1. According to research cited by Meyers, there were relatively more traffic accidents on the Monday 

after the transition from daylight savings time to standard time (in the Fall) than on the Monday after 

the transition from standard time to daylight savings time (in the Spring).

2. Meyers states that if you take addictive drugs, you will most likely become an addict, even if you take 

the drug to control pain and under the supervision of a physician. 

3. According to Meyers, people almost never overcome addictions on their own, without professional 

help.

9. The two divisions of the autonomic nervous system are the

A. brain and spinal cord.

B. central and peripheral nervous systems.

C. sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

D. somatic and peripheral nervous systems.

10. The amygala is a part of the brain associated with

A. sexual pleasure.

B. fear.

C. muscle control.

D. the sleep-wake cycle

11. Rats that are raised with other rats and with lots of toys in their cage tend to

A. be lazy as adult rats.

B. be socially backward and unlikely to mate.

C. have larger-than-average brains.

D. be more aggressive than average.

12. Jet lag is primarily a result of 

A. altered consciousness due to drinking alcohol while flying. 

B. fear of flying. 

C. lack of oxygen due to flying in an enclosed airplane for a long time. 

D. crossing time zones.

13. For most people, it is easier to switch to a later bedtime (as when flying a thousand miles west) than 

to an earlier bedtime (as when flying a thousand miles east) because

A. the normal human sleep-wake cycle is a little longer than 24 hours.

B. the normal human sleep-wake cycle is a little shorter than 24 hours.

C. because you don’t cross time zones when flying west.

D. because of habits practiced since childhood.

14. The deepest sleep occurs in 

A. Stage 1. 

B. Stage 2. 

C. Stage 3.

D. Stage 4. 

15. Recreational drugs such as alcohol, cocaine, and amphetamines are attractive to users because they

A. slow down mental and physical activity.

B. promote the release of dopamine. 

C. induce high amounts of REM sleep. 

D. raise blood pressure and breathing rate.

16. Persons who can be easily hypnotized tend to be ___ than average.

A. less intelligent

B. more subject to suggestion 

C. more intelligent

D. more anxious

17. Researchers are most likely to doubt the value of hypnosis for

A. reducing fear.

B. enhancing memory.

C. facilitating relaxation.

D. relieving pain.

18. The theory that dreams are the result of attempts by the frontal lobes to interpret random brainstem 

activity is called

A. lucid dreaming.

B. wish fulfillment.

C. analysis-by-synthesis.

D. activation-synthesis.

19. A genome is

A. a kind of troll.

B. an expert in genetics.

C. a map of the chromosomes showing the location of each gene.

D. a mutant gene.

20. How many chromosomes are there in a human body cell?

A. 23

B. 46

C. 92

D. about 25,000

21. Compared to fraternal twins, identical twins are much more similar in

A. neuroticism.

B. temperament.

C. extraversion.

D. all of the above.

22. Psychologists are interested in identical twins because differences between them are due to 

A. environment.

B. heredity.

C. chance.

D. measurement error

23. The personalities of adopted children are usually most similar to which of the following?

A. their biological parents

B. their teachers

C. the other children in their adoptive families

D. their adoptive parents

24. The home environment has a greater influence on children's ___ than on their ___.

A. temperament; political attitudes

B. extraversion; table manners

C. gender identity; gender schemas

D. religious beliefs; personality traits

25. An infant's temperament refers most directly to its

A. ability to learn.

B. physical health. 

C. emotional excitability.

D. social connectedness.

26. Evolutionary psychology studies the evolution of behavior and the mind using principles of

A. temperament.

B. gender schema theory.

C. gender-typing.

D. natural selection

27. Which of the following research findings is evidence that behaviors can be genetically transmitted?

A. dogs can be bred for aggressiveness, and different breeds have predictable temperaments.

B. eye color is predictable from the parents’ genotypes.

C. hormones regulate the growth of the body.

D. identical twins sometimes react differently to the same stimulus.

28. According to evolutionary psychologists, men are ___ likely than women to feel comfortable about 

having casual sex with different partners and are ___ likely than women to cite affection as a reason 

for their first sexual intercourse.

A. less; less

B. more; more

C. less; more

D. more; less

29. Behavior geneticists study the 

A. effect of natural selection on behavior.

B. inheritance of differences in physical characteristics.

C. inheritance of differences in behavior.

D. origin and divergence of racial groups

F2. the system of brain parts including the hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala that is associated 

with emotion -- the “old mammalian brain” (L)

F4. the adjustment that the body makes to a drug after regular use, eventually requiring a larger dose for 

the same effect (T)

F5. the principle by which the environment favors traits that encourage survival and reproduction, 

eventually causing them to spread throughout the species (N)

F6. the hormone triggered by the Y chromosome that causes the development of male structures and 

behaviors (T)