The so-called "fear of success" theory—the idea that many people fear being too successful at work lest they turn off potential romantic partners—____
a. has generally been discredited
b. has been proposed as an explanation for self-handicapping
c. has been supported in research with younger women (those born after 1970), but not supported in research with older women (those born before 1970)
d. has been supported in research with older women (those born before 1970), but not supported in research with younger women (those born after 1970)
A
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a. Harold, a married African American male b. Lawrence, a married white American male c. Vern, a widowed white American male d. Vivian, a single African American female
Cleo's job requires a lot of airline travel, but she had never really worried about her safety until she read about three airline crashes within a two-week period. She decided that air travel was unsafe, and now she drives or takes the train whenever she has to travel on business. In this case, Cleo's decision to avoid traveling by air may have been influenced by:
a. the framing effect b. functional fixedness c. the availability heuristic d. the representativeness heuristic
In the naturalistic experiment in which a "victim" (actor) "passed out" in a subway car, holding a cane in some trials and holding a liquor bottle in others. The results of this experiment showed that the people on the subway
a. helped in both cases to the same degree. b. provided more help when the man carried the cane than the liquor bottle. c. provided more help when the man carried the liquor bottle than the cane. d. showed almost complete bystander apathy, helping neither man regardless of what he was holding.
Piaget's fourth stage of cognitive development, which extends from eleven or twelve years of age on, is:
A) concrete operational. B) formal operational. C) preoperational. D) sensorimotor.