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When Ganel and Goodale asked participants to judge whether wooden blocks of varying lengths were "wide" or "narrow," participants found the task difficult. When asked to grasp the blocks across the middle...
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participants' grasping actions were not affected by variations in the length of the blocks.
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Our ability to devote awareness to two or more tasks and perform them simultaneously
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Divided attention
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In a dichotic listening task, information that is channeled into the unattended ear is...
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lost before it can be attended to.
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The essential factor in hypnotizing a susceptible person is that he or she...
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is aware that he or she is going to be hypnotized
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Tara is a subject in a sleep study. She has electrodes attached to the skin around her eyes in order to measure the electrical activity that accompanies their movement. This procedure will produce...
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an EOG
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The ability to recognize the identity of an object visually
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visual agnosia
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One exception to the contralateral (crossed) representation of sensory information in the brain is the...
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olfactory system
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Sleep deprivation has been found to interfere with...
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the ability to perform tasks that require concentration
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The Freudian term for the possible meaning of a dream
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latent content
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The brain region that has been implicated in the control of slow-wave sleep
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preoptic area
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The initiation of behavior is best understood in terms of a person's...
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past history of reinforcement
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It is false to say that learned helplessness...
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varies across species.
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Short term reservoir is to... as long term reservoir is to...
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muscles and liver; adipose tissue
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in Yates and colleagues' study of weight lifters, those who took anabolic steroids were...
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more aggressive and hostile
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A likely biological cause of male homosexuality is...
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the pattern of exposure of the developing brain to sex hormones.
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Shirley was a hardworking, enterprising, and talented young woman until she was injured in an automobile accident. Now she is inconsiderate, irresponsible, and immature. The brain structure most likely to have been damaged during the accident was the...
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ventral prefrontal cortex
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Theory that states that emotion-producing situations elicit an appropriate set of physiological and behavioral responses
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James-Lange theory
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Adena is lost in the woods. She hears something rustling in the bushes; her heart begins to pound, her breathing gets heavier, and she begins to tremble. Cannon referred to this reaction as...
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the fight or flight response
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Shavit and colleagues reported that rats that received inescapable intermittent shock showed...
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a decreased sensitivity to pain and decreased numbers of natural killer cells.
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How many goals are in the problem focused coping method known as stress inoculation training developed by Meichenbaum?
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7
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What variables interact to cause mental disorders?
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cognitive, genetic, environmental
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What does the psychodynamic perspective state?
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Mental disorders arise from intrapsychic conflict
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Which perspective is the DSM-IV-TR most consistent with?
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medical
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Every night after he gets off work, Hubbell, who is 51, goes to the neighborhood tavern and drinks until closing time. He has been drinking heavily in this manner ever since he was in his early twenties. What kind of drinker would psychologists classify Hubbell as?
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steady
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What is the probability that a child whose biological parents both have schizophrenia will also have the disorder?
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30% or less
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According to Beck, the main problem experienced by persons who are depressed is...
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a distorted perception of a reality
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The cerebrospinal fluid of depressed people contains significantly lower than normal levels of...
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a compound produced by the breakdown of serotonin
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In regards to phobic disorder, the psychodynamic approach is to... as the cognitive-behavioral approach is to...
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displacement, vicarious classical conditioning
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What disorder is most closely related to Tourette's syndrome?
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obsessive-compulsive disorder
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A person who is self-promoting, shows little empathy for others, and seeks attention in grandiose ways for the self is exhibiting symptoms of...
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narcissistic personality disorder
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In recorded history, those who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders were considered to be...
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possessed by evil spirits
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The tendency of the therapist in psychoanalysis to project attitudes and emotions onto the client while attempting to provide insight into the client's unconscious
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countertransference
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What is in vivo exposure therapy dependent on for its effectiveness?
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extinction
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The therapeutic procedure in which a client observes another person performing the appropriate behavior
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modeling
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Replacing maladaptive thoughts and perceptions in order to change maladaptive behavior
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cognitive restructuring
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According to Foley, families that are completely child-oriented...
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are always dysfunctional
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Discovering and understanding the sociocultural variables that predict mental disorders are the goals of...
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preventive psychology
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Involuntary lip smacking, grimacing, and drooling are symptoms of the serious movement disorder known as...
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tardive dyskinesia
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What are the most commonly prescribed antianxiety drugs?
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benzodiazepines
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An individual who conducts diagnosis, biomedical therapy, and psychotherapy
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psychiatrist
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