Your best friends—one female and one male—have just made the dean's list at your college. If both are typical of their genders, how would they explain their success to themselves?
a. The male would be more likely to think it was just luck.
b. The male will be more likely to think that he really worked hard.
c. The female will be more likely to think that her instructors just happened to like her this semester.
d. These two people probably will not differ substantially in their thoughts about their reasons for success.
D
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a. Temporal meanings b. Symbolic immortality c. Reincarnation d. Religion
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A) amplitude. B) wavelength. C) complexity. D) decibel level.
Which of the following is often used as the focus of attention in concentrative meditation?
a. mantra b. genome c. hypnopomic image d. focal delusion
Your instructor is lecturing in class when security knocks on the door. The instructor goes to the door, gets the note from security, and gives it to a student, who exits the classroom. The instructor looks at the class and asks, "Now where was I in the lecture notes?" This situation illustrates how short-term memory is affected by
a. dishabituation. b. priming. c. chunking. d. displacement.