NOTE: Answers in last slide

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NOTE Answers in last slide

• Winthrop is under treatment for
  obsessive-compulsive disorder. Before therapy,
  PET scans revealed that the glucose metabolic
  rates in the right caudate nucleus were elevated.
  After therapy, this area calmed down and became
  less active. Based on this information
• A) it is evident that Winthrop's treatment is a
  biological therapy.
• B) it is evident that Winthrop's treatment is
  cognitive-behaviour therapy.
• C) it is evident that Winthrop's treatment
  combines cognitive-behaviour therapy and
  medication.
• D) any of the above therapies is a possibility.
• E) it is evident that Winthrop's treatment is
  anxiety therapy combined with coping strategies.

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• In orthodox psychoanalysis
• A) a person who displaces their feelings onto the
  analyst is making progress
• B) the analyst probes the person's unconscious,
  formulates the main issue regarding the symptom,
  and focuses on the recurring problem.
• C) a person who is trying to avoid thinking of a
  traumatic event is asked to imagine it over and
  over and over, until it is no longer a powerful
  unconscious force.
• D) the analyst challenges the person whenever a
  thought or interpretation is irrational or
  misguided.
• E) a person is guided through a step by step
  process of desensitization to a feared experience
  of object.

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• Psychologists who practice behavioural therapy
  focus on the client's
• A) unconscious anxieties.
• B) relationships with parents.
• C) rational anxieties
• D) learned anxieties
• E) situation or memory.

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• A cognitive therapist would DISAGREE with which
  one of the following statements?
• A) The role of the therapist is to help clients
  identify the beliefs and expectations that might
  be unnecessarily prolonging their unhappiness.
• B) Constructive thinking can help a person get
  rid of anger, fear, and depression, and the
  downward spirals that they produce.
• C) Patients are taught critical thinking when the
  therapist requires them to identify their biases,
  examine the evidence, and consider other
  interpretations.
• D) Therapy must involve discussions of the
  individual's stance on the meaning of life.
• E) The role of the therapist is to help clients
  identify their assumptions recognizing their
  overgeneralizations and negative thinking.

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• The vulnerability-stress model assumes
• a. Nature is the primary contributor to stress
• b. Nurture is the primary contributor to stress
• c. Vulnerabilities can be affected by stress
• d. Even without vulnerabilities, stress can
  affect disease
• e. C and D

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• Evolutionary psychologists would disagree that
• a. Aggression exists because it enhanced our
  survival
• b. Because aggression exists, it is adaptive
• c. Stereotyped traits are not explained by
  evolution
• d. Anthropomorphizing is an inappropriate model
• e. None of the above

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• Support for language as innate includes all of
  the following except
• Even hearing impaired individuals acquire
  language
• Two same aged children from different cultures
  will likely be at the same stage of linguistic
  development
• Parents recasting of sentences will aid in
  language acquisition
• A child younger than 8 months can pronounce
  phonemes that are inconsistent with his/her
  language
• B and C

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• A doctor doing brain surgery touches a part of
  the brain and the patients right finger moves.
  The doctor has touched
• a. Frontal lobe
• b. Somatosensory cortex
• c. Motor cortex
• d. Cerebellum
• e. Temporal lobe

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• A cell body has begun to increase its firing. It
  has likely received a neurotransmitter such as
• Glutamate
• GABA
• An inhibitory neurotransmitter
• An excitatory neurotransmitter
• A or D

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• As Bridget is walking across campus, a bicyclist
  swerves toward her. Her heart races and sweat
  breaks out as she jumps out of harm's way. This
  reaction is due to____________. Soon, Bridget's
  heart rate begins to decrease and return to a
  regular rhythm. This reaction is due to the
  action of Bridget's_________
• A) somatic nervous system autonomic nervous
  system.
• B) autonomic nervous system somatic nervous
  system.
• C) sympathetic nervous system parasympathetic
  nervous system.
• D) parasympathetic nervous system sympathetic
  nervous system.
• E) central nervous system lower nervous system.

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• A mother is sleeping, and there are various
  noises occuring in the house the sound of the
  heater, the television, the dog breathing. But,
  she is still able to hears her child cry out
  "Mommy". The part of the brain that allows her to
  attend to her child versus the other noise is
• A) medulla.
• B) reticular activating system.
• C) pons.
• D) cerebellum.
• E) hippocampus.

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Answers

• 1D
• 2A
• 3D
• 4D
• 5E
• 6B
• 7C
• 8D
• 9E
• 10C
• 11B