________ is defined as the tendency toward favorable self-presentation that could lead to inaccurate self-reports.
A. Self-fulfilling prophecy
B. Social desirability bias
C. Meta-analysis
D. Experimenter expectancy effect
Answer: B
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A. mesosystem B. exosystem C. macrosystem D. chronosystem
Before he dies, Juan is checking his insurance, rewriting his will, and making arrangements for his funeral. Juan is dealing with
a. end-of-life issues. b. bereavement c. thanatology. d. grief work.
Titchener excluded women from the meetings of the Titchener Experimentalists because women:?
a. ?were not admitted to graduate programs in psychology. b. ?were believed unable to grasp the pure research methods of experimentation. c. ?psychologists were almost exclusively engaged in applied research. d. ?could not be admitted without their husbands, and none had married experimental psychologists. e. ?were too pure to smoke.
The acquisition of a behavior through first watching and then modeling other people is called:
A. observational learning B. direct learning C. classical conditioning D. operant conditioning