The current popularity in the United States of giving birth at home is
a. low, but on the rise.
b. remaining stable at about 80 percent of all births.
c. remaining stable at about 40 percent of all births.
d. high, but falling.
A
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Prior to entering a restaurant, Amy starts to shake, hyperventilate, and feel light-headed. She is too terrified to enter the restaurant. She turns around immediately and catches the first taxi back home. This behavior is most consistent with a. depression
b. Parkinson's disease. c. an anxiety disorder. d. Huntington's disease.
Applicants for the Stanford Prison Study were screened for physical and mental health as well as randomly assigned to the prisoner and guard conditions. This was important because it:
a. minimized the effects of the situation. b. ruled out the effects of individual differences that could have contributed to differences in behavior. c. decreased the insurance premiums charged to the university. d. protected those individuals running the study from harm.
The ______ theory of emotion states that environmental stimuli cause physiological changes in our bodies and emotions result from those physiological changes
a. Cannon-Bard c. Schacter-Singer b. James-Lange d. cognitive
Current approaches to the physiology of stress have found that:
a. most of Selye's ideas about the general adaptation syndrome were incorrect because the biological changes are not adaptive in the short run. b. when you are under stress, the hypothalamus sends messages to the endocrine glands along two major pathways. c. when you are under stress, the parasympathetic division of the nervous system becomes activated for a "fight or flight" response. d. one result of HPA axis activation is decreased energy, leading a person to become lethargic and apathetic.