If someone cuts you off in traffic, you may assume them to be a bad driver without realizing they are rushing to the hospital with an emergency. This is an example of
a. the devil effect
b. stereotyping
c. the fundamental attribution error
d. the false consensus effect
C
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A. Serotonin B. Adrenaline C. GABA D. Glucocorticoids
Suppose that you have solved a problem by letting the letter x represent one unknown and by letting the letter y represent another unknown. Which problem-solving method have you used?
a. symbols b. imagery c. matrix d. graph
Research has found that one gender difference in coping strategies is that
A. women take steps to solve problems directly more than men. B. men use emotion-focused strategies more than women. C. women use emotion-focused strategies more than men. D. none of the above
The integrative theory outlined in the text suggests that children gain intrinsic motivation to seek sex-role information and to acquire sex-appropriate behaviors
a. from early infancy/toddlerhood (under the age of three). b. starting at about the age of three. c. only after they reach six or seven years of age. d. only after they reach adolescence.