Convicted of first-degree murder, the author attributes the killing to
a. effect of a cocaine binge
b. gang fight
c. unstable and abusive childhood
d. insanity
a
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If two variables have a positive correlation, you would expect that ____ scores on one variable are generally associated with ____ scores on the second variable
a. low; low b. low; high c. middle; a wide variety of d. high; low
As discussed in the text, a popular term often used to refer to psychotherapy is
a. talk therapy. b. verbal therapy. c. psychoanalysis. d. psychological therapy. e. psychodynamic therapy.
The pragmatic view of memory proposes that
a. people typically pay attention to the gist of a story; however, if they realize that exact wording is important, they are likely to emphasize verbatim recall. b. people are more concerned with the politeness of a message than with its grammatical structure or the specific meaning in that message. c. people realize that researchers are going to be testing verbatim recall, so they pay much more attention to the specific words than they do in real-life situations. d. we tend to remember schema-inconsistent material more accurately than schema-consistent material.
A specific phobia involving motorcycles can develop as a result of a predisposition to develop fear combined with
a. watching another person experience a motorcycle accident. b. hearing your mother repeatedly warn you about the doom associated with motorcycles. c. experiencing a traumatic event yourself, such as a motorcycle skid. d. all of the above