Opiates have hypnotic effects, which means they can ______.

A. induce sleep
B. decrease anxiety
C. increase alertness
D. reduce pain


Answer: A

Psychology

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Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War. Janie remembers four of them

She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it is something like taxes. Janie is walking down the stairs, when all of a sudden, she remembers that the fifth point is taxes, but it is too late. Janie was suffering from a. encoding problems b. storage inversion c. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon d. evaluation overload e. anterograde amnesia

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The essential feature of operant learning is that there is a contingency between:

(a) a response and a reinforcer (b) recovery and reinforcement (c) recovery and response (d) a response and a cumulative curve

Psychology

Even as Leon is standing outside puffing away on an unfiltered cigarette, he is thinking to himself, "You know, this is really stupid. It's bad for me, and it makes me smell like an ashtray."

Leon's discomfort – the divide between his attitude and his behavior – results in __________. a. behavioral perseveration b. attitudinal shifts c. cognitive dissonance d. tangential cognitizing

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