Efforts to reduce stress are known as

a. appraisal.
b. coping.
c. explanatory style.
d. adaptation.


b

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Differences in IQ scores between White and African Americans are due to exposure to information found on IQ tests.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Imagine that you are conducting a summer workshop to enhance the creativity of high school students. Which of the following ideas should you use, based on your understanding of Chapter 11?

a. Watch the students carefully, so that they know you are monitoring their progress. b. Offer a prize for the most creative project. c. List on the blackboard the name of the most creative student of the week; however, make certain that no material rewards are given. d. Do not place firm restrictions on the ways in which the students can express their creativity.

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Among identical twins, the concordance rate for schizophrenia is about 48%; among fraternal twins it is about ______.

A. 55% B. 45% C. 25% D. 17%

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In Ebbinghaus's classic curve of forgetting, the greatest memory loss occurs

a. slowly over a course of weeks. b. very slowly for a period of days, and then rapidly increases. c. at a consistent rate over weeks. d. most rapidly just after the material is initially learned.

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