Jim just barely avoided a head-on collision on a narrow road. with heart pounding, hands shaking, and body perspiring, Jim recognizes that these are signs of the body’s fight of the body’s fight-or-flight response, which is controlled by the:

Related Mcqs:

1. Jamil is in a constant state of anxiety and also has brief, sudden periods of panic. He also believes these periods of panic will occur when he’s in a public location: therefore, jim is afraid to leave his house.Jim’s diagnosis is:

   A. agoraphobia
   B. panic disorder
   C. panic disorder with agoraphobia
   D. panic disorder without agoraphobia

2. While driving his girlfriend to work Nate narrowly avoided a collision with another vehicle. Moments later, he experienced an unusually warm glow of effection for his girlfriend. His romantic reaction is best explained in terms of:

   A. the more exposure effect
   B. social exchange theory
   C. social facilitation
   D. the two- factor theory of emotion

3. The ‘fight for fight’ response to a perceived threat is associated with increased activity of ____________?

   A. sympathetic nervous system
   B. the para-sympathetic nervous system
   C. cerebral cortex
   D. corpus collosum

4. Preparing the body ‘for fight or fight’ is the function of the _____________?

   A. pituitary gland
   B. parathyroid gland
   C. adrenal medulla
   D. parasympathetic nervous system

5. A division of autonomic nervous system that prepares the body for stressful or energy activity, fight or flight is:

   A. Brain
   B. Spinal cord
   C. Sympathetic division
   D. parasympathetic division

6. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 2,3 & 4
   C. 1,2 & 4
   D. 4

7. The system important during emergency situations and is associated with “fight and fight”.

   A. Sympathetic
   B. Parasympathetic
   C. Somatic
   D. Peripheral

8. Five-year-old David watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall, narrow one. He says there is now more water than before. This response demonstrates that:

   A. David understands the concept of conservation
   B. David does not understand the concept of conversion
   C. David cognitive development is “behind” for his age
   D. both b and c are the case

9. Just the sight of Mary’s sexy nightgown makes Jim aroused. Mary’s nightgown serves as(n):

   A. Unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned response
   C. Conditioned stimulus
   D. Unconditioned stimulus

10. People’s temple cult leader, Reverend Jim Jones persuaded his followers to feed a poison- laced drink to their children and than drink it themselves, and nearly 1,000 people died. This is an example of the negative influence of:

    A. Social roles
    B. Transactional leadership
    C. Transformational leadership
    D. Hawthorne effect
    E. Formalization