One study found that the major reason for decrease in sexual activity in later adulthood was primarily due to
a. a loss of interest in sex.
b. fewer opportunities to find an available partner.
c. a belief that sex and sexual fantasies in late adulthood was unhealthy.
d. a desire to channel energy into other tasks.
b
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To do research on the psychological effects of birth order, what should a researcher do? a. Limit the study to people who attended public schools
b. Limit the study to people whose parents are happily married. c. Limit the study to people from families with at least two children. d. Limit the study to people who are known to be similar to one another in personality.
Adoptee studies describe efforts to
a. examine similarities between adopted children and non-adopted children. b. examine similarities between adopted children and their biological or adoptive parents. c. measure the genetic similarity between adopted children. d. assess the extent to which adopted children share similar characteristics as non-adopted children raised in the same household. e. examine similarities between adopted children and the general population.
Most people feel an in-group bias, which means that they ____.?
a. ?would like to be a member of the most popular group b. ?feel it is better to be in a group than outside of a group c. ?view members of their own group more favorably than members of other groups d. ?are likely to feel both extremes of emotion toward the people to whom they are closest
Rosenthal and Jacobson’s (1968) “Pygmalion in the Classroom” study, in which the IQ scores of “bloomers” increased significantly in comparison with their classroom peers, is an example of ______.
a. upward social comparisons b. a self-fulfilling prophecy c. cognitive dissonance theory d. self-justification theory