Humanities Homework Help

QUESTION 6

1. Organisms have the tendency to experience more heightened emotions in response to dangerous than to rewarding stimuli because the consequences of an injury may not be reversible. This phenomenon is called:

   	A.	Negativity Bias
   	B.	Positivity Bias
   	C.	Positivity Offset
   	D.	Negativity Offset

1 points

QUESTION 7

1. Mood congruity refers to the improvement of cognitive performance in functions such as attention or memory when there is agreement between the subject’s mood and the information being sought out.

   True False

1 points

QUESTION 8

1. Which of the following brain areas has been implicated in fear conditioning:

   	A.	Inferior Temporal Cortex
   	B.	Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
   	C.	Hippocampus
   	D.	Amygdala

1 points

QUESTION 9

1. A client who has suffered a stroke and who understands spoken language but is unable to produce fluent speech has most likely suffered damage in this brain area:

   	A.	Wernicke’s area in the right hemisphere
   	B.	Wernicke’s area in the left hemisphere
   	C.	Broca’s area in the right hemisphere
   	D.	Broca’s area in the left hemisphere

1 points

QUESTION 10

1. Distancing ourselves from a problem can improve the odds of coming up with a solution as unconscious processes continue to operate on the problem. The process is known as:

   	A.	Insight
   	B.	Incubation
   	C.	Reflection
   	D.	Resource allocation

1 points

QUESTION 11

1. How does anxiety affect performance of cognitive functions dependent on the central executive:

   	A.	It improves performance
   	B.	It decreases performance
   	C.	It has no effect on performance

1 points

QUESTION 12

1. The Subjective Expected Utility theory of decision making proposes that decisions are formed by weighing the value of the alternative options and the probability that this value will be attained.

   True False

1 points

QUESTION 13

1. Creativity is positively correlated with fluid intelligence.

   True False

1 points

QUESTION 14

1. Overestimating the national percentage of people who vote Republican by a person living in a solidly Republican district is an example of the effect of _________ on decision making.

   	A.	Loss Aversion
   	B.	Overconfidence
   	C.	Availability
   	D.	Confirming Evidence

1 points

QUESTION 15

1. Prior experience with dealing with a set of problems can sometimes impede solution of a new class of problems. This phenomenon is known as:

   	A.	Negative Transfer
   	B.	Positive Transfer
   	C.	Heuristic
   	D.	Insight

1 points

QUESTION 16

1. The neurotransmitter system most activated by rewarding stimuli is:

   	A.	Serotonin
   	B.	Acetylcholine
   	C.	Norepinephrine
   	D.	Dopamine

1 points

QUESTION 17

1. Participants in an experiment designed by Kahneman and Tversky were presented with two choices. Based on your knowledge of decision making, which option do you think that most participants selected?

   	A.	A sure loss of $750
   	B.	A 76% probability of losing a $1000 and a 24% probability of losing nothing, resulting on an average loss of $760.

1 points

QUESTION 18

1. Chronic stress can induce morphological changes in neurons in the hippocampus and induce decrease in volume of this brain structure.

   True False

1 points

QUESTION 19

1. The set of unique sounds that makes up all words in a language is known as the:

   	A.	Morphemes
   	B.	Phonemes
   	C.	Lexicon
   	D.	Schemas

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QUESTION 20

1. The following brain area has been implicated in mediating fluid intelligence:

   	A.	Inferior Temporal Cortex
   	B.	Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
   	C.	Hippocampus
   	D.	Amygdala