People generally remember events as:

A) more positive than they actually were.
B) more negative than they actually were.
C) more self-relevant than they actually were.
D) closer together in time than they actually were.

Recent cross-cultural work suggests that passionate love is merely a product of Western culture.

The difference between a true experiment and a quasi-experiment is that in a quasi-experiment,participants are assigned at random to different conditions.

Which of the following is NOT an example of preparedness in conditioning?

A) Birds quickly learn to avoid drinking water that is the same color as water that previously made them ill.
B) Baby ducklings learn to recognize their mother's sight and call as they follow her around, and soon will follow nobody but their mother.
C) A child learns that brushing teeth always results in praise from parents.
D) Rats learn to avoid drinking water with a salty taste that previously made them ill.

The behavioral component of cognitive-behavioral therapy in treating bulimia nervosa involves:

A) identifying and analyzing the client's childhood experiences with food.
B) introducing forbidden foods back into the client's diet.
C) providing negative reinforcements every time the client purges.
D) prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to the client.

Cognitive neuroscience is most directly concerned with studying

A) selective attention and accidents.
B) evolution and natural selection.
C) selective attention and daydreams.
D) brain activity and thought processes.