With respect to drug effects, "efficacy" means the tendency of a drug to ____
a. have inhibitory effects
b. have excitatory effects
c. attach to a receptor
d. activate a receptor
d
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Mac often leaves work to ride the subway around the city. As he rides, he always chooses to stand up in crowded cars so that he can rub up against the women nearby him. Mac probably has which paraphilic disorder?
a. Exhibitionistic disorder b. Voyeuristic disorder c. Frotteuristic disorder d. Fetishistic disorder
When a vertebrate animal contracts the flexor muscles of a leg, it relaxes the extensor muscles of the same leg. Sherrington considered this evidence for the existence of ____
a. spatial summation b. temporal summation c. inhibitory messages d. the delay in transmission at synapses
John Watson's behaviorism focused primarily on _____, while Arnold Gesell's maturational perspective focused primarily on _____
a. behavior patterns; physical aspects of growth and development b. physical aspects of growth and development; behavior patterns c. heredity; biology d. biology; learning
Psychologist Claude Steele has argued that because women are aware of society's stereotypes about achievement in particular domains, women
A) try harder than men in those domains. B) achieve higher than men in those domains. C) may be hindered as they are distracted by worries about the failure that society predicts for them. D) employees are more highly valued in those domains.