You belong to a study group that your math instructor assigned you to in the beginning of the semester. Your group's task is to solve several problems every week. What type of group, according to your text, would lead to optimal performance?
a. a highly cohesive group
b. a group in which the members strongly dislike one another
c. a group that isn't all that cohesive
d. a mixed-gender group
Answer: C
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b. The measurements indicate the intensity of emotional feeling. c. The measurements indicate the thoughts or interpretations behind an emotion. d. The measurements indicate the pleasantness of the emotional feeling.
According to your textbook, women are ten times as likely as men to suffer from an eating disorder. Research has also demonstrated that parts of the frontal lobes of women's brains are thicker than the frontal lobes of men's brains. It would be easy to
suggest, therefore, that having a thicker area in the frontal lobe causes women to have a higher rate of eating disorders. Why is this explanation invalid? a. Because it does not take into account the impact of societal pressure on women to be thin. b. Because the only way to measure the thickness of cerebral lobes is through autopsy after death, and there is no way to know if those areas are also thicker when a person is alive. c. Because it ignores the fact that men have a thicker parietal cortex, which might also explain the eating disorder disparity. d. Because eating behaviors are controlled by the hypothalamus, which is not located in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Your friend Rich is sad and overwhelmed, as his father has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Rich explains that he feels as if he has no control over the situation and does not know what to do. You offer to help Rich by
A. taking him out so that he can forget his problems. B. doing research on the disease and the ways Rich can help his father. C. taking him out of town for a while to escape his stress. D. taking him to a doctor to talk about anti-anxiety medication.
Puberty is defined as the age at which a person enters middle school or junior high
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.