Distinguish among personality Types A and D, and identify which is/are associated with coronary heart disease, and which is/are associated with cancer.
What will be an ideal response?
Type A--competitive, hostile, impatient. Hostility is related to coronary heart disease.
Type D--“distressed” personality; insecure, pessimistic, prone to negative emotions; also related to coronary heart disease
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Which of the following is a true statement about genes?
A. All chromosomes contain the same number of genes. B. Chromosomes, but not genes, are paired. C. Genes, but not chromosomes, are paired. D. The Y chromosome has fewer genes than the X chromosome.
Which of these is an example of punishment?
a) giving a child a star for telling a lie b) giving a child a cookie for cleaning her room c) taking away a child's favorite toy for hitting another child d) removing a penalty you imposed on a child after he began acting better
Fred is afraid of spiders. He won't even watch a nature show on TV about them. When he sees a picture of a spider, he has a panic attack, but when he avoids looking at the image, his panic goes away. Fred's avoidance of spiders is being
a. extinguished, because he feels anxious after doing so. b. recovered spontaneously, because he will never get better. c. positively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. d. negatively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. e. positively reinforced, because he will lose his fear of spiders in the long run.
The cocktail party effect involves the rigidity of the tympanic membrane.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)