An example of an acute stressor is:

a. becoming a parent.
b. being fired from a job.
c. living next to a fire station.
d. learning that your mother has Alzheimer’s Disease


Ans: b

Psychology

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Suppose that you are assigning eight college students to two committees. By chance, one committee has four students from the social sciences, and the other has four students from the humanities

If people protest that this arrangement does not seem to be random, they are following a. the confirmation bias. b. the base-rate fallacy. c. the availability heuristic. d. the representativeness heuristic.

Psychology

The level of statistical significance that we use in psychology is:

a. .01 b. .05 c. .10 d. .50

Psychology

The ____ of a sound is the number of compressions per second.

A. pitch B. frequency C. amplitude D. loudness

Psychology

At his trial, Socrates portrays death as possibly

a. involving punishment for one's sins b. leading to reincarnation c. leading to permanent loss of consciousness d. resulting in a reward for one's good deeds e. none of these

Psychology