Human Behavior Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles and theories that underlie human behavior, examining how individuals think, feel, and act within various social, cultural, and biological contexts. Students will investigate psychological processes such as perception, motivation, emotion, learning, and personality, as well as the influence of group dynamics, culture, and environment on behavior. Through case studies, research analysis, and practical examples, the course aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the factors that drive human actions and interactions in everyday life.
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Introduction to Psychology 11th Edition by James W. Kalat
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) In most states,can psychoanalysts prescribe drugs?
A)Yes, all of them can.
B)No, none of them can.
C)Only those who are clinical psychologists can.
D)Only those who are psychiatrists can.
Answer: D
Q2) Many military psychologists resemble industrial/organizational psychologists in what way?
A)They help identify people suitable for certain jobs.
B)They testify in court about who is mentally competent.
C)They do research to help improve equipment so that people can use it easily.
D)They mediate between management and the labor unions.
Answer: A
Q3) A health psychologist would be likely to study which of these topics?
A)What genes influence the probability of mental illness
B)How common mental illness is in various countries
C)Whether psychotherapy is more effective for people in good health than those who are ill
D)How diet and exercise affect health
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Scientific Methods in Psychology
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Q1) When is a research result impressive?
A)If the p value is large and the 95 percent confidence interval is large.
B)If the p value is large and the 95 percent confidence interval is small.
C)If the p value is small and the 95 percent confidence interval is.large
D)If the p value is small and the 95 percent confidence interval is small.
Answer: D
Q2) In which type of study would participants be randomly assigned to groups?
A)A case history
B)A survey
C)An experiment
D)A correlational study
Answer: C
Q3) A company pays one group of workers weekly and another group,randomly chosen,once a month.It compares the workers' effectiveness.What is the dependent variable in this experiment?
A)The frequency of pay
B)The difficulty of the job
C)Daily variations in the weather
D)The workers' job effectiveness
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: A: Scientific Methods in Psychology
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Q1) Claims for extrasensory perception are neither parsimonious nor replicable.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The use of a blind observer reduces the influence of experimenter bias.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) The goal of scientific research is to establish comprehensive explanations of observable events.These explanations are called ____________________. Answer: theories
Q4) Several laboratory demonstrations of extrasensory perception are consistently replicable.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q5) A statement that leads to a clear prediction is called a ____________. Answer: hypothesis
Q6) A definition that states how to measure something is a(n)__________ definition. Answer: operational
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) What is the difference between an agonist and an antagonist?
A)An agonist produces helpful effects and an antagonist produces harmful effects.
B)An agonist produces harmful effects and an antagonist produces helpful effects.
C)An agonist decreases synaptic activity and an antagonist increases it.
D)An agonist increases synaptic activity and an antagonist decreases it.
Q2) What does the peripheral nervous system do?
A)It communicates between the spinal cord and the rest of the body.
B)It controls the less important functions of the brain.
C)It controls speech, gestures, and other means of communication.
D)It controls cognitions, motivations, and emotions.
Q3) Why is red-green color deficiency more common in men?
A)Men do not have an X chromosome.
B)Men have more X chromosomes than women do.
C)Women do not have a Y chromosome.
D)Men have only one X chromosome.
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Chapter 3: A: Biological Psychology
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Q1) In most cases,neurons communicate at synapses by transmitting an electrical charge.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The central nervous system consists of the brain and the _______.
Q3) What type of evidence supports the idea of monism?
Q4) The chemicals released by neurons at synapses are called ______.
Q5) People with a certain type of brain damage have normal vision except that they cannot see movement.
A)True
B)False
Q6) If a gene influences behavior,we can assume it alters brain development.
A)True
B)False
Q7) When you perceive that the piano you see is also what you hear and feel,you get that perception because vision,hearing,and touch all send their information to a central point in the brain.
A)True B)False
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Q1) Why is color vision poor or absent toward the periphery of the retina?
A)The periphery is farther from the optic nerve.
B)The periphery is farther from the pupil.
C)The periphery has few rods.
D)The periphery has few cones.
Q2) According to the retinex theory of color vision,how do we perceive color?
A)We compare the rates of responses by three types of cones.
B)We compare an object to other objects in the scene.
C)We detect whether a cell in the retina is increasing or decreasing its response.
D)We compare the mean firing rate of cones to the mean rate of rods.
