Kelly is a graduate student who is studying relationships. After interviewing over 100 dating couples, she noticed that a large number of these couples actually grew up together in the same neighborhood. This is not surprising to you because of your understanding of
A. balanced relationships.
B. imbalanced relationships.
C. the mere-exposure effect.
D. self-serving biases.
Answer: C
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You have come to the part of your Abnormal Psychology textbook that covers the sexual dysfunctions, where there are several case studies presented. Which of the following might well be the subject of one of those cases?
a. someone who displays deviant sexual behavior b. someone with an anatomical defect that interferes with normal sexual behavior c. someone whose sexual desire is inhibited d. someone who has an excessive interest in sex
With regard to twins, monozygotic is to dizygotic as
a. common is to uncommon. b. one egg is to two eggs. c. nonshared environment is to shared environment. d. fraternal is to identical.
Infants permanently separated from their mothers between ______ months of age show delays in virtually all areas of development
a. birth and 3 b. 3 and 6 c. 6 and 12 d. 12 and 18
When children are in the babbling stage of language development, they tend to repeat the particular speech sounds that attract the attention of their caretakers, while rarely repeating those speech sounds that do not receive attention from their caretakers. The fact that some speech sounds are repeated less frequently is due to the behavioral effect known as
a. punishment. b. negative reinforcement. c. aversive conditioning. d. nonreinforcement.