People in the Southern United States have valued religion more than people in the North for many decades, even as their populations continue to shift. What best describes this phenomenon?
A. descriptive norms
B. generational influence
C. public conformity
D. injunctive norms
Answer: B
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Which statement is TRUE regarding the incidence of schizophrenia compared to the incidence of other mental health disorders?
a. ?Schizophrenia is less common than anxiety disorders and mood disorders. b. ?Schizophrenia is more common than major depression. c. ?Schizophrenia is more common than phobias. d. ?Schizophrenia is much more common than bipolar disorder.
Schacter-Singer's famous emotion experiment showed that
a. physiological arousal came after emotional arousal. b. a physiological aroused person will label his arousal as greater when people are duped or misled. c. emotional arousal is greater when people are duped or misled. d. emotions start in the cortex and are sent to one's internal organs.
A researcher wants to understand the effect of child abuse on an individual's personality and attitude. He forms two groups of participants for his study. The first group includes people who were abused during their childhood and the second group includes people who had normal childhoods. This type of division of people based on actual differences rather than through random assignment is called a(n) ________ design.
A. randomized B. ex post facto C. variable D. ad lib
An individual who has an immediate relative with schizophrenia and has recently begun having poor grades in school, declined short-term memory, and is having paranoid thinking is likely in the…
a. pre-cognitive dysmetric stage of schizophrenia. b. prodromal phase of schizophrenia. c. early development phase of schizophrenia. d. dopamine hyperactivity phase of schizophrenia