A. the number of calories a person consumes daily has no effect on body weight
B. she may have a higher-than-average set point for body weight
C. her resting metabolic rate will increase and prompt her to over eat vigorous exercise
D. fat cells can be lost only with vigorous exercise
Related Mcqs:
- Rudy has been on a strict diet of 1000 calories per day for the last six weeks. He lost considerably more weight in the first three weeks of his diet than in the last three because:
A. his insulin level has decreased
B. learn tissue is maintained by fewer calories than is fat tissue
C. his metabolic rate has decreased
D. his fat cells have decreased in number - In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:
A. curvilinear relationship
B. effect of extraneous variables
C. natural experiment
D. placebo effect - A your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your class teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of __________________?
A. encoding failure
B. storage failure
C. retrieval failure
D. state-dependent memory - Which of the following events would most likely cause an animal to overeat and become obese?
A. lowering its set point
B. destruction of its lateral hypothalamus
C. destruction of its ventromedial hypothalamus
D. stimulation of its ventromedial hypothalamus - Currently a large proportion of the Pakistani populations overweight. Dr. Laeeq thinks that, in part, this may be due to an innate preference for foods that are rich in fats and suggested that in times Laeeq has suggested that in times when foods were not so readily available, this innate preference would ensure enough calories for energy and ensure enough calories for energy and survival Dr. Laeeq’s views are most consistent with those of the
A. evolutionary perspective in psychology
B. behavioral perspective in psychology
C. biological perspective in psychology
D. cognitive perspective in psychology - We are more likely to remember the words “typewriter, cigarette and fire” than the words “void, process and inherent” because the first three words are more likely to be _________________ encoded?
A. automatically
B. visually
C. proactively
D. implicitly - Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fell asleep is most likely due to ____________________?
A. encoding failure
B. the misinformation effect
C. retroactive interference
D. motivated forgetting - Mrs. Aftab is just beginning to experience sensorineural hearing loss. She is likely to have the greatest difficulty hearing sounds of:
A. High frequency and high amplitude
B. Low frequency and high amplitude
C. Low frequency and low amplitude
D. High frequency and low amplitude - After he suffered a stroke, Mr. Salim’s physical coordination skills and responsiveness to sensory stimulation quickly returned to normal unfortunately, however, he began to experience unusual difficulty figuring out how to find his way to various locations in his neighborhood. it most likely that Mr. Salim suffered damage to his:
A. cerebellum
B. autonomic nervous system
C. thalamus
D. association areas - After Rauf’s serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke’s area. Because of the damage, Rauf is most likely to experience difficulty in:
A. understanding what others are saying
B. recognizing familiar faces
C. pronouncing words correctly
D. controlling voluntary muscles
