Upon arriving at college and meeting your roommate, you sigh mightily as you listen to his endless droning on about how wonderful his girlfriend back home is

"I miss her so much and I can't wait to see her during Thanksgiving break," he comments. Knowing a bit about social psychology and the rules of interpersonal attraction, what are you most likely to think to yourself?
a. This relationship is doomed, because the rule of proximity says that people are most attracted to those who are nearby, not far away.
b. I'm going to have to listen to this all year, because relationships that have some distance usually get stronger in the long run.
c. I wish he'd realize that everything he's saying makes it sound like they are too similar for each other, and people who date others with whom they share a lot of similarities usually end up breaking up.
d. This relationship will never work out because research suggests that students going away to college change so much that they become unrecognizable to those with whom they formerly had relationships.


a. This relationship is doomed, because the rule of proximity says that people are most attracted to those who are nearby, not far away.

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A. obsessive-compulsive disorder B. specific phobia, situational type C. generalized anxiety disorder D. no disorder

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Define Erikson's notions of hope, will, and purpose. How do these relate to the first three stages of social development?

What will be an ideal response?

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According to psychologists, ____________________ memories are those that involve knowledge about how to do thing

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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A young child tells his mother that "when the dog growl at me, I runned home so fast, I hurt my foots.". The child's application of the normal past tense and plurals to irregular verbs and nouns illustrates the child's attempt to use

a. transformation rules. b. the semantic differential. c. disjunctive concepts. d. a morpheme shift.

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