Q3) The opponent-process theory of color vision explains which of these observations?
A)From a greater distance, blue dots look black, although other small dots keep their color.
B)You can easily recognize an object's color even while wearing tinted glasses.
C)After you stare at a bright color for a minute, you look away and see a different color.
D)Color vision becomes weaker and weaker toward the periphery of the retina.
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Q1) If you stare at a bright color for a minute and then look at a white surface,you continue seeing the color you had been viewing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The sense of smell depends on only seven types of olfactory receptors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Detection of the tilt,acceleration,and orientation of the head depends on the __________ system.
Q4) In the human ear,the ability to perceive low frequencies (up to about 100 Hz)depends on neurons working according to the ____________________ principle.
Q5) Gestalt psychologists pioneered the study of feature detectors.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Our ability to perceive objects as maintaining their size,shape,and color,despite changes in the image striking the retina,is known as visual ____________.
Q7) Light enters the eye through the pupil and strikes the receptors on the _________.
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Q1) A psychologist watches when a young child looks in the mirror and sees a red spot on the face.What concept is the psychologist probably testing?
A)Sense of self
B)Egocentrism
C)Object permanence
D)Conservation of number
Q2) Suppose a newborn sucks to hear its father's voice.When the response habituates,the experimenters substitute a different man's voice.What do we infer if the sucking rate remains the same?
The newborn hears a difference between the voices.
A)The newborn prefers the sound of women's voices.
B)The newborn prefers the sound of the father's voice.
C)The newborn does not hear a difference between the voices.
D)The newborn hears a difference between the voices.
Q3) In what way do young infants show evidence of object permanence?
A)They hold their hands in the shape of the object they had just seen.
B)They gaze long if a toy car passes through where a block should have been.
C)They frown at someone who hid or removed a toy they had been playing with.
D)They point to where an object used to be, seconds after it disappeared.
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Chapter 5: A: Development
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Q1) Infants a few months old either do or do not appear to understand object permanence,depending on how we test them.Describe the two tests leading to different conclusions.
Q2) If a cross-sectional study shows a difference between people of different ages,the difference might be due to a cohort effect.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To measure an infant's attachment to the mother,psychologists observe the infant's reactions as the mother and a stranger enter or depart from the room.This procedure is called the ___________ Situation.
Q4) Jean Piaget argued that children's thinking is just like that of adults,except that children's thinking is slower and less well informed.
A)True
B)False
Q5) To study whether nervous children tend to become nervous adults,a longitudinal design is better than a cross-sectional design.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) If people were classically conditioned by pairing a buzz with an air puff to the eyes,how could we test them for stimulus generalization?
A)Present the buzz without the air puff.
B)Present the air puff without the buzz.
C)Pair the buzz with shock.
D)Present a similar sound.
Q2) What is the "extinction" of a conditioned response?
A)Forgetting a response after a long delay without training
B)Learning to suppress the response
C)Total obliteration of the connection between stimulus and response
D)Generalization of the response to new stimuli
Q3) On a continuous schedule of reinforcement,when does reinforcement occur?
A)After every response
B)For the first response after a given period of time
C)After a certain number of responses
D)After an unpredictable number of responses
Q4) How does extinction differ from forgetting?
A)Specific experiences cause extinction. Passage of time leads to forgetting.
B)Specific experiences cause forgetting. Passage of time leads to extinction.
C)Forgetting is temporary. Extinction is permanent.
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Chapter 6: A: Learning
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Q1) In operant conditioning,"shaping" a response means putting the animal into the correct position and posture to make the response.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Birds that learn their song don't begin to learn it until they are old enough to begin singing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In some cases,the conditioned response is significantly different from the unconditioned response.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Behaviorists avoid referring to mental states,such as thoughts and ideas.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In operant conditioning,continued responding without any reinforcement results in ___________.
Q6) Psychologists who study only observable actions,while avoiding discussion of mental processes,are called _______.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Which effect refers to the tendency to remember the first item on a list?
A)Episodic effect
B)Stroop effect
C)Recency effect
D)Primacy effect
Q2) Prolonged lack of vitamin B1 leads to severe memory problems.What is the name of that condition?
A)Synesthesia
B)Hypermnesia
C)Cotard's syndrome
D)Korsakoff's syndrome
Q3) What can we infer from comparing several methods of testing memory?
