George is giving a speech on a very controversial topic to a group of his colleagues. Although his message is generally being well received, he quickly notices the unhappy face of a former student and successfully ducks before the tomato the student hurled at him reached the podium. George was able to detect the unhappy student out of the sea of smiling faces because:
A. detecting happy faces is biologically adaptive in that it improves your mood
B. he was expecting everyone to be unhappy
C. people tend to filter out positive images more often than negative images
D. people are especially attentive to stimuli that threaten their personal safety
D. people are especially attentive to stimuli that threaten their personal safety
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A. narrative review B. systematic review C. literature review D. wholistic review
Dr. Nicole Anderson teaches psychology courses at a university, sees clients one day a week, and does research on the impact of exercise training on older adults. Which of the following is FALSE?
a. She has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. b. She has a master's degree in social psychology and completed postdoctoral training in health psychology. c. Before she earned her degree, she completed a one-year internship. d. The doctoral program she attended was in clinical psychology and had a health psychology track.
Researchers typically select samples from an accessible population and generalize observations made with those samples to the target population of interest.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Someone who is strongly supportive of social policies that maintain hierarchies (which they see as protecting them) is likely _____ which is linked to higher levels of prejudice:
A. high self-monitor B. authoritarian personality C. internal (locus of control) D. collectivist