Six months ago, Malachi's father died suddenly. Shortly after he heard the news, Malachi felt as though everything went black, and he found himself unable to see. He has been to numerous specialists, but none of the specialists can find anything physically wrong in his visual system. His pupils react normally to light, the visual pathways appear to be working, and brain imaging shows activity in
the occipital lobe when visual information is presented. Still, Malachi claims he is blind and cannot see anything. In this case, it is likely that Malachi would be classified as having:
a. conversion disorder
b. hypochondriasis
c. somatization disorder
d. dissociative identity disorder
A
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a. people may form a stereotype, based on only a few members of a particular ethnic group. b. people frequently try to confirm their current hypothesis. c. people judge others in terms of personal characteristics that are easy to remember. d. people judge the conjunction of two events to be more likely than just one of those events.
According to Festinger's report on a group which prophesied that a flood would destroy their city, when the prophecy failed:
a. the beliefs of the group members grew stronger b. the group disbanded c. the group leader confessed that she was wrong d. the group joined with other groups in protest
In their 1989 study, Clark and Hatfield used attractive confederates to ask students
of the opposite sex if they would go to bed with the confederate. What was a result of that study? (a) 20% of the female students agreed to go to bed with the confederate (b) 100% of the male students refused to go to bed with the confederate (c) 100% of the female students refused to go to bed with the confederate (d) The results were inconclusive because too many of the students knew it was a psychology study.
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