According to the just-world hypothesis, people tend to believe that ________
a. a person's actions are just if they truly believe in them.
b. all members should benefit equally from belonging to a social group.
c. bad people are punished and good people are rewarded.
d. rewards come to us in just this world, and not in the afterlife.
Answer: c
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The main reason for the characterization of the left hemisphere as the "dominant" hemisphere was
a. the evidence that the left hemisphere usually processes language. b. the evidence that the left hemisphere usually processes complex information. c. the fact that the majority of people are right-handed. d. that split-brain patients use only their left hemisphere for processing information.
Drugs that block the operation of a neurotransmitter are called
a) agonists. b) antagonists. c) opioid peptides. d) neuromodulators.
Which of the following best describes gross motor development in early childhood?
a. Gross motor development in early childhood extends abilities that first appear in toddlerhood. b. Gross motor development in early childhood regresses to an earlier state. c. Gross motor development in early childhood is unpredictable. d. Gross motor development in early childhood is dependent upon fine motor development.
Which of the following is a disadvantage of case studies?
a. Case studies produce a less detailed picture of an individual than other methods. b. Case studies have only limited usefulness for deriving general principles of behavior. c. Data from case studies is more abstract, vague, and general than data from other methods. d. The amount of control used in case studies makes them very artificial.