The effects of antidepressant medications include which of the following?
a. They increase the velocity of action potentials in the brain.
b. They prolong the effects of certain neurotransmitters
c. They help the heart keep a steady rhythm.
d. They stimulate dopamine synapses in the nucleus accumbens.
b
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Which of the following statements is true of social facilitation?
A) It is the process by which a person's performance is decreased in a group. B) At high levels of arousal, our performance of simple tasks is facilitated. C) It is a method for inducing compliance in which a small request is followed by a larger request. D) It is the process by which a person's performance is increased when other members of a group engage in similar behavior.
You inherited a gene for brown eyes from your father, but a gene for blue eyes from your mother. What color are your eyes?
a. blue c. green b. brown d. impossible to predict
Psychologists have defined learning as
A. the modification through experience of preexisting behavior and understanding. B. the systematic organization of information that facilitates later recall and use. C. a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge due to experience. D. the adaptation of instinctual responses to new environments.
According to the chapter I'm Warning You, what did they find in study 2?
(a) for a low cost task, participants were more likely to follow instructions if a confederate modeled the behavior (b) high cost and low cost tasks were performed equally, only modeling changed the participants' behavior (c) participants were most likely to follow directions in a high costtask (d) obedience to authority was lower than obedience to a written order