Regarding the health of your brain as you move through your adult years, which of the following is the best cliché to bear in mind?

A) Use it or lose it
B) It's all downhill from here
C) It's all fun and games until someone loses an amygdala
D) Ya win some, ya lose some

If a university had a program designed to help students achieve their full potential, physically, educationally, and spiritually, that program would have elements MOST similar to:

A) mental health prevention programs.
B) positive psychology programs.
C) deinstitutionalization programs.
D) outpatient therapy.

Which of the following is the most contemporary branch of psychology?

A) behaviorism
B) cognitive psychology
C) humanistic psychology
D) psychoanalytic psychology

The quick jump your eyes make from one focus point to another is called a

A) saltatory skip.
B) caracole.
C) gambado.
D) saccade.

The language acquisition device (LAD) was proposed by Chomsky to explain:

A) children's vocabulary spurts.
B) the difference between surface structure and deep structure.
C) the systematic differences among languages.
D) children's ability to derive the rules of grammar quickly and effectively.

A researcher is working on a project that involves studying the psyche of people living in the largest slum in the world-Khayelitsha, Cape Town. She wants to understand their family dynamics, what they do for living, and what effect the unhygienic, cramped living space has on their mental and physical well-being. In this scenario, which of the following statements is true?

A) The researcher wants to see how people "act like animals" when under stress.
B) The researcher wants to understand the psyche of the people living in the slum.
C) The researcher wants to validate the theory of evolution proposed by Darwin.
D) The researcher wants to see how natural selection works in pathogen-infested areas.