A racing driver whose car skids off the road in an important event is MOST likely to attribute his performance to ______
a. errors in judgment on his part
b. slick conditions on the asphalt
c. his late-night partying on the previous evening
d. problems he is having in his personal life
B
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The three main risk factors identified with personality disorders are
a. underconfidence, overexposure to failure, and stress. b. child abuse, low self-esteem, and comorbidity. c. child maltreatment, poor interpersonal skills, and emotional dysregulation. d. polarized/absolute thinking, personal disgust, and apathy.
William James believed the focus of research should be on how mental images, sensations, and memories come together as a function of experience. Before him, Titchener believed it was important to define the _____.?
a. ?process of introspection b. ?unconscious motivations for our actions c. ?general laws of learning d. ?structure of consciousness
The dimension along which a study context can be related to other potential contexts is called the ____
a. sampling frame b. generalizability c. similarity index d. gradient of similarity
Richard is a member of doomsday cult that believes the world was supposed to end at the end of the Mayan calendar. He gave everything he owned to the cult leader and sat on a mountain waiting for the end
When it didn't happen, instead of feeling relieved that he was wrong, Richard dismissed the date as unimportant and said the actual date for the end of the world is five years in the future. This is most likely a response to feelings of ________ a. helplessness. b. humiliation. c. cognitive dissonance. d. receiving new information.