A study done in 2012 showed that male, but not female, college students were more likely to endorse rape-promoting attitudes after playing which one of these types of video games?
A. A game that objectified women
B. A puzzle game requiring critical thinking
C. An action platform game that required clearing levels of coins
D. A first-person shooter game set in World War II
Answer: A
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DeLoache and colleagues convinced children that an "incredible shrinking machine" had reduced the size of a full-size room and now it looked the size of a model room. They hid an object in the model room and reversed the "shrinking machine." They asked children to search in the now full-size room for the larger version of the object. The 2½-year-olds who did not search correctly in the standard scale-model experiments now searched for the object. The researchers' explanation for the finding is that __________.
A. children were more motivated to search because they enjoyed the shrinking machine B. children remembered where the object was located better in the shrinking machine procedure C. the shrunken room was no longer a symbol, so the problem of thinking about dual representations was not present in this experiment D. this procedure enhanced children's attention to details of the experiment and thus improved memory and performance
According to evolutionary theories of emotion,
a. the experience of emotion depends on autonomic arousal and your cognitive interpretation of that arousal. b. different patterns of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions. c. emotions occur when the thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex and to the autonomic nervous system. d. emotions developed because of their adaptive value.
The feelings of distress experienced by parents following the death of a child tend to last a. about 2 years
b. about 10 years. c. about 20 years. d. a lifetime.
Bill's wife informs him that they will be attending the opera. Bill has never been to the opera, but he immediately has a mental image of he and his wife sitting in an ornate theater and wearing formal eveningwear
Bill is drawing up a(n) ________. a) schema b) heuristic c) anchor d) cognitive load