Exam 20: Insight, Language, and Memory: Exploring Cognitive Processe

Card players who attribute their wins to their own skill and their losses to bad luck best illustrate

To help Janet overcome her nearly irresistible craving for chocolate, a therapist provides her with a supply of chocolate candies that contain solidified droplets of a harmless but very bitter-tasting substance. This approach to treatment best illustrates

Narcolepsy is associated with a relative absence of a hypothalamic neural center that produces

Which hormone enables contractions associated with birthing and milk flow during nursing?

While taking the final exam in American history, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the current president of the United States. Her difficulty most clearly illustrates

The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls positive life experiences. This best illustrates that emotional states can become

A pigeon receives food for pecking a key, but only rarely and on unpredictable occasions. This best illustrates

A year after surviving a classroom shooting incident, Angie still responds with terrora. the sight of toy guns and to the sound of balloons popping. This reaction best illustrates

Staying up especially late on weekends is most likely to have an influence on

Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to the

To monitor the electrical activity in the brain that is triggered by hearing one's own name, researchers would make use of a(n)

The dramatic increase in Americans' premarital sexual activity over the past half- century best illustrates that sexual behavior is influenced by

Stereotype threat is most likely to depress female students' performance on a difficult ________ test and to depress male students' performance on a difficult ________ test.

In a home for troubled youth, adolescents receive large colored buttons when they hang up their clothes, make their beds, and come to meals on time. The adolescents return the buttons to staff members to receive bedtime snacks or watch TV. This best illustrates an application of

Lindsey is extremely afraid of becoming obese even though she is underweight. She often checks her body in the mirror for any signs of fat and refuses to eat most foods because she insists they are fatty or high in calories. Lindsey most clearly demonstrates symptoms of

In one experiment, deeply-in-love university students experienced ________ when looking at their beloved's picture.

Increasing years of schooling over the last half century have most likely contributed to

Chromosomes are composed of

Intense and reactive infants become unusually anxious and aroused when facing new or strange situations. This best illustrates the importance of

Dr. Matsuko's major research interest is the long-term effects of child-rearing practices on the psychological adjustment of offspring. It is most likely that Dr. Matsuko is a(n) ________ psychologist.