The intensity of the body's stress reaction ultimately depends on
a. what we think and tell ourselves about stressors.
b. rumors and misattributions.
c. misperceptions of physiological arousal.
d. the gender, age, and personality of the individual.
ANSWER: a
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The prototype approach to semantic memory works especially well in which of the following conditions?
a. when applied to a group of items that have no single characteristic in common b. when explaining how we store details about each individual example of a category c. when accounting for why experts and nonexperts differ with respect to their use of subordinate-level categories d. when pointing out why people believe that some categories have clear-cut boundaries, rather than fuzzy boundaries
Rats raised in an enriched environment were
(a) better at both complex and simple tasks (b) better at complex tasks but about the same at simple tasks (c) better at simple tasks but about the same at complex tasks (d) about the same at both simple and complex tasks because both simple and complex tasks are controlled by bioprogramming