Why might the prevalence of schizophrenia be higher in Canada than the rest of the world?
a) Because it's so cold
b) Because people drink more
c) Because of the high latitude
d) Because Canadian culture shuns the experience of hallucinations and delusions
c
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Suppose that you are looking at your nephew's high-school psychology textbook, and it says that males are more aggressive than females. What would you conclude?
a. You would question the operational definition of aggression that the researchers had used. b. You would be fairly confident that the results could not be explained by confounding variables. c. You would be suspicious that the textbook writers focused on the studies that showed gender similarities, rather than those that showed gender differences. d. You would know that the researchers had tested people from at least two ethnic groups.
When Titchener returned to Oxford with his doctorate from Wundt, his colleagues ____
a. ?quickly followed in his footsteps b. ?incorporated his new ideas into their own approaches c. ?tried their best to convince him to stay in England and add the new approaches he had learned to the department of philosophy d. ?were skeptical of the use of scientific approaches to philosophical questions e. ?None of the choices are correct
Dissatisfied couples tend to attribute each others' negative behaviors to ____ causes such as "he is a jerk" or "she is a witch.". Thus, the target person is regarded as permanently defective or bad in some regard
a. external unstable c. internal unstable b. external stable d. internal stable
Evolution theorists believe evolution has influenced personality characteristics. Which of the following is one example of the type of data they have offered to support their viewpoint?
a) Personality characteristics have a higher degree of heritability in women than in men. b) Men and women share the same characteristics due to similar genetic backgrounds. c) Men and women choose dates and mates based on certain personality characteristics. d) Personality characteristics that are not related to fertility are not likely to be passed to future generations.