Peggy Blake and her colleagues constructed a scale of "life-change units" to measure the impact of life changes among college students. Surveys with students revealed that:
A) they considered unwanted pregnancy to be less stressful than major financial problems.
B) they considered academic failures to be more stressful than the beginning of college.
C) 100 percent of them considered graduating from college a stress-free event.
D) some of them considered academic success to be stressful.
D
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Freud found that odd medical disorders, such as the loss of feeling in one's hand, often disappeared when individuals __________________
a. were put under hypnosis b. were persuaded to repress anxiety-evoking experiences c. recalled and discussed stressful events d. satisfied the needs of the id
The student is happy because they just found out they received an ‘A’ grade on their biochemistry exam. While in this happy state, the student suddenly remembers the first time they received an ‘A’ grade in college. According to Underwood, the student’s retrieval of the first ‘A’ experience was aided by the ______ attribute.
A. affective B. frequency C. spatial D. temporal
People we call psychopaths are psychotic
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Gender-schema theory proposes that:
A. gender differences were fashioned by natural selection in response to problems in adaptation that were repeatedly encountered by humans over thousands of generations. B. children start forming gender concepts only during the later stages of childhood. C. children use gender as one way of organizing their perceptions of the world. D. once children come to see themselves as female or male, they stop seeking information concerning gender-typed traits.