Due largely to the efforts of Paul Costa, Jr. and Robert McCrae, we are now able to describe adults' personality traits using ____ different factors
a. three
b. five
c. six
d. eight
b
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Suppose (a) you didn’t study enough for this test, (b) you think you are going to do very well on this test, even though many times in the past you have done poorly on tests that involve multiple-choice questions, and (c) you eventually get a poor grade on the test and attribute the grade to an unfair test. The above three events (a, b, and c) reflect the likely operation of which concepts (in this order): ______, ______, and ______.
a. self-serving bias; belief perseverance; overjustification effect b. belief perseverance; overjustification effect; fundamental attribution error c. self-handicapping; belief perseverance; self-serving bias
A person who has experienced deprivation of ________ would be most impaired in studies of memory
a. NREM sleep b. REM sleep c. Stage 2 sleep d. Stage 3 and 4 sleep e. Stage 1 sleep
After Pavlov trained his dogs to respond to the sound of a bell by salivating, he might have decided to show the dogs a striped handkerchief each time he rang the bell
Eventually, the handkerchief would have been able to cause the dogs to salivate, even if the bell was not sounded. This is an example of _________ conditioning. a. graduated b. tertiary c. second-order d. elevated
Becky reads her horoscope every day and strongly believes that her personality matches the description of being a Virgo
Since her birthday is in early September, she thinks the horoscopes are right on in describing her. You have just learned about horoscopes in your personality course. What do you tell her about how horoscopes are as a measure of personality? What will be an ideal response?