physical illness, and overmedication
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504. A rule for hiring a set number of people from a minority group is____.
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A quota Explanation:Part
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505. Bullying differs from ordinary aggression because bullying attacks are _____.
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Repeated.
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506. Approximately _____ of those who suffer from anorexia nervosa literally starve themselves to death.
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507. The first to apply psychology to personnel selection was ____.
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508. _____ expressed the belief that adolescents must rebel in order to become healthy adults.
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Sigmund Freud
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509. Vygotsky viewed _____ as being crucial to children's development of skills and knowledge.
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Instruction
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510. A key factor that strengthens a preschooler's cognition is _____.
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Having an older sibling.
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511. ________ is (are) a common landmark or reference point used for stereotaxic surgery.
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512. About _____ percent of females with aids contracted it through rape.
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513. A century ago, the average lifespan worldwide was _____ years.
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514. ________ are not a component of the somatosenses
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Hair cells within the cochlea
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515. For a scientific explanation to be testable, it must also be ________.
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Perceivable and measurable
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516. The fact that many elderly people take many different medications means that _____.
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The drugs can interact and produce adverse reactions
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517. After receiving a reward for escaping the puzzle box, the cats ________.
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Appeared to enjoy the box more
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518. The practice of ________ is based on the application of operant conditioning principles.
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Behavior modification
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519. The word chimps contains ________ phoneme(s) and ________ morpheme(s).
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Semantics.
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520. Foolish conformity to peer pressure is most likely to be motivated by ________ needs
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Belongingness
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521. Drive-reduction theorists would say that getting a haircut to look attractive is a(n) ________.
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Primary. Thirst, sexual desire, and hunger
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522. A toddler in freud's anal stage would also be at erikson's _____.
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Autonomy versus shame and doubt stage.
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523. ____ is a technique with which you try to prepare for all possible errors before they occur.
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Defensive programming
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524. A main symptom in lewy body disease is loss of _____.
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Inhibition
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525. Resistance to extinction is most strongly encouraged by ________ reinforcement.
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Intermittent
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526. _____ assume(s) that maladaptive behavior can result from irrational thoughts, beliefs, and ideas
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Cognitive behavior therapies (CBT)
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527. Psychology as a hub science tells us that ____.
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Many disciplines require an in-depth understanding of people.
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528. __________ can keep you alert and sharpen your concentration
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Stress response.
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529. Humanistic psychologists believe that psychological disorders result when _____
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NOT self-actualization is attained too early.
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530. The creator of monadology was ____.
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531. Freud's self-analysis was precipitated by ____.
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The worsening of his own neurotic symptoms.
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532. Experimental research on freudian theory has shown that ____.
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Some of his concepts are testable by the methods of science
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533. A slot machine is an example of a _____ reinforcement schedule.
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Variable ratio
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534. Introspection refers to a process by which someone examines ________ as objectively as possible.
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Another person's consciousness
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535. Freud's investigative approach was ____.
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To consider evidence as he alone interpreted it.
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536. A basic difference between psychoanalysis and the other systems of psychology was that ____.
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The other systems had an academic background and a focus on pure science
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537. In response to the u.s. invasion of cambodia, congress _____.
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Forbade the use of U.S. troops in Cambodia and Laos
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538. In freud's system, personality development is built on the ____.
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Psychosexual stages.
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539. Thorndike used ____ measures of learning to record his data.
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Quantitative
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540. Freud proposed that neurotic behavior did not develop in persons who ____.
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Led a normal sex life
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541. Depression is a stage of grieving in which __________.
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All of the above
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542. Coping with loss __________.
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Happens all at once.
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543. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences divides intelligence into ________ independent abilities
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Naturalist
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544. The feeling of fullness you get once you have ingested enough food is called _____.
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545. Observational learning theory's foremost proponent is ________.
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546. A key feature of the apple lisa was its use of _______________.
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Graphical user interface
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547. A common characteristic of service jobs is that they ________.
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Need substantial interaction with an organization 's customers
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548. Our ________ is said to be a gauge of how socially accepted we feel.
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Self-esteem
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549. _____ involves retaining information over time.
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550. Self-report tests are most closely associated with the _____ perspective of personality.
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551. The first visible signs of senescence are usually observed in a person's _____.
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552. If you experience microsleep __________
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Pull off the road at a safe place and nap
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553. Information released through pretrial publicity is often _____ at trial.
