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| The psychological experience is controlled by... |
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blood/sugar levels
glucoreceptors in the brain
the VMN
the LH |
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| Schacter's experiments comparing obese people with normal people indicate that... |
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| obese people are plate cleaners and are more affected by the taste of food. |
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| These may influence the "arousability" of the human female. |
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| Hedonistic theories of motivation claim that people... |
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| avoid pain and pursue pleasure. |
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| Ward's research on prenatal stress effects shows that male rats exhibit... |
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| elevated feminine behavior and reduced masculine behavior. |
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| A somewhat surprising finding from Stanley Schacter's laboratory was that overweight people are... |
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| less willing to perform labor or undergo pain to obtain food. |
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| Simon LeVay's research comparing the brains of homosexual and heterosexual men shows that... |
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| their brains are different in several hypothalamic nuclei. |
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| A woman undergoes an operation to have both ovaries removed. Will she still be interested in and able to engage in the same sexual activities? |
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| Yes, because her sexuality is determined by much more than hormonal levels. |
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| Which psychologist was interested in distinguishing the difference between smart children and children that would have problems in school? |
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| If you took the same IQ test once a month for 6 months and got the same score each time, you would conclude that the test was... |
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| In Terman's long term study of gifted children, he found that success in adult life was strongly associated with... |
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| personality factors such as self confidence, goal oriented behavior, and perseverance. |
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| If a man is castrated in adulthood, this would only block... |
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| activational effects of testosterone. |
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| Women may experience higher-than-normal levels of sexual arousal during the... |
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| middle of their menstrual cycle. |
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| Field studies of long-term viewing of violence on television suggest that... |
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| long-term viewing appears to increase aggressive behavior, but the evidence is not definitive. |
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| A 20-year old with a mental age of the average 12-year old would have an IQ of... |
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| Identical twins that are reared apart tend to... |
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| have IQs that are more similar than fraternal twins reared together. |
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| Prenatal progesterone exposure in human females... |
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| promotes aggressive attitudes and behaviors. |
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| Skeel's research is important because it showed that... |
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| a stimulating environment can raise intellectual functioning. |
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| Arthur Jensen attributes observed differences in the IQs of blacks and whites to... |
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| Concordance research with identical twins suggest that... |
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| there may be a genetic cause for lesbianism and homosexuality. |
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| In Harlow's research, the only "monster" mother that the infant monkey rejected was the one which... |
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| contained ice water in its veins. |
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| Research such as Project Washoe is useful because it... |
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| investigates the evolutionary continuity of the ability to communicate. |
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| The first intelligence measure developed by Binet and Simon was intended to... |
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| identify children who could benefit from special academic instruction. |
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| Important criticisms of intelligence testing is that they... |
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measure achievement
may be culturally biased
can be used unfairly to deny people access to certain opportunities |
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| Men are more likely to fantasize dominance themes, while women are more likely to report submission themes... |
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| A person's genetic endowment places limits on the extent to which the brain develops and intelligence may develop. |
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| If these are absent, the fetus may become a female. |
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| Children who are in the early phases of the preoperational stage cannot master... |
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| Although Piaget's theory has been proven to be a useful one, it has been criticized on the grounds that... |
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| it underestimates the intellectual sophistication of children and adolescents. |
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| Television viewing by children detracts from their reading achievement. |
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| What drive is not based on homeostasis? |
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| The glucostatic hypothesis asserts that hunger occurs when the amount of... |
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| glucose in the blood is low. |
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| Women who take oral contraceptives... |
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| show little fluctuation in sexual interest across the menstrual cycle. |
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| The single most important predictor of homosexuality is... |
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| the report of homosexual feelings long before the first homosexual experience. |
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| Darwin argued that emotional expressions in people and in non-human animals are... |
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| The idea that the experience of emotion is preceded by physiological arousal is called the... |
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| James-Lange theory of emotion. |
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| During a single meal, eating will stop after eating a relatively nutritious food, but will continue for a longer time if the food is not very nutritious. |
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