A child feels compassion for family members of the victims of a televised terrorist attack, even though the attack occurred in a distant city. The child expresses
a. self-oriented distress.
b. sympathetic empathic arousal.
c. a hostile attributional bias.
d. negative reinforcement.
B
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Social interactions between 11- and 12-year-old boys and girls may be awkward because
a. girls tend to do much better than boys in school at this age, and this becomes a source of endless teasing and torment. b. girls form cliques and boys form crowds, and thus they really have nothing to talk about c. they are not yet at the age where they have anything in common, and thus there is no real value in these social interactions. d. the girls may be taller and look more mature than the boys, since their pubertal growth spurt begins earlier.
Darryl, age 15, likes this drug because it produces an intense and immediate, but brief, high, and is smoked. The drug, derived from the coca plant, is most likely ____
a. PCP c. ice b. crack d. crank
In a memory experiment, participants hear the sentence “They turned in their papers late, so they didn't get full credit.” Two minutes later, the participants are asked whether they heard the sentence above or “Their papers were turned in late, so they didn't get full credit.” Many participants incorrectly report that they heard the second version. This is because ____ memory primarily
uses ____ encoding. a. ?short-term; semantic b. ?short-term; acoustic c. ?long-term; semantic d. ?long-term; acoustic
Intelligence tends to be normally distributed, and studies have shown that men and women have the same mean intelligence (IQ) score. However, intelligence scores in women tend to have a smaller range and standard deviation than those in men. Based on this information, which statement is true?
A) The modal score in men is greater than the modal score in women. B) The modal score in women is greater than the modal score in men. C) Men are more likely to have extremely low scores. D) Women are more likely to have extremely high scores.