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Inadmissible
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554. Workplace stress diminishes all of the following except _____.
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Positive emotions
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555. When one thinks of "value judgment" in relation to personality, one is thinking about ________.
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Character
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556. Twin and adoption studies are helpful for assessing the ________ of intelligence.
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Heritability
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557. Trait anxiety refers to _________ anxiety, whereas state anxiety refers to __________ anxiety.
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General; momentary
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558. The written exam for a driver's license would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test.
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Achievement
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559. The unshared environment in studies of personality refers to differences in _____.
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Aspects of the environment that differ between individuals within a family
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560. The two most profound influences on the growth of clinical psychology as a specialty were ____.
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World War II and the VA hospital system.
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561. The three components of ______ are affective, cognitive, and behavioral.
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Attitude.
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562. The technique of telling consumers to "use brand x!" is traceable to ____ law of ____.
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Scott's; suggestibility
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563. The stanford-binet 5 is to _____ as the wais-iv is to _____.
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Internal consistency within subtests and indices,
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564. The question the group is asking during the forming stage of group development is _____
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Why are we here
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565. The pygmalion effect is based on the concept of ________.
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Self-concordance
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566. The principle by which the id operates is called the _____ principle.
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Pleasure; reality.
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567. The cultivation effect (also known as "mean world" syndrome) argues that ______.
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People who consider television watching an
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568. The controller role in a team is responsible for ________.
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Examining details and enforcing rules.
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569. Social media (sm) providers host the sm presence using ________ in the cloud.
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Number of Relationships × Relationship Strength × Entity Resources
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570. Social loafing occurs most likely as a result of ________________.
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It occurs when people go along with the behavior of others in order to be accepted by the group.
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571. People who are ?agreeable? are more likely to have _____.
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Fewer medical complaints
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572. Passivity can harm relationships because those who are passive _______.
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Have open relationships with others
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573. Owners of tvs with a ________ can identify and block objectionable programming.
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574. Outgoing and sociable describe aspects of the _____ factor of the five-factor model.
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Extroversion.
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575. On the thematic apperception test, people are asked to look at an ambiguous scene and ______.
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Tell a story about what has, is, and will happen in the scene.
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576. M?nsterberg was best known ____.
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Through his publications in the popular press on applied psychology
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577. Motivation has a _____ effect on job performance.
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Strong positive.
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578. Most children with autism spectrum disorder show signs in _____.
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579. Mens rea refers to _____, whereas actus reus refers to _____.
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A guilty mind; a criminal act.
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580. Mbo emphasizes goals that are ________.
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Tangible, verifiable, and measurable
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581. Job enrichment is based on the _________ theory of job satisfaction.
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Herzberg's motivator-hygiene.
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582. Interviews can be reliable and valid selection tools as long as they are ________.
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Effective interviewing - interview
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583. Intellectually gifted people score in the top _____ percent on a standard iq test.
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584. Hermann rorschach introduced what has become the most widely used ________ test.
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Projective
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585. Hard work is a necessary component of a positive attitude because _______.
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Positive thinking is a habit you have to build up over time
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586. Freud's ideas such as id, ego, superego, repression, and unconscious forces ____.
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Are very difficult to test experimentally
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587. Freud used dream analysis and hypnosis to gain access to the _____ mind.
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Unconscious
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588. Freud believed that the oedipus complex produces _____ in little boys and _____ in little girls.
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Castration anxiety; penis envy
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589. Frederick herzberg's two-factor theory proposes that ________.
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590. For freud, the moral guardian of personality is the ______.
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591. Fechner's most important contribution to psychology was the ____.
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Quantification of the mind-body relationship
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592. Defensive self-esteem is to fragility as _____ self-esteem is to sturdiness.
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593. Carl rogers considered someone to be psychologically well adjusted if he or she __________.
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Unconditional positive regard.
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594. Beethoven is to ______________ as van gogh is to ______________.
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Musical intelligence; spatial intelligence.
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595. As a restriction to most flextime programs, most employers require flextime employees to _________.
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Job sharing
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596. Applications, résumés, interviews, and employment tests are known as ______ tools.
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Selection
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597. Another word for discriminant validity is ________ validity.
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Divergent
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598. An unsuccessful resolution of the toilet training conflict may result in an adult who is _____.
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Anal-retentive or anal-expulsive
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599. All of the following are ways in which sports psychologists help athletes except __________.
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Enhancing memory
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600. Aerobic exercise _____ the body's production of serotonin and _____ its production of endorphins.
