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In a situation when a person needs to show skills, the indicidual may be overcome with nedative feelings if their skill level is lower than whet it needs to be. This would most likely be an example of a Task-Involved person. |
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The saying "compare and despair" would more than likely describe an Ego-Involved person.
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Parent Ego State :Judging and criticizing others:: adult ego state: perceive information objectively and think logically |
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| A small percentage of autistics are called savants because they... |
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| have incredible artistic or memory skills |
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The psychoanalytic approach to psychology is based on the belief that childhood experiences create unconscious conflicts and therefore greatly influence the development of later personality traits and psychological problems |
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| One of the most powerful new techniques in the biological approach is... |
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| Taking computerized photos of the activity of living brains |
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| The psychoanalytic approach to understanding procrastination as a component of test anxiety would... |
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| look beneath the obvious reasons and try to identify unconscious personality problems |
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| Ritalin:______:: Aspirin: ______ |
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| Among the disadvantages of the survey method is that |
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| responses can be affected by how the questions are worded and who asks them |
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| According to the ______, if we strongly believe that something is going to happen, we may unknowingly behave in such a way as to make it happen |
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| A good example of a self fullfilling prophecy is the belief that... |
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| there is no use in studying for multiple choice exams because the questions are tricky |
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| Can a placebo given in an experiment really cause change in a subject? |
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| Yes, but only if the subject believes a drug has been administered |
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| A correlation is defined as... |
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| An association or relationship between the occurance of two or more events |
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| Which of the following research strategies has the LOWEST potential for error or bias? |
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that the experimenter manipulates is called the independent variable; how the subject reacts is called the dependent variable |
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| Select one of the following about research methods that is incorrect... |
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| A correlation show us cause and effect relationship |
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| The purpose of having a control group in an experiment is to... |
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| Identify and rule out behavior that results from simply participating in the experiment |
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| A double-blind procedure means that... |
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| Neither participants nor researchers know which group is recieving which treatment |
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Many people are worried about the effects of drug use on the brain as well they should in light of the fact that damaged neurons are not regrown or replaced |
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True or False:
Nerves are located in the central nervous system; Neurons are in the peripheral nervous system |
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| False; its the other way around |
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| The _____ contain chemical instructions that program the development of the body and brain... |
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| After the release of neurotransmitters in the synapse, neurotransmitters cross the synapse and... |
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| fit into specially designed receptors located in the second neurons dendrites |
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| the effects of a neurotransmitter on an adjacent neuron, muscle or organ is |
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| either excitatory or inhibitory |
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| The brain produces a neurotransmitter called _____ to decrease the effects of pain during great bodily stress, such as an accident |
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When GABA neurons are excited, there is an increase in neural activity |
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Drugs like cocaine and mescaline achieve their effects by interfering with the normal workings of neurotransmitters |
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| An inexperienced psychology teacher is about to start a lecture on the biological basis of behavior. Which opening like should she use to convince students of the importance of this module covering the nervous system? |
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| Our thoughts and our actions may change if the brain's physical functions change |
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| True or False: the brain and the spinal cord make up the central nervous system (CNS) |
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More than any other part, it is the operation of the pre-frontal cortex that makes you a person |
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The new techniques of brain scans have a great advantage:
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| they permit a look inside the living, functioning brain |
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| The incredible story of Phineas Gage's accident shows that |
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| The frontal lobe is critical to personality |
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| you're looking at a book entitled Your Autonomic Nervous System. One of the chapter titles isreally confusing based on your knowledge of the autonomic nervous system. Which chapter seems to not fit your knowledge... |
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| The Autonomic Nervous system, you can control it all! |
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the general tendency of the autonomic nervous system is homeostasis |
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| The function of the somatosensory cortex is to process |
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| Sensory information from individual body parts |
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| When you understand the limbic system you begin to see why ... |
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| Modern society is still plagued by so many primitive behaviors |
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| the endocrine system and the nervous system are basically... |
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| Similar: they both send information through the body |
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| As a physician specializing in the endocrine system, you see many patients with various types of problems. One patient has dysfunctional adrenal glands. you have advised her to take a course on stress management. Why? |
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| her endocrine system cannot produce corticol which would lead to problems in coping with stress. |
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True or False:
the retina is a round opening at the front of your eye that allows light waves to pass into the eye's interior. |
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true or false:
The images you "see" are created by the primary visual cortex and related association area of the brain
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| the function of the cornea is to |
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| bend and focus light waves into a narrower beam of light |
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| The work of the retina is to: |
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| transform light waves into electrical signals |
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| Complete the following analogy. Rods: Cones:: |
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| Dim light: Colors and fine details |
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Complete the following analogy:
Rods:____::Cones: ____ |
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| What word best describes transduction? |
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True or False:
the price of medicine has no effect on the perceived effectiveness of medicine. |
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True or False:
The brain follows a number of perceptual rules in order to make sense out of the mass of visual stimuli it recieves |
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| A subliminal stimulus has an intensity that gives a person _______ of detecting it |
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| Sensation : Perception:: ______:_____ |
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| Which of the following is the correct sequence in perception? |
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| Stimulus>sensation>perception>meaning |
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