Anti-psychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia work by:
a. Promoting the re-uptake of dopamine.
b. Promoting the re-uptake of serotonin.
c. Blocking the re-uptake of serotonin.
d. Blocking the re-uptake of dopamine.
D
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What are the "pieces of bread" on either side of the "sandwich generation?"
a. Job and family b. Generativity and stagnation c. Parents and children d. Stress and coping
As discussed in the text, hostility is linked to increased risk of coronary heart disease because
a. hostile people are frequently angry, and chronic anger increases the risk of hypertension and coronary heart disease b. hostile people frequently vent their anger and frustration, and yelling or arguing with others increases blood pressure and the stress placed on the circulatory system c. hostile people sometimes bottle their emotions and stifle emotional expressions, thereby causing an increase in heart rate and blood pressure d. hostile people frequently over-exert themselves in an effort to come out on top or to prove that their ideas and efforts are superior to those of others e. hostile people frequently misuse over-the-counter medications and, sometimes, illicit drugs.
Chronically angry people often lean excessively on the defense mechanism of ____ and will critically find flaws and weaknesses in others that are really just outward manifestations of disowned elements of their own personality
a. projective identification c. projection b. acting out d. somatization
The memory failure caused by transience is adaptive in that it
a. removes unneeded information from LTM. b. retains the most important information. c. eliminates memories that conflict with our beliefs. d. makes it difficult to encode sensory memories. e. ensures memories are stored by both sight and sound.