Drew is a recovering addict. After a relapse, he feels isolated and alone. Seeking to continue his recovery and connect with others, he attends a few local 12-step meetings. He feels, though, that he has little in common with the others in the group and feels more alone than ever. Based on the textbook’s discussion of social pain, the hurt that Drew is feeling MOST likely involves activity of the brain’s ______.
a. prefrontal cortex
b. posterior insula
c. hypothalamus
d. anterior cingulate cortex
Ans: D
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a. White women are somewhat more likely than Black women to be dissatisfied with their bodies. b. a meta-analysis about ethnicity and body dissatisfaction showed absolutely no differences—not even any small effect sizes. c. women from a low-income Central American background are much more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies, compared to women from a wealthy South American background. d. Canadian research shows that body dissatisfaction is significantly correlated with the number of years a woman had lived in Canada.
In classical conditioning, ____ is the tendency for some stimuli but not others to elicit a conditioned response.
A. discrimination B. selective attention C. generalization D. spontaneous extinction
By counting the number of times you show fluency, flexibility, and originality, we could rate your creativity, or your capacity for __________ thinking
a. inductive b. deductive c. convergent d. divergent
For a group of students, a researcher obtains their grades in high school and their grades in college and plot the intersection of these paired measures for each person on a graph as a single point. This graph is called a
a. normal curve. b. central matrix. c. frequency distribution. d. scatter diagram.