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Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which of the following Big Five personality traits has the highest heritability?
Agreeableness
Openness to experience
Neuroticism
Conscientiousness
Which of the following statements is true about brain and behavior malleability?
The brain's plasticity makes it fully malleable for all individuals.
Everyone can change their mood completely through effort alone.
The brain interacts with behaviour and the world around it, but some circuits may require medical intervention for change
The interaction between brain and environment has no influence on stress responses
Which of the following is not a common pathway involved in brain-environment interaction?
Altered gene expression
Transcription factors
Synaptic pruning
Immune system suppression
What is a key requirement for Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) to occur?
Calcium influx via NMDA receptor
Inhibition of synaptic pruning
Increased parasympathetic activity
Downregulation of dendritic arborisation
Which of the following is true about the cognitive benefits of chewing gum?
It reduces heart rate and cortisol levels
It has no measurable effect on reaction times
It improves selective and sustained attention, especially on challenging tasks
All studies conclusively support its benefits
Stress reappraisal involves:
Avoiding stressors at all costs
Viewing stress responses as functional and adaptive
Reducing cortisol to undetectable levels
Completely eliminating the stress response
Positive Psychology differs from general psychology by:
Focusing exclusively on curing mental illness
Highlighting negative behaviours and their causes
Emphasising positive human functioning and flourishing
Prioritizing pharmacological interventions for well-being
Which of the following interventions is not part of Positive Psychology?
Writing about life goals
Practicing gratitude
Stress reappraisal
Doing acts of kindness
What is a common difficulty in Positive Psychology research?
Lack of control or RCTs
Over-reliance on pharmacological therapies
Consistently large effect sizes
All interventions result in negative outcomes
Which of the following effect size values (Cohen’s d) indicates a medium-sized effect?
0.12
0.40
0.70
1.20
Which of the following is true about Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)?
It originated as a purely Buddhist practice without scientific adaptation.
It has no evidence of efficacy in clinical or non-clinical populations.
It involves an 8 week structured program focusing on present-moment awareness
Its effect size for well-being is typically considered large
Which intervention combines imagining positive feelings towards others and has been shown to reduce depressive symptoms?
Stress reappraisal
Aerobic exercise
Loving-kindness meditation
Writing gratitude letters
Aerobic exercise has been associated with:
Increased levels of growth factor BDNF and hippocampal neurogenesis
Decreased gene expression and synaptogenesis
Suppressed immune function and lower cortisol levels
Reduced neuroplasticity in the hippocampus
