Across self-report measures of personality, conducted by different investigators and over differing time intervals of adulthood, the traits of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness all show:

Why did World War II lead to a greater recognition of the pervasiveness of mental illness?

A. Over 70 percent of veterans suffered from either PTSD or substance abuse after the war. B. Many women developed psychiatric conditions when they were left to raise families and make a living on their own. C. Two out of seven potential military recruits were rejected for psychiatric reasons. D. The military was unable to provide adequate mental health services to men in the field.

A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that

a. rehearsal cannot account for them. b. people's confidence in a memory predicts its accuracy (high confidence = high accuracy). c. extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate. d. they are permanent and resist forgetting.

Babies tend to prefer ____, which is characterized by drawn-out vowels, exaggerated syllables, and rhythmic, up-and-down inflection

a. ?motherese b. simplified speech? c. melodious speech? d. linguaphilia?

In a study by Rosenberg-Kima and her colleagues, female participants exposed to similar models were found to have more positive attitudes toward:

a. elementary education than female participants exposed to highly neutral models b. engineering than female participants exposed to dissimilar models c. engineering than participants exposed to childish models d. physics than participants exposed to dissimilar instructors