When your doctor taps you just below the knee, he or she is checking a reflex that is triggered by which kind of receptor?

A. a Golgi tendon organ
B. a central pattern generator
C. a muscle spindle
D. a vestibular organ


Answer: C

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You and a friend are studying psychology at the dining room table when you hear something stirring underneath it. You lean over to investigate, and a rat scurries across the floor. Which nervous system kicks into gear in both you and your friend?

a. the afferent nervous system c. the sympathetic nervous system b. the parasympathetic nervous system d. the central nervous system

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Adolescents tend to agree with the perceived educational goals of their parents when their:

A) father has a high educational level. B) father has a low prestige job. C) mother has a high educational level. D) mother has a high prestige job.

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According to the article Attachment in Separation concerning divorced or separated mothers' interactions with their children, if no statistically significant differences are found between groups, the best interpretation one can make is that:

(a) differences between groups may be the result of chance factors (b) the two groups are the same (c) they are different in some important way but the statistics have failed to show this (d) the statistical test was done poorly

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The somatic symptom disorders do NOT include ______.

a. illness anxiety disorder b. schizophrenia c. somatic symptom disorder d. factitious disorder

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