The part of the autonomic division of the peripheral nervous system that acts to prepare an organism's body for action in stressful situations, engaging all of the organism's resources to respond to a threat is known as the
A. sympathetic division.
B. parasympathetic division.
C. somatic division.
D. synaptic division.
Answer: A
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A. extinction and shaping B. extinction and building C. devaluing and shaping D. devaluing and building
Distinctiveness in information to be remembered interferes with subsequent recall of the information
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Doumitra is telling Carrie about a movie she saw last month. She knows that Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal both star in the movie and that it involves a scary bunny rabbit, but she cannot come up with the title of the movie. According to the textbook, such difficulty in retrieving information is known as
A. spreading activation. B. proactive inhibition. C. the primacy effect. D. incomplete knowledge.
Which person is an example of someone most likely to be involved in a case in which memories of past childhood abuse are recalled later in life?
a) Twenty-year-old Charlotte, who sought therapy for anxiety with a therapist who uses hypnosis. b) Thirty-year-old Steve, who sought therapy for symptoms that developed after serving in Iraq. c) Ten-year-old Willard, who was referred by a pediatrician for symptoms that appear to meet the diagnostic criteria for hyperactivity. d) Fifty-year-old Agnes, who fell, hit her head, and suddenly began remembering that her brother abused her sexually when she was eight years old.