All of the following are true of anorexia nervosa EXCEPT that
a. the individual weighs less than 85 percent of his or her expected weight.
b. there is an intense fear of becoming fat.
c. it may, in very serious instances, lead to death.
d. its occurrence is equally likely in men and women.
Answer: d. its occurrence is equally likely in men and women.
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a. seems to be declining gradually. b. is mostly confined to psychology journals. c. is highly interdisciplinary in nature. d. tends to focus on discovering ethnic differences.
If you favor the general mechanism approach to speech perception, you would argue that
a. people process speech sounds the same way that they process other kinds of sounds. b. humans have a special phonetic module that handles all general speech perception tasks. c. the McGurk effect does not support the general mechanism approach, but most other research supports this approach. d. people use categorical perception when listening to a language sound; they do not use categorical perception on other cognitive tasks.
Increasing variance within groups ____ the likelihood of finding a difference between the treatment conditions
a. increases b. decreases c. does not affect d. increase, then decreases
Church attendance tends to decrease with age
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.