A man dying of lung cancer asks his doctor to confirm that he will be cured from his cancer if he quits smoking. According to the theory set forth by Kübler-Ross, this man is most likely in the stage of:
a. bargaining
b. acceptance
c. denial
d. depression
a
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More than 90% of those who successfully stop smoking cigarettes do so a. by taking prescription medications
b. by chewing nicotine gum. c. on their own. d. by using nicotine replacement patches.
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test is now administered by computer, allowing adaptive testing. What is adaptive testing?
a. Adaptive testing includes only those items related to the recruit's areas of interest. b. Adaptive testing involves presenting a question of known difficulty and then presenting more or less difficult items depending on whether the item was correctly answered. c. Adaptive testing eliminates sources of bias by generating large numbers of items. d. Adaptive testing reduces the risk of cheating by randomly sampling from a large test bank.
Psychologists who study persuasion use the term ____ to refer to whether a person "gets" a given message (i.e., whether a person pays attention and understands it)
a. receptivity b. yielding c. availability d. same-mindedness
Which f the following did Dodge find regarding aggressive children compared with nonaggressive children?
a. They are more likely to recall relevant social cues from a videotape. b. They are more attentive to potentially aggressive cues. c. They are less likely to interpret an ambiguous situation as having an aggressive intent. d. They show similar patterns of social information processing.