A)Memory is like watching a video recording of the event.
B)If you cannot remember something now, you won't remember it later, either.
C)How well you remember something depends on how someone tests you.
D)Each memory is stored in a different location in the cerebral cortex.
Q4) Remembering the time you broke your leg is which kind of memory?
A)Procedural memory
B)Implicit memory
C)Semantic memory
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Chapter 7: A: Memory
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Q1) Brain damage that impairs declarative memory will equally impair procedural memory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After an event happens,people tend to overestimate how predictable it was.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are several ways in which memory is different from replaying a recording?
Q4) People trying to tell a story by memory often include reasonable events that weren't in the story.
A)True
B)False
Q5) People memorize a list of words best if they think about each word and form as many associations as possible with each word.This is known as the ____________________ principle.
Q6) Impaired memory before brain surgery or a trauma to the head is known as __________ amnesia.
Q7) A multiple-choice exam is an example of a recognition test of memory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Cognition and Language
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Q1) "Change blindness" refers to which phenomenon?
A)For a split second after responding to a stimulus, we fail to notice other interesting events.
B)Many women report blurry vision for a day or two after giving birth.
C)Visual sensitivity decreases sharply during a voluntary eye movement.
D)We often fail to notice a small difference between two scenes.
Q2) If you wanted to demonstrate the word-superiority effect,which group should you NOT use?
A)Philosophy professors
B)Preschool children
C)Trained musicians
D)College students
Q3) The representativeness heuristic assumes that which of these is true?
A)Something that resembles members of a category is also a member of the category.
B)The most expensive member of a category is probably the one of highest quality.
C)An unfamiliar item probably belongs to a common category, not a less common one.
D)If you can easily think of examples of an event, it must be a common event.
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Q1) Strategies for simplifying a problem or for guiding an investigation are called __________.
Q2) What is the difference between preattentive processes and attentive processes (other than the obvious fact that one requires attention and the other doesn't)?
Q3) Thinking about a concept will activate,or prime,the concepts linked to it through a process called __________ activation.
Q4) To shift your attention from one item to another,you have to move your eyes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Behavioral methods are often useful for helping people with attention deficit disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A particular item seems similar to members of a particular category.If you therefore assume that it is a member of that category (even if it is a rare category),you are using the _______ heuristic.
Q7) If you assume something is common just because you can easily think of a few examples of it,you are using the _______ heuristic.
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Chapter 9: Intelligenceintelligence
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Q1) On a test of academic ability,most students get consistent scores from test to retest,but their scores do not predict their school performance.What can we say about the reliability and validity of the test?
A)The reliability and validity are both high.
B)The reliability is low but the validity is high.
C)The reliability is high but the validity is low.
D)The reliability is high but the validity is unknown.
Q2) On average,how do the IQ scores of males and females compare?
A)Males score higher in childhood, and females score higher in adulthood.
B)Males score higher at all ages.
C)Females score higher at all ages.
D)Males and females are about equal at all ages.
Q3) In the original study demonstrating "stereotype threat," Black students tended to perform well if they heard which instruction?
A)We are trying to measure your strengths and weaknesses.
B)We are trying to predict how well you will do in your classes.
C)We are trying to develop a new and improved intelligence test.
D)We are trying to see how people solve difficult problems.
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Chapter 9: A: Intelligence Intelligence
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Q1) According to Raymond Cattell,someone who is good at reasoning,using information,and quickly acquiring new skills is said to have much ________ intelligence.
Q2) The early IQ tests developed in France were modified for English speakers and became the first important IQ test in the English language.This new version was the ____________________.
Q3) If a test is not useful for its intended purpose,it may or may not have high reliability,but we know it has low ______.
Q4) On a standardized IQ test,the mean score is _________.
Q5) The first intelligence tests were based on decades of research on learning,memory,and cognition.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define reliability and validity.Can a test have high reliability and low validity or vice versa?
Q7) Of the tests intended to be culture-fair or culture-reduced,the best known is Raven's _______ _______ test.
Q8) Charles Spearman identified a g factor in intelligence.The g stands for _______.
Q9) In the IQ tests abbreviated WISC and WAIS,the W stands for ________.
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Chapter 10: Consciousnessconsciousness
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Q1) Someone with sleep apnea has trouble doing what?