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Increases; increases
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601. According to psychologists, memory is a _____-part component process.
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602. According to herzberg, __________ influence job dissatisfaction.
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Hygiene factors.
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603. According to eysenck, _____ is related to low physiological arousal.
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The Behavioral Activation System
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604. According to dan mcadams, our _____ are our identities.
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Life stories
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605. According to alfred adler, feelings of _____ are universal during infancy and childhood.
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Inferiority.
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606. About ________ percent of wais scores fall between 70 and 130.
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607. A series of symmetrical stimuli is to picture what _____ is to _____.
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Rorschach; TAT
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608. A person's responses to a projective test are thought to reflect ________.
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Unconditional positive regard
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609. ________ (irb) reviews research that is conducted using human participants
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Institutional Review Board
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610. _____ refer to direct contacts between the firm and a customer.
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Touchpoints
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611. _____ is the component of personality that encompasses our positive and negative self-evaluations.
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Self- esteem
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612. ____ read online forums, read blogs, and listen to podcasts.
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Spectators
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613. According to freud, the _____ accounts for unconscious aggressive and destructive impulses.
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Death instinct.
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614. Opiate drugs affect synapses in the brain that use _____ as their neurotransmitter.
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Endorphin.
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615. Skinner claimed that he studied ____ while pavlov studied ____.
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Operant behavior; respondent behavior
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616. Parents who set strict boundaries and show little warmth reflect a(n) _____ parenting style.
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Authoritarian.
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617. Research describing a link between childhood vaccines and autism has been ________.
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Retracted due to a financial conflict of interest
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618. Marcy is in a car accident. this is an example of a(n) ________ stressor.
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619. Alcoholics anonymous is a particularly well-known ______.
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Self-help group
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620. In adolescence, __________ parenting predicts high self-esteem.
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Diffused.
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621. Rewards and punishments are _____ in adolescents' motivation.
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Extrinsic factors.
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622. A psychic claims he can predict the future. this is known as _____.
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Precognition
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623. To be considered a stimulant, a drug must ________ mental activity and ________ physical activity.
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Increase;increase
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624. Women are _____ as likely as men to experience episodes of severe unipolar depression.
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Two times.
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625. An advantage of algorithms over heuristics is that ________.
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Algorithms guarantee a correct answer if one is available
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626. A conflict between the id and the ego results in _____ anxiety.
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Neurotic.
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627. Medication, electroconvulsive shock therapy, and psychosurgery are all types of ______.
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Biomedical therapy
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628. Fisher and harris found that observers learned more when a model _______.
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Frowned and shook her head
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629. Research suggests that children raised in households in which parents are homosexual __________.
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Show no differences in eventual adjustments
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630. Pavlov's conditioned reflexes require ____ for learning to occur.
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S-R connections
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631. To retain information in working memory, individuals must _____.
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Process the information
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632. Salivating at the presentation of food is an example of _____.
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633. When developmentalists use the term expert, they usually mean a person who _____.
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Is significantly better than others at performing a certain task.
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634. All of the following are examples of physiological motives or drives except ___________.
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635. With regard to paid work, older employees tend to have _____ compared to younger employees.
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Less absenteeism.
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636. A concept of bandura that reflects one's beliefs about one's own adequacy is ____.
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Self-efficacy
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637. The result of the ego's failure to satisfy both id and superego is _____.
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Conscious anxiety
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638. Mdma and lysergic acid diethylamide are _____.
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Hallucinogens.
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639. Nature is to nurture what _____ reinforcers are to _____ reinforcers.
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Positive; negative.
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640. Perhaps the broadest, most integrative approach in psychology is the _____ perspective.
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Biopsychosocial.
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641. A driver with a learner's permit is limited to _____ passengers under the age of 21.
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642. A health psychologist who is using biofeedback with a patient is most likely treating _____.
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Alcohol dependence
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643. Neuroleptic drugs _____.
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Are antianxiety drugs.
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644. If this causes that, then this is the _____ variable, and that is the _____ variable.
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Independent; dependent.
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645. In rogerian therapy, the role of the therapist is to _____.
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Provide an accepting environment for a client's free exploration of important thoughts and feelings
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646. With respect to the neuron, receiver is to transmitter as _____ is to _____.
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Dendrite;axon
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647. When you use a knife as a screwdriver, you have _____.
