A manufacturing company wants 55-year-old Neema to retire from her job, but she refuses. In response, the company changes her job so that instead of having to stack 80 20-pound packages an hour, she now has to stack 20 eight-pound packages. This best exemplifies
a. sexual harassment.
b. age discrimination.
c. comparable worth.
d. a glass ceiling.
b
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In contrast to mindfulness, mindlessness refers to a
a. deficiency in cognitive control. b. fallacious decision-making process. c. failure to attend to the present. d. stubborn interpersonal style.
In psychology class, you're watching a video of a treatment session. You notice that the therapist keeps referring to how the patient's arousal increases because she expects it to intensify. What is the treatment called?
A. hypnosis B. biofeedback C. cognitive behavioral therapy D. psychoanalysis
The spaces between sections of myelin on an axon are termed the:
A) nodes of Ranvier. B) sodium-potassium pumps. C) ion channels. D) synaptic junctions.
A new research study is published and becomes the "hot story" in the news today. This story concerns you because the researchers report that they are the first scientists to find a higher incidence of depression in individuals who are taking a particular vitamin-the same vitamin that your physician has had you taking for years. While this may be cause for you to investigate further, you probably shouldn't panic, because
A. your physician will call you if there is anything to worry about. B. research like this is rarely accurate. C. without replication, the finding could just be due to coincidence. D. unless it was a double-blind experiment, the results are almost certainly in error.