The sympathy hypothesis suggests that

A. The general public is sympathetic to civil plaintiffs.
B. The general public is suspicious of civil plaintiffs.
C. The general public is suspicious of corporate defendants.
D. Both B and C


D

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a. techno-political stressors c. natural disaster stressors b. background stressors d. All of the above are correct.

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Regarding interpersonal attraction, which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. We tend to randomly choose the people we encounter and become friends with. b. Interpersonal attraction is the basis for most voluntary social relationships. c. Our choice of friends and even lovers is based to a great extent on physical proximity. d. We look for friends and lovers who will be kind and understanding and who appear to have attractive personalities.

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Lyle, an amnesic patient, thinks that he has met you before. "I remember you because of your red hat. And I was your boss at the mayor's office in Cleveland. I was the mayor then, you know. We had many dinners together, and you used to order the Delmonico steaks with onion rings on top." Lyle firmly believes these things are true, yet none of them really happened. Lyle has damaged the __________ of his brain.

A. hippocampus B. medial dorsal thalamus C. corpus callosum D. Wernicke's area

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According to Kübler-Ross, most people who reach acceptance

A) avoid discussions with doctors and family members to escape from the prospect of death. B) realize the inevitability of death but attempt to bargain for extra time. C) do so only in the last weeks or days before death. D) become despondent and depressed in the last days before death.

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