What has research found about the "freshman fifteen"?
What will be an ideal response?
A study of 60 first-year Cornell students found that, on average, they gained about .3 pound per week. Although this is more than they should be gaining, the mean weight gain was a little more than four pounds. There were certainly some who gained more, but 15 pounds was by no means the average amount of weight gained in their first semester of college.
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a. the evaluation of one's own abilities and attitudes through comparison to similar others. b. the general disposition to focus on either the inner feelings or outer image of the self. c. the sum total of a person's beliefs concerning his or her own personal attributes. d. whether a person's self-evaluation is positive or negative.
Freud used his case histories as part of his _______.
a. context of discovery b. context of justification c. both of the above d. none of the above
The contingency theory suggests that the learning in classical conditioning occurs because the CS is ___________ the US
a. predictive of c. unrelated to b. contiguous with d. occurring at the same time as
The text defines mental disorder as ________
a. the inability to distinguish right from wrong. b. behavior that violates cultural standards. c. behavior or emotional state that cause an individual suffering, self-destructive, endangers others, or impairs a person's ability to function and work with others. d. behavior that deviates strongly from the norm and prevents a person from functioning normally.