Why do women fare better after a heart attack than men?
A) Men's hearts are larger and therefore suffer more damage from a heart attack.
B) Women are more likely to have other chronic diseases, so this removes the risk of a fatal heart attack.
C) Men are more likely to smoke than women.
D) Women's heart muscle seems to be better able to adapt to stressors and physical exertion.
D
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Regarding cross-cultural differences in cognitive biases, which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. People from individualistic cultures are more prone to make the fundamental attribution error and less prone to demonstrate a self-serving bias. b. People from collectivist cultures are more prone to make the fundamental attribution error and less prone to demonstrate a self-serving bias. c. People from individualistic cultures are less prone to make the fundamental attribution error and more prone to demonstrate a self-serving bias. d. People from collectivist cultures are less prone to make the fundamental attribution error and more prone to demonstrate a self-serving bias. e. People from individualistic cultures are more prone to self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error than are people from collectivist cultures.
Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by
A. repeating it over and over. B. linking the new word to a previously learned concept. C. using it in a sentence. D. thinking of its synonyms and antonyms.
Which statement about stress disorders is FALSE?
a. Blunted emotions and avoiding reminders of the event are some of the symptoms of stress disorders. b. Acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder differ only in the duration of symptoms. c. Post-traumatic stress disorder rarely lasts longer than six months. d. About 3.5 percent of adults suffer from post-traumatic stress in any given year.
Many people have heard of sodium pentothal, which is more commonly known as truth serum
There is widespread belief that it is infallible as a means of getting a person to behave honestly; however, some research has found that people are actually capable of lying even when under the influence of truth serum. This is most relevant to the critical thinking concept of A) extraordinary claims. B) falsifiability. C) correlation versus causation. D) replicability.