Holmes and Rahe’s Social Readjustment Rating Scale measures the amount of stress associated with a person’s ____
a. ?life events
b. ?daily hassles
c. ?catastrophes
d. ?conflicts
ANSWER:
a
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a. Anorexia, Restricting Type. b. Anorexia, Binge-Eating Purging Type. c. Bulimia Nervosa, Nonpurging Type. d. Binge-less Disorder.
Suppose your friend has just taken a job that is strongly associated with job burnout. To help him cope, you could point out that all of the following pieces of advice help prevent burnout EXCEPT:
a. he should be realistic, rather than optimistic, about how much impact he can have b. he should try to keep his personal life separate from his work c. he should try to dedicate his professional life to the people he is trying to help d. he should develop interests outside of his job
The teacher assigns you to work with the star football player for a group project. Because most athletes you know are not very smart and not interested in school, you expect to do all the work
You are pleasantly surprised to discover that your partner is extremely intelligent and very diligent. You believe that you got lucky and suspect that your partner is unlike most other athletes. The fact that your schema for the academic competence of athletes has not changed even in the face of disconfirming evidence illustrates what effect? a. A self-fulfilling prophecy b. The priming effect c. The perseverance effect d. Anchoring and adjustment
The U statistic is the _____
a. number of times that the rank of a score in one group precedes the rank of a score in the other group b. smaller of two sums of ranks from two treatment conditions c. sum of the difference between observed and expected frequencies d. ratio of two independent variance estimates