Jay, age 50, is finally comfortable with himself. He is more independent, assertive, and committed to his personal values than he was in early adulthood. Jay probably believes that midlife is __________
A) a time of upheaval and crisis
B) a stepping-stone to old age
C) more stressful than early adulthood
D) “the prime of life”
Answer: D
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The brain waves produced during relaxed wakefulness are called __________ waves.
A. alpha B. beta C. delta D. theta
Malcolm has been watching a roulette-type game at a local charity bazaar. The game has only ten numbers on the wheel, and every number except 8 has come up as a winner during the last 15 minutes. Malcolm decides to bet $10 on number 8, because it has to come up eventually. In this case, Malcolm is showing evidence of
a. the availability heuristic. b. the gambler's fallacy. c. the base rate fallacy. d. the conjunction fallacy.
Chapter 10 discussed a study that compared the working-memory skills of three groups of Dutch-English bilinguals. This study concluded that
a. the students had the best working-memory scores. b. the teachers had the best working-memory scores. c. the simultaneous interpreters had the best working-memory scores. d. the three groups did not differ significantly in their working-memory scores.
A student wanted to know whether memory for items on a grocery list was better when a bizarre image was created for each item, compared with a strategy of simply trying to remember the items. The student had a randomly selected sample use bizarre imagery to remember a list of 15 items; the mean number of items remembered was 10 . The student compared this mean to a population mean of 7 and a
standard error of 1.20 . What is the probability of obtaining a sample mean of 10 or higher? a. 0.0062 c. 0.4938 b. 0.1151 d. 0.9938