One study found that when people watched their favorite soccer team play well, they showed activity in both hemispheres but when their team was losing, they showed activity only in the part of the brain that processes negative emotions, which is the
a. midbrain.
b. left hemisphere.
c. right hemisphere.
d. reticular formation.
C
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Those participants in Milgram's study who went to the very end of the shock meter were
a. diagnosed as abnormal by a team of psychiatrists. b. in the minority among participants in the study. c. not told that the learner had a previous heart condition. d. not found to be substantially different than those who refused to do so.
Grief resulting from a loss that is not or cannot be openly acknowledged, publicly mourned, or socially supported is called
a. anticipatory grief b. pathological grief c. complicated grief d. disenfranchised grief e. none of these
One way the child may derive the meaning of a new word is to attend to the context in which the word occurs. This process is called
a. pragmatics. c. semantic derivation. b. fast-mapping. d. semantic mapping.
How does a person experience ego transcendence?
A. by seeing how their contributions will likely last beyond their own lives B. becoming preoccupied with the question of whether life had meaning C. by experiencing life as positive D. by reaffirming dedication to life