A panic attack is _____
a) an irrational fear of an object or person.
b) a sudden feeling of fear, including physical symptoms such as a racing heart, body shakes, and sweating.
c) another name for a flashback, often seen in posttraumatic stress disorder.
d) an involuntary thought or image that is intrusive and triggers a fear reaction.
Answer: b
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a. estrogen. c. serotonin. b. androgens. d. both a and b.
The task of psychobiological researchers is to understand behavior at which of the following levels of analysis?
a. the broadest level b. the most precise level c. a moderately broad level d. a moderately precise level
Moscovitch and Moscovitch (2000) compared prosopagnosic patients and object-agnosic patients. What did they find?
A. There were no differences between the two patient types. B. Patients with object agnosia were normal at face recognition but showed deficits in object recognition. Prosopagnosic patients showed deficits in facial recognition but not object recognition. C. Object-agnosic patients show deficits in all stimuli, whereas the prosopagnosic agnostic patients showed deficits only in recognizing faces and had normal responses to all other stimuli. D. The prosopagnosic agnostic patients recovered more quickly than did the object-agnosic patients.
Laparoscopy is
A) a medical procedure in which a long, narrow tube is inserted through an incision in the navel, permitting the visual inspection of organs in the pelvic cavity. B) an abnormal condition in which endometrial tissue swells beyond the abdominal cavity. C) a test in which carbon dioxide gas is blown through the cervix, and its progress through the reproductive tract is tracked to determine whether fallopian tubes are blocked. D) a test in which a dye is injected into the reproductive tract, and its progress is tracked by X-rays to determine whether the fallopian tubes are blocked.