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Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that men are ______ likely than women to prefer mates with a fertile looking appearance and _____ likely than women to prefer mates with walth and social status

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A. More; less

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The brain and spinal cord make up the

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B. Central nervous system

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Which perspective would focus on the extent to which different styles of parenting are encourages among various ethnic communities

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C. Social cultural

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Karen Horney emphasized that childhood anxiety is caused by

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C. a sense of helplessness

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When stoyka was a child a brain disease required the surgical removal of her left cerebral hemisphere. Stoyka is now a successful high school student who live a normal life. Her success illustrates the importance of

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D. Plasticity

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When touching a hot surface Tom removes his hand from it which neurons received such sensory data

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C. Afferent neurons

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Rachel is driven to obtain her personal goal of being the top student in her AP psychology class. Rachel would most likely brought up in a _____ culture.

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B.individualistic

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A thick, Slightly curved structure extends from just above the cerebellum it allows the left and right hemisphere to communicate with each other

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C. Corpus callosum

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Research into do dual processing provides a partial evidence for levels of consciousness similar to the levels first described by which psychologist

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C. Sigmund Freud

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aJ's opinions are so dependent on what her friends think that she will swallow just about anything they tell her Freud would have suggested that demonstrates a

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A. Fixation

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Your friend is taking her for a psychology class she comes to you saying I don't understand why we are studying the brain I thought this was a psychology class because of your background psychology your best response should be

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A. Everything psychological is simultaneously biological

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Research has shown that frequent use of marijuana in adolescents can damage the _____ which may cause delays in problem-solving and analytical thinking

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C.frontal lobe

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Corpus callosum is Latin for___ and is in charge of ____

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A. Tough body; communication between the left and right hemispheres

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A sea horse looking structure that is associated with memory appears to wrap around the Thalamus bulb for midbrain

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B. Corpus callosum

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Self actualized people as described by Maslow are especially likely to

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E. Be open and spontaneous

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Which theorists have been most directly criticized for underestimating the variability of behavior from situation to situation

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B. Trait

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Which area of psychology might be best suited to investigate the following research question what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events and how does this process affect behavior

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D. Cognitive neuroscience

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Psychologists' personal values and goals

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B. Can bias their observations and interpretations

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What is the primary limitation of the case study research method

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C. Individual cases can be misleading and result in false generalization

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For several months after he lost the job he had held for nearly 20 years Mr. Moran frequently lost his temper and suffered periodic crying spells his behavior is most clearly an example of

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C. Regression

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The Oedipus complex is the term used by Freud to describe

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A. Boys' feelings of guilt and fear of punishment over their sexual desire for their mother

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The reproductive advantage enjoyed by organisms best suited to a specific environment is known as

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C. Natural selection

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Part of the brain that releases Melatonin and is in charge of activating mechanisms necessary for sleep

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A. Pineal gland

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Forgotten memories that we can easily recall were said by Freud to be

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C. Preconscious

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The auditory hallucinations experienced by people which schizophrenia are most closely linked with the activation of areas in which brain area

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C. Temporal lobes

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Which statement best exemplifies contemporary psychology a understanding of the nature-nurture issue?

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E. Depression is a disorder of the brain and of thought

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In a distribution of test scores which measure of central tendency would likely be in the most affected by a couple of extremely high scores

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A. Mean

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Celine recently had a vivid dream that was strikingly similar to an ancient but unfamiliar religious myth. This coincidence would have been of particular interest to

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A. Carl Jung

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When asked to describe a picture that showed two boys behind a woman's back a patient replied mother is away her work her work to get her better when she's booking their two boys working the other part which brain region has most likely been damaged

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A. Wernicke's area

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To assess how optimistic or pessimistic your classmates are you would be best advised to discover

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C. how they explain their academic failures and relationship difficulties

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Which type of psychologist most directly investigates the biological activity and our thinking and behavior

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E. Biological psychologist

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In the context of debates regarding the origins of knowledge Aristotle is to____ as Plato is to ____

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D. Nurture; nature

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George was worried about his bakeries you cupcakes after two customers like them on the first day for when he surveyed his customers over the next week more than 90% of the customers that they loved them by giving too much weight to those two customers before the survey George almost committed an error known as

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E.sampling bias

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Epinephrine and no epinephrine is released by the

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E. Adrenal glands

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The speed at which neural impulse travels is increased when the axon is encase by a(n)

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B. Myelin sheath

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To discover the extent to which economic status can be used to predict political preferences, researchers are most likely to use

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A. Correlational measures

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Mrs. Brown uses her knowledge of a person's cognitive processes to design computer programs that are easier to use Mrs.brown is most likely a(n) ____ psychologist

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B. Human factors

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Two tiny pea sized structures that help localize auditory information

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D. Inferior colliculus

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According to Freud, thoughts that are too unsettling for people to acknowledge are

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C. Repressed

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Section of the hypothalamus that controls the pituitary gland, releases, oxytocin (Aids with contractions during childbirth) and prolactin

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A. Ventral medial nucleus

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Man I'm going home late as she reached to turn on the kitchen light her hand brushed against something unexpected her adrenaline glands as a part of the fight or flight response released epinephrine and norepinephrine which increased her heart rate and blood pressure even after she realized it was just the curtain her excited feelings lingered in this example illustrates

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D. That endocrine message stand to outlast the effects of neural messages

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For which of the following distributions of scores would the median most clearly be a more appropriate measure of central tendency than the mean

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C. 10, 22, 8, 9, 6

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The IQ scores of the five members of the Duluth family are 100, 82, ,104, 96, and 118. Find this distribution of scores the range is

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E. 36.

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Bonnie thinks her school has the best teachers in the county. Her belief best illustrates

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A. Self -serving bias

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An adaptation is an inherited physical or behavioral characteristic that

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D. Increases an organisms chance for survival

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Following the scientific discovery that a specific brain structure is significantly larger in violent individuals than in those who are nonviolent, a news headline announced: "enlarged brain structure triggers violent acts." The headline writer should most clearly be warned about the dangers of.

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A. Confusing correlation with causation

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Within the framework of bandura's reciprocal determinism, an external locus of control refers to a(n)

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E. Cognitive factor

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Which of the following would most likely be said by a critic of humanistic psychology?

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C. "Humanistic concepts are too vague and subjective, making them difficult to measure objectively"

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The nineteenth century theory that bumps on the skull reveal a persons abilities and traits is called

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A. Phrenology

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Your ability to experience physical sensations is most likely to be disrupted by damage to your

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D. Thalamus

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