Rigid, inflexible, and maladaptive patterns of behavior or ways of relating to others, which ultimately become self-defeating because of their rigidity, are called ______ disorders

a. adjustment c. personality
b. psychotic d. neurotic


C

Psychology

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Stereotypes about one's own group are called _____, whereas stereotypes about other groups are called _____

a) autostereotypes; heterostereotypes b) heterostereotypes; autostereotypes c) sociotypes; autostereotypes d) heterostereotypes; sociotypes

Psychology

A list of the most common occupations held by women in the U.S., would be least likely to include

a. "assistant.". b. "teacher.". c. "doctor.". d. "cashier.".

Psychology

A task for determining how prototypical an object is would be

a. a fill-in-the-blank task where participants generate paired members within a category. b. a task where participants rate the extent to which each member represents the category title. c. a task where participants rate the extent to which category members resemble one another. d. a fill-in-the-blank task where participants generate the category classification for a list of members.

Psychology

Regarding our memories for people, which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. Encoding failures affect our memories of people. b. Our memory for people is affected by our tendency to categorize strangers in very specific terms. c. During brief social contacts, people often act as if members of other ethnic groups "all look alike.". d. People's inclinations to act as if members of other ethnic groups "all look alike" tends to disappear when they learn more about one another as individuals.

Psychology