The "fight or flight" response is a function of the
sympathetic
nervous system
Huntington's chorea symptoms
dementia,
motor disturbances involving rapid, involuntary jerky movements, along with an
initial change in affect
Which of the following statements regarding long-term potentiation is most true?
D) It takes place in the hippocampus where it affects learning and memory.
RNA responsible for:
genetic decoding
memory
Med for ADHD
Dexedrine
The Strong Interest Inventory is most valid for predicting
occupational satisfaction
An older brother helps his younger brother to build a fort by giving his brother verbal
explanations and suggestions as they go. the researcher who would use this as an illustration of this theory is
C) Vgotsky
What did Vgotsky stress over Piaget?
relationship with others in the family
Alzheimer's is related to an under production of
acetylcholine
IPT (interpersonal therapy) believes that depression is primarily cause by
disturbances in early life especially related to attachment
When working with african-american families, Nancy Boyd-Franklin recommends:
an ecostructural approach
and a multisystems approach
Group A consists of people whose measured interests are highly similar to interests of engineers. Group B consists of people whose measured interests are highly dissimilar to those of engineers. Which of the following statements would be justified, given that both Group A and Group B entered engineering?
a. Group A would be more likely to persist in the occupation
b. Group A and B would not differ in success at or satisfaction with the occupation
c. Group A members would be more likely to succeed in the occupation
d. Group B members would achieve levels of success equal to those of Group A, but would do so more slowly.
Individuals with Moderate Mental Retardation:
A. can be trained to perform unskilled work under close supervision
Experimental studies of the relation between level of motivation and level of performance have shown:
D. for a given task, there is an optimal level of motivation
While the nature and extent of measured intellectaul decline during aging is not well established, a consistent finding is a/an:
D. increase in response time
From a Jungian standpoint, which of the following phenomena is taking place when contents of either the personal or collective unconscious are projected onto the analyst?
A. transference
The function of the correction for attentuation is to:
B. estimate the correlation between two variables if one or both could be measured without error.
Which of the following statements best paraphrases Thorndike's Law of Effect?
D. A reward tends to increase the probability of recurrence of the response that it follows.
In taking a personality inventory, some examinees can "fake good". What testing technique is probably the best correction for this response bias?
A. using an empirically derived correction
When subjected to moderate punishment, an instrumental response of moderate strength will: