Jacob is in middle school. He tells his friends that he is worried that he would fail in his biology test because the biology project reviewer deliberately asked him tough questions that he could not answer. This scenario illustrates the _____
A) self-fulfilling prophecy
B) external attribution style
C) Pygmalion effect
D) boomerang effect
B
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Dramatic improvements in explicit memory from 12 to 24 months are correlated with developmental changes in regions of the brain known to affect memory formation, including the __________.
A. hippocampus B. occipital lobe C. somatosensory cortex D. visual cortex
The motivation to engage in sexual activity is typically accompanied by a desire to increase, rather than decrease, sexual arousal. Which theory of motivation would have the greatest difficulty explaining this desire?
a. ?drive theory b. ?incentive theory c. ?cognitive theory d. ?arousal theory
Recently, Elizabeth has felt anxious much of the time, and her anxiety has caused her to perform some compulsive rituals that are highly unusual. Her job and her friends, however, have not been affected. Elizabeth is "abnormal" according to the definition based on
a. violation of social norms and disability/dysfunction/impairment. b. subjective distress. c. disability/dysfunction/impairment. d. violation of social norms and subjective distress.
Masters and Johnson's original participants in the study of human sexual response were
A) prostitutes. B) church elders and parishioners. C) prisoners in the local jails. D) volunteers from introductory psychology classes.