When you and your friends are playing tennis, you consider yourself a very good tennis player

However, when you watch professional tennis players playing in a tournament, you consider yourself a poor to average tennis player.
Thus, thinking of yourself as a good or poor tennis player depends entirely on
a. your relative ability to play tennis.
b. whether you are an optimist or pessimist.
c. whom you choose for comparison.
d. your mood on that particular day.


ANSWER: c

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Which of the following is a criticism of Osipow's approach?

a. It focuses on the individual characteristics at the expense of the work environment. b. It places greater emphasis on career interests over time than on stable career interests. c. It assumes personality traits are stable when they are not. d. It lacks the statistical power necessary for use in research.

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What procedures for treating fears involve the use of a fear hierarchy? _________________________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Analysis of variance is designed to compare simultaneously

a. all sample ranges b. all sample medians c. some sample means d. all sample means

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