Edith is worried about her husband Archie's health because he is often angry, resentful, suspicious, and distrustful of other people. Archie is displaying a response pattern known as ____, which research suggests places him at higher risk for ____
a. ?dispositional pessimism; posttraumatic stress disorder
b. ?dispositional pessimism; coronary heart disease
c. ?hostility; posttraumatic stress disorder
d. ?hostility; coronary heart disease
ANSWER:
d
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For instance, physicians have long known that providing patients with placebos (pills with no active ingredients) can sometimes "cure" them simply because the patients expect the medicine to work. a. false c. self-fulfilling b. filling d. decoy
Mr. Tamagatchi is dying. He says, "I feel like I'm watching a ticking time bomb … like there is no future." Mr. Tamagatchi views dying as
A) imprisonment. B) a mandate to live ever more fully. C) part of life's journey. D) an experience to be transformed.
When the hybrid model is applied to psychological research, we must avoid the notion of accepting the ______.
a. the standard error b. alternative hypothesis c. null hypothesis d. notion of effect sizes