Studies of the immune system in humans have found that stress
a. can lead to increased levels of immune activity.
b. has very little effect on immune activity.
c. can lead to decreased levels of immune activity.
d. decreases autonomic nervous system function.
C
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Which of the following is a criticism of traditional psychoanalytic theory?
A. It underemphasizes the sex drive. B. It has an overly positive view of women. C. It lacks scientific evidence. D. It focuses too much on symptoms and not enough on underlying causes.
Which explanation for panic disorder would most likely be offered by a cognitive-behavioral theorist?
a. "A malfunction in the receptors monitoring oxygen in the blood causes the patient to feel that he or she is suffocating when, in fact, he or she isn't." b. "Abnormalities of benzodiazepine receptors in the brain cause a person to feel mounting anxiety that leads to a panic attack.". c. "When ego defenses have weakened because of overuse, forbidden sexual impulses threaten to break into consciousness, causing an attack.". d. "When small changes in the body are misinterpreted as dreadful events, these beliefs start a positive-feedback loop that brings on an attack.".
There are ten students in the pre-kindergarten class. Each student is shown eight colors and asked to name them. The number of colors correctly named by each student was: 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 4 . What would be the median?
a. 4.0 b. 6.7 c. 7.0 d. 8.0
Techniques such as meta-analysis are useful in psychology because _________
a. they help reduce unintended changes in subjects' behavior due to cues given by the experimenter. b. they allow for the careful study of behavior in schools, workplaces, and other natural contexts. c. they provide a range of values within which the mean of a population is likely to lie. d. rarely does one study alone prove anything, and this technique analyzes data from many studies.