While hiking in the mountains in Alaska, Pete encountered a giant grizzly bear. He immediately felt his heart rate increase, his breathing become rapid, and sweat drip down his back. These events were most likely due to effects of the neurotransmitter called

-serotonin.
-epinephrine.
-GABA.
-dopamine.


-epinephrine.

Psychology

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Bushman and Bonacci (2004) found that prejudiced participants were ____ likely to return a lost e-mail that had been addressed to someone with an Arab surname as compared to a European-American surname

a. 12% more b. 12% less c. 70% more d. 70% less

Psychology

Vigorous physical activity, especially late in the day, causes an increase in:

a. fast-wave sleep b. slow-wave sleep c. the appearance of sleep spindles d. the appearance of K complexes

Psychology

Sweden is a country that has made great progress toward gender equality, but Sweden's progress is not yet complete because

a. gender roles are regarded as biologically predestined. b. teenagers still ascribe more status to masculine traits than to feminine traits. c. men still refuse to help with housework. d. men are prevented from entering women's professions.

Psychology

While attending a cocktail party, you find you can clearly hear one particular conversation above all the others, even though that conversation is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the conversation represents the ______,

and the rest of the party is the ______. a. figure; ground c. object; subject b. pattern; whole d. object; ground

Psychology