Clara enters her dark apartment after a brief out-of-town trip. As she turns on the light, her cat jumps out from behind a large plant, causing Clara to scream and drop her bags. Clara is experiencing arousal of _______.
A. her thyroid gland
B. her autonomic nervous system
C. her pituitary gland
D. her somatic nervous system
Ans: B. her autonomic nervous system
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Calhoun's study of overcrowding showed that animals in overcrowded conditions
a. reproduce more rapidly. b. become more cooperative. c. increase their maternal behavior. d. die from stress-caused diseases.
What does the "word-superiority effect" mean? a. People read faster if they focus on one word at a time
b. Putting something into words makes it easier to remember. c. It is easier to identify a letter within a word than by itself. d. The whole-word method is the best way to teach children to read.
People prone to repression tend to
a. exhibit a great deal of proactive interference. b. experience a great deal of encoding failure. c. be extremely sensitive to emotional events. d. exhibit all of these characteristics.
A study that aims to measure the number of people in a particular city who are diagnosable with generalized anxiety disorder is an example of
a. the case study method. b. multivariate research. c. epidemiological research. d. none of the above