Rhonda’s friends describe her as a highly unstable person. One week she’ll do nothing but lay in bed. During these periods she’ll barely eat or speak to anyone, and she’ll have a very dim view of her life. The next week she’ll be active, excited, and constantly on the go. During these periods she’ll hardly sleep at all and she’ll speak in a super quick tempo to anyone about each and every idea that goes through her head. Given the symptoms and most likely diagnosis above, which treatment would a mental health professional be most likely to suggest for Rhonda?

The nurse is preparing to give a patient oxytocin. The nurse knows that this medication is given for all of the following reasons except: 

The first area activated when a stressor is encountered is the hypothalamus. What area does the hypothalamus then activate?

Which of the following emotions would be considered HIGH in arousal and NEGATIVE in valence?

What is telegraphic speech?

Patrice is a collegiate basketball player. Many athletes, including Patrice, show activation of the sympathetic nervous system (e.g., heart rate, breathing rate, and perspiration all increase) right before they start to play a game. One season, Patrice hears a song while studying. The song doesn’t lead to any changes in her physiology the first time she hears it, but she decides that she’s always going to listen to this same song right before her games that season. After the season is over, the song once again comes on while Patrice is studying, and she’s surprised to find that as soon as she hears the song, her heart rate and breathing rate suddenly increase just like they typically would right before a basketball game. In this example of classical conditioning, the increase in heart rate and breathing rate that occurs in response to the song alone is the:

Becca has been working with four other students in a group for the past semester. Over the semester her group members have learned that Becca is always late to meetings and she always seems to do her portion of group projects at the last minute. Although they tried to take turns working at each group member’s apartment, they found that they had to skip Becca’s turn because her apartment was so disorganized and messy. Based only on the description above, which of the Big 5 personality dimensions would Becca score LOW in?

An individual whose brain has been seriously damaged at the location marked with a “B” in the diagram below is most likely to experience which of the following deficits:

When Yuri entered college, his political beliefs were somewhat liberal. On a scale from -1 (most conservative) to 1 (most liberal), Yuri would have been about a 0.5. During his first year in college, Yuri joined a number of student organizations that were made up of members that were all also somewhat liberal. At the end of his four years in college, Yuri’s political beliefs had become even more liberal than when he started college. On the same scale as above, he would now be about a 0.9. The change in Yuri’s political beliefs that occurred over his four years of college is most consistent with what psychological phenomenon?

Jodie is a neurologist examining a new patient who recently had a stroke. She first asks the patient to draw a picture of a clock and of a house. The patient draws the images in Panel A of image below (i.e., omits the left side of both the clock and the house). Jodie also asks the patient to read all the words in Panel B of the image below. The patient responds, “Shovel, Motor, Step, Door” (i.e., only reads the words on the right side of the paper). Jodie then says, it looks like you missed some and points to the left side of the paper. The patient responds, “Oh, I didn’t even notice those!” Based upon the behavior above, the brain region that Jodie would suspect had been damaged by the stroke is marked with the letter _____ in the image below.