Which psychologist described the state of attention overload
and believed that city dwellers learn to prevent it by engaging only in brief, superficial social contacts, by ignoring nonessential events, and by fending off others with cold and unfriendly expressions?
a. B. F. Skinner
b. Stanley Milgram
c. John Calhoun
d. Garrett Hardin
ANSWER: b
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According to the concept of sexual selection, those characteristics that give males greater access to mates
a. are likely to become less common over successive generations. b. are likely to become more common over successive generations. c. lead to the development of similar characteristics in females. d. are also likely to make males less aggressive and less able to survive and reproduce.
What other diagnosable psychiatric conditions are associated with eating disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
Studies on bipolar disorders suggest that ____
a. they are more common than depressive disorders b. they often coexist with other mental disorders c. men are more likely than women to suffer from bipolar II disorder d. there is very little risk of suicide
Research has shown that children who undergo surgery for congenital cataracts, but who missed out on early visual experience,
a. are unable to see any details of faces. b. are able to see details of faces, but have difficulty identifying different orientation of the same face. c. are able to see details of faces, but have difficulty telling two different people apart. d. have face discrimination abilities identical to children born without cataracts.