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| Valium would most likely be prescribed in order to help: |
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| Jerome overcome feelings of nervous apprehension and an inability to relax. |
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| Which of the following individuals is most likely to benefit from Prozac? |
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| Shannon, who feels helpless and apathetic and thinks her life is meaningless and worthless |
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| Wilma, a 45-year-old journalist, alternates between extreme sadness and lethargy and extreme euphoria and overactivity. The drug most likely to prove beneficial to her is: |
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| Prozac is an antidepressant drug that blocks the reabsorption and removal of: |
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| Melissa suffers from auditory hallucinations and falsely believes that her former high school teachers are trying to kill her. Melissa's symptoms are most likely to be relieved by _____ drugs. |
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| At the present time, the most effective drug for the treatment of schizophrenia is: |
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| Sluggishness, tremors, and twitches similar to those of Parkinson's disease are most likely to be associated with the excessive use of certain _____ drugs. |
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| In classical conditioning therapies, maladaptive symptoms are usually considered to be: |
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| Which of the following procedures is most likely to result in a slight loss of memory? |
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| electroconvulsive therapy |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy has proven to be effective in the treatment of: |
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| According to the text, aggression always involves: |
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| Which of the following persons is most clearly acting aggressively? |
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| a child who tries to hit another child with a rock |
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| Attribution theory was designed to account for: |
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| how people explain others' behavior. |
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| Alicia insists that her boyfriend's car accident resulted from his carelessness. Her explanation for the accident provides an example of: |
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| a dispositional attribution. |
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| Fritz Heider concluded that people tend to attribute others' behavior either to their _____ or to their _____. |
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| When 12-year-old Jack saw an old man lying on the sidewalk in apparent discomfort, he prepared to offer help. But when he noticed several adults walk past the man, he concluded that the man did not need any help. His reaction most clearly illustrates one of the dynamics involved in: |
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| The fact that human aggression varies widely from culture to culture most strongly suggests that it is not: |
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| The mere exposure effect refers to the fact that people: |
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| experience increasing attraction to novel stimuli that become more familiar. |
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| Andrew, a 19-year-old college freshman, is very talkative, intelligent, assertive, and politically conservative. Research suggests that he would be most likely to develop a close friendship with: |
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| Toren, who is talkative and assertive. |
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| Which theory best explains why our actions can lead us to modify our attitudes? |
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| cognitive dissonance theory |
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| Attitudes are _____ that guide behavior. |
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| Fritz Heider concluded that people tend to attribute others' behavior either to their _____ or to their _____. |
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| The fundamental attribution error refers to our tendency to underestimate the impact of _____ and to overestimate the impact of _____ in explaining the behavior of others. |
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| situational influences; personal dispositions |
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| Freire did very poorly on his last arithmetic test. The tendency to make the fundamental attribution error might lead his sixth-grade teacher to conclude that Freire did poorly because: |
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| he is unmotivated to do well in school. |
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| Having read the chapter, which of the following is best borne out by research on attraction? |
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| Birds of a feather flock together. |
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| The fact that human aggression varies widely from culture to culture most strongly suggests that it is not: |
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| When a mild-mannered woman had an electrode implanted in her amygdala, she: |
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| developed more aggressive tendencies. |
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| Which theory best explains why our actions can lead us to modify our attitudes? |
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| cognitive dissonance theory |
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| When 12-year-old Jack saw an old man lying on the sidewalk in apparent discomfort, he prepared to offer help. But when he noticed several adults walk past the man, he concluded that the man did not need any help. His reaction most clearly illustrates one of the dynamics involved in: |
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| Most researchers who have examined the effects of viewing televised aggression conclude that: |
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| viewing violence leads children and teenagers to behave aggressively. |
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