Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A) Girls who drop out of school are more likely to become pregnant than nondropouts.
B) Teenage fathers are less likely to finish high school than are nonfathers.
C) The dropout rate for African Americans has decreased over the past years.
D) Female dropouts are more likely than male dropouts to be employed.
Answer: D
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When Jane was younger, she always worried that something bad would happen when she was apart from her parents. Now she finds herself always worrying about her boyfriend when they are not together. What is Jane's most likely diagnosis?
a) Generalized anxiety disorder b) Separation anxiety disorder c) Agoraphobia d) Specific phobia
Max, a German, reports experiencing schadenfreude. He is experiencing a
A. feeling of pleasure over another person's difficulties. B. feeling of reluctance to yield to unreasonable demands made by one's parents. C. mood of vulnerable heartache colored by frustration. D. mood of depression over his inability to reach his ideal weight.
Stereotypes
a. are widely adopted by many people rather than by single individuals. b. tend to be so exaggerated that they are inaccurate. c. tend to be negative rather than positive. d. are resistant to revision when new, disconfirming, evidence is acquired. e. have all the qualities listed here.
Advertisers often try to use higher order conditioning by
a. pairing images which evoke good feelings with pictures of their products. b. sounding loud tones at key points in the advertisement. c. reducing fear or anxiety as they repeatedly show the same commercial. d. repeating the same slogan over and over again.