Regarding research on attraction, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Men, but not women, tend to emphasize physical attractiveness when assessing partners for casual sexual relationships.
b. Compared to less attractive people, more attractive people are generally judged as more socially competent, intelligent, and psychologically adjusted; they are also judged as less modest and more vain.
c. On average, people are more likely to marry others whose first or last names resemble their own. d. The saying "Birds of a feather flock together" is supported by research on interpersonal attraction.
e. In considering the personality traits of an ideal partner, people tend to be interested in partners who match up with their own personality traits.
a
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Chapter 14 discusses the financial status of elderly women. According to this discussion,
a. only about 10% of Canadian women over the age of 65 are in the low-income bracket. b. in the United States, women over the age of 55 have an average annual income that is about 90% of the average annual income that men have. c. Latina and African American women are just as likely as European American women to have a pension plan. d. older women in the United States have lower incomes than older men, but women and men actually have comparable incomes, once you take health-care expenses into account.
The best way to think about the psychological and social influences involved in major neurocognitive disorder is that they a. help determine the onset and course. b. are direct causes
c. have no influence. d. have not been studied.
Eleanor Rosch proposed the ______ approach, a theoretical view of concepts that she considered superior to the classical approach.
A. typicality B. prototype C. abstract representational D. weighted average
According to your text, despite strong genetic influences, an individual's IQ score can vary within its ________, depending on environmental influences
Fill in the blanks with correct word