Deandra and her son Jake are visiting the local petting zoo. Deandra points out a peacock spreading his feathers, and explains to him that the peacock is attempting to attract a mate. What is this process called?
a. intersexual behavior
b. intrasexual behavior
c. sexual fitness
d. sexual adaptation
ANSWER:
a
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A. bipolar I disorder B. dysthymia C. seasonal affective disorder D. cyclothymic disorder
The "false belief" task is used to assess
a. the difference between a sensorimotor and a preoperational thinker. b. the understanding that people may hold incorrect personal beliefs that influence their behaviors. c. a person's level of religiosity. d. how a person would reason about a moral.
The stereotypic gender role for women may be related to an increased risk for depression because:
A. the roles stress independence and assertiveness B. women are more likely to be the head of single-parent families C. the roles reinforce dependence, not having control, and being helpless D. women are taught to be tough, forceful, and to demand loyalty
On the classic selection task in conditional reasoning, people work on the problem, "If a card has a vowel on one side, then it has an even number on the other side." Research on variations of this task indicates that
a. people consistently seek out negative information rather than positive information. b. the problem is easier to solve if it describes something concrete, such as drinking age. c. this is one of the few tasks that people can solve more accurately in their heads than when the problem is represented with concrete objects. d. people are systematically influenced by the representativeness heuristic.