A therapist tells a CEO that the reason he yells and screams at his staff is due to behavior he learned as a child. When he was a child, he threw temper tantrums In order to get his way. What is the term for this defense mechanism? a. Regression. b. Reaction formation. c. Projection. d. Rationalization. e. Sublimation.

In Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience, he discovered that participants were less obedient when a. the erson giving the orders was close at hand and was perceived to be a legitimate authority figure. b. the authority figure was support by a prestigious institution. c. the victim was depersonalized or at a distance. d. Milgram dissociated his experiments from Yale University e. there were no role models for defiance.

Random dot stereograms are pictures that have an image hidden among the dots. Human scan often see these hidden images because each eye has a slightly different image projected on its retina, allowing us to see depth. Which term best describes the process? a. Motion parallax. b. Convergence. c. Retinal disparity. d. Relative height. e. Linear perspective.

In an experiment by Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer, participants labeled their arousal as joyous or irritable, depending on the people they were with. The experiment established that emotions are not only physiological but are also a. psycho-dynamic. b. humanistic c. biological. d. cognitive. e. behavioral.

"The curios paradox is that when I accept myself just as I'm then I can change." This core idea in humanistic psychology quotation form. a. Sigmund Freud. b. Carl Rogers. c. Aaron Beck. d. Carl Jung. e. B.F. Skinner.

Which of these statements is most accurate about REM sleep? a. These periods are the longest at the beginning of the sleep period, then get shorter through the night. b. These periods are the short e st at the beginning of the sleep period, then get longer through the night. c. During these periods, brain activity is as reduced as muscle activity. d. The brainstem continues to pass on motor activity signals to the rest of the body during REM sleep. e. The dreams during this stage are frequently interrupted by sleep spindles.

As a patient experiences an anxiety attack, he may experience a series of changes that are coordinated by the sympathetic nervous system. Which one of the following would the patient experience? a. Decreased heart rate. b. Slower breathing. c. Decreased salivation. d. Constricted pupils. e. Increased rate of digestion.

Hans Selye argued that our bodies produce a similar reaction to all kind of stress, and the longer this response continues, the more exhausted we become. e named this process a. the opponent-process theory. b. systematic disensitization. c. the general adaptation syndrome. d. the global assessment of functioning. e. triarhic intelligence.

Which of the following is an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy? a. David has had trouble in math in the past, so in his new math class he gives up on the first day. b. Ivy does not think her teacher has treated her fairly so she complains to her principal. c. Samuel's teacher puts him in a group with struggling students, and Samuel, normally a good student, responds by doing very poor work. The next week he is placed in the same group. d. Rachel writes a letter to the editor about her concerns with the city council, and as a result her social studies teacher praises her in class. e. Nyah's father takes her out of an advanced class because she is struggling at first, but she responds by working even harder and making better grades in all of her classes.

During a dental procedure, Xavier is injected with a drug that is designed to greatly reduce his pain by interfering with the sending of pain signals. At the neural level, the drug is a. action potentials from being transmitted. b. neurotransmitters from being reabsorbed by neurons. c. potassium ions from being released at the terminal buttons. d. pain signals from being clearly interpreted in the sensory cortex. e. the myelin sheath from protecting the axon.

Although the group of senior citizens beat the teenagers in the trivia contest based on history, they were not nearly as successful in a competition that required them to quickly learn the rules of a new video game. This is most likely due to the decline e of which of the following as humans age? a. Learned helplessness. b. Cognitive dissonance. c. Fluid intelligence. d. Crystallized intelligence. e. Elaboration rehearsal.

A police officer questions a child who was an eyewitness to a crime. The officer is most likely to get accurate information if she: a. first tells the child all about the crime the way she thinks it unfolded. b. uses neutral, age appropriate words and is the first to interview the child. c. uses neutral, age appropriate words and is the last to interview the child. d. uses suggestive techniques to get the story from the child. e. tells the child a story about a similar crime to get the child thinking about possibly similar details.

After Donnie realized the "intruder" his home was just his mother returning unexpectedly, his breathing began to slow down, his heart rate decreased, and his digestion began again. These changes were coordinated by the a. limbic system. b parasympathetic nervous system. c. sympathetic nervous system. d. afferent neurons. e. efferent neurons.

Simplify the expression if $b=\frac{1}{3}$ and $c=3$.

$$c^3-16b$$