Psychology

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The correct order of General adaptation syndrome is " _______, resistance, exhaustion."

Alarm

Deficient social interaction and impaired understanding of another person's state of mind are MOST characteristic of _____ disorder.

Autism Spectrum

_____ is characteristic of deficient social interaction and an impaired understanding of another person's state of mind.

Autism spectrum disorder

A health psychologist would be most likely to conduct research addressing the relationship between _______ and _______.

Cancer and stress

The _______ perspective emphasizes information processing.

Cognitive

Questions focus on specific crime-scene details known only to the police and the guilty person is known as the ______ test.

Concealed information

Researchers who emphasize experience and learning see development in terms of _____, while those who emphasize biological maturation tend to see development as a sequence of genetically predisposed _____.

Continuity and stages

Upholding rules to gain social approval or maintain social order most clearly illustrates ____.

Conventional Morality

In times of stress, the outer part of the adrenal glands secretes glucocorticoid stress hormones, such as _______.

Cortisol

Traffic jams, dropped calls, and deadlines are examples of ________.

Daily Hassels

Dr. Spoleto's research examines cognitive changes that occur as people progress from young adulthood to late adulthood. Dr. Spoleto is a _____ psychologist.

Developmental

Research on how people change physically, mentally, and socially across the life span is MOST often conducted by _______ psychologists.

Developmental

The study of continuity and change over the life span is the subject of the field of ___________ psychology.

Developmental

_____ psychologists investigate the influence of multiple factors on how people change physically, mentally, and socially at every stage of life.

Developmental

Within he first week after conception, the cells of the zygote begin to _________.

Differentiate

Your cousin lost her baby during her eighth week of pregnancy. During what stage of prenatal development did she have the miscarriage?

Embryo

Looking for the silver lining in a challenging situation is an example of _______ coping.

Emotion-focused

Fight-or-flight response is associated with the release of _______ into the blood stream

Epinephrine

The third phase of the general adaptation syndrome is characterized by _______.

Exhaustion

The correct order for emotions is " Bodily Arousal, _____, Feeling & Conscious experience"

Expressive Behaviors

The MOST immediate and direct function of the rooting reflex is the facilitation of _______.

Feeding

John was so happy about his grandson's birth, he decided to donate a large sum of money to the local church; this best describes _______.

Feel-good do-good phenomenon

Children start to gain control over their attention beginning in preschool. This control is related to growth spurt in the ____ lobe.

Frontal

Macrophages are cells that _______, pursue, and attack harmful invaders in the body.

Identify

Gerri is at a tennis match; he failed to realize that a birdie landed next to him. This best illustrates _______.

Inattentional blindness

After exercise, the body's production of serotonin _______. (increases or decreases)

Increases

Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system _____ salivation and ______ blood pressure ( which one decreases and increases?)

Increases and Decreases

Erik Erikson proposed that the _______vs. ______ stage of life, people struggle to form close relationships and to gain the capacity for adult romantic love.

Intimacy vs. Isolation

'Preoperational' is to 'preconventional' as 'Piaget' is to '_________'

Kohlberg

____ is the orderly sequence of biological growth.

Maturation

People with the sleep disorder _________, experience periodic, overwhelming sleepiness.

Narcolepsy

What sleep disorder has the opposite effect from insomnia?

Narcolepsy

Jonah, a 25-year-old, has decided to ask his doctor about whether his rate of sperm cell production is within normal range. His doctor will likely tell him that the average rate of production for a man his age is about __________ sperm per second.

One thousand

During adolescence, MOST individuals achieve _____'s cognitive stage of formal operations.

Piaget

actions reflect belief in basic rights and self-defined ethical principles most clearly illustrates _____.

Postconventional morality

Obeying rules to avoid punishment most clearly illustrates _____.

Preconventional Morality

Addressing stressor directly is known as _______.

Problem-focused

Remembering to buy bread at the store is an example of ______.

Prospective memory

The light sensitive inner portion of the eye is called the ____.

Retina

Some middle-aged adults describe themselves as "_____ Generation" supporting their aging parents and emerging adult children or grandchildren.

Sandwich

Vygotsky used the term "____ " to refer to a framework offering children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking.

Scaffold

Gerri ignores the sound from the television and is focusing his attention on a telephone conversation; Gerri best illustrates _______.

Selective Attention

The correct order of prenatal development is _______, embryo, fetus.

Zygote

A child's realization that others may have beliefs the child knows to be false BEST illustrates the development of _____.

A theory of mind

Psychologists used the word ____ to refer to an individual's close, emotional bond with another person.

Attachment

Jean Piaget proposed a stage theory of _____ Development.

Cognitive

_________ is a mediator of emotions and calms people down

Serotonin

Walking 150 minutes per week predicted living _______ more years

Seven

___________ refers to a physical or emotional response to an event

Stress Reaction

The average age of earliest conscious memory is _______ years.

Three to three and a half years old

Who suggested that very simular psychological reactions are associated with a variety of different emotions?

Walter Cannon

Anatoli and Andrei are 11-month-old identical twins. Anatoli took his first steps yesterday. How soon will Andrei take his first steps?

Within a day

The _____ is the fertilized egg that after a 2-week period of rapid cell division develops into an embryo.

Zygote

Temperament and emotionality studies have demonstrated that these characteristics:

are learned over time.

About ____ out of ten dreams are marked by a negative event or emotion.

eight

If you wake someone who is in REM sleep, there is about a(n) _______ % chance the person will report being in the middle of a dream.

eighty

Instead of looking for a way to release anger, psychologists Carol Tavris suggests that people _______.

find a place to calm down

Up to age 95, incidence of mental disintegration doubles every _____ years.

five

_______ are types of white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection

lymphocytes

As evidence of the stability of temperament over time, a study conducted by Hertenstein et al. (2009) found from studying college photographs that:

one in four of those people with the weakest college smiles tended to divorce

When an infant gazes more intently at a new stimulus, researchers conclude that the infant recognizes that stimulus as being new to the infant. It follows that the infant:

remembers the original stimulus, thus making the new stimulus seem different.

One's brain keeps track of sleep debt for a period about ______ weeks.

two

During intercourse, about _____ million sperm are released

two hundred fifty


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