What role does ghrelin play in enjoying highly palatable foods?
a. reduces likelihood of continuing to eat.
b. reduces hunger through acting in the hypothalamus.
c. increases levels of leptin.
d. stimulates mesolimbic dopamine neurons.
Ans: D
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Which of the following statement about gender and identity is most accurate?
a. Men emphasize interpersonal commitments more than vocational choice. b. Few gender differences in identity status have been discovered. c. Women do not make vocational commitments. d. Women are more likely to be characterized as identity foreclosed than men.
Kali is six years old and wants to learn to do competitive gymnastics at the local dance center. What do you tell her?
A. She has the balance and coordination she needs at this stage. B. She is almost there, but doesn't quite have the balance and coordination she needs. C. She will not have the balance and coordination she needs until she reaches adolescence. D. She has had the coordination and balance she needs since she was four years old.
You have designed an experiment to test a new drug. You prepare the injection doses of the drug and a placebo and label them with different alphabet letters. Then, you hire research assistants to give the injections and to collect data from the participants. These research assistants as well as the participants will not know which injection is the drug or which is the placebo or whether a
participant is in the experimental or the control group. You have a. created a placebo effect. b. designed a single-blind experiment. c. designed a double-blind experiment. d. created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Which of the following is not a need described by optimal distinctiveness theory?
a. need for control and stability b. need to be assimilated by the group c. need to be connected to friends and loved ones d. need for autonomy and differentiation