Many adoptive children who were abused or neglected prior to their adoption in a loving home carry attachment difficulties into that new home. Negative relational effects from early attachment difficulties are _____ the duration of the mistreatment
a. positively correlated with
b. negatively correlated with
c. uncorrelated with
d. curvilinearly related to
A
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Consider the study in which volunteers were given nasal drops containing the cold virus to examine the relationship between stress and immune function (Cohen et al., 1998). How might this finding explain how people seem to become sick during stressful times in their lives (e.g., final exam week)?
Which of the following is true of the social cognitive theory?
A) It pays less attention to genetic variation in explaining individual differences in behavior. B) It tends to be more descriptive than explanatory. C) It gives less attention to person variables such as values and expectancies. D) It subdues the importance of publicly observable variables or behaviors.
Research shows that when participants are made cognitively busy with other tasks, they
a. Do more automatic stereotyping b. Do less automatic stereotyping c. Cognitive business is unrelated to stereotyping.
A _____ design is one that shares certain features with experiments, but that does not involve a manipulation
a. one-factor c. pseudoexperimental b. para-experimental d. pre-experimental