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Overcome functional fixedness
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648. When you group subcategories within broader concepts or categories, you are creating _____.
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Hierarchies
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649. When the axons of healthy neurons adjacent to damaged cells grow new branches, _____ has occurred.
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Collateral sprouting
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650. Vending machine is to slot machine what _____ reinforcement is to _____ reinforcement.
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Primary; secondary
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651. Used excessively, defense mechanisms can be dangerous because they _____.
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Distort reality.
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652. The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is an example of _____
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Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
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653. The three steps in systematic desensitization include all of the following except _____.
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Practicing relaxation to anxiety-arousing stimuli,
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654. The theory of sleep that best explains why bears hibernate all winter is the _____ theory.
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Adaptation/protection
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655. The surface description of a dream is called the _____ content.
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Manifest.
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656. The sense of _____ is the most dangerous aspect of adolescent egocentrism.
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Invincibility
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657. The response of scientific psychology to psychoanalysis by the 1950s and 1960s was to ____.
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Reframe Freud's concepts in behavioral terms
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658. The reduction in ability to retrieve rarely used information over time is called ____.
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659. The psychometric approach to studying cognitive development analyzes intelligence using _____.
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Intelligence.
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660. The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with ________ memory.
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Long-term
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661. The neonate's brain is about __________ the size of an adult's brain.
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662. The gestalt protest against wundt's system focused on his ____.
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Elementism
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663. The first doctoral dissertation in psychology to use animal subjects was that of ____.
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Thorndike
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664. The development of __________ reaches its height in midlife.
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Expertise
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665. Shy and reserved would fall within the _____ factor of the five-factor model.
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Extraversion.
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666. About _____% of individual differences in aggressive behavior can be attributed to genetic factors.
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667. Out of sight, out of mind can describe the behavior of a child who lacks the concept of _____.
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Object permanence.
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668. Schaie's cross-sequential research on intellectual development studied _____.
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Verbal meaning, spatial orientation, inductive reasoning, number ability, and word fluency
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669. Reinforcement is meant to _____ the frequency of a behavior.
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Positive reinforcement
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670. Involuntary, automatic, innate responses to stimuli are called __________ behaviors.
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Reflex behaviors.
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671. Conditions of worth are to _____ as fixations are to _____
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Extraversion
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672. B. f. skinner believed that _____ reinforcement was the best way to shape desirable behavior.
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Positive reinforcement
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673. Atypical antipsychotics affect both _____ and _____ levels in certain parts of the brain.
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Serotonin; dopamine
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674. As people age, their friendships tend to _____.
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675. According to the fuzzy trace theory, the _____ consists of the precise details of the information.
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Verbatim memory trace.
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676. A(n) _________________ is a memory aid that helps people recall important information.
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Memory enhancement device
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677. Research shows that behavioral therapy is roughly _____% more effective than no treatment at all.
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678. Most people think that they are _____ famous people like oprah winfrey.
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Happier than.
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679. Linguists have identified more than _____ different phonemes among all the world's languages.
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More than 800
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680. The mere exposure effect provides one possible explanation for why _____ increases attraction.
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Proximity
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681. Schachter suggests that people rely on ____ cues to label their emotional states.
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External.
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682. Retroactive interference, as used in the study of memory, refers to when _________.
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Older information already in memory interferes with the retrieval of newer information
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683. Religiously active aids patients ________ than do their nonreligious counterparts.
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Survive longer
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684. Owen is a type b personality. owen would be characterized by _____ behavior.
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Noncompetitive
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685. Neurotransmitters find their way to __________ and subsequently affect the next neuron.
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Receptor sites
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686. Most infants develop a(n) _____ attachment relationship with their caregiver(s).
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687. Medication for psychological disorders is generally prescribed by _____, who have _____ degrees.
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Serotonin and norepinephrine.
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688. Intelligence that reflects the ability to reason abstractly is termed _____ intelligence.
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689. In the strange situation, a sign of insecure attachment might be _____.
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Crying and unable to be comforted when Mother returns
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690. In a _____, the cheek muscles are pulled back, and the muscles around the eyes also contract.
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691. Feelings of hunger accompany ________ levels of blood glucose and ________ levels of ghrelin.
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Low; high
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692. Developmentalists have demonstrated that social learning takes place _____.
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Throughout life.
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693. Cones are concentrated in the _____ and specialized for _____.
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Fovea; color vision and visual acuity
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694. Compared to formal concepts learned in science and math, natural concepts tend to be ________.
