Form B Name: __________________________ Date: _____________ Introductory Psychology, Fall 2005 (Hawkins) Exam 3 Instructions: Write your name and the date on the top of this exam. Your must turn in this exam along with your answer sheet. On the answer sheet, print your EID, blacken the letters of your EID and provide the other information requested. (Don't forget to put which form of the exam you took!) Remember to blacken your choice for each item on the answer sheet (A, B, C, or D) and completely erase your questions. Good luck! 1. Isaac, a 25-year-old law student, is heterosexual; his brother Chaim, a 21-year-old college senior, is homosexual. The brothers obviously differ in their: A) gender identity. B) sexual role. C) sexual orientation. D) gender type. E) gender schema. 2. Mentally rehearsing one's resentments contributes to ________ perspiration levels and ________ blood pressure levels than mentally rehearsing forgiveness. A) lower; lower B) higher; higher C) lower; higher D) higher; lower 3. State University's psychology department and school of medicine are co-sponsoring a new professional program that applies behavioral and medical knowledge to health and disease. State University will clearly be offering a new degree in: A) medical psychology. B) human engineering. C) behavioral medicine. D) neuropsychology. 4. Rush hour traffic is to upset stomach as ________ is to ________. A) fight; flight B) Type B; Type A C) lymphocyte; macrophage D) hypertension; indigestion E) stressor; stress reaction 5. Research on taste aversion in rats led to the discovery that suppression of the immune system can be influenced by: A) biofeedback. B) Type A behaviors. C) elevated cholesterol levels. D) classical conditioning. E) aerobic exercise. 6. According to the two-factor theory, the two basic components of emotions are ________ and ________. A) facial expressions; cognitive labels B) emotion-arousing events; physical arousal C) physical arousal; overt behavior D) cognitive labels; physical arousal 7. The feel-good, do-good phenomenon refers to the fact that when people feel happy they: A) are more willing to help others. B) perceive the world as a safer place. C) make decisions more effectively. D) experience a more positive self-image. E) report greater satisfaction with their whole lives. 8. British civil service workers in executive positions live longer than those in clerical positions. This best illustrates the value of: A) spontaneous remission. B) perceived control. C) the general adaptation syndrome. D) alternative medicine. 9. The two-factor theory of emotion was proposed by: A) Walter Cannon. B) Robert Zajonc. C) William James. D) Stanley Schachter. E) Richard Lazarus. 10. In response to stress, the adrenal gland releases: A) epinephrine. B) lymphocytes. C) uric acid. D) teratogens. E) acetylcholine. 11. Who suggested that “we feel sorry because we cry . . . afraid because we tremble”?
3. Lexi and Petri are identical twins who were separated at birth and grew up with very different families. Lexi is a skilled student who has three close friends and a loving boyfriend. Her adoptive family had difficulties accepting her when she was an infant and never really appreciated her until she reached puberty. Petri is also a good student and is very well liked in her sorority. Her adoptive family adored Petri until the family dissolved in a messy divorce when Petri was 16. Based on the core model of personality, who probably has higher self esteem, Lexi or Petri?
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To complete this experiment, we used Sprague Dawley rats that were obtained from a breeding company entitled Envigo. We used a total of twelve rats. The rats used in this experiment are all 2.5 years old. The rats were each pair-housed in a temperature controlled room at approximately 22 C. All rats are maintained on a 12:12 hour light dark cycle. For the sake of the experiment, we water restricted the rats as a way to contribute to their motivational state.
Chapter 6 of Wright, Basco, and Thase (2006) presents behavioral methods to work with patients with depression. This chapter points out the importance of behavioral method application in supporting patients to complete tasks, solve problems, and particularly improving energy. Different methods are applicable to patients with depression, such as behavioral activation, activity scheduling, graded task assignments, behavioral rehearsal, and problem solving.
Ader and his partner Dr. Nicholas Cohen were experimenting about taste aversion involving rats with saccharine-sweetened water and Cytoxan injection (Cytoxan is a chemotherapy drug for cancer, side effects include stomach discomfort and can suppresses the immune system) when they stumbled upon a surprising result. Dr. Ader gave the rats water using an eyedropper. The rats who never received Cytoxan continued to drink the sweetened water normally. Unexpectedly, the rats that were treated with Cytoxan began to die from infections at a significantly rate higher than the rats who was never given it. Ader’s experiment revealed that after Cytoxan injections, the saccharine water alone suppressed the immune system. After many experiments, it confirmed that tasting the sweetened water can have triggered the nervous system to suppress the immune system. Prior to the experiment, many believes that there wasn’t such thing as a neuro-immune connection between the two. This experiment similar to the placebo effect where taking the sugar tablets, you expect to relieve pain triggers changes in the brain that do the relieve pain. After seeing the result, Ader and Cohen went on and confirmed that there are connections between the brain and immune
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