Research on affective forecasting suggests that, when people are asked to predict how they would feel if they lost their jobs, they ____
a. are fairly accurate at predicting both how they will feel and how long they will feel that way
b. are fairly accurate at predicting how they will feel, but tend to overestimate how long they will feel that way
c. are fairly accurate at predicting how they will feel, but tend to underestimate how long they will feel that way
d. are not very accurate at predicting how they will feel or how long they will feel that way
B
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a. Parents of children who die at birth often have a difficult time realizing their loss. b. When a couple loses a neonate, it is helpful if the woman can become pregnant again to help the couple through the grieving period. c. Mourning the death of a fetus or newborn baby differs from mourning the death of another loved one because parents must suffer detachment without identification. d. A baptism can never be performed when the infant is born dead.
As you're waiting to visit a friend in the hospital, you overhear a physician talking to a patient's parents. You don't hear the entire conversation, but only bits and pieces. There is something about an accident and a question regarding nerves reattaching. The physician replied that the nerves do have the ability to regrow. From your education in psychology, you guess that the nerves were
probably part of the: a. spinal cord c. peripheral nervous system b. central nervous system d. limbic system
Children are often aware of which conditions are most favorable when asking a parent for an advance on their allowance. Psychologists call such conditions
A. discriminative conditioned stimuli. B. secondary reinforcers. C. primary reinforcers. D. conditioned stimuli.
If you sampled a classroom of babies at a day care, which temperament classification would you see the most of?
a. easy b. difficult c. slow-to-warm-up d. undifferentiated