Research suggests that goals are MOST helpful in facilitating achievement when they are ____
a. specific and somewhat difficult to achieve
b. specific and very easy to achieve
c. broad and somewhat difficult to achieve
d. broad and very easy to achieve
A
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In toddlerhood, children are likely to believe that death is
a. a natural part of the lifespan. b. permanent. c. reversible. d. imaginary.
In dream analysis, displacement is when:
a. we dream of something symbolically similar to an anxiety-provoking event b. one element of a dream symbolizes several things in waking life c. we substitute our real desires for imagined ones d. we forget our dreams after we awaken
In their experiments on the brain and perceptual features, Blakemore, Cooper, Grobstein and Chow found that
a. the kittens raised in the vertically-striped rooms ran into chair legs in the normal environment. b. the kittens raised in the horizontally-striped rooms had difficulty jumping onto a chair in the normal environment. c. there was an actual decrease in brain cells tuned to the missing features. d. all of these findings were true.
People living under stressful conditions tend to get sick more often than they would otherwise. How do researchers in psychoneuroimmunology explain this phenomenon?
a) The stress response reduces immune system functioning, thus making us more vulnerable to diseases. b) The stress response in the long run leads to a lowering of the heart rate, which makes the heart inefficient. c) The stress response makes muscles stronger, which places a greater burden on the heart and respiratory systems. d) The body tends to adapt to the constant call for the stress response and, thus, future responses are not as strong as before.