Which of these is the best example of a dispositional cause of your behavior?
a. Being good, because the teacher is watching.
b. Going to a party with a friend even though you don’t feel sociable.
c. Becoming anxious when other people criticize your friend.
d. Staying up all night studying, because you are a conscientious student.
Answer: d. Staying up all night studying, because you are a conscientious student.
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Ebbinghaus' curve of forgetting shows that ____.?
a. ?material is forgotten slowly in the first hours after learning and then the forgetting speeds up b. ?the decay theory of forgetting is essentially correct c. ?material learned first is forgotten last d. ?material is forgotten rapidly in the first hours after learning and then the forgetting slows down e. ?forgetting occurs at a gradual, even rate across time
Research on prejudice and self-esteem suggests that ____
a. contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence for a link between prejudice and self-esteem b. people may hold prejudices, in part, because doing so bolsters their self-esteem c. engaging in prejudice tends to lower people's self-esteem, and people seem, at some level, to know this d. people expect that engaging in prejudice will make them feel better about themselves, but it actually tends to lower self-esteem
A(n) _____ design combines elements of both longitudinal and cross-sectional designs
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Which of the following CANNOT be used to verify the accuracy of verbal reports in a perception experiment?
a. reaction time b. measuring objective responses that depend on accurate perception of the stimulus c. using objectively verifiable stimuli (e.g., strings of letters presented on a tachistoscope) d. confidence ratings made by the observers