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 sound of a sizzling steak or the smell of a warm apple pie might make people want to eat those items. In the study of motivation, the sound and smell are considered to be a. incentives. b. arousal-inducing. c. drives. d. self-actualization needs. e. fixed-action patterns.

Which of the following most accurately describes a projective test? a. A test designed to reveal a person's inner ability to do a task he or she has not tried before. b. A test that shows ii person 's true preferences, based on responses to multiple-choice questions. c. A test that indicates the level of indifference to pain that a person experiences. d. A test created to see if one has an anxiety-inducing problem, but is instead claiming that others have that problem. e. A test that prompts a person to reveal sudden conflicts by responding to ambiguous stimuli.

A tumor cut off bloodflow to a small section of Cia's brain, and as a result she struggled to understand the words that were being spoken to her. The damage to Gia's brain was probably localized in her a. Wernicke's area. b. Broca's area. c. hippocampus. d. hypothalamus e. brainstem.

Sometimes police use a lie detector test to help determine whether a suspect is telling the truth. A lie detector test isn't foolproof-sometimes it suggests that a person is lying when he or she is actually telling the truth (a "false positive"). Other times, the test says that the suspect is being truthful when he or she is actually lying (a "false negative"). For one brand of lie detector, the probability of a false positive is 0.08. Explain what this probability means.

Strack, Martin, and Stepper (1988) reported that people rate cartoons as funnier when holding a pen in their teeth (which forced them to smile) than when holding a pen in their lips (which forced them to frown). A researcher attempted to replicate this result using a sample of n = 25 adults between the ages of 40 and 45. For each person, the researcher recorded the difference between the rating obtained while smiling and the rating obtained while frowning. On average the cartoons were rated as funnier when the participants were smiling, with an average difference of $M_D=1.6$ with SS = 150.

a. Do the data indicate that the cartoons are rated significantly funnier when the participants are smiling? Use a one-tailed test with $\alpha=.01$.

b. Compute $r^2$ to measure the size of the treatment effect.

c. Write a sentence describing the outcome of the hypothesis test and the measure of effect size as it would appear in a research report.

Theories that used concepts such as role model and identity are:

A. interactionist theories.
B. cultural theories.
C. structural theories.
D. psycho-social theories.

When hiring for a new creative director for an advertising agency, Amina decided that the number one criteria she desired was a person who could devise numerous ways to solve problems. A person talented in this area would most likely be good at a. divergent thinking. b. convergent thinking. c. belief perseverance. d. solving crossword puzzles. e. doing arithmetic.

Research has found that individuals suffering from schizophrenia have an excess number of receptors for the neurotransmitter a. acetylcholine. b. norepinephnne. c. GABA. d. dopamine. e. serotonin.

According to research, which of the following are we most likely to experience after sleep deprivation? a. Night terrors. b. Sleep apnea. c. Manifest content dreams. d. Narcolepsy. e. REM rebound.

Psephologist David Wechsler has create test for adults and children that are designed to reveal their a. intelligence. b. aptitude. c. achievement. d. personality characteristics. e. symptoms of psychological disorders.

"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.

An injury that leads to the loss of binocular vision would have the greatest impact on a. visual acuity. b. color perception. c. peripheral vision. d. depth perception. e. selective attention.

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.