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Fuzzy with unclear boundaries.
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695. Carl jung emphasized the importance of the _____ in personality functioning.
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The collective unconscious
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696. Besides sexual and aggressive forces, jung believed the unconscious contained _____.
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Positive and spiritual motives
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697. As the united states moves increasingly toward high-stakes testing, _____.
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Some nations are following suit and others are moving away from it.
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698. Anterograde amnesia is to ____ as retrograde amnesia is to ____.
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Loss of memory for old events;inability to form new memories
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699. An example of stage-three sensorimotor behavior is _____.
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Looking for a smile and smiling back
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700. Aggression used to obtain a toy or other object is _____.
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Instrumental.
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701. Adoptive parents are least likely to influence the ________ of their adopted children.
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Personality traits
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702. According to your textbook, motivation _____ behavior and emotion _____.
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Energizes
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703. According to your text, the major objective of the mmpi-2 is to _____.
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Assist in the diagnosis of psychological disorders.
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704. According to your text, one of the best definitions of personality is your _____.
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Unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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705. According to the cognitive theory of motivation, _____ influence our goal-directed behavior.
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Attributions and expectancies
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706. According to freud's psychoanalytic theory, the electra complex causes girls to _____.
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Adore their father and resen.t their mother
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707. According to freud's psychoanalytic theory, the ego abides by the _____ principle.
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708. According to freud, the result of conflict between the id and superego is ___________.
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709. According to _____, one reason that people forget is because they are repressing painful memories.
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710. Abraham maslow maintains that older adults are _____.
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More likely than younger people to reach self-actualization
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711. A rat with hippocampal damage has difficulty with the morris water maze because it ____.
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Has difficulty remembering where the platform is from
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712. _____ therapies aim to increase awareness of one's self and environment.
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Behavioral
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713. Lsd and ecstasy influence the operation of the neurotransmitter _____ in the brain.
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Serotonin
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714. Just as chunking is a form of stm organization, _____ is (are) a form of ltm organization.
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Hierarchies
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715. During the elementary school years, children grow an average of _____ inches a year.
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716. In the context of types of therapy, client-centered therapy follows a _____ approach.
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Nondirective
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717. Evolutionary psychologists are most directly concerned with the impact of ________ on behavior.
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Genetic predispositions.
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718. During the past 50 years, advances in medicine have solved about half of all _____.
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Fertility problems
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719. A patient with pelvic inflammatory disease will typically complain of _________.
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Abdominal pain associated with menstruation
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720. The semantics of the sentence "he ran" refer to its ________.
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721. In childhood, how children react to a serious stressor depends primarily on _____.
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Accumulated stress.
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722. Food is considered a primary reinforcer, whereas ________ is a secondary reinforcer.
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723. A delusion is a(n) ____.
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Sensory experience that does not correspond to reality
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724. A behavior pattern that is unlearned and found in almost all members of a species is called _____.
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An instinct
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725. Cocaine may ________ symptoms of schizophrenia by ________ dopamine levels.
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Eliminate; decreasing
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726. A disorder that may result from abnormal development of the corpus callosum is _____
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Autism spectrum disorder
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727. All of the following terms are used in social identity theory except _______________.
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Control group.
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728. A(n) __________ is a visual aid that summarizes a large block of information, usually in list form.
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Chart table
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729. Eyewitness testimony, diary entries, interviews, and surveys are examples of ______ sources.
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730. The person most closely associated with the law of effect is ________.
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Thorndike
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731. The _____ suggests that schizophrenia is caused by an overactivity of dopamine neurons.
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Dopamine hypothesis
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732. The cognitive learning concept of _____ learning is associated most prominently with _____.
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Latent; Tolman
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733. The chimpanzee in kohler's insight experiment _____.
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Sat for a while, then used a stick to bring the banana within reach
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734. The availability heuristic is a rule of thumb in which ____.
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The frequency of an event's occurrence is predicted by the ease with which the event is brought to mind
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735. The amygdala is involved in the recognition of ________communicated via ________.
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Fear; facial expression
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736. The aim of _____ therapy is to replace maladaptive behaviors by applying learning principles.
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737. Texture gradient refers to the fact that texture appears to become ________.
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Less detailed in the distance
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738. Susan beal hypothesized that _____ played a role in sids deaths.
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Sleeping position
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739. _____ approaches to psychotherapy tend to be more successful than do _____ approaches.
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Cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic
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