Watson learned from Loeb that plants and simple animals, because of their biological makeup, respond automatically in characteristic ways to particular environmental stimuli. This automatic orienting response is called a(n) _____.

a. disinhibition
b. sentiment
c. tropism
d. unconditioned response


c. tropism

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Once a male fetus starts to produce __________, female internal structures present in the fetus start to wither away and male structures continue to develop.

A. testosterone B. androgen C. estrogen D. synapses

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If you calculated either the mean or mode, then you can choose either the range or the interquartile range to measure the standard deviation.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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As used by Freud, the unconscious refers to

a. those things we choose to forget. b. the area of the mind that lies outside of personal awareness. c. the tip (or smallest part) of the iceberg. d. all of these.

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A patient comes to you, a brilliant neuropsychologist. He speaks with a lot of adjectives and adverbs, and his sentences are florid but make no sense. You also notice that he calls objects in the room by the wrong name. You conclude that this patient has

A. Korsakoff's psychosis. B. Wernicke's aphasia. C. hemineglect. D. aprosodia.

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