psych 101 reading quiz questions – Flashcards

what is a complex, unlearned, and fixed pattern of behavior common to all members of a species?

insulin, a hormone that influences appetite is secreted by the what?

according to the drive-reduction theory, a need refers to what?

People are most likely to dislike the taste of what kinds of food?

tranquilizing drugs that inhibit sympathetic nervous system activity often reduce people's subjective experience of intense anxiety. Which theory of emotion would have the greatest difficulty explaining this effect?

the tendency of facial muscles states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear and happiness is called what?

for purposes of lie detection, investigators have most commonly made use of a what?

emotional delight is to emotional disgust as ________ is to ________

the arousal theory of motivation would be most useful for understanding the aversive effects of what?

in addition to recreating orexin, the ________ monitors levels of the body's other appetite hormones

motivation is defined by psychologists as what?

Basal metabolic rate is the body's resting rate of what?

rats that received an electric shocks were unlikely to develop ulcers if what happens?

an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is his or her what?

the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes combine to affect our immune system and health is called what?

projective tests are most closely associated with ________ theories

immune system cells that pursue and destroy diseased body cells are called what?

the social-cognitive perspective emphasizes the interactive influences of traits and what else?

aerobic exercise has been most closely linked to a decrease in what?

Freud believed that the manifest content of dreams consisted of what?

the importance of unconscious conflicts and childhood experiences is of most central importance to what?

in stressful situations, feelings of pain are dulled by what?

the passive resignation of learned helplessness is most likely to be associated with what?

Carl Jung referred to a shared reservoir of memory traces from our species history as the what?

athletes often attribute their losses to bad officiating. This best illustrates what?

attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor is known as what?

emotional instability is most closely related to the Big Five trait dimension of what?

according to the medical model, psychological disorders are defined as what?

those with the narcissistic personality disorder are likely to be preoccupied with what?

psychological disorders that are characterized by inflexible, enduring, and socially maladaptive behavior patterns are called ________ disorders

which perspective has emphasized the impact of learned helplessness on depression?

which of the following disorders is more common among men than women?

a person attacked by a fierce dog develops a fear of all dogs. This best illustrates what?

schizophrenia is associated with an excess of receptors for what?

people with anorexia nervosa often come from families that are what?

sluggishness and inactivity are most likely to be associated with what?

a major depressive disorder is most likely to be characterized by what?

drugs that alleviate mania tend to reduce levels of the neurotransmitter are called what?

people who suffer chronic depression are at high risk for experiencing what?

the distinctive features used to identify the three clusters of personality disorders are?

Tardive dyskinesia is characterized by what?

most self-help and support groups focus on ______ illnesses

when testing a new drug, researchers control for a placebo effect by using what?

which of the following individuals is most likely to benefit from Prozac?

humanistic therapists are likely to teach clients to what?

chlorpromazine is an antipsychotic drug that reduces paranoid and hallucinations by what?

prozac is an antidepressant drug that partially blocks the reabsorption and removal of ________ from synapses

Xanax would most likely be prescribed in order to help what?

training people to actively dispute their own self-defeating ideas best illustrates what therapy?

the least used biomedical intervention for changing behavior is what?

the placebo effect refers to what?

psychoanalysts are most likely to view patient transference as what?

psychopharmacology involves the study of what?

by a client's trust, empathic and caring therapists promote what?

the first psychological therapy was introduced by who?

a conflict in which both participants can benefit by cooperating with each other has been represented as what?

women are attracted to healthy-looking men, but especially those who seem to be what?

the fundamental attribution error is likely to lead observers to attribute a stranger's what?

in explaining the actions of people we do not know well, we often demonstrate what?

Oxytocin is a hormone that has been found to promote feelings of what?

a social trap is a situation in which what happens?

to a social psychologist, a perceived incompatibility of goals is indicative of what?

the impact of our actions on our attitudes is best illustrated by what?

attitudes are ________ that guide behavior

the tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races is called what?

cultural diversity best illustrates humanity's what?

culturally modeled guides for how to act in various situations are called what?

a person's behavior is most likely to be consistent with his or her attitudes when what happens?

the frustration-aggression principle suggests that anger results when what happens?