Chapter 5

The Milgram obedience experiments were controversial because the:

"teachers" were deceived and frequently subjected to stress.

George Frideric Handel composed his Messiah during three weeks of intense, creative energy. Many believe Handel suffered a mild form of:

Bipolar

Schizophrenia is associated with an excess of receptors for:

Dopamine (Shiz is dope)

In which type of disorder is a person's speech likely to be so full of unrelated words and phrases that it could be characterized as a "word salad"?

Schiz (Salad Days MDM is the schiz)

The social-cognitive perspective has emphasized that depression is perpetuated by:

Self-blaming attributions

Tardive dyskinesia is often associated with long-term use of drugs that occupy certain ________ receptor sites.

Tar dive is a dope dive

Having observed participants in his simulated prison study, Philip Zimbardo offered an explanation for the destructive behavior of U.S. military guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison. Zimbardo's explanation best exemplified:

a situational attribution.

Xanax and Ativan are ________ drugs.

anti-anxiety avian flying scary but anti anxiety helps

Sluggishness, tremors, and twitches similar to those of Parkinson's disease are most likely to be associated with the excessive use of certain ________ drugs.

anti-psychotic tweak from south park is a psycho

The distinctive features used to identify the three clusters of personality disorders are:

anxiety, eccentricity, and impulsivity. (Must have anxiety and impulsivity)

Psychological research on the principles of learning has most directly influenced the development of:

behavior therapy.

A common ingredient underlying the success of diverse psychotherapies is the:

client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better.

Which theory best explains why our actions can lead us to modify our attitudes?

cognitive dissonance theory

Fritz Heider concluded that people tend to attribute others' behavior either to their:

dispositions or their situations.

The DSM-IV does not:

explain the causes of the various psychological disorders.

Freire did very poorly on his last arithmetic test. The tendency to make the fundamental attribution error might lead his sixth-grade teacher to conclude that Freire did poorly because:

he is unmotivated to do well in school.

Which form of therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them how to resolve disagreements with their friends?

interpersonal psychotherapy

Those with ________ symptoms of schizophrenia more often have a(n) ________ condition that responds to drug therapy.

positive; reactive

Evidence that symptoms of dissociative identity disorder are triggered by the suggestions and leading questions of therapists most clearly points out the importance of ________ in the onset of this disorder.

role-playing

Philip Zimbardo devised a simulated prison and randomly assigned college students to serve as prisoners or guards. This experiment best illustrated the impact of:

role-playing on attitudes.

Most people are likely to be surprised by the results of Milgram's initial obedience experiment because:

the "teachers" were more obedient than most people would have predicted.

In Milgram's obedience experiments, "teachers" exhibited a somewhat lower level of compliance with an experimenter's orders when:

the experiment was not associated with a prestigious institution like Yale University.

Research participants believed that the Asch conformity test involved a study of:

visual perception (looking at lines and seeing what is longest)