Some enchanted evening, Andre is at a cocktail party. Suddenly, he hears the voice of a beautiful woman from across the crowded room. What is this phenomenon known as?
a. the sensory awareness effect c. the beautiful woman effect
b. the cocktail party effect d. the crowded room effect
B
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Paul Ekman conducted a number of studies of facial expressions as part of a group of studies called the __________.
A. facial feedback hypothesis B. dual hypothesis C. universality studies D. intuition studies
Based on the IQ formula developed by Lewis Terman, an individual with the same mental age and chronological age would have:
a. an IQ greater than 100 b. an IQ less than 100 c. an IQ equal to 100 d. difficulty in most school subjects
Carson recently lost his job and has a great debt accumulated from gambling. He also has been feeling extreme pressure about not being able to take care of his eight children. After he was robbed at gunpoint on the street, but was not physically hurt, Carson could not tell the officer his name, address, or anything about his past. Carson is experiencing a
a. dissociative amnesia. b. dissociative identity disorder. c. psychosomatic conversion disorder. d. hypochondriasis.
Ardal earned 90 percent on the first exam but only earned 65 percent on the second exam. After the first exam, he bragged about how hard he had studied, but after the second exam, he blamed the teacher for doing a bad job of explaining the material. Ardal is demonstrating the:
A. self-serving bias. B. actor/observer bias. C. ultimate attribution error. D. fundamental attribution error.