Church membership and holding religious beliefs have been shown to do all of the following EXCEPT
a. increase one's social status.
b. add feelings of purpose and meaning in life.
c. provide social support that softens the impact of life's negative events.
d. have a small positive association with happiness.
A
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Researchers interested in the nature of flashbulb memories asked Danish people who lived through the Nazi occupation for memories that could be checked against objective records
What did their findings reveal about the memories these people had of events during World War II? a) Memories were quite accurate, especially among members of the resistance. b) They had only scattered memories that often could not be checked because they tended to confuse dates and places. c) Although most of these people believed their memories were accurate, objective records indicated they made frequent and sometimes large errors. d) Their degree of suffering seemed to reduce the accuracy of recall, which supports the concept of repression more than the concept of flashbulb memories.
According to Freud, the personality develops over the course of ___ psychosexual stages
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
The form of autonomy that is thought to develop last is __________ autonomy
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Jeremiah has become deeply depressed because he feels like his life has no meaning. Which of the perspectives in contemporary social psychology is BEST suited to help us understand Jeremiah's experience?
A) the existential perspective B) the evolutionary perspective C) the social cognitive perspective D) the neuroscience perspective