People with very high maximizer scores tend to be ____
a. ?highly successful and happy
b. ?committed to their jobs and their partners
c. ?less happy and more prone to depression
d. ?satisfied with their daily lives
ANSWER:
c
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A. She was serious about the pledge and has much guilt about breaking it. B. She readily dismisses the virginity pledge, confessing she really wasn't serious about it at the time. C. She denies ever having made the virginity pledge. D. She regrets ever having made the virginity pledge, but doesn't feel guilty about it.
According to the model of working memory, which of the following mental tasks should LEAST adversely affect people's driving performance while operating a car along an unfamiliar, winding road?
a. Trying to imagine how many cabinets are in their kitchen b. Trying to remember a map of the area c. Trying to remember the definition of a word they just learned d. Trying to imagine a portrait from a recent museum exhibit
Which of the following would be considered dynamic testing?
a. Administering a group intelligence test to class of third grade students. b. Individually administering the WISC-IV to a child. c. Introducing the Spanish language to children who speak only English and assessing how quickly they are able to learn Spanish. d. Assessing children's current physical fitness level on a variety of fitness tasks.
A difference between the great thinkers of history and today's psychologists is that:
a. modern psychologists want to describe, predict, understand, and modify behavior. b. modern psychologists rely heavily on empirical evidence. c. modern psychologists wonder whether emotion controls us or is something we can control. d. modern psychologists want to know how people take in information through their senses and use that information to solve problems.