Which neurotransmitter plays an important role in regulating anger?
a) dopamine
b) serotonin
c) GABA
d) glutamate
b) serotonin
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Which of the following BEST qualifies as an example of prejudice?
a. Sarah believes that gay men tend to like fashion. Thus, when Sarah meets Tom, a gay friend of her brother's, she asks him who his favorite fashion designer is (instead of asking him, say, about sports or movies). b. A CEO of an advertising agency decides that she would like to employ more women. Thus, even though the agency receives applications from equally qualified men and women, far more women than men are hired. c. Vera believes that old people smell bad. When getting on the bus earlier this week, she therefore felt repulsed when she saw that the only available seat was next to an old person. d. Horace has never met a black person before, but he watches a lot of old movies, and he has learned from these movies to associate black people with aggression as well as athleticism.
The psychological goal of understanding behavior is achieved when
a. control over behavior is made possible. b. a careful description of behavior is made. c. psychologists can explain why a behavioral phenomenon occurs. d. empirical evidence is obtained.
After riding in the back seat of a car, making rapid turns along a winding road, you experience dizziness and nausea because
a. information from the semicircular canals and the rest of your body is inconsistent. b. poisons build up in the system which cause vomiting to eject them. c. auditory and visual stimuli combine too rapidly and produce a sensory overload. d. kinesthetic receptors have been stimulated too vigorously and eventually shutdown.
Research on children conceived by artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization indicates that these children
A) are usually told how they were conceived. B) have higher rates of emotional problems. C) tend to be smaller than other children. D) do not have any particular developmental problems.