Johanna is participating in a study on social contacts and subjective well-being. Each evening around 6 p.m., Johanna is supposed to record in a journal the number of social interactions she had that day that were longer in duration than 5 minutes. The researcher is using ____ self-report in this study
a. event-contingent
b. signal-contingent
c. bogus pipeline
d. interval-contingent
d
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The Chi (1978) study on memory for chess pieces indicated that when recalling information in their area of expertise, expert children perform
a. better than novice adults. b. the same as novice adults. c. worse than novice adults. d. the same as children who are novices.
On the surface, Chuck is a charming, intelligent, good-looking individual. Yet he constantly lies, has no sense of responsibility, is reckless, feels no guilt when his actions harm others, and never learns from his mistakes. If Chuck's behavior is considered abnormal, he would most likely be diagnosed as having a(n):
A. antisocial personality B. narcissistic personality C. dissociative disorder D. schizoid disorder
Imagine there is a species of mouse that can have brown fur or gray fur. A mouse with gray fur is born with a mutation that causes it to produce twice as many offspring as other mice of its species. What is most likely to happen to the population of mice?
A. Mice with gray fur become more common. B. Mice with brown fur become more common. C. Mice with brown fur will begin producing more offspring. D. A new species of mouse will develop.
Which of the following examples best illustrates how functional distance plays a role in the propinquity effect?
a. Bart doesn't like his next-door neighbor, primarily because of his habit of playing loud music that makes it difficult to get to sleep at night. b. Marge, whose cubicle is right next to both the kitchen and the elevator, is one of the most popular people in the entire office. c. Homer prefers to take the stairs rather than the elevator because it decreases his likelihood of running into people he finds annoying. d. Lisa made more friends in her sophomore-year dorm than in her freshman-year dorm.