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100

The sharing of information about oneself is referred to as

A. social exchange

B. experience sampling

C. communal sharing

D. self-disclosure

E. authority ranking

What is...

d. self-disclosure

100

Marc recently moved to an area that experienced a large number of tornadoes, which frightened him greatly. Every time a storm containing high winds emerged, the lights in his home flickered. When the lights in his home flickered on a clear day, he became quite fearful and searched for a safe place to hide. What is the conditioned stimulus in this scenario? 

A. high winds

B. lights flickering 

C. hiding place

D. Storms

E. Fear

What is...

b. lights flickering

100

If a psychological disorder has a genetic basis , one would expect to find the highest concordance rate for the illness between which of the following? 

A. Mother and child

B. Father and child

C. Identical twins

D. Fraternal twins

E. Nontwin siblings

What is...

D. Identical twins

200

When Persuasive communications follow the peripheral route, they focus on which of the following? 

A. Beliefs

B. Facts

C. Values.

D. Emotions

E. Cognitions

What is...

D. Emotions

200

Organizing the sting of letters B-F-J-T-A-V-K-C into JFK-TV-CAB is an example of..

A. Simplifying

B. Clustering

C. Seriating

What is...

D. Chunking

200

When stress is prolonged the most likely result is

A. generalized weakening of the immune system

B. damage to brain areas within the pons and medulla

C. an increase in the level of naturally produced endorphins

D. intensification of the effects of natural killer cells 

E. an increase in the number of T cells 

What is...

A. generalized weakening of the immune system

300

Th Preference for loosely knit social frame-work in which individuals are only responsible for the care of their children and themselves is known as:

A. collectivism

B. individualism

C. ethnocentrism

D. egocentrism 

E. interactionism

What is...

B. individualism

300

Patients with bilateral damage to the hippocampal formation are tested on motor learning tasks such as the Tower of Hanoi. Studies show that the patients improve their performance with repeated exposures. When asked whether they have ever seen the task, even after numerous test sessions with it, they typically report not having seen it before. Such results have led to which of the following conclusions? 

A. Patients with hippocamplan injury suffer from confabulation similar to korsakoff's patients

B. The inability to remember the Tower of Hanoi reflects a fundamental lesion-induced inhability to name objects 

C. Although procedural memory may not rely on normal hippocampal functioning, declarative memory does. 

D. Hippocampal injury enhances the acquisition of tasks relying on motor learning.

E. Whereas procedural memory is severely impaired after hippocampal injury, reference memory is intact. 

What is...

C. Although procedural memory may not rely on normal hippocampal functioning, declarative memory does.

300

The ability of a postsynaptic neuron to respond to the presence of a particular neurotransmitter that is released from a presynaptic neuron is dependent on which of the following conditions?

A. The storage of the neurotransmitter in the presynaptic neuron

B. the ability of the neurotransmitter to penetrate the membrane of the postsynaptic neuron 

C. The presence of receptors on the postsynaptic neuron that have an affinity for that particular neurotransmitter

D. whether or not the neurotransmitter is excitatory or inhibitory

E. whether or not the postsynaptic neuron has an axon that is myelinated

What is...

C. The presence of receptors on the postsynaptic neuron that have an affinity for that particular neurotransmitter

300

According to the DSM-5, children with separation anxiety disorder often experience which of the following symptoms in addition to excessive fear or anxiety over separation from attachment figures? 

A. excessive concern about the safety and well-being of attachment figures

B. Persistent desire to develop relationships with adults other than those who serve as major attachment figures

C. Pervasive anxiety about failure in school or social situations

D. Perceptual delusions that the childs parents have been replaced with physically identical imposters 

E. irresistabele urges to perform and repeat a certain act over and over again

A

400

According to a current model, learned helplessness in humans is determined by causal explanations of prior uncontrollable events. These causal explanations are referred to as 

A. aggregation

B. attributions

C. circular reasoning

d. personal constructs

e. valuations 

What is... 

B. attributions

400

The neural hub of the central executive portion of working memory is thought to be located in the

A. prefrontal cortex

B. somatosensory cortex

C. brainstem

D. temporal lobe

E. occipital lobe

What is...

A. prefrontal cortex

400

Which of the following is chemically similar to opiates, has the ability to reduce pain, and is blocked by the action of naloxone?

A. Norepinephrine

B. Acetylcholine

C. Serotonin 

D. Endorphin

E. Dopamine

What is... 

D. Endorphin 

400

Consider the sentence "The dishwasher is running." Which of the following is true?

A. It can have more than one surface structure.

B. It can have more than one deep structure

C. It is grammatically incorrect

D. It can have more than one syntax

E. It violates the rules of bottom-up processing 

What is...

B.  It can have more than one deep structure

400

104 

D

500

Which of the following statements describes normative influence?

 A. The process by which we come to evaluate and know others

B. The tendency for impressions of others to be heavily influenced by information gathered early in an interaction

C. A set of theories describing how people explain causes of behavior 

D. Conformity motivated by a fear of social rejection

E. conformity motivated by the belief that others are correct

What is...

D. Conformity motivated by a fear of social rejection

500

Which of the following is the best example of the categorical perception of human speech? 

A. Listeners are able to categorize speech samples in terms of the gender of the speaker.

B. Listeners are able to categorize a stream of words into a series of distinct words, because they can identify the brief pauses that appear between words.

C. When a sound is presented that is intermediate between the phonemes /b/ and /p/, listeners report that they heard either a distinct /b/ or a distinct /p/.

D. During speech perception, listeners automatically place phonemes into one of two categories, vowels or consonants. 

E. After hearing a sentence, people process each word and make decisions about the word's function within that sentence. 

What is...

C. When a sound is presented that is intermediate between the phonemes /b/ and /p/, listeners report that they heard either a distinct /b/ or a distinct /p/.

500

The bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity, and tremors that characterize Parkinson's disease are a result of the degeneration of dopaminergic cells in the 

A. association cortex

B. Cerebellum

C. hippocampus

D. reticular formation

E. substantia nigra 

What is...

E. Substantia nigra