A)Falling asleep
B)Remembering dreams
C)Staying awake during the day
D)Breathing while asleep
Q2) When researchers briefly flash a word and then present a masking pattern,what is the purpose of the masking pattern?
A)To give the observer a signal to respond
B)To measure how fast people shift attention
C)To increase stimulation of the visual cortex
D)To prevent consciousness of the word
Q3) Which hormone has the greatest influence on sleepiness?
A)Testosterone
B)Adrenaline
C)Insulin
D)Melatonin
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Chapter 10: A: Consciousnessconsciousness
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Q1) The symptoms of narcolepsy suggest an intrusion of ____ stage of sleep into wakefulness.
Q2) Hypnotists generally say that you won't do anything under hypnosis that you would refuse to do otherwise.What does the evidence say about this claim?
Q3) It is possible to hypnotize someone who does not wish to cooperate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) You have insomnia if you average less than 7 hours sleep per night.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Hypnosis can reduce people's emotional response to pain.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Researchers agree that people can accurately report the time of making a conscious decision.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Rhythms of wakefulness and sleepiness lasting about one day are called _______ rhythms.
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Chapter 11: Motivated Behaviorsmotivated Behaviors
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Q1) Suppose you see someone else cheat.Under what circumstance do you become LESS likely to cheat?
A)If the person seems to show no guilt feelings
B)If the person is from a group that you see as your rival
C)If the person is one of your close friends
D)If the person is older than you
Q2) Suppose your professor offers extra credit for every time any student says something in class.What would be the main disadvantage of this plan?
A)Introverted students will be forced to talk more than they want to.
B)Students will be forced to come to class well prepared.
C)Class will sometimes not end on time.
D)Students will increase the quantity but not quality of their comments.
Q3) A professor let students set their own deadlines for three papers.Which students wrote the best papers?
A)Those who spaced out their deadlines equally
B)Those who turned in their papers ahead of the deadlines
C)Those who allowed themselves the whole semester to complete their papers
D)Those who set all their deadlines near the middle of the semester
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Q1) Maintaining stability of temperature,body weight,body water,and other biological conditions is known as ____________________.
Q2) According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs,certain motivations take priority over others.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How does the scientific-management approach (Theory X)differ from the human-relations approach (Theory Y)?
Q4) A female fetus exposed to extra testosterone during prenatal life develops genital appearance intermediate between the usual male and female patterns.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The hormone that increases the flow of glucose and other nutrients into body cells is _______.
Q6) After orgasm,men have a refractory period before they can become sexually aroused again.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Part 1 Emotions,stress,and
Healthemotions,stress,and Health
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Q1) Which of these describes people with Type A personality?
A)Extraverted and emotionally stable
B)Conscientious and agreeable
C)Competitive and often hostile
D)Relaxed and patient
Q2) In Schachter and Singer's experiment,people who received epinephrine injections experienced euphoria in a happy situation,but so did the people who received a placebo injection.What conclusion,if any,do the results support?
A)We can monitor our autonomic responses to determine which emotion we feel.
B)Increased autonomic arousal leads to increased intensity of emotional experience.
C)Autonomic arousal produces the feeling aspect of an emotion.
D)None of these conclusions follow from the data.
Q3) Which hormone does the body release in response to a prolonged stressful experience?
A)Leptin
B)Insulin
C)Aldosterone
D)Cortisol
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Q1) The brain area most responsible for variations in the level of anxiety is the _________.
Q2) State the James-Lange theory and briefly describe evidence that supports it.
Q3) The idea that emotional feeling results from sensing your body's reaction is known as the ________- ________ theory.
Q4) Brief,mild stress improves memory and enhances activity of the immune system.
A)True B)False
Q5) Psychologists have debated whether or not humans have "basic emotions" and,if so,what constitutes a basic emotion? What evidence do people most often cite as support for the idea of basic emotions?
Q6) Fear and anger produce similar responses by the autonomic nervous system. A)True B)False
Q7) People who have only weak autonomic arousal generally report weak emotional feelings.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 13: Social Psychologysocial Psychology
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Q1) If you were taking an IAT (implicit association test),what would you do?
A)Examine photos and hear messages while someone records your brain activity.
B)Respond quickly to whether you see one pair of categories or another.
C)Look at ambiguous pictures and tell stories about them.
D)Report your dreams and describe what each element in the dream means to you.
Q2) The tendency to increase our preference for familiar things is known as what?
