Lewinsohn and colleagues (1994) interviewed a representative sample of adolescents in Oregon and found that nearly ________ of the adolescents had attempted suicide within a year
A) 2%
B) 8%
C) 16%
D) 22%
A) 2%
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Which of the following is correct about the relation between personality and culture?
A. Because personality is concerned with the person, personality psychologists are not interested in cultural differences. B. Most studies to date find few if any significant cross-cultural differences in personality phenomena. C. Personalities exist within a cultural context. D. Individual differences in personality can be found only in individualistic cultures.
Mr. Koerner had a stroke that resulted in Wernicke's aphasia. His speech makes no sense, but includes many curse words, which his wife finds shocking. How might you explain his condition to her? a. He is in denial about his stroke, but really understands much of what is going on around him
b. He is very frustrated by his inability to make sense of the conversations going on around him. c. If he is still able to curse, he obviously could speak correctly if he really tried. d. He has no comprehension of any of the words he speaks or hears, and is not troubled by it due to brain damage.
According to the authors of the textbook, what is a key reason why psychology took almost 300 years longer than physics, biology, and chemistry to become scientific?
A) Early scientific methodology was too primitive to use to study the mind. B) Laws were passed in the 1600s that made studying the mind illegal. C) Few people were interested in the mind and behavior prior to the 20th century. D) The zeitgeist of the 1600s prevented people from believing that science could be applied to the study of the mind.
Horoscopes, which predict a person's future based on his or her birth date, have been popular since antiquity. Part of the appeal of believing in horoscopes is that:
A) they reduce stress because the convince people that events are predetermined and out of their control. B) they encourage optimistic thinking. C) they provide a sense of order and structure to random and uncontrollable events. D) they provide an alternative the pessimistic explanatory style.