Michael lives in a community where social networks are small and stable, and safety is found among people you know. Mitch lives in a community where social networks are diverse and often changing, and where safety is found in numbers, even among strangers. These differences involve what dimension of diversity discussed in Chapter 7?

a. rural and urban localities
b. ethnicity
c. sexual orientation
d. gender


a

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The ______ will indicate how often each value in the scale was used by the participants in their responses or in measurements of their behavior.

A. frequency distribution B. mean C. sample D. distribution

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When a person pushes threatening feelings into the unconscious, they are engaging in:

a. repression c. denial b. projection d. sublimation

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The stories of Peter Tripp and Randy Gardner (two different people who each endured extremely long periods of sleep deprivation) suggest that:

A) extreme sleep deprivation invariably leads to a very specific set of symptoms (e.g., hallucinations, breakdowns in judgment) B) an advantage of case studies is that a lot of general information about human beings can be gathered from studying only one or two people C) a drawback of case studies is that different case studies often yield different results D) case studies often fail to use basic safeguards against biased observations

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Jung uses the word association test ____

a. as a quantitative measure of resistance b. to assess intelligence c. as a type of lie detector d. to measure creativity

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