1.According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following defense
mechanisms buries threatening
or upsetting events outside of consciousness?
ANS Repression
2.Which of the following illustrates generalization?
ANS A rabbit conditioned to blink to a tone...
3.Which of the following does Robert Sternberg include as a type of
intelli- gence?
ANS Practical intelligence
4.Noam Chomsky believes that all we need to acquire language is
ANS Exposure
5.Frequency theory relates to the
ANS Rate at which the basilar membrane vibrates
6.Damage to the hippocampus would result in
ANS Memory problems
7.After an alarming event, your temperature, blood pressure, and
respiration are high, and you
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, have an outpouring of hormones. Hans Selye would most likely guess that yo
are in which
general adaptation syndrome phase?
ANS Resistance
8.People are more concerned about a medical procedure when told it has
a 10 percent death
rate than they are when told is has a 90 percent survival rate. This is because
of
ANS Framing
9.Collectivist cultures are characterized by members
ANS Giving priorities to group goals
10.The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by
ANS David Weschler
11.The purpose of the myelin sheath is to
ANS Speed the transmission of information within a neuron
12.To produce the acquisition of a conditioned response, one should
ANS Pair a neutral stimulus (NS) with an unconditioned stimulus (US)
several times
13.The Gestalt psychologists were interested in
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