Strong stressors that occur suddenly and affect many adolescents simultaneously are known as
A) family events. B) cataclysmic events.
C) personal stressors. D) background stressors.
B
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You advise your friend to dress appropriately for a job interview. As a student of social psychology, you recognize the importance of ____ in forming judgments about others.
A. altruism B. the affective component of an attitude C. internal attributions D. physical appearance
Dr. Ayers conducts a correlational study examining the relationship between ice cream consumption and death by drowning. She finds that there appears to be a strong relationship between these two variables
Which of the following conclusions would be inappropriate for Dr. Ayers to make? a. Eating more ice cream causes people to drown. b. When people eat more ice cream there appears to be an increased risk of drowning. c. When people do not eat ice cream, their risk of drowning tends to decrease. d. It appears that the variables of eating ice cream and drowning are related to each other.
Which of the following characterizes reactive aggression?
A. psychopathy B. increased autonomic responsiveness C. hypoactivity of the amygdala D. all of these
The brain and spinal cord make up the __________ nervous system; the nerves and sensory organs make up the __________ nervous system.
A. peripheral; central B. central; sympathetic C. central; peripheral D. peripheral; sympathetic