Cross-cultural research on stress demonstrates that __________.
A. depression is a common response to life challenges in all countries
B. stress rarely leads to any evidence of illness in non-Western cultures
C. responses to stress vary cross-culturally
D. culture-specific reactions are not seen to respond to alterations in the environment
Answer: C
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A. a horizontal line B. a positively sloped diagonal line C. a negatively sloped diagonal line D. an inverted U
People are often attracted to Christine because she is flamboyant and emotionally very expressive. She rarely, however, develops any long-term relationships, because people experience her as shallow and self-centered. What personality disorder or trait description would most fit Christine?
a. obsessive-compulsive c. schizotypy b. histrionic d. antisocial
In the example in the text assessing the effect of family therapy on anorexic girls by the mean levels of weight gain, the difference between the independent samples design used there and the related means design used in Chapter 13 is that the independent samples design
a. compared the mean weight gained by anorexic girls in family therapy to the mean weight gained by girls in a control group. b. compared the means of pre-therapy weights to the means of post-therapy weights. c. assumed the weight gains of the two groups would be related. d. assessed family therapy as a predictor of weight gain.
Regarding the human sexual response, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. During masturbation, 70 percent of females reach orgasm in four minutes or less, which is comparable to male response times. b. During sexual intercourse, women typically go through the sexual phases more slowly than do men. c. Only five percent of males are capable of multiple orgasm and are limited to only a second one following an unavoidable refractory period. d. Twenty percent of all women have had multiple orgasms with only about two percent regularly having multiple orgasms.