A)The forewarning effect
B)The mere exposure effect
C)The actor-observer effect
D)The sleeper effect
Q3) What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
A)Expressing your anger makes you frustrated.
B)Suppressing your anger makes you frustrated.
C)Frustration is the main cause of aggression.
D)When someone offends you, you become either frustrated or aggressive.
Q4) Theoretically,why should a face with average features seem attractive?
A)Average features suggest good health and good genes.
B)Average features suggest youth.
C)Seeing an average face makes the viewer feel good by comparison.
D)A face with average features is easy to recognize in a crowd.
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Q1) Psychologists have developed ways to measure prejudices that people don't want to admit.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Sometimes a group pressures members into suppressing their doubts and supporting an ill-advised decision.This process is called _________.
Q3) Low self-esteem is one of the main causes of violent behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Suppose you hear someone you regard as unintelligent suggest a new idea.At first you ignore the idea,but later you forget who said it,and start to take it seriously.This tendency is known as the _________ effect.
Q5) The actor-observer effect is the tendency to attribute the behavior of other people mostly to ____________________ causes.
Q6) Kohlberg's approach to understanding morality emphasized the emotional contributions to moral decisions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Personalitypersonality
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Q1) The NEO PI-R is more suitable than the MMPI for what purpose?
A)For measuring normal personality
B)For detecting possible mental illness
C)For dealing with people who do not speak English
D)For detecting personality traits that people do not want to admit
Q2) What do humanistic psychologists believe?
A)Personality depends on people's beliefs and perceptions.
B)The way to understand behavior is to reduce it to its component parts.
C)Most of human behavior results from unconscious influences.
D)Personality can be described in terms of a few major traits.
Q3) What was Jung's evidence for archetypes and the collective unconscious?
A)Similarities in facial expressions of emotion in cultures throughout the world
B)Similarities in answers to survey questions in cultures throughout the world
C)Similarities in the art and folklore of cultures throughout the world
D)Differences in prevalence of mental illnesses in cultures throughout the world
Q4) What type of instructions does a psychologist give for the Rorschach inkblots?
A)Instructions to concentrate on emotions and motivations
B)Instructions to relate the blots to your own life
C)Intentionally vague instructions
D)Instructions to follow certain examples
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A)True
B)False
Q2) The process of releasing a pent-up emotion,getting it out of one's system,is called
Q3) Researchers have identified several genes that produce large effects on personality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did researchers evaluate the accuracy of criminal profiling,and what results did they get?
Q5) Psychologists derived the Big Five personality model from extensive observations of people's behavior in different cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q6) According to Alfred Adler,everyone has a natural drive to achieve excellence and fulfillment.He called this drive the striving for ____________.
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Q1) What is meant by "negative" symptoms of schizophrenia?
A)Symptoms that are described by the absence of some behavior
B)Symptoms that are harmful to the person
C)Symptoms that are unnecessary for a diagnosis of schizophrenia
D)Symptoms that indicate that the condition is growing more severe
Q2) A large number of patients with depression who showed no response to tricyclic antidepressants within three months switched to an SSRI drug,and many of them showed benefits within the next three months.What conclusion,if any,do these results support?
A)Switching drugs is helpful to people who don't respond to the first drug.
B)In general, SSRIs are more effective than tricyclics.
C)Some people respond better to one drug, and others respond better to a different drug.
D)We can draw none of these conclusions.
Q3) Which type of therapy,if any,produces the greatest improvement in quality of life?
A)Psychoanalysis does.
B)Cognitive therapy does.
C)Person-centered therapy does.
D)All the common types are about equal.
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Q1) Antidepressant drugs are demonstrably more effective than placebos only for people with _________ depression.
Q2) A repetitive,almost irresistible action is known as a(n)____________________.
Q3) How do the results on avoidance learning relate to phobias?
Q4) People who "hold their liquor well," showing little body sway after drinking a moderate amount,are more likely than other people to become alcoholics.
A)True
B)False
Q5) People with major depression report feeling sad far more often than most other people.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The idea that schizophrenia originates with nervous system impairments that develop before,during,or shortly after birth is called the ______________ hypothesis.
Q7) In John B.Watson's analysis of phobia learning,the unconditioned stimulus was _____________________.
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Q8) Someone who suffers from depression almost every winter may receive a diagnosis of _______ ________ disorder.
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