You are videotaping a segment for a TV show that highlights funny situations and people caught on video. Your friend is hiding in a large box, ready to jump out and scare unsuspecting people. When the "victims" yell and scream indicating arousal, you speculate that their ____ becomes activated.
A. sympathetic division
B. parasympathetic division
C. parietal lobe
D. cerebellum
Answer: A
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A. 15% B. 30% C. 49% D. 52%
According to Tormala and Petty (2007), the amount of information in a first persuasive appeal impacts the degree to which people like the contents of a second appeal. This effect is mediated by ______.
a. perceived expertise of the second source b. perceived amount of information in the second appeal c. perceived accuracy of information in the second appeal d. repetition across the first and second appeal
Regarding the experiments using intracranial self-stimulation of the pleasure centers, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. When given the choice, rats preferred food, water, or sex to pressing the bar to receive brain stimulation. b. Some of the rats constantly pressed the lever to get brain stimulation for 15 to 20 hours, collapsing from exhaustion. c. Psychoactive drugs, such as alcohol and cocaine, activate the same pleasure pathways that are activated by intracranial self-stimulation. d. Humans have been "wired" for brain stimulation experimentally to restrain uncontrollable outbursts of violence.
For Skinner, behaviorism meant studying the environmental conditions that
precede the response, the response, the environmental conditions immediately after the response, and (a) the mental (cognitive) events assumed to intervene between S and R (b) the intention behind the response, that is, the goals of the organism (c) the personality pattern if the organism studied is a human being (d) the top-down processes governing the pattern of perceptions leading to the response (e) nothing else