Amphetamines are __________.

A. barbiturates
B. stimulants
C. hallucinogens
D. opiates


Answer: B

Psychology

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a. Eduardo starts to think that a new band is cool simply because other people around him think it is cool. b. Keisha starts to like a girl at school simply because she has seen her, semester after semester, in so many of her classes. c. Michael loves hip hop music. As a result, he tends to overestimate how much other people like to hip hop. d. Frances works in a hospital, and encounters doctors and nurses all day long. As a result, she tends to overestimate how many people work in the medical industry; to her, it seems as if almost everyone does!

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Mark has been participating in psychological treatment for his eating disorder. Sessions with family members are alternated with intense therapy focusing on his thoughts and behaviors. This intense treatment is referred to as

a. supportive family therapy. b. cognitive intuitive therapy. c. cognitive-behavioral therapy. d. behavior modification.

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During the late 1960s, psychologists began to favor the cognitive approach, because they felt that the behaviorist approach

a. emphasized unobservable cognitive processes. b. overused Wundt's technique of introspection. c. placed too much emphasis on concepts such as reinforcement and observable responses. d. devoted too much research to the organization of memory.

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Jennifer is a classic "tomboy" and insists she has a penis. She says she wants to be a man when she grows up. Most children with gender identity conflicts such as Jennifer's ____

a. become transvestites b. develop gender dysphoria as adults c. do not develop gender dysphoria as adults d. engage in paraphilias as adults

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