Chapters 1 & 2 Review
Multiple Choice Test # 1
a. Plato
b. Socrates
c. Aristotle
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c. fighting.
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mental processes.
4. d. structuralism versus
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darkness may have contributed to the
survival of our human ancestors is
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Stacey suggests that because children
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their anger. Stacey's prediction
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b. the hindsight bias.
c. illusory correlation.
d. the false consensus
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way of assessing whether athletic
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method known as:
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b. psychoanalysis.
c. introspection.
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Which school of psychology was most
clearly concerned with the adaptive
value of complex mental processes
a Structuralism
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Surveys are most likely to indicate that
reckless behavior and self-control are
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variables.
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instances in which our premonitions of
disaster are subsequently followed by
harmful events is most likely to
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d. the placebo effect.
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Researchers control factors that might
influence a dependent variable by
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the cell body and a dendrite transmits
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________ levels of serotonin and
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2. b. thinking and
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3. c. stomach
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4. d. movement of the
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Research has suggested that a reward
deficiency syndrome may contribute to
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b. alcoholism.
c. schizophrenia.
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a. corpus callosum
b. amygdala
c. hypothalamus
d. Wernicke's area
e. cerebellum
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In stressful situations, the sympathetic
nervous system ________ the arteries
of the circulatory system and
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