A debate breaks out at the town hall meeting over whether local real estate taxes should be raised in order to pay for a new public school building
Which of the following individuals is most likely to process the persuasive information raised during this debate through the peripheral route?
a. Gob, who has no school-aged children of his own and owns no real estate
b. Lindsay, whose daughter still has 3 years left of public school
c. Michael, who is a real estate executive whose business is affected by local tax rates
d. Buster, a local teacher, who is working in a temporary classroom because the current school building is too small for the number of students enrolled
Answer: A
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a. Convergent b. Construct c. Criterion d. Discriminant
A psychologist employed by a company that develops and publishes intelligence and personality tests is most likely to have a degree in:
a. child development c. psychometrics b. basic research d. clinical psychology
A middle-aged man accosts you in a campus building and insists on telling you that several horses must have gotten into the building because he can hear them whinnying wherever he goes. You do not hear any sounds and cannot see any animals. This man is probably suffering from
A. abnormal excitement. B. a hallucination. C. a delusion. D. disorientation.
Which statement best explains why humans can be about 99.6 percent genetically identical and still exhibit very different characteristics?
A. Each rung on the DNA ladder consists of a specific pair of chemical substances called bases. B. In dominant-recessive inheritance, only one allele affects an individual's characteristics. C. Sequences of base pairs provide genetic instructions that affect phenotypes. D. Even a single difference in a DNA base pair can influence many different traits.