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(C) neurotransmitters

(D) genetic abnormalities

(E) social circumstances

66. Which of the following explanations of why a 17-year-old drives his car at or below the speed limit best illustrates Kohlberg’s conventional level of morality?

(A) “I don’t want to get any tickets.”

(B) “It’s the law.”

(C) “I want my parents to approve of my driving.”

(D) “I don’t want to crash my car.”

(E) “With so many people in our society driving cars, I cannot put anyone else or myself in danger by driving at a faster speed than the number of cars, roads, and weather conditions permit.”

67. The president of a company brought in an outside consultant to disagree with him about an important decision to be discussed at a meeting of his top level executives in order to avoid

(A) the bystander effect

(B) groupthink

(C) social loafing

(D) the mere exposure effect

(E) the fundamental attribution error

68. Javier wants to study the effects on achievement of taking a course in chemistry in the afternoon, rather than in the morning. A teacher has chemistry classes with the same number of students at 8:30 A.M. and 1:00 P.M., and volunteers to participate with her classes. A major problem in this study would be

(A) poor replication

(B) lack of a hypothesis

(C) confounding variables

(D) difficulty in obtaining informed consent

(E) the placebo effect

69. The heritability for traits of a cloned population is

(A) 0%

(B) 25%

(C) 50%

(D) 75%

(E) 100%

70. “Get cookie,” best exemplifies

(A) babbling

(B) cooing

(C) holophrases

(D) telegraphic speech

(E) mental set

71. Research reveals that the most critical factor in Type A behavior associated with heart disease is

(A) anger

(B) competitiveness

(C) sense of time urgency

(D) conscientiousness

(E) motivation

72. Dr. Scarlett conducted experiments in which she electrically stimulated parts of a cat’s brain. A cat that became terrified in the presence of a mouse was most likely stimulated in the

(A) limbic system

(B) thalamus

(C) medulla

(D) cerebellum

(E) temporal lobe

73. Which of the following LEAST influences sexual behavior?

(A) hypothalamus

(B) pituitary

(C) gonads

(D) cerebral cortex

(E) reticular formation

74. Ben thinks students will answer questions printed on yellow paper more quickly than those printed on blue paper. All study participants will take three tests with 35 multiple-choice questions each. The independent variable in Ben’s experiment is

(A) the color of the paper

(B) the number of questions answered correctly

(C) how long it takes students to answer questions

(D) the total number of questions answered

(E) the difference in results between the experimental and control groups

75. Which of the following best illustrates hostile aggression?

(A) A man slaps his wife because he is angry that she made hamburgers for dinner again.

(B) A sanitation man knocks over some rose bushes when he throws an empty can to the curb.

(C) A waitress breaks several cups and saucers when she drops a tray on the floor.

(D) A careless driver hits and severely injures a pedestrian who is crossing the street.

(E) An adolescent hangs up on an irritating salesperson.

76. Cognitivists claim that classical conditioning results from

(A) an association between the unconditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response

(B) an association between the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus

(C) an association between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response

(D) an association between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response

(E) an expectation of what is coming following the conditioned stimulus

77. Which is likely to increase as a normal, healthy individual ages from 25 to 75 years of age?

(A) visual acuity

(B) crystallized intelligence

(C) ability to reason speedily

(D) fluid intelligence

(E) intelligence quotient

78. In the rock opera Tommy, Tommy becomes deaf and blind after