Which disorder affects about 6.8 percent of all adults in a given year and involves the person having an intense, irrational fear of being observed, evaluated, embarrassed, or humiliated by others in everyday situations?
a. social phobia
b. generalized anxiety disorder
c. obsessive-compulsive disorder
d. acute stress disorder
A
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During the 1950s and 1960s, creative new ways of measuring mental processes paved the way for the cognitive revolution. The development of new research methods helps to illustrate which of your text's unifying themes?
a. Our experience of the world is highly subjective. b. Psychology is theoretically diverse. c. Psychology is empirical. d. Behavior is determined by multiple causes.
Kaplan's first stage is physiological, whereas her second and third stages are psychological
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
James is comparing recordings of a rod's reaction to a very bright light and a dim light. He soon observes that the bright light produces _________ in the rod compared with activity in the dim light.
A. greater hyperpolarization B. less hyperpolarization C. greater depolarization D. little change
While on spring break in Acapulco, May decided to do some cliff diving. As she stood at the edge of a 50-foot cliff, her heart raced, her respiration increased, and she sweated profusely. Which of the following divisions of May's autonomic nervous system had been activated by this experience?
-sympathetic -parasympathetic -peripheral -somatic