While hiking with a friend in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, Lenny comes face-to-face with a young bear on the trail. Lenny rapidly enters the first stage of Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome. His brainstem initiates the release of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, which increases his vigilance and fear. This is part of his ____
a. ?cognitive response
b. ?behavioral response
c. ?emotional response
d. ?physical response
ANSWER:
d
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a. a control variable. b. the dependent variable. c. the independent variable. d. an extraneous variable.
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a. at the time when infants begin to prefer human to nonhuman stimuli. b. at the time when infants begin to express a preference for familiar people. c. when the child forms his or her first genuine attachment. d. toward the end of the preoperational period.
First the students groaned and then they let out a sigh of relief when the teacher realized her mistake. The test was supposed to be on the topic of the modern romance novel,
but she inadvertently passed out exam questions that were intended for another course she was teaching on medieval poetry. It is obvious that the initial test questions did not have a. reliability. b. criterion validity. c. predictive validity. d. construct validity.
Bain's goal was to:?
a. ?show that a science of ethology was possible b. ?describe the physiological correlates of mental and behavioral phenomena c. ?show the compatibility between J. S. Mill's concept of mental chemistry and Cartesian philosophy d. ?show that mental and behavioral phenomena could be explained without employing the law of contiguity