Which of the following is not a mechanism by which drugs change behavior?
A. activating the brain's reward/pleasure circuit
B. mimicking the action of neurotransmitters
C. blocking reuptake
D. decreasing the production of synaptic vesicles
Answer: D
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The research on adopted children and intelligence has found that there is a significant similarity between them and
a. their biological parents. b. their adoptive parents. c. both sets of parents. d. their adoptive siblings.
The occurrence of so-called copycat crimes where someone hijacks an airliner after seeing a movie about a hijacking provides anecdotal evidence for
a. Bandura's social-cognitive theory. b. Skinner's operant conditioning theory. c. Freud's psychoanalytic theory. d. Adler's individual psychology.
How does the activation-synthesis hypothesis explain dreaming?
a. the surfacing of repressed sexual urges b. biological attempts to make recent memories more permanent c. the cortex making sense of signals from the brain stem d. the use of elaborate symbolism to disguise "unthinkable" topics e. the surfacing of repressed aggressive urges
According to the U.S. Surgeon General, ________ is the most pressing health problem in America today
a. obesity b. alcoholism c. illegal drug use d. cigarette smoking